The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-01-06

at will be seen that there little sum of
| 1926 70 in the account, which has the appearance
of ga fair business Transaction but this was,
doubtless, to give a like semblance to the $ $4,000
transaction, which, standing solitary and invaria-
bic, might excite inquisitve curiosity
We thus learn how Mr.. CAMERON became
possessed of the $50, 900. Mr.. PoLKs first plan
for carrying out his bargain with Mr.. TYLER
was to substitute Major DoNELsoN as editor o.
the Globe in place of Mr. BLAIR, but this pro-
position the latter rejected. Next Mr.. CAME
RON, under the authority of the President, made
overtures to Major DoNELsoN to come to Wash
| lngton and establish new organ with the
$4,000. This proposition was also declined.
"And | will ask Mr. RITcHIE, says Mr..
RIvEs, whether this bait had not been thrown
out TO him at earlier period than when portion
of it was applied by CAMERON to pay the first in
stament for the Globe He says in his late No. g.
that aer he had declined theinvitation of the Hon
A. V. BRowN and CAVE JoHNsoN, in December,
1874 to set up organ at Washington, he received
in the month of January, through another friend in
Washington, ga still more brilliant offer" Why
does MIR. RTcHIE throw veil over this still more
brilliant offer when it is the object of his article to
show off his brilliant offers' Why docs he not
tHht IL DTi-
| liant? think the reason which moved him to deny
positively, in the paragraph which have quoted
that Mr. CAMERON had furnished the first instainnent
paid for the Globe, operated him conceal the
amount of the ''brilliant offer" and the quarter
whence it to come Now, do tell me,
Mr.. Richie, for | want to know for my
| satisfaction, was 1t not the identical $4,000
of treasury money which was in the control
| of CAMERON, that offered to your If the
friend who offered it not Mr. CAMERON,
tell the public his name that it may be inquired
into whether he had the means of making this bril-
| liant offer himself, in line of communca-
ton with the TYLER deposit. There is enough
known already to clear Mr.. RIrcHIE and Mr.. CAM
Enos from downright ialsehood, although there is
| positive contradiction between them, the say
| ing that Mr.. CAMERON did not furnish n cent of
the money, and the other that he did. The solu-
ton il, that Mr.. RIToHIE knowing that the money
given by Mr.. CAMERON not his own, might
well say that he did not furnish it, whilst the other,
knowing that he had been guilty of converting the
public funds to private use. could say with truth
that part of the first instalment for the Globe
out of his pocket. STILL | must say there is an,
equivocation between them, in the of the
two mentioned by Esop: took the
from the butchers stall and gave to the other to
hide under his cloak; when taxed with the felony,
the taker declared that he mad not Is, and his ac-
accomplish protested that he did not take it.
Zone thing, however, is absolutely certain the
Union newspaper ID a type of the union concerted
between Messrs. Polk and TYLER before the cleo
ton of the former; the offspring OF the connex-
ionhe Washington organ of tire Democracy of
the United States-is THOMAS RITcHrE, the con-
tractor"
This extract completes the history, we be-
-
is but fair to add that Mr.. Richie denies all
knowledge of the transactions above related of
Messrs. TYLER and Polk, and suspects that
the statement of Mr.. RIvEs is all romance
and humbug." As to the justice of this suspi-
cion, we leave our readers to Judge for them
selves