That Forgery

Many of the Whigs are desirous that the Garland forgery which was got up and uscd by their party, should be suflcred to sleep in oblivion. But they may rest assured that a transaction of such blackness and baseness, in which so large a number of the party, as we believe, were knowingly concerned, cannot be suffered to rest without investigation. Two weeks since we presented the negative testimony of all the persons named in the forgery, declaring under oath that they had no part whatever in originating it. The question is then to be answered positively. We have already mentioned that, according to the Chilicothe Gazette, A. W. McCoy was the bearer of a sealed package of these forgeries from Flint to Columbus. Front the following explanation of Mr. McCoy in the Scioto Gazette, it will be seen that he received the package in Detroit. We presume, Mr. McCoy can state from whom he received the package in Detroit, and to whom it was directed and delivered In Co lumbus. If he was a bearer of these documente "unwittingly," we presume he will be willing to do it:'To the Editor of the Scioto Gnzette: "A casual conversation had with Mf James T. Claypoole, in which you were a participant, has been made a subject of sorae importance - muck more thán was intended, or expected by me. l have1 nat the slightest idea you intentionally1 misrepresented me; but the tenor of youf article in relation to the publication of the "Garland letter and the accompanying documents," in the Ohio State Journal, and from thence into yoar paper1, makes me not only vouch for their truth, but knowingly the bearer of thern into Ohio, on the eve of an important election. On this point, above, I presume the Advertiser give3 the denial to any authority being had from me, to make such astetement. "If you had simply stated that a sealed package, directed to Columbus, was placed in my hands while passing through Detroit, and from Ihe date of the publreatíon of the "Birney papers" corresponding; with the time in which I was at Columbus,. I inferred that it contained those documents, and that I was unwittingly made the bearer of them, you would have been correct; and I showld have been spared the trouble of placing a matter in which ï have no interest, right, before your readers, besides having my name mixed up in a controversy of no benefit. A. W. McCOY.November 18, 1844." All the testimony thus far goes toshow that the forgery was concocted and printed in Detroit. No other place is implicated; and the Editor of the Advertiser admits in his own paper thathe examined it in Detroit several days before it vas received in the Ohio papers. In addition to this it may not be amiss to mention, that a publisher of a Whig paper in Michigan has stated to us personally, that he was present in Detroit, with some seven or eight others, when these forgeries were in transition, as he supposed, from this State to Ohiocthat he saw several packnges apparently prepared and directed for the mail: that one of the number took out one of the Extras, and it was read t the cobük pany, who conversed abowt ïts authefttürity, and concluded it was a forgery; and then the Extra was replaced in its paefcage. Yet this same publisher, having no doubt that this was a villainous forgery, uffered it to go o its way to eSeet its vork, without putting forth the least exrtion, through his paper or otherwise, so ar as we have heard, to counteract its iniuence!In our paper to-day will be found the correspondence between Mr. Birnéy and he Editors of the Detroit Advertiser in reference to the numerous and pdTpöWe falsehoods respecting him which have appeared in their columns. From this it apears that while they persisted in publishng the foulest accusations against him, they carefully attempted to escape re sponsibility by attributing them to correspondents; and when their and character are asked for, they refuse to make ihem known. Thus they publisb the slanders, and wilfully conceal the slanderers! Poor, pitiful, contemptibte chicanery, afraid of the light, working m stealth and darkness!Girard college, when completed, wHl be the moet stupendous edifice in the United! States. lts wallsand roof, floors, stairs, and pillars, aro all of solid marble. By a rougt measurement, I estímale its roof at 2L5 feett by 175. The eolumns which support the vnr arching roof, are of the Corinthian order, and number in all thirty-four, eleven on each eide, six at each end, being each eighteen feet Jtt i circumferèhce. The proportions of the whole work are so admirably exact and beautifuV that you cannot fully appreciate its vaalnoss, . until you stam! upon its roof and look dowo unon the masses of marble stretching out allaround you. The view froia tliis spot is he finest I had Philadelphin. It coropreheod not only the city and its eoburbe, with the river Delaware and SchuylkiH, bat soinefifteen or twenty miles extent of country besides. The total cost of this structure will not be less than Iwo millions of dollare. Six