The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-08-15

NAS Va OOddeS III OIu6E To save VCrV
large amount that would otherwise be
sacrificed. I yielded conditioually. viz.
That 1 would SEQ and Judge for myself OF
the emergency. 1 therefore took the
sea! with me to New York, having, as I
sud before, the verbal opinion of the
Attorner- General that it was not illegal.
and whom did not have time to obtain
written opinion from, and feeling it
entircl y unnecessary to do so, for in all
my oihclal and personal communications
Win tne Attorney General, I have always
found him gentleman of the str,cte,t
veracity.
when went to New York, stopped
at the same hotel with his Excellencv.
III order to better observe the situation
anu govern myself accordingly. On Mis
OCCASION, had determined not to seaI
before his Excellency had agreed to sion
though neither Mw nor custom ,.eov;re1
me to do so; it was simply matter of
convenience, notwithstanding his Excel.
lency's studied attempt to make it an
pear otherwise.
l 10 not desire 10 enter into detailed
account of what saw in New York. and
l hope it will not be necessary. Suffice
1t to say, that after refusing for more
than week to sign the bonds required.
aud swearing. by all that was snpernal
and internal, that if he signed them, he
would do it only with his herrrs blood,
his E1cellency sat domn one morning.
after a protracted interview with the
Financial Agent. and signed them in
good black ink. After his Exoellency
had signed them, took up the bottle
OF ink. and asked him if that was bis
''hearfs blood" He said. with smile
that was childlike and bland" that he
had further "hghr on the subject. No
doubt!
After his E1cellency had agreed to
sign, resolved to seal. then told his
Excellency that had the seal with me
ana had resolved to seal. He said that
he was surprised; il Le were, it certainly
was not visible. He alsu says that he
severely reprimanded me for bringing
the seal to New York. This is false
Conscious, from experience, that his Ex-
cellency has one of those peculiarly for.
getful memories, that ore very convent
ent 10 their possessors, when they desire
to extricate themselves from q difficult
position, did not content myself with
ms verbal assurances as in the case of
the Acknowledgement, but required him
to write letter authorizing me to pro.
duce tue seal before I would use it. and
he wrote the letter which he acknow-
Lodges.
Whatever responsibility attaches to
taking my seal to New York am ready
10 bear. feeling justified by the circum-
stances as represented But his Excel
lency must mdnfuAy bear his also, and
not try to shirk it; tor placed it in his
po'ce'' to prevent it, if he would not first
give me the required letter referred to.
Ihe TACT OF the matter is, his Excellency
shows both the weakness of his defence
and the narrowness of his own mind by
trying to evade the real point at issue.
Ihe question Is not who prepared the
bonds. whether he signed before sealed,
or rlce 0ersd, but what was done with
them dffe, they were thus prepared? II
bis E1cellency condescends to rise to
explain to The public, apprehend they
would be much more satisfied with q
minute and detailed account of the man.
ner III which the bonds were disposed
OF and the Ddri0uS uses to which the
moneys have been applied. Such pain.
fully interesting items, for instance, as
these: BY what authority Of law could
he, as Chairman Of the Financial Board.
aud Mr.. Parker. as q member and Trea-
surer, take the taxes or the proceeds of
the sales of bonds and lend them to the
Blue Ridge Railroad Company, redeem
old bonds, as above referred to, and ac-
commodate their friends and charge it to
Imaginary funds?"
His Excellency states that there is
$500, 600 Of bonds in the hands of the
American Bank Note Company, which
were returned to them last November to
be Cancelled, and that they have been
sealed. It may be 80, but don't be-
iieve it. But if sealed, they we're sealed
before that time; but will give nv rea
sons for doubling the statement. They
cant be ''sterling loan bonds" for they
were all cancelled. They can't BIZ ICON.
version bonds" for if they were, he
would have much rather had them
brought back here than take me into
court. They can't be any other kind of
bonds, for they have all been sold or for
feited long since, the Treasurer tells me.
1 remember distinctly that there were
~, 600, 900 Of bonds for the funding of
the interest sealed; 81, 900. 900 were first
sealed, and then they were declared to
be mis- print; and second million pre-
pared to substitute them and sent for
ward, but only half million was re-