Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1822-07-27

up the appearance of wealth and proper
ty. After he was advised that certain
banks where in failing circumstances,
and when his duty as a public servant
imperiously required that he should at
once withdraw the public deposltes, SO
kind, SO tender-hearled was he as to ex-
tend to them one or two years indulgence
for the payment of the money, without
the least semblance OF security, and
when they were bound to him to keep
those funds subject to his order at mo-
ment's warning. What has been the re-
suit of Mr.. Crawtord's lenity? Nothing
more than a trifing loss TO the United
States of some two or three hundred thou
sand dolars-nothing more than that the
hard earned money Of the citizens of
this State, paid by them for the farms
they now subsist upon, has gone to pam
per the pride and furnish the tables of
men, who would willingly ride over them
trough shod," and make them as their
hired servants" should an opportunity
permit. But this intelligent and disin-
| tereSted writer attempts TO throw the
whole blame upon Mr.. Cook, by stating
that Mr.. Crawford had no notice of the
situation of these banks, and very modest
ly asks, why did not Mr.. Cook give the
requisite Information ? This is a little
too much Mr.. Brutus, to force down at
one swallow; IT'S like powerful medi-
cine, when given in proper quantities
might relieve the patient, but when adj
ministered too plentiIullv, caused a re-
action, which throws it from the stomach,
and illustrates the very design it was in
tended to eHect-or more like Pindar's
gun
| -" Well aimed at duck or plover,
Bears wide the mark and kicks its owner over.
Now it was never denied by Mr. Craw-
ford, or bis friends, during the agitation
Of the subject in congress, that he was
not in possession Of all the facts in rela
ton to the broken banks; his very ne
EQUATIONS with them at the very time,
proves that you som etines deal in fiction,
and that the most implicit reliance is not
10 be placed upon all that you see fit to
utter as true to the world.
A large sum Of money belonging to
the Treasury of the United States had
been lost--this fact is not denied by ally
one. Viii Brutus have the audacity TO
say the people have no right 10 know
how and why that money had been lost
are the funds Of The nation to be wasted,
ruined, squandered, and the people kept
entirely in the dark upon the subject?
Mr.. Cook S resolution then was to inquire
-of public servant If the reports of los
ses by the broken banks, were true---and
if true, why he had not exercised due
diligence in Withdrawing the public mo-
ney. Could any thing have been more
reasonable, more proper. more absolute
ly necessary, and better calculated to Sc
cure those interests be had been sent
there to defend!
From this view of the unavailable
fund.-" | candidly ask the people what
they would have their Representative
DO ? Would they be satisfied to see him
sit with his arms folded while The public
Treasury was in danger? Would they
consider him proper person 10 repre-
SCpt 10, ii3 III ,nC poo>Sooiob VI ali 'noo'
facts, he would for fear of calling forth
the wrath OF some southern infdet, re-
N ain silent? Mr.. Cook well knew he
should excite the opposition of those
who subsisted on the Treasury-the peo-
pies money. They are all united and
ready to assist each other in the public
cause--they are numerous and power
ful-they have the public purse a, their
dispose land think you they cannot raise
clamor TO put down the man who dares
expose them For his fearless intrepid
ty--for his independencc--his integrity,
and his honesty, on this occasion, | am
convinced the people will remain true to
him and their own interests; and that
they will see in their attempts to lessen
him in their opinion, the exertions Of
men directed, not for the peoples good,
but for their own advancement.
NINDICATOR.
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