Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1849-1856, 1850-05-23
FRIDAY, MAY II.

Uyl SEE that the Newport News con-
Iadicts Iny incidental statement that Mr..
Cahoone had refused to report to the Cen
eral Assembly certain items OF expenditure,
growing out Of the Algerinc war Of l642.
/ am 2 lad Of it, for the denial calls atten-
,ion ~ the fact, which every man in the
State besides the Editor of the News,
knows to be true. If hal spare time,
this morning, | would refer Mr.. Cranslon
to several votes of his Law and Order SEN
ate, within the last four years, which fully
prove my statement. 1t is in my recollec-
tion that these items were distinctly called
for, twice at least and that the only reply
which The call elected, was denounced as
an insult by Wings, and was voted to be
sent back by the Senate. The Editor OF
the News may put this latter disclosure in
his pipe AMI smoke it, while / gather up
my baggage, and commit myself to the
Perry for ride up the Bay. .-Prov. Post.
The editor of The Post does not seem TO
be satisfied by simply asserting what is un-
true, but hs Ieiterates his Measurements,
and glories in his false position. lie per-
sis,s that the Senate has called for items,
at least twice, 4" and that the only reply
which the call elected, was denounced as
an insul, by Wings, and was voted to be
sent back by the Senate" We repeat
again that there is no foundation for these
assertions, and when the editor of the Post
makes the charges, he commits gross Ii
bel upon the character of Stephen Ca
hoone,-a libel which will be warmly re-
eehtcd by the county Of Newp TT, where
Stephen Cahoone has been well and thor
oughly known as business man for moie
than half century and which will also
be resented hy all who have the pleasure
Of his acquaintance. IL there is man on
this earth who is eminently honest, in the
stricies. sense of that ,rd in all lhe rea =
tions Of life, who has sustained perfectly
unblemished character through long Sc
ries OF years and amid Ill the contentious
and varied changes o ftime,-,hat man is
Stephen Cahoone. tie is entirely above
the little chickering's Of party strife, man
who dis, ,harges every duty in the mos,
faithful and conscientious manner, and.
above all a man who would not swerve
from the path of rec,itude to save his own
right arm. When the youthful editor Of
the Post makes these false charges against
the venerable and respected Stephen Ia
hoOne, he does not injure the man or The
Treasurer, but he de2rades himself, and
shows how party spleen and litlleness may
sway man to the comnilIal Of contemp-
uble act, and induce him to attempt to be-
daub character of purity, and to insult
old age which is honored and respected for
It's probi,y and its nobility.
We ask the editor Of the Post to name
the particular tine when the Treasurer
was called upon by the Assembly for ofiic-
ial information, which he refused to rem
der ; and we also ask the editor to state
precisely what the desired information was.
Whenever MIR. Cahoone has been called
upon ior information rela tive to the Finan-
ces of the State, he has always responded
to the cal as promptly as the character
and details of the information would admit
of,-whosver asserts to the contrary, utters
what he knows to be untrue.
After the Dorrit"s had made all the
trouble tha, il was in their power to create,
and caused the State to put down the re-
belion at a heavy expense, these same
mischief makers were constantly talking
about the enormous expenses of the Aleer-
inc Administration, .hile they vel knew
that hese identical expenses were erected
by their reasonable operations. Some
three or four years ago, before these ex-
penses were all settled, at the argent re-
quest of some of The Dorrtes in the As
sembly, a resolution was hastily passed,
calling upon the Tr asurer TO report at
that session, which was then near It's close,
the whole amount OF the expenses OF the
Dorr war. II was "A moral imposslbllity for
mortal man to con ply with this call, be-
cause the Treasurer himself did no, know
what IN ny og the orders on the Treasury
from the Governor aud Council were for
they made their orders and ho paid them,
as il was his juiy to d., they having the
oower to draw. Tbs Treasurer, ihereft re,
cou'd no, know aud does not know, TO this
day, the precise amoun, Of the expenses OF
,b,, rebel ion and no one ever can know
them. lie stated these facts most respect
fully to the Assem- ly, and they were sat
,sfed, the charge of the editor of the Posi-
to the contrary notwithstanding.
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