The Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1822-1829, 1824-08-27
FROM THE NATIONAL JOURNAL

FROM THE NATIONAL JOuRy,
We rntreat the candid and dspas.oos
attention of our readers To the loInu'
httcr. II, after reading il, any unprciudni
indi, idual can still entertain douft ~,
nf the testimony by which
was attempted to impeach the veracn
Mr.. Edwards or rs To the motive viii,
induced that attempt; we will only ,,r
l'that his mind must be differently congia
ted from ours. lfeyer a case occurred
which the bare ,cofd of one man carf,I
with it more intrinsic e,id,pce of trad
than the solemn oath of another, that ca.
in the letter TO Mr.. NuBs
TO he Hon. J.lnE.S NOBLE.
SIR: From the nature and evident h
.dency of Me voluntary testimony Win
yau recently gave against me, before
committee of.hc llouseof Represepaiir,
ef the Congress of the Untrd States
trust sh,iI not considered, either
the public or yourself, AS unnecessarI
seeking controversy with you, in dsn
.iouat1y calling upon you, before the ia
tor, to confess or deny the following fcp /
and +" justify, dsayow, or account for, I'D
differences obviously deduri.lr fre m then
and the lalrsbIc discrepancies in Nha|
they seem to involve you.
IL Was generally understood, before lp|
late adjournment of Congress, that you II
Mr.. E|kins, one of Mr. Crawford's cow
| ing clerks. were to corroborate each ohf,|
testimony against mr.. YoH both ho
dose SO. But neither without som
hazard 10 your own regulations, let jh
following facts decide.
Mr.. Eikins, in accounting for the alusai
which he represents me 10 have made T.
the " A. y. publications" refers to a
article in'the Richmon Enquirer" whc
he believes led to the remark | made, q
which article The swears) Il iraS stated Tia
.Hr, E6Fords, IF n. ~. plot memory" q
words 10 that effect, had been nomindttdb
The President, rs .U,nister 10 Wcrico. NJ
| Edwards observed, that he was not III,
author ofshosc publications, or, rs IAHi
The expression was, he was no more I'D
author than The Editor of the Enquin
himself" And this COMPENSATION, he sau
happened during he pendency Of M
n1minutien btiort The Senate"
! The hon John S. B,rbpr, on his exam
ina'ion, says, 3" Mr.. Elltins informed me-
in conversation sought by himself, tia
he had heard governor Edwards inchient
| ally rcmSk, upon readiag This arhae Il
Ifae Richmond Enquirer. in which he
spohch Of us " .Ninian EdpardS Of a.
flot memory" that hr WAS no, more tn
author of that plot, than the Editor of til
Enquirer"
aon. sir, referring TO the alleged arid
in the Richmond Enquirer, nla,iye to N
nomination, rs Minister 10. Mexico, 81
prcss'y say, upon your oaih, that " Sd
an article, IN the Richmond Enquire
stating, thai =" .tinian EIuards, ne auth
of.i. B or II \. u. Ftot memory" {
not iccoIlcci ,rhich had h.en so neminqts
The paper so,c at the boarding honsr I
Mrs. Queen, and, think, in lie hands
.nr. EKinsn
Bot notwilhs' aiding both you and NJ
EllIns have solemu'y and positively swT
to this statement, and have repeated
| made 1t to various individuals, il is Il e.
| a terrible ono FOR you, that you have b.
sworn to that ,chish gsGS not" ha
at length been fortunate enough to oba
file Of that paper, and hud that there "
no such Grtiefe in it, as you and Mr.. Elki
describe nor any thtpS like it. On d
contrary. 1t had cops.'d into its own c
'umns, from a Baltimore paper, lctt
very iiatterins to me. Nor, indeed, did
contain single unfriendly remark in rel
ton to my nomination, from the time
was made, I'LL about clei en VT twelve da,
after lis confirmation.
! That you have ut least been misahF
IN regard 10 the prrind of my alleged COZ
vershllon with you, presume your ON
refreshed recollection ofthc state Of III
health, ofthe consequent improbabiliIy
my having been in your room ut that I'm
and of my inability to have accompapi'
my remarks with manner less yrhcmcn
and Scstculaiicns less violent than thos
which on your examination before II
committee, you ascribe 10 me, must, e
this, have fully satisfied yon.
But, independent Of the sickness WHIT
then confined me To my room, nothing "a
be more certain than the cnrporeal debit
the consequence Of a long previous 60
iiuement tn my bed, together with "
complaint under which /! still lahored, re-
dered ne utterly unable to have perform
the active crolutions of placing my It
! nigh upon the j",nbs of the fire pa,,l
rapidly changing my position, by "lITIi
round, and vigorously gss,icula,ine' a.
Jealous and highly respectable friend
Mr.. Crawford has heard you represent
to have done on the same occasion,
You will recoiect, or il you should n
others do, that, on The day on which c
tain witnesses testified before the comm
tee, to my sickness, you observed, a
do Gov. Edwards the justice Ia say
was'ery seek, and myself edrt,tti a 'r'
! lran W Ii inn L. Ii m IL, Ii I, - :. i !