The Whig standard. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1843-1844, 1843-11-24
COM NJ U NICATION.
Ertr0ci 81 Letter from the Late Secretary of
81 Ioaoa Territory TO Friend in this District.
RIfRI IN Iorr.

y T'"'y' 70 rtend IN thts District.
| BURLINGTON, Iowa TER,
| November l, lS43. n
Your letter Of the 18th ult., confirming
VI Ia,ner c'nchtnS the confirmation of the re-
port OF my removal from the Office Of Secretary
Of this Territory, was received by last nights
mail. A private letter from Washington, dated
| 18th ult., to friend in this place, communities
ing the hrst certain intelligence, was received
on Sunday night, though the report of the fact
originated in a St. Louis paper; SO that the con-
tents Of yours did not produce SO great a shock
/ as you anticipated
II IS true, as you remark, that will have to
| Dear the msiortune-and do not know what
good to myself is to grow out of any representa-
ton might make of my (by no means peculiarly
case; for 1t IS evident, and has been quite clear
lor many day, that every sentiment of virtue
and humanity, of good sense and decency, of
common honor and honesty, has been totally ex-
tlnct in the mind of the ",ceak, vacillating, and
unfaithful," acting President.
1t there is any benefit to result from Mr. w.
lers removals, it can only be by iudicious COM
ments on the part of the public journals and
that benefit can only result to the country gen.
orally, and not to individuals made the victims
otathe petty despotism and perfdy of the false
traitors whose misrule, if perpetuated, must
surely utterly ruin the land. This good then
can only be produced by rousing the Wings to I y
sense of the monstrous injustice and outrao 90
committed against the party on political pr oc-
Tyler towards Mr. Clay. 1t is the first ms .tanca
| believe, in the history Of our Cove, nman,
when civil offices have been set up at pu olic anc
ton; Tor 1t is now as clear as SUM 20 j, ~. !.
the present administration is daily s.noa oad II
bartering them away for their own ,,se and h =
hoof ga44 a ae4a aya ~ ~ - D'i ''sto'e &c.
! do not know that there is anytime necn,;aar
N my case, except, that never rrode annIcs.
!on myself for the office, and that Gen. Harrison
M 'o ~ g upon me, was aGtuated believing
me 70 De honest and competency bv ,he cor
sheraton OF family friendships Of ancient dali j
ana 70 crafty Gov. Chambers, his next dear esi
h;n, man wh.s pertinaciously adhered to
- gooo IA evil report, closed his ey es in
L " ..ld would I. have died for him any day
.,ese thirty years" There may be som ething
| in this for the acting President has mr. regard
! for the memory or the sacred recollections, pub
| lie and private, of the President elect. IA t
\ Again have disbursed in the brief space Of
nv official career, in the capacity Of Secretary OF
4 Iowa Territory. the sum OF $7O,U0O, within a
a fraction the full amount entrusted to my charge,
and the disbursement of the greater part Of
which belonged as much to the duties of any
Iother government Office in the territory-an
have now before me, legal duplicate vouchers
for more than that sum, leaving the Government
: nv debtor, as can easily be made appear in a
!. . court Of Justice. There may be something in
this-I am no defanlter. / might add too, that
tor the purpose of collecting this money, have
been compelled to travel over two thousand
: miles, to all parts Of the country, at the very
worst season Of the year, to the great risk Of my
health and life and for which | have not re.
ceived one dollar compensation.
:. am informed, from good authority, that there
is at this moment, sojourning at Washington, an
! editor by the name Of Vespasan Ellis, conduct
. ing John Tyler's organ at St Louis and one Of
scoundrel hear is boasting of the influence par
ticularly exerted by him in my removal. He is
a man of vile and infamous character, and now
I counselling the President, who scruples not to
employ all such to assist him in operating the
guillotine. Another gentleman, who am well
informed, has been active in my removal, re-
Gently returned from headquarters, is one " Silas
Reed" Mr.. Tyler's eyor-general for the Mis-
souri, district, who makes his appearance occa-
!, sionally in the ST. Louis Democrat in reply to
charges preferred against him, but is considered
I, past all ayindcation. He is the fellow, who,
!, when he had been living for years in Missouri
and Illinois, and actually holding office in those
: States, took trip to Washington, and made
oath that he was citizen of the District Of Co
: lumbia, in order that he might take the benef,
: Of the bankrupt law in that District.
Il By such miscreants as these, who use Mr.. Ty-
Ter for their own dishonest and selfish ends, OF
! are used by him Git makes but little difference)
to do his dirty work, have been removed from
, office ae 9a
1t may be urged as an excuse for my removal
(if long continuance in course of barefaced cor
ruption has not rendered them Indifferent to the
Indignation of the honest and honorable) that a
petition for it, from citizens of Iowa, was pre-
!, sented to the President. IT'S true that such a
petition, having its origin in pique and selfish
ness, Gas the following letter will show, twas
, forwarded from Iowa city. But at the same
time counter petition for my continuance, Of
much more respectable character, accompanied
by letters Of strongest language in my favor,
from private citizens and members of the Legis-
, laiive Assembly was forwarded to him, which
It is fair to suppose reached him. So much for
this the only shadow of an excuse. e
+ BURLINGTON, Iowa TER,
eeF t{at March 8, 1S43.
SIR: have just been informed by letters from