Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1824-09-14


doubt as to the character OF the testi
mony by which it was attempted to i'm
peach he verscily oil Mr.. Edwards; OIL
as to the mo i've which induced that at
tempt; we will only say, tina, his mint
must be differently constituted rom ours
bare soord OF one man Carried With i
more intrinsic evidence OF truth, than the
solemn oath of another, that case is ex.
en- llhed 10 The letter to Mr.. Noble:
Nat. Jour.
To the Hon. JA19ES NOBLE.
SIR: From the nature ard evident
Tendency OF the voluntary testimony
which yea recently gave against me, be
lore COMMITTEE Of the House OF Repre-
sentaiwes of the Congress OF the United
| S IA es, trust shall not be considered,
either by the public or yourself, as un.
necessarily seeking controversy with
you, in IsPassionaely calling upon you,
| before the nation, To confess or deny the
following facts, aud to justify, disavow,
or account for, the differences obviou lily
deducible from them, and the palpable
discrepancies in which they seem 10 in
volye you.
1t was generally understood, before
the late adjournment of Congress, that
you and Mr. Elklns, one OF Mr.. Crav-
lord's copying clerks, were to corrobo-
rate each Others testimony against me.
You both have done SO. But whether
wilhsul some hazard to your own repu-
tatiops, lei the following facts decide.
MIR. Elkins, in accounting for the al
lusion which he represents me TO have
made to the" A. b. publications" refers
TO an article in the =" Richmond Enqut-
err" which he believes led to the remark
made, g in which article (hc swears)
il zvaa stared that Mr.. Ed.oards, Of. Il
3. iitot memory or words t0 Mot eGect,
had 6een nominated by the President as
.Ma.sier 10 Mertco. Mr.. Edwards OBJ
served, thai he was not the author oil
those publications, or, as Think the ex-
preston was, he was no more the author
than the editor OF The Enquirer hio'self."
An me conversation, be says, happened
=" during the ffadency q my nomtaation
6efote the Senate"
TIE Hon. JDhl $ ID .rber, on his ex-
aninatop, says, " MIR Ekins informed
me, IN Eonversatlon sought by myself,
that he had heard Governor Edwards in
cidentally remark. upon reading This ar
ticte in tht Richmond Enquirer, in which
he IS shoten Of IS .Ni1iun Edwards, oil
H. q. hiof memory that he was no more
The author Of that mot than the editor OF
the Enquirer"
You, sr, referring to the alleged arti-
Gle IN the Richmond Enquirer, relative
to my no nation, as Minister to Mexico,
expressly say, uhon your oath that"
saso an article, in the Rlch,n nd Enqui-
rer, stating, that Mnian Edwards, the
author ofA. B ofA. 3. hiot memory
Il do not recolect quhich) rad oeen so
nominated. The paper 1 saw at the
boarding house Of Mrs. QA-cn, and, l
think, in The hands Of Mr.. EiSins.
But Notwithstanding both you aud Mr..
Eikins have solemniy aud positively
sworn to this statement, and have repeat
eddy made it TO various individuals, II is a
TACT, Wrrib!e one for you, that you have
both sworn 10 that " which aas not" l
have at length been fortunate enough to
obtain file of that paper, and find that
there was no such article in il, as you
and Mr.. Elhins describe; nor any thing
like ii. On The contrary, it had copied
into its own columns, from a Baltimore
paper, letter very tlatlering to me.
Nor, indeed, did il contain single I'M
friendly remark in relation to my nomi-
nation, from the time it was made, I'LL
about eleven or twelve days after its con-
hrmation.
{ That you have at least been mistaken,
in regard to The period Of my alleged
conversation with you, presume your
own refreshed recollection ofthe state OF
my health, Of the consequent improba-
biIny fmy having been in your room
at that time, and Of my inability to have
accompanied my remarks with man.
ner less vehement, and gesticuIations
less violent than those which, ON your
examination before the comnittee, you
ascribe to me, must, ere this, have fully
satisfied you.
But, independent ofthe sickness which
then confined me to my room, nothing
can be moro certain than the corporal
debility, the consequence of long pre-
vious confinement. to my bed, together
with the complaint under which I still