Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1840-1842, 1842-02-04
From The LynehbWg ynginian.
EDITORS CORRESPONDENCE.
RICHMOND, Jan. -. 1919


Day before Yesterday. another effort to PLUNGE tho
Legs allure into an inierminaOle debate of FEEDER.
al Relations. proved univailins. Gen. Bayly NOV
ed TO take up and consider ms resolutions denounc
ing National Bank unconstitutional, and In
structins Senators 10 vote against the ncornorn
ton OF such an institution. lnasmuch, however as
no one now dean, Of attempting the establishment
at National Bank, 1t was properly deemed hy +,
majority OF the House an indeiensibia aud wanton
waste OF the public time and money to re-announce
what are well known 20 be the sentiments of A ma .
jority OF the Legislature OF Virginia on subiAct
upon which there will be confessediy no action
a-d the resolutions were kept upon the table nv a
vote OF 65 TO IS. Had they been taken. nm amend.
ment would have beed offered, to have supp i'd a
small, but important omission in the faets te,,,.d
IN the Notwithstanding after this fashion: that.
whereas IN the year 1915 a National Bank ,r,.
neorp GRATED by the votes Of the Republican MEM
bers OF both branches OF Congress and agains, the
voIes of the Federal party, and was vetoed by Pre-.
stent Madison, not because of constitution al sctu-
PIES nut on account o. the Objectionable Character
oi some OF ITS provisions;-and whereas, IN IsI6.
another Bank was incorporated by Congress wh CHI
was supported by the Repub lean and oppos.d bv
the Federal party, and was approved by Air Madi-
son, the Republican President, the friend and di.
ciple of Mr. Jeie;son, and the author OF The eel,
braed Resolutions OF $3.50; nd whereas the 7,
gislature OF Virginia held It's ordinary annual
sessions IN the years 1914, 1915, 1916 and
lsiI, and on neither occasion Instructed lis Sc
National
though II was well known that they in,end,I 10
vote Tor II both IN 1915 and eighteen hnndred
and sixteen, and after the vote was given ala
not condemn them therefor, but continued "a be
stow upon them public honors, the best evidence
Of public appreciation and confidence; therefore b. II
resolved. that IN 1915 and 1916 the Republicans in
Congress, who supported a Bank we're Federalis,s
IN disguise, and. vice versa, the Federal lists " no
voted against Bank, tsuoh as Daniel Webster
Timothy Pickering, Rufus King, &r.) were genuine
Democrats OF the school OF 90 whom public nra
JUDGE had thrown into false position; and resoly-
ed Also, that the Legislature of Virginia in the
years above enumerated. were fhhess TO their trust
being seduced from their allegiance to the creed OF
'9S, by the influence Of tina, great Red Hnrlot nj
Babylon commonly called the Bank Of the United
States" This amendment would have m.ds The
historical part ofGen. BAylys resolutions complete
though confess that they would not have dove,
tailed very harmonously together. IL would havo
shown, IN broad and striking contrast, however.
that RepubllcanIsm does not always mean the same
thing, by any means and that one period OF our
history II has been understood To embrace most
cordially sediments and measures, which AT others
It has serny repudaied and denounced The
truth - the will OF the majority is and Away has
been, ard always will he, RepuSlcinism: and
hence the shifting and variable complexion OF IT'S
creed-to day, while IN minority bciny very
aositmlous IN IFS claim 10 power; to- morrow, with
the reins of power IN its hand, throwing of with
equal facility, the Obligations of law, as in The 70
movnl OF the deposite., and the restraints OF tho
constitution IN The Protest and the Proclom,t,on
papers which together claim. more than kinylv
powers for the American President. unfette,ed hy
constitutions, and his own will his exc usve rule Of
action.