An excerpt from an 1834 pamphlet with arguments from New York businessmen about effects of removing federal money from the national bank.

This document records the minutes and resolutions of a group of businessmen from New York City’s second ward, which is in lower Manhattan, just north of the Wall Street financial district.

Citation Information
“Resolutions and memorial of a meeting of the mechanics, manufacturers, and labouring men, of the second ward of the city of New-York, on the subject of the removal of the public deposites from the United States Bank,” Digital Public Library of America, https://dp.la/item/11f35a933881202ff7acf8587ec8cf06.
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