Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1841-04-30

niousy, and there is vertabe air of sincerity about
his letters that is admirably calculated to rritae his
opponents, and, at the time, gloss over his own
hollow selfishness and sophstry. The object OF his
third letter, just published, is TO demonstratc-ilrsy
that the whole of the present movement against the
Bank is conspiracy on the part Of the Schuylkill
Navigation Company acting through weak and inter.
ested duPcs and III revenge for the depreciation Of
stock it has sustained in consequence Of the aid ex
tended BY the Bank to the Reading Railroad Company
| "A formidable and rival corporation and secondly,
that the Exchange Committee, through whose lnstru.
mentality and whhuu, the knowledge Of the Board oil
Directors of the Bank, immense were ndlscreety
loaned and lost, nothing extraordinary in such an
institution for many years, in strict conior-
mitv with its charer-perlormed functions expressly
delegated TO it, and particularly advocated by the LAW
| full Disclosure" Committee-was inquired INTO, and
endorsed BY Mr. (now President Tyler, in le34-and
conducted itself just similar committees always con-
duct themselves, and with no very great stretch OF
In all this Mr. Biddle may be right, or Mr.. Bidde
may be wrong, but, 'ts ghty pretty quarrel as IT
stands" and if suffered to proceed will effect great
deal of public good 1t will enllghten the world as
to the exact amount Of rascality Of which the Bank
has been guilty, since Heaven knows it has already
elected facts that have made the veriest Banklte
shudder in dismay, and carried 4 conviction to the
stupdes mind of the necessity of thorough reform IN
the abomnabe and iniquitous system, which has &C.
gated fraud The lawful Disclosures pictured the
magnificent depredations Of few of the Big Guns
of Finance, and showed Of what honest material the
leaders of ton, the parrena arsocrats OF Philadelphia
are composed Mr.. Bidde, Mr.. Jaudon, &c attack III
return the authors of these terrible disclosures, and
very pretly illustrate the fact that these virtuous and
pious gentlemen, helped themselves literally in the
Bank their neighbors and were not one whit more
scrupulous.
The whole story is of elimination and recrimi-
nation. The Bank has been ruined lis stockholders
have been shamefully robbed. Now, who has done il;
All the parties to this controversy have had not only
finger but whole hand-aye, Par OF handS-in
the matter. The "pickings and stcalings' it is admit
ted were nnumeroblc. One party robbed the TIL, and
the other party robbed the TIL They don pretend to dis
pute it. The only question at issue appears to be acho
robbed ii mostS These would have infer that they
were only accommodated" 10 fcic millions Those,
that they accommodated" themselves TO something
less. The public Indignation is aroused, and 10. each
party is striving TO get into the witness box, in adj
vance of the other and turn estate evidence First
one gets in, and he lets out the secrets Of the prison
house alarming extent He fairly horr'fies his
hearers Much as they prepared to believe Of
the wckedness, yenality, and reckless misconduct Of
the bank, the reality far exceeds their foulest anti
cpations that they ytically dnmbfounded with
its extent In an instant noise ensues. The ac-
cused ostc their from the box, and lay bare
the vlany and dupicty of those who just before ap-
peared the very incarnation Of innocence, candor and
offended virtue.
So we go. The sheep haying been effec,unlly put
upon their guard, it is "dog eat dog now in the pre-
misses. We hope the war will continue We hope the
last Of "Famy Jars" is not yet There is a
scene or two still undeveloped. We want the rhote
truth in relation to the Bank-its condition-ts assets
its labiities-its loans, &c. We want to know ex-
actly how much has been given to Federal Editors.
We want to know how much has been paid for the pur
chase Of Federal newspapers-how much has been de-
voted TO "pipeaying in short, how much il actually
COS, the Bank TO elect Federai administration The
stockholders know that they will lose nearly every
thing, notwithstanding the sacred professions Of Nj
cholas Bdde and others, that the institution per-
iccty solvent but they, well as the community,
still want TO know cruelty raat has become Of the missing
millions before they decide the comparative guilt
of their depredators
In truth are sick Of the daily exhibitions of the
sublime in roguerv as illustrated BY the Bank. Bank
ing has been reduced to "a system Of bribery ty-
aS, aISesmtarins and actual robbery Of tie poor and
nnoceEt. First principles, us well as honest prnci-
pies, totally lost sight Of \ Bank nowadays is
moral carncliousc. 1t contains every element of rot
tenness and corruption and il diseases all who associ
alc with il. Its atmosphere Is poison deadly as that
Of plague and al who connected w;th Bank
should lie looked upon spotted and abandoned TO
their inevitable dissolution Such is Bank. How
ridiculous then to talk of National Bank! The dis
order is now confined TO special ocalities-do want
TO impregnate the whole Union with the fGtid miasma
of peculntion and moral death, Do want 10 make
ourselves a nation Of defaWters' nation of there's
Out upon such pseudo patriotism Out upon the fes-
tering soul that would harhor thought full of de-
moraizaton and turpitude from its very inception!
fPhd. Spirit Of the Times.