Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1842-04-26

ding assistance and protection OF the general go
vernment. In our next we shall be able to lay be-
fore our readers, whether the suffrage party have
proceeded to elect officers under the adopted con-
| sttution, and ifso, what have been the results.
The American, true to its principles, endeavors
to convey false impression with regard to the ac-
ton of the House of Representatives, on the sub
ject of Gov. Doty's salary. 1t would have US be-
lieve that the resolution of Mr.. Medell was lost be-
cause the House was satisfied of the falsity of the
charges against Gov. Doy, when the fact is, it was
lost on the ground urged by Mr.. Adams, that as
Doty dschargng the duties of Governor, he
was entitled to his salary, whatever his character
might be. This was the ground, and it was cor
one, and the decision proves nothing either for
or against the character of Doty Mr.. Medell did
not most probably, expect himself, that the resolu
ton would PREVAIL his object was to draw the at
tenton of the House and the nation to the charac-
| ter of Gov. Doty. s-..s
| In the same number of the American, a cores
pendent, who we pretty well satisfied, from the
nature of his article is office holder under Doty,
enters warmly into his defence, and probably with
out any knowledge wha of the facts of the
unhesitatingly declares Gov. Doty to be free from
reproach-innocent of the charges which have been
! preferred and proved against him. We have never
yet heard disinterested man or honest politician,
declare Gov. Doty innocent man, and neither
he nor his adherents have ever met the charges
against him other than by noisy and unfounded as
sertlon, such as characterizes this communication.
Doty and his friends would fain have the public be-
Eav IL oQo h Ill
the head of the government sufficient refutation
of the charges against him. If dishonest men had
never been appointed to cffice this would be well
enough; but when almost every day brings to light
some evidence of moral turptude on the part of
those in high places; when we know that Gov. Do
y resorted to every species of low political cunning
and intrigue, backed by the assistance of Daniel
Webster, himself at the head of pecuniary default
and high in the scale of immortality, we, as we'll
the public generally, will need other and more sa-
tisfactory evidence of Doty's honesty, than this.
The manner too, in which Doty' appointment was
received by the people of the Territory generally
| is evidence OF how far snch appointment tended to
clear up the charges against him, and now, to the
tact that he cannot enlist in his support the honest
wings OF his party, may be attributed his secret but
| interchangeable efforts to build up for himself new
| pary-a party which shall be exclusively Doty
party, composed of men whose sole effort is indvi-
dualy, to accomplish their own selfish ends and as
party to do every thing for the glorificaton and
advancement OF Doty, whilst in return they to
receive the assistance OF his cunning and counte-
| nance. If any evidence were wanting of this fact
aside from the intriguing at Madison last winter
1t is furnished by the prospectus issued by Harrison
! Reed, who is Doty's tool and has followed him
through all his twistings, for the publication of a
new paper at Madison, which prospectus set forth
among other things that it was necessary paper
should be established, differing in some respects
from either of the papers then established at Mad
son; paper that was to be neither wing nor loco
foco, but Doty paper
| With regard to Doty's defalcation, so plainly is
it fastened upon him, that we might let the unsup-
ported assertion of this writer pass for what it is
WORTH without remark, were it not that the inten-
ton is evidently to mslead those who are unac-
| quainted with the facts.
! We would ask this correspondent what new light
has been had this point since large meeting of
the most honorable wings in Milwaukee county. at
the head of which was John H. Tweedy, denounced
James d. Doty defauler to the territory under
| circumstances of aggravated guilt and moral turpi-
tude.' This gravely done, by grave and homo
rable men, and were the charges made without
sufficient ground for belief? No. they had full and
satisfactory evidence of what they said and nothing
/ whatever has since occurred to change the facts
Again, if Doty is not defauter, why is it that
the suits pending against him by the Territory have
been for years postponed and STAYED off by Doty and
his attorneys. Why is it, that they seek by every
means in their power to prevent decision in these
suits; does it look like innocence? If Doty is not
defaulter, he must be of his innocence, and
why will he permit the suspicion to rest upon him
when it mi ght be so easily removed. The fact is,
Doty owes the territory according to his own show
ing, $1,000, and the secret of the suits is that
he cannot pay it. Every delay is resorted to, that
the disgrace attendant upon the decision of the court
may be postponed till the latest day.
| We say nothing here of the manner in which
$4,000 of the appropriation of Congress was ex-
pended and of the reports of committees of the le-
glsature on the subject. We might, however, al
| Jude to Dotys intimate connection with some of
our exploded banks of the territory, but we will
| only mention incident connected with the es-
adjustment of the Mineral Point Bank, an institu-
ton of fraud and swindling. Gov. Doty was COM
missioner to receive the instalments of the capital
stock; the law specified that particular sum in
coin should be paid in before the Bank went into
operation; .Doty certified that this sum was paid in
in gold, when the fact was that very small pro-
portion oft had been paid in either gold or silver
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appointed by Congress commissioners to examine
into the condition of this bank, when this fact was
discovered, and in effect, they certified that Doty