The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1849-12-12

of Minnesota, on the second day of No
vember, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and fo+y-nine.
For further specification, /, James
M. Goodhue, one of the publishers Of
The Minnesota Pioneer charge, that
on the third day of November, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and forty-nine, at the Office of
the Secretary of Minnesota Territory, in
the town of Saint Paul, county Of Ram
sey and Territory OF Minnesota, C. K.
Smith, Secretary of Minnesota Territory,
paid to John j. Dewey, member Of the
House of Representatives, ten god
coins, ofBritish coinage, of the value of
four dollars eighty-lour cents and sixmills
each, by the law Of the United States
regulating the value of foreign coins, at
and for four dollars and ninety cents
each; that those ten soyereigns were so
paid to John j. Dewey, for his per diem
as member of the House Of Represen-
tatives-that Secretary Smith then and
there, received Of John j. Dewey, such
creditor of the United States, voucher
for those ten sovereigns, as for and pur-
porting to be for the full amount of forty
nine dollars, the remainder ofthe amount
due to Mr.. Dewey for his per diem and
milage being paid in other coin.
That at the day and year and at the
place last aforesaid, G. X. Smith, Sec
rotary of the Territory of Minnesota, an
officer of the United States, charged
with the disbursements Of public moneys,
did accept and receive and transmit to
the Treasury Department, to be allowed
in his favor, a receipt or voucher from
John J. Dewey, creditor of the United
States, without having paid to said credi-
tor, in such funds as the said Secretary
had received for disbursement, or such
other funds as he was authorized by law
to take in exchange, the full amount
specified in such receipt or voucher.
1t will not do to answer these charges,
by alledging that the creditors were will
ling and consented to this fraud-credi-
tors of the United States, are willing to
submit to almost any shave, to get mo-
ney out of Secretary Smith--it will not
do to say that these creditors preferred
sovereigns at "a 80 each, to five franc
pieces at 95 cents each, or even to half
dollars at their true value. The law will
not allow the Secretary to carry on the
business of broker in his office, under
any pretence, either for his own profit, or
for the profit or convenience Of his
friends, or of public creditors.
This charge OF. embezZleme Mt which
we have before made, and the truth OF
which is notorious in Minnesota, but
which is only one in a whole catalogue
T of wrongs committed by this Secretary,
we now again make, boldly and distinct
ly, that it may not only come to the no.
tice of the Grand Jury of this county,
but that it may command the attention OF
the Government at Washington--that
Congress, that the Cabinet, that the
President, that the whole nation may
know and inquire into the truth of these
charges that the world may under
stand, whether the Government of the
United States will knowingly, retain in
Office man who by his repeated embez-
elements, lacks nothing but the forms Of
indictment, faithful prosecution, and an
impartial trial, to consign him to the
walls of penitentiaiy.