The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1883-05-24

STATE OF MISSISSIPPI, ExEoUrlvE De-
PARrMENT, JACKSON, MISS,
May II. 1888.
His Excellency, Thos. T. Crittenden, GOV
ernQr of Missouri
SIR-The letter | addressed to your
Excellenoy on the 14tb ult, was then
and still is, even under the light of yours
of 23d ult., considered by me a sufficient
justification Of my refusal to surrender
Gensberger. l would content myself
with a respectful acknowledgment OF
yours Of the 23d, adding that it had not
shaken my convictions Of duty nor
changed my purpose; but for the fact
that 1t has been given to the public
through the press before it reached me,
and being thus public criticism of my
official conduct, am constrained to set
the public right, since that tribunal has
been appealed to.
In the first place, you will excuse me
for saying that there is nothing in my
letter warranting the assertion in yours
that L assumed 'the position" that the
Governor OF Missouri had invoked the
power OF tho process (reqnisition) for
the collection OF debts NY letter speaks
alone of the purpose for which the re-
QUESTION was sought and of the motives
of those who sought and obtained it.
You recognize the proprety Of guarding
the State Executive against imposition
by those actuateI by one purpose, whilst
protesting another YoH require pre-
liminary showing before granting the
demand lest it might, though preserv-
ing the forms of law, be perverted to
private and unlawful ends. You are not
content with the fnling of q Grand
Jury.
If your Evcellency will take the iron
5le 10 read my letter again you will find
NO insinuation, much less the charge,
that the Governor of Missouri WAS a
party to - conspiracy to collect debts
under color of the extraditiou process.
You do me great injustice to inpute such
intention to me.
Again you leave it to be inferred that
/ based my belief and proceed to act on
the letter Of Mcssrs. Tut IL Co., of
November, 1882, addressed to Gensberger
alone. / stated that the letter Swallowed
forth the design of ths writer's to extort
their debt by threats and the use of
criminal process, but in tho same para>
graph in which the design is imputed,
also state that there was ample evidence
from other reliable sources Of the exist.
ence OF such design, and / point them
out.
receive the advice and instruction
which your letter il supposed by the
press to administer Qhougb it may not
have intended to wear that Hspcct) with
the hope OF proftiug by it. I may safely
take the precaution which your Excel
lency has wisely instituted to prevent
the abuse OF the extraordinary process
OF extradition, IA evidence that such
abuse prevails. md as the remedy for
the evil. Indeed the author whom you
quote with implied appreciation, ad>
monishes us that "the criminal charge
"may be that Of false pretense or emhez-
"zelment, and the object Of the e1tradi-
'tion sought, may be to COMPEL the
"parly 10 return the property, OF pay
"debts as condition OF not being prose-
Secuted on the charge"
The Supreme Court OF the United
States. speaking of the duty imposed by
the constitution, said: "Where the de-
mand is properly made by the Governor
of one State upon the Governor Of
another State, the duty TO surrender is
not absolute and unqualified. 1t depends
on the circumstances of the case."
Among the circn instances which are
held not only to justify, but to demand