The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1838-03-16
Friday, March no.
House q Representatives..
sih March, 1853

san NJ February last. y0n pnbiifhsu 2
~, Al nine % one of my constituents.
,h;eh van have done great injustice
!. r.n, readers and 20 me. | hope not in
.1..,;on,lly. buI By falling INTO error,
G..1 soeeehes made in the Senate cf The
Ir,,,si SAFES. relative 10 The smnsni 81
.a,sy standing 10 The credit Of The Sc
.,,,,ry Of the Treasury Of The United
S,,,,:. in The Commonwealth Bank in
R,.,on when il shipped pay menl. stat
= tb,, hal called and examined into
., fris. and found that less than SO,
ara was shading 10 the credit az lie Sc
..,,,rv. The sun was s39, $50: and Cor
M, sun bond on good personal seeu-
,5.r iar $500. 900 vas IN lile. Such was
~ f,c.. That vas al that The Secretary
Ii control over. and the Secretary
.,,,s the fact in the report. on page 5,
rb;rh /. in The hand Of my friend Mr.
p,,ks. and you can there see The error
r,g lell into IN your article. The SIMS
,oa mention was money deposited BY Of
f.,r. who had drawn IL Tor certsin pnr-
use, ou. of the Treasury. and some Of
h, money never had come inio the urea
.my. | stated The fact correctly 90 FAR
,.,bcy we're known and the treasury vas
.5s,rrned. You say that Madam Ru-
r,aur said TIA, the President. Cashier and
Dirclcrs had al the money. and were
.,,urily, and all failed. ! will not con-
,,,l,r, your Madam Ramour. who every
,,ly knows never tells the truth. But
:.si record by which ! am governed does
enausdiel that statement. | hope You
viii be IS ready 10 correct your error,
uhen you see the report. which confirms
what said. as you were TO pounce upon
ne through mistake; il 50 IL will be sa-
n.iarlory; il mol | will set myself RICH.
5ei,re the people.
A. 10 the Commonwealth Bank. |
l,,.a that the President. Directors and
Cashier are al indicted Tor making false
.l.lsmsnl of their affairs. | hope il gull
Is thsy may all suffer. II is but one
more IL the many bank corruplions lha.
SIC daily developing themselves. and sull
ltsre are men who hold on upon them as
thu keepers Of the peoples money. Let
bvl the one hnndreih part Of Tue bank
Ulaay be known, and the people will de-
cid where their money shall not 60, as
well as where il shall 90.
Yours truly,
W. MONTGOMERY.
We very readily publish The above let.
ter from the Honorable DR.. Montgomery.
as We shall always do any thing which
be nav wish 10 communicate to his coH-
sil,psnis: and we assure the Doctor ths,
il would give US much more pleasure TO
correct an error into which We might IN.
aivrHanily have fallen relative to any
mater with which he is connected, than
Il would to "pounce upon him" For
he purpose Of enabling US 10 do so. we
have asaiIed ourselves Of the copy Of the
Report Of the Secretary Of the Treasury
placed in the hands Of Mr.. Parks: we
have carefully perused il, and brought
'or slalomen, to the test Of comparison;
BOT instead Of detecting errors, we find
every item in our statement fully sustain
Cd. The matter is so plain rhst there is
no nom for mistake. and we are at a loss
70 conceive the motive which could have
induced the honorable gentleman to place
himself before his constituents in the po-
'lioa which he occupies. In his letter
Of the Both of January, he sets out with
'Ac Professed purpose Of correcting mis-
representations; bu, in doing 50 he seem
Ell 10 forget that il was as necessary to
tell the whoie truth, as nothing but
me Truth; aud that omission We eDdea.
'O'ed to supply. Previous to the publi-
cation Of his letter we had said nothing
aOoul the matter. therefore i, could not
have been our Misrepresentation he in
Tended 10 correct; but the Raleigh Star
had said, that a, the time Of the failure Of
Tie Commonwealth Bank there was in il,
Of money belonging to the government.
Ae sum Of $50, 900 dollars. For the pur-
pose Of screening from censure either the
Government or The Bank I've do not know
which, The Doctor endeavored TO create
'ae belief tina, the Wing press in his dis
G'cl had greatly magniied the amount,
and therefore said, he had made il his bu.
S'Ness 10 examine into the facts, and found
'aa' less than $40, 900 was in that bank
al The time Of its failure" Now this we
Aae" 10 be otherwise stated in the report
The Secretary OF the Treasury, and we
b.