Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1834-02-18


fnericd. There has been private citing held and
the plan is all laid out for doing the a owe mentioned
signer the sbove meeting but not eng ,ye
in such thing before l acquainted your honor Of HE
above plan. Your humble Servant
DEMOCRAT
1.-THE above letter po>t.marked PhIade Iphia Feb
tcoNFIDENrIAL
PHILApELPHIA, Feb. 8 a. 1884
SiRi ne writer OF this anonymous alton
feels II his duty to appze you tina, is seriously con-
templsted by few individuals in this city, TO adopt
measures for the dabolcal purpose OF ASSASSlNATING
the venerable Chief Magistrate Of our Union.
A. j. DoNELsoN, Esq Washington, d. G.
The intatuaion Of party spirit is times almost in
applicable. Men to rush headong aud eed,es.ly
into the most perncous doctrines the most striking in
constituencies. and the most bareaced assertions Mere
We 10 alop, the constitutional vagaes Of Mr. Biuney Mr.
Clay, MIR. Preston, Mr. McDuffie as even plausible
constructions, government would be tumble
surdes, and wholly different from what it designed
10 uc by lis wise trainers. As these Admitted 10 lie
men OF Abilities their wanon and wild perv and
neutrality-suspicious. only be ascbed TO the rabbi reck
essness OF faction We do not doubt tina, as the
OF the present crisis has ceased thew will
recant their hinsy versions aud decamaory sophsry
with just much zeal they display in heir enun
citation.
Mr.. Webster who, by the bye has not anc,ioned any
oil the ridiculous and false eadings of the
Constitution in which his associates have taken such
pecial delight nevertheless finds lou, fault with
the project suggested by Mr. Rives Of establishing me.
talic currency and Mr. Walsh whose chief labor il is to
twadde about the God like man, and TO marvel every
sentiment lie utters the oracle of WISDOM thinks he
too can have fling at the Senator OF Virginia. We
q. following eX ira from
a speech delivered by Mr.. Webster, in the Honse o
Representatives, in 1916, when he wa, opposing might
and main, the adoption Of the very Charter of the very
bank he is now resou,ey struggling to perpetua,e. Il
will be found at page GIG OF Matthew ST. Clair Clrke's
Legislative and Documentary History of the Bank Of the
United States"
1T was mistaken idea. Che said) which he had heard
uttered this subject, that about to reform ne
national currency. No nation had a better currsncv
than the United States There nation which had
guarded lite currency with the trainers of
the Constitution and those who enacted the early
on this subject were HARD MONEY MEN; they iet and
therefore duly appreciated the evils of a paper medium
they therefore, sedulousIy guarded the currency of the
United States from debasement The LEGAL cURREN.
ef OF TIE UNITED STATES WAS GOLD AND sILv Err
coIN-ths was subject in regard which Congress had
run into no iolly"-PenmsyIrdnian.
Mr. Webster against the Bank of the United SLATE,
for the State Banks, and hard money as the 0niv mn
f,onai cu'rency-Mr Tallmadge, in debate in
the Senate ascrbed the establishment of the first and
last National Bank TO the in which the
had been involved Capitalists and specializing politicians
seized the moment OF public calamity in both instances
produced by foreign enemy ex,ort charters for mo-
nopoes under the Preext that such were
me Only remedies Tor want OF credit, when in fact,
lime TO recover from the shock of expensive wars
the only true remedy Mr. Taiinaige in recurring 10
the history the country TO prove his position referred
to the fact, that Mr. Webster, the advocate of a
contrary doctrine, had voted against the of
the Bank as proposed and referred TO tie he then
pursued, corroboave OF the ground he had
rechartering the present Bank. Mr. Webster denied
fatty that he had voted against the Bank. We now pub
sh extracts from Mr. Webster speeches, showing that he
opposed the charering the Bank upon the ground that
gold and siluer currency the Ia,p of me fand M
home, and the laO Of the ord abroad-,hat he held that
war was the cause OF the the currency and
that before the todr the business of TIE counry ,oos
conducted principally by paper of the STATE
";m H. ana a as ahese aoere m good credit and
Perienced from The circulation of their paper"
We further add an extract from the report of the pro-
ceedings IN the House Of Representatives to prove
MIR. Webster supported his argument by his vote
10 debate upon the Bank bin, February 2s 1916, Mr.
Webster said ait a mistaken idea which he heard M,
WEI aLouf oreE,r III.
national currency No nation had better he
said than the United Sales.--future nation which
had guarded ITS currency with care the trainers
OF the Constitution, and those who enacted the esv
tutes on this subject hard money-men; they had felt
dunn They therefore seduousy guarded the
OF the United States from debasemen The curren
cy OIL 'ne United States was gold and silver coin: This
was subject into which Congress had no folly
What then, he asked, the present eyill Having
perfectly sound national currency"
COD and sIUeT currency, he said ,r1s n, Ian, of
the land at home, and the ia,o of tie 1coyLd a6roai
There could IN the present state IF the ,oorld. be no
The estabshment ofa National Bank, not being in
his opinion the proper remedy he proceeded 10 examine
,ohati is The soiuency of The Bank cas not quesoned:
unite in the object, they might three ,oeeks resume
the payment # specie and render the adoption Of any
by this House ,Dholiy unnecessarv"
In debate April 26, 1916, upon specie payments-
MIR. Webster said: ole had had it was true some OBJ
jecon against proceeding by way OF bill because The case
was not one in which the law deficient but one in
which the execution OF the law deficient"
"Ihe situation OF the country, said Mr.. W. i'm regard
to the collection OF its revenue is most deporsbIe with
perfectly sound legal currency, the national revenues are
not collected in this currency but in paper various sorts
and various degrees OF value The origin aud progress ri
this evil are distinctly known, but not easy to see m
duration or IFS future extent adequate remedy be not
found. Before the war; the business OF the country
was conducted principally by means Of the paper of IN.
different State Banks As these were IN good credit and
paid their notes in gold and silver demand no great evil
was experienced from the circulation of their paper
Thursday March IA, 1916
The bill TO incorporate The oI H.
United States read third time; and the que,ton stat
ed on the passage Of the bill.
Mr. Webster and Mr.. Clay delivered speeches at length
agans, the bill, and Mr. Grovesnor and Mr. Hubert i'm Ia
Of il. ~ w "
MI stanford Mr.. CIopiOp, Mr.. Hanson and Mr. Pick. |
eTing, also spoke against the bill, and Me- Calhoun CON
cisnso 'ne ueoa'e ny lew remarks in favor Of H..
lhe quesoh was loudly called during the latter
OF the sitting; aud being taken At Iate hon, 60, ,
was as follows; cas- 80, nays IL (Nir Webster voting
10 the nega'iye2 We shall publish the yeas and NAYS
hereafter Gi0be. 49, ~ ""S'
Mr.. Clay, in the Senate yesterday, ealeavored. nv
mere force OF coUntenance 10 carry the STAGES IN, ~,
Bank. He feels doubtless as desperate ever he JJ
with broken hand at brag The President has declared
the eharteng OF Bank out Of the District Of Cclumb
ny Congress, an unconstitutional act, and which he
wiz not sanction. Even in The President should die
tne succession would, in the present OF affairs de.
VoIVe upon one ~ the person Of the Vice President who
also STANDS pledged TO the public by his express decsra
IONS 20 re'de his sanction TO National Bank And yet