Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1831-06-10
THE BANK OF THE UNITED STATES.
We are indebted TO the last Charleston Courier for
following structures :

At
THE BANK OF THE UNITED STATES.
We are indebted TO the last Charleston Courier for
the following structures:
Tho unequal battle which this invaluable Institution h, 80 v,y.
is demonstrated by on article in tho above paper of the goth st
seIe. (Which SSs he then passi isSesS s%H the Ss' Sloo a1,''I %ssu .a s SsTs so.. "a,
will remember the Enquirer makes use Of the word facts espe.
cially when he secs i, insinca,ed ,ha, 'hs Bank is using ali The
see. i jseiarod tina, tho Bank has had reeouiss to its large funds
win por@i, me to place virtual though not T. verbal sd%,Y .f al j" ansf I a%
S willing; for l will, defy him to the proof of OaO of these charges
Its true, the holders of Stock may. and doubtless have, made
for tho %s csf T"'fa b ) sSpas.s : q as . ' is IS TO to tho no Z 4 :. S OF ar;
enjoy ses i !. ? sa; sim %SiS' 81 i Gi.s Ss 'Ss 'isS,' 's 'A ss,s he s, SaI I" furnishes me S"s
impu,a,iOn o. false charges, which the Enquirer, Argus, or States.
BS. what are Tho charge. mad. by tho two latter pre.so.' The
less!, The Bank Share holders did this; they had a right I, do IL:
: : Tho g statesman saSss "a . SSey' 4 Sa snS 3 : . asf% %S.n ~ Oh ssG 10, ,,'p s a Circulated
10000 copies. Hero tho Bank had nothing to do with the circu-
Again, 1000 copies Of Mr.; McDuaio's report were circulated,
,ns l.s,eo that a.. 1.-Two you'd e welI for Congress g inquire into tho
TALssHcoo'. "' WAS H i G1S'G0'
ton".Let Congress enquire into this matter; and then
we shall see whether il is the Bank or the shareholders.
who have circulated so many Reports, Extras, &c..
throughout the country.-We shall then know, the per-
sons who distributed, but the other days so many Copies of
an Extra. from the National Gazette Ofhce-who
at the trouble OF collecting names throughout the United
States TO whom these Extras were addressed. and who
paid the postage on them. Upon what authority does
washington" undertake 10 say, that il was done by the
shareholders in their private capacities-and that what
we have standerousiy alluded to as facts, are "wicked
and malicious falsehoods9" Where is the proof of his
assertions' Why is it left to him in a distant quarter
OF the Union TO make the denals! Why has it not
1een done by papers in the very presence and under
the authority Of the Bank itself! Why has not mn,
Wdtsh done tn-And how comes it 10 pass, that the
philadelphia Sentinel, which has taken sides with the
bank' used but the other day the following significant
languagel
"The Bank appears TO be perfectly passive. Indeed.
II mas always seemed TO us that to discuss the subject al
all Is premature, at least till the Bank applies to be re-
chartered. For 1t is not the bank OF the government.
but oil the stockholders: and who knows that thew ever
Will apply Tor re-charter! As we'll as we understand
the Bank, when the President and Congress brought il
before the people, used the right which surely it has of
indicating Itself, by disseminating informal on among
the people But that is all. 1t invited no contest. II
MAINTAINS no contest. Ii Is a n~on-combatant. With
difference tothose who keep up the controversy, il is a
most Improbable one"
Here the Sentinel says, the Bank has been q per-
lecuy pdssiue"-"d non-combafant'-an yet it adj
mits that " the Bank used the right, which surely il
has, OF vindicating itself, 6y disseminating infoyrno-
fion among the people-but that is aH."-An! and vet
II IS sufficient to establish our proposition, and to rebut
all The contradictions OF the Author of Washington.-U
seems, then, that i: is not the Shareholders, but .sthe
Bank" itself, who have disseminated these reports. Sc.
among the People. This concession is made by a"Sen-
tnel" under the very beard of the Bank itself-and il
Is In vain for a Charleston writer 10 pronounce such
Jdcfs to be " wicked and malicious falsehoods." The
advocates OF the Bank take different pleas. One denies
me JGct-and the other pleads Justification. One as.
sertS the right OF the Bank 10 use the Press for its mr.
poses-The other afirms the allegation to be a "wick-
ed and malicious falseheod - n ue go-but we
trust mat Congress 'o'H enquire into the subject"
Jefferson" in the National Journal, may find the
answer 10 MS attack upon the Enquirer, ! turn ng 10
The columns of the last N. Intelligence r. He will there
md what we sail of Mr.. McDufie's Speech, when
we mad oSore us, not an Unofficial extract, but an au-
fhgnttC CDIU of fha whOIa harapuna H. ,;l -
mat we pronounce ii :" violent in its tone, and ultra in
its Doctrines
And now a few words 10 ths N. Inteligencer i.sell! ,
we have protested against Null JfcatiOn-we have
declared our belief that South Carolina would 10, rush
into live have over and ov-r said, that The idea YVES
absurd Of our being ia the Union and out of il at the
8 'De hme-We have repeated a hundred ,ines our de-
vo'ion TO the UnioD-iba, nothing but the dires
necessity, an intolerabls oppression, should Induce
US 'o mink oil a dlssoluton-aud that every means OF
an amIcaole arrangement should be f. st exhau, ted
we have said il in vain The in,elligsncer charges
us again with notification, or what is equal 10 iI-by
PeLver'l9g our words, and thus giving them a sense Of
which they were not susceptible; viz: (sto cali a Con.
V.ntcn oil The Anti. Tariff States, to bring about a re-
s'Stdnce oil 1t by CO. operation and action ~ We never
sau 'na' ,hey would act by the sword, or that hey
would resist in any such wsy-but that a special Con-
vention may be called, for The purposes of concert-oi
= a long pull, and a strong pull, and a pull altogether"
-such a concert as may he brought about among the
. a'es, ei'hef by separate PesoluiioDs,o or by Messengers,
or q Meeting together by deputies, TO compare In liz
Complaints, TO adOp, the most proper mea,urer Of
ne'ofm' and present an Vi tied Remembrance TO the
congress, nr 10 the States, o 10 the CiizenS of the u.
States. The Federalist, as well as Mr.. Madison. re.
port'aho~s o: proper and Necessary measures Of &C. ,pe-
ration TO be taken among the States. For our own par ts,
we are Tree to cay that we would greatly prefer a Com
vrbhon oil all The States to am nj the Constitution end TO
set better defined limits TO the action of The General
GfVsrnmert-such a Convention as we proposed SOM
months sinee.-We verify believe, that The Sjuih will
never submit placidly 10 This " bill of abominations"-
mat as lorg az II lasts, they will b. opposed 10 it-that
the continuance Of this system, aud The as.ump-
lion OF such powers, are calculated to rouse up feel
ings, that may prove miscbievous 10 tie Union-,hat
no man, who views hem as enc oachment, upon
he.Consiiiu In, will old up Is arms a d u mit-tba
ne VINO advocet-s them, does not see the dsnger which
threatens 'ne OnioL-aod that the only way to make
u perpetual, u by abolishing such systems, with the
enerosciirg spirit which gives rise 10 them. Con.
bnued usu' patton will fster the wouud-uptil IL IL
lmPosslbla TO say when IL may end in a gangrens.-
me extinction OF the public debt will certainly make
a ser Gus psute.
A'to nUlihesticn. we repeat we would have none of
ii-bui mat lei The worst come 10 The wors', lei the
entertainments OF the government become intolerabl
then, ne Mr.. Madison declares in his Bosom letter. The
remedy should be sousbt at once bya proposition 10
Dissolve, or even dissolution itself, IN an in this arm
Mr.. Madison h mself admits, that there are cases nj
Noticeable and tyrannous oppression, in which the States
may throw themselves upon their overeigntv-bu
MS is That case OF extreme redre s, which Is not with
IN the rules OF the Constitution, but out of il.
BJt the IDseliigeDceT refers 10 an ariicls in the E.
quirer some years ago, p%ropo'ing "io resist the laws Of
me United s ates by the legislation Of The s a,s"-and
" says falsely, that II was "in this ocrv case of The
IdTU" The article referred 10 was moi EiiiorisI-I.
was a commute Atom" and we did protest aga nst
is doe,fines-and IL had not the slightest souinhng IN.
wards the Tariff. So much for the vera-iou, Infe a.
gencer-But speak Of our docir nssl What would bs
the fruits OF The doctrines OF the Io,elhgeIcT? Thew
are the rank doctrines Of the old Federal party-worse
even lhsn they sfe-They would plunge The States in
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