Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1831-03-08


town 10 Charleston. South Carolina, for 900 dol
lars, and the allowance 1899 dolurs about
80 per cent and the alleged two hours
'Npeuiiinn, the law allowing oaiy prJ-rItr add
ton, which would have been abvut 9 per C. n. If
the two hours expedition had been required. But
hare was another crT"r In the abstract, the eXpe-
Gitlon required being only and half huu.s.
This rNt rlvigaca which Bradley III his letter TO
the President I'D chu:T"d nron Barry, and hnd be-
fore lie COrautee certified 5g his OATH Barry had m
an "bictIt communication, cHGrgCd back upun Brad
ley. The reputation OF these C,vn rcai, me : seem
ed, therefore to be deeply Involved, that became
! the duty az tn, Commute" tn :erlurn how the
fact was, and the Subcommittee was accnrinuy APP
pointed.
la purSuG nee q! this aunnirtmrnt ,ve ,rure,deI
to the Department. Mr. Barry was not there: we IN
CURED "f Mr. Gardner, the Assis. ant, aud others
Tor the persons who mads the .'obstrucis" and
Dir FdyIor and Mr. Dnndas introduced, and,
al ce preliminary examination We're sworn and
testified. We REQUIRED To the erasures, and asked
what was erased 10 M axe the blanks winch were
I'll cd by Mr. Brailey's name? They answered, Mir
| Barry's ana MIR M'Lcau's, but chiefly MIR Bar.y's
| Why were Mrssrs n Lean aud BIrty's ran,e frs,
inserted Becaus, they supposed It was right; but
! Mr Broom, by order of the Postmaster General as
lie sald lad determined otherwise and directed this
rule: to take the egcr Il look at the accoun of the
contractor which adj sted for each quarter and
If the credit OF the allowance 1t. tho end OF the quar-
ter IS carried lntc Bradlcy'S time charge the allow
ehce to hm IL appeared that the account with
ildrrail was adjusted and balanced the end uf the
quarter, TO wit: the first OF April; and as Bradley
was then acting Postmaster General, this niluH-
! a;cc was consequently charged To hnl. inOnircd
! II tils quarter $ account was adjusted and balanced
at the timc 1t bears date? The answer was 1T; and
not, probably, until June. Whether if the allow
ance had been m,dc between the first of Aprl
l'hn end OF the qnartcr) and Jane, the time of &C
i'll a a'Jns'nen would have haca carried to Har
rails c,ed.t IN thai quar'el? Ihe answer was that
1t would Don't you, then, we asked see the fall
lacy OF your rule n proving who tn. i, stmas.
: t;r Cue al who ml,c thu allow lnc.e Your QUAR-
LpT T.Nsnf tnsNirt fI~.f 4
ton, ceased on the h, your adjustment of the
g iarseF was mad on hc fret of Jane II this al
lnwance had been made any time between the 7,h
April and LIST of Jun. and you had ca r,gd il hack
the list OF April don't you that vo,I fix on
Bradley an allowance made by Barr,o Btinr vnnr
original entry, whore concerning this allowance
yoh first put pen to paper, nattct what is the
EGne OF the book the document. They brourl,t
'thA cash book there the allowance was soIcd
end the time for which ii made but IL, when the
decision vas made. Eat | perceived, IN a small
note In rcd NIX, see letter of 10 April" I de
/ manded the letter aud it was brCuph;: and Lrhnld
! ii lester Of Ph;,cns Bradiey to uarruN $ Y
| days after Ahraham's func ions had ceased sa-
ting tiat the p 'stmast' neral Barry had exa-
I mined lis claim for COMPENSATION aud had
directed ,..!l 10 pas the of 81 992 so rer ann
to his clc'lit, allowance. Here the thing
was sa'ti d. The charge of Bradley the PIesi-
dent vi BlrTy's extra allowance, was true; the al
tempt IN rrys official report shoulder it Of on
Bradley was entirely Defeated. The assistant Post
master GencrIl, Gardner, and Chief Clark Brown
were forced 20 admit TIE error, and that the rule
which had fix I'd about 900 Of allowances upon
Bradley. took the allowances OH Ml4can, but
CHIEFLY from Barry, where IN in fact b, longcC
and charged them upon Bradley, wlere ,lov di moi
bei'nc. 1t was strange, indeed, :4t this abstract
should have been, at first. made correctly, and
tina Nj lIeans AMI Earry's narlvs s. ui nav, haan
improperly erased and Btaiiev's improperly ,nscr-
ted Now, ii is not 10 be presumed tha charges so
grave rs these presented Uy Bradley he President
OF u S. III hi4 letter Of TIL. 18th Of Oct ,ynrn
llt,UIoa fn cd he, ,
NJ: Bradley had ben Assistant Postmaster {; ms.
raj full thirty years, and, IN ali that time H. mali
iained an irreproa chabe character. lie had been
remove without being permitted to know ne ca,,s.
One OF the Charges IT. wi p7udigatY.l which he
prefers agans the Posm iSter q 4l..ral, irry +,
attemp ed 20 be shoi"ered &c on hiim. I his T. G
WI es de:l'r on .ati Wa the act Of D,fry him
Sc ~ be way | haNc stated
The ,posto rs OF Grown, DInlas, YayIor Suter
and Gardiner, Omit the Misrepresentation in this cab
stract; bu, "is IS innocent mistake' It may be
So and wish, in ali charity, that we had better
grounds to presume it. This "absFsct" neither "a
original Iecord, copy from any record Il states
briefly in each case, the amount of the contract the
of the contractor, the amount of the extra al
owancc, and for what time 1t is neither an extract
abstract from any record document Il is rather
compilation Of these facts from the letters, the cash
book, and the ledger. singular that there is
no direct record OF the time when these allowances
grant, d. But nevertheless it happened in this
case that the subordinate oiics rs found no difficulty
in asCertaning which Postmaster General did make
b. Mr.. D. Il. Brown, Changed the right into wrong
Now it would seem that rule utterly faliacious as
tins, would operate sometimes for and sometimes
against Mr. Bradley but this strange to tclD operated
III every case against him, and fixed upon him the
most numerous and cXtravagan extra allowances that
were made IN twice that distanc,- of time. Consider
ing, therefore, that Mr. Barry bad been, long before
this presented to the President for extravauance il:
these allowances, that his a call from the
Senate had been altered by erasures so as to remove
this charge from him, and fix it Bradley; that the
ta!sity of the official document had been deec-
ted and acknowledged by the officers who have the
chief management of the department, it is for the
public 20 decide whether such errors in such depart~
men which combine to destroy the fair fame of
worthy and highly distinguished citizen, arc 70 be as
cribed 10 gross ignorance or base design.
From all the evidence which obtained from the
department, it would that in less than four
weeks, Mr. Bradley is made to have given extra allow
auceS in II sscs III thirty six ol which Mcssrs Nc,
Lean and Barry were rightly charged but their uames
were erased, and Bradley's wrongfully inserted. 1t
appears further that though the call these extra
allowances, Which made nine months before it was
answered, extended also to the reasons or consdera
ton for them yet in very few instances has the reason
or consideration been given and IN it is found
that 1t has been enormously given In this very case
q! iiaTra, AL that pretended IN have