The Mirrour — Concord, N.H., 1793-04-29 00:00:00, page 1

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L a LIBEL against him, and Ido therefore
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Published by ELIJAH RUSSELL, at his OFFICE, near the Meeting House, in CONCORD, Newhampshire.
to the FREEMEN of the UNITED
STATES.
Fellow Citizens,
YOUR attention has been drawn
at the late session of Cohgrefs,
to two fubjeds interesting to the
feelings of freemen—The one an
investigation into the conduft of the
War Department, so far as it relat
ed to the failure of St. Clair's ex
pedition .• the other relating to the
unfaithful ufe,and application of the
publick monies, made by the head
of Treasury Department. Enquiries
have been had as to both these
very interesting fubjefts ; and you
have been told with all the effront
ery and disregard to fads so usual
to the sycophant editor of the Gaz
ette of the United States, in his pa
per of the 6rh instant, " That two
of the great departments of the
government have been scrutinized
in the course of the session ; and
that on the fevered investigation pro
secuted by the firft abilities, in the
opinion of a very large majority, not
a foot or wrinkle was found to fully
the official conduct of the high and
responsible characters concerned,
I Shameless and unfounded as this
assertion is, are you disposed to as
sent to ir and thus permit the cur
rency of untruths and public impo
sition through such a polluted chan
nel ? Isit not true that a committee
of Cohgrefs have made a second re
port relative to the causes of the!
failure of St, Clair's expedition,!
in which the condud of the War]
Department is implicated in much
Wronger terms than in their firft re
port on that fubjed ? Is it not;
equally true that Congress have had
no proceeding whatever on the re
port of that committee, and conse
quently that no acquital of the head
of that department exists, except in
the Gazette of the United States ?
And upon a candid review of the
proceedings as to the charges against
the Secretary of the Tredfary, does
his boasted acquital stand upon
much better ground ? What was it
more than this ? Certain proposi
tions expressive of the mal adminif-
trattyn of the Secretary, brought
forward three days before adjourn
ment, referring to numerous fads
and documents, the examination of
which required much more time
than Congress had to devote to
that obje&—thefe proportions with
out the fads being inquired into by
a feleft committee, which is the ulu
al and proper course of business in
all legislative bodies, forced into dis
cussion before a committee of the
whole house, and after two conver
sations upon them, voted by a ma
jority as disagreed to. s And that
majority content with this mere neg
ative vote, not venturing to bring
forward any affirmative proposition
to declare or establish the innocence
of the Secretary. Where then is
the man who from a review of these
CONCORD, MONDAY, April. 29, 1793.
From the National Gazette.
The Mirrour.
MISCELLANY.
: It must also be remembered, that
of sixty odd members present in the
enquiry, fourteen voted against the
Secretary, and ten or twelve absent
ihemfelves avowedly to avoid the
giving a vote on a fubjed which
they had not been allowed time th
investigate. But after all, what has
been the finding of the majority ?
Is it not in the merciful language of
^proceedings in Congress in relation
to the maladministration of the Se
cretary of the Treasury, can lay his
hand upon his heart and dispassion
ately fay— lbelieve him acquit te?V
he be a bank director who pronoun
ces him innocent—if a stockholder,
a paper man of fix per cents, three
per cents, or deferred debt, who
has suddenly darted up pofftffec
of accumulated thousands acquired
by the inftrumentalit, of (peculations
founded on large discounts by the
bank of the United States, at times
when by the direa and pofirive
instrumentality of the Secretary of
the Treasury, hundreds of thou
sands of dollars of the public money
lay in the hands and at the disposal
of that bank without being passed
into the publick Treasury—ls, I
fay, he be a man of either these des
criptions, will you receive his verdid,
and admit it as the verdia of a
man impartial and disinterested ?
And if you will not, nay cannot,
let me beseech you to look with a
critical eye at the names of that ma
jority,who voted on what is errone
bufly called an acquittal of the Sec
retary of the Treasury. Three of
those names stand in the lift of bank
directors ; and fifteen or twenty
more are reputed to be stockholders
in the fame of the United States.
Can these men be admitted as judg
es—men who in fad ate parties in
the cause—members of that very
institution, the bank, to whose ben
efit the publick money in question,
[has been almost solely and exclu
!lively applied? Strike them out
then from the pannel of this inqui
letude, as in honour and conscience
!they ought to have ftriken them
tfelves out ; and of what do the re
maining portion of the forty omit
ting votes corfift ?—lt consists of
men who, with the best intentions
for the publick good, fuffered mo
tives of policy and humanity 40 dr
rest that vote, which never could
have been given had time for inves
tigation and due deliberation to
guide their better judgment been al
lowed. Humanity said, if we err
let it be on the fide of mercy—and
policy seemed todiftate that it were
better to hand over to the next Coo
grefs the ultimate impeachment of a
criminal publick officer, without
deciding any of the preliminary
points of his guilt, when it was
manifeftly impossible for want of
time, then to prosecute his impeach
ment ; and, more ^fpecially as a
contrary conduft at the close of the
session might have involved great
confufion and publick inconveni
ence.
an inquest in a criminal cause ?— 1
"Ignoramus—we are not informed,<
We cannot agree." When at the f
fame time had those very men been I
called upon to vote affirmatively }
that the Secretary was innocent, iti
is not pnffible that any ten of theml
would have given such a Vote.
This then is the boasted triumph L
of the Secretary of the Treasury — ¥
temporary and short-lived indeedl
must be its effed—vain and illufo-I
ry such an acquittal. There re- )
mains an appeal to the impartial
tribunal of the publick—as also to
that patriot citizen and Upright
chief magistrate, whose integrity
and virtue are above all praise—
He will equally disdain & reject all
personal prejudices or attachments,
all separate views or party animofi- /
ties ; all private interests or corrupt
speculations— He will take care ac. (
cording to the solemn injunaion of
the constitution, " that the laws be
faithfully executed ;" not lets by
himfelf than by all the publick func
tionaries of his appointment-—He
will take care that the maleadmin- rs
iftration of unfaithful publick ser
vants shall be visited upon them by
merited difgrice and punishment.
In prosecuting this appeal then,'
and shewing the fallacy of a fup
'pofed acquittal from an, proceed
ings #hich have yet been had, it is
important to review the circum^ ^
stances which have been brought
before you in relation to the Secret
tary's mifeonduft, as they now ap- 1
pear, after the best defence his
friends have made for him. And
here my fellow citizens, pause, re- [
fleft, and weigh well the firft con
sideration I shall present to you.
The Secretary is charged with
having violated law, and inftruc_ ,|
cions, in drawing over to this coun-l
try out of monies borrowed in Hol!"
land, upwards of two millions bf
dollars ; that this drawing was car
ried on for a period of two years, in
a secret and unauthorized manner ;
and that no part of it was ever used
to any publick purpose whatever •
but that it was wholly, and exclu
sively applied to the emolument of
banks, bank directors, and their fa
vourites.
The defence of the Secretary so.
That be is not confeious of having' 3
violated law or inftruffians, but that
if in an, part of bis conduff, be shall
appear to have done so, there is a
complete refponfibilit, upon him in all
infiances where special exceptions do
not appear ; and then in purfuaoce
of this idea of responsibility, he goes
into several elaborate treatises, which
together contain about 200 odavo 1
pages, and which he was four weeks
in preparing ; dating the man, and
great publick causes of neceffit, which
compelled him to draw the tow,
over , and finally, that in the use of
the money be was guilt, of no fetoor
itifm to the bank.
Now then, my fellow citizens, if
responsibility implies a violation of
law, and inftruaroofy if causes of
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