Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1840-10-20

this reform they would make under the disguise OF RI
forming an alleged practice Of efraragam e1pendt-
lures IN lie Government If they sincere in de
string change REFORM that head, they wou advo
cate the necessity of turning out OF Congress every
member without distinction Of party, who has advoca
ted cIirara rant prOjCS, voted for extragagant ex-
penditurcs. CLAY, Webster, Adams Slade and many
other leaders oihcr party, both in the Senate and
House Of Representatives, should be ckaRged, and more
economical legislators elected their places, if they he
really DESTROYS Of reform the score Of economy IL
is we'll known By every who knows any thing at
all about political SYSTEM that the President OF the
Y. > cannot give away, use, eXpend or appropriate
single dollar of the public money without authority
from Congress. lie is an executive officer to carry
INTO effect the laws made by Congress; he has part
lot in making appropriations otmoncy He has pow
veto appropriations but there has
power ends he cannot veto appropriations for Constt
tona Objects because he may think them great too
little Changing the President, therefore, could not
form the Government or make it less eXtrava-
CANT The road reform, this particular PLAIN short
and straight. 1t simply 10 turn out OF Congress all
those legislators without distinction of party who have
voted for laws making extravagant appropriations Of
the public money, II any Snch have OF late actually
been made But the spectators and monopolIsts, who
have raised the cry Of change and reform, do not at
heart desire that Kind Of r0rm winch has for It's object
retrenchment and economy; otherwise, they would not
have supported Adams and Clay in their extravagant
schemes Of taking the public money to build slight
houses If he sizes, to make neighborhood roads IN
kentucky, and TO construct other Wild and unconsttu-
tional works Of Internal Improvement TO the amount
of hundreds of millions, all Of which fortu-
naely thwared vetoed and voted down by their poll
teal opponents. But change OF the men who have
been continually the alert in dcvsIng schemes
and eXravagan projects TO waste the peoples money,
is not the chaMgC rcOrm which is sought or direct
ed by the founders of the political Clubs that
organized throughout the country, 10 gull aud isead,
brow beat and inln,date the people the approach
ing election. Tie eXtravagant Legislators retained
in office IN crery Congressional District State where
the bank influence prCdOmnGtC$: not a whisper is
heard in any of the TIppccanoc Clubs or at any po.
litical cider drinking against the wild schemes OF
squandering the peoples money which have so often
been brought forward by Adams, Webster and Clay
On the contrary, the authors of these extravagant
schemes the very champions of the monoposts and
spectators, who desire change but change OF the
peoples money from the Treasury into their pockets
and 10 reform but reform Of glorious Republican
institutions, in all matters connected with finance, into
bank olIgarchy The people hold in their own hands
the staff of power: short time viii determine whether
they be coAened, coaXcd, humbugged, gulled
or bued out oft If President be elected favorable
TO chartering National Bank, who at least has pro-
missed Jeorc hand (as Gen Harrison has) 10 rttO
sd an Institution if a majority of Congress be for II,
then will the stat Of power have departed from the
hands of the people forever Look at Pennsylvania
look at Mississippi To prepare The way for revival
of the charter Of the late United States Bank 10y
the Democratic State of PcnnSy lvana, the mono
posts and spectators managed TO get Rtncr elect
cd Governor prepare the way for the great Union
Bank of Mississippi, uhe bonds Of which were pur-
chased speculation by Nicholas Biddle) Go
previously elected, pledged nat 10 crercsc
his constitutional veto against 1t. So also Harrison
intended to prepare the way open the door for the
re establishment Of a National Bank. Scarcely would
he he installed IN office, when the welkn would rng
with the old cry, 'rcStore tic dp0Ses and rccharir
he baak.' The establishment of great centTaz'ng
money power in one OF the Northern cities Will GER
tainy follow If Harrison be elected, and every prrnC
pie dear to Virginia would again be put in jeopardy
but il Harrison he defeated, all hope Of again reducing
Virginia and the South 10 state OF dependence and
vassaare, by means of an t. s Bank and lis accom-
panyine adunc,s of Tariff ana Internal Improvement
by the General Government, will be cut of.
TllALES.