Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1835-09-18

prinepe from their opinions and rnure dangerous and
"safefst an their consequences lie then states four
other Developments, which he expected to be made du
ring the year 1884 all tending to bring about charter
OF The Bank, by producing change in public opinion
Tue h'th OF which including the FIRST contains the
issue couched in the question: "Hhefher and Loo His
Union shall DC longer preserreds In his reply to Mr.
Wright of York he declares ain the first place when
SAID that the putting down of the existing Bank MIC hit
very probably (fadd no,o that i6eere e. ri eertaini
- be followed by the ncoi poraton of another National
Bank, NC OF cha actcr ia the
tiona objections ofhe present Bank ac no other d;fsr
enrrs but such cU 0ggyarate Me er A gain i'm th,
sane Deceepemen and hternare speech he urges that
" IN The choice between evils other of which
Is Inevitably, Is not morally possible il is not gt
10 pay no rtgmdto preexistig acs aieh hare AREA
Stances Of the nation, scheh ho,rerer produced cam mo
'etse DC oHered-no regard to coasequeRces lie then
concludes after proving tina, the Bank is less OBJ
ecuonaoie IMAM any OF the alternatives likely be prc-
scnted sone one n ,ehieh insra5ie that "Vrginia
may no'c rh perfect consistency make choice Lfceen
Lhc shall be presented as Z, LU
good" Why docs MIR. Leigh persuade The nennIe
of Virginia that they may, soih perfect cous;srnca
make choice between alternatives Of Bank charters all
OF which are unconstitutional, unless he sired Them 10
takc or ahoterP And how could he i'm the name of
common sense, CONTEND that they may take either ",h
peee CONSISTENCY, when in the Speech he declares
mat they : 40 c"terfa,n e opinion, and hare untoriy
'na,na,"ed ~ that Mis Gorernmeat has no
authority to charter a National Bank -
How came 1T to pass, and for what purposc did Mr.
Leigh undertake 10 make speech of ereiopaents and
atternattres TO be presented during te near 4 whil
discussing, m The Senate the sheer question of ex
tension OF the present charter, which he must have
presumed was then finally be settled in few davs ar
weeks at iirthcst? And most wonderfully strange is
~ at during The whole OF his two speeches upon the
SUBJECT he did not utter one word syllable against the
policy of the Bank, il he was faithfully represent;ny
e destarea sense Of has constituents, AN Institution
which Mr. Jefferson regarded of ''eadiv hosIf' IN
our civii poty, and winch John Randolph of Roanoke
IN his last viii and testament, wished jos o L;Leyf;es
Of lbs country might not be permitted to exist dfy
Mr. Leigh or any Of his friends point to a single ar
gument, in his Development and alternative speech i'm
his letter his Richmond friends or in his Petersburg
The Of, a..
But the strangcst fact of all is that this very Bank
which our Senator instructed oppose and against
which, his friends alegc he leveled the whole force of
his tremendous artillery, published $4,000 copies of lis
speeches for circulation among the people, in order TO
produce for them the benefit Of u rcchartcr
When remember this fact which occ urred at time
when The Bank OF the United States struggling for
recharter, with the commissions of approaching dis
solution; when remember his multiplied deSeloD-
mets and is atofut aerndtres well calculated TO i'm
press upon his fellow Senator's if they belle we'd him the
propriey and the duty of extending the MT
according to Mr.. Websters proposition when we re-
member that the Bank men and the Bank presses
throughout the Union Immediately became his friends
and advocates when remember the editorial remarks
of the National Gazette epecaiiy made directly after
his speech delivered and before il was published-
His opposition to MIR Webstcrs plan of Prolonging the
" existence OF the present Bank of the United States
aeds not absolute and deinitice He awaits new mani
" festations of sentiment by Virginia. which probably
tcU DC such his Mr. eLsters Bill
We hare satisfactory pirate information on this head
and when, further, remember the language of his
speech delivered in Petersburg, the 18th October
1884, namely " 1t was difficult to conceive how this ma
" ton could hang together in its present state of political
union and commercial relations, ,cittom general mi
" form currency Of some kind or other. And that all
things considered, the institution of National Bank
would present itself as the easiest method least of
Proriding general Uniform currency for tie schoic
Union-liow can we, how dare to question Mr..
Leigh desire to see the present Bank chartered un-
der all those circumstances? And entertaining this wish
and these sentiments, how he without sacrificing
his opinions represent he declared sense of his
constituents, which he admits, has uniformly been OPP
posed to the exercise of power to establish any Ma
tiona Bank whatever. His friends, however, perceive
very plainly, his utter adherence of all Banks
Optics keen, it takes wecn,
To see things to be SEEN"