Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1826-07-28

errors which might be discovered and
it was not presented to the public until
all the light which we could obtain had
been obtained in order to make il . cor
rec, sketch of the Generals speech de.
livered at Troy. We believe it is so;
and if not, the General would have
evinced more frankness and fairness had
he made his complaints 10 ourselves
that we might DO him justice. II it does
not exhibit brilliant talents and profound
research we cannot help it. We could
not be expected-we could not be sup
posed competent--to dress up, like DR..
Johnson, splendid Grafton, fit to be de-
ivered by a member of Congress: we
are nor ASPIRING TO that high station.
There is an expression in the Gene
ral's address calculated to affect US in
our relation to the religious community.
I" The charges you, with seeming hious
truth, have uttered against me-" We
have sough, in vain for those charges
agains, the General; except one which
barely states from Information received,
that he was giving currency to an unfair
and untrue story about Mr. Cook and
Mr.. Turney; and which charge has not
been denied. But if the General only
intended to intimate that we were ex-
pressing opinions which we did not our
selves bold, we will acknowledge the
accusation TO be equally grave; amount.
ing, in TACT to The crime OF lying, under
the garb OF fiety. We feel the full
force OF this cutting inuendo, and wish
no, to conceal II. 1t is one which can
not be reiuted or answered, except by
reference TO what we have written; which
reference VIC again make, and claim, as
due to US from every citizen, candid
perusal.
Pto,eslations were idle. Our mo.
tlves can be known only to HIM who
" knows what Is in man." and if, in the
day when "the secrets of all hearts shall
be made manitesl," it shall be found
that we wrote with seeming hious truth
while there was =" lie in our right hand"
we shall be branded as hypocri,es be-
fore the assembled world, and " have
our portion assigned US with" congenial
6 hypocrites and unbelievcrs" To the
awful scrutiny OF that day we leave it.
We have received, through the hands
oil friend, communication written at
Vandaia, and forwarded thence for in
sertion in our paper. The obiec, of the
writer is to prove that Mr.. Cook gas
and 10 opposed TO the reduction OF the
price OF public lands for which pur.
pose he resorts to the old, worn-o out ex.
pedient oil reference to Mr.. Cooks vote
on the bill making further provision
for the sale of public lands" But in
order to make this vote the more abo.
mlnable, he says, Mr.. Cook voted
against it in most contemplate mino.
rity, there voting for the bill 1913 against
49," He forge.s to state, however,
that this contemplate minority" con-
sisted, chiefly, of all the representatives
from Ohio, Indiana, Alabama, Missis.
sippi and Louisiana, (being all the states
in which public lands were situated) ex-
cept, we believe, one vote from
Indiana: and that Henry Clay, the dis
advocate oil western interests,
was one of this same contemplate mi.
nori.y." Strange-tha, all the new
states should at that time have been rep.
resented by traitors to their own and
their constituents interests.
The writer also forgets 10 state that
this bill changed the mode of selling
from credit TO cash; and that, had the
credit system been continued as Mr..
Cook desired, many poor man might,
with Is dollars, or at most with 40, have
saved = farm for five years from the
merciless grasp Of the spcculator.