Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1852-11-05
n RITLHR KING.

n. BUTLHR KING.
Our renders will Iecollect that for some time be-
FIRE the election, a report was current among the
Democratic papers that L. Butler hing' me COL
,ector of San Francisco, had proved defaulter to
large amount, and had been removed. Our tele-
graphic dispatches few mornings since, announced
i the emphatic denial of the report by the WASH
inpton Republic. Below we give the Republics
article entire, as an act Of justice to gentleman
who we doubt not, has been much injured for cleo
pioneering purposes
In our late article upon this subject, we gave a
decided and unequiyocal denial TO the charges
brought by the Union against mr.. King the ooi-
lectoI of San Francisco. The Union now alleges,
first that our denial is not explicit and, seconaiy
Itbatit-the Union-nevef attacked Mr.. King. It's
declaration is that it never made, and never inte
ded to make, any assault upon him. 10 assert
that charges had been presented against nm OIL
such grave nature that the President, unwilling
to wait for the period of his intended resignation,
took the most prompt measures for his instant re-
moval, issued q supersedeas, and appointed per-
son to take immediate possession oil the papers ana
the money, is, according to the Cnion' IN no way
akin tn aI, attack upon Mr.. King! To assert that
he had not accounted for public money paid into
his hands, and generally to convey the idea that
he is gigantic delinquent and entirely untrust-
worthy, does not amount-our contemporary inno-
Gently SayS-to any assault upon vi aeSusaaoh a
gainst him! -----.
With strange Inconsistency, the very article
of the Union W hch disclaims an intention to asSail
Mr. King, calls for the publication OF the official
correspondence upon the subject, and demands a
written denial from the Secretary of the Treasury
of the accusations that have been advanced. Mod
est, very! 1t does not appear to have occurred to
our contemporary that the Secretary would have
little time to devote TO public duties If he were to
hold himself ready TO notice the calumnious and
,t,,tA ,y,1 for
months past have constituted-the distinguishing
characteristic of that Journal. Perhaps the Union
desires the Treasury to transfer its records to the
editorial office OF that JOURNAL that the correspon-
dence of the Department may he examined for po-
itica purposes, and that extracts may be made for
nubicaton with liberty to mutilate or interpolate
as the exigencies of the Democratic party may re-
ouire We know that the Union has unfairly a.
vailed itself of access to the official documents in
the Gardiner case; and dare say it perceives no
relation to the treasury records generally. Tastes
differ; and the taste of the Union is somewhat pc
culiar in these matters.
We have denied, and again deny, that any let
tiers of the character tenor indicated by the Union
were forwarded by the steamer the first OF October;
or by any other steamer ;lor that Mr.. Kings resig
natiou had or has any connexion with charges a
gainst him; or that his resignation was rendered,
to take effect on q particular day. we repeat
further that that resignation has been urged by
there is nothing connected with the resignation
out of the usual course; and that 1t Is not the
wish or the intention OF the President or
the Secretary of the Treasury that Mr. King shall
leave his present position until the office be regu-
larly transferred, in the usual form, to successor
upon the spot, ready to enter upon ms aaneS, -
Another month will witness the reaSSemolng OF
Congress When that event occurs, if the political
friends of the Union in either branch think proper
to call for the correspondence and papers connect
ed with Mr.. Kings conduct and resignation we
presume there will be delay hesitation in fur
nishing them. The public will then have an OPP
portunity of verifying all we have said upon the
subject. The probability is that weshall not have
occasion for further alusion to it. The Unions
tre atment of it is mere political trick, base and
untruthful like all other tricks from the same
sources and the Presidential contest over, its mo-
tives to SANDER and Misrepresentation, as means OF
manufacturing capital, will be for time removed.
1t will be silent upon these subjects then, If not
honest.
In the same number of the Republic we find the
following:
The telegraphic summary of the news by the la
test arrival from California embraces the following
alusion to Mr.. King:
"Hon. IT. Butler King has resigned his office at
Collector of the port OF San Francisco and his re-
signation has been accepted by the President. MIR.
King has been eminently successful in the e1er-
else of his duties and he will retire from Office with
consciousness of having faithfully performed his
obligations to the Administration, and with the ap-
prevail of the great body of the business men of San
Francisco.
The source whence this expression of opinion is
derived does not appear, but we notice it in Jour
mails of opposite political news. How the Union
will relish the California reputation OF its lnqu-
tous attacks upon the gentleman in question, re-
mains to be seen. Events are developing them
selves somewhat too rapid for its comfort and repu-
taft