Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1831-01-14
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WEDNESDAY MORNING 4 8 nan

re Enqu' er and Judge Clayton Of Georgia.
u Judge Clayton of Georgia. has written n sc
yes W Nos III the Milsdgvile Journal, in reply to
NcDrfle's report last winter the state OF the
roocg. Some paius were taken 10y friendly presses
to rlout and oaudagc the Judges bantling, but in
vain. We read the two first Nos. with great NEIL
tGl eNerion. and contemporary forciby says,
from "a sense of Professional duty"-but we could
get no tather. The essays were too heavy and in
elegant fo- this day. and have circulated in only
or two presses at the South
This may be the why the Judge complains
Of the extraordinary circulation of McDu6ie's Re
port. The gentleman may feel little pique, that his
unlocked progeny should die obsourely, when the
splendid offspring of McDufic's genius adorned the
pages of thousand presses and SCARED On the ucclu
nations ola whole nation. 1t may be the reason.
why The Judge upon anonymous authority, has stoop-
cd TO the lilteness of attempting to strip McDufie
OF the fame conferred by the authorship of thu, Re-
Pprt.
a likely notion truly, that hIcDufle was unequal
10 what Langdon Cheves, or Mr. Bddle, or Mr. Ing
ersoll, able they are could accomplish either sing
ly or united!
But, Says Judge C'ayton,l this much do hnns:
hundred thousand copies of the Bank Report have
repubished in al the papers i'll the T. S. friendly to
that Institution"
TO the first part of this notwithstanding the
10000 copies by the Bank-we have nothing to say:
only we Should like to know, how if it be true, the
Judge could knoa IL
To the other branch Of the assertion, have
word to say. McDnilie's report WAS published, We
believe universally, by the papers friendly to the
R.pt haiti ouo nnrS hiS. iusti; tba ;uein
ton evidently intended, that therefore, those papers
were paid orpubshng it, The Report was pub
lishcd also by the parcrs opposed the Bank What
does the wise Georgian infer from that? Our CO.
temporary published it-so did the Telcgrap!l-were
they too paid for it by the Bank The Judge
certainly piqued and mortified ut the still born fate
of his brat-else could he draw such loose and
illogical deductions. The truth is this-McDutfie's
report embraced subject affecting every part of the
L. States-attention had been reused by the Presi-
dents report itself, of transcendant
ability and therefore, was it universally published
Cankercd must be the mind, and oblioue the vision
that will see the force of these facts but prefers
throw the shade Of suspicion over whole class of
fellow citizens
Ever prompt with his iusinuations, an ingenious
neghbor of ours. seizes the opportunity of Caytons
remark, to repeat oTler irIsiiluaton. lie says
'if the hand of the Bank be not in this thing. there
at least strong marks of it IN certain newspaper
articles" Which articles, an (which newspa pers?-
We invite the candid editor to oct With his spe-
cifcations, that the assailed may make their defence
and the innocent know that they are not attacked
Did he not publish McDuffie's Report, Has he the
assurance infer the corruption of others from the
thing which ne did HIMSELF Or does he mean to adj
nit, that he too was bribed by the Bank of the Il.
States TO circulate that Report?