Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1831-03-10

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divisions, and Of all party maneuvr.s.
THE POST OFFICE DEP9EI.uEyyT
We lay before our readers Dsbat. in ,ie S.nat. Of
tho Ooited States, which 10 exciting much interest
ana much mi representation. Mr.. Barry has be. n
oo,uy denounced IN private ei;cies as Jorger:
founding one charge with another. some have gone 80
Tar a. to cay that he was dauter has put h.
hands Toto the public iundsand has sought 10 conc.
roooe oil the Treasury by falls caiion OF the ID D.
cumeuti Charges so seriously aud RraysIy mad
must be promptly me-. The true character OF the
transaction must, however, f,.t be explained. Tn.
speeches oil Messrs. Clayton, Cb .mb .,s and HoIme.
state 'ohaf the charge sand NJ Gtundy's speech,
answers aud explains it away-But the vindc ion Of
MT Barry does not rest here. He has como fors Ard
in the "Glcbe:"
1--WE are authorised 10 saw that ali ,s,rss.n,a,,on
whether made by in high place ., or la the str
that there has been any forgery or any humiliation OF
alteration OF any Of the Records, Books. or Documents
h me ros' Vmce department, arc false and s4nd ,r-
Gus mat all iotimations of erasurss, or alterations
In Report from this ID spsrtment after 4, had been
signed by tho Postmaster General, are equally false
"a paper presented by a Clerk does not becon. a
document, till Is adopted by the Pos,m aser General
~ officer who authenteates il. All statements the
tore, wherever made, of the "iasifc cation of docv
ment," or OF fraudulent emulation of an orgina,
ns., IN re.erence to recent repor, from this
MIR. Bury here positively denies that there h.
oeen any iai'hcaon or muation Of original docu-
ment IN the ofhce-He goes furher-and atfirms ,ha.
=
u was not adopted by the Postmaster G.n.raL-M,
Grundy explains the mistaken principle on which an.
clerk was betrayed into srasurs OF the Abstract
we entertain high opinion Of Mr.. Barry's integrity
aud understanding. We firmly believe, therefore The
statement TO be true, which he has authorised TO be
made in the fase of the nation But these erssures
IL made Tor the purpose Of deception, would admit OF
no justifea ,ion-and the Clerk, who had thus made
them, (oe he who he msy) ought to receive. no,
merely severe reprimand, but the most summary
punishment tits idle to talk of dedication of
fhn IL
neras hagrant violation of his public trusts Suoh ru.
mors have originated either in gross mistake or
design to slander.' "
~ The following Is the explanation which the U. s.
ieiegrdph gives oil these erasures:
GENERAL POST OFFICE
oer Cy mas Tor the last io'y days been filled with
rumor' upon the subject OF some alterations made In
the report OF tn, Post General in m ali
OF the Senate relative to allowances made on
The remarks OF Mr.. Gruniy will be consde red fuI
and satisfactory explanation. The Department being
required to state as we'll the allowances made bv
Judge Mclean as Mr. Barry, the clerk charged :, i'm
preparing the report, first stated those made by Mr.
brauiey alter the resignation OF Mr.. Mclean and be
ore MT barry had entered on the duties of the office
as mad. oy Mr. Barry, without taking into consider,
ton that MIR. Bradley in the mean time had acted a.
Pos-masier General. He afterwards erased the mans
Of Mr.; Barry and inserted in his oDn statement (no
IN the books OF the Department. as had bean slated
the nams of Mr.. Bradley upon such allowances IA !,
appeared to him had been made by Mr.. Bradley.
nave not seen single individual, however
much opposed to the administration, to whom this
expanaten has been given who is fully statistic
herewith and who does acquit, not only the he ad
OF the Department, but the Clerks slso of all blame
Mr. bradley, In memorial to the Senate COMPLAINS
of a nnutilated documenfU No document has besn
mutiaed: the clerk having discovered, that in the
prepared by him, he had written the name OF
mr. Barry where that OF Mr. Br adey, as he supposed
shoud nave oeen written, erased that of Mr.. Barry,
and inserted that Of Mr. Bradey not OH the books Of
the Department, but on a statement which the cisrL
was preparing, under the order OF the Senate"
mere :. rumor in tho Richmond papers, that Mr. Archer
neP,esentaye Congross rem Virginia,
doubts of its authenticity NJ, " y ~ nave
we have since received no information to confirm
the rumour. "
ne Warrington Globe of Saturday also says:
oossPs are busy reporting intended change, in IN. obn
we are entire strangers to any desienO Wv ''