The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1840-08-11
"The world forgetting,
certainly
"BY THE WORLD FORGOT"
Gov. AfmcOHm---NAr Ogle---and
the Preside mG,S House.

the PRESIDENTS House.
We deem 1t proper to place before our rea'
ders the following'euer from MIR Lincoln, 10 the
National lntel'igencer, as necessary 10 perfect
understanding of his 'posilion,' which in our
humble Judgment, has been wilfully mlsrepre-
sented. The reader will see by the following
| that the speech attributed 10 Gov. Lincoln by
the Globe, is II wilfu perverson of what he did
say. 1T is settler to the iabrcations in the tory
papers attributed to Gov l..
WORCESTER, MASS, July 25, 1910.
Messrs. Gales 81 Seaton
nave seen with the utmost surprise, in the
! lneli gencer of the Odd instant, which reached
me this morning several certificates from 'Whig
members of Congress OH the subject of "a pub.
| LEGATION in the Globe of the 10th of July 1910,
under the caption of M essrs Lincoln and OgIe,'
and it has now become proper for me, personal.
iy, to notice both the certificates and the matters
to which they refer. shall certainly have no
controversy with either Of the gentlemen who
have seen fiji to give these certificate. TO those
of Messrs Stanly, Allcn, and Naylor, I have
nothing TO object. Indeed, to that of The latter,
in whom am happy to recognize Il persona as
well as political friend, | would myself most
willingly have subscrbed and the substantive
facts stated 10y ALL so far as respects the pro-
curement OF He furniture an the Presidents House,
no more question than themselves. | have
never said, or authorized to be said reported,
! Il single word which those certificates gansay,
and feel entirely con scious OF having afforded
no cause, OH my purt. for any interpretation be.
tween Mr. Ogle and myself.
In the one certificate, however of Mr. John
| G.. Clnrk and others, there are expressions 10
which feel bound TO offer word OF reply. !
find in it, the following paragraph: The under
signed do not undertake TO say whether Mr. Linz
coin used The language imputed to him by the
Globe or NOT, bur as he has permitted its publ
ten
tradiction, presume he now adopts The Ian
guage ascribed TO him, if he did not 'orig nally
utter it," If these gentlemen heard the remarks
which did, in fact, make on the occasion
referred to in the Globe, they must have
known that | did not " originally utter
the language ascrihed to me by that pa.
per, IN the extract they have taken, nor any
Thing else like il. Or if they heard my reply
TO Mr. Oge fortnight afterwards, when, upon
my return to my seat irons a temporary absence
he alluded to the same misrepresentation OF my
remarks they must bave heard my unequivo'-
cnl denial of The fidelity of the Gobe's report, g.
II full and frank expression OF what dad say on
that occasion.
From another part of The same certificate, in
connexion with the extract from the Globe, IT
might he inferred thar had spoken of the pur.
chase of furniture being under the direction
o( the Committee on public buildings, of which
| was chairman. Nolling could be further
from my meaning, or the statement made 10y
from the Globe greatly erroneous as it most sure
|ly is would hardly warrant the inference drawn
from il by the signers of the certificate. What
| did say was, in substance, that since i had
been mt the head Of the conmlttee, tor PERI
cd Of nearly three years, no APPROPRIATIONS, TO
NV knowledge, had been ut the request OF the
President that the committee had always acted
on the acquisitions and estimates OF the Com
missioners Of Public Buildings, and that OIL one
occasion when lhePresilent had been referredto
as to the need of proposed appropriation, he had
}tlecline,l expressing any opinion .or wish upon
the subject. OF the purchases which had been
made, explicitly disclni'ned all knowledge.
Ind neither seen the bills, at that time, nor did
| speak OF. or in any manner ref r to them My
remarks exclusively applied TO Gppro.
Ipridiions, and to the appropriations only. 1t" Is
well known that there Is a committee on expen-
dures, distinct aud independent OF the Com
nuee on tho Public Buildings. and by the for
mer, and not the latter, all such disbursements
as now spoken of are properly subjects OF
nouiry and animadverson. And here distinct
" a nd explicitly declare that, to the character of
, the purchases o furniture by Mr. Van Buren,,
between the 4th OF March and the 9th OF Deem
her, 1887 to which the certificate refers, utter
ed not n word of remark, for knew nothing,
& before the delivery of Mr. Ogles speech, had
heard nothing OF the articles of the bill, which
are the sub ecis of his comments. When the
appropriation was granted under which these
purchases were made, / was not chairman of
The committee, Ibis was IN 'he second session
of the 24th Congress, and my appointment was
in the Congress after. ! repeat TINT, since that
period, whatever has been asked for, either for
The public grounds the public buildings, in
improvements, repairs, or furniture, has come
Through the usual and formal estimates furnish
ed by the Commissioners, with no request
made to the COMMITTEES, directly or indirectly
to my knowledge from The President This
observation is, mt least, due 10 The independent
action of nv associates.
The appropriation under which Gil appears
, from the said vouchers, that more than eighteen
thousand dollars were expended in furniture for
the Presidents house, between the An day OF
March. 1887, and the 9Th of December,
1887, was doubtless made IN generaitern,s,
with no direction to the specific articles
orthe cost a,which theywere procured; &besdes
having no agency myself in directing me ex'
prndit,ires, ] was, in fact during The whole in
tervening period between those dates at my
residence in Massachusetts. 1t was for appro-
priations made since that Time, and not Tor the
n N s.~g.z. th,fV sni hss