Political CartoonsOPTIC BANK WAR ANDREW JACKSON AND THE BANK WAR

Evening Star It is time for me to resign the presidency Major Jack Downing, I must act with energy and decision…You see the downfall of the party engine and corrupt monopoly. Help me up, Webster! Or I shall lose my stakes! Courier & Enquirer $52,000 National Gazette Albany Gazette National Intelligence $10,000 United States Gazette Columbian Sentinel Journal of Commerce Kentucky No more fees to be obtained here! I move we adjourn! …in the affairs of William Shakespeare says…my dear Clay, look out for yourself.

"He looks like a "Lion!" How dignified! What "correct“ steps! in such "good time!" Can any thing equal him! The "greatest" and "best" donkey we ever knew!“ Sing away Major Downing. " Sing away Major Downing. This is a capital Experiment by the Eternal!" "Yankee doodle doodle doo "Yankee doodle doodle doo!" Sly like a fox! "I feel quite at home on this dung heap."

Biddle thou Monster Avaunt! avaount I say! or by the Great Eternal if thou are true…come on. if thou art false, may the venomous monster turn his dire fang upon thee… Well done General, Major Jack Downing, Adams, Clay, well done all. I dislike dissentions beyond every thing, for it often compels a man to play a double part, were it only for his own safety. Policy, policy is my motto, but intrigues I cannot countenance Now now you nasty varmint, be you imperishable? I swan Gineral that are beats all I reckon, that’s the horrible wiper wot wommits wenemous heads I guess PENN $35,000,000

"Oh! dear Nick! I am dreadful sick!" "D--n that Doctor Jackson. This is the effect of his last prescription." At left stand Bank supporters Henry Clay, Daniel Webster and John Calhoun, as physicians in consultation. " What do you say to the application of my Patent American System?" "Doctor your American System won't do here. Desperate cases require desperate remedies, a few of the leaden pills of Nullification and some blood taken will suffice." "I wonder how a few grains of Common Sense washed down with Boston Particular would do?" "Alas! Alas! No more fees." "No more I ain't Major Downing but I've read the American Family Physician and know what kind of a dose to give to clean out a foul stomach!" "Why Gineral, I never know'd You was a Doctor before." Bank of America Manhattan Bank Deposits Mechanics BankVeto

PennsylvaniaVirginia New YorkGeorgia Deposites $20,000,000 Deposites $6,000,000 Deposites Foundation for a National Bank Public confidence in Public funds "... Gineral, this is a real shiver de freeze! You've sent Clay to "pot" eny how "nullified Calhoun," made "Webster" a "shuttle cock and busted Biddle's Bank biler! Aye, Aye, Major Downing they thought they'd give us a dose of Congress Water, but they find what we're "Bent on" and we've given 'em a hard Poke into the bargain! United we stand, divided I fall. National Gazette Thus vaulting ambition doth o’er leap itself and falls on t’other side. The game is up! The fountain from which my current springs or else fries up to be discarded thence