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

atives in the engineer department to sus
tain their interests or 10 proclaim for them
as you have SO modestly done for yours
their superior pretensions to honor and
efficiency. 2''' l-'# z2e' aH
That your assistants have for the mosl
part conducted business with Mr.. HARDY,
is probable enough; Blu, you appoint your
assistants, and to displease Mr.. HARDY
might be fatal to them. How much purer
i you may make the transactions by filter.
ing them through an alembic Of such q
character, l cannot say. g...., ..s
This family communion, this common
helping, this identity Of interests where
identity should not be, has bad appear
ance and ought to be avoided. How far
this influence extends on the score of ia
voritism to contractors, is uncertain, but
there is no doubt that it has been actively
employed in filling the public ear
with praises of yourself, and with de-
nunciations of all those who do not feel
disposed without some scrutiny, to join in
the vociferous choruses so perseveringIy
chanted in your praise.
Let me state another case for your con-
sideration. Your brother was contrac.
tor for completing the tow path along tie
Des Planes river; he was required by the
assistant engineer in charge of the work,
TO drive certain piles used in the compile
ton of the work, in such way that they
should remain firm and solid this reduc-
ed your brothers profits thereupon he
applied TO you and you gave directions to
The assistant not TO compel your brother
10 perform his contract in the substantial
manner required, in consequence Of which
the piles driven in pursuance of your in.
structions were removed by the ice. while
those driven pursuant to The requirements
of the assistant remain firm. Was this
corruption and favoritism on your part, or
was it incompetency; There are two
horns to this dilemma left at your option.
! might go on TO multiply statements of
this character. They may not all of them
be infected with corruption, nor may each
case furnish positive evidence ofincompe.
tency; but your frequent laundering, and
| suspicious conduct, have made deep i'm.
preston upon my mind. as well as upon
the minds Of others, which cannot be re-
moved until satisfactorily accounted for or
explained. .s. ..
1t may be fortunate for you, if it is not
for the interests Of the state, that one of
my co.Trustces is greatly at variance with
myself, and that both are. in some degree,
committed to sustain you, even at the ex-
pense OF duty and propriety. They are
eYorbitantly paid, for performing small
service, and do not feel disposed to take
more labor and trouble on themselves, or
spend more time in the execution of their
trust, than will be sufficient to savo them
their salaries, and present an appearance
OF right. They visit here but seldom, land
know but little as to bow the public pulse
beats in this state. When here, too, they
are surrounded almost exclusively by
yourself and your parasites, all confeder-
! atcd and having a common cause to sus.
tain. All they hear, reaches them through
the same perverted channel. 1t is not
from such sources that they can expect to
derive the best information. They repre-.
sent interests owned by those who are at
| a great distance, and interests which can.
not very closeI " scrutenize their acts
The bondholders now feel certain of being
reimbursed That is all they seek. Any
misapplcation, and squandering of funds,
does not in the eud affect them. They
| ale TO be repaid, however the money may
be used, and that is all they desire.-i
represent those who are bound to REIN.
burse the misunderstanding have uli
mately TO pay the whole whether the
money be well or i'll spent. am requir.
ed TO be vigilant, that the tax payers, my
fellow citizens. already overburthened and
struggling with most conmendable anxi.
ETY. to extricate themselves from debt, shall
not be compelled TO pay, from the products
OF their sweat aud toll, thousands upon
| thousands of dollars, unnecessarily expen.
ded in consequence Of your ignorance or
malfeasauce. 1t
My co.trustees, as we'll as YOURSELF are
amply compensated, aud it may be that
haste is 40 element entering into The sub
Ject of their thoughts or yours. But the
people are in haste they feel that hope
has already been too long deferred they
are looking for the revenue to be derived
from the canal; they are looking for the
many benefits which they anticipate from
its completion, and they regard every
unnecessary delay with imPatence, and
they consider all conduct which wastes
their money as fagitious. .'# o,.' 'H9
You complain that my charges, as made
in New York, were too general. / offered
to make them more specific, and was de-
MED the privilege. My. letter in New
York was, in truth. general, and was not
designed ether to reach the public, or as
grounds ofaccusation for trial. That let.
ter was published by my co.trustees, not
by me; therefore all your splenetic rail- |