Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1836-05-12

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Answer | have not the slightest recol
lection ofany thing OF the kind.
A part ofthe Testimony Of MIR Whitne.
being read as follows:
.rhey (Mr Andrews and MIR Wilson
went with me 10 the First Teller drawe
and we found one sum Of S45 900 dates
a5th OF May, and one for $4,000. datee
Goth Of May
Question by Mr.. Adams. Dovou know
any thing Of the facs stated BY Mr.. Whit.
ney in the above extract?
Answer have not the slightest recol
lection oil II.
Question by Mr.. Adams. Did Mr. Whit
ney come with Mr. Andrews aud Mr. Will
con to your drawer. and examine the con
tents OF the same. al any time in the year
1924?
Answer. have no recollection Of il.
MIR Biddle stated to the Committee that
the whole evidence Of Reuben Nj Whit
ney, so far as il related TO himself person
ally. was totally and absolutely false. aud
says that be was wholly ignorant Of the
transactions themselves 10 which this i'm.
aginary conversation was founded, aud
that no such conversation had ever taken
place.
Who could disbelievc the evidence OF
four good credible witnesses, who testify
positively that Mr.. Whitney's testimony is
every word Of it false. But this is not all
the proof. No! by a fortunate coincidence
--one ofthose interpretations Of Providence
which is so often Unexpectedly interposed
to blast and confound the wicked. in this
instance steps boldly toward TO the relief
OF the innocent. and in terror to the wick
cd. We here find from documentary ev-
idencc (Which cannot be mlstaken) that
al the very same time that Mr.. Whitney
was lecturlng Mr.. Biddle in his parlor in
Philadelphia. about the abuses which had
crept into the Bank, (and which Lecture
MI Whitney is very cautious 10 say tcas
not Overheard by any one,) that Mr. Biddle
vas, in fact, in the city OF Washington,
some hundred and forty miles FROM his
parlor in Philadelphia. But hear what
Hr Biddle says upon that subject, which
is also to be found in the same volume aud
at page l42:
The other persons whom he named. on
the occasion, have since, understand.
contradicied him decidedly on all that 70
lates 10 them respectively. BY forlu.
nate accident. am now enabled 10 prove
in the clearest manner. TO the committee,
that The occurrence TO which II. NJ Whit.
ney has sworn with so much hart!ihood,
was not merely improbable, but actually
impossible. After tie adjournment Of The
committee yesterday, on examining the
minutes Of the Bank for another purpose.
casually saw passage which furnished
the means Of convicting the witness Of be.
ing guilty Of deliberate violation Of truth
Ii will be reco,lected that X. M. Whit,
ney swore that, on given day, in the
month Of May, 1924. The Cashier and As,
sistant Cashier, complained TO him Of Ger.
tain ioans, without interest, made by me
to Thomas and J. g. Biddle; that he went
10 the First Teller's drawer. aud found
there two certificates, one for SEA 900, and
one for $40 900, dated, respectively, the
25lh and 26ih Of May, which he immedi
a,ely directed them to put on the books Of
the Bank; and that they were according
ly so placed upon the books on the 9Th
Of May; and he triumphantIy exhibited
this eutIy Of the 9th Of May, OF 500 900
AS being the aggregate of the two sums Of
"a 600 and $4,000 dollars. which he had
thus Withdrawn from their secret place in
the First TeIer's drawer, and placed on
the books II was Immediately after he
had given this order 10 the Cashiers, that
be represents himself as coming into my
room. relating his discoveries. and cx-
pressing bis hope that, as long as he was
director, sucn thing should never take
place again, on which, not denying that il
had been done by my order, promised
that il should not be done again. Now
the dates of this story are us essence
The certificates according 10 a meBofan
dun made. he says al the time, and pro-
duced TO the committee. were dated on
the 25th aud Goth Of NAY I; Of course the
loans would not have been made before
the a6lh OF May; and the entries Of them
are on the 9Th of May. OF course the
alleged conversation with NE could net
have been after that day. He is. there
lore. according TO his orn story. enclosed
between these two dates. beyond which
he cannot escape, and according TO his ow u
exhibition OF dates, the conversation with
me, if il took place al all. must haze been
between the 25,h and the eth Of May
that is, on the Goth Of May. the only IN
terval between the date Of the last cerii-
6cate, and the 9th, the day Of their APP
pearance on The book.
Now am about to prove to the com
mitlee that. on The very day when X. NJ.
Whitney swears that he conversed with
me in his room. ~ Philadelphia, where
we are now siiiips-for many days before
that day, and for many days after that
day. was actually IN the city Of Wash
ington. The first evidence is. the original
minutes Of the Bank, by which it will be
seen. that from the 22nd day Of May, TO
the lot Of June, was absent from the
Bank. aud that II. M Whitney himself,
attended the meetings Oft the Board. when
the fact ofmy absence was recorded.
Here follows a list Of letters and other |
documents, which prove beyond the pos
sibility Of doubt that Mr. BiJdle was, Tor
several days before and alter Mr Whitney