The Alexandria herald. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1811-1826, 1824-05-12

| drafts to Mr.. Crawford and that the
latter sent them oil to the house. No
enc, there!ore, could reasonably expect to
find COPIES among them. Yet, upon
an examination Of the correspondence
with the Huntsville bank alone, il will be
found that about one third Of the pages
it occupies, and more than that proper
ton OF the letters given as EXTRACTS
! These, surely, cannot be ORIGINALS,
unless Mr.. Crawford and the president of
the bank of Huntsville were in the habit
of sending EXTRACTS Of their own let
tiers TO each other--a novelty that can.
scarcely be believed to have occurred.
But. besides the striking variance be-
tween Mr.. Crawford's statement. of hav>
| ing sent the originals TO the house, and
the fact ofthis case, the transformation Of
those originals into Extracts, requires
conjecture any motive for sending these
extracts instead CT the originate, unless
il was for the purpose of emitting and
withholding something which the latter
! contained; and Mr.. Crawford sneUer
sanctioned the omission of ANY PART
of the correspondence by whom, and
with what motives, could these extracts
| have been made, and foisted into the
place of the originals
| 1t cannot be too much to say there
appears to have been considerable for>
| getfulness in some part ofthis affair.
| MIR. Crawford must also have forgotten
the resolution of 1916, when, in direc,
violation of It's positive injunctions, he
received from certain local banks, in dis,
charge Of their debts TO the u. S. and at
par, the large amount of uncurrent notes,
which, in his reports, he admits he cid
receive from them.
| But his memory must have been much
more unfortunately treacherous to him,
in two other particulars, relating to this
business, for, | shall show that he mas
made two palpable and important mis-
statements in regard to it.
Being called on by a resolution Of the
house OF representatives TO state the
amount of upcurrent paper, which he re-
ceived from the local banks, that bad
been made repositories of public money,
received from the sale of public lands, he
| ADMITS the receipt of a large amount
from the banks of Edwardsviile, Missouri.
and Eombeckbee. But as an ercusc for
his conduct, no represents those i-otes to
have been deposited in these banks sbe-
fore the date of their contrscts,' under
which they agreed to account, for the
public deposites as specie.
| This do most Uoeqnivocaly and
positively aver to be H1isrearesenfatio
and an indetensible apology, and your
honorable body cannot fail 10 be convinc-
ed of it; by adverting to the contracts
themselves. 1 will refer 10 only enc of
| them at present The very first article
OF the contract with the bank of Edwards.
vile, under which it received the first
cent ofpublic deposites, is in the follow
| ing words, viz /: slst. That the public
moneys shall be entered 10 The credit of
the trersury as cash. which may be
seen IN document No. Sc, letter 6. No.
and q
But, for his own opinion upon the sub.
Iect, even in case where there had
been no express stipulation sto pay cash.
refer your honorable body to this letter
| l., No. l, TO the president Of the bank oil
huntsville, dated 1l!h Jan. 1918, where
1t will be found tina, he says-'In making
the Planters and Merchants bank of
Huntsville place of deposite, at its par.
| ticuIar solicitation, it was expected that
| the transfer of the funds which it under
took to make, would be effected in funds
that circulated at par at the place where
| the transfer was directed. AS the recei>
yer had been directed to receive the bills
on no banks which did not discharge
them IN specie upon demand, it was ex-
pected that the bank would be auswera~
| BILE for the amount deposited in specie or
in bills which would be received as spe.
Gle, at the place to which the money
| should be directed to be tran sFerred, un-
less il should state the contrary
But this is not the worst case he has
in The same report misstated the amount
of uDcurrent notes, which he did receive
from those banks, making il much less
| than il actually Svas and some Of the
SHtfreSsed letters in the correspondence
with the bank of Missouri will prove it.
This statement, no doubt, will surprise
and astonlsh your honorable body but,
you viii not long regard il as a proof of
temerity. ! shall, however, content my.
self with barely stating enough TO carry
resistless conviction to your own minds oil
the truth Of il. None shall doubt who
will either read or hear the testimony
exhibited ia yot, nv Mr CrawCord b;,o