Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1841-01-02
MIR. CLAY AND his NON, coMMlTTALIsM

MIR. CLAY AND Ills NoNCoMMlrTALIsM
We have heretofore remarked upon the strange
scene presented in the Senate when MIR; ILAT .. MI
tucky moved to repeal the Independent treasury
and refused TO tell what would be substituted lot IT,
We remarked upon this non committaism at the time
as being contrary to Mr. CLAWS Dragging, hectorlng
temper and contrary to what he was then DONG IN
committing General HARRIsoS's Administration on a
multitude of points, aud also thing unjusiiiiabie
in itself For, while We admit that there may ne
Games in which it is allowable to conceal the hand
vet in the business of legislation We deny tins righ
In TITO We deny that any public man has r'ghi 10
conceal his plans-we deny that any member o. Con-
rress has right TO refuse TO disclose his own plan
while pulling down a measure already IN existence
To know his substitute is right which belongs to the
country; and for any to refuse to reveal his ubs
tute is proof of some sinister and nefarous scheme
which will not bear the light, and which cannot be
BROUGHT forward until undermined arrangements have
proyded for its success. This IS what we SAID at the
lime and proceeding still further, we went on to say
that Mr.. Clay had his substitute ready-that lie held
if concealed in his hand, and would keep concealed
until his plot was ripe for execution That substitute
we then declared to be restoration OF the dePoses 10
Bddle S Bank-the adoption ofthe notes OF that Bank
for national currency-and the eventual erection
OF fifty or hundred million bank, upon the found
ation of Bidde's Eank, and with the conjunction
of the .lc5c York English interest This is what we
said and the proofs Of its truth are multiplying upon
US MIR. Jaudon in London, as good rs tells inc
whole story. In his expose of the hopes and pros
poets Of the Bank Of the United States, he evidently
looks TO Biddles Bark becoming again the National
Bank furnishing The currency for The Federal G0etrn-
mcnt This is distinctly disclosed and If that Bank IS
to furnish the eurrcnry the restoration OF the dcposes
is not only an indispensable, but preliminary mca-
sure. What we have quoted from the London Morn
ing Chronicle, published on the return OF Mr. Jaudon
/ TO London we consider good proof Of this. At the
same time proof to the same effect is multiplying at
home. Where has Mr.. Clay been for the last ten
DAYS Where has he been for almost two weeks !:
4. hoe 0arnfl
there since the week before the last Where then
has he been Certainly the public knows where he
has been-he has been to New York and Phi.adel-
phia-two places which claim the National Bank,
aud whose rival pieensions must be reconcled before
the new Bank can be put the stocks These rivals
must be accommodated, and it will probably be done by
building the new Bank upon the old one, and making
it large enough to satisfy both IL fifty millions will
not do make il n hundred. Make it large enough to
allow thirty millions to each, and arrange the
directory as to let each govern its own half Some.
thing ofths kind must be done for, in the first place, y.
York must be satsfed-unless she is satisfied, no bank
of any kind be established In the next place, Bid
die Bank must he retained and upheld both the past
and the future require her to be retained Every passion
love ana fear, hope and her tn he
retained. She is not only the perennial fountain, and
the organized machine, the pipeaying of Fede-
raj corruption but she the prison house Of awful
secrets the revelations of which man in the new
Administration will ever risk by denying or refusing
her thing that she demands. Not only this, but she
is British Bank Twenty -four millions of her CAPT.
tai is held in London and the British capitalists there
will require the stock Of this bank to be made whole
to Them and per cent dividends again to be d.
yided out them and this cannot be done except by
restoring the deposes and making the twice dshonor
ed notes Of the nsovent bank the currency of the Fe
dcral Government. Here then is the secret which MIR.
Clay cannot disclose, and the errand which calls
him off to Philadelphia and n. York He has to arrange
with these rival powers before he speak OUT and lie
cannot speak until the plot ripe for execution
When all this is done, this gentleman will rise in his
place. and giving evidence Of his title to The charac-
Ter which his friend Mr.. Preston, formerly bestowed on
him, will solemnly declare that the plan (Which he has
thus revealed after refusing long to tell D was
plan decided upon by the people at the late
election that the Senators from nineteen States stapd
instructed TO vote for il; and tina! he demands their in
slant compliance with the public will. Such will be
the dcnouemcnt of the plot-a plot which must be de-
MED until it is ripe for execution and which accounts
for The present noa.commitasm of the Dragging, hec
torng MIR Clay, always ostentatious of showing him.
self the lead when policy interest does not require
him TO hide his hand and also accounts for his long alb
from his seat rchic has repeal resolution lay al
The mercy If its focs) at Philadelphia and New York
at this Indictment season of the year.
Thus, rotten, corrupt dsgraced, infamous as the BrI-
fish Bank in Philadelphia sppe- layer as she ls-she
is still great political power and no man will come
into the new Administration who is not bound to her
by adamantine chains Globe.