Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1841-08-31

| There is a prevailing disposition, therefore, to check
enquiry into the possibility Of relieving the ds.resses
OF tie country without violating the Constitutions and
am afraid IL IS in VAIN To expect attention to any sug
gesilon Of the sort. Were you, and l. and all ol
US, borne down By authority that rejects advice,
rests debate, and slences renonsirance, soald moi
despair OF showing that it quite possible TO establish
FISCAL Agent, sufficiently indie pendent Of tie Federal
Government, yet sufficiently identified with the public
interest, exercising the functions of Bank, and ade-
qna'e 10 all commercial and fiscal purposes, without
creating Bank Of tic u. S by The authority of Con.
gross. In my last letter endeavcrcd Ia prove thai;
neither The State Bank system the Independent
treasury had had fair trial, aud proposed TO have
shown IN this, that something Of the same sr mipht
be said OF what has heretofore been done on the sub,c
oil + iscas Bank But my Introductory remarks have
been drawn out to such length, that find necessa-
ry TO waive that subject for lie present
AS ! have presumed 10 intrude myself upon your
notice Sir suggesting such thoughts as have occur
red TO Inc on questions purely political feel embold-
ened at parting to draw somewhat nearer and to caer
word upon point Of conscience al'ude to that
new theory Of the obligation of official oath, which
| distinguishes between the officer and the man, and
which seems TO have been preached for yonr especial
benefit
II understand this mystery of two persons in one,
II amounts To this: You TO set your heart al rest
ana be satisfied in conscience, though you should do
nat which you q. T) believe TO be forbidden by the
constitution which you are sworn 10 support seeing
na' you The President IF The United StateS believe
10 oe ja"y 1c0rrnnttd by the Constitution. How you
are 10 arrive at the knowledge Of the fact that such is
Inc opinion Of The President very clearly shown
You, IL seems are not expected to know his opinions
You are to learn them presume BIZ carefully studying
all that has been said and all that has been done by
your predecessors in whose hands the powers of your
olce have persisted in the using and in whom your in
divlduality Is merged and your conscience otterated
II, when you have done tIs you are still al loss to
understand there oracles of by gone DAYS Mr. Clay is
at hand to interpret for you, his capacity of chief of
the Wing pary From hcnceforh, presume he who
from the time being, claims that proud distinction is
to BIZ, en- cGcio, the -Hui of our political faith 10
whose suggestions the Cniiph will be bound 10 con-
form This seems to me TO make the President n sort
OF Bull Apis, who, being worshpped God, was
supposed 10 be the same individual bull from genera
ton generation. On that hypothesis, the chief of
the Wing party would be tine Priest Of the Temple Of
this dumb God.
Thus yon see Sir that consistency requires you not
10 in Office the principles which Jehn 7yicr has
proessed and acted through IN life, but those which
governed you, the PrfSident when you appeared among
men in the form of James Madison. Moreover, you
are to remember, that though it is allowable 10 ind;-
viduas 10 reconsider and change their opinions the
President has such privilege, and is bound to
form, in al time to come, to all opinions officially
expressed, whether by himself considered natural
man, or by some other natural with whom he is
officially identified.
protest. Sir, that did nc, mean TO treat this mater
lightly, but indeed find il hard 10 deal seriously with
it, BY way of taking security therefore, against ten.
drncy TO the frivolous, which find coming me,
will give what else have to say in the form of pa
rabe.
1t is well known that Frederick Duke Of York, the
second of George the Third also Bishop Of
Oznaburg, and Commander in Chief Of the British
Army 1t happened. that his appearance in full reg
mentals, certain occasion, made such an impress
sion plain and pous man, who, but few days be-
fore, had seen him in full canoncas, that he ventured
10 demonstrate with his Grace the inconsistency Of
his two functions. The Duke took the eIpostuation
good part, and explained by saying, that in anorer,
he Bshop Of Oznahurg and man Of peace, as be.
came the scrram Of the Prince Of Pcarc In England,
he added, that lie was Duhe If lork Temporal peer,
and bound TO do battle for the Cromn, of which he held
his dignity The querist mystiied BY this an
swer and could only say in reply, 81 beg your Grace
to consider nevertheless. what viii become Of my
Lord bishop if my Lord Duke is GENT to the Devil"
You, too, hope, Sir, will lag 1t to heart very
much fear, If the President sanctions bill which John
Ter believes to lie unconstitutional, that, as the two
have bnt one soul between them, Satan, in some iu-
ture svIsion Of Judgment" will be found 10 lay
claim 10 hut which it would puzzle even PhIadei-
phia Lawyerf to reiute
A STATES RIGHT MAN.
II beg Mr. believe that diresprt him IN
tended. held him in The highest respect and do him honor
advanced Were r, himself, advanced
To h.i which worthy. volume
wnI!d prevail with him Ia from oiice
The Treasury refusing the public
treasure from place had hcsu deposited by law.
many bus upon Tie journal II d,hcraiire body would
Justify Him u himself Tor cspunsn. one lIne: