Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1823-05-23
7RICHMOND. MAY IS. ise3.

To THE EDITORS OF THE ENQUIRER
Gentlemen: By your Remarks on my Sc
cond communication, the presence of certain
angry clement is indicated, that shows sne the
danger Ola more near approach without the
protecting aid of philosophy | shall, there
fore, in what am about to perform, endeav or
10 disarm the gathering cloud, by the rod Of
temperate criticism.
You accuse me of bad logic in this =" We
invite foreign aid," because we presume
that Wythe will call out reply we tacitly
acknowledge our inability To indicate Mr..
Crawford, because we are in no haste To I'M
dertake his indications against Wythe !"
Now ask the readers of the Enquirer when
did its editors, before the first number of
Wythe, fail TO defend Mr.. Crawford, with the
ready zeal of partizans, against any and every
accusation that had found its Wayne mat
ter. in what manner, into the columns of that
paper? We all remember how closely they
followed UP the discussion in Congress- on
the. employment of AIR. Senator Thomas on
the suppressed docume ITS &c. sc. and more
recently we have seen, that they gave To
Pendleton (who undertook To investigate a
particular transaction in Mr.. C's history line
for line, and fairly tired him down in the I'M
equal contest of" mare last words" When,
therefore, my first number appeared in the
Enquirer, unaccompanied by any attempt at
edit,rlai reduction but with this significant
suggestion" We presume that Wythe will
call out a. reply" certainly, nothing appeared
more logical than the differences, that the
editors, tacitly acknowledged their own in
ability TO supply an answer, and that they
would be glad 10 received the aid of foreign
hand.
AS to the third proof of my false logic
We abandon Mr.. C'sl general merits, be-
cause we receive and publish letter from
Judge TAFT !"-the editors, by changing the
terms of my proposition, have rendered the
error entirely their own.
But it seems have charged Judge TAFT
I" with crimes which are neither specified nor
proved-hs greatest crime, being, perhaps, his
friendship for Mr.. Crawford ~ | did howe
uer give pretty distinct specification of the
offences which supposed ought to- discredit
him in the particular case in question, If not
generally although did not take the trou-
bile TO detail the proofs. These | shall now
briefly and substantially state, and refer the
curions reader to the documents at large. He
will hnd that they carry on their face weight
of moral probability, not to be resisted out of
Il court of technical law.
Thus IT Is proved that in sos, one Josiah
Glass, of notorious memory, who prowlcd
between n. Carolina and Georgia, and who
was previously known to Judge TAFT. supplied
himself, In N. Carolina, with IA Justices war
rant against one Robert Clary of Georgia for
negro stealing, and got it backed" in Georgia,
frat by JudGe TAFT, and next by Justice of
lhe peace-on the strength OF the Judges
signature that under this illegal precept "a
gainsi heJGther, Glass appre hended son of
the same name, not for the offence stat
ed on the face of the paper, but for the a.
vowed purpose of getting him to confess IA
different crime, duplicating other persons in
the state of Georgia that Glass aud his asso-
cIate (youDg Ciary) travelled back sixty miles
to Judge T-strictly as companions and e
qlals, with many boasts, thrown out on the
read, otthe profitable speculation in which
they were engaged that in travelling these
sixty miles, the associates passed by another
Jndsel oi The middle circut) and many Justices
OF the peace, equally qualified, with Judge
Iait, to receive criminal confessions that ON
ther arrival ut Green court, Glass caused let
Ter To be handed to Judge TAFT, then on the
oencn, staling--" he had man In his pos
session. who was very anxious To make Ger
tam confessions 10 his hOnOurn &C. witha Z" n
B. VIM. I'll. Crawford Esq is Interested in
apart oil fhe aforesaid depOeitions and will do
wen To attend"-Mr. G. being at the place,
b'ii not IN any official station; that Col Gre
sham, at the time sitting on the bench with
Judge TAFT, dissuaded the latter from having
any thinG to do with the confessions of Clary,
on Inc ground Of the known inlamy of his
character; that the Judge did ,neverth eIess pro
cceu 10 'ake the confessions, with no person pre-
sentbut Glass, and lad who acted as secreta-
fy-alIhO' advised To take with him the public
prosecutor or toieave the business to the ius-
, hces OF the inferior court finally, that the
Judse, Keeping the original himself, gave A
certified copy Of the confessions to Glass. with
h'e dollars 1.-THE amount admitted by the at-
tr) who hawked the paper about the state of
Georgia until It's contents became generally
known.
II scarce need be added, that CIary "con-
Irssed' General Clark the old opponent Of
messrs' Tat & Crawford guilty of high
crimes but fortunately for The former, CIary
referred Ia the confession of a counterfritcr
tnen confined in No. Carolina, who was said
10 nave received conveyance of lands from
I zen - Tor large sum of spurious money
zen u Immediately despatched To No. G..
Two respectable gentlemen, before the prisoner
'"ere was disposed of, and before the con-
op"d'ors mad bad time tn give colour to the
STORY OF The transfer of lands, by forging
OF deed &c, and thus Gen. G.. eaily ard com,
p'eteiy indicated his character, against one of
we foulest Vaccinations, that was ever con-
-, Inc full extent of the reward received by
U.dsS Tor his services has never been ascer-
.d'utu. We have seen that he confessed the
.5'Pt OIL I'VE dollars, from Judge TAFT to AID
r We payment Of his expenses. 1t appears
." .le' 'nat ne had been previously recognized
~ "pS"er some indictment in one of Judge
-, ''' courts. But that after the affair with
C,'ay noHe proseqIti was entered in his brhalf.
a. may also be added, that neither Mr.. Craw-
Io'u hor Judge TAFT has ever explained 10 the
Puo"c, the meaning Of Glass, in saying-tbat
.lI' ~ was Interested i'm fine conC.ssiors az