Its first president, William Jones, had been corrupt, and its second, Langdon Cheves, more faithful and steady. Its third president, Nicholas Biddle, came from an elite Philadelphia family, and his elitism caused many Americans to shudder, who saw him, even if personally honest and virtuous, as somehow not quite American. Andrew Jackson referred to Biddle, for example and not without popular support, as a “humbugging aristocratic intellectual.”
Here you go BroJoeK. Learn who the real "masters" of the 19th century American Republic were.
4 posted on 04/10/2024 10:53:55 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp
("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")