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As he proceeded, Lincoln abandoned his didactic exposition of economic theory and history and began to scourge the Jackson and Van Buren administrations for their extravagant spending. He went on at length to rebut Douglas’s attempt to explain the federal government’s unusual expenses in 1838. Lincoln was occasionally abusive: he ridiculed arguments of the opponents of the Bank of the United States as “absurd;” he called Douglas “stupid” and “deserving of the world’s contempt;” and he labeled one of Douglas’s arguments “supremely ridiculous.” Lincoln indulged in some demagoguery, asking of the subtreasury: “was such a system for benefiting the few at the expense of the many, ever before devised?”
Source: Abraham Lincoln ∶ A Life ▫𓂃
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