The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1851-07-09
THE UNION.

IN his written deposition before the secretary vi Vai
here given evidence by the prosecution states thus point
clearly and correctly witness directed Captain Stone 10
return The power OF attorney TO MI Anderson ana INFORM
him that he considered the power OF attorney as IN suo
stance an assig nment OF the Order and that Mi Car
michael had no right 10 make such transfer and that
he (gtness) would recognise it An attempt has been
made 10 show apparently evasion seounenanced
and admitted the treasury Upon this have no FUR
Their commentary make than TO that II such The
practice. is in violation OF the law in letter and spirit
and strange commentary upon The gravamen OF one OF
these specifications which alleges adlsgraceiul offence
that the public service "exposed TO the dseredil
arising from the sale of public conract'-an offence
which it would then seem the government encourages
and protects This, then, was the state OF things as
made known TO me in the month OF November, slmua'
neously with my first information oil Col. Hugers own
construction OF the terms OF my letter. HIS order had be
come, 10 all nens and purposes 10 affect the department.
mere dead letter had no reason 10 believe or ina
CINE that anything could be done, would be attempted,
under it, Being entirely satisfied that Col Huger had
acted he has always done with the purest and best
Intentions and with view TO the public service, accord
ing his Judgment and that his OF judgment
had resulted and could result injury TO the govern
ment it required new quality to be infused into my
nature before could for moment think OF gratultousy
involving him in any difficulty. Not only had no rea-
suppose that anything had been done under The
Carmichael ORDER but late the end Of December
had the satisfactory, positive evidence that nothing
had been done. refer to the correspondence between
Mr. Anderson and Captain Maynadier. in which Mr..
Anderson complains that Col Huger will rot allo him
TO execute the order, inquiring if Col Huger has any
personal objection to him. (Anderson0 and states the
such refusal nequitable. 1t must have been shortly
after his--cerainy before had any reason to believe
that the condition of things had at all changed-hat the
Secretary made his first inquiry OF me In his testimony
he does not state explicitly what that inquiry was, or IN
what language was expressed, though this is material
in order 10 understand the answer and ascertain whether
il was true and the point But it may be inferred from
what he says-viz: that he had been informed that the
Tredegar vorks had large contract for shot for The War
he sent Tor and informed me OF 1t;
that said, "u mistake; that no contract er'sied
for shot, and that making at Richmond for the
department" believe have quoted his precise words
Not having access to the record, | take them from the
of counsel In his written statement OF the LIST OF
May, addressed TO me also in evidence, he states my
swer simply thus: You told it was an errors that
such contract existed Whether upon this occasion,
upon any Of the subsequent occasions, used language
importing that in point OF fact there were no shot making
at the Tredegar works shot piled in the foundry
shipped thence to Fort Monroe, cannot be at all material
for such language could only have been uttered, and
could only have been understood denying that any shot
were making, or made, or shipped under contract with
or by authority OF the Ordnance department II IS not TO
be imagined that the Secretary OF War could possibly
have understood me as peremponly denying here IN
Washington, the existence of facts alleged to be in
Richmond. All that could deny, and all that it was
reasonable in him TO inquire OF me was. that no such
facts existed BY under the authority OF the Ordnance
department To have undertaken 10 go further than this
and positively to contradict physical facts alleged to be
occurring than one hundred miles beyond my range
of vision, would have been to offend his
and to have renounced my own So the Secretary him
self manifesty understood it; for upon MIR. Thomas
Green's second report to him, he the investigation
in writing, now appears though had no intimaton
at the lime that his purpose was other Than general
and the correspondence between the department and
the bureau comprised in the papers your record OF
dates from the 2st the 9th of January, including
copy of the order 10 Col Huger, speaks for ITSELF and
shows that the inquiry simply as to existing con-
tracts and charges upon the ordnance appropriations II
escape your notice. has painfully forced itself
upon my own that the pursued by the Secretary
upon this second occasion indicates too clearly that from
other his mind had been so abused as TO
my character that he thought II necessary to approach
/ tha,r R,y
cannot abandon the expectation that upon review OF The
whole he, too, will see that he has unntenuonaly
done me the greatest injustice;
You have The key 10 all the specifications mpuiing
fasehood TO In the mind OF the Secretary was one
thing; in mine another. II, in these repeated arrslgn-
ments OF me, manifested, as he has said, some impa
thence and heat il because understood hun to be
again and again renewing inquiry which had already
fully and truly answered, and in regard to which no
single fact reason TO believe fact had come 10
my knowledge from the date OF my hrs answer TO the
date OF my declaration that there not word OF truth
in Mr. Green's letter. Down to the date of my interview
with Mr. Anderson, who happened TO be in Washington
when that letter referred 10 me- never imagined
that any word OF Colonel Huge had in any degree
varied the condition of things in November TO wit
Doctor Carmichael himself falling TO comply with, and
finally Tenouncing and consihnng 10 other hands, the
order which had been gwen, and that trans
fer epudaed and finally rejected and no contract or
pieence for contract existing Nor do mean TO say
that what had occurred and unknown TO me, did IN
fact vary the condition oil things IL is not pretended
that knew any Of those facts. The only circumstance
which appears 10 have been relied on as bearing upon
this point is, tha, Captain Mordecai mentioned TO me
ually that Colonel Huger had requested him 10 send to
Mr. Anderson couple Of gauges and said he supposed
swered 81 suppose not" But he himself has testified that
there nothing either IN Col Hugers request or what
he said TO nconss nj with the idea that they were
required make few shot for experiments, and that he
be ieved at the time that such was the object bad
reason believe and did not believe, tha had any ref
the execution OF tho ORDER transfer OF which
had been dstnc y and officially repudiaec My letter 10
Colonel Huger remained, he has stated in force to
authorize the procuring of shot shells for practice and
experiments, and TO OTHER Effect, as he was now
fully advised OF the mistake he had made. Knowing
to be available for this object only, as stated the Sec
Rotary of War when asked whether Colonel Huger might
not be making shot under that ORDER supposed the re-
quest of the gauges relate TO purchase OF that
sort, and to nothing else. solemny that under
stood the subseque oral inerosatioDs OF the Secretary
as dad the FIRST from the beginning TO the end, calling
upon to answer 10 single point, TO wit; the ale
CATION that there some contract arrangement
by which the Tredegar works. with my knowledge and
authority, engaged in making large quantity OF
shot for the department He fully suslans in this
upon his last examination, when, in TO
question presenting that view OF the matter TO him. he
answers that in the inquiries which he made he took 1t
for granted that the shot could no, be making without
my knowledge and authority. II this was so firmly
rooted in his mind you doubt the assertion that he
conveyed the same idea 10 me- and liked my attention
upon Il the substantial and only object OF his inquiry
That answered it truly, appeal TO this record 10 estab
sh before the world Take any other view OF this case
and you must positively stulufy me. You must believe
that in evil hour double suddenly descended
on me--lhe loss OF common honesty and common intel
lect Not only must |, without motive, have become