Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1840-1842, 1841-04-29

A &c than money which the Committee can ind vas
IN March, ISIS, when Me Samuel Jaudou Then in
London as the agent Of the Bank,) and Two other
persons, paid debt Of ea69 500" in certain stocks
| OF which Mr. Jaudon's third was ESQ, 500
But this the Bank received voluntarily ia Mr
Jaudons absence, without his knowledge and only
because he was connected with others with whom
the Bunk wu making settlements, and included
him with them. So states his brother, Mr. A @
lon, in his letter to the stockholders and so the
account of the Committee itself shows Nov here
are the faets,-'we have given" says the Commit:
tee, "the simple facts without comment" But nine
times out often these simple facts without CONNIE mt
are made to tell the greatest falsehoods Facts arc
not truth-they are only the metarials Of ruth-and
their value, nay, their very meaning depends the
manner in which they are presented. Forty nine
facts may make falschood until the hftieth fact
makes truth Of the whole, and quite much de-
ception is produced by mispacing facts as by total
fiction. The Of Mr. Jaudon Is a remarkable in
stance OF this, for here are parcel OF statements
called facts and suppose they facts, but they
are so scattered and separated that the grea, truth
which they contain is studiously hidden, and while
these facts as stated by the Committee intended
to operate to the disadvantage of MIR Jaudon,-when
you put these very facts in their proper places they
reflect great credit upon him. For instance
You say, in page 10, that Mr. Jaudon's ac-
count was one time as high as $4,000
You say, IN page l6, that 1t is now, Dec.
$40, $4,000
You perceive then tina, he paid of $4,000
VI this amount the only sum that was paid
IN stocks was lat page ~ $4,000
Leaving what he actually paid in cash the
sum of $780,, 900
But lin page 1877 you complain that he re-
ceived tor services the enormous amount
Of $4,000
Well then his receipts exceeded his repay.
ments only, 2s, 1000
H., -.
Quoting for his expenses these S2S 0o0 he has paid
TO the Bank every dollar he has received from il.
Do you not see that he has been working out his
debt 10 the Bank by valuable servces-tervices
which he performed at much less cost than any TO-
reign merchant would have charged--and that every
dollar the Bank has allow ed hun has gone to paw
up this old debt. Does not every body see that
this gives an entirely new aspect TO the whole aues-
uon-for after all what other debtor Of the Bank has
paid so much or so we'll during that time 2 doubt
whether there is one single man who has paid in any
thing like the same proportion OF his deb--S393 900
paid and the remaining $4,000 perfectly well Sc
cured and IN course Of reduction. IL he has been
an imprudent borrower he has certainly been a
prompt and large payer-an6 he has noby strus.
gled to repair the consequences OF his ndscretion in
purchasing ocks which have since depreciated
this denunclation of him has been uni ust in it.
seii-t seems little less than madness as regards |
the Bank de has long been the confidential !
agent OF the Bank. His character is identified
with il, his talents necessary TO it, and vel in the
midsts OF Its embarrassments, at the very meme nj
when he was most needed, 1t sends to Europe .
public denuneation Of him, which, whatever mis-
chlefIt may do to him, reeoils fold on the Bank
The whole case then of Mr.. Jaudon, seems to bs 1
simply this. He owed a large sum Of money TO the
Bank-the Bank employed him in a most important
service and gave him liberal csmpensation-all /
Of which he returned the Bank in payment of his
debt. HIS conduct in that respect seems 10 be ra.
Their very uncommon than very atrocious.
With great respect, yours,
n. BIDDLE