Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1824-07-27
From the Washington CITY Gazette
TO JOHN QUINCY ADAMS, ESQ SECRETA.
RY OF STATE

| 81 the Government, candidate tor, and, your
trends say, occupy ing the chamber TO, the Pre-
sdency.-fou have yourself, in a late case which
produced you nothing but confusion and defeat,
Tue example Tor Invading the sanctuary OF private
Of your ambition. We shall not follow what we re-
probate. We shall not glance al any thing OF a
private character but what is indispensable TO a cor.
rect view Of public matters.
Without dwelling on, or even adver,ng to, the in
veerae hostility which you and your coadjutors have
lately evinced towards the banking institutions
OF this District, several Of which have merits,
rates to the Government, which not common TO
most oil those in the country and ascribing due fu
10 what 70 obviously the principal motive this reent-
less lille, warfare and persecution viz to trAduce
aud 'nJure MIR. Crawiord-we shall promptly pro-
ceed TO case connected with that one Of those de.
nouneeu establishments which you have selected as
'he o'Ject oil your special range and resentment.
\ ou and your parEan corps industr iuusly and
| winoui, AS we understand, any known provocai
by the b ,nk OF the Metropolis in this CITY,
anu circulating the idea that is improperly tavo' ell
vii" immense loans from, aud deposites by, the Trea-
sury Department and hence you draw such deduc-
uons aud concuson as suit your own purposes. He
,sf lives IN glass house ought TO throw stones.
Look M The facis. That Bank has never had a loan
from the Department and there is not in reality,
and, since the establishment Of the Bank Of the o.
States, has not been, correctly speaking, any Trea-
sufy d'pos'ie IN IT. he receipts by il, from public deb
Tors, were unavoidable, from the interest and policy
OF the Government aud the system of the u S. Bank
Ise'f. But, Tor the sake of argument, assume the
Tact call those receipts deposte How the stands
tne case, IN comparative view between MIR. Craw-
f., Il aud Yourself?
The whole amount paid into the Bank Of the Me-
period tina, The Bank OF the United States commence
ed ITS operatons) on account OF the Department, is
aboni 24O or go thousand dollars
"h'n smntl par' e. This tcrm--from some period
in the fail Of 1920, some time in the winter Of 1901
* tha' Us, IN about 10 or l6 months time, you actual
~ and directly deposled IN the same Bank, On ac-
count OF lhe pate Department, ahou, 3lO $50 900
uohhs Oh phoilc money-money drawn by you direct
iy, under legal appropriations and ell from,
| the Treasury or Bank of the u. States! Here was
no intervening or aux,I'aIy Bank agency for The
commoua'!o" oil the government, which would have
constituted Legitimate and reasonable CLAIM, for its
tavnrs IL was direct, palpabic, and naked deposi,
oy you and that too, at time when, in addition TO
me law upon this subject, there existed an order of
the President ofihe Unted States that all public mo-
ney should be deposited in the Bank of tho Uuited
States 80.
Mr.. Crawford never had any interest wb.,ever in
the stock of the Bank Of the Metropolis had lEere.
been any, you nigh have found 1t TO your purpose to
| trace his transaction 10 that source
You, on the contrary, lad Ia, &c amount of stock
| IN that Bank at the time Of your deposits About
ms tme also, we believe, your soa became Que of
| ITS directors
81 The Bank Of the United States, drew on the Bank
OF the Metropolis in favor % the for n,er for about
so,ooo dollars (the known balance) which had been
there deposited by his predecessor and himself ac-
cordlng 10 usage and law, approved aud sanctioned
by the Preslden, of the United States
In March 1922 you withdrew, aud that, as we
\
Inc remnant OF your deposit, when you were threat
ened with visit by the committee Of Congress an
pointed, to investigate the subject Of governmental
! deposits.
| We repeat, how stands the oues,iop com,,,,,;ve.
y between Mr.. Craw ford and Yourself as lriles TO
public deposites in the Bank of the Metropolis.
r. IN ABOUT me same length Of time in which Mr.
C'awiord, who had no private pecuniary interest in
the Bank, authorized debtors Of the Government,
unoeI special circumstances, TO pay about S46 900
'h,o inc INK, ('akips an average of about l6
I.r
incrcst 10 the Bank and your either actually or
ABOUT 10 become, enc Of its managers, you din eciy
poeVcy, ard uneqnivocay, deposited abou, $40 or
SOU UO dollars contrary to law, and the Presidents
order and al the hazardous period in the bank.
| ing history Of the conniryl
lie, !" the progress of Transactions, beneficial TO
Goyernment, leaves, say TO- 20. 80, 49, 80 or $4,000
dollars IN the Bank, in which he has no jp,e,es,
| whilst you, IN violation Of law and the Presi.
dents order, leave five tunes that amount in The
| same Bank, in which you had al the time a lara.
private pecuniary interest, and 10 which your son was
| a Director
We are not champions Of the Bank Of the Me,,opo-
liza. We have, indeed, repeatedly heard lis clam, IN
| counenance AID support urged, hut, having no tn
teresi in H. either direct indirect we leave ia
canse To IFS particular friends. Oar object is 10 de-
ect dUpiiciIy do Justice TO the innocent and il,
Jured IN higher region and in this undertaking
comparatively 'nsisn fcaDt pecunisIy Institution and
any OF us Concerns, absrnctesy considered are of
no importance hey are mese feather IN the scale
we exh'ni facts that must have important he arr
s upon the principles, the PRACTICES and the
oi those who are candidates for the b;ybes, bnnn.
oil the nation We pledge ourselves for the tru,b oI
these, except perhaps lowing to the want of facility
10 procuring specific Information in the departments
alluded 10 and the Bank Iiself) as TO minute circnn
stances Of lime AID amount. We dare ynu IN H.,
The substance OF our statement. ~
stand iorh, now, thou tsncied Hercules, whose
proves is IN daily quest OF adventures and exnn;,
stand forth and defend ttyself Thy clnb hos 40
teGrors for us. You seek, indeed 10 destroy the ;
oi The noun ain, and ciOhe yosrsef IA his skin hn
previously vii YOU be disappointed Unless ,he pro
i1undest politicians have lost all their SIX IN in tbe no
cal auguiies oil modern times catasropbe ia a,n,
To conclude yd1r dr10is hsi will claim for vou n,,h
'ns D"t 'i'al sympathy Which humanity is still disposed
| 10 weld TO tie unfortunate, however i,ase
when ynu nave put IN our answer IN thess ,o;,,s
we snall present you with others and sill more On
uii tie comniua'y become perfectly acuuain,ed win
your real character, and are enabled 10 iuJgc hos,
'ar your are entd 10 The E,ne of honest poIi,i-
can or that q! even man Of probiry. ''''''
| lie Alabama IntelEgsmccr of the o6d, oflu,.
published ri Cdhawba, contains line proccsd;nas If
meeting Of gentlemen from diff rent paris Of AlaLa-
mn, for the purrose Of noninanr eieciors nj pei.
! dent aGd Vice President. Ibev aI,,Ied n,s,nbl.
and resolutions declaring " tia, tc virtues mad ser
wees OF oenrTa Jackson have rendered him dear 20
the American pfopie HIS name is inscribed upon
theH hearis The meeting also declare, Giat a
large M Iriy Of the CT zens of Alabama an in favor
ol General Jackson for President; Aud they re.
soNsu " mat John Caiouu is . suitable person 10
llil The oiice OF Wee President OF the Uni ed States"
They then nominated John Murphy of Monroe
Reuben Stafford of D,ll,s, James Hi, Henry Cb.o.
be's ana william Fienng, 10 constitute the elec
or" icket OF that slate 10 favor of jackson aud ca.
houu.
meeting of 'lo friends Of Mr. Adams. in A,b,
~, was also held aboni the tins 80 C,l,,,,,
Ihey adopted The following iesOluunns and uoc,,,,
tel Andrew PTkens Of Ddl,s, James ID ,lleu ,f
Monroe, Samuel Mead Of Madison, Tbon,ss o,osnI
a'd George C9sher, TO be the electors in favor Of
! d.