The Arkansas banner., 1846-03-11

'5s' 5e' sy sy @y @!,. s.ss:ss' ,s ' SosS tossl 'hn, sws had been bee s1os,i' t' ''n hs
 an: the Treasurer was sec eo1ss'9l ps,9pia s ot romm,ssl0n ooid in,a of 10 per ,.asd cen, bp S,
 lands. It so happenssdIy :, for naa aa
 year yea after entered ed4sa' oa ,sa laa3 Of of
 Taa. lIee, a much larger anoas, pa 'ns da t tn,
 Treasury, for redemn,,;eaaa ,,eaat va '''
 sEsF Sis Ss5ods ss!G5s been so received sSl '
 commission cor miss at 10 per ",'sq cee, Ac ts
 not h,% dnt,I sn,a.s1 near the close of E 1O(
 l,he l hear a doubt suggested aa5's' e q ihi .h,
 authority for cbarrieaa fa,,isa Ioi+ 'nh 'aa
 on precisely z the same sn's Iss! IS, Pe3 z; e''
 w''n wsre 'nis n,;d difference h oaiy: ist' DO
 mine out of the amoun, rr,D,''' fd ,n . | Stnta Al , 'Nuiil rfno ls
 by implication, withou, 1sa' ,as Were .ag; 1s
 rad,Hi ln fact, on the part of the a{ f, hdsl q
 ] have stated above, .,b,, "t r't |
 the lst day of oet~' s-sI ~'ba' a'' Il ss1 ss U
 ilxlng E my salary was aDD'o,] VI, ach
 on n. the 27th, entered a1 ,p IT.,
 office. Q On the 18th of '5 ,5. 'n9 .a' '.a
 being 2s days qflsr i vs, s's $ Sa, N
 atter my salary had bees S's srs s,s sa'
 ? days ader had entered 'Ils q 2 el" aI
 s oi the duties of the office |yhi ii
 T. passed aas1.., making it the dsiy he
 lieasurer to receiee the porijl lrgh
 plus revenue to which this st,1 s'' pis
 under the act of Congrs,, a4 p,E
 l83o' The amount expected ,s ci
 was over $3So,Ooo, and f,st', yet II no Q,
 was our :. Legislature, in pas ,ati.
 making it the duty oe lb. FlT T ,be ,,
 cei0e that large amount ol son
 neither pointed out the ,Oau b no
 'chen, or the place u!ers. nat
 celved; and, farthermore, i u icat,
 sion for paying the expenses ls.
 collecting the money, or for a
 the officer whose duty it v] e A
 ceive it. Could 1t have been ,sd
 the Legislature, atisr he hal eed
 given bond in the sun of s3 re I
 missioned, and entered on i. lire
 office, to impose on him lbe h C,
 ty, erpense, and rsspouabbh bsiitt
 near S4O0,00O, wlthoutany oi Id
 lion than the paltry salary of d d
 mum, allowed him in the law rs,
 ry' Certainly not No Le isvi
 have been so unreasonable, an turn
 could give the required secu1 my
 900, and intend to dlschaI ks, i
 with fidelity, would have bee Rn to have accepted the office on bs, l might (as l stated in my m e " last Legislature) have renal Ee and, in the language of the d ks it was simply my duty to ra bal at the hands of the Secretard er, and called upon him topIace khal in this city, or in this Slate lh c so, the whole fund, or hgs Sta might have been lost, and Ip hor jecled myself to public indy bn CT misdirected. There vas n| Ter liberation. l saw the lnmlH or
 which l was placed, hreattad 6rd : self and my secmaes; but hicf g Morality of my political fri hes, : magnanimity of my political r tc g the payment of the dclual srY ttin l by me in discharging this deld was responsible duty, and pThas kpeI 7 ation for my own serVlcesn in lle, l And how have 1 been reward sen ? is told in the events of eIghI lew r political persecution, during gto B been harrassed by yexallouI hor the State, and have twice me kyn l Legislature for relief, and aitl len 2 had the qualification of oban in : report on my case in the he : presentatiyes, and a bill repcf bin : lief, (though it did not allow er' . by several hundred dollars rot l myself equitably entitled 'oi Jas 9 partial justice was not, oTlns nd : encious scruples of some tat democrats, permitted 10 he ) laid on the table by ono vote he 3 crats to whom l allude, were |nd q scruples about interfering vii |ut 7 had been settled by former Mi 2 who had no scruples about fu' v resolutions exculpatlng eOI
 : the unjust asperslons cast, cast on an e by the Legislature of lSE' H . in, ] .sstrain at a gnat and swallos be : The transfer drafts of ih's n : Treasury, for the first two two ar Q the surplus revenue due 'ns lie s ceived by me during the Tln u s of 1887, and were payable a'' II
 Jan. and 1st of April ol 'na' f |, at Natchez. l received two ' f, n instalment-one, for s5o'vy . c cultural bank, and the o'lsI gl . on the Planters bank. fh 2 the Planters bank, ] c0lleels Q :, . of of public moneys at this Pn : his deposites in that bank Il
 . On receiving the dra''s 'r.J; 4
 s stalment, Iproceeded ln'l',o, ,oe'
 4 Jan. draft for S5O,oooL-.;nns'i -.;ns
 d manded uv nd specie in payment.
 ,i'' Tod bv the Secreaf
 e sury, of the drafts bs'1s 'sa s m md
 found them unPrePareu 's, .J m e,] j. was just before the |g;ns.' genera, uhi' 'ir
 e from Maine to Loulslal'a' a's., ""
 1t the early part of that at; ysalI1' .l1 rl