Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1831-03-05
GENERAL POST OFFICE.

~ GolIowing Is copy VI uenoii"A ~eu
ne ~ IO Senate of the United States, by MIR
I'd 70 uD' Rradley, and presented to that body
AOIah1~ The fact which this letter disclose:
re'telu- slv excite greater establishment among
vIu ''a than the excuse which has been Sc,
our nau' nsn,rtment to extenuate 1t. Mistake,
gPD T r., IN lie character, and OF such tremen'
+" Pe':u a~nrr 10 the reputation OF worthy and
Ioas nn PPocted citizen, running with strange
'o'' spce through particular chain Of entries,
coln''u.-ords where no other errors OF entry
ind W .sn detected, assumes consequence
ave Iii e';T, naturally make men pause to believe
vhl'n snlsly attributable to accident. The
r4! " = one which will not be permitted to
'l' The facts which have beeu disclosed IN
it'R .tisaton are sufficient to alarm the pub
y, a'' .nd 10 awake suspicion that there Is more
&C. '" s;s,oks at the bottom OF this transaction.
,An as nrrsept. however, we shall withhold fur
f0' us ,i'nent and request that our readers will
'ner III. III neruse. and calmly reflect on, the
auehu's which are contained in the following
".morial:-Nat. jour.
r.. 81 Boo,rablethe Senate Of The United States.
r rO.",amoral of Abraham Bradley. late Assist
'' .,pst Master General, most respectfully
Fiat after his removal from office. he, as is
al Known to the Senate, presented TO the Ere
'T T, 6 the United States letter, in which a.
~u,,' o,,sr things he stated that Mr.. Barry, the
w., past Master General, had made an extra
" 49,. 70 Mr.. Harrall, 4 mail contractor,
ID IN ohers. as this memoriallst conceived '0tfh-
nd varraat Of lac
49,. n,srrsnt,d BY this memorialist to the present
Sl,i, Committee of the Senate, on the Post Of-
| fee Department,
~ Saripq the last session Of Congress, call was
10 ON that Department at the instance OF one
~ -, senators from Ohio, for information rela-
80 ,o,be extra allowances which had been made
% mail contractors. IN
The response Of the Department to that call
-,,, submitted to the view of this memorialst as
'n,,;niOO matters in which he was deeply con-
,,med. Upon examining It to ascertain II ms
.,,,lec,ion IF Harrall's case he wasunmeasuraby
'.,,nisbeJ 10 find that the extra allowance was
l.,o CHARGED 10 hare been made by him, acting
o.. pn,t Master General. IL was eviden. that
ii. documents had been originally different, that
Of, sr,sure had been made, and the name OF this
,,,mornlist inserted Induced By this TO eXa-
rIoe further, he found that forty-niae cases OF
r,r, allowance were in that document charged
| have been made by him. Ihriy-Sir Of these
,rs similar TO the case of Harall: the original
locpment had been mutilated, and the name Of
!. Bradley. ir. acting as Post Master General,
lelully Inserted.
This memoraiist called the attention OF the
Committee. to these circumstances as evidence
d an attempt to impeach his testimony, and to
oad his official conduct with opProbrium, being
ylOlic documentary proof from the books OF the
Department, that he had squandered the public
knds during the few DAYS he had acted as Post
Mister General. between the 10Th ct March,
vSeu Mr. McLane left the office, aud the 5th of
ipti vixen Mr.. Barry came into it. and that. IN
order to screen himself. he had charged these
things upon the latter gentleman. The com
n,tee kindly authorized a subcommittee To &C
company this memoralist to the Department yes
terday, the 29th inst to ascertain whether his
statements we're corrrct. Your memOrallst con-
SIenty appeals to those gentlemen. in support of
The fact. that it satisfactorily appeared to them,
that In this case Of Harralfs as well as in every
0uer case but one in which an erasure had been
made. VI. Barry vas originally and properly
charged: and that it was there asserted thai these
sri'ars hadbeen made by mistake. and BIZ name
la'ered By mistake. The gentlemen had not
time to pursue their enquiry. and no examination
vas made into those cases originally charged to
YOUR memOralist.
10 whatever manner these mutilations of the o.
nsnal document NAV have occurred, and these
'l'e amendments to 1t made by mistake or not,
he effect must be, it goes TO the world, to in
i''e, Il not to destroy a reputation upon which
nrmemorialist, after nearly 40 years public
r'ce, must mainly rely tor support. The Sc
late has, as he has been informed, directed this
''Ptt to be printed.
this should be done. and it should with all
ShI'enOods and injurious tendency be spread
before the people under the sanction of the Sen
Ne Of the United States, your memorialist sub
al, that great injustice must necessarily follow
y m1l he therefore prays that such order may
N ASen by the Senate as will secure his right,
aD especially preserve the reputation which doc
1"val' published BY the authority of the Senate
.U'u always possess. And your memorialist as
may bound, &c. ABRAHAM BRADLEY.
WDrh