[1411] Ib. chaps. v and vii. Biddle was appointed director of the Bank by President Monroe in 1819, and displayed such ability that, in 1823, he was elected president of the institution. Not until he received information that Jackson was hostile to the Bank did Biddle begin the morally wrong and practically unwise policy of loaning money without proper security to editors and members of Congress.
[1412] Parton: Jackson, iii, 260.
[1413] Richardson, ii, 462.
[1414] Ib. 528-29
[1415] See Catterall, 235. For account of the fight for the Bank Bill see ib. chap. x.
[1416] Richardson, ii, 580-82.
[1417] Ib. 582-83.
[1418] Richardson, ii, 584.
[1419] Jackson's veto message was used with tremendous effect in the Presidential campaign of 1832. There cannot be the least doubt that the able politicians who managed Jackson's campaign and, indeed, shaped his Administration, designed that the message should be put to this use. These politicians were William B. Lewis, Amos Kendall, Martin Van Buren, and Samuel Swartwout.
[1420] Richardson, ii, 590-91.