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

or nor; It's MY impression that MIR. Cr,w
'ords letter, ae lst OF November, 1879. is mo
rccorded IN TIC book that I saw thor,oh car
NOT speak with certainty about il.
|. " Were you not engaged, prior 10 rJu
Journey to EdSnrdsyiiic, in preparing q Dabli
SI'"i, WIN respect 10 these documents agains
Mi. Crawford
y. TO that question I positively object
Fly communication 10 the House is here j
speaks lor itsc!:; Il cannot be material when, OF
where, ii was ,~riittc,.
iIhe COMMITTEE decided az was not bonn,
{, answer.
y. va" have stated in yuur communication
u The iiousc of Representatives tina. Won ar,
the ant'lor OF the "A. y. pai4ica,;ons wi.icl, &C.
co'nPahici your address; are YOU not also the
author Of the other 4. b. publications wh;c,,
appeared either before or since in the ,yash;nm.
ION republican against the Secretary of tho
Treasury
\. To tiiat question / object 10 answer. |
am answcrable ouly for those A. B. qualifications
which ! have Acknowledged.
The committee decided thai he was NOT
bound to answer
q. Have you not, at another time, denied
Your being Che author Of tho said \. u. M bI;c,-
tons, winch you now avow?
a. To this question ( also object r, ~
:wcr.
The committee decided thai he was not
bound TO answer N''
u. The packet I nov present 10 YOU con.
tains i''c original address presented bv Won to
the iiouSo of Representatives VIII YOU please
10 separate those parts Of that address which
were SEM to this city by mail, from those parts
WHICH were supplied af;crits arrival here?
q. The COMMUNICATION is before the IGousc
Is a whnlc, and az a Whole was referred to tbis
c~o'nn'itec. | 10 moi feel myself under any OBJ
legation 10 Stale huW lis several parts rot here.
iic committee decided that he was moi
bound 10
z. l wish 10 know whether Won arc moi the
author o! the printed letter now she,yn tu Won
ana which - contained in the Washington Ga
acite or me 9Th December, 1921, and dated
~ i-tio Oh ''al month"; and purporting to be
written by 4 gentleman Of Ohio?
A.. do not consider myself bound to an.
'yTer the question, unless the committee shall
50 direct me.
THE committee decided That he was not
bound To answer
@. Are you the author of all those 4. Z.
publications. WHICH accompany your memorial
10 Congress?
a.. l am.
y. Were moi the materials OF your memo
rialt 10 Congress collected and prepared by Won
before you had seen that letter OF Mr.. Craw-
iord 10 Congress which you allegc to be the
ground OF that memorial
y. HAD no intention last session OF attack
inG MIR. Crawford unless it should be necessa-
~ 20 nay own defence, or Unlass | myself had
been attacacd| had no knowledge of Mr..
Crawiord's report until the morning after it was
madc-A copy of ii was then brought TO NV
room by ilr. Cook, i'll consequence OF which /
changed my determination TO have left here on
that u'y, ami cnlcaVorci then to collect such
documents as l thought might be useful TO me
in case | should reply 10 it. Not one word ofthe
address TO thc House was written in the Civ of
Ha5:llngton, nor have I any recollection of
having convcrscd on the subject of Mr.. Craw-
lords report, but with three members of the
House oil Representatives, viz. MIR. Cook, Co
lionel Moore, and Mr.. Campbell, of Ohio. |
LETT the city the next day, the eth, without any
settled plan of answering it, and, with The aud
81 no other materials than these / collected here
m the city, AMI ny own memory. In making
the references which are contained in my al.
dress 10 the House Of Representatives, | had re-
course IN general, 10 The L.. b. publications
winch 1 had collected here, and which contain
Ell a reference: 10 those documents. occo-
s!onai!y male some notes on nv Journey TO
Wheeling, where my Address was written, and
from winch place il was sent TO this citv-and I
expect The documents referred to by Mr.. For
syth, as having been furnished here, were OBJ
tainci by Mr.. Cook, 20 whom | wrote for that
purpose. | regretted the necessity that [ felt
inysClf Unicr to write at all, and would not
have done 50, If ! could have hoped, by any
more pacific. means, that would not have been
degrading, TO have obtained a withdrawal of an
inoinuation which | Conceived was calculated
70 inIurc me. livery single thing used in my
aiiTc55 to The House was collected from z mass
oi my own private papers, 6 b. twoof my friends
as they could get them elsewhere, after the re-
port OF Mr.. Crawford was presented. These
tliDrS. tl,y; CDiIpcfol with ,La -, Sc -. -.
memory, constituted the materials from .yl:ich
my Adjrcs, 10 Che House was written.
=. Dii You not, Immediately after Mr..
tTaWiorIs report was made 10 Congress, ana
before you left this city, state to Air. Campbell.
oiOhjo, that YOU then hal twenty or thirty pa
gcs prepared against Mr.. Crawford: State
what conversation took place between YOU and
Air. Campbell, or Tim! subject.
a. ] think it was Oh the morning 7 left ibis
city, that | met with Mr.. Campbell, who intro
duccd a conversation concerning this report of
Mr.. Grawiord'5, by asking me whether |
hal seen the report, All appeared, from the re-
marks which he made, u consider that rcport as
containing an attack upon rc. He spoke of
~ Dei:iS preacntel al 50 late ! period O: the ses-
sion. in lie course af tna c1a@c.sal;on, men
t!ona to hin. that ! considered if, on this last
account, rs bong very un-cHrrGIs, or word.
81 HAT effect. ! s!lili - him that | hal, dl.
ring las: Summer, receive ilr1r;n1'ian th1t
'''-l' D. attacked al thn tlaa cushing session
81 toagf2sS; an Tim, j, is probliln / state.
- han thS particulars of that information
Thinking il 80 Prob,oic iha;i may narc state.
Il, viii now repeat what the iuf)f.pltiJn was
n travelling thr1ar'i kcn:IcNr last summer
in Rls7st5yilIc, | received a conf lcntil con
nrinicaion from Virginia, sialinG that 1 was G.
h2 attacked, a. l. before alleged: that Governor
Coles, Ot Illinois, was expected 10 cooperate il