Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1835-06-05

Saving by the soveregns, $l7 Sc
Says the Journal of Commerce. when il was asccr-
tanned the Bank had bills the drawers puup the
TO 10 per cent" The bank had no bills Indeed The
returns of the Bank show that it had larger amount
of funds in the hands Of its foreign bankers on the LIST
of May, inst, than has had any one time since the
March, when it little exceeded The prices of TO
reign exchanges have at length reached the pint when
gold can be exported with profit This is what the
Bank has been exertng all its power to arrive at for
months past That its object may be carried into eff.
fectve operation, it refuses sell foreign bills notvith.
staining it has in the hands Of its foreign bankers
tween and millions odoars which is probably draw
ing but little if any interest Gold can be exported with
a little saving
This is the of the Bank Not two months since
upon the occasion OF export of less than seventy
Ave thousand dollars of French coin 10 Frnuce fron
New York there universal expression of pleasure
IN consequence, among the whole fraternity Of Bank
presses The JOY which expressed ON the OCCASION
IN consequence of the distress which was anticpate
might ultimately follow, not exceeded in the ioy
which these same presses exhibited in behoding The
distress which followed the panic which they and the
Bank succeeded in producing in 1884 aided by the
Bank faction Of the Senate
What the disresses Of the country to these Edi-
tors, supported as they are by the Bank belonging
soul and body to it; Nothing. 10 tie Bank every
thing. They the only harbingers of new life which
il can indulge in. Its only hope Of AVOIDING final aud
everlasting dissolution is 10 effect the ruin Of the Peo
pie, over whom it may reestablish everlasting do
Ininion.
unexampled pace since November last Between that
period and the 1st Of May has extended its business
more thdn StfceR nUo1S ~ dOayS IL intends t. keep
itself in the political field. IL will employ the whole of
is power in the next Presidential contest IL
will endcayor to tie election Of one who will he
favorable to the renewal Of iis charter. one who will unite
IN giving TO u prolonged existence for an indefinite De-
rod 10 obtain this desderalum what will IL sacri-
fee, What IL the sacrifice Of many Of its millions ;
What the sacrifice Of the prosperity and happiness Of
millions living and many unborn compared with the
object Of once agan obtaining renewed esisencef No
thing u would aa readily sacrifice either both as
ever BoDaPartc sacrificed his legions obtain victory
The dazzling hope Of conquest his Russian canpafg
led that warrior from step 70 step, unprecedented on 10
ruin! 50 with tbe Baukn Us present continued effort
70 extor recharter il but re-sals its own destiny In
that we rejoice; but depore deeply deplorc the dis
trcss and lasting ruin which twill inevitably nfct npon
millions Of people IN this, is last and most desperate
struggle
We tell tho Bank that perceives not the pfecipce
neS which it is already lettering We tell the ooinniu
nifty that they are resting IN security, dreaming only Of
successful spccuatlous and profitable business both
foreign and domestic, whei saser dissolution and ruin
IL not ofar off,
We are no alarmists-we seek not 4, alarm. bpt ~
give timely notice 20 the community Or the danger Which
Is nearly Impending over them. We lsAa loen no IT,
attentive observers Of past events wi - ocroyyod
once will again We do clank - f,ttbfI
chroniclers II is matter Of history, ~ <Axnv ~
the year 1919 The Bank ofthe Unite II en-.