Funding for the digitization of this title was provided by R.J. Taylor, Jr. Foundation.
About The Washington news. (Washington, Ga.) 1821-183? | View Entire Issue (May 8, 1824)
Volume X] i*riij_rsHrn week it, BY PHILIP C. GUIEU. 9CP NEW ARRANGEMENT. As experience !tas discovered ta us the little attention paid ‘o printing debt?, and the great difficult)- and expense in such deb's; Ji as a l w only can be caifed liberal *n paying punctually what tlrey owejmtftf, to the printer, we ! ive, ufttv du” Consideration, come to this conclusion,that w*ought sot to jve cridit Weare i <unpe'!ed, therefo e, to adopt a n’w plan, lr consequnre of this k our terms slia'l m future be,for he paper three ” dollars per annum, if p.iid in advance—tour dollars, t [mid within six m mths—and iive dollars if paid only a’ the end of the year J'or advertisements, they to be ptvd in ad vance sheriff sales excepted, which are to be paid quarterly. Th* above rules shall be jitric'ly observed an l ua me need apply who is r.ct to cou.iny wih them Terms of Adv - t using, 75 cents per square for the first insertion, and 62 1-2 cents tor each continuation From the National Intelligencer. We have rot ro <m to do more than refer (he reader’s* attention to the Proceeding# of the House of Jiepree)t3iives, in relation to the ♦•vindicative accusation” of Mr.Eo \va*ds. lately app dated our Minu te/ to Mexico, in flic shape of a Me- i m trial to the House of llenreaenta- ! fives, against Mr. Cbawfoiid. It has been determined to send for Mr. Edwards to this plane, to attend the ( ’Committee to whim his Memorial lias been referred, and the Writ by authority of the House of represen tatives has gone forth for that pur pose. A more mischievous thing could not have been done, considering the 1 circumstances u aim* whi h it has ! happened, than the agitation ol tliis ! matter, at this mormui, The Ses 1 si on of Congress was going on qui etly and harmoniously, when the very same persons, it now appears, who disturbed the peace of the last | Congress, and interrupted its delili ! eratiotis on necessary business, wi h Hie exhibition of their personal ani rnosities, have eh isc i the auspicious moment to repeat the exploit, to tle manifost prejudice of the best inter- , eats of the country* which will inev* ‘ itsthly and seriously fluff r from it. Notwithstanding the pt evocation given hv those who, under the edit orial head of a neighboring print, ate co operating now, as they did , last year, in this impotent assault m j the character of Wm. H. Crawford, j the distinguished object of their hale and persecuting spirit, we shall re frain from entering at this time in to the merits of thi* transaction,con tenting ourselves with giving to our readers the unbiased and true his tory cf it, as officially unfolded to j view. In pursuance of this object, we publish below the Report from the Secretary of the Treasury, which hns been made the ground work of the furious manifesto of Mr. liD- ; wards, whose Memorial also, we i will lay before our readers as scon j ss we can übtain a copy of it—al- : ways excepting the letters of A. B. j which form a part of it* which, we I promise our readers, shall never be obtruded upon them. Treasury Dep .rtment, 1 •March -22, I2L j Tn further compliance with a re solution of the House of Represen tatives of the S?h es May. *822, the Secretary ol the Treasury has now the honor to transmit copies of all the official eorrespendeve between 4hc Secretary and thehanks in which the public monies were deposited, from the i of January, IS 17. to the Sth of May, 1822. dial is con sidered as included, either directly or indirectly, in the terms of the re solution, and that has not been here tofore communicated to the House. The Hon. Mr. Edwards. late a Senator from Illinois, having staled, on his examination before a Com mittee of the House, cn the 13th of February. 1823, that the late Recei ver of public moneys a* Edward#- vi!ie bad, on bis advice, and in his presence, written a letter to the Sec retary, enclosing a copy of a publi cation which Mr. Edwards repre sents himsell to have made someiitne in the year ISi 9, announcing his in tention of retiring from the director ship Oi the Bank of Edwardsville ; and that he hud advised the Recei ver to withhold his deputies from the bauk, uotd he could receive fur ther orders fima the Secretary ; and The Washington News. that the Receiver afterward# inform ed him that lie had received a letter from the Secretary directing him to continue the depo-dfes.lhe Secretary deem* if proper to state, that no su’ h letter foin the Receiver is to he found on ihe files of the Depart ment ; that the offi ‘crs employed iu if have no recollection of the re ceipt of such h letter : and tint, on an examination of the records of the i I).*partmenu it appears that no an* ; swer to any such letter, directing | the Receiver to continue the depos J ites, vvas ever written to him by the es the Trcfi.*ary The Hon. the Speaker Os the House of Representatives. The National may well affect “surprize” at the avow • al of Mr, Edwards, that he is the ■ author of A. 15. Not tong ago that journal said he was not the writer, and broadly insinuates! that the oei chraled V. B. was a Member of Con . guess from Pennsylvania. The Ed | itors of the National Intelligencer • allege, in justification, that, in eca veraaii-n with Air, Edwards, they “ understood” him to say that *• he was not ihe author of those pieces.” This must he a mistake, for we have reason to believe that Mr, Edwards neither ever denied or felt ashamed of those letters.—Franklin “iuzelie. We regret the shameful want of candor on the part of the Franklin Gazette—from its coasiu in this j city we look for it as a matter of course—whi h puts us to ihe neces sity of saying, however great our o mistake” on the subject, the mistake” is comm on to several persons, among whom are Senators !of the United Stales. We believe we risk nothing in saying, that but for he agency iu those letters being disclaimed, Mr, Edwards would never have been appointed Minister to Mexico, t-hn ever odour they may be in with the Franklin Gazette, and his coadjutors, their authorship w mid have constituted no pe. jib mendatioii to office, The ** Mem ber of Cougress from Pe iosyiva nia,” whomsoever the Franklin Ga ! zeUe means thus to designate, will ! not, we apprehend, heat all obliged i to the Gazette for bringing him into | public notice as connected with the *• A. 11. plot."-— Nat. Intelligencer. The Franklin Gazette also states as ft fact that the Report of the Sec retary of the Treasury which Mr. Edward# alleges to be the pretext and ground for hie *> defensive crim ination,” transmuted from Wheel ing, was made to Congress after Mr. E. had departed from this city cn I his way home. This is not true. ; The Report of the Secretary of the j Treasury was seut to the House of | Representatives, and publicly read • in that House, some days before Mr. ! Edwards left the city of Washiog ; too. Indeed, it is absurd to suppose that Mr, Edwards could have pre pared his voluminous memorial and documents in the stage during his rapid passage to Wheeling, or that he had time to draw it up in a short time after he arrived at that place. Ibid. From the Richmond Enquirer. “ A. B. PLOT.”*!! The 5d act is now presented to an astonished pubiio. The real father of the piece at last steps upon the stage. Me. Niniati Edwards. late Seoator of Illinois, and now Minis ter to Mexico—after being long sus pected as the author, yet originally skulking from the puhlio view, and | latterly denying that he was the au i thor, and having that contradiction j published, for the sake of doing away the objection to his nomina tion, and of having himself confirm ed as Minister to Mexico, at last, throws offthe mask and avows him self to he the author of A B,— Twice has the plot failed—twice have Committees been appointed, and twice have reports been made exculpatory of Mr. Crawford—yet a Sd time is ibis experiment to be tried upon the patience of Congress acd j of the country.—Mr. Edwards is | already feeling some of the - Sects j of the ordeal which he has provo [ ked. He is writhing under the ia- IV ASHING TON, (georgia) SATURDAY, MAY 8, 1324, f digiiant la*hrs of snrie if those member#, whom the pif-;sent*.torn of ( hisnieninrialoaMed no.-—The W ish rngt u Republican slates that this extraordinary pejier embraces some 50 t 60 onges of ‘ s a/luscript —and | that it exhibits the f 11 owing charges: j *• 1 That the William 11. Crawfi.r-d, Secretary of the Treasu ry, has misDtanngcd Ihe National . Funds: j ••2d I'hat he has received a large amount of uncurrent notes, from certain hank#, in part discharge of j their debts to the United States, J con.Tary to the resolution of Con gres# oflSiti: “ 3d. That being called on by a resolution of the House of Repre sentatives, to state the amount of | uneurrent notes which he received i fr!m those banks, he has misstated j it, by making it ieis than it reahy j was: “ 4th. That he has. in his re- j port to the House, misrepresented ; the obligations of those banks, or someone of them, at least, and pre d,rated thereon an indefeasible ex cuse for his conduct, in receiving these uncurrent notes. “ sth. That he has acted illegal ly, in a variety of instances, by mak ing and contwuing deposited of pub lic money, in cei tftin local haoks, without making report thereof to Congress, according to law : ‘•6th. That he has, in several in stances, withheld information and letters, called for by the house, and which it was his duty to have cosn muniraied. •‘ HIS OATH—-let it speak for itself “ For specifications of these state ments, I oiler the publications with } the signature “ A, B.” aitove men. i tioned, and this communication.— j And for proof 1 oiTer that’ which ! they respectively refer to. 44 Ail this I do defensively ; for, if i the facts stated be true, no rational I man can doubt that they must weak en, at least, Mr. bfAiilotd's state ment ag&int me. “ f will not charge him with had intentions in any of those acts. It is more properly the duty of others to inquire into and judge of that mat ter. Ido not ask for an investiga tion of his conduct. Such a request ought more naturally, to he looked for from himself. But l will gay, that it', being an officer of the same government under which he holds his office, f have wilfully and mali ciously misrepresented him in the six foregoing allegations, it is a misde meanor that would prove me unwor thy the office i hold. I invite him, or any of his friends to nmke this charge against me, pledging myself to wave bil notice, and with all the disadvantages of absence, to submit to an investigation thereof, !>y ei h- j | er, or by hath Houses of Congress : —and (o abide by the decision there on. If this proposition is declined, I trust we shall have no more cant ing about ao ** A. B. plot.” As to myseT, I fear not the consequences of any fair investigation, fori know I hall be abie. whatever may be the result, to justify myself to the nation.’* We cannot regard these charges without unutterable contempt. We have not the remotest idea, t hat they will establish aught agaiot the char acter of W. H Crawford. He has twice passed through the ordeal— and not a hair of his head was sing ed by the dark and assassin-I ike plot cf Nioian Edwards. But what shall \ve say of their author ? of him, who while Seoator of the jb. States, re frained from seeking ao investiga tion of (lie alleged mhcond -.ct of an officer of the government, in the face of day—yet skulked into a newspaper, making charges there which he dared not avow, and suf fered innocent individuals to be sus pected of making chirges which he had not the spirit to a knowledge, either as a Senator or as a mao ? of him, who would permit a fraud to be palmed upon the Sena'e of the Unit ed States, for the purpose of secur ing himself an office ? !s this man fit to represent the dignity of bis country abroad ? c overed as he is with ohl> quy—and openly charged id the National paper with a flagrant o imposition ?—Will Mr. Monroe still suffer him to go abroad with the j high rank of a foreign minister ? I Can the Senate pass no resolution ! requesting the President to retard j his departure, or suspend his func- j lions ? Since writing the above, we have • seen Mr. Forsyth’s proposition for detaining N. K.—Though it was re jected, maV not the Select Commit- j tee lay their hands upon him, under t Ik* general power to send for per- ■ sons and papers ? He is on tiie wing; for his memorial is transmitted from H heeling. From the Richmond Enquirer . NIA UN E D JFJIWS. This miserable Mar-plot ; this anonymous assassin of houest men’s reputation; this pusillanimous ••Par thian who shoots his poison, and arrows as he flies is likely to meet with the recompense which his conduct deserves. His trip to Mexico is for the present suspended, and perhaps forever defeated. Let him console himself with the reflection that his own f-dly strips him of an office, \ which his virtues never would have deserved. We would infinitely ra- ( ther, that the treasury of the coun- j try should lose forever the §IB,OOO , which he lias in his pocket, than : that her dignity should ever be dis- ! graced by such a representative, • His memorial is the chief topic at Washington as well as in this city. ! The committee are determined to sift (he matter to the bottom, It is i only another edition of the infamous ! ”A. B. Plot,” Mr. Crawford’s letter is fraught with no imputa tions which deerved such a denun ciation. It was transmitted to Con gress several days before Edwards left the city. Why did this minis ter shrink from arraigning Mr. C. ; before the Senate in his official ea- ! pacify ? Why did he skulk to Wheel- ! ing before he transmitted his memo, j rial ? Where and when was it fra- j nied ? Does not suspicion point to 1 its preparation before Mr. C’s, Re- j port was delivered ? Is it not wliis- j pored that a holy Junta in the City j assisted him in the noble work? j How and when did tbe Speaker re ceive it ? These enquiries should be 1 made and decided. One faot alone shows the charac ter ol the man. Some of the Sena tors declare that Edwards positively denied being the author of A. B While his nomination yet hung be fore the Senate, he induced the Ed itors of the N. Intelligencer to deny the authorship. It is believed, that but for this denial, he never would have been confirmed as Minister.— Scarce, however, is his commission 1 and the 18,000 dollars in his pocket -—when he avows himself to be the author !- He is the object of gener al scorn at Washington, Almost all denounce him as the meanest of men. Most of the western repre sentatives speak of him in unmea sured terms of reprobations. Here, not a whisper is raised in his defense. W. H. Crawford defies such an ac cuser and such accusations. Sever al of Mr Clay’s western friends de clare, that it will be proven to the satisfaction of every honest man in the nation, that W. H. C. is as inno cent of these charges as an in fant.”—Yet such are his accusers 1 Such are the enemies who would move heaven 3nd earth to prevent his election, In vain are these illib eral exertions! in vain is plot after plot fabricated agaiost him 1 He will rise brighter from this persecu tion. A generous and intelligent people will hurl back upon his as sailants the storm of indignaliou which they have attempted to raise against an upright mao. The character of N E. is indeed gone forever. His contradictions alone on the A. B. article# are suffi cient to damn him. I# it not true that a most respectable Senator from Indiana was betrayed into a vo?e for his appointment, by a trick of this sor t ? Did not E. to remove the scru ples •f th Senator, pledge himself that he was not the author of a.B ? Has not this Senator obtained . *>r titi?ates ta this effect ? Aod after all, were there not at least 1 h fotes against him? And after pocketing the fruits of hi* atrocity* he is Nin- ny enough to ieud himself to the pan he is playing—under the hope perhaps that he might steal out of the country, before the indignant arm of Congress should arrest his flight. Why did he fly, if | i{ > not afraid to meet the storm which he was raising? It is false, a| ;he sycophantic W. Republican states, that E. left the t ify before Mr. Crawford’s Report was sent into Congress. Did not R. fell a mem ber from Ohio that he had written 4-0 or 50 pages of the Memorial against Mr. C. ? V* by w3 this miserable man evep graced with a foreign Mission?-* Why wa* W. H. Harrison thrust back to make room for N. E. ?—* We now repeat tbe question, with ail the lights of experience &.ream ing upon the ineas re.—The Presi* ileal is indeed to be pmed. ,\li tho great are to be pitied—who will ;.ot brush away the earwig* tuac flu?tee around them—4 >d fid ♦* the porch* e* of shell* oars” with a poison that may infect the very springs of life. The greatest of men stand in need o! counsellors. How happy whs Idotueueus in having a Me.dor fur his adviser! We understand that Lieut. W. We.;.vek nas been suspended by or* tier of the Navy Department, m con sequence of the questions win h have arisen as to ihe correctness of his o. duct, in the ease beiweea himself and the owners of the ship America; and (hat a formal inves tigation will be instituted on tho re turn of the Franklin to the United Slates. Nut. Intelligencer• FROM BUENOS AFRES* A hie of Buenos Ayres papers to the first of February has been re ceived at Baltimore. Ia a paper of the 12th of January, the editor states that, by the arrival of an ex traordinary courier Chili, information is received of tho arrival of the British br.of w&"Blos soui al Valparaiso irom Lima, with advices to the l*t oi Dec. They oon firm the intelligence before received i in this country of the termination of j the differences between Riva Aguro and Gen, Bolivar, by the surrender of the former, and remark, “ thaC the Liberator General, being no\? free from ail these cares, will b 4 enabled to commence the campaign . at the head of teu or twelve thous<* ! aod men. In the capital of Peru* they have celebrated with much cu? thusiasm the imprisonment of Aguero.”— Nat Intelligencer. South America —After the sub* jugation of Spain by the french ar my, it is evident that Spain and France contemplated the recovery of the South American Provinces* & a perfect understanding subsisted on the subject the two gow ernments. The determined attitude) of Great Britain, and ifie well found* ed apprebensious relative to tbe park which this country would take on the? question, induced Fran c to hesi* late, and finally to abandon the pro ject. Tbe late adviees from Europe bring particulars of a tiegociatiou on the subject. The French minis* ter, addressing himself to the Bri* fish cabinet, ‘acknowledges “thas France considered it hopeless to at tempt to bring the Spanish South) American provinces again under tbo subjugation of the mother country she bad no idea of seizing the sent opportunity to appropriate any portion of the Spanish territories ia America to herself, or to obtain any exclusive privileges from them—* and that she had no idea of acting; against those provi *oes with an arm ed force. He, however, stated, thaC he th ught it worthy of tbe govern ments of Eu ope to devise means foff quietiog the passions of those pro* vi ees, and to bring them to unites under a government either m onarch ical or aristoeratical, in oi and r to a vuid dangerous theories which nov existed among them.” This is the true spirit of legiti mate goverrimvot. Mr. Canning* however, while admitting that it would he rather desirable to hava mo arehicat governments erected ia those countries, yet his government would not EiHKo it a condition for t [No. ia. il 1
