Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1832-10-16

CHARLES ELLIS,
LEWIS w. CHAMBERLAYNE.
We comply with the request of several friends of Mr.
II. u. GRIcsBr, in giving place to the following re-
marks made by him the Meeting of the friends of Con
JACKSON held at the Town Hall in this Borough ON Sa
,urd"y evening last, Mr. Grigsby having consented to
Joik Beacon
SUBSTANCE OF THE REMARKS OF DIR. cRIcspY
III support oil his Resolution the subject OF the Bank
oil the u States made the meeting of the friends of
zen, JACKSON held at the Town Hall Saturday even.
ing 9th October, 1882.
MIR. CHAIRMAN: rise 10 propose resolution, ,.h;.h
L hope-which beleve-will command the unanimous
assent oil this numerous assembly. From the foundation
oil this government to the present moment the JJn,ed
States Bank has truly been vexed onesion .is !,
constitutional! Is 1t eXpedenR" The changes ON This
SUBJECT have been rung, by the wise otherwise bv
great and small year alter year, in the Halls of Legis
uon and in the Sanctuaes OF Justice from the shores of
our own Atlantic to the remotest tributaries Of the Miss
sipp have not the vanity believe that any remark
OF mne could change single sentiment, shake sin.
gle conclusion which any individual NAV have G,rn,aJ
upon IT. Yet sir the Bank is the subject-maler of the
resolution, which now hold in my hand. And | cali
upon you sr-not TO pronounce the bank constitutional o
unconstitutional, expedent rinexpedientbut 70 shield
YOURSELF if you can, from the missiles of party sn;r
which are hurting about u.s. and 10 pause awhile 10 com.
template with me moral picture which, would to God
could draw with pencil worthy the occasion
SIR you are 10 suppose that the Bank bill has psssed
Doh ouses oil Congress- and is unroed bcforet Pres
dent for his signature. What moment for deep deber
hon II he rejected it, he the one hand the wonder
iuy minute yet powerful igaments with which the Bank
had ngeniousy bound itself about the general heart o
community; even OF friends who had peed all in his sup
portland which, when sundered, would bleed. trcci,
bleed, and that blood, however uniusiIv wouJ GRO o,,
agan, him; when he the gigantic power of The Ri
"a BIiareus with than an hundred hands S,m,n
son yet uhsho that this Immense power fenzied v the
exquisite agony Of alternate hope aud fear-the
stimuli the purposes Of would rend earth and kv 10
destroy hlm when he saw on the other hand if lao nm.
proved the BILL the almost mpenetrabe barrier of nsus
bies, behind which he might safely entrencl, bsoIf
e eA'mPeo Xon-a name above all other names:
OF JEFFERSON whose name 10 so nearly allied with Liber
~, That men seem 10 have agreed that political sentiment
was Just or unjust accordingly he may have approved
or condemned il; and which name was appendcd ~ LIN
establishing Branch of the u s. Bank At NJ o.
leans, the field of the glory alike of jefferson and
Jackson;- ol Madison, IN whose breast, in all their
highest PROJECTIONS, virtue and philosophy which Tho
world has so often wept asunder have found ,yor
thy shrine; of Marshall whose comprehensive ntslle,
aided by all the lights which Pinckney a Webster and
"r' had shed upon this subject had approved it, when
he likewise that bis arch-enemy with spartiro Ia
hgh hdd hXed his hopes on the rejection of this blI ,s
Iulcrum on which he would rest his lever for the to fila
purpose OF expelng his enemy from the Chair of tho
sdency, and seating himself therein and that bv snIo
dash OF the pen he could scatter the calcuntionS Of
val TO The winds and the tcOos in fine, when he saw that
by signing the bill, he would throw TO the great na n
comfortable crust which, if did produce an occasional
growl III bis behalf, would leave it very little time 10 bar
at hn, and when he might aege that whatever bis rr
vae opinions We're the decision was demanded bv th.
representatives. OF the people fresh from me-. and
VINO might be supposed TO reflect their will and tbcn tho
ude OF popularity, almost without ripple on lis breast
would bear him again the highest station i'm the ,,orI
'';'hdi alternative tcas here? IT'baf n tSn,n,ot;
and let me add 1chdt a TRIUMPH? But sir, YOU
know the man; neod say that that heart which has
so often bounded TO the impulses of patrioisn,-tba,
american heart still beats true to its country He
deemed the charter violauve OF the Constitution and
honor, power, fame, purchased such sacrfce was
unworthy oil nm, and OF the station which he filled Sir
were disposed TO envy such the lofes feenpS
which ever animated his BOSOM il would be those f,enS
which he experienced when he had signed that Iii
There are acts in his life OF far more specious and o
Zhng appearance acts which singy would build the fab
rc 81 the fame OF ordinary men, and the feelings which
ProinP'eu anu lolowed t9em Were fine and noble. You
remember WELL sir, the dark days OF the wear 1914 when
Tue arms oil our enemies had been successful against us
and odr own government paraZed by the oppone ne
oil the war; when the women and children from our from
uefsthe fathers ana the sons lay the field of battle
were flying from the Indian Tomahayyk and the British
Bayonet when Tie myrmidons of Wellington flushed
with success, marching against New Orleans win
'beauty and booty' inscribed on their banners-Sr Il
there has been dark dA history since the darkest
days OF the Revolution, that the day. You know,
what olOwed you forget how beautifully tho
glory OF New Orleans, that beautiful Queen of the South
and the West, hurst upon us, aud dspeled the gloom
that surrounded us; what shouts of Joy ront the air how
the OLD and the young the beautiful aud the brave hrou
out the land pronounced with Joy The maine of their
Gus defender and as these sounds OF gratc u nation re-
Verberaed from mountain and valley fell upon his ears
what sensations must have filled his bosom sensations of
Joy which soldiers have toed for i'm vain orators a
have praised, but dreamed of enoying and nIoo
piers have SPENT and been content spend DAYS ,nd
nights in merely Analysing. But sir the victory of New
Orleans yies not in spleudour with those of Benlei and
Marengo, and the voices of grateful nation have filled
the ears OF Cesar and Napoleon. However delightful
the sensations such occasions may be- deem tho.e
which he iet on the occasion TO which allude higher
purer, oier There is another in the life of Jack
son, which, although hitherto unnoiiced has struck me
as exhibiting feelings of the honorable kind and yor
thy OF our admiraOn when he the will of the peonIs
outraged IN ms own person, and that honor which they de-
creed Tor HIM, had been wresed away by the united f.
orts oil two distinguished politicians from the North
and the West;-when he the wave of public indiona
ton mounting higher and higher and he might have role
the rising whirlwnd ruled the storm he assu,oed
the tempest, and with his hand poured oil rpon the
troubled waters The feelings that prompted such an act
were the sues vouchers OF the glory OF the retirement
which he voluntarily imposed on himself Again. yhet
the treemen OF the country called due course of fine
from the high places of power and placed him there with
uPited arms and echOing voices; when he saw great
nation, with unparalleled unanmty place him in the
OF Washington: he felt all that an honor conferred
by such people, under such circumstances would nspire
in the heart Of patriot. But, sir, the feelings which
still There is moral beauty in them, beside which, the
feelings, however refined and delightful that animate
on the ordinary occasions of life, sink seeming insg
nficance. love to contemplate such feelings / may
be told by the cold calculating Ogcan that every act
either right wrong IL wrong, the agent should s (Ier
if right he merely did his duty This sir is not the Ian
guage oil one who knew natures who spake as
never man spake he that conqucreth himself is greater
Than he who aketh city, 1T is the triumph of virtue
over vice truth (asehood the sacrifice OF sef at the
shrine oil duy which, whenever and wherever il occurs
should receive the applausos of It may be- sir
honorable actions may consist in degree their RAJ
rty Just as the traveller satisfied merely cast
Jog ha eye over the surface Of the gentle Ohio or tho
Mississippi or the Missouri yet ngcr gaze again and
again. and again al the cataract OF the solitary Niagara
However this may be- the OF the President In reject
ing The Bank, under the circumstances which have de-
tailed, act seldom surpassed and rarely eousled
such acts add new glory 10 the character of man how