[565] Monster, Hydra, Cerberus, Octopus, and names of similar import were popularly applied to the Bank of the United States. (See Crawford's speech, supra, 175.)
[566] Niles, xv, 5.
[567] Act of April 3, 1811, Laws of New York, 1811, 205-21.
[568] Niles, xvi, 257.
[569] Ib.
[570] Ib. xvii, 147.
[571] "I have known several to calculate upon the 'relief' from them, just as they would do on an accommodation at bank, or on the payment of debts due to them! If we succeed in such and such a thing, say they—very well; if not, we can get the benefit of the insolvent laws.... Where one prudent and honest man applies for such benefit, one hundred rogues are facilitated in their depredations." (Niles, xvii, 115.)
[572] Ib.
[573] Ib. xv, 283.
[574] The bankruptcy law which Marshall had helped to draw when in Congress (see vol. ii, 481-82, of this work) had been repealed in 1803. (Annals, 8th Cong. 1st Sess. 215, 625, 631. For reasons for the repeal see ib. 616-22.)