In the month of April preceding, when leaving Washington to return to Missouri, I told the President there would be another suspension, headed by the Bank of the United States, before we met again: at my return in November it was his first expression to remind me of that conversation; and to say it was the second time I had foreseen these suspensions, and warned him of them. He then jocularly said, don't predict so any more. I answered I should not; for it was the last time this Bank would suspend. Still dominating over the moneyed systems of the South and West, this former colossal institution was yet able to carry along with her nearly all the banks of one-half of the Union: and using her irredeemable paper against the solid currency of the New York and other Northern banks, and selling fictitious bills on Europe, she was able to run them hard for specie--curtail their operations--and make panic and distress in the money market. At the same time by making an imposing exhibition of her assets, arranging a reciprocal use of their notes with other suspended banks, keeping up an apparent par value for her notes and stocks by fictitious and collusive sales and purchases, and above all, by her political connection with the powerful opposition--she was enabled to keep the field as a bank, and as a political power: and as such to act an effective part in the ensuing presidential election. She even pretended to have become stronger since the time when Mr. Biddle left her so prosperous; and at the next exposition of her affairs to the Pennsylvania legislature (Jan. 1, 1840), returned her assets at $74,603,142; her liabilities at $36,959,539, and her surplus at $37,643,603. This surplus, after paying all liabilities, showed the stock to be worth a premium of $2,643,603. And all this duly sworn to. CHAPTER XXXIX. FIRST SESSION TWENTY-SIXTH CONGRESS: MEMBERS: ORGANIZATION: POLITICAL MAP OF THE HOUSE. _Members of the Senate_. NEW HAMPSHIRE.--Henry Hubbard, Franklin Pierce. MAINE.--John Ruggles, Reuel Williams. MASSACHUSETTS.--John Davis. Daniel Webster. VERMONT.--Sam'l Prentiss, Sam'l S. Phelps. RHODE ISLAND.--Nehemiah R. Knight, N. F. Dixon. CONNECTICUT.--Thaddeus Betts, Perry Smith. NEW YORK.--Silas Wright, N. P. Tallmadge. NEW JERSEY.--Sam'l L. Southard, Garret D. Wall. PENNSYLVANIA.--James Buchanan, Daniel Sturgeon. DELAWARE.--Thomas Clayton. MARYLAND.--John S. Spence, Wm. D. Merrick. VIRGINIA.--William H. Roane. NORTH CAROLINA.--Bedford Brown, R. Strange. SOUTH CAROLINA.--John C. Calhoun, Wm. Campbell Preston. GEORGIA.--Wilson Lumpkin, Alfred Cuthbert. KENTUCKY.--Henry Clay, John J. Crittenden. TENNESSEE.--Hugh L. White, Alex. Anderson. OHIO.--William Allen, Benjamin Tappan. INDIANA.--Oliver H. Smith, Albert S. White. MISSISSIPPI.--Robert J. Walker, John Henderson. LOUISIANA.--Robert C. Nicholas, Alexander Mouton. ILLINOIS.--John M. Robinson, Richard M. Young.