The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-04-03

telegraph head, in the New York Herald of Satur-
day last
"[Om special telegthphic correspondence
"WAsHINaToN, March 90, 1850
1T is reported this evening that Mr.. Ewing, the
Home Secretary, has allowed old claim,
amounting to hundred and eight thousand
dollars, which had been refused by the preceding
administration. have not yet heard what the
nature Of the claim is, but the affair is talked of
good deal here"
I'VE would respectfully inquire of the National
InteAigencer which promptly repealed Mr.. Ew-
ing's connexion with the Galphin claim, if the
facts stated in the preceding extract are true? And
if so, did any member of the Cabinet as agent
or counsel for the claimant? Or is any one of
them to derive any benefit pecuniarily from the
allowance of the claim And did the Attorney
General give opinion in favor of its payment
The peculiar circumstances of the Galphin claim
make these inquiries pertinent and proper
From the Union of ApriI 2.
The Galphin Claim.
awe understand the Secretary of War, the Hon.
George w. Crawford, has s 80, 900, or thereabouts
the proceeds of the Galphn claim, deposited in
one of the banks of our city. If our information
is not correct, we will be happy to make it SO. on
the authority of either of the two organs of the
Administration, who promptly came to the re-
lief of Mr.. Ewing when he was charged with al
lowing the claim"
We protest against this unmanly and
base detraction of personal and official
character. The paragraphs which we
have quoted from the Union intimate in
equivocal suggestions that members of
President TAYLoR's Cabinet have been
engaged in improper and corrupt trans
actions with the public funds. This
charge is not directly made. The pub
lie are left to infer it from the general
tenor of the paragraphs. This is a skulk-
ing and cowardly warfare. If the Union
is in possession Of facts duplicating the
official or personal integrity of Mr.. EWING,
or MIR. CRAWFORD, why does it fail to
give them to the people, that the people
may Judge for themselves If it is in
possession of facts which induce suspicious,
why does it not seek to confirm its suspi-
cions through the medium of Congress
sional inquiry Why deal the blow of
an assassin Why murder character by
the cowardly and mean innuendol Why
not call upon the great inquest of the ma
ton TO do their duty by ascertaining the
facts upon which it relies in support of its
libellous insinuationsl
OF the cases TO which the Union alludes
we know nothing. We have no spies to
investigate Mr.. CRAwFoRD's bank ac-
count, or to readjudicate the decisions Of
Mr.. Ewing. If there is any thing con-
nected with either which is of public in
terest, and which it concerns the people
to know, we are disposed to have it exam
ined in the proper way, and before the
proper tribunal. We are not disposed to
try Mr.. CRAWFORD or Mr.. EWING on the
suggestions Of newspaper, or on the fab
relations Of the Locofoco clerks, who arc
still permitted to abuse the public mind
with their discolored and distorted state
ments of official transactions. We cannot
dispose Of question Of personal integrity
upon hints, insinuations, and innuendoes
These newspaper attacks upon Mr..
CRAWFORD and Mr.. EWING are the more
base because the Locofoco party have the
means Of appointing their own committees
in both Houses of Congress. They know
that Mr.. COBB will not appoint an investi-
eating committee with a majority of the
friends of the Administration upon IL.
They know that on such a committee there
will be no Wing GrLLETT, TO vote down
inquiries and stihe investigation. They
need fear no impediments or obstacles
from the Executive. There will be no
msolent and objurgatory and abusive let
tiers from the President OF the Heads Of
Departments TO the chairman Of such a
committee. This is not the WHO mode
Of doing things. The WHIGs have been
for twenty years calling for highland
they are not now going in for darkness or
concealment. This has been the Locofo-
co reliance. WHIcs repudiate it; they
court inquiry; they solicit investigation.
So far from throwing a straw in the
way Of the most thorough and search
ing examination, they will lend it every
facility and encouragement. IL there
is any thing wrong-they desire to correct
and reform it. They have no wish TO
screen abuses or cover up corruption. II
all this we're different; il the WHIcs were
in amsjority; if they could appoint white
washing committees; if they could with
hold and suppress facts by voting down
resolutions to send for persons and pa
pers; there might be some excuse or pal.
liation for this war Of newspaper innuen-
does and libels. But in the present state
Of parties in Congress, il is in the last de.
gree iniquitous and unjust.
1t is doubly iniquitous and unjust--frst,
to the members Of the Cabinet asssiled
and secondly, TO the President himself.
The Eocofocos know perfectly well that