nicholas biddle flexes his muscle. nicholas biddle, on behalf of the bank, gives henry clay a $50,000 campaign donation. quite a lot of money for those days. not only that, but the bank for years already has been funding and loaning money to newspapers all across the country. that press, all of a sudden, is piling on to. things look really bad. what is jackson going to do? is he going to win? things don't look so good. jackson is confident. in the midst of this trial, jackson says "the bank is trying to kill me, but i will kill it." jackson says he will kill it. what happens? the election occurs. election day comes about. victory for jackson. jackson wins the election in a landslide. clay wins five states. jackson takes the bulk of the states. you will notice south carolina refuses to vote for jackson in the middle of that nullification crisis. jackson wins the election. victory for the jacksonians. this cartoon in 1833. for low back story, in graduate school i took a course. we had to take an old photograph or an old