Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1824-07-06
JUNE 16, 1924.

you received from the Cashier Of the Bank OF
f-dwardsyille an enclosure, continued in q let
ter from Mr.. Crawford to him, of Ist Novcn-
Der, i3l9.-Can you state whether there was
not another paper enclosed in that letter.
a. l cannot. | neither saw nor heard of
another.
q. For what purpose was your address to
Congress, and the letter TO the Speaker acc nm
panying 1T, sent in a different manner and to a
different person from the documents and the
copy of the address, which you state was first
sent?
1.-THE Committee decilcd that the question
should not be put.
Z. You state, III one Of your addresses to the
publiC,a at Louisville, dated 18th MIay,l8li. that
you sincerely believed, and had been advised by
your most dispassionate friends and other impair
tiai gentlemen, That it was absolutely and es-
scntialiy due to your own character to enter in.
to this controversy with MIR. Crawford? / wish
you to state who these dispassionate friends and
impartial persons were.
n. object TO the question.
THE Committee decided it should not be
put
q. Did not your affidavit, before the Com
mIttcc of investigation of the last Congress.
with respect to this correspondence, which YOU
allc2e took place between the Secretary of the
Treasury and Mr.. Stephenson, impose upon the
Secretary the necessity, when he made his final
report, either to produce that correspondence
or to account for the omission to produce it,
A.. | submit the question to the Committee.
. THE Committee decided it should not be
=. Do you think IT possible that, ill the ycar.
1919, a letter should have come by mail. from
EdwardsyIlle to Washington, from the 10th of
October to the LIST of November following?
A. Judging from the statement | have TO-
day seen, from the Post Office Department,
should think it was not; but, if the letter of the
RcccIvcr did not leave Edwardsville before the
10th OF October, | do not believe that MIR. GRAVY
lords letter To the Receiver, of the Ist of No.
vcnher following, was written or sent ON the day
OF ITS date, unless the letter of the Receiver
was sent, by private conveyance, to Louisville.
and mailed there.
q. By Mr.. Floyd. When, in your deposition
heretofore taken, you mention the name ofaCo.
i"nel Aioorc," to what Col. Moore did Won al
ludc.
a. To a representative in CONGRESS- from
q. by Mr.. Floyd. You state that Won had
prepared another address to the House of Re.
representatives. subsequently to writing the first
which, should Congress have adjourned, YOU in.
tended to get published in the National Intelii.
gcnccr, If you could. What was your obiecti in
wishing to have ii so published?
a. thought | had obtained Sufficient tcs-
'"i0"' ~ SstdoASH MY Innocence OF tic C!larpe
or impatation which understood Mr.. Craw ford
as having made against me; and wished to law
that testimony and my address before the pco-
pie of the United States.
lJuae 18Th. DIR. EdrarIs farther crau,;nc5)
=. by Mr.. Forsyth. Have you, or have Won
not had, ia your POSSESSION, the paper which yor
say LiPpilcot found IN the Receivers Office II
yoUT hand writing, at any time since the 12lL o
October, 1919?
a. = presume that the draft of The lcttnr n
lhe ifccei'cT Oh the Eth Oct. is alluded to-
mere Is nothing tili more firmly believe lliar
tiiat L have never seen that paper from The tinc
II was copied by the Receiver, as has been mo.
lore stated, uatil 1t was fn"nd by Mr.. Iippincot
III tbs Office, IN Apulor Maylast, as has also bee
states. j then held IT III my hands, and read il
l believe, more than ence, but never had IL il
my possession, out OF the Office, after il was 8,
found by Mr.. LiPpincot.
Y. DO you know who prepared the ronr!
DRAFT OF the letter from the President of tho Ed
WardsVihc BANK to yoa, of January Z, 1910. 10
the Secretary oi tho Treasury of the same d,fe
and to the Secretary oftllo Trcasutv OF ti,a I8tL
ut April, 1920, or either Of t!cm
a. / do not.
NINIAN EDWARDS.
bi7ics Noble, gf Lte Senate, s,royyl, ON lire ,o,.,
IF JIr. Ciuicf0yd.
" foti were employed by ,bc Treasure m
some arrangements with the Bank of Vincenncs
were you not? Will YOU be so rooI ne ,,'
slate whether, in your opinion, the debt Jrc he
that Bank to tho Government is secured or
part of it, and, if any, what? "y
a. So far rs J had tho agency i, i Will,
Is to The amount Of about S2G, 900, I t,rlcvo al
consider the debt as secured. III
z. DO OOu consider the claims of tbc r. G
OH that Bank, apart from the collateral sccnr;ty
as being safe? 'y'
a.. rs TO The residue of the claim wI,;cl, H.
20. has against the Bank Of Vinccnnes. + k,o,.
nothing Of it, except from information. VIII,
has been derived from the Directors. wbo -,
that Tue Bank is able to pay the debt. and I :,
secured ITS payment. a part of that debt. Gov.
sisting Of 10000, mot included in the s2,s Goo
ociorc-iDcntioncd) was transferred by tlrD1t RI,
10 TIC Treasurer Of the u. S. in a draft on Iol,n
~ PIatt, secured by two good cnlorsors amn
rom very recent Information, | learn H., ~ 81!
afait Is now in the hands Of fhe T'rcasnrg d.
Parenc't' or tic District Attorney, Mr.. De,rcv
fnu w = ram 10 be recovered. A further an:
VI SfOlp Is secured in obligations against G,n
State OF Indiana, which is a matter in ,,ao,,5 -
non between that state and the Treasury oF T,o
United States. e"e
u. Have 3OI had any conversation with Gov
EDWARDS couccrniag Mr. Crawford,s MANAGE.
mont OF thc Western Banks, aud concerningb; ia
authorship of The a y letters