The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1871-02-04

/ your charge against Mr. IOucey of scattering
the ships Of the navy to reuder that arm
{ PoweresS; LCr do you now pretend to assert
/. that Mr.. Thompson was gulty of Tubbiug
the Indian trusC funds. But you Cller Lo
, reparation, nor even an excuse. for the wan-
. ton aud 0uurUTuhei injury which you tried
/ to commit on the character Of the living and
/ the memory OF the dead. You sulenly per-
NIT judgment to be rendered against you by
RH atclt. l mention this only 10 say that it
/ very seriously affects your credIbility upon
! the other points. FaiSus iii alil0, .JIlsGtS in
omnibus.
ou peryert my words and my meaning
when you say that l represented Mr.. Ihomp-
son being above the range OF ordjRa,Y
( uloTtats. | merely declared that his meuta!
/ ability, good sense, and common honesty
placed hun very far beyond yOu, who had
assai.ed AIm WIKI a false charge OF fciunlyus
robbery You 90 rot see the Justice OF this
/ comparison, and you think that il I had not
I been mere lawyer. having little acquaiat-
! ance or ASSOCIATION with statesmen" |
! might have entertained different notion
( Although | consider my calling 10 be as re-
/ pulaUia any that you ever followed either
/ before or after you took up the trade Of "A
/ pUi.tician, You may make what deduction
you please on that account from the value
. o. NY Judgment; but you must MT interfere
/ with my UaGOubted right 10 lei.cve (as | 90
/ most GrvoIld.y) that It wUuid take a gIeLt
( many " iisOns 10 make one Thompson.
/ il was not expected that Governor Floyd
/ would escape your maIedIctl0us. No pubic
/ man ever provoked such storm of popular
/ wrath 40 lie did. The President, who had
/ trusted hlIn, Withd ew his cUuhdeuce, drove
( HIM from lis councils, aud ordered him to
! Le Indicted for MANIFESTATION IL office. His
/ COLLEAGUES LETT him to bis fate, and there vas
nobody in ali this land to take his part. lie
/ had some qualities which c3mu:aBded the
] respect OF iylks ike you as long as he lived
and moved among you. But absent, uu
/ Iueu4ed, Geieuseiess, dead-iallvn Ia lost
! cause and buried 10 an obscure grave-he
was Tie very man of all Others, IN or out Of
/ the world, whom your mlgnau.mlty would
/ prompt You to attack. Bat why did you
/ uut charge him with misconduct ia the fl
/ uauC!a. management Of his department +
/ That might have provoked comparison
( between linn aud Cameron, much 70 the dis
( advantage # the latter, whom you wished
/ 10 court, haJter, and whitewash. Therefore
you preferred TO take up the Xplodsd charge
/ Uf seuaIug guUs and munitions to the south
; for the uso Of the seCgss.UuIsts IL the war.
/ our first paper had nothing IL 1t on this
subject except the bold assertion, and ! wa.
! content with naked denial. But in your
/ last you come back with a more extended
! aVelIleut, and produce what you seem to
I suppose viii lie taken as evidence by at least
some Of yoar readers. Let us look at it.
4 committee was appointed by tie Uouse
I If Representatives 10 January, 1851, to as
7 certain how tie public arms distributed
during the year 1850 had been disposed Of.
/ Mr. Foyd - as not present at the iuvest5a-
tlun he mad not a friend on the committee;
ar4l.,r IN Ipf m
could. l. reported the evidence. but gave
. n Judgment eliminating him with the oti=use
/ you accuse him Of. On the contrary. the
Z opinion was expressed by the Chairman that
/ the charges were founded in ''rlmoT, speCu-
/ iaiiyn and pPrtheuslcu" But you
take up the reported evidence and try 20
make uut case which the committee Odd
not make out by carefully suppressiug al the
principal facts aud mjsslatIug the Others
/ Your charge Of traudulenty seudiug arms
10 the south cannot be true Of the heavy
cannon made at Plttsbuggh for the forts in
, Louisiana and Texas. because they Were not
sent at ali. Floyd gave an order TO ship
them ou the 2Oih Of December, 1860, but II
was revoked 10y the President before a gun
/ was starred. 1t is, Of course, possible that
/ Floyd, 10 making the order, acted III bad
. faith; hat there Is no proof OF that. Ga
the contrary. Colonel Maynadier, an honest
. as well as q sharp nan, and most yigJlsnt
. ,nicer. who knew all the facts OF the case,
/ auG understood Floyu's attitude with regard
/ to secession aud union as well as anybody
( 10 tGe = hU!s country, cheeriuliy set about
The business ul carrying cut the 'rdeE, though
II was lot III writing, and testified that he
/ had no suspicion OF any improper obj'ct or
motive il it. IL fact and IL Truth, Floyd
vas not. in sentiment OF IN action. q seCcs>
siouist until after he saw that the breach
hetyecu himself and the President, which
originated in other matters was irFepara bic.
Up to the time when he 60, notice that he
must resign, he was steaally opposed to the
southern movement. and the Interest ene~
mics be had were the leading men IN that
section. Colonel 1ayuadler says that "he
was regarded Throughout the country as a
strong advocate of the Uujon and opponent
of secession - and be adds as q Confirmation
of this, that "he has recently published over
his own signature in a Richmond paper a
letter on this subject, which gained for him
hiuh credit in the north for his boldness in
re6uking the pernicious views Of many in
his own State" After be found the whole
administration against him, he vas driven
bv stress Of necessity into the ranks Of the
party which he had previously opposed.
Tic great and important fact to which
the resolution Of the House directed and con-
fined the attention of the committee, aud
which is made perfectly clear by The evi-
clence. you do not refer to ct all, bat keep 1t
carefully out of sight from beginning to end
of your statement. The question was and
, is. whether the secretary OF war under the
Buchanan administration did at any time
subsequent to the first Of January, 1860,
treachcrously dispose OF guns nd munitions
for the purpose OF giving to the south an
advantage Ia the war which the leaders in
that section intended to make against the
b Federal government. This was the "rumor,
speculation, and misapprehension, to
which the chairman of tbs committee aliu-
ded; this is substantially what the partlzan
.,e,s and st11r,,r, nrators have asserted