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In making these remarks, he would probably be charged 

 with being opposed to education. He was opposed to it in 

 the light in which, in modern times, it was sought to be in- 

 culcated in this country — an education which passed over 

 all thought, all reflection, all originality, and was based upon 

 an intellectual lumber-house of undigested and indigestible 

 matter ; thrown together in the head of some aspirant after 

 immortal intellectual fame, without originality enough to 

 give character, he would not say to what — he had a term, 

 but probably it might be inappropriate for him to utter it 

 here. How the donor of this money, being an Englishman, 

 came to love this country so well, God only knew ; but he 

 (Mr. Chipman) would say that in yielding to his suggestion, 

 the country had humbled and degraded itself. 



He objected to the bill, because, clearly and in terms, it 

 established a corporation. He appealed to his political 

 friends, after all their opposition, after all their arguments, 

 after all their eflbrts to put down a United States bank on 

 the ground of its unconstitutionality, whether — tickled, 

 amused, their pride touched by the great advantages of dis- 

 pelling the cloud of ignorance which overshadowed the 

 American Republic — they would now belie all their princi- 

 ples and all their professions ? What distinction was there 

 between a corporation in the form of a United States bank 

 and a corporation intended to elevate humanity in close ap- 

 proximation to the throne of Heaven ? He appealed to his 

 friends here — to those who held their seats by virtue of the 

 very opposition they had made to the Bank of the United 

 States — whether this Government had the power to create a 

 corporation ? The rose by any other name, &c., and a cor- 

 poration by any other name, should be as oflensive to the 

 Democracy. Was it necessary to label the animal, that we 

 might know to what species it belonged, as was done in the 

 case of the Dutchman's picture of a man with the horse, 

 where the name was put upon it, that the beholder might 

 know what it was ? He declared that the bill proposed the 

 establishment of one of the most withering and deadly cor- 

 porations, carrying with it all the features of an aristocracy 

 the most offensive that could be established in any country 

 under heaven. He was opposed to an aristocracy of wealth ; 

 but he was in favor of an aristocracy of intellect — not of 

 false education — not of knowledge that consisted in bring- 

 ing together exploded ideas — but of that knowledge which 

 was the offspring of an intellect patented directly by the 

 Almighty. 



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