The recorder, or, Lady's and gentleman's miscellany. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1801-1802, 1802-07-28

g. 20 clear himielf, perhaps you viii FIND that
{ he has been juit as aoncit as Mr. Picker
& ing. Here was another faliehood With
abilities and information far above Duane
compass, the orator is juit as void OF veracity
as the printer. Dayton would be very glad
60 pillage, i be could. But Gallatis would
be iuif as willing TO conduct him TO the gal
lows; and if Dayton had been defaultci, it
is certain that he would not, from the preient
administration, have met with one moment s
mercy. Their fiience, and that of the CON-
mittse, place Dayton upon the fame rock of
defiance with Pickering. If he is defaulter,
Why did not Giles put him into the famous
rapport? The plain anfHer IS that, in ibis
initance, Dayton was innocent, in fpite of all
the venom aud foam of the Aurora
We hope THAI Mr.. Picket will execute us
for the ingularity, and the freedom, of
popping his narue into newfpaper. We
wanted the atteRation of G lies 10 the pecu-
mary rettitudc of Pickering We wanted it
as a dsai blow to tie veracity of w illiar, Da-
ahe. But IT would have fgpilied very liz
tie tor US TO affirm, in general terms, that
Slies iald 10 and 10, 20 .qenfieman in Rich
mons. The Manufacturing of Iaeb gestlcmen,
As a very common trick. But when we
onng forward the name Of Mr. Picket, no.
body VIII iuppoie that we durit have done
10, unlefs he had really related the circum-
itance, which ne did to the writer of this ar
ticle' Again, as we obierved before, nobody
wItituiPect the accuracy of Mn Picket; end
II IS as certain, that Giles would have been
yefy iotry TO pronounce praile upon Picker
ing, i be t9uif bavs bsibsJ IT,
we delire all Reasonable men TO put thefe
matters together. We nave no conceivable
intereft either in The guilt, or Innocence of
irnothy Pickering; but after. the private
attettatlon of Giles, the public atteftation
OF Nicholion, and the official report of
the committee, we can no more believe that
rickering has pillaged the public treafury,
than we can believe-t that Duane himielf be-
lleves III his own accuiatiou.
You viii recolle6, perhaps, that in the Au-
rora OF the 18TH of June, 1900, there ap-
peaFed an article entitled PUBLIC PLUM
DER. his piece, and it's fuccenors in the
Aurora, made an uncommon noite. Tbev
contributed very much towards the election
OF Mr.. Jeferfon; and very much towards the
ettablnhment of Duane's Importance as an
editor. In the 6rf of thele two pieces, Du-
ane lays, that'on the 18th of April preceding.
PickcrIng had drawn upon the treaGury for
nifty thouiand dollars; and that &c the time
"hcii Inc dew fox dis fun, he had :. bfs
oaH@S three hundred thouiand dollars mac
<onnfedf0r- Duane adds thefe words: e W.
ihali go further; we fhall fay, that be hoIda
unacconnted for, a fun nearly DOUBLE the
> amount OF both theie fuu1s From th;q.
fhe pubic were 20 infer, THAT P ickerinc had ac,
tua-iy IN his hands, at that time, the itunen-
dous and incredible amount of SEVEN HIN
pRED THOUSAND DOLLARS.
his uncommon charge created afurpri7-
ing feniatiop in the public mind. PEOPLE fin.
Poted that they faw Pickering pocketins five
Tx or ieVen hundred thouiand dollars nj mo
roy, OF which not one farthing was ever TO be
recovered. AT that time, it was not upu{i,aj
n Philadelphia, 70 pay FIVE per cent. per month
Tor fhe loan OF money Hence, man ,or
ae1ing ieyen hundred thoufand dollars of bard
caih, could clear the triAing fun of th;rty-fve
tnouiand dollars per month, by putting it to
ih1erett' ne whole country Aew into, fhe
mott violent rage; and the federal editors IN
aeritood TO little Of their bufnefs, thae tbev
uttered the tempeh to overlet and OVERWEIGHT
them.
The report OF the committee Of jnvea;oa-
ton informs US that iecretary of fate NAV
rot be able to ofce4nf far very Iarre (i,mc ~
money while, at the fame time, that money
."a5 0fen 2lnstfy e%PsA@ea in the bpbhe /tr-
TftF' AT this very time, the committee tnn
YOU that Plekerlng has expended about eighty
thouiaild dollars, for which, al the date Of fbe
report, he had not been able to accoun+. r.
other words, he had rot been able to Min
ms 90"eber5. Yet NJchol(on, Giles, and the
report tfielf, all unite in indicating Picker
I I1s rom the charge Of ifealing public money
fae mad rot accounted fer thcfe eighty thoa-
iand collars. But the COMMITTEES did not en-
tertaiL douht, that with fair allowance Of
h, d ne would give proper account of the
ne presumption is, that the cafe was ex-
eS1lJ Ine i@Tne, ssgo years ago, as at tie pre-