Berkeley and Jefferson intelligencer. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va.) 1802-1810, 1808-01-15

excepting Captain Campbell Smith, no
person ever saw it before it was put into
the hlnds Of the printer.
At Cincinnati I acquainted general
". with the circumstances that had oc-
CURED, and he gave me orders to deliver
the money to Mr.. Philip Nolan. These.
orders I punctually executed. Mr.. No
Ian conveyed the barrels Of sugar and
coffee, that contained :he dollars to
Frankfort in a Wagon. / there saw
them opened in Mr.. Montgomery
Browns store. The sugar and coffee, l
Afterwards sold to Mr.. AbijAh Hunt
OF Cincinnati.
l shall take no notice Of MI. M
Dunoush's affidavit. hdoes not refer to
any thing alluded to in my certificate.
That part Of mine that has reference to
mv mission to Kentucky and Detroit in
1897, shall also pass over in silence as
i, has no c~ounexion with the present sub
ject..
Twill now end in a few words to
reconcile what ma appear contradictory
and Inconsistent in my certificate, and
the declaration I have Just laid i'd before
you.
Was ! base, and dishenorsbfe enough.
TO descend to regeneration, eaptious
logic, and sophistical evasion, / could
maintain that this contradiction does hot
exist, and tina, T never did carry Or de-
liver t gen. Wilkinson any cash, bills,
or property Of any species. 1t is true,
delivered a certain sum of money BY
his order to Mr.: Nolany but Philip No
Ian is not James Wilkinson ; ergo, I
may with a safe conscience swear that I
never dehvered James Wilkinson n
money, &c but I scorn to make use of
suchpitiful, contemplate and degrading
mode Of defence, and will allow for a
moment, that I did deliver to gen.
Wilkinson the MONIES in question. Il
is generally admitted that in politics mo-
rality is not to be measured by the same
narrow scale as that which ought to re.
gulate the moral cendncs of men in their
private concerns. The rigid +stoick
would IN a long u make but a bung-
ling politician and the most austere
moralIst, if he has his country's inter-
est at heart, and is acting 10 a public ca
paCitv, would not hesitate to do that
which as a private man, and in private
concerns he would shrink and recede
from with ho.ro and tire milling precipi.
tation.
Let US now for \ While suppose that
l WAS a secret agrat Of the Spanish 60
nj, aud thai gen. Wilkinson was
a pension.r of said government. or had
received certain sums for Cooperating
with and promoting its views, aud that
those views and projects were inimical
to that Of the y. States, should I be
worthy OF the trust reprsed 10 me by my
government, were I to refuse to give
gen. w. any document that might con
tribute to raise him in the good opinion
Of the administration of his country,
blazon his integrity, and patriotism,
and fortify him in their confidence, and
by this means enlarge his power of in.
luring them and serving us? Surely
; no, -; orifI did, FsAuuId deserve to be
honted as an ideot."
1F. Randolph then said, it would be
waste Of time to comment Gu what he
had readI but he conceivable his duty
to tell the House that he had good cause
to believe that there was a member of
this body, who habit in his power, il
! the authority ofthe House were exerei.
sed upon him, If he were coerced, to
give the House much more full, impor-
tsnt, and damning ~evideace, han that
which had already appeared. He allud-
ed to the gentleman from the territory of
Orleans ( Mr.. Clark whom he had now
the pleasure to see in his seat. II the
United Sta.rs were in the critical situa.
tion which hadb beef so often represented,
and in which all considered them TO be
! placed, in what position was the military
force Of the u. States at this moment
Was it not proper that this business
should be inquired into He had been