Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, IA [i.e. Ind.]) 1839-1854, 1839-03-23
UNION AND PERSEVERANCE
From the Madisonian.

+ rom the Madisonian.
The New YORK LEG SU.-TREAsuRERs, PRICE
AND SwARTwoUT.-The following is an extract
of letter to Of the members of the defalca-
ton investigating committee, from old Demo
crat of New York, who was original supporter
of General Jackson and Mr.. Van Buren, Mr..
Price, as we have before shown, was the pet Of
Mr.. VAN buren,! 1t is owing to such appoint
ments, that tho people are plundercd.
NEW York, February 10, 1889.
"Mav ask, my dear sir, to have a copy of your
report, when pri nted? Having Intimately known,
for more than twenty years, the two prominent
men destined to figure III that report and a
chieve immortality through the nfamy it will
doubtless disclose, DESTROYS of possessing the
document.-The career Of these men has been
precisely such close scrutiny Of their charac-
tiers would have lead sensible man to predict
At the periods OF their respective appointments 10
office, both were In embarrassed pecuniary crcum-
stances both proverbally incompetent 10 save, or
have the custody of moncy-both, Price par.icu-
larry, fond OF gambling, and he notorious debau-
chee-and neither of them possessing unquestion-
ed credit for sui, of clothes. Swartwout
always fond of adven,uring in doubtful specula-
tons, possessing more Imagination than judg-
nlent, was just tho man 10 borrow from the funds
IN ms keeping for the purpose Of indulging his
visionary fancies in regard 10 stocks, mines
, drowned meadows, and the like cfImeras: ALWAYS
II the hope. however, of great returns Of profits
with which to make good his accounts-while
Price, deliberately base, and utterly unpriacpied
5 would no, hesitate at any time of his life, il
: squandering the funds of others, regardless 0
. the consequences TO them, and totally indifFeren
TO payment, even ifhe had the means in his poke
Such are no, the men TO fill Offices of high money
ed trust nor such as would be selected by ind
t vIduas employing conhdetial agents
nj &c 81
. point to the custody of money, men who hav
e proved themselves incompetent to manage the
e private affairs-;here exceptions, doubtless
but they are rare, and In the application of tn
70 rule, | would pronounce the present collector .
ID this port, bad appointments and for the san
20 cause. also, large proportion of his subordina,,
J. ought never 20 have been called into the servlc
r Of the Government. Time was, when thin.
ST were differently ordered, but melancholy chang
Id has come over US: deception, fraud, rottennes
N and infaIny, are become dust in the balance.
IN the eyes of power and party expectancy. E
he cry thing for these-nothIng for our country
- its character Look at the recent conspiracy
I'd our Stale Senate. Doe language furnish teri
en- sufficiently damning to characterize the act
as ma iority of tina, body 1t is in vain for I
be party press, for the indiy idual members the
ch selves to attempt 10 pallate disguise the ba
rs, eEormity of their offence. Deep guilt inyolyi
3D. all the dire responsibicne of deliberate mo-
of purlury rest upon their souls, and all the wat
he OF the earth cannot wash out the stain No so
las stry that ingenuity can conjure up-no self-de
lth sion that the members may attempt, can q
er justify their act, either to their conscienc
Try OF to an insulted and outraged people For
supposed interest CT party, and for that alo