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Resolutions relative to the Currency.
Resolved by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
in the opinion of this General Assembly, the best
teacher, either for individuals or nations, is the voice
of experience; that such measures of general policy as
have been subjected to this test and found to subserve
the object of all proper governments, the general good
of the governed, ought not be departed from in order to
the substitution of experiments founded in a restless
disposition for change, or more culpable motives.
2. That measures, sanctioned by the wisdom of a
Washington, a Hamilton, a Madison, and others, of
whom our nation are justly proud, and which have
been approved by success of long experiment, ought
not to be lightly discarded to advance the purposes of
party or to relieve its leaders from the reproach of ob-
stinate ignorance.
3. That the history of the last eight years of our
National Government tends to increase the reverence
we entertain for the wisdom of the sages of the past,
by contrast with the results of a departure from their
line of policy by our modern political illuminati.
4. That in the opinion of this Legislature, if the
conductors of the .National Bank had possessed more
pliant subserviency of temper and less of a patriotic
regard for the interests of the whole Union, if instead
of subserving the objects of its institution, it had de-
generated into the auxiliary of executive wishes, it
would have found in the late administration its firmest
supporters, and the voice of eulogy would have been
substituted for the anathema of malediction; that we
regard the prostration of this institution as a measure
commencing in party and personal pique, advanced
and sustained by the persevering action of a vindictive
and determined spirit, and ending in the catastrophe
of a wide spread and general ruin.
5. That the discovery of the fallacy of an experiment
which sage prophecy had heralded as the result of the
most profound political judgment is not calculated to
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Passed Mar. 23,
1838.
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