...the distribution, Governor Thomas reviewed the effects of that measure in the following language : " Nothing has influenced more fatally the evil councils,...possession of that fund, stimulating as it did the wildest speculations, destroyed at once all those salutary restraints found in the habits of the people and...

...Thomas, of Maryland, in his message of December 27, 1842, used the following significant language: "Nothing has influenced more fatally the evil councils...possession of that fund, stimulating as it did the wildest speculations, destroyed at once all those salutary restraints found in the habits of the people and...

...used the following significant language : " Nothing has influenced more fatally the evil counsels, by which so many of the states have become involved,...possession of that fund, stimulating as it did the wildest speculations, destroyed at once all those salutary restraints found in the habits of the people and...

...the following significant language : •• Nothing has influenced more fatally the evil counsels, by which so many of the states have become involved,...possession of that fund, stimulating as it did the wildest speculations, destroyed at once all those salutary restraints found in the habits of the people and...

...remained. The governor of Maryland in his message of December, 1842, gave a vivid picture of the situation: "The distribution law (miscalled the deposit act),...beggared the General Government, whilst but few of the re- 815 cipients of its bounties have been enriched, caused a most unfortunate revolution in public...