Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, IA [i.e. Ind.]) 1839-1854, 1843-04-15


oers of the Board of Public Works. and the A.
gents connected Meretrift hare been PUBLICLY
APPROVED by the leaders of the Locofoco Par.
ty, and in doing this promise TO consume but
little space.
the Bill passed, before party capital makers bent
the Auee ~ iaIsenoou. INA year, speaking OF
the State Board Of Internal improvement, Mr..
BoLroN, as the organ Of the Locoioco Pa,,y used
the following language through the Indiuna Dem
ocret. viz
"Ue must be permitted TO congratulate friends that
EvLIG H1THED, and 2E.9LoU 90 MEN a, The n.sn,
bsrs Of STATE BOARD OF INTERNAL I'M
PROVEMENTS."
Hero is commentator at an early day and full
blown panegyric il is too. We add here the une-
quivocal approval Of the acts Of the Board Of To-
ternal Improvement, for years subsequent TO tho
above publication, by such men of the Loco!oco
Party. Messrs. Woodburn, Long, and Morrison,
who acted tch them and sanctioned their ncts.-
We come down to the years, and to the
sion Of tho Legislature, of lS4l-2-the period
,rhen the System round up and its officers were
dsbanded by the action Of the Legislature.
II is well known that a, the Session Of lS41-2,
the Board Of Internal Improvement was disband-
ed. Ia that year DocroR Mason and JESSE L.
WILLIAMS of the Board Of Public works, tho
latter Of whom, Chief Engineer, had been con-
nec,ed intimately and for very long period with
the System of Internal Improvements. The rea-
son assigned for distanding the Board and for a.
polishing the office Of Fund Commissioner, then
filled by Moan NOBLE, was not because Of any
faithlessness or nefficiency in those officers,
in either Of them; but because Of the Public Debt
end the absolute necessity Of tho suspension Of
the System in eoery shape.-Upon that occasion,
the Hon. EDWARD A. HANNEGAN, now tho
Locofoco United States Senator, was a member
of tho House Of Representatives and delivered a
speech. in his place, from which We mako the fol-
dignan,ly Mr.. flanagan repels tho desire TO dis
grace the Wing officers by the abolition of the Of
ices which they hold. The extract is as follows,
viz:
81 have no particular wsh for my part retain any
the pre.en, Boa ri in Office nor do they
continuing themselves; but there is of them,
sir Jesse L. Williams, entitled bet,er
a, political friends here That gentleman,
sir, Gov. Noble. incorporating political
nen; far my personal feelings concerned,
as private citizen .aND n P0BLIC OFFICER
Bu are told abolish the Board lest the
act may be construed upon the conduct and
character Cor. NobIe We abolish Offices
to be OF further u,ilityand recommended
to be abolished by Governor OF the Sate,bscause in
doing, will legislate Gov Noble out Of Office BY
the act 1898, legsated Thomas II. Blake Elisha
Long, Woodburn and others Of Office. In lo4O,
sgisla,ed Samuel Lewis. member OF abe Board OF
Internal improvement, and Lucus H. Scott as Fund Com
missioner, Office. We're all these gentlemen dir
graesda There men in that list, MI Speaker.
you wtatevey differences Of
ay existed respecting of policy.
respected and esteemed for the virtues which
their gentlemen q 'mpedc'dofe infeg
ritz they, too, dsgraced! There of them,
sir whom known we'll and long, and
in 'hear of hearts, the tried and proved friends OF
years standing but who, did they hold the places
proposed be vacated by the provisions Of ibis BILL could
have earthly influence whatever mind in perform
ing public duty ask, did the acts alluded 10 disgrace
Elisha Long, and sW Govsrnor Noble, reputation De s-
he'd his cha destroyed by the provisions OF the bill
under confederation No sir no man can be disgraced
by adoption of like this, intended only to
sb,erps the public Ueare and promote the neresis Of the
people,
In addition to this testimonial Of Mr.. flanagan
we have before US a letter from RoBERr DALE
OWEN, Esq, distinguished Locofoco, (Which let
ter have not the space to publish,) wherein
prominent Wings connected with the System
fully sustained by him in their official transactions
We close the ev dence this point with state
ment OF the fact, that the Locofoco Legislature,
Of the year now alluded 10, eviuced their firm
confidence in the integrity and their sanction OF
the character Of Doctor Mason, the remaining
Wing member Of the Board Of Public Works, by
eleetinc him, OYER ONE OF THEIR OWN Party
as the Agent Of the Whitewater Canal.
How fully do the facts which we have been
considering forever silence the base aIsehood that
Wings have had the erclusirc Management Of
the System Of the Internal improvements! And
how fully do these facts convict them of fasehood,
from their own mouths, in the charge that the
Whip Management. Of the System has been fraud
uent and corrupt! for, how abuDdaniy has il been
proven by the declarations Of their leading Press
made a, the birth of the System; by the acqui.
eseence of their own members in the acts of the
Wing members of the Board Of Poblic Works; by
tho public declarations of their own honored son,
made when the System expired and by their own
act. in the reelection of a Wing member of that
Board to office, how abundantly has the charge Of
Wing corruption been thus falsi6ed BY their own
lips