The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-06-06

Georgia, against the officers of the Army They
| are almost universally Wings and we called upon
them to respond to the Wing chairmans denuncia-
ton. The following response touches a particular
which was not reported, but given out as under
stand from the documents in the HANDS of the Com
mittee:
From the Platte (NIo.) Eagle.
- CAfIAIN SWORDS-A LIE NAILED TO
THE COUNTER
f" The vile SANDER upon Captain Swords of the
Army, which originated in .ae Richmond Wing and
has been going the rounds of ire newspaper press is
completely, ay, tliumphantly refuted by Captain
Swords. We give place with pleasore TO the letter
of Captain s., addressed to the editor Of the Rich
mond Wing, and leave the course of that editor to
the public.
| "No man stands higher than Captain Swords,
wherever he is known, and all will bear witness that
he is an honorable, high-mnded man, whose reputa-
ton as an officer and gentleman is above reproach
The worstteature Of this business is that the cormo-
rants who revel in the traduction of good name
have, in their overweening anxiety to ferret out
something to inJure MIR Van Buren,, used as an in
strument the character of of the purest men of
their own political party. We hope our editoral
brethren will do Captain Swords full justice, and let
the Wings have the benefit of all the political capital
they have made out of this gross SANDER Fry
again, Mr. Richmond Wing"
To the Editor Of Richmond Wing;
L
friend, the Cincinnati Republican of the 18th of
April, in which find an article headed, Waste and
corruption Of the Yam Buren, Administrations purport-
ing to be copied from your paper and, as | am in
this article held up to the notice Of the public in a
manner that reflects little credit on my character as
dsbursing officer of the Government, must in
justice to the last Administration that branch of the
Army staff of which am member, and myself, re-
quest through you, to put the public in possession of
the facts of the case.
BY reference to the certified copies which send
you of the two contracts alluded to- you will find
that the lime furnished for 500 73-l00 cents, in
stead of S23 10 per bushel, and the charcoal for
10 9S-lOO Gems, instead of SIS SO per bushel. For
both of these contracts, proposals were invited
through the public prints published in the neighbour
hood five bids having been received for the lime
the highest of which at 81 cents per bushel and
the lowest at the rate at which it was taken and
twentyseven bids having been received for the char
COAL the highest of which was forty nine cents per
bushel, and the lowest also at the rate at which it
was taken.
As have not had access to the report of Mr.
Ponsett from which your hunter after abuses assumes
quote, know not whether the error exists therein
Dut, presumlng that 1t very naturally may-as even
your partisan author to imply there are errors
nasmuch as he will not vouch for its correctness
should suppose that it would have been incumbent on
valued correspondent to have made himself ac-
quanted with the truth before holding UP to public
animadvcrsion any public officer, even one of po-
litcal character which every one at all acquainted
with my habits well knows has never been the case
with myself Though your correspondent asserts
that the day is past when official rel ports can
be implicitly relied on,r he may be assured of one
fac-that any one possessing the feelings of gentle
man would deem it far beneath his character either
official or unofficial to blazon forth the name of any
indvidua coupled with the epthets of swindler and
defaulter, without first assuring himself of the truth
of the statements on which he relies to establish his
charge, even though il NAV furnish LITTLE poticaI
capital for the party of which he is the base tool
THOS. SWORDS,
Captain U. S Army.
FoRr LEAyENwoRrH May 5, 1912
We should like to hear Bolts comments on
the above letter