Name/Title
SpeechEntry/Object ID
2001.217.0004Scope and Content
Titled "Hon. Henry Clay, of Kentucky, Establishing a Deliberate Design, on the part of the Late and Present Executive of the United States, to Break Down the Whole Banking System of the United States, and Terminating with the State Banks, and to Create on their Ruins a Government Treasury Bank, Under the Exclusive Control of the Executive; and in Reply to the Speech of the Hon. J.C. Calhoun, of South Carolina, Supporting That Treasury Bank." The speech consists of sheets of printed paper folded in half and bound by a single piece of red string, the folds still existent and not allowing for all of the pages to be turned. Printed by Gales and Seaton, Washington, DC, 1838.