Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1822-03-05

I that where public officer subjects him.
self to punishmentb for a misdemcanor, it
does not follow thai he is no otherwise
punishable than blythe statute.
Mr.. WooDsoN won Id not object to the
resolution, if the inadyertcnt underscor-
ing had not found lis way into the Jour
nails of the house.f He presumed the
Secretary of the Treasury must be desi-
rous to spread his official conduct be-
fore the public eye---but he thought it
duty the house owed to itself, not to
adopt reolution that might be constru-
ed to imply censure. TO relieve the
house from the embarrassment, he mo-
we'd to expunge the words in italics
+" as far as tie Secretary can ascertain
the same"
Mr.. Cook presumed that the publici-
ty of the debate would answer his OBJ
jects of calling the attention of the Secre-
tary to that point. He therefore assent
ed to the motion, and to that part Of the
motion of Mr.. Rich which proposed to
substitute the word inform for yehort.
After few remarks by Mr.. +. JONES,
who wished the mover to make his mo-
ton mole broad and direct, 10 which
Mr.. c. did not accede, the question was
taken on tie second part Of Mr.. Rich's
amendment, and negatived; and the re-
solution was thercupon adopted.
Fe6rnary7.
The speaker LAID before the house the
following which was read
Baltimore, 4tA February, 1922.
To the Hon. p. P. BAnioun, Speaker of the
House of Representatives.
DEAR SIR ): From l.tters which l have
received from DR.. Hunter, of Tarboro,
n. c. | am fully persuaded have dis
covered the true cause Of the eiep!orable
events which have happened there; and
l am now satisfied thatthey have origina-
ted from accident, such as never occur
red before, and there is no danger that
the like will ever occur again.
had paper which contained some
smallpox scabs, taken by myself from a
person named Whitfield, about the 4th
October, 1891; and ON this paper l had
written carefully to avoid accidents, that
it contained variolous CT smallpox mat
ter. But this paper was afterwards mis-
laid; and after searching for it in vain, l
had concluded it was lost, and supposed
it might have been swept out Of my
office with other waste papers.
ErO,1, fhn for 10, 10 xyh n Y,
| have received from Dir. Hunter, quot
ing the words | had written on it, have
no doubt, but that the same identical pa
per, containing Me amaH-hor sca6a, and
marked as sach, waspu.up in DR.. Wards
letter, by some mistake, or inadycrtancy
instead OF the GLASSES of vaccine matter
which Intended to send him, and which
FROM his letter to me, I supposed he had
received and used.
We may now, therefore, safely con-
clade, that the injury done is of mol,a
limited cxtert than feared; and every
citizen Of North Carolina has it in his
power to be secured from it, il they will
use the vaccine matter / have sent to
them.
DIR. Hunter assures me that the vac
cine matter obtained by him from this
institution, and which he was using g in a
general and extensive vaccination" when
he wrote to me on the 10Th ul,ino, was
such as he knew to be genuine.
| hope you will be SO good as to make
the contents of this letter known to the
House of Representatives, and | will be
happy to furnish YOU, or any committee
of Congress who may be appointed to
make inquiry on this subject with every
fact relating to it, which has, or may here
alter, come to my knowledge.
have the honor to be, SC.
JAMES SMITH.