Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1842-01-18
COMMUNICATIONS.


LITTER from CoNsrrusSr to lis KrrREsENrATIsE
NV Dear Sir: Your esteemed favor Of the oh INST,
did not reach until last night. received the copy
OF the Message which YOU had the kindness to send
Inc, for which accept my acknowledgements had an
opportunity of readg It IN the newspapers IN lew
,,ovs after its presentation the two Houses Of Con
yress dissatisfied, but not disappointed IN the
Message You will rccuilec,, that wrote 10 you soon
after Mr. Tylers opening Message at the Extra Ses-
sion will not repeat what | then said TO you con-
corning his views of Currency, Fiscaty, and Ex-
changes You will, however, remembers that gave It,
among other things, for my oPnsan that IN CID 20" I'M
derstand the subject d: which he treating that he
had no distinct md definite IDEAS Of any specific scheme,
and that he could no., If called upon give the details
Of his plan In his second Veto, h confessed the tact,
and verified the correctness o: my first strong aPres-
p,on That Mr. Tyler did promise 10 90 for some Cor
poration of KIND for fiscal purposes, have never
doubted That he gave some assurance OF this KIND to
his retired Cabinet, members OF Congress, and
10 some other persons perhaps have never questioned
Whilst believe the unanimous and nncontradcted asse-
yera,ions OF the late Cabinet this point yet am pretty
confident that they and other prominent thorough gong
Bank Wings did design To circunvent and entTap hun,
aid intend 10 shead Capt. Tyler, die No Que can
ioathe detest, and condemn more strongly than 90,
the treacherous OF their intimate o.ci.l relations
10 the President, TO draw from him, tor sinister puE-
ooses his crude and illdgestsd notions OF some fiscal
corporation, 10 be BY no means called HanE, be-
leypg as he firmly dad that there was Image III
name or 10 procure from him an unwary comnittal "a
some lldefned and misshapen plan OF their own sug-
restion. Honor, honesty, and public morality demand
that no consideration ought 10 mitigate the nemy at
tachnp TO their speiul perdy in disclosing, for base
party purposes their Cabinet consultations, their oi-
cial, confidential conversations with the President
looked | was going 10 say, with anxious interest
for the redemption OF The President pledge 10 submit
10 Congress his maured and definite plan of some hs.
cnl agency ] cannot, however, say that looked io
his recommendation either with anxiety or interest; io
have never believed that he was capable, were he DIS
posed TO mature and submit any plan upon the 'vita
subjects To which YOU refer, which ought to com
Tnand the decided and unqualified appreciation OF he
publicans' ] believed too, yon do, that influences
control him. which world prevent the recommendation
OF any plans worthy o. the appreciation OF Republicans
or of the adoption OF the country have never, there
fore INDUCED the "hope which you did, and have
escaped the disappointment TO which you have been
doomed.
did, however, look with intense curiosity for the
Presidents "maturcd plan, in redemption of tn,
pledge contained in his second Veto Ii has come into
the world-and what thing /, IS lie says is ''selt
sustaining If il be sustained at all, it must Il think
with The Presiden,,) sustain Itself For certain am
that it will not be sustained by Congresswill not be
adopted and sustained by the coun,ry-and Will no
even be sustained bv that charity which gives sus
tenance 10 the poor oil the parish The scheme recon-
mended by the President is, in my poor Judgment alb
suid, impractcable OF execution, unwise and inpoc
unequal and unjust, glar'ngy unconstitutional, ant
covered all over with duplicdy II had time, and The
limits OF an ordinary letter would allow, think could
make good this bill of lndc;ment-l think could poin
out TO careful and candid observer, the features which
myself see imprinted on the face of this Executive
darling. 1t is, all intents and purposes, an Exche
ouer Bank Does Mr. Tyler and his Cabinet believe
the People of the United States soft TO take thu
impression, that because the term "Bank is avoided
because there is charter OF incorporation OF lndi
ydual subscribers and because the concern may be re
pealed, that therefore il is not Bank "a rose VII
smell as sweet BY any other name. Bank may b.
as essentially Bank under any other name-An ndt
vidual, or association Of individuals, might conduc
banking operations, without beingh charter, ncorPo
rated into body polite; and Government might
without creating Bank, nonne, carry on The oPe
raons of banking by its officers, agents, instruments
or even Boards Of Control Lords OF The Treasury
Nor does the repsalahly OF the affair make II the les
a banking machine Charters may be repealed, soms
of us think, without even stipulation in the charte
TO that effect bat all agree and admit, not only The
Republicans, bot the whole Wing phalanx, the sup
porters of "Tppecanoe and Tyler too, that there Il
no dspute about il when clause is inserted IN char
ter subjectinr repeal 1t may be Bank then, al
though it is not called Bank-It may be Bank, al
,bouoh conducted by the Government, directly or m
directly and not by individuals associated together VIII
or without charter; ard it may be Bank, although
subject to repeal So far the question Is, whether
,s or is not Bank the absence OF charter ana the re
reliability of the scheme, does not at all affect the an
swer Ii is true, it grants the undisPnted prnc'pe
that the enactnenls Of one Congress may be repeated