Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1841-04-06

sand dollars pcr annun with the use of the furnituref
and other effects belonging to the L. >, and now mi
of the Presidents And that Of Vice Presi
dent at the rate Of five thousand dollars per annum mi
full for their respective services to be paid quarters
yearly, al the Treasnry-(approredF tb Is, l793)'
VIM II. RicHARpsoS has been appointed Adiutant-
General of the State, in place Of BERNARD PEyTos, j
resigned
IL The Sd No. Of the "Goochland Democrat can
for obvious appear 1t is addressed to
him, whose is forever closed. The authors good
taste will, sure, approve the Omission
FOR TIE ENQUIRER
To the Democratic Committeeman Of Iirginia.
We are called upon To keep up our organization, and
to exert ourselves by all fair and honorable MEANS to
ensure Democratic triumph in our coming elections
We ha been cheated and beaten III the late Pres
dental election. The Frdernliss in possession OF
the Executive branch of the General Government i
and from The Developments already made by the new
our most gloomy apprehensons seem
likely to be realized. Our only chance for safety IS to
secure the election Of good and true Democrats 10 the
House Of Representatives and to our State Legisia
lature Let US besr ourselves, then, and rouse up
every sleeping Democrat. There time.
since the foundation of the Government, when therr
was greater need G! your exertons AT this busy
of the year, when the great mass Of voters
busy in pitching their crops and, when of them
Ian Efy have the leisure TO read newspapers, think
much OF political affairs, extra session of Congress Isl
called, carry out the ultra Federal measures of the
headers this Administration They seem determined to
thrust those measures upon us, before have time to
think of them Understandings, to offer any success
ful resistance. Coming into power under high sound
ing generaes about the dangers of Executive power ,
the Administration will fail refuse to comply with
and enforce the obligations Of the Constitution. Diff
cult it is unriddle this extraordinary inaugural
Address, there is enough in it that is Ineligible to
prove to every sensible who will read il attentive
w. that certain provisions Of the Constitution, designed
BY its trainers to protect our rights and liberties to
be annnlled. 1t has already paved the way for any
usurpation which aory OF Congress may choose to
pcrpetrale In effect the Administration says to its
partsans in Congress, ado what you please, and if you
can make it appear, or if take II into my head that
what YOU do is in the way Of ordnary legislation,
is connected with the finances OF the country, your
acts shall have my approval' whether your measures
nc constitutional unconstitutional, the majority have
the right determine. The Executive ought not toI
interfere with the action of Congress in lis 'ordnary
legislation, and least Of all, IN matters Of finance
And besides, most Of the great statesmen who have
distinguished themselves III the discussions of the
great constitutional questions which have hitherto d.
Sided the country, have at different times, been onI
both sides of those questions.
put it 10 every impartial and attentive reader of
the Inaugural TO say if this is not the spirit which III
breathed the substance Of its sounding slang about the
dangers of Executive power And call upon every
honest Republican TO say, whether the Administration!
which threatens to break the force of all constitu-
tional Obligations and to leave the States and thet
people utterly destitute of constitutional protection,
against the usurpatons OF Interested and corrupe
majority of Congress; True in other parts Of the In
augural enoug cited admitting the necessity
for the exercise of the veto enough
tsy the rankest friend Of that power In truth, any
man Of any party may find in this extraordinary state
paper expression suited to his creed be that creed
what it may. But no impartial and well informedI
reader rise from ts perusa without the fixed con-
vcon that the destnes Of this nation in relation toE
all great money questions to be placed at the mercy
Of majority of Congress, without any hope left to he
people that the power of the Executive will be welded
for their protection.
Committee men Bury the ten thousand conlempti-
BILE electioneering topics which have blinded and be-
wdered SO many of our people Go TO your neigh-t
bors and rret their attention upon the which,
are brewing by the leaders of This Administrations
which they are attempting TO thrust upon US Il
without giving us time 10 weigh them in all their bear
ings. Impress upon every voter around you the dan
gers corrupons, and expressions to be apprehendeds
from the creation OF great KING BANK, which hesef
leaders striving to erect The very grounds
upon which they justify their course, ought to he sufE
cent to arouse determined spirit of resistance in the
breast ofevery sound hearted Republican. awe must
have National Bank, say these leaders, ''wth capital
offrom fifty to hundred millions ofdoars TO regulated
the commerce, currency and exchanges of the whoel
country, and to manage the fiscal affairs of the Col
Board of Bank Directors, invested with the power OF
welding this immense capital, and with the high pr.
vege of holding and specializing upon the monies OF
the Government besides, free from cny practical re-
to the People. These National Bank
Directors are to hold the mastery eight org
nine hundred State Banks and of course, to al
most dangerous extent all those who deal with
those State Banks in any way interested in them
Any thinking must see, that to confer such pow
FRS and privileges upon any set OF men, IN The present.
state of the country, equivalent to placing our TOR
unes at their mercy Can the politician be honest who
seeks TO alarm us by the constitutional powers OF De-
nocratic President and about the upprehended abuses
inder constitutional Treasury, regulated by law, att
he same time that he seeks to saddle us with nation
Il corporation, clothed with these dread powers:
But not left TO reason and conjecture alone as
% the DANGEROUS powers Of such nstitutlon-B
We have experience upon the subject. lou cannob
cast your eyes newspaper puollshed ahout the
period of lSl9-20-2, that does not bear record oE
he disasters in our moned concerns under The reignE
of the late National Bank We had proofs enough to sa
sfy even the fathers of that Bank, that such ins
luton is utterly incompetent 10 regulate the currencyH
and exchanres-for, never were they IN worse con
diton-never there as much suffering amongst our
people, from disorders in our monetary aHars-aho
not few Of the original friends OF the Bank came QUIZ
loudly against it. and charged it with creating most oil
he mschiefs which were then suffered by the people
Certain is that in its regulating operations, 1t dram
ID the interior Banks Of their specie, and compeieo
hem to put the to their customers-Our clerk
offices and sherifs books of that day. bear saa eVi-
iences of the distresses of our people. Verify, our
merchants and spectators who deal with Banks-andE
he holders of stock, and all who are otherwise ne-
ested in State Banks, must be blind as mockaslns
August, in desiring, under the present circumstances
It the country, TO try this grand experiment over again.
nd upon still broader scale. Verify verify, the mass
# the people must be deaf, blind and dumb to their
wn interests, if they disregard past experience,
nd sanction the renewal of such an experiment.-H
sanction it they WILL fawakened to the subject
nth understanding of it in all of its bearings and
endences
The distribution of the proceeds of the Public Lands
proclaimed by the Wing leaders, as another of their
ading measures. They proclaim to the world in oneH
reath that Van Buren, has left the nation in debt and
nat the Treasury is empty, nearly so-and in the
ext breath they cry out for scheme which is to gveH