Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1824-07-23

counting tori delay. assign, as a reason &,
| .ot hav'nS ilere;ofore made the deposi,es.
| iiiicuity that might thereby have been crea.
| 81, OF complying with previous instructions
presents an account of the then situation a.
the bank intimates apprehensi"ns as to il.
future prospects /; declares An snwiiinyn-s.
To make further deposit,s, without such in.
structions as the Secretary might think 1t L.
give, "on a fill disclosure Of the whnlr circum-
stances of the case y and, among other things
| expressly states, that" the publication cf Cav
Edwards, herewith transmitted, shows the
course he is disposed 10 pursue" All al
which, am happy to say, can be established
by the original draft of the letter ITSELF On Gle
IN the Office Of Samuel ID. Lockwood, Esq
Receiver Of Public Moneys, at Edwardssie
with an endorsement thereon in the hand
writing of the late Receiver, (who has been
dead about eighteen months.) purporting that
the letter was sent to Mr.. Crawford 10 Oct,
1919, of which an attested copy is hereto an
nexed, (see No. 2.r
On the god October, 1919, ten days after
the date OF the letter last referred tn, the Re
ceiver again writes to Mr.. Crawford, and states.
that "tw eIve thousand five hundred dollars Of
the capital stock of the Bank of Edwardsville,
having been paid into the hank since the date
of my last letter, feel it my duty to inform
you of the circumstances, in consequences of
some OF the Suggestions made in that letter.
See No. s. The first fact in issue between
Mr.. Crawford aud myself, is therefore estab-
lished.
AS to the Cd, viz: " That the Receiver in
formed me he had received a letter from the
Secretary, directing him to continue the de-
posites," 1t must be admitted, that my state
ment does not render me at all responsible for
the truth OF this information, and, that il might
have been given To me, even if il had not been
true. But as this circumstance would have
weakened, SD the fact of Mr.. Crawfprd's hav-
ing actually written letter TO the Receiver in
November, 1919, expressly saying request
that you will, Immediately after the receipt of
this letter, deposite in the Bank Of Edwards
vile, the whole ofthe money in your possess
sion on the SOth nsi.," must sufficiently cor
roborate my testimony.
This letter, il is true, does not profess to he
an nns,oer to the letter of the Receiver of the
18th October, 1919, nor have imposed upon
myself any obligation TO prove il, to be so.
But there are certainly strong circumstances
to show,
ist, That it was written isiesconsequence of
the Receivers letter.
Cd, That it could not have been written on
the grounds upon which it processes to have
been written.
AS to the first. tits worthy Of remark that,
in noticing 8" The difficulty" suggested by the
Receiver rs an excuse for not having made
the dcposites, MIR. Crawford is so particular 10
pointing out the means Of obvia,ing that diff
Guilty, that II is almost impossible 70 resist the
belief that he had then received the letter in
question.
This belief, however, acquires great add
ti0nal, If not Irresistible strength from anpther
document which Mr.. Crawford enclosed in
his letter to the Receiver, of the LIST Novem-
Der, 1919. Ii will be perceived. that, among
the strongest reasons urged by the Receiver
for declining TO make the deposites, in the
Bank of Edwardsvi!le, without further instruc-
tons from the Secretary, were his apprehen-
sions Of danger to IT. from "the hostility Of
the Bank of Missouri and citizens of ST.. Lon
IS = and his apprehensions that the drafts or
the Secretary might fall into their hands. or
those of "persons who, under their influence.
would be disposed TO insist upon specie, when
notes would answer them equally well, merely
for the purpose of harassiag- aud distressing
the bank" It's presumahle that it was to al
lay these apprehcnsions that Mr.. Crawford,
(who had checked the Bank Of Missouri for
its conduct towards other banks, transmitted
IN his letter 10 the Receiver, who was also the
President ri the Bank nf EdwardsviI!e. the
document alluded to- WHICH is headed a list of
bank notes which would he received by the
Bank Of Missouri, according to the letter of
the President Of that bank, dated 9th August
1919" See No 5.) For what other possi-
BILE purpose could this ist'' have been in.
tended /? And what else could have induced
him to send it to the Receiver at Edwards.
Vile
: Further characterization of his having received
The letter in question, is furnished by the cir
cumstances of his having ON the sanoa Jy
that he wrote to the Receiver at Edwards.
Vile, written on the same subject to both the
Receiver at kaskaskia, and the Cashier of
the Bank of EdwardsviIle, giving to the for.
mer particular instructions about making his
depostss; and enclosing to the latter copv
OF a letter that he represents himself TO have
written TO both these Receivers, from which
il appears that he ordered them TO depsa;,e
all the public moneys which they should re-
ceve, after the last day of the month IN which
he wrote-noi in the bank Of Ed,cardspille. Int
in the Bank Of Missouri, until otherwise d;-
rected. (See No. 6.)
Considering the circumstances disclosed bv
Mr.. Crawford, in regard to the withholding Of
the deposites by those two Receivers il is
not to be presumed that either of them would
have been guilty of aoy Unnecessary deIay in
making the deposites after the receipt of his
letters TO them OF the 1st November, 1919 i
and, ii these letters, which purport TO have
been written at that time, we're promntlv
transmitted by mail, according to their res
pective destinations, il is inexplicable that the
Receiver at Edwardsvie. who resided within
about two hundred yards Of the hank, of which
he was also the President, should not have de-
posted the whole of the m oney in his pns
session on the 50th November" before the
31st December and, that the Receiver all