American telegraph. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1851-1851, 1851-08-05
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Com Toner OF Public Buildings.

/ Commit siOner OF Public Buildings.
| 10 ne Eaitors of the Anserican 7eiegrqph.
GENTLEMEN: In your paper Of Tuesday last,
| informed the public that q story was current
about the city, and was said to rest on good
authority, to the effect that the Commissioner
OF the Public Buildings, tue Englishman Easily,
had declared to certain gentlemen that the
statue OF General Jackson should not be placed
in Lafayette Square And intimated that IN
Englishman would be likely to harbor malice
against the memory Of the man who had so un-
mercifully fiogged his countrymen, as the hero
in question had done at New Orleans
/ In your paper Of Wednesday last, ] inquired
whether you knew of any way in which for
eignef could become citizen of the United
States, except by naturalization, either OF him
self or Of his father, while he was u minor, and
4 dwelling within the said States; and further
whether the evidence of such naturalization
should not appear on the record Of some court.
IL appears by your paper of Thursday that
some person had authorized you to state that
the father of the Commissioner arrived at Phil
adephia in the year 1894, and that he was ma
| turalized in August, 1898; meaning to say, as
| understand it, in the same city. You were
further authorized to deny the correctness Of
the expressions attributed by me to the Com
missioner, in regard to the statue of President
Jackson.
On Friday / replied, and endeavored, in the
first place, to show that no evidence of naturali-
zation, less than the record, or copy of it,
would be available. And remarked that siitce
it was stated where the record must be, if any
existed, it would be very easy in such case to
obtain it, so as to remove all doubts on this
| question. Here let me add that the circum-
stances Of this man having been volunteer,
and even captain, in some militia company,
| and also a member of the city council, are, in
themselves, very frivolous, and only serve
to show that the public then, as since, were
imposed upon, unless competent proof should
now be produced Of the pretended naturaliza-
ton.
As it regarded the main point--the conduct
| of the Englishman in regard to the statue. l
called for the expression admitted to have been
used since the denial went no further than to
| the correctness Of those given by me, in order
| that it might be seen whether there was any
substantial difference between those charged
and those admitted.
| Lastly, added in my communication of Fri
| day. that it had been stated that this English
man had been once turned out of the navy yard
by the orders Of General Jackson and that, if
true, this might have increased his ire against
the statue.
/ have thus, Messrs Editors, furnished
plain unvarnished statement of the case in
| hand and if any one should suppose either
my facts or my reasoning to be materially in
correct, let him take issue with me, and l will
endeavor to maintain my positions
And now l will repeat the question | pro-
posed in Of my previous communications.
Win President Fillmore longer continue this
man in Office, and thus become accessory to this
outrage upon the memory Of one of the most
popular and respected of his predecessors? 1t
| IS said, indeed, that the President entertains
an unaccountable personal attachment for this
| Englishman but it remains to be seen whe-
| ther there are no limits to it.
| And this reminds me of another affair, con-
uected with this point, and which has recently
| occurred 1t has been stated upon authority
| in which have confidence, that the Englishlnan,
during the last month, declared that he would
have Mr.. Mills, the architect of the Patent Office,
out of his place before the 10th Of August.
And, wonderful it may seem, the admiral
waved his wand, and on he Isl or I'd Of AuguSt
of Wen the head Of Mr.. Mills.
This gentleman, thus decapitated, is well
| known here as an architect Of the first class,
and highly respectable citizen. His name is
identified with many of the public woIas and
he is now experimenting the erection Of the
National Washington Monument here, and also
one erecting at Richmond, Virginia. But of
what avail was AL this against the fiat Of the
| English admiral A. b.