The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1843-12-21
e WHO is L, OF KENTUCKY'i AND HOW
CAME HE TO RECEIVE HIS APPOINT
MENT AS MIDSHIPMAN IN THE NAVY''

To these pregnant questions we have been
for several weeks prepared to give direct and
emphatic answers; but, up to the present mo-
ment our columns have been so entirely filled
with the Message of the President and the ac-
companying documents, that we have been
obliged 10 defer what we had TO say on the sub
ject.
"Who is Il of Kentucky'7 and how came he
TO receive his appointment 10 the Navy 2" have
been several times asked by some Of our brother
editors; and insinuations of dsreputable cha
racter have been INDUCED in, with regard 10
them. We understand that quite stir was
produced in the city of Richmond, Va, not long
since, by certain ex-member of Congress
John Minor Botis-who it seems, not only in
dulged in a wanton, and we had almost said pu-
sillanimous, attack upon the character of an alb
sent man, charging him with one of the highest
crimes known 10 the law, but also in strain Of
language which, if we are correctly informed.
none but desperate and abandoned man would
have used.
SO far as Mr.. Botts's private charges are con-
cerned, we leave them to be settled in private
manner. Mr. Langhorne, we understand, Is
shortly to return TO the United States, when he
can speak for himself He boarded in the same
mess with Mr. Bots, and consequently, how
ever untrue the declarations made by Mr.. b.
may appear from the papers we give, he is pre-
sumed to be conversant with the substance of
those declarations.
But if Mr. l.. was guilty of the crimes charg-
ed upon him, why should he have been so pow
.riuly endorsed by this very mess-by Garrett
Davis, Thomas +. Marshall, Gov. Pope, John
White, and all the rest, in addition TO the Post
master General and his son, Judge Marsba's
nephew, &c, &c.
Why, if the young Mr.. Tylers, as asserted,
caused the appointment of MIR. L., doe. not the
record show III The only note land oil are
called for as wW be SEEM written by either
of the Mr.. Tyers, is a short official note from
the Private Secretary, transmitting q letter Of
young Mr. WickIiIe to the Secretary Of the
Navy, without expressing one word in Mr. LIS
behalf; and we are authorized to say that nei-
ther Of the MIR. Tylers exerted themselves in
the least manner to obtain Mr.. LIS appoint
ment.
Governor Pope frequently urged il upon those
young gentlemen 10 say something in behalf OF
Mr.. l., and their action in the matter was en-
tirely confined 10 representation OF Gov. Pope's
wishes, not theirs.
And so far from Mr.. l.. having received his
appointment against lar, as stated, it will ap-
pear tina, he received his appointment a month
before the law went into effect
1t seems, then, that in every respect there has
been delusion existing in relation TO IL. of
Kentucky"
As for Mr.. Bolts, we beg pardon for
having again inflicted his name upon our read
ers. A man who has certified to malicious
and incorrect statements, as appears from our
publications last summer, should never excite
the attention Of any others except his peculiar
friends" in the city Of Richmond who, with
regard to this Administration, would "doubt the
sun to shine, the earth to move, &c"