e of whom was Daniel Webster. Nicholas Biddle was the head of the Bank of the United States. He was incredibly good at managing finances and the sort, but he was inept at politics. He is notorious for saying that he could destroy state banks and create a depression. This angered many people and found him many enemies. He still thought he had enough power to get the Bank rechartered. The Bank was up for a recharter in 1836, but its supporters decided to seek it four years early, which coincidentally was an election year. The Bank's supporters were hoping that Jackson would either let the Bank bill pass, or veto it. If he vetoed it, they would have an issue to fight him on in the coming election. The Bank's power was so strong in the Senate, where it had been introduced, that practically every Senator had received a loan except for Thomas Hart Benton, whom everyone knew couldn't be bought. Biddle still thought that the Bank bill would be passed, but Benton came up with a surprise resolution charging the Bank with seven violations of its charter and fifteen abuses of its privileges. It also called for an investigation within six weeks. But the Bank's hold on the Senate was too great. The Senate passed the bill before the investigative committee came back with its results. The House passed the bill a couple months later. It was delivered to President Jackson on the Fourth of July. On July 10, he vetoed the bill and wrote a message along with it. He wanted the message to get his point across about the bank being a monopoly and that it favored the rich, but he also wanted it to serve as an effective campaign document that would stir men's hearts as well as their minds. Then he did something unheard of; he went against the Supreme Court's decision in M'Culloch v. Maryland, stating, "To this conclusion I can not assent"(Remini 151), and he also said that the Congress and the President as well as the Court "must each for itself...
