5. _Resolved_, That the governor be requested to forward a copy of the
above resolutions to each of our Senators and Representatives from this
State to the Congress of the United States.
On the 21st day of February last the legislature of the same State
reiterated the opinions and instructions before given by joint
resolutions in the following words:
_Resolved by the council and general assembly of the State of New
Jersey_, That they do adhere to the resolutions passed by them on the
11th day of January last, relative to the President of the United
States, the Bank of the United States, and the course of Mr. Taney
in removing the Government deposits.
_Resolved_, That the legislature of New Jersey have not seen any
reason to depart from such resolutions since the passage thereof,
and it is their wish that they should receive from our Senators and
Representatives of this State in the Congress of the United States that
attention and obedience which are due to the opinion of a sovereign
State openly expressed in its legislative capacity.
On the 2d of January, 1834, the senate and house of representatives
composing the legislature of Ohio passed a preamble and resolutions in
the following words:
Whereas there is reason to believe that the Bank of the United States
will attempt to obtain a renewal of its charter at the present session
of Congress; and
Whereas it is abundantly evident that said bank has exercised powers
derogatory to the spirit of our free institutions and dangerous to the
liberties of these United States; and
Whereas there is just reason to doubt the constitutional power of
Congress to grant acts of incorporation for banking purposes out of
the District of Columbia; and
Whereas we believe the proper disposal of the public lands to be of the
utmost importance to the people of these United States, and that honor
and good faith require their equitable distribution: Therefore,
_Resolved by the general assembly of the State of Ohio_, That we
consider the removal of the public deposits from the Bank of the United
States as required by the best interests of our country, and that a
proper sense of public duty imperiously demanded that that institution
should be no longer used as a depository of the public funds.
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