The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1835-09-23

complaint at General Joseph Stantons during ou
late campaign, at whose house he taberuacled 70
one night.
II This venerable gentleman has alluded to his twen
ty years practice of the law there are too mani
yet living who were acquainted with his practice, t.
make it necessary for me to speak fully of it Nc
man who had good case, would commit it to him
a bad case he did not often make worse he some
times made such better his abuse of Court
witnesses and counsel was proverba and it is mat
ter of record, that he was suspended from practice
for contempt of Court; to evade the process of which
he fled To his burrow, in Massachusetts, and has
never practised ia the Supreme Court of this State
since that time.
| come now to the consideration of a serious
charge made against me by the venerable gentleman,
made 1t is true, rather out of time, it has been
made after, and not before election 1T is fair
to suppose, Think az he has of late evinced dis
position to publish to the world all he knew, all that
he ever heard about me whether true false, my
personal enemies, and political opponents have
vassed my whole life, colaed all my evil deeds and
passed over all my good actions, tried to con-
vince the public that never performed good act
in my whole life, that if there was any foundation
for the charge insnuation that let my situation
be what it might be night, it always car
ried off by stiff dose from the hair of the same e
dog in the morning." the public would have been
readily conceive how he should ascribe to a
Cogniacface the ofwhat it is, haviug stamp
ed upon his mind the sorrel hair and rubcund
countenance, of the gentleman who with him,
in his late and last political he is pardonable
mstaking the flushed face of man, for the
paihd countcnance of another. His charge stands
supported by his own assertion alone, and let the
public weigh it as the people have weighed him.
1t any individual of respectaby any part of the
Union, would for a moment heed or regard it,
would as could, prove its falsity by every member
of Congress, with whom have messed for The last
ten years by every Rhode Island man who ever
visited me in Washington, and by every man who
in Washington, ever knew me- pretend not to
total abstemousness l do not belong to the cold
water society, much respect that institution
have joined no temperance society for fear unless
did, that might contract habits which would get
the better of my judgment, having long since come
to the conclusion, that when cannot restrain and
govern myself, l will without the requirements of
any institution, not drink at all drink when in
clnaIion prompts me, mot early IN tire day the
venerable gentleman has stately much less when a
broad, than at home he has mistaken my beverage
prefer that which is of Ouch manufacture, to that
IF the French or Spanish; not because have de-
lived from it that inspiration which celebrated En-
ylish poet has said it would impart; but because to
ne more palateable. l do verify believe that the
venerable gentleman has drank more brandy, mixed
With laudanum in one day, than ever drank in my
ife. He takes his Branded Laudanum as medi- |
;ine, and has been frequently completely pros
rated by its power, require the aid of his friends
n going from the house to his carriage. He drinks
the celebrated Pitt drank his Port, for has
,laint, but who died sot and a martyr to it. The
venerable gentleman makes his purchase of the A |
mine, small as they have been not five
Iolars for session of seven months, made at
he grocery store drink with my friends, or when
friend calls to me, who is in the habit of drink
ng; he takes his medicine, where drunkards gener-
lily take theirs, in solitude-shut up in his room,
ick, or pretending to be sick
A word as to my mileage and per diem pay.-It
now evident that the paragraph which appeared
n the Journal, the 22d Of August, in reference
0 my compensation, which called from me my for
ner letter to you, was written by Tristan Burgess,
nd was intended a stab for, and to injure me- as
would, if it had not been promptly met. My trav-
has been, bear in mind, taxed by the mail route,
ne usual mode of taxing ones travel, and the only
orrect under the existing law: and when there
'as an arrearage of pay due me- it was allowed by
Committee of the House, and without such al
,wance it could not have been received; it was not
AIKEN upon my own certificate; no back pay can
e recovered upon Members certificate, as
he venerable gentleman well knows, Tor he has tried
he experiment. at the last session. Now how stands
he venerable geneman's case, by his own showing:
He has claimed his travel not only by the mail
cute, for which he arragns me, but he must, to ar
i've at the amount he has claimed, in his computa-
ion, come to Newpor-start from here to Provi-
ence, and from Providence to Washington by the
nail route and his bill in the hands of the Off
ers of the House, made out by him. will show this.
1t is not necessary to follow the venerable gentle
nan through all his statements He says the rec
rd of the first session OF the 23d Congress, will
how, that at that session, l received my duplicate
as he calls it; he speaks without
ook, there is no such record no member can re-
eive his per diem pay unless when he arrives a
lay after the adjournment of the House,-is taken
ick after his arrival and cannot attend, or is taken
lick on the road, to Washington; all these cases
rave happened, to the venerable gentleman, and in
Ill of them, he has claimed and received compensa-