The charter thus obtained was accepted: and, without the change of form or substance in any particular, the old bank moved on as if nothing had happened--as if the Congress charter was still in force--as if a corporate institution and all its affairs could be shifted by statute from one foundation to another;--as if a transmigration of corporate existence could be operated by legislative enactment, and the debtors, creditors, depositors, and stockholders in one bank changed, transformed, and constituted into debtors, creditors, depositors and stockholders in another. The illegality of the whole proceeding was as flagrant as it was corrupt--as scandalous as it was notorious--and could only find its motive in the consciousness of a condition in which detection adds infamy to ruin; and in which no infamy, to be incurred, can exceed that from which escape is sought. And yet it was this broken and rotten institution--this criminal committing crimes to escape from the detection of crimes--this "counterfeit presentment" of a defunct corporation--this addendum to a Pennsylvania railroad--this whited sepulchre filled with dead men's bones, thus bribed and smuggled through a local legislature--that was still able to set up for a power and a benefactor! still able to influence federal legislation--control other banks--deceive merchants and statesmen--excite a popular current in its favor--assume a guardianship over the public affairs, and actually dominate for months longer in the legislation and the business of the country. It is for the part she acted--the dominating part--in contriving the financial distress and the general suspension of the banks in 1837--the last one which has afflicted our country,--that renders necessary and proper this notice of her corrupt transit through the General Assembly of the State of Pennsylvania. CHAPTER VII. EFFECTS OF THE SUSPENSION: GENERAL DERANGEMENT OF BUSINESS: SUPPRESSION AND RIDICULE OF THE SPECIE CURRENCY: SUBMISSION OF THE PEOPLE: CALL OF CONGRESS.