Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1819-11-05

we 70 eTeauf Cah we not safely take a. high
handed course AZ we please The treaty ia
rejected occupy Florida.-The British want
Cuba! don't snffer them TO take it-rhey have
designs upon the gulf of Florida and The mines
o. meNico--you must interpose bulwark =
Cuem deus run pcrdere prins demeafat! Our
reputation aud safety frsm alb road, have long
he"n maintained by the integrity and mode
ration OF onr measures. Run mad BY a little
success, We have since committed, fear, "A
fatal error Shall we crafty the views of our
enemies by aifurding further prrtexis Tor the
prosecution of their ueep, aud desperate
schemes 1t Europe had long beeni involved
III wal monai cbl against monarchy Tor inter-
est-have HEY not been taught enough to
mite them against us from principle Are
they really afraid OF revolutions & reiornat ious,
lonld they possibly devise a better diversion
from, themselves, than get up IA popular cru
sade against usl But it these might happen
To be ministerial contrivances, how deeply cal.
cnlated 10 luil us iuto d dangerous security |!
The Florida business has, perhaps, already
afforded too good preteAi Tor uniting the po-
puiar Indignation oil Europe against us, 10 he
swell the catalogue OF complaint BY ANY
further needless violehce-wbile we an,piy
prepare to brave the storm. il we have failed
to repair the breach that raised it..
AiJemarle Oct. 81, 1919.
The events which are Transporting in tho
state of ONO are likely to give fresh interest
to Tie Ohio Controversy" Two of the "a
gems concerned Ia leyying The taA were in Jail,
OS the last accounts aud perhaps the Audi
tor OF the State has shared their doom
we take, however, the Bank, and the deci.
SION OF Tue supreme Court. upon fheir own
merits, Invested OF all the difficulties which
TIE events IN Ohio have woven into the web
We disapprove of The Institution OF The Bank
stiii more the grounds on which the Federal
Court have Justified il. We have spoken our
minus Freely Jew prints have take II The same
aa Ma Il.akn al l,..s
our earliest Yeas they were those of the old
republican party. III with some qualification
til"t W. therefore see siniar'views entertained
Dy amy paPers--as for Instance, in the follow
in2 paiag raph iiOm the ALBANY Argus n lead
Ing paper III the state ut New York:
State RightS.-The supreme court of
tue United States made iMo decisions las,
winter, which have excited mach feeling
,n some oil The states, and " hivb seem
Ikeiy 10 become topic for more general
national discussion. We a!iudr 10 ,h,
DECISIONS which declare Unconstitutional
CERTAIN insoveni lars anu which, denies
10 The states The right OF taxing ii,e stock
oi the national bank. These decisions
by many, are deemed alarming iutriny-.
mtn,s OF the rights rcser, ed 10 the iudlyi-
dual staies-and as beuy calculated. i'm
Their consequence To concentrate undut
powers In the national govern neni. con
iiary 10 the spirit OF the constitution.
Among The prints which have resisted
'his encroachmeni with q. al and ability.
The Richmond Euquircr stands prpemi
ueni, q the labors of HE editor have been
ably secon by his correspondents.
we have co led to-day, from thai paper,
me editors reflections upon the recent
coiiiSion Ge'wren the authority Of Oh,o
and one OF 'ose decisions which, while
II exhibits that affair in lis proper light, is
calculated 10 afford our readers "A p,ejt
correct view ola controversy winch II
seems probable will become one of para
mount interests.
we beg leave TO observe, that IRE have no,
YET touched upon the insoirent deciSisn.
lhe editor claims no merit for what he has
wiIiten on The other questionable deserves
none hut we may truly say that the labours
OF Our correspondents would have done credit
to the columns of any paper in. the Union
men we peHned the article OH the case of o.
gao, we uid believe IL - exhibited that sffair la
us proper light" and We see no occasion vel
10 Change our opinion.