The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1842-07-28

the country, TINT you bad forgotten having had
the Government, under your own fayorite Ad,
minisiration, protested for pecuniary advantage
That We met going North, perhaps in 1897, soon
after you had adjourned or ended your iabors OF
Spanish Commissioner, and understood you 10
say, among other matters, your object IN going
North was TO sell a protested draft OF or on tho
Government, which, under the order OF Mr..
Woodbury., was thereby made equal 10 specie an
all Custom House and Land Office payments, and
[ in New ork they were in demand al good pre-
MUM. do not recollcct that you said how, or
for what, you had received the Draft, nor tie a.
mount, but as you had just come off your labors
as Commissioner, / had no doubt the draft was
| for your wages, and Of considerable amount. |
was strengthened in that opinion by your reply
to nv enquiry why did you protest the Gov.
eminent, did YOU want specie ?" or to that pur-
port. To which you replied that you did not
want specie, bat wished TO give the dra!t specie
value And to the further enquiry" what
would Won do with your New York money r l
understood you TO say that you would deposite in
New York and check on it when you got home,
and expected to get one or two per cent. more =
and thought you claimed some little credit for
the ingenuity and skill of the arrangement.
We concluded to delay our journey in Phill-
delphia, TO witness the launch Of the big Stp
Pennsylvania, although you expressed some re-
luctancc, for fear drafts might fall IL the mean
/ time in New York-that you had tried the Phila-
dclphia market, and it was below New York
After your arrival in New y ork, you made enqui-
ry, and said your fears had been reallzod-that
drafts had fallen, and that you should lose or ,
per cent. | recollect distinctly that you SAID
how much Yon did or could ret, but the precise
amount has now escaped my recollection, but
believe it was or 6 per cent
I These are the uromiDeut incidents remaining
I in my recollection, and all received from yourself,
directly and indirectly, in several conversations.
never saw the draft. nor was present at your
inquiries of the price in Philadelphia or New
ork, or when and where you sold but | neTer
for moment doubted that you had the Govern
ment draft protested, and sold the same IN New
\ DIRK at D TO per cent. premium. The imPres-
sion strongly made on my mind 10y yourself,
aud YOU must certainly have known tnat ! So
understood you, from the questions asked, and
should have corrected the impression, If YOU did
not intend TO involve The transaction in bubble
for some purpose or other.
You say that I" never had Government
draft protested. and never demanded or received
any damages from the Government, nor one dol
lar over end above my lawful salary" Now OPP
posing what you say, to what YOU informed mo
( heretofore cannot doubt but you had draft Ell
I Their protested, or TO be protested, or purchased
some other draft that had been protested and it
WIS perfectly understood both by seller and buy
cf, that it should be done under the order Of Mr..
Woodbury., 10 give it the higher value at tho
Custom House, and hence the premium you re,
cevad
/ never advised you no. 10 protest the Govorn-
meRt it was done when we met is the impression
on my mind. i" ! on!y asked. why YOU protested
did YOU want specie ~ ] never said you re-
ceiyed damages, but premium, IN the sale Tho
Government, | behave never pay damages; the
terms premium and damages have probably been
confounded know nothing Of the amount you
received, whether more or less than your lawful
salary.
either learned from you, or some other per-
son, think from you, about the same time, that
NJ Woodbury's Clerks, and perhaps himself,
demanded Specie for their wages, and If refused,
that they protested, to give the specie value in
payment 10 the Custom House. Vow, perhaps,
they sold first if so, it must have been with the
perfect understanding that such process would
necessarily take place to give them the premium
value under Mr. Woodbury's sage order-and IN
this way they could say that they never had the
Government protcsted-No, not they
It struck me as extraordinary, that Mr.. Wood
bury would pass an order, the tendency Of which
was TO invite the citizens to protest their own
Government, and that gentleman of your stand
ing and wealth, holding an honorable and lucra-
tive office under your tIvorite administration.
would avail yourself of the advantage of such an
order for a small premium.
FL have not before had the correct history of
this af'lir, my curiosity begins to be excited to
learn it. Why should it be mystified and con-
cealed Give it to me- and it will afford me
pleasure to do you justice.
/ am, very respectfully, your obt. serv't.
/ L. b. DUDLEY.