The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1806-09-16
[VoLuME 8.
Detroit, January slf, 1906.
DEAR SfR.

DEAR SiR,
| After peru6ng your letter of the soth inf.
ana obierying the contents, / acknowledge thu:
goodnefs and fympathy of your friendfhip to
me, under my preiept diiagreeable fituation.
In the manner you have prefented the quef-
tion TO me requcting an anfxer. under my pre-
lent confinement, is identicaiy the real faSt of
taking the advantage of my Dece.ii.y. IF YOU
have exprefed your fentiments 70 me on the
fu'ie9 we are now on--I preiurne it was not
! pcruied before it was handed to me, and as
have to ani~er it, ] mutt take the frufe of the
words as they exprefs themfelves. Particular
~ as you have been 70 long acquainted with
me, and it was never mentioned until now
at time when neceiiity obges calls for aifil-
ance, and when can't Call myielf my own per.
fon.
You alto fay that my friends Mr.. Ball and
CIR. Claiborne, would have favourcd me with
their a(linauce, had they not believed thar r
withheld this fecret from them. Was it INV
place to inform them any other perfon what
my bufnefs was at the falls OF the Ohio, in the
year 1898, without being aRed--t was never
mentioned by either to me ; and there fore can
oniy thank thofe gentlemen for their exer,ions
for my relief. Be6des it leaves room for fur
Their fnfpicion, which believe is the real caufe
Of my confinement.
Although George M'Dougal is not friend
of neither gen. Wayne nor gen. Wilkinf,n. and
has Uncovered his fentments to me of both
for which no doubt he is very forty for by thia
time, he pretends friendNlip to both. bnt nof.
friend to either. You Gay it is better to break
bad Promiie than to secp if. 1t may perbaos
be better in fome inltances with fome people.
Execute me, FIR, when I ell you il ia extreme.
~ hard that citizen of the IT S.,.ae ...ho ~
jutt been iersing his country; and NUT be com
PEELED by individuals mot hyperion in principle,
and wears honor in difguife) to prevent lon
ger confinement, which leaves 70 rauch room
for centure. To have avoided any cenfure in
this buiinefs, you fhould have tirft relieved me
from diftrefs, and then you could with more
propriety aiked the queition, (Which you are
aiming to extract out of mel which fent me tn
the falls of Ohio in 1875 then you might have
conceived me under obligations, and perhaps
would not deny queftioa Of that kind, as &C.
neral Wiiknton WAS chargeable by gen. WAYNE,
and gen. Wayne oppofng gen. Wikinfon's
plans or opinion, in the liberation of Newman.
who was brought to Grecnve, al Head Quar-
tiers, bound in chains and hand cuffs, for iufDi-
cion of deiertion to the Indians, to defeat the
army gen. Wsyne's expedition, though fa;d
to be done by gen. Wlkinfon's orders, after
the expedition was performed and the Indians
brought to treaty. Although its an attemDt
made me for bribery, do not believe YOU
injure otherwife than to extort this fecret from
me for gen. Wilkinfon AS you obferved to me
it was the requea of gen. Wilkinfon to get that
and thould have al appointment in the frrvicc
after the oh of March following, by which
time general Wayne is to be put out of com.
mand, and gen. WiIkinfon is to have the COM
mand OF the United States army; and ifI
would crafty the general 70 far as to divup.
the tecret TO the Falls, fhould he placed in the
fituation of a gentleman, as general Wilkinfon
then food charged Of certain things by general
WAYNE, who likely would niure him.
have bPeu offered five hupdreJ oil
George M'Dousall, in the name and bearer
from Wilknfou and that floud only be- pock-
Ct money for me if / would tell the bulinefs.
After general Wayne had gone to the board of
war, and general Wilkinfon commanding in his
abfence, he paIing by Defiance, where re-
fded, thi: propo6tioa was then handed to me
by George MDougall, in a ihort letter TO that
amount. refufed-and faid would lie
willing at any time when called on or required
by jufice and not to an individual
am much hurt at this fubjea being menti
oned at this time, which is a convincing proof
of its being the real caufe of that vile raf.aI
George M'Dougai and Others forcing me INFO
jail, by W''kinion's friends infufing into the
minds of others, this, to get the bulinef, of The
tails from me.
was forced into goal by Gilbert M'Douga,ps
deputy fherf, by orders Of M'Dougall, and
Judge May, the damned Brith chimney fweap.
err, who is iuft made Judge of the court of COM
mon pleas for this diitrict, who at this time or
der not 10 he taken any fecurity, and refuied
feveral officers who offered their fervicee
You exprefs defre to gain my confidence
why ihouId this be mentioned, when il is not
IN my power to ferve you any way now, altho'
it may be pofiible that in feven years. if we both
Mould live, TO ferve you in return if relieved
now. M'Dougall refufed to Gettle with me,
and pay me two hundred and fifty dollars,
which he judy is INDEBTED; then to fue me for
s huadred dolls. cannot account for il no othrr
way, than haiely taking that advantage, with
corhbined fet IF vile dfpoied men. Liberty or
no credit.
] am, 6r, yours,
SIMON M. STOCKDELL.
1ToUHdy Esbryor. iatL 1-o1