Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1841-05-04
TO TIE EDITOR or THE ENQUIRER.

TO TIE EDITOR or TIE ENQUIRER
"Hahfar County, .3prH goth, ls4l.
"Ere this reaches you, you will have received full
statement Of the Of Halifax shelving the result OF
a pretty close between hlessrs Clark, Watkins
and Stoval, all DemocratsD for the House of Dele
gates-a conducted in the ght spirit and which
has left scarcely Ill feeling between the friends OF
the different candidates and that we have given
excellent Representative Coles, the handsone MAORI
ty Of 46l, out OF an aggregate vote OF about O30
awe have been kept uneasy about the result in the
District but all doubts are now dspelled BY accounts
from Plttsylva and Campbell which satisfy US that
Coless majority III the whole District IS about forty
votes about twelve short If The majority in the
three counties in November, for Van Buren,.
"Iaiax has done reT, but she ought to have done
better Our people have been Lelated in
pitching their crops At this late day, have done
planting verify believe, that if the day Of cleo.
ton had been rainy rs TO have driven our voters
from tIer fields, should have given upwards
Of 1000 votes, and shewn ory nearer JOl, than
4Gl.
ave have lost scarcely man from ranks since
November, except BY death removal Our opponents
the other hand hare lost ground which they
can regain. Some who voted with them in this cleo
ton, did so with much hesitation. Some others, who
have for several years past voted with them, refused
10 vote at all this Spring and few Of our most re-
spectacle planters, hitherto numbered as Wings,
marched up promptly 10 the polls and gave their votes
to Coles
"A,n.dst the recklessncss Of Whiggery, it is graft
y,
showing an unfnching regard for sound principles,
though still too much embtercd By the fury of past
conflicts 10 vote with US. i have heard OF one who
ayows himsefa Bank man, if one could be consttu-
tionay established but who refused to vote for Capt.
Witcher upon the ground that lie (he Captain) had
shewn willingness to violate the Constitution upon
pleas Of cxpediency | know another who has hIth-
erto voted against upon the express grounds that
nee were opposed to National Bank, whch he consi-
dercd necessary to regulate the currency and e1-
i.
ground, that the developments oil. the rotten condition,
and the frauds Of the late National Bank, had satisfied
him that no such institution ought to be trusted with
powers fearful know yet another who has always
opposed Mr. Van Buren, and his friends, and voted for
HARRISON believing Rives and others, that he, Harr-
son. was Bank man, who declared off from Capt.
Witcher the moment the Captain declared for Ma
tional Bank. This voter, understand, voted also for
Coles
"Gralefu for small favors, you will be ready 10 ex.
claim, when you see me thus Boosting OF the fidelity
of few individuals TO the obligations Of The Constu
ton But pause my dear Sir and what solemn
mockery many making of the obligations Of oaths
Pause, and reflect upon the consequences which must
How from allowing cur public iunctionares TO disre
gard their oaths, and violate the Constitution
they themselves understand IT. because, forsooth, &C.
neral Washington, evil hour, surrounded by diff
cult;es and with an undue confidence in Alexander
Hamilton, Welded his An:i-Bank principles and
sanctioned the creation of the first Bank OF the u s.
and because forsooth James Madison yielded 10 q ma
oritv of Congress- and gave his signature 10 the Sc
cond Bank charter, upsn the plea that the power to
create such an institution had been recognized by the
National Legislature and Judciary-a plea, which is at
war with the written Constitution as is proven By the
history of lis formation published to the world
from his own pen showing that the power to create
corporation of any kind rejected by the Federal
Convention by vote of 10 States 10 ia plea, which
is at war too with his immortal Resolutions of &c
and Report of 90 wherein he solemnly warned his
countrynen Of the evils which would flow from the
doctrine of preeedents and from granting FIVE Judges
of the Supreme Court the power - settle those prcce
dents and make them binding upon the States and peo-
pie though not shadow Of such power could be found
in the Constitution, as it came from the hands Of lis
trainers
"sTo err is human General Washington probably
committed few errors any But that he did
err in Welding to the Bank schemes of Hamilton was
proclaimed By the patrarchs Of Democracy Of that day
headed by Thomas Jefferson, who demonstrated the
unconsttutonaty of the act, and predicted the evils
that would flow from il. Those evils we have seen
and felt-ndeed, now seeing and feeling them.
And who can doubt that if James Madison was this
day alive The developments from that rotten cor
poraon, the creation Of which he gave lis sanction
in 1916, he would and acknowledge his error. and
would once more admonish his countrymen to adhere
miited the surpalons of day become precedens
he does or least did, be oted TO those doctrines
aix his signature to another Bank charter, In 1919,
with all the arguments for and against National Bank
with all the reasons Of MIR. Madison for giving his sig
nature to Bank charter fresh in his memory, he the