Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

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Resolved, That it is the opinion of this General Assembly, that it is inexpedient for the Congress of the United States to establish a United States’ Bank on any terms.

Resolved, That our Senators and Representatives in Congress be requested to use their influence in opposing any line of policy that may lead to the establishment of a National Bank.

Resolved, That the recent policy of the States, in the establishment of State Banks, and connecting them with the various systems of internal improvements in the several States, requires at the hands of this State an uncompromising hostility of a United States’ Bank.

1William J. Gatewood introduced the resolution in the Senate on February 2, 1839, and the Senate adopted it on February 4 by a vote of 24 yeas to 16 nays. On February 4, members of the House of Representatives sought to amend the resolution by inserting after the first paragraph a paragraph endorsing President Andrew Jackson’s views as expressed in his veto of the re-charter of the Second Bank of the United States. The House tabled the resolution and proposed amendment.
Journal of the House of Representatives of the Eleventh General Assembly of the State of Illinois, at Their First Session, Begun and Held in the Town of Vandalia, December 3, 1838 (Vandalia, IL: William Walters, 1838), 340-41, 343; Journal of the Senate of the Eleventh General Assembly of the State of Illinois, at Their First Session, Begun and Held in the Town of Vandalia, December 3, 1838 (Vandalia, IL; William Walters, 1838), 262-63, 270.