The Columbia Democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1837-1850, 1846-05-09

'dlINeei we nau IOI'y NoAooi 'nlHh, uh"Vi
the previous question: to resist treaty
which MI Webster has lately stated in the
Senate, granted nea; half a million OF doI-
larsIiom the treasury of the United States
TO the e.people Of Maine and Massachusetts.
I then desired 10 contend when put down
by tae previous question, that the House of
Representatives had constitutional right to
pass on such a treaty.
What am now enabled TO add, of revp.
lstien from the Department, Of State, will
prove that nv instincts of aversion to the
iIeaiy were even truer than reason.
In the Department Of State there is now
letter, sienedF. o. ]. Smith, marked pri.
Uoie, dated Portland, the 12th of August,
1912. addressed 10 Mr.. Webster, Secretary
OF State, substantially as follows;
Ii begins by congratuating Mr.. Webster
on his seuement Of the Maine boundary
quesuon, by a neC mode Of approaching
the subject, after forty years Of diplomacy
without which new mode another forty
years Of diplomacy would have come to
nothing.
INIT. f. O J. Smith seems 10 have sug.
Sesled The boast with which his corespon-
dent, Mr.. Webster Rugged himself in his
elaborate vjnIicaiion in the Senate
My. Smith lnforms Mr.. Webster by this
letter that he had occasion 10 resort TO SER
vices and influences, an order 10 adjust The
tone and direction efhc party presses, and
through them OF public sentiment, 10 pur
pose,so desirable of accomplishment under
Mr.. Websler's administration.
Mr.. Smith, therefore, submits claim or
account, il reccollecI right. in blank for
Mr.. Webster to gil up, of which he calls
for payment out Of The contingent fund.
Mr.. Smith presumes that the contingent
fund will be ample, and Mr.. Websier's con
troll of it complete, 10 do whatever he may
think just
The sums Mr.. Smith vouches IS got by
him from Mr.. Webster are $4,000 for servi-
ces connected with Tho Northeastern 5oun>
dairy, ast Two ysars after he vouches $500
more, as v III ks shown.
Thirdly, Leaving the Department of
Stale in debt to the secret service fund
$1,000 |
The records Of The Department show The
default hey ond all denial or.ques'ion.
They show, Furthermore, haiti was
neither paid or accounted for during nearly
iwo years after Mr.. Websler's removal
fran Office 49,. -s-
They show several sent 10 him BY Pres
o. idens Tyler's direction, urging paymen.,ond
evssive letters Of excuse from Mr.. Web
, sler for non-p,yment
AT length, peremptory letter that ex
posure would or might be The consequence
of more delay, produced Reimbursement,
But settlement did not lake place ,iiI the
1st February, ls45, Ten days before Pres
idenl Polk arrived IN Washington, TO be in
auguraed, when Mr.. Webster produced an
other voucher from Mr.. F. Oh. Smith for
an additional $500, and another voucher,
one from George Smith for $500.
George Smith, since dead, denied that
lie had ever been paid or vouched more than
$3.50, 10 which sum Mr.. Webster reduced
the-$500 at first dapahded,as his agept,nsw
in Washington, will prove.
Granting all The vouchers Mr.. Webster
produced, there was nevertheless balance
OF about 81 200 due from him at all events
when he lef. Ihe department. That aum he
was in default 10 the secre, service fund
after ctediling everything in The way o.
payment, Offset, or voucher, that he claim,
ed.
Ia all have said in this affair, no allu,
sion has been made 10 any private aggrava
iion Regretng The exposure forced upol
me, having afforded Mr. Webster -evera
opportunities 10 meet the charges in hi
o@n,wsy that which he chose left me no al
iernsli vebut lhis lorbeaing justification o
myself.
resolution, or Gem nittee, which can
not institute, will soon test The truth Of o.
statements.
Atlhe conclusion Of Mr.. IngersoII's STATE
men,, Mr.. Ashmun, Of Massachusetts, ros