Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1839-07-09

GeHtl,atH:-lt NE gfrai pleasure la eckRuwiedgs
The receipt yi your kind etier Of invitation n public
dinner and to make my thanks for The ha,ering
in which expressed; but II has not been my custom
10 accept public honors OF tins KIND and IN my present
tour The Stale 1t has U.tn my pan 10 iravel IN
way ayOd all political excitement ard party feeling
and to see The people generally without form
nv and without regard 10 potIca! Distinctions luave
to see the people and he county, 10 learn their wants
their wishes. Ia thank them tor their past support
and and wsh promote an easy intercourse with
al that shall DO me the make my acquaintance
The tine is coming. think, when We shall be
ha inonious than have been for years past md
when experience shall prove !he utility and wisdom OF
the great me asures Gen. jackson administration
and feunte the friends of The country IN the support Of
common cause The OF the National Bank char
ter and The termination Of hat institution was mea.
sure ch divided opinions free country.
where every at liberty TO hnk for himself
and the unprece denied efforts WHICH were made 10 make
people belle We no, gold and silver enough
IN the world 10 supply the place OF u Bank notes;
and that all debtors must be ruined; all prices fall to
nothing; all property be sacrificed and all labor for
want o! pay; the unparalleled efforts which were made
to impress all these gloomy apprehsnsons the pnbc
mind were well calculated 10 distract and alarm The
people; and for the effort was such as 10 delude
many good citizens But The season for mistakes and
errors and division Of opinion has now passed away,
and all that the day Of the downfall OF the Ma
ona Bank the day ct the uprising OF The national
prosprrity for With the exception of the brief intervals
of artificial distress and panic, Manufactured by Inc
Bank and friends, the increase oil the public prospe
ry has been constant and regular since That day. ana
now The end OF years from the veto, We al! see
that The prices labor produce and property are, on an
average, about three times great as they were when
we had national Bank, and Federal Administration
to rule over US THIS is result which every body can
see and about which there can be no cspnr so
opinion be come general that The death Of that Bank
was The birth of American prosperity.
This is what Gen jackson and his friends foresaw
when they commenced their opposition 10 that bank
They knew that that Bank in addition 10 being p"ii
ba hnui ut the FpdpfaIlsls also
none we'd engine Of favor TO few and oppression to the
MANY and systematically working 10 make The rich
richer and The poor poorer Its great loans were confined
IN select fe w. and these few were The regulators, not
of currency bu, OF prices; they regulated the prices
of all labor produce and property; and they hrrd Inc
price of every thing to sui. themselves and that was at
abou, one third OF It's value The breaking DOWN OF inc
(avorsrn and monopoly of that Baok-stopPrBg IFS
enormous loans 10 seecl iew-sopprng its transporta
ton OF OR spece Philadelphia and thence 10 Europe
with the revival OF the gold currency ana The increase
of our specie from twenty millions TO a'ous one hun
dred millions; ihsse are the true causes OF our present
,,fv,no rr,spery and every trend 10 the IL erty aud
nrosnery Of the country should the Proprey oil
keen,np down National Bank and keeping uPa cIfcu
la,iou of gold and silver Nor Is II suthcent 70 Keep
dawn National Bank; the local banks should also be
KEEP, in subordinaon TO the laws They should be
prevented from stopping and suspendng when they
please and from inuntating the country win smai'
notes and post notes, aud other pesiIterods tnsh me
richest countries in the world such as Ho!'hho 'he
H,psea,c towns Cuba &c have no paper money al
oil France has none under one hundred ooHafs. a"u
Englan has under twenty hrP dollars aho all
these cuunrss especially France and the three former
have an overluwinc abundance Of gold and silver
moi only enough Tor all their but 10 lend TO all
foreign nations and that at the low rate al "nf or n'e
per centum per annom Missouri can have as H'och
god and silver as any Of those countries by following
iher example. | would myself Danish all paper mo
nov under one hundred DOLLARS but twenty the high
e<, mark 10 which The Democratic party has yet
come: and shall nope the next Legislature OF
Missouri act Up 10 IT, mark. and save me slate
from the degradation loss and misery OF losing
specie circulation, and becoming the receptacle OF all
The small trash all the deprecated sfut and al! The
broken bank notes Of The surrounding States and ier
tories The present paper system oil the Chieo S'a'es
cannot stand even ihere pecunary or political
obpc, in blowing j, up every three or Tour years
thousand Banks issuing small notes and post notes,
snd doing business upon each Others paper could not
stand even all hands in favor al saving them;
bot this Is not the many IN favor OF periodical
xposions Of the Banks both for pecuninry and po!it-
ca objects and especially 10 cause resuscaiinn Of inc
National Bank: these will accelerate The event when
would come nfispf in few years. and thus PERIODICAL
" sfict The country with broken bank co',e"ei:
Our Stale Legislature the State from "is o.
Fiction, and Congress can save the Genera
ment - .-.,,5;,r
al ,,nsr money under twenty dollars; q mao "iuch "a
,ber saw under one handred;) Congress can ' o
e,.I BY establishing me INDEPENDENT req
sury system This latter mras"le 70 M" .,
-, - Tho Administration and - calico i"r by the
s,o,gest req sons of policy ana necessity marc money
,.vnen,s 10 and from he reherh '"Ve!nm'nt, aho we
ray 80 II, own money by It's own agents, (Which
essential features OF the inde pc ndent Treasu
~ arc ds7cnssbiy necessary to save The Federal Co.