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Resolved, That this House disavows the truth of the charge of Governor Duncan in his late, message that the present calamity in the moneyed concerns of the county,
is the result of the action of the General Government upon its currency.
Resolved, That Governor Duncan, in the declaration of his message that “there never was a sounder currency or a
more healthy state of things in any Government in the world, than was furnished and
produced by the United States Bank,” is contrary to the assertion of the patriot and statesman Gen. Jackson, who has never betrayed his friends or deserted his principles, that ”the Bank of the U.S. has failed in accomplishing the great object for which it was created, that of establishing
a sound and uniform currency.”
Resolved, That we verily believe a sound and uniform currency cannot and never will be established
until the country return to the constitutional currency, gold and silver, and limits
the use of bank bills to the business of exchange.
Resolved, That while we deny the many charges contained in Governor Duncan’s message, against the late and present Administration, we most cordially approve
of both.
1On July 14, 1837, William L. D. Ewing introduced a resolution in the House of Representatives. The House laid the resolution on the table, and ordered the printing of 200 copies.
On July 21, the House amended the resolution by replacing the text entirely: the first,
second, and fourth resolutions were adopted by a vote of 43 yeas to 23 nays, with
Abraham Lincoln voting nay; and the third resolution was adopted by a vote of 47 yeas to 23 nays,
Lincoln voting nay. The entire resolution as amended was adopted by a vote of 42 yeas
to 24 nays, Lincoln again voting nay.
Journal of the House of Representatives of the Tenth General Assembly of the State
of Illinois, at a Special Session, (Vandalia, IL: William Walters, 1837), 70-72, 168-74.
Printed Transcription, 1 page(s), Journal of the House of Representatives of the Tenth General Assembly of the State of Illinois, at a Special Session (Vandalia, IL: William Walters, 1837), 172