The North-Carolina standard., 1842-03-09

letter is trt.e fatally true In other words nat Tue
whgs" were not 'anxious for Investigation ana !na
the Legislature have kept the People IN the DARK Oy
their paper reports, sc. sc.
At page 557 of the Journals, Mr. Barnes proposed Na
YOU have stated m 10 instruct the Public Treasurer to re-
mort fanono other thngs) the of individuals in
sh,ad,, to tbe State ssthe due by each, and
<shis security" sc.
This resolution is truly copied by you, (see extract
nrccedng) You will this 557th page that II was
passed on oath Dec, 1s4O svithOtt any Gendnaerat-
And had there been no (whg) Gfter-tho"ghtS' there
would have been no room for whig subtertuge' The
names of the Debtors must at have teen oy
the Treasurer, according to instructions; and there
would have longer any secresy about this part of
~a these maers But your statement proceeds at this
point to the amendment that was offered by Mr.
Barringer if it done the spot-altogether O.
MITTING the important intervening facts that BGTess
resolution had been passed on the oath Dec But that
upon 26th December "Mr Jefferson "a whig) ored that
the House do RE-coNsIDER the vOte adopting reso-
luton calling for the Of the Debtors, &c-(See
page 564) That ''the House GgreedtO RECONSIDER"
IWhy?1 And ''On motion of Mr. Lilly "a whg) this re-
solution (of Barnes's) laid upon the e"(See
page 564) And why taid upon the table by the wings
who were anxious for investigation:' That upon
the table slept 10 days. and until 5h January 1s4
when 1.-THE "Loco' Mr. Barnes walked up his child to be
smothered afterwards by the affected anxiety and kind
of the wings. Mark! son motion of Mr. Barnes,
the House took up consideration theresOlutiOl by him
introduced the 24th December, tiO, calling upon the
Public Treasurer for certain Information relating to the
Public Fwad."-(See page 634, 9Th JAM 1s41. Ill this
you hare omitted Supply your omissions, and at
great loss in perceivIng for Mr. Baringer
IA whig leadel proposing his neongruOus amendment,
which you have quoted from the page; amend
ment, by which Committee directed to report upon
the SoEDe1cy of the Debtors, whilst the Treasurer
instructed to report to the House ITSELF the names khe
Debtors SC. He has had little experience, who does
not understand that sinister amendments than
open hostility in legislative proceedings Even Nat
Kngvo for this resolution, after had been amend
ed and let tell you, know something of the piUGte
history of Mr. Barringers influence Though if Nh Bar
rnger had not known beforehand, what to occur
three days afecard that is, that the to be
.cithAeld and light kept out in way-others knew
It and the fact now speaks for itself Will be denied,
that even after formal demand the not
sent i17
This resolution, amended passed by immense
majority By it, 1st the Treasurer instructed to
report the of the DebtOrs the amount due by each
one and his security, &C. This part oft the pro-
geny of Mr. Barnes Ia Democrat I'd, The Committee
was directed report upon the sovency of the Debtors
This was the offspring of Mr.. Barrnger, Ia whig leader
1t was changed, see, after its BIRTH into sort ofa
twin bantlng But the [whgl public Treasurer put
in charge ofthe Democrat Barness half and 1.-THE Dem
aocraf Barnes put upon Committee to Mr..
Baringers [whig half If these arrangements not
suspicious, they at least snguar and Tdoubt
if the Journals produce match for them upon any
other subject Does your recollection furnish you with
any other instances othe kind? Do your researches ena
BILE you point any thing like it in the annals of le
gislation !!
But my space oblges to ask you to the concluding
fhis at without
de ay.
Your statement (beore inserted) copies the ssconcu-
sion" OF the "Loco's'' report. 1 wish you had made
room insert all of it. But that part shows that
although he defeated in bringing out all the facts be-
fore the people, about their money he had not been
@scOrnered' Remembering his own demand upon the
TREAsURER-but knowing that Mr.. Barringer's amend
ment had not allowed the COMMITTEES go beyond a
single report upon the sOLOency of the De6tOrs-Mr.
Barnes report says, Gas the resolutions annexed to
<'the referred to your Committee tnstrcts the Public
FIreasurer to report the Of the several De6tOrS
CSC Your Committee did not consider it their duty,
'sand have THEREFORE taken no list, sc. (see page
67I) You will pretend to deny that the Committee
took right view of their duty? Hthe Treasurer srang
led this inquiry, he did it without Mr. Barnes
renee Barnes did his duty and reminded the House
the Treasurers aso and might reasonably calculate
that where large majority of SO to IL 'really
iousss to be answered. the Public Treasurer would not
have been allowed to keep back the list upon trivial
grounds
Now tell you that these words occur most immed-
atey after your quotations. page GIL! What made
you omit them? Why did you nlate the report at the
beginning, and then suppress this part Of the record at
the close?
The Speaker laid before the House communication
forn the Public Treasurer to the call of the
House. referred to IN the preceding report (of Mr.
Barnes-see page 674) You stopped your record,
therefore, exactly at the point that pcrilous
to you in order aver, upon your o1cn Gsathority
&c. Ill is right" How much more fair and manly
in you would have been to have furnished the whole
record-incuding Jferson's (whg) motion to recOsid
er LiHys (whg) motion to lay upon the table, Barnes
(Democra) motion to take up 10 days afterwards; and
then but not till then, have told of Baingers
(whig) motion to amend this whig after-thought; and
lat least have informed your readers aso that
OUR PUBLIC TREASURER (whig) answered, BUT
DID NOT OBEY THE INSTRUCTIONS His pretexts
for dsobedience his for if, fhere be any)
will doubtless appear hereafter They ought to appear
in his letter. and perhaps they do We shall Iis
in my power to procure copy Of that precious doc