Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1847-12-28


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1t is upon such acts as these that you
boast your superiority, and, With pharasai-
cal pride, set yourselfup as q gibler Of
other men. "a ,ns4asusE s8aT efs
wished you to appoin, Mr.. Lynch as
a superintendent oyer body OF the men;
you admit you abruptly refused TO do, SO,
and now seek tojusrify YOURSELF bg as.
saults upon his character. Mr. Lynch
had been contractor under you for eight
years. you knew,or ought to have known,
him well, Gf yeur own word can be- taken
for it, land in the month of July. a few
days before ] rec on men6ed his tppoint-
ment, you gave him letter which here
copy: 4a la Htt
CANAL OFFICE, LocKPoRT,
July I'd, l647.
Mr.. DANIEL LYNCH-Dtnr SIR
Having settled up for The work which you
have executed on the Illinois and Micbi-
gan Canal, understand you intend to be
competitor for contracts upon other
public works, and am happy TO give my
testimony in your favor, have known
you well, for many years. and have no
hesitation in saying you have displayed
much energy and perseverance as u con-
tractor and that have no doubt if you
succeed in obtaining contracts in other
places, the work will be managed 10 the
satisfaction of the officers in charge. {.a,t
Truly yours. WILLIAM GooDIxG.
Chief Eng'r ofthe iii. and Mich. Can
that believe him a suitable man to be
employed. Energy and perseverance were
the very qualities to he desired, in su-
perintendent. Mr.. Lynch had shown
NE your letter. and upon the strength of
it recommended his employment, nd
your abrupt refusal to employ him could
only be attributed, by me, to wilful stub.
borness on your part. The truth is you
thought him good man. and only assail
his character as you assail that of others,
merely because they speak plainly what
they know and believe OF you. However
pure and excellent man is, ifhe does not
approve of all you do, you pronounce him
an outcast. Fortunately it is not in your
power to do men all the harm you wish
them. hope. for your sake, you may
come out of the furnace you have heated
as unscathed in character as the individ.
uals you SO unscrupulously denounce. 90
You have enlisted several ofthe public
journals in your behalf. and you and your
minions furnish a full supply of paragraphs
with which to please the public ear.
noticed in recent daily in your city an
article stating that two thousand men were
at work on the summit division. The true
number is between four and five
hundred. So far so good-this is some
improvement. The spur of discontent has ,
been piled to the tagging sides Of your
industry, until The work is going on more ,
vigorously. You have an efficient super.
intendent in MIR. Barnett, and if you
should not clog his enterprise. that por-
ton of the canal may at some time be-
completed. But the same daily paper ad.
mits that this labor costs high. How does
this tally with your previously expressed
opinions of getting cheap labor in the
winter?
Ia reference to the mistakes, as you
call them, made in the estimates for cen.
tracts under the -emptioDs, permit nue.
to say that they were gross blunderS.
You knew, or ought TO have known, the
character Of work to be done on each
section,as every section or nearly every d.
section, had before then been opened.
And an engineer of your bosted expert d.
ence ought TO have known much better
than you appear done, the proper prices
to he allowed for the sections to be finish.
ed. Guesswork. in a matter fthis may
nitude. was not what the public bad a.
right to expect from you. ..s. ..... 4f.t
You admit you have been indebted 10
contractors for loans of money, hut you
insist that this was not improper. Did
this not place you under obligations to
such contractors? And might not favor.
become reciprocal between you to tha
prejudice of public interests! Better au-
thority than yours says that 'lhe borrow.
er is the servant fthe lender" In your
case you had two masters. the public and
the lender. Their interests were opposed
and you might serve the lender without
being detected. Therefore it was wroag;
for all men do not believe you so ineor-
ruptible as you represent yourself to be.
have now before me an affidavit from
which make this quotation. The de.
pendent says. "He has heard Jeremiah
Crotty say, that the time the engineers
under theold commissioners refused to Law
cut this atlantis work, as follows, (said
Cro,ty heinga contractor:) What he could ,
get along can't YOU addressing af. ,
iant,) throw out bait for theme made
hree thousand dollars by Ioaning Mr.. b.
Cooling one.' And this affiant says that
Mr. Crotty has, had plenty Of work on tie
inc Of canal ever since said conye Tsation.'
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