Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1823-05-13

s"HttSdt Cftteis VUmtfS JcuefUtof, utiStt I
.ery wen, IN the lapse of year, become a
sioient jaeotin. Such character has no po-
larify hut the people want a president who
is, in politics, what it seems Mr.. G.. was not
in $50 or 'e9-" simply republican"
The next eight or nine years OF his public
life, appear TO have been employed in all the
turbulence of party contention aggravated by
local and personal topics. Two of these
wrangles terminated in duels, with the loss Of
life. But having nj length crushed his per-
sonal opponents, we find him, in 1907, mem
Der of the Y. States Senate. From this
period his history has been more under the
observation of the Union. Let us see what
claims he has since established TO a paramount
place in the esteem and gratitude of his coun-
try.
In the Senate, Mr.. Crawford voted 10 re-
charter the old bank Of the u. States Cd mea-
sure which Virginia instructed her senators tn
oppose and took that occasion to intimate, that
the individual states ought To be prohibited
from Incorporating banks-in order, | pre-
sumo, to create an uhcontrouled moned aris-
tocracy in that mammoth institution. Mr..
G. did not stop here. He attacked the in
siructions given to Messrs. Giles and Brent,
and chose To display his flial pety to his ma
hue state, by attributinS her opposition to the fe-
dera bank, not to principle but Sordid i,,isrest-
Virginia, as he argued, holding large portion
OF the stock in her own local institutions
AS comment on this statement written from
memory will the Enquirer favour the public
with an extract Of the speech itself, together
with MIR. Brent's indignant reply to the foul
insinuatiun owe shall then, perhaps, more
fully see the point of the anecdote lately
given by writer in the Enquirer (Pendletonl Y
of the conversation between Mr.. C.. and las is
beiieved) distinguished Pnginia member
of congress.
In the session of l81l-Is, Mr.. C. charged
MIR. Madison with being guilty of duplicity in
the message that recommended the second
war of our independence hut when the
declaration was sent up from the other house,
MIR. Z. gaveit no actire support although
there was strong party in the Senate (brsidcs
the federalists) who wished to substitute letters
Of mdrque and reprisai. This faction lin, and
out OF the Senate) consisted, principally, Of
Messrs. Gallatin, Giles, Smith, Sc sc. the
particular friends Of Mr.. Crawford aud it is
believed that he fully concnrred with them in
tneir preference OF the paltry substitute ;
although he was finally compelled to vote for
the war. 1t will, however, be remembered by
those who served with him, at the time, that
during the two war-sessions that he sat in
the Senate (before his departure for France)
he made neither speech nor proposition in
support OF that great measure ON the CON
trary when the bill came up from the II. of
H. for building certain number of ships of
war, Mr.. T.. spoke against the, measure and
r'd'culed the idea of engaging England on the
ocean as the extreme of madness and folly
l." the immortal glory of better counseIs and
the raier ofour seamcn, these predictions of
mlsNvng mind were early and completely
falsifed
Mr.. Crawford's mission to France is not
marERd . nnl inc; A., III,
sured IN the memory. He crossed the ocean
and returned, and his correspondence during
the interval was almost wholly limited TO bills
drawn for his pay.
uioasurr or proposition of his, beyond the
mere ordinary routine of the burean-the re-
commentator of MARRIAGES between our
white population and Indians on the frontiers.
IN lieu of the importation of foreigners!
| Mr.. Crawford has now been some SEVEN
years IN the department of the Treasury.
| What scheme OF finance has he devised in
all that period His annual Reports will
scarcely be appealed To by his warmest part
Fans III answer TO this question These pa
pers. though sometimes explained by one or
more supplementary reports, have not always
oeen inte!liSbie; and when understood. have
uniformly been ridiculed and drcried by every
man IN America at all acquainted with fiscal
''o"o. L hc INtpofl oil the last wear
Is particularly remarkable for another char
acter. After cOniuring up an artificial d,f,it
OF some millions and quarter of dollars} lor
me year 1898, he very ingeniousIy recon-
inehas, under the pretencr of revenue "A per-
mdnent increase of the Tariff To meet Tim,
temporary exIsency--thereby expecting 10
concentrate the manufacturers, without alarm
ing the other great interests ofthe community
rms straiaSem was well understood by more.
man one member of Congress- from Virginia.
during the last session
Under the head of Treasury operations 7
sliaii moi dwell particularly on the charge.
'naue ny me Governor of Georgia, and others
Oh VII. Us participation with the creek aren't
Mitchell, in the illicit n,roduotion OF slaves
INTO 'he v. D, anu his, Mr.. C's, neglect 10
prosecute the said Mitchell on the renort nr
lhe attorney general, AS the Secretary of tb.
treasury was bound TO do nor on fin,
unauthorized loans of nearly million of dol.
lars to different banks known TO he insnlven,
or unsale-whereby the Treasury has lost the
money nor on the suppressed documents
MAKING part OF the correspondence relative
W nose 'oans NOR on the employment of
y. o. senator In an executive and lucrative
service, against the spirit of the laws. and
the independence of Congress In ,bssa
transactions Mr.. Crawford has. donbrless
gained many partizans at the expense of the
Y. states but l shall conclude this nepot;,e
reo,e,o, by some other incontrover,ibIe facts
nightly illustrative of the character 7 bave
attempted to pourtray
=. some years ago the House Of Representa-
yves passed resolution requiring the secre-
larIes ofthe Treasury and War departments to
report severaiiy, on the question of Internal
Improvements. Mr.. Calhoun promptly obeyed
'he call but MIR. Crawford knowing that tbs
suoJect was one on which The public mind
was much divided, and that he could not write