The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-08-31

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the State from fraud or loss Did he iss1e. I
the bonds only ION the surrender and deliyery .
of the Jbills,n as required by the act :
We, answer, no l.. We assert that he ex-
hibited gross negligence, and In proof thereof
lain deny them # he can. he knops that thew
are as here stated! We charge, then. that Mf.
Parker did deliver rpyyards Of 1900. 600 of the
bonds to Mr.. Parsons of New York. without
first recurring of Mr.. Parsons- the Hs,yre,,de,.
and delivery Of the 6ills. 8 but merely upon the
surrender and delivery OF q certifcate held by
Mr.: P. from the master in equity, that said
bills were,in theiGustody Of MI. .iTsR. -arinr. :
in Charleston. We charge further. lat M.
Parker did permit said bills to remain for q
long time In the custody Of Mr.. Waring, after.
he had issued TO Mr. Parsons the bonds Intend.
ed to redeem them.c We charge further. that
when Mr.. Parker's agent got said bills from
Mr Warino he shinped them to Mr.. Parker by
ernres.. .asr oy7iir111aI ), fr.;oht in. a commot
WanSen hoy moi nnder seal And we charge
f,,rther that said AGENT received the bills with
ont comntino them and that the nackaQe sent
to Mr parker was.not IIsealed nackage."
! This single instance. we think. is sufficient
TO prove that Mr. Parker did not use due
had ALREADY issued $500, 900 Of bonds, Without
first recurring the sssurrender and delivery of
the bills.n and then he had the bills sent to
rim in a wooden box az ordinary freight. Had
the box been stolen, both bonds and bills
wonld have existed as debt of the State. SO
much tor Mr.. Parker, BY whom 81, $50, 900 OF
bank. bills were redeemed. These bills remain
ed with him until the Legislature appointed q
committee, consisting of Comptroller General
Neaole.. Jos Cre,os and DR.. BosemOr, (colored,)
who were charged with the. duty OF counting
and burning the s1,250, 600 of bills for Whlca
Mr. P. had issued the same amount OF bonds.-
Charged with this. important trust, 1t seems 70
ma. t6at the first impulse OF man whose
renntation was dear to him would have been
ao ~ neSTorm this DUTY assigned him. that the
hreatf of slauder could not harm him. How
Ala thia COMMITTEES act under the circumstan-
cess We are informed that they DID tneir
work in this wise: Joe Crews and DR.. Bosemon
would proceed to count the bills IN ROOM
,rithoM ,oitnesses; after they nad oeen at MolA
long enough to have earned tnelr per utsha, .s
Bosemon would go TO INFORM Neag!e .naS G.a's sauy
were ready to burn the bills c0unteo, CIgMs'
remaining alone in. the room with lne onls.
Upon the arrival OF Neagle ana bosenon,
Crews would hold up package "sslo 10 GU,
tain" so many hundred Thousand collars, "hiSn
they would cast Into the hre. WnereuRou snoy {
would make up the days record. Inns iarcS cS
was gone through with rom Gay 10 Gay, unCii l
at last all the bills had been disposed OF, ano
then the committee reported to the Leglsa-
ture that one million two hundred and nlty
thousand dollars ofbank bills had been consum-
I'd hu Arc and that the same amount IN 00ndS
su ~ ;ss,,ea In their stead: and these facts
so nau n, uTed dn1vn IN the tofcia record" Mr. C.
orc pI. hoISo m ,his ssrecord.p and asks US to-
noW nolSs tSa. tbe ~ State debit remains the same
we arn, 'nn n,v has heen changed Does Mr.
Ina. .es 1oLI nf he own knowledSe whether the
~ ~ asn noo nfhank hills have in fact. been de-
and that thew form no part of the bills
9Th of he Rank of the State now ahoat in the
State, does not the whole s'record" depend
an the honesty of Neagle, Crews and Bose
mon" or rather on the honesty of Joe Crews
alone Can he use this record to- prove that
theu are honest Have we no reason to DOUBT
the accuracy of the 1oficial sources rom
which ne draws his figures
we have said that honest men placed in the
position of this committee would have sought
TO Guard against the attacks Of harsh, SLAM
derons and s,Isnicions world. Were these mem
of snch snoiIess ren,,tation that thew need
take no snch nrecantionss, Seagle. who had
heen ckarned ,n the nnbIic prints With stealing
from from his his feIlow-stsdents In early life: Crews,
who has been in notoriously bad repute from
his youth upward; and Bosemon, of whom we
know little good or bad-are these the men to
dety public opinion, and to count and burn
81. 250. 600 10 secret, with no witness but their
own cnnsciences Does not their conduct. at
| i,oot ayotta c,,e,,;c;nn Whom no And fhat