Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1834-07-18

Who could have placed this correspondence il
the Editors hands, while the proceedings of the
Committee were still IN feri? But it is all of
piece with the other movements touching this abom
nable and corrupt Institution. Ii is all intended oi
eflect.-It is to foresta public opinion; and, if posi-
bic, to aay that strong indignation which the
duet of the Bank towards the Committee of the ii
of r.. has so justly excited.
Mark this party movement on the part of the Sc
nate. They forsootb, would not raise Select Com
IDiiee 10 investigate the transactions of the Bank
They had already constituted The Committee OF
Finunce TO their taste. There is not single
friend of the Administration upon il. Mr. wilkins
trds the only Administration man upon il, and
they would not fill the vacancy occasioned by his
appointment to the Court of ST. Petersburg Why
Because il never would do, to have witness, (no,
not even one as to the movements OF the leaders OF
the Committee This arrangement, we undertake to
say, is unexampled in either House of Congress-
Vacancies are generally filled even mt the close of
session. Common decency surely required il i'm the
present instance. And such committee, too. Messrs.
Webster and Ewing said To he large debtors
to the Bank. Webster is distinguished for his loyal
devotion toit. more despicable party tool does
not exist than Ewing, who has refused to obey the
instructions of his own State. Mangum is said TO
he an old Federalisf, turned Nufer one of the
most violent politicians in the South, and the sworn
friend of ]. G. Calhoun! What can we expect from
the majority of this Wanted Committee? VIII they
bear any sort of comparison with the late Commit
tee of the other House Is not John Y. Mason
equal To MIR. Tyler? Is there n more high minded
or honorable man, than F. Thomas ? Who more
candid and distinguished for old fashioned honesty
than Muhlenburg, of Pennsylvania Mann and Ly-
tie are men of talent and cspectability.-With
them, were associated two able men of the Opposi-
ton, Everett and Ellsworth as eyewitness of all
their proceedings.
Mr.. Bidde says in his letter to the Committee of
the Senate, that having not the least motive nor
wish 10 withhold the most complete information of
all their proceedings, &C., sc. they will freely sub
init all their books to the inspection of the Commit
tee" &C., sc. Why did not Mr.. Bidde SO say TO
the late Committee of the III. Of r.? Because he
afraid TO do Because he knew that all
the dark doings of this dangerous Institution would
10y that Committee be learlessly unveiled to the pub
lie eve.
believed, by the Bank itself Its refusal lay It's
hooks before the Committee Of the House is well
known TO have produced great excitement and ma
ny changes. Mr.. Gholson of Virginia declared
the 24th June i'm the debate on the State Bank De-
poste Bill that
1t known that in the Early part Of the session, he
bad advocated restoration OF the depostes % the United
States Bank. He had done 80, because he believed the
conduct Of the Executive in their removal, TO he unjust
ards the Bank and encroachment the rights of
the Legislative departmen nj OF the Governments was al
known that few days since he had lay upon
the table the resolution from The Senate ordering the pub
lie collected after the LIST of July 10 be deposited
in the United states Bank He had given This vote
conscientious conviction that The Bank in its late refusal
TO submit its books and The free exsmina
ton OF committee OF Congress, had been gully OF
clear violation OF its charter"
Mr. Coulter of Pennsylvania, though he was OPP
posed 10 the conduct of the Executive, in the mat
ter of the Depostes, yet in the same debate he de-
nounced tile conduct OF the Bank in the most in
dignant terms. He declared, that
"The pure in heart and conduct would have done well
to answer 10 such inquiry. Investigation always honors
the guliless know moi, and what the views
of others in voting for the inquiry Mine that
those in whose integrity and usefulness had full conf
dence should have opportunity OF wipng all d'honora
BILE imputaons from their proceedings and their chaac
The directors have chosen Different yperhaps cho-
sen we-bu they must abide the result before that pub
lie tribunal which viii be too apt TO say they chose dark
rather than light, because their deeds evil
The same indignant spirit, indeed, was spreading
throughout the country. The people were strongly
incensed, that the Bank should have closed their
books against an investigation which, on tco former
occasions, (lS19 and 1922 had been freely prose-
cuted. They justly suspected that there "some-
thing rotten in the State of Denmark This rising
sentiment among the People, alarmed the Coalition
and the Bank-and hence it was found necessary 10
get up this milk-and water investigation by pack
ed Committee of the Senate, TO case off the public
mind
The thing will not, however, taEe.--The public
will never satisfied until all the enquiries proposed
10y the Committee of the House shall have been
fully carried out.-The Committee of the Senate
will never do it.-They will ferret out the eff
forts of the Bank TO corrupt the Press-We shall
yer know the amounts which have been squander-
ed upon the Printers. We shuil never know the
advances which have been made 10 the members of
Congress. A for $4,000, which was negocia-
ted for two members of Congress, in 1882, and who
afterwards sofiened towards the Bank, will never
the light. Rumors afoat, that some mem
bers of Congress who had large loans last winter
had their debts assumed and covered under other
names. The truth of all these matters would have
been ferretted out by the Peoples Committee. But
the Senates Committee will never unmask them
In word, we see no such searching investigations
indicated by any of their queries-and Mr. Bid
die puts in a savo for the private accounts Of i'm
dividuals."@ The whole will he a farce.
'Tbs Globe calls the Committee investigate the following
points:
"Impris Mr. Ewing
feet the good work exposing abuses which he happily
The Senae have declared the Of the Post
Office Banks bo unauthoized by law Now, beg him
inquire OF Nicholas Bde President OF the Bank whether he did
not, without application from the Postmaster General 6r
bia treny thirty affirm
% and insist that this honest Senator shall inquire it,
hnvng the opportunity.
"HeIt is that Senator Ewing himself voting
authorizing the
land claims has been engaged buying from the old So
their a
cordns adotness himself
the soldiers and then has bred clerks others connected with
western Offices exchange at par
purchasers public
land Offices making by these mposons people, and
this palpable evasion OF the law, large Of money
We charge that Mr. Ewing, the ready INSTRUMENT OF the Bank
in Senate has the these vanous
operations large Of it, from the Bank itself time
$50 oOO other other Probably the $1,000 were
Nj. Stanbey's portion Of Bank facilities for rendered.
THE LAST CONGRESS-.
Now, when the agitators and panic-mukers are
dispersed, aud moment of calm returns iI behooves
the people and the Suites to enquire what their Re-
representatives. have done, during seven months ses-
sion They should examine whether the interest