Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1840-02-18

circular of the Barngs gave birth, is but
nation OF that policy which announced III the first
circular of that great House. one OF whose members
now ut the head Of the British Treasury. We kept
the first annunciaton of the Barngs < Co at the head
of our paper long time, warning to our country
men. We now repeat It, to show with what subscr-
v;ency our Federal leaders ut this moment aborng,
to rive effect 10 principle dictated from abroad, and To-
reign to Government.
EJiract fran tie LoRdOn Ban&srs Circniar o Jun. y
sfrom its natnrr, the influence IF Lank must be ai
Hedto c Irisiocracy Of HraIh, md not 10 tic Dcm"-
rrQry Of yan,bcrs and this IS mare csptciay tic
Nth "rsdt chartered sa1lhS hGrj0g immense porer.-
The M'e Bank Of HE e. s Of his description,
aad is political influence prodigio"s. = Giode.
THE ASSUMPTION DEBATE
WAsuISGToN Feb. 12.-ThIs debate is continued III
the Senate from day TO day. The Opposition at first pre-
tended they had the least intention of paying pro-
posing TO pay, the State debt, out of the national re-
sources which. all know full we'll, barely sufficient
to meet The national cxigcnces. They secuted Nj
Grundy's report against the embryo measure, as sup
posing contingency not likely to happen-but now
every day produces Federal cham pion to maintain the
hantng of the London bankers which was laid at the
door of Congress by the Barngs when it first opened
since Messrs. Crittcndcn and Clay have become its tos
ter fathers.
Mr. Clay Of Alabama, in the able speech we publish
ed Yesterday, but which was delivered week or len
days before the plan Of the Fcderasts revealed
with consunInac skill, traced the lurking policy Of the
assumption party in lis early beginning, and predicted
with perfect precision the shape in which it would
make its appearance. Just he OWNED the real estate
of the naton-its great landed domains now, if the
Federal scheme prevails, TO be made TO the Bar
ngs and other stockholders in Europe, TO their
speculatons Mr.. Clay shows, in his speech, that his
namesake, the Senator from Kentucky, had, in fact,
indicated this policy some years ago, when he proposed
surrender the public domain to the States 10
~ on internal improvements. This very PROPOSE.
ton itself doubt induced foreign capitalists reach
afr Stat ks nj he Lcb
gave rise TO the credit system into which The States
rushed abroad, and the waste and c1rava gancc which
followed. The Senator from Alabama pointed ont IN
the newspapers under the patronage of the obbng
classes that the idea which the United States Bank
sent abroad, and which the Earrings sent back to u.s.
promptly adopted by all the credit system organs
in country They all 60 for appropriang the whole
of our public domain capital TO pay off old debts
and 10 boat up and cxtravagant of loans
and paper credit The issue of three hundrcd millions
of Treasury notes. proposed in the Courier and Enuuir
or of New York, is but beginning Of that debt with
which the foreign and domestic spectators would over
wllem this country.
There is one point which we would have been clad
10 touched on, i'll the review of the Senator from
Alabama, When President Jackson had crushed all
Acssrs Adams and Clays schemes for creating a vast
national debt: after he had pu. end the internal
improvement system, and vetoed the Bank: the Nation
al neliTcnccr invoked the FcdcralistS In make e
fort 10 ret possession Of the State Governments and
prosecute their designs through them. II is evident
this concerted plan for the leading men of the
Federal party made eXcrlons to get the control of the
State Legislatures and wherever they succeeded what
the result Look at Pennsylvania, under the Rit
regme-at Indiana, under that of Gov. Noble
at Illinois, under that of Governor Duncan at Ken
tucky, under the successive Clay dynasties Every
of these States has been weighted with increased and
heavy debts created to supply the most waseul and
cxtravagant administrations known in this coun-
try. No doub, that the State debts were aug
hf l,pctI nT. Tho
birth TO the very state Of things nov existing The
Federal party required weight on the
States 10 opprcss them, and compel their submission
ihc,r purposes They wanted to brin. round the con
dton III which Hamilton found the Government when
he had stocks the market 10 corrupt the representa-
lives of the pcoplc-dcb,s 10 assume, 10 make the
States pliahc-a national debt as the consequence on
which 10 found a National Bank-and all these means
together to corrupt and influence the rich classes to
maintain the high-handed Governmentwhch it was his
purpose TO engrait, by construction, the Constitn.
tion.-U.
WAsHINGToS, Feb. 1i-ln the Senate to-day 4 very
animated and keen discussion arose on motion of Col
Benton, preliminary to the introduction Of his bill for
the abolition of the salt tax The motion was to print
variety of testimony, which he had derived from diff.
lerent quarters OF the Union, upon lie effect of the
salt monopoly. The mode in which il operated TO en-
nance the price OF the commodity, and to dcteriorac It's
quality, was shown in these statements Some of the
dispositions which he rcad-givcn by men of high
history
monopol y-exhIbcd system of unparalleled eytor.
lion, effected by combination stop salt works and
stint the quantity manuiacturcd-to district the coun-
try, and have supplies furnished for each district bare
ly sufficient Tor IT'S absolute necessities the whole be.
ing under the control of the company Of monopolists
to command what price they pleased
Messrs. Clay and Preston opposed the motion 10
prn-thcy contc nded that it attack on the pro-
perty OF the monopoiss attack the Tariff under which
they had formed the the combinations They were
ably and thoroughly answered on all points bv Mcssrs
Allen, Benton, and Wright We trust we shall have
it in power to give least outline ofthc discus
sion if nothing Nothing that we have heard in
the Senate was characteristic of the grca, parties in
the country rs some portion of that which occurred
today-Giobc
DEBATE ~ House RrrREsEyrArIvEs-The
House OF Representatives has been for several DAYS
engaed in debating resolution of instruction 10 the
Committee of Ways and Means, in regard TO an ap.
preparation for the Cumberland road If any question
could possibly lie discussed in the House without in
volving party differences we supposed this to be the
one Men of all parties, in all sections of the Union
have ndiscrlmnately voted for and against Men of
all parties alike deeply Interested, in the States
through which 1t runs, in its completion; and yet it
is remarkable that some of the very men in those
States who onght, if possible, 10 have kept the
subject as clear of politics in the discussions as it
is IN its nature, were the first TO march the whole
of their political forces upon this road and what
is most astonishing, Mr.. BIdde, who took the lead of
this array, enabled TO conduct them By this road TO
Florida, to begin the attack The Administration there
Almost every member the side Of the Opposition
who has risen TO debate the Cumberland road appropra
on has taken the occasion to make war on the Admin
straton, not in regard to any thing has done in rela-
ton TO this road, but about every thing else that they
suppose can be converted to political use in the
Presidential election. Mr.. Biddle, Mr.. Mason, Mr.
Hoffman of New York, and even Mr. Profit who
coming from Indiana, has direct interest in keeping
political conflicts from interfering with the success Of
the States application, have all united in wavlaying
the road from one end to the other with political am.
buscadrs. The question is not suffered 10 move an
inch along in the discussion, without political strue
gle being made upon by the very who pretend 10
be anxious for its easy and quiet passage through the
House Mr.. Wick, Mr.. Howard, Mr.. Reynolds, and
other friends of the Administration, have anxiously
sought, in their appeals to the House, to keep sub
ec altogether unconneced in its nature from politics
clear of them in the debate. They have endeavored