Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1831-03-08
THE INCIDENT.

Seoerai, addressed 10 the Senate of the |. States
and deoatc in that body, thcrcup,n.
The facts of the case, are briefly these Mr.. A.
bradley, who had been principal agen, in the Gene
raj Poet Office, for between 50 and 10 vca-s and IN
whom, that csta Iishmcnt was cer,ainv indebted Gr
much OF the reputation rcapcd BY o;hcrs was ono of
those. reformed out of Office at the commencement,
ct the administration of the Greatest and Best in
April, lG29-dismlssed without cause although the
itcformcrs humbly anl resoecl fully requested
70 assign the cansc OF the act. Mr. Bradley i, seems
however still kept curious eye the proceedings
or the Department, and in October last, addressed Il
letter to the President, charging Post Master Gene
rai barry, with extravaganza, i'll making extra al
iowances to contractors for carrying the mail; mott
eng particularly, the case OF a Mr. Harral allowed
Sl992 per annum, for eXpedIting the mail one hour
and n halt, between Georgetown and Charleston s.
Carolina. To this statement, Mr. Bradley made
oath before the Post Once Committee; and in an
OnFcia' Communication, Mr.. Barry denied it's truth
and charged that this extra allowance had been made
by Mr. Bradley himself, when acting as Post Master
General pro tenn IN the interval which occurred be-
tween the tetirement of Mr. McT.nne on the 10Th
March, and the entrance of Mr.. Barry. on the 9Th
April, 1929 This statement Of Mr. Barry was
brought before the Senate in n report responding to
call made by MIR. Burnett of Ohio, at the preceding
session of Congress, and was upon the recommenda.
ton Of the Standing Committee on the Post Office
ordered TO DO printed. The injurious effects upon
MIR. Bradley, are obvious at first view. IT, between
the 10th March and the 9Th April he had dispensed
extra allowances to the amount of So ooo-if in his
letter to the President, he had charged Mr. Barry
with illegal and wastefl extravaganza committed by
h1mfey-hs character public and private, dcsti-
ned to overthrow. "Unmeasurably astonished" as
he says at the statement of Mr.. Barry he Instituted
investigation, and discovered that in Harras case
and thirty sir others of extra allowance the name of
Wm T. Barry, had been erased from the entries, as
the officer making the extra allowance, and his orn
rae substituted. Upon this discovery, he presented
the memorial (Which may be seen elsewhere) to the
Senate asking the suppression of the publication of
the rcport-with which request the Senate complied
Mr Grundy, admitting the evidence
Of Bradley truth and Barys error, to be incontro-
vcrtble
We invite an attentive pcrusal of the Debate which
arose in the Senate, on Mr.. Bradlcv's memorial 1t
will be observed, that Messrs Clayton, Holmes and
Chambers, refrain from enquirng into the motires
with which the ensures made. That matter
is left TO the Public. Every man must needs ask
himself, what the motive of this Justification OF
the public records Mr.. Barry's name was al first,
properly entered the Officer making the allow
Guce-lohy il rubbed out, and MIR Bradley g
Hame pnt in the place OF his-Mr Bradley by whom
the extra allowances not mado' Could so strange
aud allacious, and unjust, and false a rule as that
adopted at the insga:ion of the chief clerk, Mr.
Brown, (tde reverend Obadiah + be hlt upon with
ont barL
every man of sense and candor, will answer in tho
negative. The excuses made, that She clerks were
young men inexperienced in business, who made n
mistake; and this rule Of Obaduhs are inconsistent
If there mistake the names could not have beer
done by rme-if sney effected by the operation
Of the rule, there certainly no mistake. The
counts in the declaration, like those which assign
the motives for prying INTO the Cabinet secrets OF
1915, are in conflict, and destroy each other The
Telegraph alleges the Washington Public TO be gen
orally satisfied with the explanation If So that Pub
lie is easily satisfied than other portions OF the
Community nre like 10 be-
We confess that the agency Of the Reverend Cha
dinh b. Brown. in this transact on inclines us TO 70
gard the transaction itself with the utmost suspicion
That individual has been vey sandarod, if he is no
capable Of the worst acs--if he Is not that mos
dangerous of characters, schcmng, meddllnG am
bilious and unprinciplcl pricst-thc more dangcrou,
20 society, because his habit bcgots confidence Thi
was the man who acted the Jackson spy IN tn
General Post Office during the last administration
This is he, who when the Greatest and Best cam,
into power, turned nforme against his associates il
the General Post O1icc--not an informcr against th
perpetrators Of crime, but against those VINO hat
given preference to Mr.. Adams over Gen. Jackson
This is the reverend gentleman who procured Tn
dismissal of his patron, Mr. Bradley, and was rcwar
dcd With his place, by this most pure administration
TO the agency Of this individual thu ensures ar
traced, and every man will admit tho character o
the agent is not calculated to diminish the suspicion
which hangs over the act. As to Mr. Barry, WI
suppose but that he an unconscious instru
ncnt merely IN Browns hands We acquit hun q
tho caPability of participating with knowledge, il
tho fraud- Animal mar his eta nI