Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1839-03-30
yGaaME AXAF.---No. EG5.


eSStd friends The have proves unworthy aud
fecr"ant: That lie OF tie people not honest,
ana capable VI selecting honest and cipnt servants
ny 10 means And yet one wonft think, from The tone
81 e Federal press hat SingC dedication afforded
Suhccnt reason for complete change in the whole
policy ct the GoreEnment-aud that fen dishonest
men being !"nnd in Office good Argument in favor
81 an entire revolution. PeCuiaIons and frauds have
been committed by public agents to greater or less
extent, during every Administration from Washin gton
down 10 The present. and The who have committed
these offences have RECEIVED the condemnation Of all
honest and good MN, Of whatever party 1t appears
fro document connected with the export Of the Com
ml'tee the SwaTtwUu; DrialSalinns that from 1883
down to General jackson $ administration, there
nearly hundred collector, guilty of ppcnalous and
dsaica,:nns. During Genera Jackson's administration
ter we're found guilty OF deifauding the revenue, and
only Three since MIR Woodbury. has Been at the head of
The Treasury Department. During the rage for specu
a!inn and money making which has swept lhr
Try IKE sIrocco Is IT not siatter Of surprise that
lew frauds have been committed! Point us 10 single
individual now holding Office in The gift Of the Co
r@rnmeGt who has been proved 10 have committed Of
iences of this hind and will hold hm up to the
mnny; we Will not spare the fraudulent, fail TO
denim the Head of The Deg rtntpnt from whom he
ceiv"s his commission. We know of none. If there
are any, let them he named aud TIE proof # their guilt
given Until this be done, protest against all
this abuse of honest aud efficient officers by the Federal
press and Federal members Of Congress, merely Tor cleo
pioneering purposes.
The opponents Of the Administration cen build
up their by abusing honest and upright pablo
oiliceTs-and dishonest shall find favor with
nor Lave they ever, when known Ia br so, received
the support OF the friends of the Administration. Have
the friends Of the Administration screened the public
drfau''rrs, or paliaed their offences Have SwartwOut
and Price been spared by The Democratic press: Who
but the Federass in Congress ad out OF Congress, and
10y the press, have sympathz"d with those derauders
and endeaynred to tprn The public gaze from the known
criminal and fix it upon the innocent, To what point
of degradation indeed has that party come, which con
cooly and deliberately blast the character of the nuo
cent, and withhold censur" from the guilty That the
Swartwout investigating Committee have attempted to
do this doubt, after the perusal Of their re-
port and the account given by Mr.. lOyt the Collector
of New York; Of its proceedings IN relation 10 himself.
But the Committee have entirely failed in their attempts
10 June Mr.. Hoyt and others, and also N getting up
report 10 operate "n The elections bay state Dem0crat
PRESSURE IN PHILADELPHlA
! "PniLaDELrHiA MosAy MARKFr.-The Commercial
LIST of Saturday says: The scarcity Of money, noticed
IN last, si' continues, and stocks Which had adj
vanced in the early part Of the week, consequence of
the pacific from Maine, have again rpceded-some
OF them below The price lat week Eirst rate business
paper has been done Z! 10 and hrlF per cent
per month The celfi:a'rg of the Philadelphia Savings
institution, which thought to be among our best Sc.
cUrIlirs have been done n Tie same rate.
Stocks rising and falling the OF money selling,
first rate business papr At one aud hail per cent
month; and all this s.4soa;o tranquility and pros
perty and in the very presence of The great regulator
OF the currency! What can be the of II: Either
the regulator has become yTant and sc"nrge, or is
imporni and pDwerIess to do good. FOR seven years
past from lime OF the session IN 1872, down 10
The general suspension OF the banks during all this me
the folly and wckr dTess at he Administration was the
constant praex for ucuati0n c! stocks and eve
pressure in The money market which then took place
The cry then was the destruction of all Confidence, and
the ruin % all business through the nd and ignorant
measures of the Democratic Administration The veto
rma.sog5-ihe removal Of the G:rosI,esthe Treasury
ordrr-ihpse then the appant, hacknryet throat
l1ill NJ
srnrks every oppression debtors and every Shy lock
knlvng Of uSury 1t 10 no purpose that tie lie.
pubcsns demonstrated the Impussibl,y Of such eHrcts
resulting irun such causes was 70 40 purpose hithey
showed that members of Congress, editors of papers,
brokers and ayurItss Wallcwcd in tens of thousands
hundreds Of lh0usanus, and millions q" dollars, Thomas
BGdip had 81 2JU 900 al tue) all at four five and
SIX per cent per annum aad for many years they
pleased and with without security, they pleased;
'was 10 no purpose that al! this proved; the Money
King gave out the wort-the hrelrng crew repeated
r-iolly and knaYery TOOK up the tuneand the voice
of truth and reason drnwned and overpowered in
III. universal din whch they created. In this vast cla
NOR against The Government, many were the good men
who brought To believe that General Jackson was
really the author Of all the mischief which Was done
by others, and charged upon him. But these pfee1ls
are now done with. There is nothing al all now 10 be
laid To the Democratic Administration. On the con-
rary a Of confidence in the wisdom aud patriotism
g! Mr. Van Buren,, has just pissed Congress, with the
unanimous sanction of The Opposition, which shows
largest powers committed 10 any magistrate, since
the days Of the Roman dIctu!os in free State Yet,
even in this OF universal prosperity Of The country,
and unrvaed confidence IN the Administration, we see
cruel money pressure the city o. Pade ph'a-in the
presence Of Mr. Blddle himscand at the door OF the
Bank of the United States Row, bo" comes all ths'
How comes all this agitation o stocks, and scarcity OF
money, when the Government - receiving the applause
and homage of lis enemies? II comes thus: Nj BID
de the Manager Bank of the United States (for
The other directors auumat"ns able, by the caPi-
tai Of that Bank make money when he Peases,
and plenty when he peaas To- put up, and TO put down.
the price Of all stocks and OF all property, when ne pleas
es 10 run out expansions ard jerk in conacors when
he pleas-s to MAKE interest four per cent per onnhm
or iunr per centum per month when he pea'es; and
that he chooses DO Ines" things Just as often as ne has
pecunary or political object 10 accomplish aud when
he does it, he is able lay the ftc to any cause that he
ueases and make all his rrnrners repeat what he says
For seven years past il suited lis purpose TO lay all his
yyrssures in the money market on The Democratic Ad.
mnisa,ion; al PRESENT does sut his purpose
AT present he chooses TO play the stock nbbe The stock
gambler aud the Shy lock, purely for gen, and with
out ony political object. year hence, ne may have a
uo,cal as uell pecnnlary jcct 10 acconpsb and
then his pressure will nd ready pe,,xr IN any Thing
thai Mr. Van Buren, may do, or may omit to do. hnc
now what we ask Of the public is, 10 note the money
pressure and the stock agitation which prevails IN nm
ad.Iubj, the seat Of The Bank Of The v. while SUCH
thing pxs, nowhere else; and from this learn 10 appre-
ciate i;s worth as regulator OF currency, It's wcktdhess
as manufacturer Of Distress and IT'S ehfon'ery as an
accuser Of others Of the hch itsei coInraite
We -,II mon the Democracy OF ihe CnInn TO mark THIS
,s,r. In pbi,del,bia now and 10 ask themselves the
cause Of il. Is lie Bank of THIRTY FIVE MILLIONS
the strung and wicked power which creates IT, OF is Il
The weak and senseless lhag that cannot prevent IT.
'"' GiOts.
prov,D,xc FOR THE EsEMy According 10 Mr. Wise,
,b;s was the vocation TO which Mr. Whitney devoted
himself when in Canada during the war. See how he
undertakes to dispose Of Ar. RlvGs:
"ysc,xiA ELrcrIos-NR. RIvYs-We would suggest the
,o,opcps Of the Administration, far
ne dune invite Mr. Rivcs tho supporters Of those
ures people, in the coming eecous Virginia Much
good should hnk, would follow. The people the iics
Win them, they never will 60 wrong
Nlessrs Rives and Whitney we're very intimate dug
ing the last session Of Con ess but hardly sup
pose that Mr. has authorized MIR. w thus advertise