The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1840-08-13

FOR THE CHARLOTTE JOURNAL.
Mn. lIoLToN.-Sir: | see in your pa
per Of the 10Th ult, a charge of uutaIh-
fitness in the last Representatives Of this
County, in the General Assembly of this
State, relative TO the contemplated new
COUNT. Although the mputatlon was
general, | consider it as personal as Ma
than's was 10 David; and, having no other
way to rcbut this charge than through
your columns, (as the gentleman has not
given me his namel therefore, | wish you
TO insert my reply. So far as the charge
concerns mt, consider false and ground
less. The other Representatives can, if
they wish, answer for themselves. This
Nep County man says, that he is Jack
son man! | have no disposition to dispute
his yeraci'y. cali myself jackson
man; and | appeal to every candid, re-
fleeing man, if he treated me with that
iraukness and friendship with which one
political brother should treat another, in
publishing a charge without consulting
me, and ascertalnlng whether had or had
not performed my duty, Had he consult
ed me, | should have corrected some err
rors under which he labors. If | under.
stand him, 1t was because no part of An
son was IN the bill, that ii was rejected.
Now, this was not the fact; for the proof
Of which | refer him to Mr.. Myers, of
Arson county, who had that error cor.
rected before the bill was rejected.
He says, again, the Representatives
ought TO have had correct understanding
how the bill should have been drawn, be-
fore il was presented to the Legislature,
This tras done. Messrs. G.. W. Caldwell
and Winston, were to have drawn the bill,
in accordance to the understanding of the
rest of the Representatives of the two
counties at least, this was my understand
ing from q. W. Caldwell.
He next SAYS, that they voted for us I'M
der pledge 10 them, that we would use
every eXertlon to have New County COM
posed of part Of this and Arson. But he
says they were torewarned that we would
prove untaithlul to save our political lives
That did use all reasonable exertlons in
favor of the bill, | refer YOU for proof to
Mr.. Myers of Arson, and Messrs. Melchor
of Cabarrus, and Albright of Chatham
counties all Senators. went for the bill
from principle, and my own experience of
the Inconvenience of living at distance
from the Court House. If any one be-
heves that | prefer political honors to pc.
liical honesty, | wish him to be corrected
of such mistake.
Had YOU and three others pledged YOUR
selves to carry large treasure to GER
tain place, each having charge Oft cer-
tain distance, and YOU and two of the 9TH
ers had conveyed it safely SO far as they
were pledged, or had any control oft; if
the treasure was lost, would YOU not think
it hard to be charged with the loss The
bill passed the Commons, and YOU certainly
knew it. Why, then, charge me IN part
with its failure This, | consider unreason-
able Why charge me, Member of
Mecklenburg, with the mistake, when it
was in the part of the bill from Arson. |
had no opportunity of comparing the An
son petition and the bill, except while be-
fore the House, as 1t passed the three read
ings the same day, contrary to the usual
order. Moreover, | had the fullest conf
dence in the abilities, natural and acquired,
of the gentlemen who were to draw the
bill.
n. B. A small request of my Jackson
friends. Should any of them have aught
against me, | wish them to hear before
they condemn me either in private eau
Gus, or Publishing my supposed uniaithiul-
ness in public papers, without giving their
names. five are jackson men, let us act
towards each other as such. Jackson
said, take the responsibility on myself"
No quibbling or lodging then. wish all
whom | had the honor to represent IN the
last General Assembly, to examine the