Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1824-05-08

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can hnd no better means uf ,i;,rriinS pubi-
| attention from themselves TO .t,.ars. ! shall
nevertheiess, freely urge and insist on. such
FACTS as know 60 be true, diseaimine. row
ever any other construction of the M than the
mCst innoccnt Of which they are susceptible-
IL shall point cut 'paipable omissions and vio.
iations OF duty, or show that Letters 3, which
o4Sht To have been communicated to the
House nave been suppressed, and that various
| misstatements have been officially made,
| shall attribute them To nothing moie than for.
geuuiness, inaitention, inadvertence or some
erroneous, hut innocent views of the subject
ms VIII tie sufficient In shew that the mega
i've statements of Mr.. Crawford, and I" lii.
officers employed in the Treasury Depart.
nent, ought not TO prevail against my posi-
i've statementono oath. lf Others should sup
pose inns iorbearance on my pant little toe
lastidous, and that the cases which, shall ex-
hibt are evincive of intentions less innocent
ie, te remembered, that their views of the
SUBJECT would unquestouably render the case
the stronger in my favor.
with these preliminary remarks, proceed
| 10 my defence against this Nlal-aprupos state
ment of Mr.. Crawford.
III VIII be recOllected, that | was not a vo-
iunteer III giving my testimony before the
committee, and can conceive of no motive
which could be supposed, by any but "A most
drpraved mind, misled by its own wicked
operations, To have Influenced me to make an
| uncandd statement. AS TO my responsibility,
ID consequence OF having applied to Mr..
Ora lord To cause certain depositss 10 be
made in the Bank Of Edwardsville, in prefer
euce TO that of Missouri, surely ] have shown
that enough was known about the latter bank,
AT the time my testimony was given, to have
freed mt from all approximations in regard to
any responsibility that / had imposed upon
| myself, even If had not withdrawn, as alrea-
dy stated, rom the DiIectorshtp" of the
former. But Mr. Crawford does not deny
that he received my publication, and even il
he had not received it, ii having been made in
| two different states; and he having been, as
have shown put upon inquiry in regard to that
| bank and informed Of the difficulties it had
| had TO encounter, l certainly might rely upon
the notoriety of my acts, in this respect, with
| a much better grace than he relies upon a
| supposed notoriety Of his repeated but I'm
| punished omissions, 10 comply with the most
positive legal injunctions as an excuse for
those omissions, which he does in his letter oil
the Gath February, 1923, to the Chairman o,
the COMMITTEE of Investigation; and in which
| ne also seems, almost, to insist that his viola
lion OF his duty was equivalent 10 fulfnent
of it.
| IL could have been object with me 10
! have established an additional suppression
upon him for, If time do not fail me, il will
be seen, before am done with this subject,
| that had IN my possession proof whose cred
Utility could not be questioned, of his having
| suppressed, in variety Of other instances. let,
tiers enough, of much more important cha
racter and delicate bearing, for any purpos.
that the utmost malguity could have contem
plated as possible to be effected by such
means l9l
! The amount of my statement before the
committees, as we'll as now recoIect it,
mot having il in my power TO refer TO 1t for TX :
aminaion,) but which will be supplied AT
WashingtOn is
Ist. That for the reasons therein mention
ed, made publication of my intention to
retire from the % Dictatorship" of the Bank
Of Edwardsville.
Cd. That advised the Receiver of Public
Money at that place, 10 withhold his depos
lies from the bank, till he could receive further
orders from the Secretary of the Treasury
Sd. That the Receiver did write tn the Sc
cretarry on the subject, inclosing my publica
| ton, sc.
| 4ih. That the former afterwards Informed
me that he had received LETTER from
| the latter, directing him to continue the de-
posites.
| Now, il is not denied and dare not be. that
did make the publication alluded to, and this |
| could not have, done for the reasons that nilu-
enced me, consistently with the known friend
W
the Receiver and myself, without giving him
the advice mentioned in the Cd part Of the
above statement. But that | did give that
advice IS much more strongly corroberated by
the fact, thar the Receiver did actually ruth
hold the deposiies, and Mr.. Craw ford knows
II. This might be established by the month.
" returns Of both the Receiver and the bank
But these are in possession of Mr.. Crawford
l, however, feECitate myself Hpon being able
To satisfy your honorable BODY of the fact, by
documents that have been furnished by him
self, but which, thank God, are now out ofhi.
power.
By his report of the eth of February
| 1928, 70 vol. State Papers, cd sess. 17th Con
pgs. 81, SO, aud 35,) il will be seen that the
amount of deposite stated To- have been ia
| the Bank Of Edwardsville, to the credit Of the
| Treasurer was,
Arihe end of the Cd quarter
Of 1919 s45.5Go Ga
AT the end of the Sd quarter
Of 1919 4J,475 OF
At the end Of the lih quarter
Of 1919 53I91 50
! The two first of these statements are pre-.
/ sumed 10 be correct, or nearly so. The lat
ter is entirely otherwise, as I will prove Ia
your satisfaction, If there is any kind of con
idPuce to be Tpposed in previous statements
exhibited 10 you by Mr.. Crawford Had il
been intended To disguise the fact Of the Re
ceiver's having withheld the depOsites, as
above stated, and TO give some semblance oil
plauslblliy To the recent insinuatiOn against
myself, nothing could have been more inge-
nlously, or more disiDgenuOusly, coutriued fui
these purposes, than this last statement iii
had been truly stated, that, instead of 8 59,I91
50, the real amount in depOsite, a, the enc
of the fourth quarter, was $685. 21 sol, th,