Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1841-04-20
(Erom me III. u. Standard. ]

From the ". j. Standard
The Investigating Committee who have recently
probed the affairs Of the IT, S. Bank, have made
port which published in last evenings American,
and which we hope to present to The readers OF the
Standard on Monday next The American may well
call it an LAWFUL REPORT for it exhibits TO the
world, the sepulchre of nations honor, and displays
to the CONSERVATION, and humiliation, of this whole
people, the vast and yawning abyss into which the
honest industry of the country has been thrown, by
set Of the most corrupt and desperate gamblers the
world ever saw The Report is pregnant with lessons
of wisdom if rightly improved; and it vindcates be-
yond the eloquence of the most bitter opponents The
monster had the far seeing and prophetic of
ANDREW JACKSON, equally with the "uncompro-
missing hostility" of MARTIN VAN buren,, 10 any
such institution.
On the morning of the 9TH inst, in the same number
which announced the arrival of the Vice President Ty-
Ter at Washington and his entrance on his duties us
Chief Magistrate of the republic, the National lnteli
gencer contained plan for National Bank. We
trust in God that whatever other of policy the
successor of President Harrison adopt, the unpar
donabe sin of recomme another institution eGpa.
be-and what gigantic bank mot be,-of brin gng
beggary to mllions-of robbing the widow and the
phan Of their sole supporter putting the destnes Of
freemen in the keeping ofspeculating knaves, will not
rest upon his SOUL The American scathes, with all its
wonted pessness, those who have assailed The cha.
racter and motives of the opponents of the
and IFS spawn but its thunders slept 1884, 1892
and EDWARDS, when these same assaants of the mo-
tves and characters Of good men, and honest
any the American defends, exhausted the vocabu-
larry ofabuse, while of them and others elsewhere,
were ertansting the ranlts Of the Bank, achieh ,cas
"BUYING MEN and VOTES like cattle in The mar
ket"
tFrom the .Ntp York .4uerican.)
Report on the Condition Of the Bank Of the u States
of sylrania.-lt is with deep humiliation, as Anne
rcans that present to readers this awful report
exhibiting extent of moral delinquency the part
of men in high trusts and of high standing in society,
that facts only here exhibited could render credible
1t will be that the late officers of the Bank used
its funds in the most lavish manner for their own pri-
vae speculations and the wrecks from these specua-
TONS for the most part of the widest and most
sonable kind, furnish the chief assets with which the
debts of these parties to the Bank were-no satisfied
but extinguished.
But the censure and Indignation should not fall alone
the officers who thus violated the spirit of their
trusts The Directors whose nattention, indifference
or connivance, could for years. permit such state of
things-deserve scarcely less reprobaon, and the COM
mittee have done we'll in our judgment, in annexing
to the report the of The Directors at large and
specifically of those composing the committees of
animation at the periods when these transactions were
in progress,