Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1836-06-17
POLITICAL.

E0OLaEaCAL.
THE ALARM OF THE lNTEt LII GEM. n IL.
MeYic.n Government passed under the Presidency OF
Santa Anna, changing the form OF the GoVernmehe Oh
the United Mexican States aboshng the stale HoPe!a'
men,s as independent Governments ard mai1as their
Governors subject to the supreme Government IN the
CITY of Mexico These official documents reached the
Department of State but few weeks ago, aho taa ne
yer been published in the Globe. Defy TO the people OF
this country and decorum to the Foreign Government
m1de it proper that these important papers, setting forth
the fundamental principles of the newly organised au
thority in Mexico should be published in form
But no sooner do these DEGREES appear in the Globe al
THOUGH given without syllable Of comment, than the
editors Of the In.egencer take the slaro iae follow
ing extract from a column Of pancmaklng on this sub
iect will point out the object of terror which has
seized on the imapnatons Of the distressed ones among
u.s. who cannot trust the Administration which lae MIL
iorty of the people have resolved to trust:
hat new move, in reference to Mexico, II any, Is
in contemplation by the Executive, do not pretend
even to conjecture We take it Tor granted that what
ever il be- il is restricted the Province or State OF
Texas on the presumption Of the ability of that State
of itself 10 maintain its Independence OF the General
Government of Mexico For, it'cannot tor moment
be supposed that our Government proposes aay inter
ference with the form of government, under which
Mexico at large maintains national existence
Some of our readers, we dare say, Will think US IN
reasonably suspicious of the intentions OF the Erecu
tive when we infer any thing from the publication, at
this moment of these Mcxican ordinances. 1t may be
that we are; but cannot bat remember that another
project of the Executive exceptonasle as aay that
can now be supposed lately disclosed TO Congress,
and the People, only by neetden as we learn from the
explanatory Of the Secretary Of State to the Mex
can Minister on the subject. We refer, of course, to
the instructions to Gen Gaines, authorizing: him 70
the ntsrtary Of Texes as far as on
that it belongs to the United States If such project
this could be nartured to maturity m the b.gon, Of
the President without the knowledge consent t;rci
fherh Of COnrress. VII not he
other project in embryo equally at war with compSn
sense and with public law?
We distrustful Of the Executive, and wecocfess
it. in oil matters involving the construction ofIews. we
know, because it has been frankly ssowed by him. his
resolution to administer the laws 'us he understands
them"
Now here is a mares nest discovered! The publica-
ton Of the Mexican DEGREES portenes something more
perous than the accidental disclosure Of the
Of Gen Gaines protect the frontier by advancing
far Nacogdoshes, if necessary. "We are disruStn
Of the Erecutire,' quoh Nlessrs Gales e. Seaton They
can trust the French Government with the power to in
serfsre in our domestic councils They coscede
foreign potentate the right TO hold the Chief Magis.
trate of this country responsible for whatever he may
say to the coordinate departments OF our own Govern
ment: They trust our frontiers 10 the tender
cies of Santa Anna They trust The foreign bank
and Nick Bdle with the absolute control Of
rency: Bat they cannot trust the high public fnncon-
AIRY chosen ty and responsible to, the American people,
with the management Of foreign relations tie
ecution Of the domestic policy dictated BY the nation
representatives. He administers the tas as he understands
en and the editor Of the Globe publishes the DEGREES
of foreign Governments soon as he gets them This
is truly aarming.-Ciiobe.
WHO PROFITS BY THE MONEY IN THE DEposTE BASKs'
Heretofore it has been constant topic of clamor
against the Administration, that the public money
locked up useless in the deposte banks, and TO this
source the late pressure upon the money market
trbuted BY all the Wing organs throughout the country
The public money is boarded in the deeosite banks,
H. tNa, rkar
Noah in the Evening Star But when the facts
exhibited, and has been shown by official returns
that the depose banks, since selected have loaned to
the commercial community several millions more than
the whole amount Of their depostes Of public money
the Opposition have suddenly changed their In
commenting upon recent statement in the Globe, show
ing the condition Of the deposte banks, the Multiplying
organ of Saturday nsnuates that the OF their
loans on personal security and domestic bills being
" Fifty millions since these banks received the dcposites,
has been produced by views of corrupt eeconeering
the part Of the presen. Administration OF the Govera
ment.
But we beg our readers to consider tkc following state
nen. We make it advsediy: More than three quarters
the stock Of the deposte banks at this hour belongs to
the Administration Of General Jackson We distinctly
challenge ahy respectable individual 70 gansay this
not than }oxr parf tie stock
holders TN amount Of tie present depoSs tanks friends
Of the administration If the pecuniay influence ofthese
banks, then, has been exercised with corrupt Intentions
the political friends Of majority of their stockholders
allege upon which side Of the question hes this influence
In all probability, been thrown'
1t may be asked, how it has happened that banks,
whose ockhoders, in great proportion have
9taed stand in the ranks Of the Opposition should have
been selected as repositories of the public money! We
reply There vas no alternative under the existing state
Of things the banks i'll the commercial cities beIos al
most entirely in their hands The country had become
convinced by dire experience, that change from the
and corrupting influence of the United
States Bank, which co.extensive with Tho nat;nn
itself was required for the protection of the rgbte ana
l;be rites of the people The State Banks could ;nvs
no individual with the power which welded will
out responsibility, by Nicholas Bdde. They were no,
selected account of any support OF political chaac
either given expected be given by them to the
but resored to from the necessity
the country from the greatest Of evs-of becoming the
victim of the gigantic schemes Of great moneycd
poration To any person familiar with the character OF
The individuals who eotro the deposite hanks the idea
70 frequently promulgated through the Wing organs,
that the deposte banks exercise any political influence
N favor of the Administration, is therefore totally fid
selous The personal feelings Of the individuals who
:onrol these Institutions almost WHOLLY the other
ide of the question.
Hence if these banks guilty Of an improper use of
he public money, by granting unwarrantabe favors 70
heir frends-by speculatons-or by corruption, the
Opposition avert is the Opposition who the actors
,inissistion who do tie ,crong then first Agin Ira,U
Had the Administration or the Treasury Department
ommtted os eoun,enanced any improper uses Of the
ublc money deposited in these banks through agent
any ether way, their officers would have long since
reclaimed them TO the world trstmpe.tongued.
Moreover if Mesars Calhoun, Webster g. CO. really
Ippossd that there now 10 large surplus in the Trea