There are also some other circumstances connected with the discussion
and passage of the resolution to which I feel it to be not only my
right, but my duty, to refer. It appears by the Journal of the Senate
that among the twenty-six Senators who voted for the resolution on its
final passage, and who had supported it in debate in its original form,
were one of the Senators from the State of Maine, the two Senators from
New Jersey, and one of the Senators from Ohio. It also appears by the
same Journal and by the files of the Senate that the legislatures of
these States had severally expressed their opinions in respect to the
Executive proceedings drawn in question before the Senate.

The two branches of the legislature of the State of Maine on the 25th
of January, 1834, passed a preamble and series of resolutions in the
following words:


Whereas at an early period after the election of Andrew Jackson to the
Presidency, in accordance with the sentiments which he had uniformly
expressed, the attention of Congress was called to the constitutionality
and expediency of the renewal of the charter of the United States Bank;
and

Whereas the bank has transcended its chartered limits in the management
of its business transactions, and has abandoned the object of its
creation by engaging in political controversies, by wielding its power
and influence to embarrass the Administration of the General Government,
and by bringing insolvency and distress upon the commercial community;
and