Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1832-12-14
ANSWER.

ANSWER. /
There is very little doubt on our minds that
a copy of the Presidents Message WINS recei-
we'd in Wall street some hours before it was
presented to Congress In conversation yes
terday with large operator in tho United
States Bank Stock-a Jackson mamie freely
told us that the Message was in Wall stree, Sc
veral days before the.'nee,ipg Of Congress.
Editors Com. Adv.
THE UNITED STATES BANK.
With the peculiar statesman like regard for |
the honor and digoity OF The country, which |
the whole course OF his administration has ex-
hibited, the President has told the World in his
Message, that the Bauk of tho United States |
10 not safe place in which to deposit fluids.
While he may be supposed, by n stretch of
imagination, to have been ind,ting the in
iquitous libel in question, he may be presumed,
legally and fairly. TO have been before him
tho evidence of its falsiiy. ss is conclusivciy !
shown in the annexed article from the Nation
nj Gazette.
The President having expressed great anxiety
about the safety of the Government funds in the
National Bank, we have taken occasion to make
some inquiry pursuant to practice in matters
wherein we suppose error to lie. Truly the appre-
tensions of the Chief Magistrate now seem 10 us
almost ludicrous. At the time when the President
wrote-we should say at the time he signed the Mes
the situation of the Bank on the LIST of November.
According to that statement, it appears that the
whole OF the claims of every description against the
Bank follows
For notes in circulation, sI7,96s,7a3 sc
Deposits of all kinds, Ii $50 $50 80
The holders of funded debt re-
deemable, 4,747, G96 As
Making a total of $37, 296, $50 20
This is the full extent of the demands on the bank
now, what is there to meet themI
!, Gold and silver, SS,O26,O55 45
=, Funds in Europe, equiva-
lent 10, indeed better than 2,6S5, O1O 90
gold and silver here,
3. Real Estate, 1897 IOl So
4. Due by State Banks, 3,5I2,953 %
5. Due by individuals, 62, 1874 10
Making aggregate of so 593 S71 81
Here then are 70 millions to pay 81 milIions!-
Really this would sufficient to quiet the fears
OF the most sensitive holder of note.
W Is tho following charge truef VIII it DO
butted7 In connection with the articles published
above, it ut least induces the most serious SUSPECT
cion.
From the U. S. Gazette.
SERIOUS CHARGE.
We find in the New YORK Courier and Enquirer,
of yesterday, what purports to be an enquiry into,
and exposition of the late sudden fall in the price
of United States Bank Stock-t fell it ia known,
from about lis to l04. The Courier and Enquirer
says
| 'Now we charge that a member Of Congress OF
no small not oriety, became possessed of what the
President intended to say the subject of the
Bank, and, in connexion with FIVE other individuals
in this city, entered into conspiracy prey upon
the purchasers of u S. Bank Stock
| The Courier and Enquirer says again
"But we do not rest our position upon suspicion.
We deliberately charge, that the contents of the
Presidents message communicated to certain
persons in this city on the morning of Wednesday,
and that the person who made such communca-
ton was party to the subsequent frauds upon
the public. We charge that the Editor of the
Standard received from the President and confirm
cd the information thus communcated--en6 zee
charge furthermore that the Executive himself gaue
10 the editor of the Standard a copy Of his message
that JomN L. MUMFoRD brougktit to this city in
| The mail on Monday naorning-ond that the coNspI.
RAroRs operated on. Monday and Tuesday toith that
Message in their possession"
"Wc know that Mumford has already explicitly
denied that he had the message here, before ar
rived by express, and we know that he will en-
deavour to cover one falsehood with another-it is
his practice. But we charge that, Sunday the
I'd day of December, ho boasted to highly respect:
able young man, the Captains clerk of the steam
boat William Penn, on the Delaware, between New
Castle and Philadelphia, and also TO tho barber
boot-black, and other servants with whom he asso.
cated that he then had in his possession the Pre-
! sidents Message. which he received from the Pro-
Sident himself on Saturday night at ii o'clock,
and that he must he in this city on Monday
morning, cost what it might've charge that
he did arrive here with the message on Mon
day morning, and that tho conspirators beco-
ming alarmed at his presence, he was sent back tc
| Philadelphia, to come on apparently from Wash.
ington, after the message had been received"
| We confess that we had pain even in copying the
above extracts. The charges contained in them aro
in our opinion, exceedingly grave-if we know our
selves, however, we should not withhold them from
our readers they levelled at men of our poiti
| cal faith.