Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1824-08-31

me ask, have been much more exraor-
binary and unaccountabie, thai he should
ne, have answered the letter al all, than
that he should have failed, III one or two
short subsequent communications, to
have alluded 10 his answer
The letter, in fact. WAS fully answered
on the 18th October, 1919. No alher
snswer was ever given by the Receiver.
And this is the very letter IN question !;
which, after accounting Tor It's dsiey, as
signs as reason for moi having heretofore
msde the doposnes, a di8iealtp Thar
might thereby hape been created, Oh COM
plying with .resieus Instructions; pre-
senFs an account OF the then situation
OF the bank; inlmates apprebenslons as
to is future prospects /; ia lates an IN
willingness 10 make further deposites,
without such instructions as The Seereta-
~ might think ,it to give, " on full dis
closure oil the whole circumstances OF
the case; and, among other things, ex-
pressiy states, tina, " he publication of
Coz Edzpards. herepith transmitted,
shows the course he is disksSed TO hnT
SIZE A II of which, am happy to say,
can be established by The original draft
of the letter itself, on Il le in The Office OF
Samuel ID. Lorkwoo !, Esq. Receiver of
Public Moneys, az 3 " trdsvIlle, with an
endorsement thereon. i. he hand writing
OF he late Receiver, { who has been dead
about eighteen moptns) purporting that
the letter was sent to Mr. Crawford 10
October, 1919, (of which en- atles,ed copy
is hereto annexed, see No. O.
On the 22d October, 1919, ten days
after The date of the letter last referred to,
the Receiver again writes to Mr. Craw-
ford, and sta,ess that Twelve thousand
fvs hundred dollars of the capital stock
oil he Bank oil Edwsrdsville, having been
paid into the bank, since the date Of my
Iasf ietter. teel II NV duly 10 inform you
oil ht circumstance, IN consequence of
some Of The suggestions made in that let
ter, (see Ne 5 Tue first lac, in issue
be ween Mr.. Crawford and myself, is
therefore established
AS 10 the 81, IL " That the Receiver
int fned me he had received letter from
tn depustes," il mus be admitted, that
M settlement does not render me al all
rtspaus ble for he ruth Of this informal
tor, and, thar II might have been given
10 ne, even iii had not been true. Blu
as MS circumstance would have weak
ere tie FAC Of Mr. Crau ford's having
actually @riiten Letter to the Receiver
in November, 1919, expressly saving,
81 request thai you 7oiU, Immediately
after the receipt Ct this letter, dehoste
in the Rank Of Ed5sardspiir, the Uhole
Of the money in your Possession on the
3oth INST, /" must sufficiently corroborare
my .asfimong.
Tins letter, II is true. does not profess
to be 30 ans7oer 10 the Letter OF the Re-
ceiyer 81 The ian October, 1919, Dor
have imposed upon myself any obliga-
ton 10 prove il TO be so. Bat there are
Ger AMY strong circumstances to show,
Isl, That 1t was written in consequence
OF The Receivers letter;
ID. ihaf It could not have been written
on the grounds upon which il processes
to have been written.
As TO the first. is worthy of remark
that, IN noticing "tie difficulty" sug-
ges,ed by the Receiver, as an excuse for
mol having mate the deposites, Nj
Crawford Is ST. particular in pointing
ing oul he means oil obvisting that diff
cult, hat il is almost impossible to re.
sisi tie belief that he had then received
the ter IN question.
This belief. however, acquires ereal
additional, If moi irresistible strength, |
from another document winch Mr.. Craw-
lord enc loses N his le ter to the Receiver,
OF the LIST November, 1919 Ii will be |
perceived, that, among the strongest rea.
sons urged by the Receiver for declining |
to make the deposltes, IN the Bank OF
Edwardsville, without further instruc-
tons trom the Secretary, were his ap-
preheoslons o! danger to it, from "the |
hostility Of The Bank of Missouri, and
citizens ofH. Louis !" and his appre-
tensions that the drafts OF the Secretary
might tall into their hands, or those oil |
Is persons who, under their influence, |
would be disposed to ASST upon shecie, |
when notes would answer them equally |
well, merely Tor the purpose of harrass
Ing and distressing the bank" II is pre-
that it was to alay these appre-
tensions, thai Mr. Crawford, (who had |
checked the Bank of Missouri for its |
conduc' towards other banksD transmit
ted IN his letter to the Receiver, who was |
also The President Of the Bank of Ed |
the document alluded to,
which is headed " A list of bank notes
which would be received by the Bank of
Missouri, according 10 the letter of the