Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1829-12-15
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pre- until the year 1886. They perhaps, not
equally appraised however, tut before the meeting of
Congress, and vi course before the Message was pub
lsled. certain luminous lnIcrrogato.:"J appeared in
thc New York Courier and Enquirer obviously de-
signed TO sounG public opinion The same subject
Mr Moan OF the Ed OF that paper, IS the well
known Inniou vi Mr.. Van Burr.i, and lives on the
public CRIB as reward Tor po!i'ICa! sib,ery!cncy
H. tune ofabout 5000 dollars and upwsrls. Hear
him,
Cannot the Government manage It's concerns now
tia, there loans aud very ltlc debt left 10 pay
without The and Of ths Bank?'
''Wi the dlferclt States, through their reprcscn-
tAtvcs, be Of option thIt the protection due the
States Bank"
Will sundry Banks throughout the Union take
measures tn satisfy the General e. iVernnct OF their
safety receiving deposits of The revenue and trans
Gctng the banking concerns of the United Statc-:"
VIII thc legislatures OF the several States Ilopt
resolutions on the subject, and Instruct their SGna
tors how voe.'
crnnent TO issue Eychcqucr Bills the amount of the
annual revenue reeemabe at pleasure, 10 constitute
circulating medium cquivacut 20 i..e aU:us issued
By the United States Bank"
The Presidents Message intimates clearly the opin
ion that the United States Bank is both ncxpcdicnt
and unconstitutional, and suggests Us substitute The
establishment Of n National ExciIoQucr to be under
the immediate control OF the Government. The pub
lie Will doubtless be sruc with the remarkable coi:-
cldcncc between the sentiments Of the Message and
those of the Editor Of the Courier s; Enquirer No
will believe that the President received lis cue
from Mr.. Noah and can Goub: that Tia: Ed
Tor of the New York paper previously advised OF
the e5dents views, and ruCcd TO break ground
on the subject; and dull must be the optics we think
which do not perceive il this first OF series OF move
mcnts, on the same subject, the finger of u master
magician. We well know who the particular asso
cates of Mr. Secretary Van Buren, were when he did
our city the honor of visit III November last, and
ESQ know how congenal the views of those ussocat,
arc with the sentiments ofthe Message respecting he
H. s. Bank. The question of renewing, tic clIurt, r
the Bank of Virginia. Will long come before tic
Legislature of the State, and argument could be
stronger to sustain tie application for renewal than
the prospect which is held ont from tho big. est
authority of dcmolishing tho u. s. Bank.
But doubt not that the Homo able Secrctarys
views take a much wider range Than the mere psrsO-
raj benefit OF some of his good friends III Richmond
1t is matter OF history that the present U. s Bank
was the favonc bantlng Of Vice President Calhoun
He brought into being and sustained it triumphant
Iy amidst the violent assaults of its cncmi s lie can
not now>be guilty of SO aud unnatural a crime
Us the abandonment Of his offspring. Here
then is fine opportunity for cripping dreaded an
tagonist, and if we do not much m stake the Presi
dents premier will not be slotbfu in improving it,
In this contest shall be surprised at the ready
obedience which our neghbor of the Enquirer will
render to this ministerial mandate. We tell the pco-
pie OF Virginia, with the fearessncss of free press
TINT the Editor of that print is bound hand and foot to
the footstool of air. Secretary Van Buren, and evil
forfeit all claim whatever to political foresight if fn
Ittrn I, C,II,,
shall we say Of the manness aud independence OF tho
Enquirer, when it passes with fulsome applause
this proposal to destroy the T. S. Bank and to subsii
tn,e in its place a Naliunal Bark Mark reader
The question is not merely, shall the U. s. Bank be
put down for IN this the Enquirer would be too consis-
tcnr with itsclfto be use but to substitute for this
Bank which is only partially under the Influence of
The General Government, ono which shall be excu.
sivey controlled by Presidential putrouage-thus in
crcasng vastly one Of the strongest objections Of
Nirgina's ablcst and best politicians.
While this branch of the Message we cannot
rcfrun from upon the assertion in tho Presi-
dents Message, that The D. s. Bank "has failed in
Tie great cnd Of establishing a uniform and sound
currency" Is not this assertion known to the whole
nation to be untrue? Illus not the H. s Bank efFcc-
ted all IN tins particular that any man who knows any
tmng OF tue commerce or exchange of this country
could or did oxpecH Let any man contrast tho pre-
sent rates OF exchange between remote sections of
the country which IS from ! to ] per cent with whit
they were before the United States Bank was os,a.
bhehed let him compare the facilities with which &c
mttanccs may now be made to any part Of tho rrnio,
with the difficulties and losses experienced pr,or 70
that period and then say # the United States flont
has failed in this great end But we did not dcsign
defence of the u $. Bank
President Jackson in his inaugural SOeeoh prom.
iscd the nation that Washington should be one Of
his political guidce, and Mr. Secretary Van Burcn
echoed the sentiment in his answer to the Now
York Committee, when complimenting him on his ap-
pointment to the cabinet. Did Washington pronounce