Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1830-07-23

accouhts ana vouchers for those payments winch ne
lsays and proves were made by him ten years 400
were accidentally overlooked at the time. and nsSe
thereore. been brought forward and clairned fer in
e m Ha' settlement OF his account? Or does he re-
any suppose tnat they ought not to be allowed? Can
any thinS be more clear than that Mr. K is entitled
TO the yl3O0 which he cninis for the beef and ,erk
bought ofSteed, and the 1851 for the rice bought of
to say nothing Of the other similar items n his
account And does our writer serious think that
ought TO lose these claims SO fiilIS stnbIshod by
MS vouchers and by the concurrent entries
Keepers book merely because they are ten wears old,
AND as TO Mr. KS '.pretended claim for extra com
pehsation, Is our writer quite that Mr. K has
rendered no extra service beyond the line Of his Off
ciai duty, which may have fairly entitled him fo, n
Just reinun ration from the government. And has
he never read the explanation which Mr. x has ,,;
ven of this claim it appears in the document n
ou-9i! And 1t Is not possible at least that in.tsd
OF MIR KS having brought forward these claims To
Iealce the balance due by him, our accomplished u
oitor may have rejected them, and many more - in
ms own summary STYLE only preserve the precious
balance against him, and make him out deta,n
| ter. at all eyeniso
tut our writer asks further very piousls
| IN Heaven name authorized him to Dor
Tor the government, and then he unblusl6
| Forward. and says he might demand I'M
nut where pray, is the mighty harm in
doDanc,ng money for the Government undo
acts, when the exigeucies of the public
Hand immediate attention? l. il not i'm n
OF an honest and active agent to and the U
III this way? And if, in doing So under a
cunstances he not only lays ont his oSyn
"hch he charges nothing, but also borrow
ney -: which he has to pay interest bins
thing but right and fair tnat he should
eminent TO relay him again, both the prl
interest which he has thus paid for it. Inv
should not the honest and faithful servant of three
administrations unbiushingy present his claims for
such dues TO new Secretary land his Auditory who
had unblushnglv turned him out of his often nnon
the most false and sanderous pretencess But our
writer adds: sin what situation would the rreasu-
~ OF the United States be placed, if all discussing
officers should take liberties of his kind with the
government, and be contenauCcd in such demands
upon The Treasury Aye. and in what situation
would the pockets of the poor agents be if their
clams for actual advances for the Government arc
20 20 De rejected OF course? And what risk the
Treasury run from swch liberties, when the Govern
ment has 1t in lis own Keeping, and can call upon its
dsonrsing officers IL account any time it peascs,
ihere Is, besides no great danger, suppose that
oil dlsbursng officers should be guilty of ativancinn
money Tor the Government, Mr.. X has certainly
BEEN and especially after the reward which he has
} got tor his pains. 1t turns out, however after all
ana little unluckily for writer's argument that
MT. IA mas been "countenanced" in some of his de-
mands Tor fis CELEBRITIES of this kind" nv this verv
AudtaT--tilat Is, of his claims for advances
nave been ailowed-embracing, in fact, large part
OF the money which he had borrowed for the Govern.
incnt fron the Bank, and ye. the Treasury is safe
But our writer winds up neatly BY saving perg
courteousty: 'King has made use of the public money
Tor suffered to be used by others who took advan-
l toge O.: hlm and then shifted his default upon the
Bank, &c. &c Here our writer is evidently dispo-
scd to take the view OF the which was so adroit
~ presented by the arch Auditor for the use of any
poor snPleton Who might be willing to be deluded by
It The claim of the Bank as 1t was called in the
report was IN fact the gross bait which the artfui
angler threw out for the gudgeons who wore
ready and waiting to swallow ii down once; and he
must have been almost equally surprised and delight
ed. no doubt, to find supple and slippery eel fa
most as knowing as bluscIf) wriggIing about,
IN his way, Oh his hook Yet it Isl for our editor
goes on to say: chr King in his reply to Mr. Kendall
seems indignant at the attempt to blend his loan from
the Bank with his official accounts and thus TO ma e
him out defauter But how could il be otherwise
| These advances were made by the Bank for public
purposes, and the account was kept signed Miles
hng Navy Agent" Exactly: this is precisely what
ur K. has stated; and it for that yerg reason that
ne has right to be indignant at the attempt of the
Auditor to make him out dcfaulter by tho help of
this loau from the Bank For if this loan from the
Bank was for pu5ic purposes, and so really part Of
Mr. King s account, against the Government, and If
1t had, moreover, been actually allowed 10 hin for
the greater part of it at lcas;) where was the pro
prIety OF bringing out again afterwards and spread
ing 1t on the face OF the statement of his account, and
ON The debit side oft toU?-And was it not, obviously
fraudulent attempt TO shew MIR K off as defauiter
to the government. by holding him up debtor to the
Bank; and tins upon the false pr6tcnce that the Bank
had set up claim against the Government for the
loan TO him? o, but we were told "the Bank did no,
look TO the U. States for repayment Now MIR. K
1t will be remembered, has expressly stated in his
answers To Messrs. BraDt b and Kendall, that the
ban did not look to the Government Except through
n and it might have occurred to Our writer that he
would hardly have hazarded this assertion here in the
very face OF the bank, if it had been certainly
true Yet our writer still asks: "Can any doubt be
entertained upon this subject after reading the fol
lowing documents" and he gives the Secretary's
letter of Oct 80, 1929, and Mr. Newion's of Oct
9th, same year, at full length. But did our writer
real these letor6' IF he did, did lie understand
, them? For they certainly corro6orate instead of
CONT adcting MIR. KS statement on this point Mr.
! KS statement remember, was that the Bank never
went forward to set UP a claim against the Govern
inent, for the money which he had borrowed from it
Tor the public services but always perfectly well
satisfedto let him go and settle his account incu-
ding 1T, IN his own way; but tliat the Secretary had
subsequently ''vited the Bank to shew him this part
4 of Mr.. KS account, and Their turned about with
remarkable grace and gave hnselfbe air of refusing
to allow it; and not satisfied to do so had actually
pdrddtd 1t as If 1t had been urged by tho Bank, for
the dishonest purpose of caefinr an ndrrn ON Mr.