The North-Carolina standard., 1840-01-01


tntes page 352 chapter 81, section 10, he is com.
manded, during the recess, when a payment s
made out of this money. TO publish the fact in One
or more newspapers. Whatwas the command for
if it were NOT that we should know who had on,
money, how much, &c. &c.2 Has this been doneq
1t has not. Does his Comptroller's Statement
show the fact? 1t doessnot and have inquired
of several members Of the last Assembly, who had
this money, and not one Of them could tell. The
Governors Statement names the Companics
Banks, &c. to whom this money was paid out un
der the Laws, and the sums TO each. That is all
well, and we understand it. But the two or three
hundred thousand dollars that left after these
payments were made, and which he, as Presdent
of the Board of Public Works, Literary Board, &c
was required by law to loan out, he tells US, in his
statement, has been loaned out upon good securiy
but fails to comply with the Law, in conceaing Or
Withholding the name or names, and the different
sums each has received. Why are the people no,
to know who has their money All our properl
Is bound as security for it and is it not bad faith
in the Governor not to inform US who has the two
or three hundred thousand dollars he has loanedl
Was it placed in his hands secret fund, which
might be used among political friends, whose names
must not be known TO us, the people If all is
right relative to this money, why withhold the
names of those who have it? Until Governor
Dudley shall publish the names Of those to whom
he has loaned this two or three hundred thousand
dollars as he was by the law above-cited required
to do, so that we can see who has it, how much
each man or Corporation has, whether Cotton or
other Factories, charge bad faith and should
this information be Withheld till the meeting of our
next Assembly, 1 hope the members will not again
leave Raleigh without being able to give US some
account where this money is, and who has it. |
hope it is not in the hands of Swartwout or Price
also hope, that when His ExceIlency and his
brother Federal Whig friends are heard denounc
ing the Administration for bad faith to the peope
concealment of facts, and dark and mysterious
dealings in money matters, they will be reminded
that they had better pull the beam out of theirown
eyes, before they point to the mote in Others
Yours Respectfully,
w. MONTGOMERY.
P. S. Since the above article was written.
have seen the Star containing the Comptroller's
Report, just published, which, like those published
before, has the same mystifcation thrown over the
loans made of the money above alluded TO, except
that in one item Of s 9io the name of J. s. Dill
lard and others is put down. But another item in
the Receipts, is put down thus: tPrincipa on
Loans by Internal Improvement Board, s t,e25.
Why not give the name OF names of those who
paid in this money, well as the name of J. S.
billiard and others, who paid the S91o? WHY'S
one name only given and all the others kept be.
hind the curtain Is this good faith towards the
People? Letthe People answer; l ask for the |.
people whom ! Immediately represent a fun, fair
statement; showing each individual or corporation
to whom any portion Of this two or: three hundred
thousand dollars has-been loaned, the amount to
each, d6e9 Gc.& Such statement that all can IN
derstand Il without n6ystication q Or { coneealment
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