their votes, not as good, intelligent, and wise as those who have been elected by a mere native vote? The know-nothings speak constantly of their revolutionary inheritance, their "glorious sires of "76." Will they inform me how many of them can trace back their lineage to the time of the Revolution? Are not at least two-thirds of their number descendants of those who arrived in the country since 1790? Was not, in New York, even their candidate for governor a son of a foreigner? Are not, with the only exception of two, all the 148 or 149 know-nothings of the New York State legislature sons of foreign parents? The answer to these questions will put to shame the warfare which know-nothingism is waging upon the policy of the founders of this republic. It is not simply a warfare upon the foreign-born citizens diffused throughout the Union, identified in interest with our institutions; connected by the closest ties with native-born citizens; engaged in industrial pursuits which add to the national wealth and prosperity; levelling mountains and filling up valleys for our great internal improvements; felling the forests, and spreading the area of productive agriculture in the Far West; shouldering their muskets when the tocsin of war sounds; and fighting and dying bravely on the battle field by the side of native Americans. A warfare upon such a body of men is bad enough in all conscience; but the warfare of know-nothingism is against the principles on which our Revolution was started and was consummated— against the policy engrafted upon our constitution, and carried out by liberal naturalization laws in Congress; and against the prosperity of the nation, which has received one of its chief impulses from this policy.

TO THE PUBLIC.

A REVIEW

OF THE

REPORT OF HON. HORACE MAYNARD.

Chairman of the Committee of Investigation, into the conduct and accounts of William Cullom, late Clerk of the House of Representatives; and an exposition of the frauds practiced on the Treasury, the Contingent Fund of the House, and on individuals, by the said William Cullom.

No. 1.

It is well known that, on account of the frauds practiced on the Undersigned and others, by William Cullom, late Clerk of the House of Representatives, while pretending to execute the House resolution of July 7, 1856, and for presenting a false account against the Treasury of alleged purchases of certain books under that resolution, the Undersigned made an exposition of those transactions in the Daily Globe, of December 7, 1857, accompanied with authentic copies of the documents, and the proceedings of the accounting officers of the Treasury, on the subject of said account; and that, upon the matters of that exposition, and other charges against the late Clerk, a special committee of the House was appointed "to investigate his conduct and accounts." On the 28th February, more than twelve months after the committee was appointed, its chairman, the Hon. Horace Maynard, of Tennessee, made a final report of its proceedings to the House; and on the next day, the 1st of March instant, a garbled portion of that report was published in an evening paper of this city, occupying nearly the whole of the first page of said paper, detached from the resolutions that made an essential part of that report, and from the copious testimony taken before the committee, which constituted the reliable evidence of the frauds charged and proved. The hasty publication of that garbled portion of the report, however furnished or procured, being a deliberate attempt to exonerate the late Clerk, in public opinion, from all accountability for "malfeasance," "misfeasance," "corruption," or "dereliction of duty," it equally behooves the Undersigned in the same behalf, now, to make an exposition of tl t garbled portion of the report, in order to disabuse the public mind of the impression sought to be made by its hasty publication, detached from the resolutions, and especially from the ample and reliable testimony as its proper antidote.

How this portion of the report found its way so promptly into the columns of said paper, is not easy to conjecture, unless the Chairman of the Committee, the Hon. Horace Maynard, of Tennessee, furnished an extra copy of it to the late Clerk to manufacture a short-lived exculpatory public opinion in advance

of the testimony of some eighty odd witnesses and the accompanying resolutions, which, with this garbled portion thus detached therefrom, make up the whole of this voluminous report ordered to be printed by the House, which may not be expected. to issue from the press in a month or more. I have, however, been favored with a copy of the resolutions, also, from the Clerk's office, by the proprietor of the Daily Globe, through his Reporters, in order to bring them to public notice at once, along with the remarks I purpose to make upon the said garbled portion of the report prematurely sent forth on a deceptive errand, possibly to operate on the elections in Tennessee before the entire report of the testimony can make its veritable statements fully known. Nevertheless, notwithstanding the palliative terms, and the softened manner of diction by which the author of this portion of the report would feign to disguise the facts of enormity revealed by the testimony it affects to refer to-like the revolting lineaments of a harlot's face to a scrutinizing eye, peering through the transparencies of a virgin mask it pollutes for their concealment--those facts are there, standing ready to proclaim the transgressions of the delinquent, on being stripped of those assumed habiliments of innocence to deceive a credulous take-upontrust, unscrutinizing public.

Before entering upon the ceremony of removing these deceptive habiliments of assumed innocence, we will invite attention to the inordinate and active bidding of Mr. Maynard, prompted by his delinquent friend, for the chairmanship of the select committee that had become inevitable, and was about to be ordered, when the subject was under discussion, at the instance of Mr. Clingman, in the House, on that occasion.-See Congressional Globe, of Dec. 19, 1857.

Mr. Maynard said:

"I believe the question before the House at this time, if I understand the reading of the resolution, is on an inquiry into the character and cost of the stationery purchased for the use of the House. The discussion upon that resolution seems to have taken a wide range, and to have gone into the general conduct of the outgoing Clerk. Although a personal friend of that gentleman, I shall not here in my place or elsewhere, by any word or vote or act of mine, attempt to screen him from any full, thorough, sifting investigation into his conduct, if any member of the House believes that such an investigation will prove either proper or profitable. I am now instructed by the outgoing Clerk, to say that he demands it. Thus instructed, I shall, contrary to what was my original intention when I rose, to leave to some one else to move the investigation, before concluding my remarks, move, myself, that the investigation shall be made by a special and select committee of the House.

"I know nothing of the accusations that are made against that officer. I have not taken the trouble even to wade through the pages of matter that have been piled up here," &c., &c., &c.

Thus Mr. Maynard and his personal friend, Mr. Cullom, the outgoing Clerk, whose conduct and accounts were arraigned before the House, seem to have eagerly leaped into the whirlwind to

direct the storm until it should die away through a twelve months' voyage into the calms of the dead sea-of an expired Congress; and so, with extraordinary management, they would seem to have succeeded. Mr. Cullom, with his awful, overbearing, and domineering presence, having been in continual attendance on the examination of witnesses before the committee, and occasionally raising altercations with them, obviously, as was supposed, with the view of intimidation, or contravening their testimony, or otherwise modifying and giving a gloss of extenuation to results, having thus brought the investigation down to within a few days of the end of a six or seven months' session, Mr. Maynard made a report stating progress of the committee in examining seventy-eight witnesses, and asked leave to continue the investigation during the next session, which was granted, of course, though requested to report the testimony of the seventy-eight witnesses already taken, that it might be printed in the interval; but that was objected to by Mr. Maynard, as not being so contemplated or directed by the committee. After exhausting the whole of the subsequent session within a few days of its close, the long-expected report was made, but too late for it to be printed and laid on the tables of the expiring Congress.

That portion of the garbled report which has been published and is now before me, presents sundry criminal aspects of the late Clerk's conduct and accounts, notwithstanding the mitigating terms by which they are accompanied, besides other testimony not referred to in it, all of which call for a statement here of some of the provisions of law and Treasury regulations violated by the late Clerk, for which he is amenable nevertheless, as the kind words of a devoted friend do not alter the facts or repeal the laws which require to be executed without fear, favor, or affection, viz:

The 12th section of "An act more effectually to provide for the punishment of certain crimes against the United States, and for other purposes," approved March 3d, 1825, says:

"SEC. 12. And be it further enacted, That if any officer shall be guilty of extortion, under or by color of his office, every person so offending shall, on conviction thereof, be punished by fine not exceeding $500, or by imprisonment not exceeding one year, according to the aggravation of the offence.' Statutes at Large, vol. 4, p. 118. See cases of extortion by the late Clerk, as given in the testimony.

The 16th section of "An act to provide for the better organization of the Treasury, and for the collection, safe-keeping, transfer, and disbursement of the public money," approved Aug. 6, 1846, says:

“SEC. 16. And be it further enacted, That all officers and other persons charged by this act, or any other act, with the safe-keeping, transfer, or disbursement of the public moneys, other than connected with the Post Office Department, are hereby required to keep an accurate entry of each sum received, and of