Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1833-10-11

volume of our Journal, page 29.-(Note BY Ed
Phren. jour-
We ask the readers attention to the following
from the New York Gazette. The iMurmdtlon
will, De rhaps, star,le him little. 1t is right
that il should. Such matter needs no cammen'
tary; it should b. accompanied rather by action
| than reflection.
cit is stated that Reuben NJ. Whitney, has
been appointed by the President. superInten.
dent Of the government deposites in the State
Banks"
We find the above paragraph in the National
Gazette. From the well known responsibility
of the Editor of that Journal, we presume he
had good grounds for making The statement. In
order, therefore, ~ let our readers know the
character Of the individual to whom the Presl-
dent has committed this high trust. we make the
following extract from the report Of the minority
of the Select Committee. appointed to examine the
books and proceedings Of the Bank OF the Unit
ed States. This report was drawn up by Mr.. NJ
Dufie. aud signed by himself, and Me.srs. Adams
and Wa,mough, and submitted TO the House OF
Representatives on the 1lth Of May 1882.
! EXTRACT" An informer and witness by
the name nf Whitney, who had formerly been a
Director of the Bank. was produced. who declar-
ed upon oath, that, in July 1924, two OF the Cash
Iers Clerks of the Bank and one OF the discount
Clerks. had informed him that Thomas Bladle &
Co. had been in the habit OF drawing none, out OF
the Bank, on deposit Of Stock IN the ieiiers
drawer, without paying interest; and that the
President Of the Bank had discounted two notes,
one for Thomas Biddle & Co. and one for
Charles Biddie, without the authority OF the III
k., .sh
these officers Of The Bank, and examined the
taller's drawer and the discount book; and found
the facts which had been stated TO him verified
by the examination. He also stated, TO give adj.
ditonal certainty to his averments, that he made
a memUi andum at the time, with the dates Of
the transactions, which memorandum he produc
ell to the committee. Having this unalterably
fixed the date of the transactions, as IL by some
fatality, he vent on to say, he immediately pro.
ceeded into the room of Mr.. Biddle. and remon-
straied with him against these irregular proceed
inss; and that Mr. Bddle promised him that they
should not occur again.
"Mr. Biddle "as present during the eSamina.
ton of this witness. On that day, being on OATH,
he said. that he was utterly astonished at the ties.
timony of the witness. and could only oppose to
it his solemn declaration, that there was not one
word of truth in it from the beginning to the end.
He added, that from the relation in which the
witness stood to him, he would have sunk into
the earth, sovner than he would have dared to
come to him with such remembrance as he pre-
tended to have made The officers Of the Bank,
from whom the witness alledged he had derived
this information were examined. and all Of them
positively contradcted him. They testified and
demonstrated IRON the backs. that Thomas Bid
die & Co. had never obtained money, in any IN
fhot fuN.,
notes, which Whitney asserted to have been dis
counted by the president alone. had been dis
counted regularly by the Directors
"Iu the interval between the all tournament OF
the Committee that day. aud its meeting the next,
member Of the board of directors, suggested to
Mr.. Bnldle that he was about the time Of the al.
legged transaction, in the city Of Washington. -
On examining the journals Of the board and the
letter book 1t was found by entries and letters,
that for several days previous to the alleged in.
terv,ew between the President and Whitnev,
and for several DAYS afterwards, the President
was absent on visit to this city, on the business
of the Bank. and Gen. Cadwalader was acting
in his place!
"Thus was this artfuIly devised story, which
was intended to blast the reputation OF a high
minded add honorable man through one Of those
extraordinary interpretations by which Providence
sometimes confouDds the contrivances Of the
wicked, made to recoil upon the head Of its in
ventor. ,cho must forever stand forth as a blast
ed monument Of the speedy and retributiUe jus.
fiee of heauen. 1t is important, here, to add
that the President was In this City, not only at
the time Of the alleged interview, but at the We
~ time when the notes of Thomas Biddle & Co.
and Charles Blddle we're discounted, ,ohich
" hitney swore ,oere discounted by the President
alone -