When the law should be carried into operation, it would be found not to possess those odious qualities which had excited resentment against a system of excise.

In those states where the collection of a duty on spirits distilled within the country had become familiar to the people, the same prejudices did not exist.

On the good sense and virtue of the nation they could confidently rely for acquiescence in a measure which the public exigencies rendered necessary, which tended to equalize the public burdens, and which in its execution would not be oppressive.
A motion made by Mr.Jackson, to strike out that section which imposed a duty on domestic distilled spirits, was negatived by thirty-six to sixteen; and the bill was carried by thirty-five to twenty-one.
Some days after the passage of this bill, another question was brought forward, which was understood to involve principles of deep interest to the government.
[Sidenote: On a national bank.] The secretary of the treasury had been the uniform advocate of a national bank.

Believing that such an institution would be "of primary importance to the prosperous administration of the finances; and of the greatest utility in the operations connected with the support of public credit," he had earnestly recommended its adoption in the first general system which he presented to the view of congress; and, at the present session, had repeated that recommendation in a special report, containing a copious and perspicuous argument on the policy of the measure.

A bill conforming to the plan he suggested was sent down from the senate, and was permitted to proceed, unmolested, in the house of representatives, to the third reading.