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Rh credit, and political impartiality were of the highest concern to the business community.

The blunder in political tactics was that he believed he could excite the enthusiasm of the masses for a great moneyed corporation in its contest against a popular hero like Jackson, — a most amazing infatuation; and thus he made the bank question the leading issue in the presidential campaign.

Without these blunders he would, probably, not have been victorious; but with them his defeat became certain and overwhelming.