knowledge with feelings of devout gratitude our
obligations to the Great Ruler of Nations for His mercies to us as a
people that we have been preserved alike from foreign war, from the
evils of internal commotions, and the machinations of designing and
ambitious men who would prostrate the fair fabric of our Union, that
we ought nevertheless to humble ourselves in His presence and implore
His aid for the perpetuation of our republican institutions and for a
continuance of that unexampled prosperity which our country has hitherto
enjoyed.

2. _Resolved_, That we have undiminished confidence in the integrity and
firmness of the venerable patriot who now holds the distinguished post
of Chief Magistrate of this nation, and whose purity of purpose and
elevated motives have so often received the unqualified approbation of
a large majority of his fellow-citizens.

3. _Resolved_, That we view with agitation and alarm the existence of a
great moneyed incorporation which threatens to embarrass the operations
of the Government and by means of its unbounded influence upon the
currency of the country to scatter distress and ruin throughout the
community, and that we therefore solemnly believe the present Bank of
the United States ought not to be rechartered.

4. _Resolved_, That our Senators in Congress be instructed and our
members of the House of Representatives be requested to sustain, by
their votes and influence, the course adopted by the Secretary of the
Treasury, Mr. Taney, in relation to the Bank of the United States and
the deposits of the Government moneys, believing as we do the course
of the Secretary to have been constitutional, and that the public good
required its adoption.

5. _Resolved_, That the governor be requested to forward a copy of the
above resolutions to each of our Senators and Representatives from this
State to the Congress of the United States.

On the 21st day of February last the legislature of the same State
reiterated the opinions and instructions before given by joint
resolutions in the following words:

_Resolved by the council and general assembly of the State of New
Jersey_, That they do adhere to the resolutions passed by them on the
11th day of January last, relative to the President of the United
States, the Bank of the United States, and the course of Mr. Taney
in removing the Government deposits.

_Resolved_, T