Alexandria gazette & advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1822-1824, 1824-07-03
From the National Intell'gencer.

ugatl0D. al lis Sfttl0gS suuspqusHt ~ VI.
| adjournment OF Congress. We shall hn'sb
The publication otevery thing else connect
| ed with the report OF the committee IN an
extra sheet, to be published early in the
next week. We goto ibis expense to re,
lieye our columns from this heavy burthei,
upon them, and at the same time TO pre-.
sent, in the order prescribed by The COM
Imittee, every thing comprised IN ITS re-
port. reyelant or irrevelant, important Q,
| Inc reverse. OF the whole mass OF tesh
! mony, there is probably not FIVE columns
| which we should have published on any
| other principle than that OF scrupulous
impartiality. ;,
1 We have been, as our readers know, all
| along disposed TO submit this matter 10 Inc
| people upon the evidence, not doubling
that they will come 10 the same conclusion
as the committee has done. we iorboIe
to discuss the merits of MIR. Edwards 40
! dress to Congress, from the moment OF lis
| first reference to committee, though en-
pertaining then the same opinion OF 1t that
we do now, that more desperate assault
was never attempted by one man upon me
character OF another. Never, we will ADD,
did man more wiEuly sacrifice himself
to bis own rash counses and to bad adyl"
sers, than IN this case Mr.. Edwards seems
to have done Ii was easy from the first
to toresee that Mr.. Edwards's blow would
recoil upon himself, and that he must tall
under ii. we did not cbuse, under the
conviction that he would do SO, to afford
to him or his coadjutors the opportunity oil
! saying that his case had been prejudged
before the public We maintained silence
! on tn. subject, though the columns OF the
A. b. press in this city teemed with labo-
rious efforts, by the friends OF Mr.. Ed
wards 1--WE do not here refer to the editors
OF that prini) to give a coloring TO Mr.. Ed
wards's statements, and proposes the
public opinion on the subject of them. 1t
| is indeed true, that innocence has triumph
ed, not only in the committee OF lnvestIga-
ton, but in the public opinion universally.
But il is not less true, that through the or
gan of the projectors of the A b. plot, no
pains have been spared by the parties con.
cerned to give different direction to pub
lie opinion. They have been allowed to
J do so unmolested by US. We fet for the
position in which one of the writers for
that press was placed, and in our feeling
for him we overlooked the total unreason
ableness of bis hostility to Mr.. Crawford.
| As for MIR, Edwards himself, il certainly
will no, be denied that he has been allow
/ ed the utmost latitude of use of press and
pen to sustain his charges, and 10 defend
| himself from imputatons which he drew
down upon himself.
The investigation has terminated. as our
readers have already seen, in the total
! discontinue Of Mr.. Edwards and his party.
! He has retired before the coming storm,
and has thus eyaded The full force OF its
explosion. Ii is not The less evident that
his resignation of his Office was the conse-
sequence OF disclosures before the commii-
tee, and that his resignation is. under the
! circumstances, tantamount TO a removal
from Office.
There is no disposition on the part Of
the friends of Mr. Crawford 10 pursue MIR.
Edwards. Unlike Mr.. E they are salts
fed With less than just retribution, having
accomplished their object when the plots
of their adversaries are defeated. They
wish to avoid, it possible resort to de
fensive accusation But the Washington
Republican newspaper of this city, which
| is identified with Mr., Edwards, continues
its abors TO shed disastrous twilight over
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carries on the face OF it the evidence Of its
! being entirsly devoted TO the views of Mr..
Edwards and other enemies of Mr., Craw-
ford, now as it has been from the begin
ming We do not say that the editorial ar
tcles respecting the late investigation are
peDned by Mr.. Edwards himself, bet they
bear the impress OF his mind, aad betray
10 every eye the work of the master spirit
These observations are made in no mood
of hostility to Mr.. Edwards whom we
entertain no sentiment OF that sort. The
injury which be attempted to do US, at the
! session before the last, we freely forgive
him, and the retribution upon his public
errors is sufficiently severe TO disarm even
hatred itself We hope to convince him
| and his friends that silence is their best pc.
Icy .cquiescence in bis own act, is what
may be reasonably expecte d'of every man,
and having anticipated the decision of the
President, by retiring from his Office, there
can be no doubt tut Mr. E would consult
his own peace, and the wishes of his friends
as well as his adversarles, by suffering the
| matteFto rest where the report OF The COM
mittee has placed il. Hoping that these
suggestions will be taken in good part, we
proceed to the execution of the purpose
tor which we took our pen 10 hand
We have cursorily run over the articles
which have appeared in the paper Of the
Edwards party, on the subject OF the Re.
port of the Committee Of Investigation -
We do not find that they pretend TO say
that, OF the allegations against the official
conduct of the Secretary OF the Treasury.
any one of them has been sustained, but
that OF having favored Banks with Depo
| sites of Money. with view TO aid them 10