Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1824-06-01


candid statement. As to my responsibility. in
consequence of having applied to Mr.. Craw-
ford to cause certain deposites to be made !,
the Bank OF Edwardsyille, in preference n
that OF Missouri, surely | have shown that
enough was known about the latter bank. at
lhe tme my testimony was given, to have
ireed me IRON apprehensons in regard to anv
responsibility that had imposed upon nv.
sen, even II had not Withdrawn, as already
stated, from the " Dictatorship" of the for.
mer But Mr.. Crawford does not denv that
ne received my publication, and even if he
nag not received it, it having been made in
Twp difiereht states and he having been. as
nav SHOWN put upon inquiry in regard TO
MAJ osnA' ana informed of the difficulties it
1ao encounter, certainly might rely upon
VIC tP'"fletY OF my acts in this respect. with
! 'lpeqh greater grace than he relies npor
| sR1 fo@ad '-T-t-apietn e,f ,ie :
lublished omissions, 10 comply with the most
| ps,ive legal iniunetions as an excuse for
| Il lose omissions, which he does in his letter Of
| tlf Oath OF February 1925. TO the chairman OF
| tlf committee of investigation; and in WI CHI
hdalso seems, almost, to insist that his violation
| oibis duty was an equivalent TO ftlhment Of
| it..
| It could have been no object with me to have
established an additional suprressionupon him;
| for if time do not fail me, it win be seen, be-
| torf am done with this subject, that had
| in my possession proof, hose credibility
could not be questioned. of his having sup.
| pressed, in a variety of other instances, let
tiers enough, of much more important cha
ractcr and delicate bearing, for any purpose
that the utmost malgnity could have contem-
plated, as possible to be effected by such means.
l[9.l
The amount of my statement before the
committee, well as l can now recollect it.
(not having ibin my power to refer to it on
eNanrinatio") but which will be supplied at
Washington, is,
LIST. That, for the reasons therein mentioned.
made publication of my intention to retire
from the Dictatorship" Of the Bank of Ed
wardsville.
3D. That | advised the Receiver of Public
Money at that pE,oe, to withhold his depostes
from the Bank, till he could receive further
orders from the Secretary of the Treasury.
Sd. That the Receiver did write to the Sc.
cretary on the subject, enclosing my publica.
ton, &c.
4th That the former afterwards informed me
that he had received A LETTER from the lat-
ter, directing him to continue the deposites.
Now, it is not denied, and dare not be- that
did make the publication alluded to, and this
l could not have done, for the reasons that in
| ttfN'Neh hits tOfHisiTNlfN WIN the known
tHeng hip and intimacy that tlen sHpsisted he
.%ee the Reeeivsr and pa,self ulithassf -rsss
ing flB the advice mentioned "a tie I'd part
| OF tie above statement. But that did give
that advice is much more strongly corroborat-
ed Us the fact, that the Receiver did actually
.eihROid the debositeS, and Mr.. Crawford knows
it. This might be established by the month";
| ly rtturns Of both the Receiver and the Bank,
but these are in the possession of Mr.. Crawford.
1. H.
satisfy your honorable body of the fact by do
cuments that have been furnished by himself,
but which, thank God, are now out of his pow
| er.
BY his report of the 9th February, 1928 Is
vel, State Papers, ID sess. 18th Con. pages 81,
80, and 35) il will be seen that the amount of
deDosite stated to have been IN the Bank OF
| Edu ardsville, TO the credit of the Treasurer,
was
AT the end Of the I'd quarter of
/ 1919, S45, $50 sc
At the end of the Sd quarter of
| 1919, 45,475 CA
ut the end OF the 9Th quarter of
1919, 53,l9l 50
The two first of these statements are pre-.
sumed to be correct, or nearly So The lat.
Ter is entirely otherwise, as will prove ia
your satisfaction, if there is any kind of conf.
h;b;ted n vo,, bv Nh fra,,ford HI, 80 -
II ;,.ts>J1I o., dso:,;a. ~ g. r. H., -. ~
,oi,bh@i5 he danaas,ss - -.
and to c;ve some semhIance If ,lans;h; I ~
the recent ;nsn,at;on aas;nst upsslf nnti. ~
ea,,ld have haar raorn ;r's',,;o,,ei,, 3 1;o..
;a,,s,, o,,,g;,,sJ Gov thasa L,os &:
~ a,.4a',st ~ - LaJ rui r 80. '''a' .'l'
nat ;ns,aad of C5,jo1 20 'bs n .'u,y s,a,e:' =
deposite, at the end Of the fourth quarter e wa
Il I98.I9l 594. the contrast between This sun
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