Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1824-07-27

III as insuriDg the faithful communication
all such Information. These remarks apply
with equal fprce To the declaration BY which
tnr Committee would seem Ia accuse me al
swearing falsely, that there is no evidence
that the Receiver wrote on the subject of this
advice TO the Secretary" Insserfed, upon oath
that fsdto The Receiver ,orife TO the Secretary
and enclose niypu6iieation /; and confess, tina,
tcei no uncomfortable distress at the reflection
that my oath is falsifed by the Committee, in
regard to fact probable in itself, and at least
as credible as one which my oath is suffered
TO establish.
AS to the famous letter from the Receiver,
there can aoto be no doubt that il was writ
ten and despatched to the Secretary or, il
from tec1nical objections to the testimony,
the Comu4tee should not he disposed to act
upon Il, enough may be seen to show the pro
prsety OF allowing further time for producing,
IN due form, testimony enough to establish the
te and, this ask the Committee to do, it
are not satisfied Of the fact. Unjust be
ad'rltfed. that, as had no power TO summon
witnesses after l. myself was summoned, |
| could do no more than obtain voluntarily Aft :
davits. and that had hut little time for doing
this ntirch. The question of this letters hay.
ing been received by the Secretary, appear
Ing TO depend on comparative estimate of
he opposing weights, of the probabilities Of
the fact on which l have RELIED aud Of the
Secretary's denial, it is proper to examine
minute'y. the character Of that denial This
VIII be found to be- very &1uivOcal. assert,
that such letter was wxi{tp, and that be-
| he.e, as is now evident, has transmitted,
and, OF course, receired. The s5rcretary does
not deny that IT was recticed, blft declares il
Is not on file, and is not recOlIected by the of
iicers employed in the Department to have
heen received, Of whom, however, it now APP
pears, by their own testimony, with the ex-
ceptIon of-Ir.Dickins, that neither himself nor
any one else made any inquiry ia regard to
that matter.
When state my belief that the letter was
received, obviously mean by the Secretary :;
AID it is an infrm, and fallacious answer to
reply. to that the Secretary did not receive il,
hut that IT is now not flle. and is not re-
Collected by the officers employed in the de-
partm~nS {whose credit is rather literally
pledged, ~ - been received, both which
deciaratIons'd = true, and y& the letter b.
IN the Secret pocket. gain, stated
that the Receiver Md Qes he had. after trans,
uniting this letter to the Secretary, received
letter from, him directing him, the Receiver,
tn continue the deposies. This, also, the Se-
cretary denies in his report and in the same
indirect and evasive manner. He does NOT
say that no such letter was written, but, that
no letter, TO this effect, was written in answer
to the one whiclls be had labosiousIy asserted
was never received, has sstfenf6,isIy argued
was never written N5ws.it is very clear that,
1t the letter from the Receiver was never writ
ten, or even was never received, no answer Of
any sort could have been returned 10 il and
yet the letter, directing continuance of the
deposte may have been wriiiea. These care
ful antiquities in the report, do not seem cal
culated TO make the defensive declarations of
thp SAN nf.rwr Il.
b'lify, that public despatch, deposited in the
post Office, should have miscarrird in a mail
to which no casualty or interruption is known
tn have occurred and at a season of the year,
too, when the mail is least liable to any Diff
cules in its transportation.
la addition To neglect of duty in his trans
actions with this bank, as suggested la my ad-
dress to the House, and in my replication to
his communication to the committee, they
might have adverted, in support Of The same
charge, to the case of the Bank ofVncennrs
where, also, the Receiver WIS President of The
bank, where the United States lost S so. 900.
on which hank the Secretary drew, SUCCESS
lively, from October, 1919, to March, 1890
four drafts, together amounting TO Si65 900
suffered AS many continuous protests, and af-
ter negieciing, AS usual, all measures of pre-
caution, took no measure of redress until uIy.
1920.
A course of didactic sdmoni,on, in the form
of four official letters, ID then pronounced 10
this delinquent institution the initial gravity of
which is compensated by IFS final eniiy. (S.e
documents He recapitulates the acts of i'll
faith which he had pa,nnty endured, men
tons the protests of his drafts for S l65 600,
warns the directors that, unless they reform
their demPanOr, and pay the drafts, II ,ciu b.
proper for him to proceed with rgor bm, con
ciudes, with proposing relaxation Of that me-
dtated rigor, provided they will agree to hon
or the drafts within forty days, aud even prom
ises TO pay for this tardy and extOrted Justice
tout of his never failing fund.- by continuing
the course of deposite in bank, thus attempts
ed TO be bribed and threatened into common
honesty by himself To this persuasive propo-
sal, the bank, increasing in audacity, and sa-
gacious Of the character of its customer, did
not condescend to reply for nine months; at
the expiration of which pregnant period, the
President was delivered of the aborlive fact of
the corporations insolvency. In this feeble
and exhausted state, it asks further indulgence,
and concludes its appeal to its munificenl ben
efactor, with the most eloquent rncomiums up
on his liberallty. This letter reflects, W inter
estiDg colOis the substance and com piexicD OF
the intercourse between the Treasury Of the
U. S. and the banks ofthe West and, whstev-
or may be said of its prudence, must certainly
be commended Thy hunter of motives, AT
east,) for its candor. As the presentation ola
moral scene, it is delightful to contemplate the
sordid gratitude ofthe delinquent corporation,
glowing under the niudicIous, ifDoi illicit, fa-
vors of this liberal minister of finance. Your
friendly dispositions foicards the Wtsi, in times
peculiarly difficult. and he interest you hare
eDinced for this remote section Of our common
country leads to hope, that the hand thu has
hitherto protected us, will not be withdrawn