The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1813-01-23
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!MesSrs. Gales - !Y,aton,
friend handed to me Yesterday pa
per stiled The Shrit cf iSeUe,1fg Sfr,
which contains false and scurrilous publi-
cation over the name of Josiah Masters :;
charging me with the lie direct, and sta
ting, among other things. Incorrect tarts
of a conversation had with the Honorable.
MeSsrs. Roberts and Earle, members Of
Congress, relative to said Masters the
false hood of which will appear by the GER
tihcate of Mr.. Roberts and by the state
ment OF !acts from respectable sources,
which I herein subrnit to the public
The publication above alluded, to, ap-
peared twelve days after Masters left this
city. a man making such bold assertions
IN which his own veracity is implicated :,
should have given some other evidence
than his name to 'substantiate them, and
not have withdrawn himself from the
proof or the clrastisement they might have
entailed.
SAMUEL SHAW.
Washington City, 1914 Jan. 1918.
WAsHINGToN CITY,
January 1918.
On my return from Washington to Yer
mont in July last, and while at New-York
at my friend Colonel Graham's. Josiah
Masters called OH me one morning and
commenced a conversation on the an
preaching election of President OF the Uni
ted States; he detailed to ne at great
length the plans of operation and the pros
poets OF their success and stated that ;f
they could obtain the votes of Vermont
they should be certain of the election of Mr..
Clinton, for they were certain of every FE-
DERAL VOTE and had strong hopes also of
fenhsylvanla--that he was then on his
way to Philadelphia to make every neces-
"a lucray N fN,.t 81
ther declared to me, that if [ would epqape
tomaoage the election in Vert. in favor'of
MIR. Clinton any e.EhenceS incurred shouff
be haid, and Imight drayu on Them far ann
sum nor eTceedtn5 thousand dollars
or that 1t should be trGnSmiftcd 10 me for.
continued he 1--WE have fund of about Sc
Uentg thousand doilars 20 meet INV exnen-
ctS' and. II wanted we could have doua .
fhH sum, for we are determined to drive
The business to the last extremity" He
iui her stated, that a committee had been
10 n. York from the Eastern or'.VezO Eur-
land states with offers if New YORK
would rom them, to divide the Union but
w Il opposed them, for we are determined
to have the President here" lie also sta
tea, nat he had beento Bennington in Yer.
mont and secured that ss..i; s,T Clinton
Alter hearing him from morning till even
ing Converse ON the prospects Of Mr.. Gin
ton election, replied to him, that was
gong to Vermont, that | should SUPPORT the
Republican ticket, x if We succeeded. MIR.
Madison would have every vote.
From the best information Which has
been obtained, ! have no doubt that nearly
as much as the abovcment,oncd sum pro-
posed to me was expended in Vermont. in
circulating hand-b and addresses. and
~ paying agents Tor visiting every town in
the state before the election in September
last' ana tor Committees attending the 49,
sIsldture 1T the commencement and close Of
thr'r session and afterwards they uers,s.
ted To attend on the electors at MontDelier
lnl were III Council Chamber 20 wi,ucss
the voting 1t the electors and IL will aDnear
from tue t'.ilowIns statements. that bfib.e
we're offered to two OF the electors.
SAMUEL SHAW.
WAsHtNGToN Cry.
e, January 1911, 5812.
SIR-MaTk Richards, Esq. one 81 the
late electors oS President ana Vice posi-
lent for tine state of Vermont, and ,be rc9,
tleman appointed to bring tie votes froro
that state TO this place, having formerly
resided In KOx5ury, your naive town snd