Evansville weekly journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 184?-18??, 1848-05-11
From the Cincinnati Gazette.


PERSONAL MEANNEss AND OFFICIAL CoRRUP-
TIoN.-Again we are called upon to record of
fetal acts of commission and omission of
the Administration, so mean and corrupt as to
Segrade the national character.
1t will be recollected that the House of Rep
resentatives called for the instructions to Mr..
dlidell, and they were withheld, and the cores
pondence of Mr.. Trist with the government
was also called for, and that was also withheld,
because it would get to Mexico and do mis-
chief; yet MIR. Polk and his cabinet send cop
les of these official documents, secretly to Gen
Pillow, in Mexico for him to use in open court
in his defence, in the city of Mexico. The
Peoples representatives could not be trusted,
but President Folks GENERAL in Mexico could
be!
But this is not the particular act to which we
wish to direct attention. On the 18th day of
April, the House called upon the Secretary of
War for the correspondence between Gen.
Scott and the War Department. MIR. Marcy,
furnished it, but it was discovered that he had
prepared deliberate fraud and deception upon
the House. He was charged with having with
held certain letters, and garbled others; this he
denied, by his friends, and furnished mem
Der with four letters, saying they were of no
consequence. that those four were all that were
withheld. This statement was officially made
TO the House.
The House was not sa tisfed, and again call
ed upon Mr. Marcy, and this call has not only
brought forth important suppressed letters, but
letter which was not in being when the call
was made-a letter of torty-7line pages, writ
ten by the Secretary of Warrior the occasion,
and several days after the correspondence was
called forl
Mr.. Secretary Marcy had written to Gen.
Scott, asking for specifications of his alleged
bad treatment by the Administration, and Gen.
Scott had promptly furnised them. This letter
Marcy withheld, among others. and when the
House repeated their call upon him, he still
hold on to it, until he writes forty-nine pages
in answer to it, and then sends to the House
Gen. SCOTS suppressed letter, and his reioinder
got up for the occasion.
This mean if not infamous conduct, was ex-
posed and denounced in the House by Messrs.
Clingham, Hillard and Stephens, on the 9th
ult.
Mr.. Clingham denounced the War Secretary
as guilty of garbling and Withholding letters,
and by sending to the House letter of forty
nine pages subsequently got up for effect, of
attempting to palm upon the House and the
country ''deliberate falsehood."
Mr.. Hilliard is represented as being greatly
excited, and Indignantly proclaimed that he
WOulu uOL SuuIlllt " ouCu tIUIu
as the Secretary had attempted to palm upon
the House and the country
Mr.. Stephens i'll his scathing remarks charg-
ed upon the President the withholding from
the peoples representatives correspondence
and documents, on the plea OF its doing mis-
chief in Mexico, and then furnishing his we'll
beloved friend Maj. Gen. Gid. Pillow, with
them to be by him used in his defence, in the
Mexican capital! And he demanded to know
how it happened ''that the nomination of this
Pillow as Maj. Gen., made near year ago, by
Mr. Polk had not yet been sent to the Senate?
Why was this nomination withheld from that
body? He asked any defender of the Admin
istration to answer" But no answer was Civ
en-.
Talk about the official corruption and AFRO
CANT exercise ofpower by the monarchies of the
old world, but let us not be blind to those dali
ly exposed in our own.