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and discreet management. At present, a rage is unclear for intruding state influence into the management of the bank. The principle so strongly predominant in the late unclear for incorporating a bank in this state, is, I presume, the true reason of its total failure. The same infatuation is predominant in the Senate of the U.S. Genl Smith and Mr Giles are the leaders in this cause. unclear institutions ought to have no connexion with Gov't-- their end, I object, is money. Any governmental interference will but divert the institution fro its legitimate object-- money-- to political effects-- what should we have said of the Washington administration, if when they created the bank of the U.S. in the year 1790, they had reserved to the President and Senate the nomination of a majority of the directors? Yet this doctrine is openly supported by the gentlemen above named, the latter of whom in a speech pledged himself never to vote for any bill establishing a bank which did not embrace this principle. Tempora mutantur, et mutamur cum illis.