A history of the United States for schools . and made it clear that the armywould be used if necessary. Soon afterward, throughthe efforts of Henry Clay, a tariff with lower duties,known as the Compromise Tariff, was passed, and to themixture of threat with persuasion the nullifiers great danger was averted for the time, and a pre-cedent of immense value was established by Jacksonsprompt and decisive action. 122. Overthrow of the United States Bank. Jack-sons hostility to the bank had been shown throughouthis first term of ofhce. In 1832, he vetoed the bill forits re-charter. In 1833
A history of the United States for schools . and made it clear that the armywould be used if necessary. Soon afterward, throughthe efforts of Henry Clay, a tariff with lower duties,known as the Compromise Tariff, was passed, and to themixture of threat with persuasion the nullifiers great danger was averted for the time, and a pre-cedent of immense value was established by Jacksonsprompt and decisive action. 122. Overthrow of the United States Bank. Jack-sons hostility to the bank had been shown throughouthis first term of ofhce. In 1832, he vetoed the bill forits re-charter. In 1833, he ordered that public moneyshould no longer be deposited in this bank, but distrib-uted among sundry state banks. In the way in which hedid this he probably exceeded his constitutional powers,and the rest of his administration was largely consumedin a quarrel with Congress, in which, as in all his contests,he finally came off victorious. The Senate passed aresolution of censure upon him ; his ablest friend in that WESTWARD EXPANSION. 325. body, Thomas Benton, senator from Missouri, persistedin urging that the censure should be expunged, and,after a long struggle, he carried hispoint, early in 1837. The National Republicans, led by Clay, maintainedthat in his removal of the public deposits from the bankthe president was usurp-ing arbitrary power andoverriding constitutionalchecks. In the Souththere were many peoplewho did not approve ofnullification, but thoughtthat the president had noright to call for militaryforce to suppress it. Thesepeople were called StateRights men, and one oftheir principal leaders wasJohn Tyler, of Virginia. They were, in general, op-posed to a high tariff, a national bank, and internal im-provements, and, therefore, agreed with the NationalRepublicans in nothing except hostility to the Formationpresident. But in mutual opposition to Jack- y^^fson and his supporters, these two groups of P^^^y-men, the followers of Clay and the followers of Tyler,bega
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