|   |  "The bold effort the present bank had made to control the government
 ... are but premonitions of the fate that await the American people
 should they be deluded into a perpetuation of this institution or the
 establishment of another like it."
 |   | Quote by: |  |  | Source: | To Congress in 1836, Jackson closed the second Federal Bank (est. 1816) with these comments |  |  |  |  |   |  |  
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