Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1839-12-21

are deprecatne the suspension of specie payments
plorlng and suffering its injurious consequences THE
CUSTOMERS of THE Banks ARE GLoRyIxG Is IT-and in
some quarters actually menacing the few Banks that
have proven true TO their engagements with !ariesS
fearG-with MOB LAW
1t is TIE DEALERS BAsEs then, who wish
10 deal and make profits nithon payno, whose rcsour-
would be '.drancd and dried up, if the Banks be
required TO pay their debts. Fellow citizens of the Le-
gIsalurc, do you mean 10 the Banks and their
people: Or do you mean To- be TO the trust which
the real people, generous and coniing people, have
rcposcd in you, and true TO the Constitution and Laws
II the former if you intend TO shape your under
Bank dicta,ion Bank deusion, in humble subsery-
cncy TO Bank power, many Of your people begin 10
apprehcnd, and that with biting Indignation, then il is
high time for another Dcc'araun IF drrendencc pro-
claiming TO the world that the people of Virginia, Of
right, ought to be, and shdibc free and independent
TIE SPECIE sTANDARD-a radical reform, or total cr
termination Of present papcT SYSTEM must become
the motto-thc rallying cry of every freeman.
The People of Virginia cannot be much longer de-
ceivcd or miscd by your Bank fnanclcrs. The very
word faancier is becoming odious in the eyes of the
people They begin to see that most Of our modern
fnanciers figure by system of arithmetic, that works
in favor of the Banks and their dependents aone that
Banks square their actions by system Of morality at
with common honesty; that they and their GUS
toners are dependent upon the products OF industry
for all their profits, and to relieve them from the conse
qurnccs of their folly: and that it is the Bank nar
ccrs, and the Bank "(rcdt SYsem that foster every
species of extravaganza load the country with debt
produce foreign balances against u.s. derange "the
changes and threaten very TRUTH to "dran and dry
mp the resources Of the State. The interest and ho
of the people demand radical and immediate re-
form, or total determination of our present banking
system. Listen no longer, gentlemen, to the slang
about the calamitlrs consequent upon crushing the
Banks. 1t behooves you rather to think of the folly of
'startng them 10 staggering on to another, and worse
catastrophe" They hare crushed themselves Will you
rcsusctatc hc with the certain prospect before your
eyes, admitted now by their organs that the shocks
and calamtes which have suffered by them,
must suffer again and again; Would il not then, be
worse than folly to rebuild them, without immedate Y
and radically reforming them-so TO teach them that
the laws shall not be broken with mpunlty-that they
shall be obcdicnt TO the laws not masters of the law
making powcr-subscrvcnt to the convenience ofiargc
moned transactions alone, and shall have nothing to
do with issuing paper currency for ordinary deangs
and that the Specie Standard which erected by
fathers TO project abour and property from the
swindng operations of the paper system shall be the
standard not only for the people but for Banks and by
which they must stand or fail.
MATTER FACT