Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1824-07-20

Ice; that ,erul- hrsl Ia drmanu nocce, III ue
ord. & IN whrh he has presented u, Is, n.s ~
tempt IL free himself from the 'mput'''on oi
la .ng taken advantage "of the moment OF
my d,om tur,.. To araigu the testimony which
had been given by me before "a turiucr select
committee of the House" In this, however, |
he d ,rs not pretend to deny any ut the facts
uu.n which that iii,utatiun was predcated,
and, cau> c,,urntly, may he fairly considered
AS admitting them. For, seeirg how ready
h. has been To advert to, and dilatc upon,
other minute and unimpurtant particulars, lie
would hardly have been siientin regard I'D the
circumstances which had relied On to prove
tina, he must have been aPprized al my III
lenLed departure, had he not been CONSCIOUS
Ut their truth.
Laburing, AS he has done in his cummun'-
catiun. I, prov. that no such letter as l swore
| saw the Receiver ut EIwardsNiile write
u "rc,p,ns 10 continue the d-pnsiies, as those
mentioned in nay testimony, had ever been
gwen, il nU longer be doubted by any one
HAT the object OF his report was to impeach
my cretibiiiiy>
As nothing could justify SD serious and in
situation upon light aud iris uluus grounds, he
ought not 10 have made it without the most
thorough conviction that it was well founded
and, being SD convinced, il he felt it his duty
In a!icge ii AT IL ali, should have been done in
Making ii in IA dnus;if.l and etluivucal manner,
shens disposition To inilct the injury, and, at
the same time, to secure IA retreat from a lust
responsibility fur it. His delay would, under
any circuni stances, render his motives sus-
7icious. Under the particular circumstances
ut this case ii affords the strongest Presu:np-
tim that he intended to take advantages of
my absence. The facts WHICH he now affects
III question, mad asserted 10 himself two
y,.rr Lie al a
10 them more than Une year, before he thought
proper 10 indicate the slightest doubt of their
ruth. How, then, is his silence ON the subject.
during The whole of this period, TO he accounted
Tor: Gan any one, who knows his disposition
towards me. believe that he would have !
delayed this iulputatiOn u moment ii he had |
believed he could have sustained it in IA fair |
aud h"u"rable contest? His having 81 long |
iorborne tu make il, WHEN he knew could
have had an opportunity TO defend myself,
affords reasuual,i. ground to believe that he |
would not have made it AT al! il he had not |
supposed had actually lost that opportunity
by having taken my departure for IA foreign |
country. Why did he not question any Of the |
facts 10 which had deposrd, in his letter of
Fehr,aiy, 1875, which he addressed to the |
chairman o( the select committee alluded TO
eleven days after my examination Had he |
really believed that had not sworn truly, |
there was thcD most suitable occasion for !
making his present statement and his con- /
duct being then under Investigation, there /
would hasa been every motive for making,
and none for Withholding it.
But this was not the only opportunity he |
lr, pass by unimprov.d. On the eth Feb
1923, he made partial report 10 the House,
IN obedience to the very resol Itiun If the 9th |
May, 1922, of which he awaited himself To
make his recent attack upon me. This he
might with as much proprety have done on
the former on tiie latter occasisn Ac-
cording To his own view of the subject, the let
Ter III question, being from Receiver of Pub
lie Money, was not embraced by " a call only
Tor The correspondence between Certain banks
aod the Treasury" and, of course, if {" no
such letter was called for" his Official duty did
not require him to make any reference what
ever to 1t. His communication on that subject
sas, therefore, wholly gratuitous, and might
Just As well nave been made without any re-
solution of the House as under one that had
no relation TO it. But, even Surprising it to
he otherwise, it is certainly IA poor excuse for
ms not having transmitted the information
called for TN the 3h May, 1922, before the 22d
March, 1874, that he could not get the cor
! espJndeuce COPIED sooner, when from the
swarm of apple ,nts fur employme ut, compe-
ten, To this business, with which the city con-
staDtiy abuunds, it cannot be doubted that III,
might, AZ any time, have had the whole of the
copied IN less than one month
From the very nature oft, many hands might
have been employed on it at the same time
and with Il call so imperative, and his own
pIighted word afterwards, that lie would ha, e
the correspondence prepared and transmit
ted to tie House at the commencement Of the
late session Of Congress-" he should not have
feii himself at liberty To have made profia-
Die job of this business in favor uf any indi,i-
dual, 50 as 10 have delayed it till the 22d March
last.
But | shall not conclude this replication
without exhibiting Still greater difficulties to
overcome, before he eau successfully exempt
himself from tie suspicion Of having contem-
plated some advantages, by postponng his at
tack u the moment of my departure" AT
present, will proceed 10 il biief examination
If so.nr of he new giounds, and arguments
hereupon, by which ho has elaiJoraf.Iy en-
leavored To prove me guilty of perjury.
In meeting him upon ,his accusation I must
protest against the dtxtruus Use he makes ofI :
he same facts 10 establish directly opposite
Iclusipni ia hi1 favor an pericc,iy IS ;llino
20 yield him one side of the argument. and I
Iavc no right to Object To his taking cb,c. {
Iut more Than thus ii would III, ,,ur.,s,, | I
,llc IN him to ask, and imprudeot in mo f., q
EIDE. c
He attempts to infer, that " my publication Z
'nnouncing IN Iotentunof withdrawing from, d
Jie dictatorship Of the B.nk of Edwards :
llie," rs menti0ned iD my oath," could nos, :
ave ieen communicated TO him by the Re
civcr at Edwardsvn.@, and even that ii could |,
lot S.!e existed, brciusc ii VISA not referred To
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