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Quotation from Veazie Bank v. Fenno by Supreme Court of the United States
“It is sufficient to add, that the burden of the tax, while it has encouraged these banks, has proved fatal to those of the States; and, if we are at liberty to judge of the purpose of an act, from the consequences that have followed, it is not, perhaps, going too far to say, that these consequences were intended.”
Veazie Bank v. Fenno, Dissent of Justice Nelson (U.S. Reports text (Wikisource))
Nelson closes by inferring the tax's purpose from its effect on the state banks.
Citation: "It is sufficient to add, that the burden of the tax, while it has encouraged these banks, has proved fatal to those of the States; and, if we are at liberty to judge of the purpose of an act, from the consequences that have followed, it is not, perhaps, going too far to say, that these consequences were intended." — Supreme Court of the United States, Veazie Bank v. Fenno, Dissent of Justice Nelson (U.S. Reports text (Wikisource)). (id veazie-bank-v-fenno-q6)
Portrait: Mathew Brady, Portrait of Secretary of the Treasury Salmon P. Chase, officer of the United States government (1860–1865, full version) (1), Mathew Benjamin Brady, Public domain.
