American watchman and Delaware advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1822-1828, 1827-07-10

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the work progressing until Ills return from Ne"
York. YOU had determined to lend us ten thousand
dollars. Having been so long trfled with by the
board in relation to raising prices, we promptly
refused to accept the Loan and told you that to ac-
ceptit and give security. would only be to ask our
,uretes to present you with ten thousand dollars,
for that we could never pay it unless the price was
raised If at that time you had believed the
/" delinquent party" so much delinquent" you
would not surely have offered TO loan hun ten
thousand dollars
But am not a !" delinquent parity" and this tact
is known to YOU. The store bills OF the sub con-
tractors amount to nearly $4,000, and have
received ON account of them but 81 900. The
difference is still due to me individually, and this
difference has been expended on your canal. and
for your benefit, with four times its amount, above
what has been received from you. Our books OF
account kent and examined by Henry Wright, will
show, that including the personal expenses OF the
contractors, all the money received from you has
been expended on your work and that the con
tractors are indebted to the persons employed by
taem, an immense sum, which your work has had
the benefit of, to their injury, and which, but for
your setuclng insnuations, and the false prom.
ses of your Engineers, would not now be hanging
over their heads to their utter ruin, and the total
destruction of all future prospects. 1t you
fleet upon these things and sleep, thorny pillows
can have no dread.
If this board Of directors we're really composed
OF honorable men as they are reputed to be, the,
would most willingly afford every opportunity for
investigation, and not charge crime upon mere
hear.say. Al one period | went TO Philadelphia
accompanied by Major Reybod, and took with Inc
all the receipt books ana vouchers Of Clement
Backstock and Nanslyke, together with my store
bucks. for the purpose Of submitting them to the
examination Of the whole hoard informed Mr..
Kane (who seemed always to be the magnus apol
ID u this, in the presence of Major Reybold at
the canal office, while the members OF the board
we're assembling, and requested him to have me
admitted To the directors expressly tor this purpose
le said it should be done at once but waited
with great natenee and humility in the ante cham
aer, expecting every moment to be admitted into
the august presence, but waited in vain the board
adjourned without any notice OF the matter, and
athougn I remained two days in the city, no oppor
trnits was allowed me.
Under such circumstances, and after this board
al director, have utterly ruined me, by therin
ttce. is ;pnst cruel that they should attempt to
destroy my reputation also, by this false statement.
which with their standing in society will be taken
tof truth, by almost every enc who reads it, with
nut an inquiry. Do they resort to the destruction
Of other mems characters, to hide their on ms
management on the Canal, and to save their fame
tice, though often slow in her operations will at
some period arrive, and deal with each according
= his merits One thing at least is certain, that
before this Canal is completed, these directors and
their Engineers will find that they will be reduced
70 The same necessity Of defending themselves
against the lust charges Of deceived stockholders.
that am now reduced to, by statement which
they know TO be false.
Your declarations in relation to the injunction,
are as utterly false and groundless as those of the
other parts OF the report. tits known perfectly we'll,
and the evidence Of the fact you have in Your own
possession, that hut for the exercise Of your high
haaded power. yOur fixed determination to break
down every one that opposed you, that, had YOU
been disposed to do justice to the injured, to re-
pair the damages which the wanton vengeance of
your young totspur engineer, had created, YOU could
have had the injunction dissolved in three weeks
from the day it was laid. This could have been
done by directing our Engineers to JOIN with those
had selected, in making the measurement, and
by furnishing the levels of the original surface which
you were requested to do by letter, addressed to
your visiting committee, which lctter was laid before
the board and the request i. contained, refused
The long duration of the injunction is your own
FAULT, anu has arisen from your determination 10
dcfraud and whatever damages have been sus-
tanned from it are attributable to you alone. Early
in December the Chancellor advised you in open
court to Join in the measurement, to furnish the lev
els and al. information tending to Justice lfyou had
done this, or showed any disposition 70 be Just or
reasonable, the continuance of the Injunction would
have been limited tofjteen days. But accustomed
to the exercise Of arbitrary power, with the rcmorse
less cruelty of a Nero Caliyula, you could
submit to control, and disdained the adj vice be
cause you we're determined no measurement should
be made. TO you therefore are attributable all the
damages that the injunction has done.
In the appendix to the report you have purpose
ly mlsstated the demand which laid before the
referees 1t was made out by the Hon. Henry III.
kideely' 81 the United States Senate, from the cy-
ldence given, and IS as follows. VIZ -.