Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1861-08-09
For tile Enquirer.
The On ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.

MEssRs. EDITORS Gold and silver are now
selling in the Southern States ct from ten to
fifteen per cent, for current bank bills: n
sound and uniform currency is rs essential 10
the health and vigor Of the Confederacy ana
the Government, as healthy red 6to0d is to the
power and endurance Of the body.
This thing Of q deprecated currency is Just
now more to be feared than all OF Llncoln's
legions. It is what ought not to be, and can
not be submitted to by the Southern people
1t is intolerable that the banks should be ex-
empted BY law from the obligation to redeem
| their currency in specie, and at the same time,
| sell the very gold and silver, with which ougnt
to be redeemed for ten to Is per cent IN exchange
for their own bills. It is all the same whether
they do this at their own counter dlTectfy
or indirectly through the agency OF brokers'
True to their ~soulless character and soroid IN
%stincts, the banks are ready for 4 few vile ool-
lars, to crush the Government and the people
together. Are these institutions really the
friends of Lincoln? Just so soon as 1t appears
that the banks are to be allowed to prey upon
the people at this time, when they are Loyalty
and periodically pouring into the public treasu'
ry every dollar they can spare, and bravely look.
inv debt and taxation in the face, we shall
find an abatement of zeal and q discomfort peril
Gus to our great cause.
Whatever circulatcs Us money now, must cir.
culatc at par, and if the bills of the suspend
ell banks are really declining in value, and are
in fact worth 10 10 Is per cent. less than COLO,
il is time TO crush them out.
II this evil should be allowed TO pro-
sreSs, We shall soon have universal bank
raptcy. We are willing to give our last dollar
and last drop OF blood 10 support the existing
law and expel tho invaders Of our soil. We have
solemnly consecrated our lives to this holy
work but we are not willing to be taxed
ten pr cent. even on the whole currency, for
the benefit OF selfish and unpatriotic money.
mongelS.
Cast The money changer, out Of our holy
tcmple.i Scourge them away from our patrl.
otto affairs Congress is now in session.
propose 4 scheme for its consideration 1t is Us
follows:
/. Let Congress declare, BY solemn act, that
whoever shall ask or receive q per cent in con-
sideration Of the exchange of one sort of money
for another, whether it shall be specie for pa
per money or one sort Of paper money for an.
other, shall be guilty Of treason and punished
with death.
,. Let it be instantly provided that each
State shall receive at its own treasury at par,
any paper money which may be lawfully issu.
cd by any bank, corporation or individual
within its jurisdiction.
8. Let it be provided that any such money
shall be received at par, in payment OF all
taxes and dues to the Confederate States Urea
Surg.
t. Authorize the Treasury Department to
uSe the Duhlic funds and securities. for the
redemption ofany paper money in the Confede.
rate States.
5. Require each bank in the Confcdcrscy to
redeem the bills Of any other bank. Let Con
gress be warned and woke up to the financial
perils which beset US. The banks are tie al.
lies ~ Lincoln! MARLBOROUGH.