The Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1846-1852, 1848-11-03
The Extrn Pay Business.


will test the sincerity of the Cass Office
holding and office-seeking Committee of
Washington. In publishing it the Ma.
tional Intelligencer says:
We think that Mr.. Stewart gives in to-
days paper the best evidence Of his sin.
cerity; and it seems to US that the Editor
ofthe Union and his coadjutors must Ell
lher accept his offer, or retract ,heir un-
founded charges in regard to General
Taylor receiving extra pay. We shall
see whether they have the fairness to do
one or the other.
We venture to predict that they will
do neither one nor the other. 1t is mot
their vocation" They are to manufac-
ture charges, not TO prove or withdraw
them. The first is moral impossibility:
and as to do the latter supposes there is
a sense ofjustice left, that is also a moral
impossibiIity.
UNIoNTowN, Pa, Oct. 10, 1s4s.
Messrs. Gales T. Seat0n:
GENTLEMEN: Finding the task of dis.
proving the various charges made by the
Editor Of the Union and the Democratic
Committee at Washington against Gen.
Taylor to be tedious undertaking, and
as the documents referred to are accessi-
BILE to but few persons, and the election
now close at hand, | propose to submit
the whole matter, at once, to practical
test. With this view | make the follow
ing proposition:
Whereas | have charged general Cass
with taking $63,s65 46 "eztra pay, 'over
and above his legal salary, and to offset
this these gentlemen have charged Gen.
Taylor with taking S74, ,S64 "ertra pay,"
over aud above his regular compensation,
in the following words: The addition
of this amount, S93,42l S4, regular pay,
to the allowances of $74,S64, proved by
record, will make the handsome sum Of
$l6s,2s5 81 received by General Tay.
lor."-(See their pamphlet, page 2.)
Now. agree TO bind myself with am
pie security. to pay TO Thomas Richie
and the Jackson Democratic Association
Committee every dollar of this charge
of S74, ,S64 of allowance to Gen. Taylor
in addition to his regular pay, that they
can prove to be true 'by the record" re-
ferred to.
The said Thomas Ritchie and the Dem
ocratic Committee agreeing, on thei
part, to pay Andrew Stewart, not the a
mount of extra pay he may establish
against General Cass, but only so mucl
as he shall prove, by the Presidents mess
age and documents herewith printed
that General Cass received as extra pay,
5 over and above the S63,S65 46, as here
tofore charged by the said Stewart.
That there may be no equivocation o
f delay, it is proposed that both parties b.
confined to the evidence furnished b,
President Folks message of the 11th o
August last and the documents there witt
, printed, and that the said message anc
documents be referred TO Roger Jones
Adiutant General of the United States
whose report shall be final and conclu
sive.
And if these gentlemen are not salts
fed TO refer the matter to General Jone
: alone, they may associate with him Gov
r Marcy, Secretary of War from who's
Department most of the documents hav
emanated.
| further hereby authorise and empow
er George Gideon, Esq., of Washington
= to carry out this arrangement on my par
S If these gentlemen fail to accept thi
e offer to pay them the whole amount of lhi
e charge Of $74 S64, if established agains
Gen. Taylor as stated by them; when. o
q the other hand, they are only required t
= pay the amount of extra pay that Pres
dent Folks message and the documsn,
referred to shall establish against Genera
J. Cass, over and above the $63, 1865 46 wit
' which | have charged him, what viii tn
t public say of their conduct Will it nc
be conclusive evidence that they have n
confidence in the truth of their own state
}, ments, while in effect they admit the va
h lidity of minei
" ANDREW STEWART