Weekly national intelligencer., 1850-05-25
TO THE EDITORS.

TO THE EDITORS.
The report in the Union" Of the proceedings Of the
House in the Gsphn claim in part msepresents or mis-
understands what said respecting Of the Secretaries
that deem necessary ask Of you immediate
on Of that part is the necessary, because having
drawn forth what desred-he reading Of all the reports in
the House, and the consequent exposition Of all the facts and
arguments in the case have, therefore, obtained all the OBJ
jects for which to speak the question of printing,
and have thus made unnecessary unless be my
self from further Misrepresentation, report my own re-
marks. The " Union" makes speak a follows:
"The connection of members Of this Administration with
the to him BRooKs subject Of great regret
Here Mr. b. described the in which Mr.. Monroe
conducted himself with reference claim held by himself
against the Government when Secretary Of State Mr. Sc
cetary Crawford should have bazoned forth the knowledge
Of his connexon with the There some indirect
testimony to show that Messs Meredith and johnson did
know it. (Mr BnooKs understood say though they
denied the fact That they did know it was proof that
they did not thoroughly examine into the case otherwise
they could have failed to know Of his close connexion or
with an interest in it."
The two latter sentences perversons uninentiona
hope, but not the less peersons What did say was as
follows
sThe Secretary of War should not have kept FROM nor
have allowed to be kept from his associate Secretaries the
paramount interest he had in this and antique claim
fact that he should have uttered in their in tones
of thunder He should have bazoned it his forehead
and let all mankind read it there If then, the Attorney
General had given him by legal construction huRdred
thousand dollars for HIMSELF and the Secretary of the Tea
sury had approved it. they would have known what they
about they would have plunged into the very depths
Of the they would have read and eread every paper in
they would have tracked it from its nursery in Georgia
wilderness before the Revolution, and have followed up,
step by step till this day they would have known the re
mendous and dangerous personal responsibility they
suming, and have felt how they eopang the peace
and prosperity Of Wing party. IT, then, by
Of dUhp
Congress in session, they had appropriated of the public
moneys 80 in interest upon claim older than the
Revolution, they would have done it with their eyes wide
open But both Mr.. johnson and Mr. Meredith as under
stand, testified that Mr. Crawford did by any make
known to them his interest in the claim did they have
any knowledge Of it. No human being doubt this tes
tmony The veracy Of these gentlemen unassailed and
unassailabe. The worst impuaton that could be made
against them was natenionhe not examining the length
ened history and vouminous papers Of this undyng claim
nattenon to be excused by the magnitude Of their bus
ness, and the multiplicity Of their duties know it is said
that they ought to have known Mr. Crawfos interests that
1t was shown by public document (he famous Wise
report, ls36-36 j that powers Of attorney that accompanied
the papers which they founded their opinions show that
two letters from Mr. Crawford himself to officers Of the Tea-
suy Department importunatey urging from Mr. Walker, the
late Secretary, early adjustment of the claim, sh9W But
is enough for to know that Messs johnson and Mere
dith both swear they did otknow it. They have lived too
long, and have characters well established to make any
doubt it. Their only has been the
to all mankind, of msudgment Their only fault is that
they did not read all the papers that they did 60 back
to l76l and study out the whole history of hem And, sir
who has any thing else 10 do could find time to
study out the long and history Of the
caim and read all the papers Accustomed to hard work at
home, and suffering for Of something to do here with
occupation except that of listening here day after day,
have given this claim thorough study gone back to
the colonial history Of Georgia. have pursued the claim
under Great Britain and under the colonial authorities.
have read and reread all the Creek and Cherokee treaties
with Great Britain, with Georgia. and with the United States.
have studied the history Of the compact with Georgia in
1902 have looked into most of the land claims that have
arisen under that compact and they enough keep
busy. have studied well the effort Of Georgia to make
the United States pay interest in like cases. under the treaty
of the Indian Springs, in 1921 and its denial by Messrs.
Monroe, Adams and Writ. have, 10 long and aborous
investigation, gone through the that Georgia has had
with the Cherokees for their ands the Ridge and Ross
troverses the Troup agitation prior that the amousNew
Echota treaty history, with its amazing developments the
Schey correspondence and then the history Of the statutes Of
the United States allowing dsaowing interest," prin
cpes Of the decision of the accounting officers heveupon L
the bounty land business the funding SYSTEM and all the
State legislative records of Georgia that could lay my hands
upon records often without index, or ndexed SO badly
that the labor imposed upon of searching them for
Gaphin, from beginning to end. have read or looked
into full seventy volumes been therefore, 6bionanist
aore and thus have great charity for the inaen
ton negligence Of high officers of the Government who if
they had done all this work, have abandoned all the
other duties of the Administration. If others had given the
statute, there would have been allowed principal
interest,""
This sneary the language used and these certain,
are the ideas conveyed in the portion Of my remarks
Friday. Yours, respectfully, JAMES BROOKS