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

benefit Of his political supporters and raise them TO The
summit. Power and plare would compensate for any
variance, however great, Of actions from professions
/ Ii Notorious tCo that The General had been al
ways animated by the old faithful Federal zeal of the
ramilloninn school, and advocated the constitutional
power and the imperative duty Of the General Govern
nent 10 incorporate National Bank These were the
genuine orthutcI qualifications which ensured TO the
old warrior politician oil Ohio, the cordial support of
| the Wings.
Yet the spri, hich conquered in 177G and which
produce he civil revolution IN leul animated the pso
pie 10 ASSERT and vndicale their tghttu supremacy in
1886; and, on The 4'l Of March 1897, Mr. Van Bur-n
came into The Presidential Office The trump liant cham
pIon OF The Republican cause.
Still the lingering star of the old General is visible
above the horizon loathng pale his Intellectual lustre
and 10 be rcpsrd by any umInary that the changing
and fashions OF The hour may invoke TO usher IN
lie gnudy dawn of Mhigsh victory and graualions.
In cOuntry like this. avPrse 10 war, mere military
nSiil of the glorious ORDER gives very question
able title command in The highest civil trust, and is
always offensive 10 politicians whose preiensons 10 The
public appreciation come greeting from the gentle paths
OF peace.
Hence those who follow the fortunes, and stimulate
the ambition Of Mr.. Clay, and who, iAe him. prefer
''war psstilence and famine 10 military chletaIn,
biazon his Incompatible fitness. and would raise his
civic services nd fame above all the sweepngs Of the
cnmp,-above The Hero of Tippccsnoe, and every body
! else
This thrice tried, thrice foilad candidate for the
ing honors of the nalion solicls The award
OF his frIlow.men.
II is generally believed and believe is admitted that
Mr. Clay maintains and ylndcaes The political priuci-
Piles of General Harrison; and that HI really cherlshes
sort Of fixed a-teep-rootsd in his towering amb
ton that nothing but National Bank can secure The
peace, power and pernanency of the eonfederaled
| Union
In speech which he delivered in the Senate on the
2lst May, 1893. in support Of petition which he pre-
senled for National Bank, he said she believed the
institution Of Bank of The United States under the
| voFr hvap
required by The common good of the whole country:
ihn he moi particularly attached any Bank, but 10
PRINCIPLES. to The THING ITSELF. TO n well or.
gnnized BANK OF THE UNITED STATES. He
thought that The constitutional power 10 incorporate
such Bank ought no longer 10 be regarded open
question. Stability is necessary want of society.
Among those Who deny the power, there many who
admit the benefit Of Bank Of The United States Four
| times and under the sway of all the political parties,
have Congress deliberately affirmed its existence Eve.
ry department of the Government has again and again
asserted it Forty years scquescence by the people,
uniformity every where in the value Of The currency,
facility and economy in domestic exchange, and
ampled prosperity in the general business of the
try, wha Bank of the United States; and without il,
wild disorder in the currency ruinous rreguarity in
domestic exchanges and general prosralnn IN lbe
merce and business of The nation, would seem 10 put
The question al rest, if il 10 not TO be perpeualy ogi
tnted The power has been sustained by Washington,
the Father of his Country, by Madison, the Father Of
| the Consluon-und by Marshall, the Father of the
! lowed, neither ought they 10 be wantonly despised.
! They the evidence of truth
Since tie delivery md publication Of this notable
Speech the frendc of MIR Clay have everywh taken
the cue, and preparing 10 sustain his future
and one OF the ardent intimate and distinguished
! Of them-ihe Hon. A. Wise-has lately proclaimed
from The husngs in Virginia that is The settled pur
pose Of MIR Clay, if elected to the Presidency
mend to Congress TO incorporate a Bank. (A)
Is this dangerous political engine-the U S. Bank
warranted by any specific provision of The Constitution,
deducb!e from The principles which should illustrate
and preserve that sacred instrument? IL not, any
practice of the Government, sanction of prede
cessos, in relation TO bank consecrate the measure
and invest 1t with the protection OF fundamental
! laws?
This question is important than novel; and has
reused The multitude, invoked The WISDOM and agated
the councils Of this country for 30 years
ing the asserted acquescence OF The people IN National
Bank, for that precise same period of time And there
is public character OF the age whom IL does not bet
become than AIR. Clay settle this great question
in favor of the banking power of the Government and
10 regard il Theoretically closed against the people,
and 10 be opened more unless, indeed the right TO
change and radically To desert public principles, and
10 advocate to-day what denounced on yesterday be
the exclusive perogulive Of the Senator from Kentucky
I Yet, despite OF The bold rebuke which Mr. Clay has
publicly pronounced on his own former deliberate udg
men in The premises persevpre and persist in the con-
vction, and shn endeavnr 10 impress that conviction in
the public mind that If there be any thing persuasive n
evidence, clear in reasoning: faithful IN history
mpTegnale in InIh, then. the Federal Constitution
does confer and the Fathers and Trainers Of the
Constitution designed that it should confer, any
power on the Genera! Government 10 incorporate Ma
! lonal Bank FABlUS.
(A)
(From The Enquirer of June 25, 1899
"NATlONAL BANK
| awe have recently noticed, one of The significant
signs Of The times, concerted movement by the Clay
and Conservative coalition in favor Of National Bank
They have started from the halfway house. for
tho fplt dpfa bItu horse
| power locomotive into the gulf of Hamonian Federal
| ism II is amusing TO see how widely and cotemporo.
neousy these prompted Steps are takcn and how curl
ouslyas the panic of 1884 and the revuson of 1887
| this movement has proceeded. Whether as part o
the schrme, mere premunltory symptoms we have
protested drafts of bank insti,uion-closng the
! doors Of others-fnure of one mercantile irm-c0tton
circular combinations 10 sustain olhers-denuncallons
Of one another of the Administration instead
of their Specializing foies-and over and above ALL
the sinister cr"ak, croak croak of all The suiomaton po
! liticans for orershadowing National Bank
"When the disease excess, the cry is for more rum
Messrs Clay and Co. 10 their grand party Sill
mulus, National Bank
"We ask readers 10 advert moment 10 the iol.
| lowing development of a few weeks
The yeomany and mechanics, the friends of really
sound currency of constitutional standard OF value as
well the advocates of sric Jeersonan construction
of the Constitution, will see whittier The combined OPP.
position seeking to lead them.
! 81 Only eighteen days ago. Mr.. Dennis Smith, that
bird Of i'll out in the National lntegencer
| in favor Of National Bank. though expressing some
niseivngs that The project could not at present succeed
20 The letters Of the New York Express correspond
ent every few days TEEN with TRADES against The ca
changes and the currency, and with celebrations in IA.
| vor of National Bank
80. The Evening Star of The 18th instant, puts out
| the following feeler:
"As private enterprise, unconnected with extensive
combination the plan Of making advances and suspend
ing The immediate sale OF cotton, may olrly be justified
and had The original circular been framed with little
more caution all criticism upon the subject would pro-
badly have been avoided. We are however, glad that
it has been published as it has given se 10 The e1nm
nation Of subject fnnite importance TO the Southern
country; we mean the absolute necessity OF great mo-
neyed institution, adequate 10 The bringing OF The
Southern crop 10 market, at proper time, and under
| favorable circumstances
"The South! az, Virginia, South Carolina, &c, ap
priced by the Wing and Conservative coalition of
The absolute necessity of greet moied institution
| "But The Editor grows boder, and under The name OF