Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1839-08-27
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am uoYT AND TuE SWAGrWOUT COMMITTEE.
No one have forgotten the bitter hansn',y WIN
which the famous Swarlwout Committee attacked The
honorable and io,eiligrnt man who supPiantrd ,heir
candidate for the Vice President Coeco' q York
AZ Mr. Hoytis Democrat, and hadlaeiy been appoint
"a =, s;oe by the Pre- sident he was singled out as
fayo,,e mark As his conduct IN ohce cohiras'ea 10
eyery respect with that Of Swarwout ana made 'he ms.
conduct al the great Conservative even more garing
than otherwise was, any thing that could De raked up
and perverted bias, the reputation and dim the 'ai
fame of his successor, caught at WIN nnpa'atIen
ayidily Next to the Secretary OF the Treasury, The
chosen object Of The committee vengeance appeared 10
be Mr. Hoyt II im!ua,aral that they we're sent TO
examine into tlbe OF Swart1ou oesication,
with which MIR. Hoyt had no more to do tho had the
man in the moon. 1t nmateriai that They were
negec,ing the business which they were Delegated oy
Congress tc perform New YORK and which they claim
ed and received their pay for performing iwasehongn
for them find pretexs which 10 oennance aho VI
lily Democrat, fast friend OF tne freS,osh.' anu
man entrusted with responsible Office. This was glo-
~ enough" for them. t;ot
Nor can any one have forgotten the manner "h'ch
they took accomplish their ds0sh-ee course .esoI.
cd IN an soon No was found that the integrity and
oou,aye Of Mr. Royt not 10 be put down by blus-
tering and Bullying. An ex deputy collector, whom
Mr. Hoyt had found it his duty 10 DISMISS was brought
forward to make vague charges OF official delinquency
and it was only after great exer,ions by the minority OF
the committee that they could obtain Leave for the &C.
cused TO "aitend q Witness, TO hear The charges
against him; on opportunity 10 summon essence 10 nls
own defence and to show the character oil his accuser
was denied with every circumstance that could aggra.
Vate the injustice Of the denial.
The accusation has been made and spread in thousands
of pamphlets all the country. The SANDER, had
not carried with it The antidote of MIR. Hoyts honest
md fearless appeal to the American people would ere
now have done i:s wark. The Democratic Collector
would by this time have been placed, no matter how
unusy in the same category with the great IonseIVa
tive defauiter, had the scheme succeeded
sUw MARK sEauNL
In less than ak months after this deputy collector
il brought forward the favoe witness against W.T..
Hoyt elevated into person whose WORD shou'o oe po
tent enough destroy honest man. and paTaoeo oy
committee of Congress before the nation as an oracle
of truh-in less than six months after this exhibition
of political tactics considered, doubt Every clever
by the inventors but which the American people think
deserving of far different appelstionD We find the
following announcement in the Natona! lnellIgencer,
the great Federal organ here, furnished BY the pen OF
the Editor of the Express, of Che great Federal
organs in New York
SEngishmen come out here partners Of houses,
and invoices are made out in England, by collision to
which the importer here swears and in which fraud The
perjured importer has been AIDED, 1T is NOW WELL
KNOWN, BY AN Elk DEPUTY COLLECTOR OF THIS PORT, go
that an immense amount OF goods has been brought INTO
the country without paying the duties demanded by law
and TO the serious injury of the honest trader and the
home manufactured The Bot,omly case in Boston ex.
posed the nature Of these frauds THE COLLECTOR OF
the PORT HAs MANIFESTED AcREpirABLE PRoMPT'TupE
IN INVESTIGATING THEsE FRAUDS, AND IN URGING on
THE DISCOVERY OF THE PERPETRAToRs
Now we, beg the National intellgencer, and its
RESPONDENT TO inform who is this deputy collector
that is "we known" to be aiding men IN the commits
sion of fraud and perjury Heare eft IN the dark upon
this point If it proves to be he same ex deputy col.
lector who used TO denounce and ssnoer MT noy'
il will turn open another bright page in the history OF
the Swartwout committee. The people Will gain some
farther insight into the correctness Of IT'S statements and
learn with still more accuracy the dependence TO be
placed upon the testimony that Federal Whggery has
been disseminating through the country-Gto6s