The Democratic Whig. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1842-1843, 1843-03-16

the tonsttgnf50n, and the RevlH0a N0ue auu
nlac tslone says nothing about il there . noe
Thing no Wheka Il think % too, said the
Attorney General, unless L i treated OF ~
~ nei5 edition 81 Thomas Coke. sPsIlaw,
whissled the Governor, = II i l. there you
can't find i J; ! never could find anything 70
Coke in NV lile.. viii 70 and wee what can
Ia dene Nv IN lkin,fo Grages.'ss - With that ne
seizea his hat and left the Attorney General 70
return to his Office. or do Whatsoever else ne
pleased. Onhis way the Governor met CoL
w, and after telling him the difficulties OF the
case, asllcd him what he thought he had bet
ter do You say, raid W., "there i no.
thinu IN the coastittttiOn or laws about It -
well. IL Won can find nothing in the Penitentla-
~ Code that hits the case, Why just declare
marital Iaao and . hang him under the second
section, that is the real Democratic doctrine;
but, if you don't like to take the responsibility
to do that, then hand him over 10 me-
win try what can be done by mild means first,
said the Governor, and proceeded on his way
to the Treasurer's Office. We are indebted
to runner for the foregoing particulars.
Al full account of the interview that took
Mace between the CONSTITUTIONAL Governor
and the distinguished Treasurer of MISSISSIPPI
pi. we copied into our last from the " South
ron" After the failure of his visit to Graves.
the Governor found himselfso hemmed IN 0y
constitutional difficulties and the exigency OF
the case, that il is said that he swore he wish
ed never to be called " constitutional Tucker
again while he lived, and exclaimed "consti-
tuition or no constitution, that Observation-Disclosures
scamp, Graves, shall never receive another
cent of the peoples money" and he forthwith
gave directions to Col. Mathews, the Auditor,
TO receive il. Thus are the financial affairs OF
Mississippi under the management OF an Adj
ministraiion of Regulators.
For further comments upon this matter, we
extract the following remarks OF the Vlcks-
burg Sentinel"
THE TREASURER OF MIssIssIPPI'-We
have heard nothing further from the Treasurer
at Jackson and his colleagues. by his own
showing he has appropriated to his own and
others uses portion of the two per cent fund
which ought to be in the Treasury al Wash
ington, and which he ought to be aPprehended
and imprisoned for drawing IN violation OF the
law of our legislature of February 1912. He
admits that he has drawn also The three per
cent fund and paid it away to swings and de-
raocratsp' having paid the Auditoi. the Secre-
tary of State, the PRIMER and the Aorney Gen.
eral their salaries or part of their salaries out
oethe moneys which he had no right to use
for any such purpose He admits that he drew
I65 thousand dollars from the Treasury at
Washington, and he does not pretend now TO
have more than l4l thousand Oft. What has
he done with the balance? Some of his friends
and attaches have been seen hawking about
the federal government cheeks, and buying up
state warrants with them. 1t is generally I'M
derstood that he has been Specializing in the
money which he has illegally and improperly
drawn from the Treasury at Washington; and
the Governor ought. to seize on him and the
balance vet in his posseRsion. The Governor
is hunting the constitution to find power to seize
man for embezzlng public money.-lti is per-
fectly ridiculous, and if the Governor does not
take steps to prevent the Treasurer and the
money from fight to Texas, he will be in
yolyed in the guilt. Why has not Governor
Tucker published his entire co rcspuldence
with this embezling Treasulel! We under
stand that the Governor went to the Treasury
office some dayes ago, and demanded an ex-
animation of the Office, but Graves refused, and
the Governor left HIM with his finger in his
mouth. The Governor ought to issue his pro-
prohibiting any one from trading for
United States drafts, payable TOR S. Graves
or erder, and thus save the balance in Graves
bonds from embezz ement, until the govern.
ment at Washington has an opportunity of ar
resting him for obtaining money under false pre-
fences. He obtained the $144, 800 of the 2
per cent fund at w ashingIon by fraud. In
4 letter signed by Governor Tucker when he
lCds sick. Graves was represented to the Fed
eral Treasurer as the proper person to draw
the per cent fund, and other funds coming to
The state of Mississippi. It was on this last
clause that Graves came the Giraffe over the
Secretary of the Treasury, and drew the Sl44,
500 of the 9 per cent fund in utter violation of
law.
Our Legislature expressly prohibited tie
Governor or any one else from drawing the two
percent. fund except enough pay the salary
Of the Engineer. To effect this, the Governor
gave Graves a requisition for ten thousand
dollars of the two per cent. fund. But it ap-
pears that Graves could not withs'a and the
temptation of the large pils, and he called to
his aid the general poloerS of Governor fuckers
sick letter, authorizing him to draw the three
per cent. fund BY this trick he pocke,ed one
hundred and sixty-five thousand dollars and
went on to Philadelphia and New York where
ne fourished most extensively, held levees and
drove his splendid carriage. The sudden ele-
Fation of a brIefess county Court attorney
ought to have excited suss picion, and old Hayes
i he had been living, would have been inqui-
ring into his ways and means. We think it
s high time that Governor Tucker would in
orm the public nj the whole history of this in.
amous case, and whether or not he gave any
to the misapplication and embez-
clement of the public money. We know he
las been urged by his friends both here and in
w ashington to secure Graves and the money
before they get further off but as yet he has
lone nothing. We learn also that Graves has
'een in the habit of violating the law which
equlres him to mark ioarrante s.pGid 'wnenhe
eceives them into the Treasury. This foul
practice enables him to sell out the warrants
IS fast as they are paid in, and it is impossible
0 ;ell what amount ofthcmis yet unredeem |
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