Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1826-08-04

tations, lei the following facts decide.
Mr.. Ekins, in accounting for the al
fusion which he represents me TO have
made to the A. B. publications" re-
fers to an article in the Richmond En-.
quirer," which he believes led to the re.
mark | made, "ln which article Che
swears) il zDa8 stated that Mr.. Ed
yards, of II. B, plot memory or words
to that effect, had been nominated BY The
President as Minister 10 MeTico. Mr.
Edwards observed that he was not the
author of those publications, or, as !
! think the expression was, that he was no
more the author than the editor OF the
! Enquirer himself" And the conver-
sation, he says, happened " during the
tendency Of my nomination before The
Senate"
| The Hon. John S. Barber, on his ex-
animation. says, Mr.. Elkins informed
me, in conversation sought by myself,
{ that he had heard Gov. Edwards inciden-
! tally remark, uhon reading this article
in the Richmond Enquirer, IN which he
is 8hoken Of as .Ninian Edwards, The
author Of II. B. Or Of II. B. plot memo
ry,' that he was no more the author II
that filot than the editor of the Enqui-
rer."
You, sir, referring to the alleged arti-
Gle in the Richmond Enquirer, relative
to my nomination, as Minister to Mexi.
CO, expressly say. uton your oath that
" Isazy 9n article 10 the Richmond En-
quirer, stating, that .Ninian Edwards,
author Of II B. or of.A. B plot memo
ry Il 30 not recollect 7vhtch) had been
so nominated. The pape' sazu at he
boarding house of Mrs Queen ami /
think, in the hands OF Mr.. Eikins.
But Notwithstanding both you and Mr..
Elkins have solemnly and positively
sworn TO this statement, and have re-
peatedly made it to various individuals,
it is fact, a terrible one tor you, that
you have both sworn TO that 7chich zuaS
not." / have at length been fortunate
enough to obtain file of that paper, and
find that there was no such article in it
as you and Mr. Elkins describe nor an,
thing like it," On the contrary it had
copied into its own columns, from a Bal
timore paper, letter very flattering to
me. Nor, indeed, did il contain single
unfriendly remark in relation to my no.
minatioD, from the time it was made, TIL
about eleven or twelve days after its con.
firma.ion.
That you have at least been mistaken
in regard to the period of my allege
conversation with you, presume you
own refreshed recollection OF the state o
my health, of the consequen, improba-
billy OF my having been in your room
at that time, and of my inability to have
accompanied my remarks with man
ner less vehement, and ges,icu latioDs
less violent than those which, on you
examination before the committee, you
ascribe to me, must, ere this, have fully
satisfied you
But, independent of the sickness which
then confined me in my room, nothing
can be more certain than the eorporeal
debility, the consequence Of a long pre-
vious confinement to my bed, togethei
with the compla int under which | still
labored, rendered me utterly unable OF
performing the active evolu,ions of pls
cling my feet high on the lambs OF the
fireplace, rapidly changing my position,
by whirllng round, and vigorously ges
tlculating, as jealous and highly re-
spectacle friend Of MIR. Crawford, has
heard you represent me to have done on
the same occasion.
You will recolIect, or if you should
not, others do, that, on the day on which
certain witnesses testified before the
committee, to my sickness, you observ.
ed, 81 will do Gov. Edwards the jus.
tice to say, he was very sick, and my
self carried letter from Mr.. King to
him in his own ROOM"
Intending to use this, with other Cir
cumstances, TO show that you mus, IN.
ques;ionably have been mistaken in the
testimony which you have given, trus,
the situation in which you have placed
me, gives me fair claim upon your can
dor to confess or deny that fact. Truth
is Professionalism would be suspicious,
and refusal to answer cannot fail to be
Interpreted to your disadvantage, by a
discerning public.
Upon being asked by Mr.. Cook,
whether you understood my converse.
ton as intended to affect your vote on the
then pending nomination you reply,
" I did not suttose that 7uas its design,
nor had il any such effect ut,on myself"
But upon being asked by Mr.. Forsyth
on the part OF Mr.. Crawford, "whas do
you now understand as having been the