Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1841-05-21
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When the question of creating National bank
comes before the people, they affirm the verdict "cr
they have often given. A Mr.. HILL at the la'e
elections in Virginia, was candidate iof congress
Bank and as the Wings themselves say, he owed the
loss Of his election to that very declaration. We e1
tract from an Ohio print an article on this subject
containing the admission of the National intelligence
that il was the open avowa of his intention 10 support
\ Bank which caused Mr. Hill to be rejected by the
people
PsrcyAxr slcsA correspondent Of the National lnel
eneeI Iron" Of ~! ,be o. Of Whe CONGRESSMAN Mr. m was in
Mr Hin has fallen victim to his independence in the
o his opinons Of constutionaly of Bank Of The
United States and his determination If elected TO vote er such
devotion, which should endear him TO every wing IN
the nation"
Il no doubt required deal of courage to go before
se people and advocate hcnous corrupt and unconstilon
Al measure National Bank No such monarcIca measure
will sustained by the people Of tins country other
people that oye their freedom II The Tyler administration Is
army Of alcn Wing victlms in due We aston
sd any party should be mad enough 10 advocate such
measure with the daily of frauds and crimes already
"''"s"' 'f'' Ohio Statesman
Doubtless this conviction of the essential unpopula
rity of National Bank led to the very cautious express.
sions which we quoted on Friday from the National
Intelgencer. " Possibly, says that print, IN It's
soflest phrases 'posslby, some central agent might
be devised and established free from the objections Of
those who have conscientious scrupcs against establish
Bank go n0mne, the untalHeu IeuoeT WIN Piease
10 translate nomine by the words "under that name
and from the objections against banks, as now or.
panized or at least administered amongst us.
SO then, the bank party having Struggled them
selves into power by keeping out of sight their real OBJ
iec,s and are 10 smuggle their favorte measure
into the statute book by giving it another name We
are TO have Bank but not Bank nominf; we are
to have Bank, but we to call it a central fixed
agent or some other strange title There people,
il seems according to the National lntellgencer, who
have conscientious objections to Bank under that
name but whose objections vanish when you call II
something else Their aversion 10 The name, not to
the thing.
We remember reading, in the journal Of traveller
in the East an account of a conscientious Musseiman
who would not on any account drink wine spirits go
nomine He was horror struck at the bare mention OF
such transgresson of the precept of his prophet but
call his punch shebet his Madeira molasses and wa
ter, and he would drink as long as he could see.
ii is 10 be hoped that Mr. Tyler is not one of those
whose consciences Of this accommodating descr'p
tion Ii would be notifying 10 learn after all that the
objections which he urged with much force against
National Bank were merely objections TO the name, and
that he was never to the thing itself We wish
never to see the Chief Magistrate of the republic
drinking strong rum punch under the name OF sherbet
or boiling tumbers Of Madeira under the name of mo-.
lasses and water.