A great number of States have expressly instructed their
Senators to vote for this expurgation. A very great majority of the
States have elected Senators and Representatives to Congress, upon
the express ground of favoring this expurgation. The Bank of the
United States, which took the initiative in the accusation against the
President, and furnished the material, and worked the machinery
which was used against him, and which was then so powerful on this
floor, has become more and more odious to the public mind, and
musters now but a slender phalanx of friends in the two Houses of
Congress. The late Presidential election furnishes additional
evidence of public sentiment. The candidate who was the friend of
President Jackson, the supporter of his administration, and the avowed
advocate for the expurgation, has received a large majority of the
suffrages of the whole Union, and that after an express declaration of
his sentiments on this precise point. The evidence of the public will,
exhibited in all these forms, is too manifest to be mistaken, too explicit
to require illustration, and too imperative to be disregarded.
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