Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1824-07-15
From he Washington City Gazette.

The reader may recollect that we stated
whilst the final investigation was pending in
the case of Ninian Edwards, that certain lesii
mopy at Gen. Noble, S,nator Uf the Uniled
States for the state Of Indiaua. was suppressed
by the Committee, ut The instance Of Mr.. John
w. Taylor. Having been suppressed, il does
not, of course, appear among the Documents
directed to be published by the Comnitiee.-
Part Of this testimony was actually taken down
IN writing, which was afterwards destroyed
by order of the Committee of estisaiiOn.--
We have, however, been SD fortunate as t.
procure, from an authentic source, the pai
which was given in by Gen. Noble and can
celed, and the part which he would have Civ
Ell in had he been permitted 10 do SD. For
the truth Of the statemsnt, as to the former,
we appeal 10 the members Of the Committee
and to the several persons who were present
and heard it and for tile truth Ut the state
ment, as to The latter part, we are auth orized
10 say that il came from Gen. Noble himself,
"a, indeed it could come from none other
This tes,i.nahy We now present ~ our read
ers below.
To the late dinner at Willamson's Hotel
President Monroe vas invited. Mr.. Craw-
ford also, as well as the other Secretaries, was
asked tn subscribe. Almost to the last mo-
ment it was expected that the President might
attend, as II was, moreover, thought that the
Secretary ofthe Treasury, might, at least, call
in, il he not feel himself sufficiently strong 10
remain through the whole Of the festive scene.
Now, after having peiused the following tesii-
mony, and with "a knowledge of Ninlan Ed
wards conduct towards Mr. Crawford, lie, the
reader say, had Messrs. Monroe and Crawford
attended, with what prOprety could Edwards
have been there ? What would have been the
feelings OF the Presdrnt and Secretary of the
Treasury, on seeing such man seated at the
SAME social hoard with them?
This testimony, likewise, places Messrs.
Mclean, Calhoun, and Adams, in new point
OF 'iew-as uph"lding Edwards, who had
shewn himself a traitor To his friend aud pa
troD, Mr.. Monroe unfolding, in fact, an I'M
grateful creature, who, at the moment the
President vas pouring beneiits upon his head,
was exposing him to Gen. Noble. Thus, res
pect for the President , ieids Ia hatred of Mr..
Crawford and, with the Holy Alliance, their
tool, Edwards, is 10 be countenanced in any
dirty work, even against Mr.. Monroe himself,
provided it will further the machay elan
scheme for the ruin of the Secretary of the
Treasury. But such is ever the process of
uniuincipled ambition
STATEMENT
OF he Testimony Of General Noble.
Gen. Noble, Senator from the State ,of
Indiana, When sworn before thr Committee oil
Investigation, appointed on the Address of
Niuian Edwards, said, when urged by Mr.
Edwards 10 relate The whole ef their CONVEX
saii0n-
g Well, il you insist upon it, will tell the
whole, though avoided it benr-, as not De
Ing legal evidence 10 the easel You know very
We'll that you told, me'thai you knew ,for year,
that you were To get the appointment to
Mexico that you were not afraid Uf Mr..
NJ nrUe; that he WAS bankrupt before he
CAME iDO Office and that CUl. Lane, your
brother-n-law, was iDsinber of the Pres-
drnts family, and had the disbursement of
large sums oil public mooey thai Mr.. Mon
roe knew there were no srcrets among rela-
tions that George Hay was denounced in
Richmond, aud could not be elected 10 con.
stables Office aud that he was a bad adviser
that he President vas, if left 10 himself to-
lerably good old man.
" You said, as 10 Calhoun, he was a Cunning
fellow, aud was at your room Two or three
times a week.
At this point the Committee interposed,
and no farther progress was made: aud, after
some conversation among themselves, they
ordered tie wholetO be struck out of The de-
position. This was on the 10th day Of June.
1894.
.HemOrdndam Of q Conversation ,ciM General
Noble.
"JUNE 10Th, 1924.
f" This day in conversation with Gen. Noble,
at bis room, he told me that in addition To
what he had, by Edwards importantly two
or three days before, stated 10 the Committee
OF Investigation, (but which was expunged
from their rcc0rd,) he meant 10 have stated
mat Edwards SAID he never had any fear of
moi being nominated, except for short lime,
whist Fennsysa appeared disposed tu sup
port Calhoun for the Presidency then he had
some approximations of Ddas's success but
the moment that state gave up Calhoun, then
DE had no longer any fears as Dallas, he
knew, would soon be out of tie question. He
lEdwards) said that Calhoun had no other real
objection to Crawford for the Presidency than
that, ifa southern President were nov elected,
his successor, eight years hence, would GER
tainly have TO come from The north,oard and,
OF course, for sixteen years to come, there
would be DO chance for him, Calhoun"
WAsHiSeToN, July ia hosshesd of To-
bacco, made by Mf. Ijams, Of the State of
Oho was recently inspected aud sold in
Georgetown Warehouse, for s so per hundred
pound, producing, for the hogshead, upwards
offs $50.
Ii was ofunusualIy fine and delicate texture of
leaf and color, but not managed, in the curing
and putting up, quite az well as il is now done
IN Maryland. II would, otherwise, we are in
formed, have brought much higher price. -
Que half or two thirds Of the Tobacco in the
hogshead was worth nearly, if not quite, 8 80
per hundred. We have received samples Of
u, one of which we have forwarded to the Of
fee Of the American Farmer, at Baltimore,
and one retained at our own, where it may be
seen. fAat. lat.
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