Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1827-03-26

/ Mr.. Calhoun asks ga full Investigation "-sne
he furnishes the Mix letter as the subject TO os
examined. He suggests no evidence pro or con
parol or documentary; but leaves the COMMITTED
themselves 10 hunt il up. No person appears
as accuser, unless Mr.. McDufIie is to be consi
dered in that character. The complaint con
sists of two parts: That he is grossly SANDER
ed--tha, that SANDER has been put upon flle II
the Department, Of War, and made the basis @
an official act. Ii was the most proper order &c
examine the latter subject first. When tha
was disposed of, and the truth or faisehood o
the main charge came 10 be examined, Mi>
was evidently the first person TO be interrogat
ed. Had he any such letter from Vandeventer
as he alleged? was the proper inquiry. by this
course alone, could The truth of the allegation
| in the letter be properly ascertained. Mix wa:
accordingly called before the committee anG ex
amined In the first stages of his story, he pro
duced the following letter:
18th august, 1918.
| "DEAR SIR: am sorry that the oblitera,ed
are concerned in the contract will not agree &c
admit George on the terms you have stated
When informed father that you and and MIR
Jennings were each TO have one fourth, stated
that one other person (,ohom did not name, be-
cause his name is not to be kno,on ,0aS TO haze The
other fourth part, and the contract is concluded
accordingly, and all the other parties have civ
en- bonds: and as we cannot admit, without their
consent, any one INFO the concern, | do not see
but that it father insists on Georges having an
equal part, we must either give up the contract
TO the other partners, or get some one else 10 be
our security; for the other gentlemen (era-
| sure) will not admit any new associate, but in
sst that We either fulfil our agreement, or give
up the whole to them. Under this circum-
stance, hope father will agree 10 sign bond
with Mr. Oakley for the amount which he has
already signed, leaving Georges name out Of
the question. ] would most cheerfullY have
made reservation in favor of George or father,
could l have foreseen that either would have
wished it; but now it cannot be done. II, there
fore, when / come on, and explain fully to IA
Their the whole circumstances Of the case, he
should still make it condition TO signing a
bond that George be equally concerned with US,
we must give up the contract to those who
have complied with their engagements to us, or
we must find other security. do not think
this would be difficult for me, but do not like
it, because / am unwilling to make any one else
but father acquainted with my being engaged
in the contract. therefore feel confident faith
er will not insist on this condition, when he re-
fleets that il is not IN my power or in yours 10
comply, because the other partners will not a.
gree. In word we must abide our engage
ments or lose ALL and father, when he knows
the whole facts, will not think it reasonable to
ask Of us what we cannot, if would, grant,
and insisisting On our performing an impossi-
bliitv, deprive US OF competency, and thus en-
rich others a. our los.
81 shall procure advance Of the money you
require on security, which have gotten here,
but this security is erasure only for the ad.
vance now made, and is not equal in amount 10
what must be given shall leave hsrs on Ms
,vrp ----rsuS- ~~----~---1orrS WHY" L
torn par, Of the contract which you must sign,
and then will return the bond, provided Father
will not consider il Independent OF George
This s,ep really regret, but it is imposed up
On me by the determination oil other associates.
Show this TO father if you please
Yours truly, &. VANDEVENTER.
E. Mix, Esq.
In connection with this he told confused
story about certain sums OF money. Wheh he
ended his narration, the first question put TO him
was by MIR. Campbell, in these words:
"Do you kno,o that Mr.. Calhoun participated
in the profits Of The contract TO which you have so
often alluded? Ii yea, to what amount!
"ansrer. The sums Of $4,000, $4,000 and
Sl2. 900, have never been accounted Tor 10 me
as yet. don't pretend to say what has become
of them: they were taken from the proceeds OF
my contract.
Notwithstanding the mutilations noted in the
letter of Vandeventer, that part was wholly un-
mutila,ed, which contained the assertion that
"ons other person, ,rhom I did not name, because
his name is not 10 be knoDn, ,oas TO haze the other
fourth" Here was a circumstance calculated
to implicate some one The Vice-President
had made Mx's letter Of sufficient importance,
connected with the supposed use that had been
made of it, to demand an investigation. Could
that investigation be made without examining
Mix? Could it be properly made by asking him
SHE solitary question as to The fact Mr.. Cahoun's
partieipation2" Mix had not alledsed that par
ficipai;on" as being within his own knowledge.
He referred for proof to Vandeventer's letter.
So that he must, of necessary consequence, have
answered lha, he knew nothing. Such course
of examination, instead of "full," would have
been mere mockery Of investigation The
letter Of Vandeventer led necessarily to "erpld'
nations" without which Mr. Calhoun must have
been involved in suspicion at he least. For,
however Mix might be diseredlted, his denial
Of what he never professed to know, could serve
no purpose. And the letter he produced de-
clared there was secret partner, which could
not fail to cast suspicion upon Mr. Calhoun
L.