Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1839-11-15
VOLUME XXxVI.---No. 55.

dent will hr more dangerous ~ Ib,s case brrau>r the
temptation Is much greater. IN proportion To the ut
Of capital do contend that. If the Constitution dId
intend 10 grant the pow Of chnerng moneyed ns,i.
u'ons ii DID not intend grant II tor Inc purposes q
speculation. and specializing merely Sell privileges.
Sell for 81 2300OO The exclusive privilege OF taking
usurluus Inisr-ot on money ! thought Sir that the
power Of selling privileges md indulgencss cxcin
svely the right and power Of The Pope. ash gentle.
men on bet sn'horrty they ucl; On none Of moral.
". carlainy-hct on what authority: On tina, OF the
corrupt Government Of Eng|snd Ssrvile imn'oIs OF
England. We must hsre National Bank And WHY
NJ, on Eas, India c"mpany' We could sell char.
ter 10 morrow FER millions We coad sell charter.
cd privileges tyr almost much should choose
ask II become the retailers OF privileges,
shall go 10 sell them ill oYerdo the business
and when this great nstiunnl source Of revenue. aer
becoming chief aud only had failed To what
resources Tor should WE be driven Is !, rot
very rational inference, that II will be TO The sale Of all
privileges we can derive from the Constitution power
to dispose oi' IT, Sir, rny OCCASION, you would SGT
up in The market privileges FOR sale tstae highest bidder
even do with respect privileges OF every description
You would hesitate to up for sale psivrGea
oil nobility thnn this privilege: bot, thank my God ,
The Constitution has prohibited yon But for that 700
should sell them nov as we do bank privileges: we
should 70 on 10 mako il our chisf resource ill., by the
chrapness Of the title should destroy the value o the
Trade If We can draw money into tie treasury BY bar
gain and sale OF privileges lei II Do understood that We
will continue 10 foster it chief national source
Having done with internal and drec, taxes Of all de-
sale Of privileges vii! be made The chief national
will add but thing. The moment you accept
this 30 COO dollars you bribed in the
the BRUSH PaIamenr haze suffered enseVes 10 We
corrupted Like Them we no, only shameluy pnroke
Of The crime, bu, on our statute book acknowledge tie
fact.
alr Randolph moved, for the purpose OF destroying
the BILL that the hole subject be indefinitely postponed
and supported his motion by atverEg 10 the small num-
Der Of members present. and The improperly OF passing
by screwed up, straned and cosre majority, 50 i'm
purant measure, At the end Of session, when the
members worn dow and exhausted by daily and
long attention 10 business measure which, IN time OF
war. md of great public emergency could not he forced
through The House; measure deeply involving The
future welfare and which To give color and cha.
The Iu,uve destiny of this country; measure
which, il, and another (ihe tariff should pass into laws,
the present would be looked back 10 the mos,
disastrous since the commencement oi The republic; and
which, much he deprecated he would prefer war
s,s 10 either Of them Mr. r. then proceededto arGus
against The bal as unconstitutional, Ine1petient and
dangerous
Mr. Randolph replied 10 Mr. Grosvenor, and enforced
his constitutional objections 10 the bill IN which he Was
horne by the decision Of Congress IN refusing 10
the charter Of the old bank, which decision
grounded The want Of constitutional power lie Gd
verred also supper, Of his opinion tie instructions
from the Legislatures Of Virginia and Kentucky TO their
Senators against the old Bank which instructions
we're given the ground OF that institution being UNI
constitutional. Mr. II. declared himself the hoIdrr Of
stock whatever cScprt live stock md had determined
ne yer 10 own any, INT If this bill passed, he would not
only he sockholder the utmost Of his power. In:
would advise man, over whom he had Hny Int'!-
encf do the same, because Il The creation oi
great privileged order Gl The most hateful kind TO hs
feelings and because lie would rather be the master than
thu slave. II he must have a maser-lei Ian b" ore
with epaueltas-s some thing tia, he could fear and ~:
sppci-sOmelhing that he could look up to-but no.
master with quill behind his es.