The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1835-06-10
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Democratic Republican Nomina ito
FOR PRESIDENT
MARTIN VAN BUREN,.
VICE PRESIDENT
RICHARD Nj. JOHNSON.

n Justice ana Uuln induces us TO pub
lish the annexed correspondence which our reader
are requested to give attentive perusal- Eve
since the world created it has been the practca
of certain individuals who have the form and ap
pearance of men, to be influenced and actuateC
more by motives which characterize fends, than BY
such as are creditable to the human species. WheI
such persons have no foundation in truth on which.
to erect their battery for the destruction of the char
acter of those whom they hate, they resort once
and without scruple to calumny and falsehood
Such is the in the present instance, and the
present is by no means the first, and expected
to be the last attempt of the envious and malignant
to idre Mr. Pearce, and to destroy the well ground
ed confidence which the freemen of Rhode-Island
and of Newport in particular have at all times re-
posed in him. But Mr.. Pearce's character as an
able, successful and indefatgable representative OF
the interests of the State, the floor of Congress
has been too long established and such is too well
known to his constituents, to require any euogium
of ours. Neither do we make the present remarks
TOR the purpose of confirming the confidence of his
friends, but solely confound the malice of bis en-
emles and to brand upon their foreheads an epithe
they have long merited and never more than on this
occasion, the epithet of LIARS
NEWPORT, MAY, 2Sth 1896 1
BRIGADIER GENERAL, C. GRArIor.
SR.-The report now in circulation here, is,
that the appropriation made on the Sd. of
March last, in the words following, For
the removal of the lighthouse now on
the North end of Goat-lsland, near the harbor of
Newport Rhode Island, as authorised by the Act of
tbo hir..at 4 a.,
four, IN addition to former appropriation of thr-
teen thousand six hundred dollars the sum of hn-
ty t,co thousand four hundred dollars" will be with
held, and no part of that will be expended this
season in the work named :-Connected with this re-
port, as if there was to be no end to human Gull-
bty, there is another, in circulation, that the sum
appropriated, iswithhedat my instance, and through
my influence. In reference to these two reports,
have to request you in the first place. if it be the de-
termination of the Department to withhold the APP
preparation, and not to the work this sea-
son, to state what ground and for what cause :,
and in the second place to state fully, and explicitly,
whether since the adjournment of Congress YOU have
heard from single word received from me a
single line; or heard of my saying word or wri-
ting line to any in regard to the suspension of
this appropriation.
You will probably, recollect, that day, or two,
after the adjournment of Congress having learned
that this work would be transferred by the Treasury
to the War Department, was at your Office and in
conversation with you, far l, with propriety,
could do it, urged the necessity of the adoption of
immediate measures for the commencement of the
work. You know my zeal to get this appropriation.
and the attention have given to it, for years past,
is within your knowledge:
| remain, Sir.
Your obi. & Humble Sery't
DUTEE J. PEARCE.
Engineer Department, Washington lst June, 1885
Hon. DUrEE J. PEARcE, Newport, r. l.
SIR,-ln answer to your letter of the 2Sth ult.
IN reference to the suspension of the appropriation
Of SAG, 900 for the removal of the light house now
on the North end Of Goat Island near the harbor of
Newport, Rhode-Island," / have the honor to in
form you that Immediately after the adjournment of
Congress, the building ofthe pier and reconstruction
of the lighthouse was transferred from The Treasu
ry to this Department. The work was placed un-
der the charge of Col j. G. Totten of the Corps of
Engineers, who Immediately proceeded to make
survey of Goat-Island shoal, upon which to pred-
cate an accurate estimate of the expense. From
received, it found that the whole
would be more than Col. Totten had anticipated in
his former estimate, owing to difference in the price
of materials. Accordingly the whole work was sus-
pended for the given in the letter of the 23d
ult. from this Department to COL Totten, a copy of
which is herewith enclosed, together with copies of
the papers to which it alludes.
So far as regards your own agency in the matter,
the Department has every to believe that both
in and out of Congress you have most zealousy
urged the necessity of the adoption of immediate
measures for the commencement of the work, and
far from he in the