The Evansville journal., 1846-10-01
from the Baltimore Patriot |
WAsHINGroN, Ser

From the Baltimore Patriot
WASHINGTON, Sept. 13, 1916.
The er-Secretary and er- Clerk again--Mr.
BancrOft's retrdrit--The Orerslaughing
process, and the way The Board of Post
Captains tras selected-Mr. Walkers
non-dcquaintance NTH the subjects on
which he issues Circulars-Mr. Bogar-
dus' pupil--Ihe Secretary goes to Nelr
York--No Southern mail--Mr. Hillard's
discourse, and departure.
The question is frequently asked, Did ex-
Secretary Bancroft retract under the threat of
the exClerk? The correspondence | engraft-
ed into my last letter to the Patriot. shows that
on the first day of August, l845, Mr.. Bancroft
caused to be placed on the files of the Navy
Department that !he clerk in question was re-
moved for outrageous conduct committed the
day previous-that is, he caused the statement
10 go upo u the records, that he required the re-
moval of the clerk the LIST of August for out
rageous conducr, exhibited by said clerk to-
wards him the day previous.
The dismissed clerk sad this was false
statement, Tor Mr.. Bancroft had directed his
removal the day previous TO the one on which
the alleged "outrageous conduct' occurred,
aud had given HIM notice whatever that he
was not 10 leave the Office the next day, Aug.
lst. Indeed it was fair to infer, and there is
not particle of doubt, that he was to go the
next day, as others went-dismissed the ist of
the month. He was dismissed the 3lst of July
and informed that his place had been ASST CRED
TO another-one of those hungry Locotoco os
who were applicants for il. But SCENE oc-
CURED that evening-and then Mr.. Bancroft
was readily delivered of an alter thought, and
what the Chief Clerk had told the dismissed
subordinate, that his dismissal was not oc-
casioned by any objections to his personal or
official character, but statement that he was
dismissed for "outrageous conduct"
This as untrue, and the dismissed clerk con-
ceived that it an imputation upon his char
acter and an untruth, he demanded of Mr.. Ban
croft retraxit, in language, it not courteous.
at least strong and somewhat pointed. He de-
manded letter from Mr.. Bancroft giving the
true fact in the case. His letter was too tough
! and Objectionable, and Judge Mason's aid, as a
mediator was invoked. The amabe Judge
sent for the writer of the letter TO Mr.. Bancroft
and urged him to Withdraw 1t. The writer was
inexorable-his charcIer was at stake-it be-
longed TO his children he said-and ne would
take nothing back-Mr. Bancroft had put on the
records of the Navy Department false state-
ment, which he must rectify or abide the con-
sequences.
Alter this fIr. Bancroft finds il convenient to
give the required letter, and admits (under the
threaD that the removal was decided upon the
3ist of July-that the clerkship had been ASST gn-
/ ed TO anoIher-and that the courageous cOn>
duct' complained of took place subsequently,
the Gay after How does this comport with his
letter TO Commodore Crane! .sSir: Owing to
the outrageous conduct of Mr. ***#***, clerk
IN your office, on yesterday, am compelled to
request you TO dismiss him from the service oi
the Department" Why, he now admits (under
a threaD that he had ordered him dismissed
before. and shad assigned his place 10 another
person! See what Mr.. Bancroft can be uade
to do
By the way, l have learned some curious
statements in regard to Mr. Bancrof's grand
work of overslaughing sundry officers IN the
| Navy, am informed that some four months
before he called the Board of twenty Post Cap
tains TO aid him in the grand scheme. he nomi-
mated. or got the President to do so, Mr.. Ogden
over the heads of the four Commanders whom
he designed to overslaugh--and that the Senate
sent back the nomination with flea tor Mr.
Bancroft's ear. sHe then set about getting tha
celebrated Board together, and in composing it.
, he chose to pass by COmmodores Casin, al
Georgetown, Ridgely, at Baltimore, and Boltor
at Norfolk, who were at leisure. but who, he
pretty well understood, could not be made tC
''vote his sentiments" 1t is stated that of the
20 officers composing the Board. Mr.. Bancroft
offered, or promised, eleven sailing orders
forthwith. One of them, however, Ca aptar
Breese. is said to have been taken in by Mr.
Bancroft. the ship he was promised having beer
subsequently given TO another officer, who per
haps is more of favOrie.
| have copy OF Commodore Stewards Protest
against Mr.. Bancroft's overslaughing system, in
my possession, and may make OF extracts
from it in some future letter.
M. Bogardas, the Duputy Collector OF thu
port of New York. has been here several days
striving hard to make "Sir Robert Waker'' ac
quainted with the real operations Of the new
tariff and warehousing lave. in a practical pon
of view. The Secretary's decision and circu
lars on the subject have thrown everything il
New York, in the utmost state of Confusion
They cannot be carried out. Mr.. Bogardus hai
not yet succeeded in beating knowledge o
the subject into Mr.. Walkers Uranium, and so
as eaIn, the Secretary has agreed to accom-
pany the Deputy Collector TO New York to
morrow or next day, to what can be learn
ed there, by aid, perhaps, of the CrOton Water
DR.. VIM. NJ. Gwin. Mr.. Walkers Mississippi
friend, will probably be of the party.
/, We had no mail from the South, beyont
Richmond, this evening.
listened to very able and an eloquent dis
, course this morning, pronounced by the Hon
Henry w. Ililliard, member of Congress from
Alabama, and Regent of the Smithsonion In
stitute, in the Wesleyan Chapel of this city
Mr.. Hilliard leaves Tor Alabama on Tuesda
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