Piney Woods planter., 1839-05-11

listration did this happen underg In
document ofthe House Ill, oflast ses-
sion, thc collectors defaults at the same
, period, are shown to be, exclusive of in
terest, half a million of dollars.
Andrew and James Erwin. Docu-
ment Ill exhibits defalcation 10 the
modest sum of $4,000. Who has
been benefited by this plunder-any
manshare to answer? What were the
politics OF the base SPECTATORS? Wings.
i Here Mr.. BELL Of Tennessee rose.
and said, that the Messrs. Erwine were
not defaulters. 1t was a SANDER pro-
mulgated by the Globe paper.*
Mr.. DUNCAN responded, that he
did not get his information from the
Globe; he obtained it from the records
in the archives of the Government;
evidence of the highest character, and
that which is open to the view Of eve
ry one who desires to read. | hope,
said Mr.. ID. it is nottrue. would pre-
fer to conceal, at all times, human
weakness and deprayity, rather than
expose, where it may be done without
public injury; but ! would prefer that
such depravity as am now exposing,
did not exist. And let me say, once
for all, that know nothing personally
of the numerous and wholesale frauds
which am now exposing. lam alike
ignorant of the men whom the records
show to be the perpetrators. s.-These
frauds, with the names Of those who
committed them, are matters Of record,
and the facts are spread over the whole
country, and known TO all who read
the journals of Congress, and the re-
ports of the Secretary of the Treasury.
Consequently, my exposition can nei-
, ther affect the reputation Of those
whose names expose or the cause OF
n justice.
i Mr.. King, late collector of Bath,
Maine, seems to be defaultcr for the
modest sum of $4,000. Perhaps the
gentleman nowin my eye, Mr.. Evans,
can tell US what that gentleman's poll
tics are, and whether he was not the
late Wing candidate fol Governor of
that State; and whether, with all the
corruptions and defaltations inwhich
he is involved, he did not receive the
entire Whig vote Of his State.
| So we ride, gut again.
Joseph Wingatc and j. b. Swanton,
late collectors at Bath also. have
not before me the amount oftheir de-
falcationS; but they are defaulters; and
the former, since his defalcation has
been Whig member Of Congress, and
most lovingly embraced by the whole
party.-The latter, for his violent abuse
of Democratic principles has been re-
warded, by the late Federal Governor
of Maine with responsible ofice, Me
functions ot uhich require particular
supervision ofhc fnalcrs ofhte county
Of Renaebeck. ! ask an examination
of the reports. 1t will be found that
the collectors, receivers, and discussing
agents, all, or nearly ali, support the
views which are now advanced with so
much zeal for the entire indemnity of
this system of fraud and plumber. Ex-
amino No. 1911, made to the House of
Representa- lives, February %, 1885,
The loss by banks estimated at about
$6,OO0,O00; their nominal debt was
nearly double but partly secured.-|
This amount is exclusive of interest, it
will be near $2O,000,O00. Irefer to
the report to the Senate, February I'd.
1889, Document No. l5S.
The losses prior to General Jackson's
administration, by collectors and recciD-
ers. amount to 81 100000; the nominal
sum is nearly double, but part of this
sum is secured. tits probable nothing
will be lost eventually under General
Jackson's administration but by LITTLE
BURY HAWKINS, or under the present
Administration but by Spartwom and
Price. There will be other defauIters,
but their security will be good for their
AMOUNTS. 4
Reckless, collector at Perth Amboy,
has produced some alarm; his defalca-
ton was thirty or forty dollars. He SO
An inspection ofnose SO, in the doc
ument referred to by Mr.. DUNCAN, shows
that the defalcation Of Erwin has been the
subject Of judicial investigation, and that
a judgment was obtained against him in
October, 1880, for the sum of S92,6S5!!l
So much for the ISLANDER of the Globe
paper" The extreme scnstivenes of MIR.
BELL in regard TO this case, may be ac,
counted for BY the fact that Mr.. Ermn
is his sfdthcr- -iplau?!