Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1834-03-28
Richmond. Friday, March 2s.
THE COMPROMISE.

The Citizens of Virginia must be OH the alert
The Bank is not yet dead The snake is not killed.
but only scotcl,ed. If the people sleep upon their
posts in April next, and suffer men to be returned TO
the General Assembly, who are only halfway men;
who may or may not go for the Bank, according to
the circumstances of the Times and who do not go
all lengths against all National chartered Banks we
may be betrayed into the hands ofthe Philistines-
See how the question stands in the Sennte:-Nir
Webster brings forward his proet for continuing The
charter six years mOre-Mr. Calhoun marches a step
beyond him. and proposes TO re-charterter the Bank
with certain notifications, for t,celre years-Yes
this is the scheme of Mr. Calhoun, who, true, upon
this question, his old federal politics, is now press
ing the continuance of an Institution, which all true
Stute Rights men condemn, an alarming breach
of the Constitution. Mark, in what sly and gloz-
ing terms this proesscdty great State Rights cham
lion couches his ingenious proposition The Cor
respondent of the N. Y. Journal of Commerce
states MIR. C.'s views and arguments us follows:
"o the State Rights party and all who had hereto.
fore, opposed Bank unconstitutional, he (Mr Cal
houn) represented this plan obviang their
entirely by establishing Bank. not as a pr vcged mo-
remarked that in the present parties there 81 ,s
chance Of re-chartering the Bank, Bank bu, a.
the instrument Of regulating the eurrency the Fe.
dera Government had unques ionable power. He alo
urged upon his Stale Right iriens the that
for the sake ofcompronise they ought yield some Do.
ton Of their constitutional scruples and he reminded them
thai the alternative plan Of the administration was certain
ly unconstitutional, and less expeden than that
which he had presented"
position 1T is directly in the teeth Of the Consiit,
tution--while it presents to us another phantom.
which has no actual existence-and its only conse-
quence would he, to put our principles sleep, and
soote us into continuance of this dangerous nsti-
tution for IL years longer until A. Jackson Inns re
tired from public .life and more ductile Chief
Magistrate may be substituted in his place.
Such is MIR. Calhoun's beautiful plan of cotnpro
mise-Some hope, TOO, has been expressed of lis sc
cess. The Correspondent of the Journal of Com
merce, of the 18th, writes, that
mt Ca honn has devised plan for National Bank
southern and which se"ora pceop,ab nc
sssd "pors 'I Ss ss%1si, Of y s.s
.u%S ,i%c as re TO s sa
e e, .n "pSn the currency 4
friendly tho President Mr. Plan and p be
e Is;. @ sSsG sss
Ie the will be adopted compromise by Two
But the last N. Intelgcncer nips these homes in
the bud 1t "warns (iis) Eastern friends against the
deuson of expecting" such n consumrnation-;t
states its belief that ihere has not been any such
understanding among the Senators as is suggestedn
but il adds, that
1o secure the passage of such in the Sena,.
coalition such the New York letter imagine. T.,
been formed, would be necessary The exercise Of i'm
dependent judgments, upon elevated motives woud Sc
cure lite success in the Senae But let us moi
ourselves wi false hopes If such measure of relief
In wh,ever orm or under whatever mofca IONS should
pass the Senate by vote Of two.ths there is no rea
son TO expect that will pass the House OF Repres, n,a
tives by any such vote. Ii WILL perhaps lie the duty Of
the Senate to act Without reference to the of things
IN me oher house: out majority is as much could
be hoped far in the House OF at This fine
iniavor OF any effective of ieo The voice of
mo majority, we know from various public sources will
not be regarded by the President if II asks of him 10
trace ms steps, or even TO reconsider his own
which have brought on the present portentous state
Of things" ~
But this measure, however much it may he oppos.
cd by the Administration or its friends, will not be
abandoned by Mr.. Calhoun and his partizans-and
may we not add, if need he, by Messrs Webster and
LAY! send time serving men TO our next Legisla-
tnre and we shall soon see this propostion se;zed
upon again, and vigorously supported. Compro
mise will then be the Order of tile Day-and the
Constitution will again he sacrificed to the Bank
10 the polls, then, citizens of Virginia. nintimi-
dated by the power of the Bank, unseduccd bv the
sophstry of its friends, let us do our duty!