Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1835-06-19
XXXEH.--No. IL.

Ian any one believe that MIR. Bell was ignorant of he
oonga,ions TO the Bank of such long standing, and
lie ~ne r ne was pressed to go to Natchez to raise
my n means oil making at least partial payment?
put the whole story is told in the little postscript
mr Bel and his brother married sisters, the
s'ers oil old MT Dickinson and sisters of young Mr..
DicAinson, member of the last Congress. The bro
hrrs and brothcrnaw have been engaged in business
together We know certainly that the Speaker and the
younger Dickinson have been extensively engaged in
specui"ons IN Mississippi lands; and understood mt
ndIumore last Spring, large of money lodged
70 purchase negroes in Maryland aud Virginia. be
sent INTO the swamps and wldcrnesses of the new pu
cnases to prepare the lands for ultivation and to be
SUBJECT to sale to enhance these speculaons The whole
concern may Tor aught we know, be carried in the
name OF the elder Dicknson but Mr. Bell and his bro
hei-ininw In Congress, and it from the post
SCRIPT ABOVE, his brother at Nashville, TO be the
oenehciaries We prcdicatcd statement that sit
was reported Mr. Bell had loan from the Bank
OF SlOuOO in the Spriug of 1884 from information
derived from gentleman of high character, that
Mr. Bells brother hsdso assured him and that il wa.
i.i nus use 1t was obinineil We knew too that Mr.
Deii' curing The SpringoI DS34 had communicated his
anxiety TO procure u large loan a member of Con.
grcss who mentioned il to as well as TO other friends
we Know positively, and hold ourselves bound TO pro-
auce decisive proof, that Mr. Dickinson, then of tho
ionsc OF Representatives, who is Interested with Mr.
p ~ the Mississippi spcculaons, obtained 5000 of
the Bank ia January, 1884 and $4,000 in January
1882 and we felt justified upon these facts TO make the
assertion which Mr. Bell with so much fury viz
ne nag "een recently placed andcr peculiar otlga
We referred to these Bank transactions of Mr. Bell to
whch our attention was first attracted by the Commit
Mr b feelings, hut 10 point the public eve to the
toHdS ~ seaterest with which the Bank hampers made
IL ther care TO bind men OF influence, holding imposing
ppslti"is. to the interests of the great institution In
le:2, when MIR Bells "iaJititios,' as he calls them or
"iac,es according TO MAJOR Noah, were extended TO
SooOOO, the Representative from the Nashville District
ventured 10 raise his voice for the charter alhourh he
did not give his vote for it, because charter be
carried without it, and compounded bv his vote with b;
constituents, for his speech. In the panic session he
satshed them tor his silence la the House in the same
way, while he graed the Bank by his secret efforts 40
GiVlue me democratic party, and TO bring out Col.
Johnson Tor the Presidency pledged privately sup
port ana mus pave the way for It's. Ultimate triumph
In recurring 10 tho reports of the Bank we end er
cuInsiance wnle marksm sgRally the SINISTER policy
WIN winch the hank nded and cuItaed it's loans in
Nashville IN 1882 Before the Bank secured it's charter
IN 1857 IL poAred ont its facilities" with immense
PRODUCTIVITY Ii itsloans Tennessee Ap 10 almost
FIVE MILLIONS by April lS:.2 Alter tIe Vein in
July, TO punish tlSe Presdents friends whom il conId
not seduce, 1T reduced them nearly two millions In
kentucky, where Mr.. Clays services were 20 he reou
red the loans during the period instead of being re-
oncrd ttoo liiionS, increased hnndyed thousand
Hou"rS We give tho statement taken from the re-
port:
Nashoilis Tennsssss
LApSn. ls32, -.....--..-........... 81 900 0TO
. D>Iy- So0<t $50 900
Louisville and Lcxinston, Kentucky.
P.'ii ioo@' S5C40,000
4 Oct. lS32, Observation-Disclosures. r S10 'oOo
Z bnt the motive, connected with Mr. Bell and No
S~aseIning members of Congress, TO which we wouId
n@hl ON remark IS evinccd in the fact that when the
BRak MAS yisiha the commercial men of Nashville oe
neFally with caEtailment of two Ipill;ons Mr. pe -
hs.two or. three B0hGcot GiaaAs were accommodated
WIN Ihesum OF fifty three thousand dollars; which so
iar from suffering the common contraction was expnnt
ed to nearly $50 200 ande attended into the next and
made To embrace some Two three other members of
Congress.
rms striking circumstance speaks volumes and needs
no Illustration,