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F ACTS 
 
 RELATIVE TO THE 
 
 POLITICAL AND MOIIAL CLAIMS 
 
 WILKINS UPDIKE, 
 
 FOR THE SUPPORT OF 
 
 THE WHIG ELECTORS 
 
 OF THE 
 
 WRSTERN DISTRICT 
 
 PROVIDENCE 
 1847. 
 
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FACTS, &C, 
 
 " My business in tliis State 
 " Mnde mc a looker-on licie in Vleiina, 
 " Where I have seen corriiptiim hoil ami biiljhic 
 " Till it o'or-ruii the stew : laws tor all faults, 
 " B'.it faults so countcnaiic'd, that the strong statutes 
 " Stand like the forfeits in a barber's shop, 
 " As much in mock as mark." 
 
 Measuke for RIeasure. 
 
 WrLKFNS Updike is aofain in nomination for 
 Representative to Cong-ress from tlie Western 
 District of this State. He has accepted the 
 nomination. He is therefore, by his own con- 
 sent, before the people ; subject to their opinions 
 and llieir censnre, if by his prior acts he can be 
 shown unworthy of their support. 
 
 Tlie writer of this address lias never been in 
 public life ; he is therefore a stranger to the tor- 
 tuous course of men who have made jiolitics 
 their trade. Steadily pursuing- his own private 
 avocations, he has not been deeply drawn into 
 party collisions. Whenever his personyl or 
 property rights have been violated, he however 
 is, perhfips, as prompt as most others, to extnt 
 his whole energies in the vindication of those 
 rights. 
 
 The public are already aware that Wilkins 
 Updike has thought proper to make the State 
 Debt of Rhode Island Ins great political hobby, 
 and claims the votes of his District, as a reward 
 for his zea'ous opposition to that claim. In this 
 oppositum, false positions are taken, and false 
 inferences are made. He has slandered all who 
 ■wore in public life from 17'Jl to J8i!0, as an "un- 
 principled band of politician.-," and all who were 
 holders of Stale Notes, an "unprincipled knot of 
 speculators," '-instead of honest creditors." In 
 addition, he says "the whole subject has been a 
 fraud, from beginning to end — a stupendous 
 fraud;" and James Burrill and Charles Lippilt 
 are, amongst others, specilically named as the 
 guilty actors. The present holders of State 
 Notes are assailed as "vultin-es who gyrate over 
 our little State, to gorge themselves on the fetid 
 carcass of this State debt,' and that former 
 "rniccess in this plundering process, had tempted 
 the present petitioners to try their hand at the 
 game." 
 
 In reply to these falsehoods, we shall substi- 
 tute truth. If we are severe on the author of 
 such calumny, he has no cause of complaint. — 
 ft is only tlie turmtta, his own xveapons on him- 
 self; the carriji7}fr kis poisoned chalice back to his 
 own lips ; for it is intended to bring home to 
 
 him his falsehoods and wickedness, and probe 
 his character to the bottom. It will first be 
 shown by incontrovertible evidence, that from 
 political considn-afions (done, he is unwnrthy of 
 th(! support of the elef^tors of the State of Rhode 
 Island. What has been the political life of iMr. 
 Updike ? Has he been true and consistent on 
 any political principle? Has he been true to 
 any political party ? It is known full well to 
 every man, that he lias not. So frequent have 
 been his political somersets, that all have feared 
 to trust him with office. 
 
 In a " Review of his Address to the Electors 
 of the Western Congressional District," written 
 and published there in March last, will be seen 
 Uie following, as his political history: 
 
 "Wilkins Updike was formerly a Federalist. 
 When the Republican party succeeded in ob- 
 taining the political power in Rhode Island, ho 
 lett the ranks of the defeated, and, as he has al- 
 ways done, united with the successful hosts. 
 
 " The year that Dutee J. Pearce was elected 
 Representative to Congress, Mr. Updike was 
 nominated by the Republican party for Attorney 
 General. 
 
 " The Federalists, the same year, made no 
 nomination as a party, but a few of the friends 
 of General A. C. Greene, now Senator, held an 
 informal meeting in Kent county, and nomina- 
 ted hun for Attorney General in opposition to 
 Mr Updike. 
 
 '•Gen. Greene, under his own hand, publicly 
 declined being considered a candidate; yet, with 
 every thing in his favor, the people of Rhotio 
 Island had such an estimate of the integrity ami 
 ability of Air. Updike, that he was defeated by 
 an over-vhelming majority, and Greene elected. 
 "Updike then turned Federalist again, and 
 was the tiuthor of the famous 'Cart-Wheel 
 Pamphlet,' a gross tissue of falsehoods from be- 
 ginning to end. 
 
 "In J828 or 29, he became a 'Jackson man,' 
 and alter the elevation of the 'General ' to the 
 Presidency, was rewarded by him with tin of- 
 fice, almost the only one he ever succeeded in 
 oht lining. 
 
 "For about 12 years, during the administra- 
 tions of Jackson and Van Buren, lie continued 
 a modem Democrat, dyed in the wool, and in 
 the mean time was the Loco candidate for Rep- 
 resentative to Congress, against Dutee J. Pearce, 
 then Whig; and was badly beaten. 
 
" Just previous to, or about the time of Har- 
 rif?on's election, ever true to tlie ^ tknr pfople,'' 
 on tlie full swelling tiilc of Whig victory, he 
 came floating in, wool- washed, an out-and-out 
 Whig ! ! 
 
 " Having every reason to think that 'Clay' 
 ■would he elected, I presume he supported him, 
 and again, I suppose, stands ready to go or come 
 with the current. 
 
 " This has been Wilkins Updike's political 
 consistency, and these are his claims to be a 
 Whig." 
 
 The " Review " very properly places Mr Up- 
 dike with the Northern " Dough-faces ;" and 
 who can controvert that opinion? He has been 
 through life "a soldier of fortune," changing his 
 politics as often as his Inien. Southern men 
 boast that when they tvant a Northern vote,_ it is 
 in the market, ready for sale. Mr. Ujjdike is 
 exactly their man ; his whole life has demon- 
 strated that he is ready for a hii!. He Avill swal- 
 low the first bait thrown out ; he will never wait 
 Jiigifling for a higher price. A gentleman of 
 liie Western District, a strong Whig, and who 
 lias labored much in the Whig cause — one who 
 then resided near the late Hon. E. R- Potter, 
 when in a familiar conversation with that gen- 
 tleman, said to him, " Mr. Updike is saying haiil 
 things of you, on every possible occasion." Mr. 
 Potter, in reply, said, " What of that ? When I 
 want to use Ivm, I can have him, as easy as turn 
 my hand." That meant, he could whip him in, 
 at his own good pleasure. Mr. Potter knew 
 "cwn/ hicli" of Wilkins Updike, and knew pre- 
 cisely what office, or how many stripes, would 
 keep him steadily pulling in the traces. 
 
 As another reason, showing the unfitness of 
 Mr. Updike to represent this Slate in Congress, 
 Jiis improvident course in our State Legislature, 
 can be taken in full proof. The selfish princi- 
 ples which controled the whole of his political 
 action through life, has led him into errors inju- 
 rious to the State. In 1844, when the claim of 
 Mary B. Allen was presented to the House of 
 Jlepresentatives, asking for the payment of her 
 State Note, it was mot by Wilkins Updike with 
 unqualified denials of any such claim existing 
 n gainst the State. These denials have since 
 been met, and proved to have been false in every 
 port. These denials and the consequent action 
 of the House, have already cost the State more 
 than $2,000, and the State, beyond all contro- 
 versy, will yet have to redeem her State Notes, 
 amounting to about $100,000. Notes issued by 
 order of her own Legislature, and executed by 
 licr own 'J'reasurer. Notes, again and again 
 recognized and confirmed by her subsequent and 
 frequent legislation. But for Mr. Updike's op- 
 position, arising either from his wickedness or 
 iiis ignoraucc — we care not whicii — no doubt 
 
 exists that these claims would even now rest 
 silently and quietly in the hands of the honest 
 creditors of the State, by whom they arc now 
 hold. The apprehensions of the holders of 
 these Notes were aroused by Updike's false 
 slalemenls in relation to their validity. Tiiey 
 have since continued to press the Legislature 
 for payment. The honor and dignity of the 
 State will demand of her constituted authorities 
 the Acts necessary to restore her doubtful credit, 
 sufl^ering under a partial repudiation. 
 
 Another evil has resulted against the State, 
 from the improvident course taken by Wilkins 
 Updike. Jn 1845, the holders of State Notes 
 were extremely anxious to |)resent the House of 
 Representatives the evidence in sHi)port of tlieir 
 claims. Tlie agent of the Petitioners at the 
 January session, by great labor and much ex- 
 pense, had prevailed on many holders of these 
 Notes, to give one third part of the amount to 
 the Insane Hospital, if they could be heard at 
 that session. This proposition was made to the 
 Committee in writing, asking that it be made a 
 part of their report. The hearing was defeated 
 by Wilkins Updike, and the proposition was 
 consequently withdrawn. The final result will 
 be, the State will have to pay the whole debt, 
 and the Insane Hospital be rohhtd of a most 
 liberal contribution — some $30,000 — by the acts 
 of Wilkins Updike, both on Committee and as 
 a member of the House. 
 
 These facts are as volumes against Wilkins 
 Updike, fully showing that he is unfit to repre- 
 sent the interests of the State, either at homo 
 or at Washington ; and also showing that from 
 his improvidence ho has been a dead weiglit on 
 the State, a dead weight to the political parties, 
 with which in all his mutations he has at five 
 diffcrenl times been associated, and which he has 
 ai five different times deserted. 
 
 It will also be shown that for divers other 
 reasons Wilkins Updike is totally disqualified 
 to serve the State as the Representative to the 
 Congress of the United States, viz : Mr. Updike 
 is totally ignorant of the business wants of busi- 
 ness men. A chain of fortuitous circumstances 
 threw into his lap the means by which he lived, 
 and from early manhood to the present time, he 
 could at no period have sustained his position 
 in society from his own native energies, unaid- 
 ed by extraneous means. How unfit therefore 
 is he to advocate and protect the interests of the 
 laboring and industrial classes, who are the true 
 Nobility of the State ? He is not of them or 
 with them. His life has been that of a Trading 
 Politician, watfching the signs of the times, 
 and if possible, to be out, at the death of one 
 party, and in, the early advotate of that coming 
 into])ower. Of all the evils on our nation, none 
 arc so fatal, as those brought upon us by Tea- 
 
DiN-G PoMTiCfAKS. Totally improvulent, unfit 
 to iiinnaoo their own private transactions, tli(;y 
 {)«siinie to lio the only safe agents to direct tlio 
 nieasiires which arc vitally important to the 
 property ami lives of a great coinniunity. 'J'liey 
 aro a greater Curse upon the Country tiian War, 
 Pestilence and Famine united — these have an 
 end — but the fatal results of political intrigue 
 are lasting as time ; and like tlie Upas of the 
 East, poisons all who conio within the reach of 
 its pestilential iiillticiice. 
 
 Mr. Updike has not the cnpacious and weli 
 tritlncil mind to qualify liim for Representalivo 
 to Congress. IJis education and pursuits arc 
 purely selfish, and fitted only for tiie peculiar" 
 course in which he has been engaged. His 
 practice in obscure Justice Courts lias perfected 
 iiim in all the little and low slang of common 
 blackguardism, and no man has tlie true Bil- 
 lingsgate style more at his linger's ends. But 
 never — no, never — did a. pure idea, a lojlij seidi- 
 mait, or n tvcll diffcsled and logiad argument 
 pass his lips. In his intercourse with men, iie 
 plays the part of a light-minded Bulfoon. In 
 his politics he assumes the same character, 
 united with that of a heartless Demagogue ; and 
 Jiis wiiole life givi\s full evidence of want of 
 fixed principles. His small wit is the result of 
 daily and studied effort, but never impulsive, 
 keen and electrical. His manner is well de- 
 ecriUcd by Hamlet, as a " robustious pcrriwig- 
 pated fellow," who " tears a passion to tatters, 
 to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings." 
 "I would have such a fellow whipped for o'er- 
 doinsr Termagant ; it out.-herods Herod." 
 
 VVilkins Updike lias not the pln/siad energy 
 to perform the arduous duties consequent to his 
 position, should he be elected a Representative 
 to Congress. He is laboring under paEMATuriF. 
 ()i,n Age. Q,nestions of deep interest to indi- 
 viduals and the public, will be presented in the 
 li;iUs of the General Government. In the con- 
 flicts wjiich will there unavoidably occur, Mr. 
 Updike is both cor|)o rally and mentally incom- 
 petent to protect the interest of his State. He 
 is wanting in habits of close industry, and 
 method of investigation, so necessary to effect 
 conclusive and favorable results. On one great 
 question deeply affecting the property of this 
 State, namely, the claims against the General 
 (Jovernment for more than .S''"'00,()()0, due us for 
 French spcdiations, nearly Fijiy 3'ears since, no 
 man can be less cpialilied to serve the State. 
 11k is himself a Rici-uniATOR. Should he advo- 
 cate the payment, by the United States, of tiiis 
 debt, his own argument will be tiirown in his 
 teeth. He will be told, '■'the statute of limita- 
 tions has SKVF..N TIMES anuihUateil these claims ; 
 thejf are again and again Dead in Law, and it 
 is iotaHi/ impossible lo REStsciTAiE tlnmy 
 
 Southern and Western men will say to iiim, go 
 home and pay that sacred del»t, your revolution- 
 ary Notes, wiiicli you have repudiated, before 
 you come here demanding payment from the 
 United States. 'J'iiis and lliis alone is of suffic- 
 ient magnitude to disqualify Wilkins Updike 
 for the appointment to the olllce he so much de- 
 sires. 
 
 Wilkins Updike's canvass is believed to be 
 the only one, from the formation of the general 
 Confederation of the Slates in 1775 to the pre- 
 sent time, lb'17, a ])eriod of sevtnly-lwo years, 
 when in this State the advocate of any candidate 
 in pushing his claims, ever tiiought proper to 
 ohlain certiflca'es that the caudidaie was not im- 
 peachable in relation to Temperanre. Pending 
 the canvass in March last, certificates were pub- 
 lished in favor of Wilicins Updike, stating, "that 
 in proceedings in Town Meetings" and also 
 " when in the Legislature," he had " supported 
 the Temperance cause." Mr. Updike, over his 
 own .signature, says the same thing of himself, 
 " except wiiere I have been professionally em- 
 ployed." Willi great prudence the signers of 
 the certificates avoided saying anything relative 
 to his practical Temperance, or reciting as a fact 
 tliat he had or had not, signed the Temperance 
 Pledge; or whether sub:;e<pient charges of vio- 
 lation of its binding conditions were made, and 
 by him defended on the ground that the Pledge 
 was made in the County of Washington, and 
 therefore not operative for a breach in the 
 County of Providence. If these short hints are 
 conformable to the facts in relation to Mr. Up- 
 dike's Temperance, his versatility of character 
 is fully demonstrated; and tlie public are here- 
 by cautioned in voting for him, /o reynetnber, iha.t 
 his ])resent professions on Rhode Island Politics 
 may in like manner be changed on passing State 
 lines, and the declaration made by him here, be 
 Jlcpudialtd in the diflerent States he passes in 
 his journey to Washington, and when there, a 
 Code entirely new be by him set up under Ex- 
 ecutive InflueiVce, and if HIaule Island com- 
 plains she will he tauntinslij told, hold your peace, 
 I am withoxd the jurisdiction of your State. I beg 
 of the Electors of the western district to well 
 weigh these {"cw hints thus thrown out for their 
 consideration, and let their vote be given with 
 great care ; for it can and has been shown that 
 with Wilkins Updike there is a total want of 
 fixed principles. Office, as a means of living, 
 has been his constant aim, although none has 
 been given him, except those of a minor char- 
 acter ; but to obtain even that he is and has 
 been unscrupulous in his means. Abuse 
 
 AGAINST THE LIVING, (ScC JVotc A,) SLANOF.R 
 
 AGAINST THE DEAD, (See J\'ote B,) POLITI- 
 CAL MUTATIONS AND PREVARICATION FALSF, 
 
 STATEMENTS IN RELATION TO MEN AND THINGS, 
 

 
 !See jVote Cj — are ready at his camrnand, 
 and are all retailed in all places, from his Bar- 
 room associatio7is to tiie Halls of Stale Legisla- 
 tion. If he can by these means abuse and mis- 
 lead the public mind, thereby forestal pnblie 
 opinion, alid secure oroiitain a single vote, indi- 
 vidu:il character has no security, tlie property 
 of the widow and the orphan are alike sacrificed 
 to his bass and selftsh ambition- Such is tha 
 character of Wilkins Updike. If the Whig 
 Electors of the western district return him as 
 Iheir Represent»live to Congress, their mouths 
 should be shut and their tongues forever silenced 
 ao'ainst the present administration, and never 
 more be it said, that \vith them, inferiority of 
 talent and baseness of purpose, are and have 
 been the standing recommendations for appoint- 
 ment to otfices ot' honor and trust. 
 
 The whig electors cannot have forgotten that 
 in days gone by. Rhode Island was represen'ed 
 in the Congress ofthe United Stales by a Champ- 
 }in, a Burrill, a Hunter, a Burges — men whose 
 commanding talents and stern integrity gave a 
 dignity to our little State — men who never 
 varied from the straiglit path of duty when her 
 interests or her reputation were threatened or 
 assailed. Will she now jeopardise those inte- 
 rests, and tarnish the bright lustre of her name, 
 by the appoir>tment of Wilkins Updike.'' For 
 the reputation of the State, we trust not. But 
 slio\ild she, forgetful of her Fame and regardless 
 of lier Ititerests, do this, we can only say " Look 
 here on this picture, and on this." 
 
 Thus far we have reviewed the character of 
 Wilkins Updike politically ; our remarks now 
 will relate to our own wrongs- as Creditors of 
 t,be State, and to his proceedings and object in 
 opposing the Registered Slate Debt. In doing 
 this we shall not go into the detail of the Acts 
 hy which the debt was created, and subsequently 
 again and again recognised and confirmed, fur- 
 ther than to shov,' the improper manner in v/hich 
 it has been opposed, and the origin of the per- 
 sonalities which have become a part of its his- 
 tory. We shall exjiose Updike's falsehoods and 
 iniquities, for his wicked course has cut him off 
 fiom all lenity in this investigation. 
 
 At llie January Session, 1844, a resolution 
 was offered for the payment of a State Note, 
 held by Mary B. Allen, of Smithfield, issued to 
 Ephraim Hart, under a special Act of Assembly 
 passed June, 1819. Alter much debate, Mr. 
 Randolph moved as a substitute that a Commit- 
 tee be appointed to investigate the whole claims 
 against the State. Boih these were opposed by 
 Wilkins Updike at great length, and at the close 
 his speech he moved that the resolution lie on 
 the table ; and it was so voted. These circum- 
 stances awukened those Avho were holders of 
 State Securities. The petiiion of Charles Lip- 
 
 jjitt and others was presenteu. That petrtior? 
 was respectful in its phraseology, and only ask- 
 ed an investigation of their claims. This peti- 
 tion was met at the threshold by Wilkins Updike, 
 Blotions to lie on the table — motions of postpone- 
 ment, were successively made,and after lengthy 
 speeches made by him day after day ag-ainstthe 
 petition on its merits, (and to which no rejdy 
 was permitted us,) it was referred to a Commit- 
 tee, of which Mr. Updike was a member, and to 
 report at the next Session of the Assembly. 
 
 Mr. Updike's speeches were made up of broad 
 assertions and wholesale declarations, unsup- 
 ported by any proof, m which he not only denied 
 the indebtedness of the State, but charged on 
 the claimants acts, which if true, were dishonor- 
 able to themselves. He said "the State had 
 never assumed the debt, and had done no act by 
 which to make the State liable:" "Whenever 
 the General Assembly had enquired into this 
 inatter, they were satisfied it was not their debt :" 
 " The Certificates themselves do not state any 
 obligation on the part of the Statr- to pay them :" 
 (See j\ule D, for a relnlalion of this statement.) 
 " Gentlemen are in error when they say that the 
 appro[»riatioiis formerly made by the General 
 Assembly M^ere to pay for this debt." He allu- 
 ded to Mr. Potter and Mr. Hazard who always 
 guarded the Treasury of this State, and stood 
 over it with flaming swords ! " Did they ever 
 reconuDend the purchase of any of the Certifi- 
 cates?" Re enumerated the distinguished men 
 " who had always denied this debt:" "He had 
 seen with his own eyes Col. Crary, of Newport, 
 in his seat opposing these claims." "There 
 was also Mr. Burrill, Mr. Potter, Mr. Hazard, 
 Col. Sherburne, Welcome Arnold and many 
 others who controlled the action of the Legisla- 
 ture; who ever heard of their advocating these 
 claims .''" In these speeches his propensity for 
 slander, as his most ready weapon was mani- 
 fested, and uncalled for imputations of intended 
 fraud were made against the creditors of the 
 State. Mr. Updike said, " This matter hnd been 
 brouglit up from time to time in tne General 
 Assembly from one generation to another, and 
 efforts have been made by the hohies of these 
 Certificates to have them paid. WMienever the 
 General Assembly had inquired into the matter 
 they were satisfied that it was not their debt. 
 JVhen all the members who had made such inquiries 
 were dead, or ovt of the Home, then a new effort 
 xoas made, and the House were startled into the 
 idea that they ought to do soaiethitig about this 
 debt." 
 
 Facts not known at this period of our history, 
 have since been told us, which develope the 
 original turpitude of Mr. Updike's opposition. 
 He has said — and if he dare deny it we pledge 
 ourselves to the proof — " that at the commence- 
 
fweni of Ihe conlrovctsx), both himself and Dottor 
 Richmond had Utile knoivlcdgc of the fads in re- 
 lation to these claims." If so, wliy did lie then 
 make hisstroii<r stanj against them, with state- 
 ments fabricated and uttered to procure their de- 
 feat ? — Siate.iTients since proved b\j the records of 
 the State to have been totally false in every part. 
 Mr. Updike was tlien in official station — a mem- 
 ber of the General Assembiy — with the oath of 
 God upon him, faithfully to execute the liigh du- 
 ties of that station. But regardless of those 
 duties, for purposes best known to himself, he 
 labored day after day,. with all the sophistry of 
 argument, to defeat an inquiry into securities 
 justly due to citizens of the State, ije then igno- 
 rant of the conditions on wliicii they were issued 
 and subsequently confirmed by frequent legisla- 
 tion. An opposition thus based on a false state- 
 ment of facts, demonstrates a base, wanlon, and 
 wicked exercise of official duties and official poiver ; 
 a recklessness of Ihe rights andproper'y oj' others. 
 Whatever degree of wickedness there might 
 have been in the original opposition in J 844, 
 greater, far greater was the iniquity and the 
 crime in the subsequent opposition, after the 
 Acts and Resolutions of Assembly, on which 
 the securities weie based, and subsequently rati- 
 fied and confirmed — as also the appropriation for 
 payment of interest, and the appropriations for 
 the redemption of nearly three-tburihs of all se- 
 curities issued — had been in detail presented him 
 on Committee, in JS45, fully proving every posi- 
 tion taken by him' in 1844, to have been une- 
 quivocally ftlse. 
 
 One year passed away in the revolution of 
 time, the petitioners not being permitted to an- 
 swer and refute the false statements made 
 against them- Mr. Updike, as a member of the 
 House, and also of the Committee, was thereby 
 enabled, at his own pleasure, to misrepresent us 
 in both positions. He could delay a report by 
 the Committee, and tliereby prevent an exposi- 
 tion of the Acts of Assembly which created and 
 confirmed the indebtedness of the State. 
 
 Thus defeated, all the impntnfions egainst us 
 were widely circulated, and (^iiSlir. opinion thus 
 misled ; our only resource was at the expense of 
 our pocket, and through the public press to com- 
 bat prejudices which were gaining public favor, 
 1845, March 6th, we published at much lengh 
 the prominent facts in relation to this subject; 
 the whole founded on the Acts of the Legisla- 
 ture from 1775 to 1820 ; disproving every state- 
 ment of Mr. Updike in 1844, and proving to 
 every candid man tlie indebtedness of theSt:ite. 
 Notwithstanding Mr. Updike had at the outset, 
 in 1844, made charges which, if true, would es- 
 tablish fraudulent intentions against us, and had 
 labored at all times and in ali [places, by fiilse 
 representationb', to invalidate our claims, we 
 
 were guarded in our reply, and observed greiil 
 forbearance in our remarks relative to him. In 
 the publication above alluded to, and subse- 
 quent to his charges, we only said, "We firmly 
 believe that ]\Ir. Updike, in his opposition to our 
 petition, has manifested a zeal beyond discre- 
 tion, having relied for his support on a state- 
 ment of facts fully disproved by the recorded 
 Acts of the Legislature." 
 
 "We had good hopes that the clear evidencfi 
 presented him in Committee on this subject, 
 would have drawn from him a retraction of his 
 position-, however hard is the task of retracting 
 what we have advocated with great apparent 
 feeling. Still sut^h retraction is the obtaining 
 the greatest victory — a victory over ourselves; 
 for it is strictly true, that it requires more har- 
 dihood to persevere in wrong, than moral cour- 
 age to change from wrong to right." 
 
 One year more passed, from January, 1845, 
 to January, 184(i, and no hearing on the simple 
 request for an inquiry into the subject petitioned 
 for, had been permitted. At the latter part of 
 this sessiei), a brief recital of the Acts was, by 
 consent, presented by us before the House, when 
 on motion of a member, it was voted " that the 
 House proceed no further in the hearing of pri- 
 vate petitions during the present session." Mr. 
 Updike did not now represent his town, but 
 hung on the skirts of the Assembly as a lobby 
 member. He volunteered himself in that capa- 
 city before the House, and was refused. He 
 next tried the Senate, with better success, and 
 was permitted to address them. But such an 
 address! It was a hard hit to the cause he ad- 
 vocated, and as will be shown, a harder hi', 
 against himself We will now only refer to his 
 gross misrepresentation against the agent of the 
 fietitionei-s, and subsequently review his remarks 
 respecting the late Hon. Elisha R. Potter, in 
 connection with the payment made to Ephraini 
 Hart. 
 
 It was well known to Mr. Updike, that in the 
 remarks of the agent of the petitioners, wlien 
 he was permitted but briefly to address the 
 House of Representatives, it was stated, and he 
 begged the House to remember, that upon 
 his honor as a man, he had never seen one act 
 or resolution of the General Assembly, which 
 invalidated their claims. Three days after, Mr 
 Updike, in his Lobby speech, with all his vehe- 
 mence of manner, and at the highest pilch of 
 his voice, charged "//i«.' the agent of thejjclitiun- 
 ers had been guilty of gross misnprescnlalion," 
 for he had ^^r.autioushj, purposely ami designedly'" 
 kept back from the knowf dge of the House the 
 Act of Assembly of June, 17it], "well knowing 
 that that Act was fatal to his cause." This 
 speech was entirely exparte, no notice having 
 been given the petilio!)crs, and by mere acci- 
 
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 dent their afrent entered the Senate chnmber 
 after much of it was delivered. Notwithstand- 
 ing all this, and notwithstanding the charges so 
 prejudicial to the petitioners, it waa with great 
 difficulty that we were permitted a personal ex- 
 planation of the personal allegations, even with 
 an assurance that five n>inutea only should be 
 required. We then presented his Excellency, 
 Gov. Jackson, the Providence Journal of March 
 (ith, 1845, published nearly one year before, and 
 read as follows : " We find nothing further on 
 record in relation to these claims, until the year 
 179J, the second year of the administration of 
 Gov. Arthur Fenner. At the June session, page 
 24, an act passed ' Rkviving claims partly 
 PAID,'" and gave extracts from the preamble, 
 explanatory of the objects of this Act. We 
 then stated, "such was onr cfm<io/i, such our 
 purpose,and such our design" — proving his foid 
 imputation a direct and unqualijied falsehood ; 
 and showing that we had, at great expense, pro- 
 mulgated this Act — that we had placed it before 
 the citizens of the State, and before the Legis- 
 lature of the State, the whole of which was 
 within Mr. Updike's knowledge. 
 
 These charges of base and false calumny, 
 would have justified the petitioners in any de- 
 gree of severity, in any reply or explanation at 
 any future time ; but in the spirit of forbear- 
 ance, in their petition to the General Assembly, 
 presented the May following, in recapitulating 
 the wholesale denials in Mr. Updike's speeches, 
 they only only say, "these statements are dis- 
 proved by the Acts and Resolutions of the Gen- 
 eral Assembly;" "they are falsified by the inte- 
 rest payment of $9,547 ;" "they are aiso demon- 
 stratively disproved by the purchases from 1803 
 to J 820 inclusive." Could we have said less, 
 goaded as we were by false and wicked impu- 
 tations against us personally, and as creditors of 
 the State, whose claims were thus opposed by a 
 base man for base purposes ? That his acts, 
 from first to last, both when a member of the 
 House and when on Committee, have been 
 strictly partisan, is well known to the Assembly 
 and to the electors of the State. The gross 
 slander against all who have favored the claims, 
 and all who have held or now hold securities, is 
 also well known. It may be asked, what trans- 
 gression of ours has enkindled the ire of Wil- 
 kins Updike against us ? We answer, we pe- 
 titioned the General Assembly, January, 1844, 
 
 in respectful language, to grant us a hearing in 
 relation to the indebtedness of the State. "The 
 
 very head and front of "our offending, hath this 
 extent — no more." 
 
 • Wc will now expose another falsehood, stated 
 
 in his lobby-speech, in 184G. Mr. Updike, in 
 his denials of the indebtedness of the State, 
 proceeded to say that "not a dollar was duo on 
 
 the pretended State securities, and that ua ap^ 
 propriations had ever been made for the purchase 
 of any of them." He was asked "what he had 
 to say respecting the j^ayments to Ephraim 
 Hart?" He replied, "he knew all about that 
 transaction;" and then stated that "Ephraim 
 Hart came before the General Assembly, asking 
 payment of State securities held by him." "Mr. 
 Potter, in his place, denied, as he had always 
 done, that any obligations on that paper existed 
 against the State. He had always opposed any 
 payment on the pretended debt, and it was an 
 indignity to the House .for that man to come 
 here with a claim the State did not owe." "The 
 House by acclamation voted down the applica- 
 tion." " The next year Hart came again, with 
 letters to Mr. Hazard and Mr. Potter, from Mr. 
 Livingston and other distinguished men in New 
 York, saying that Mr. Hart had formerly been a 
 (Jew) Broker of much property and high stand- 
 ing ; that in the changes of business he had now 
 become very poor. He was now over seventy 
 years old, and had no means of supporting him- 
 self, and they asked of Mr, Potter and Mr. Haz- 
 ard their aid in the General Assembly to obtain 
 for Mr. Hart the payment of his securities." — 
 Mr. Updike then said, " Mr. Potter was moved 
 by the poverty-stricken appearance of Mr. Hart, 
 and with tears in his eyes, he begged the House 
 to redeem this paper, and let that poor old man 
 go home in possession of means to support him- 
 self." Such was Mr. Updike's statement, and 
 the records of the State will prove it to be uw- 
 
 TR0E. 
 
 Mr. Hart came before the Legislature in the 
 years 1819 and 1820, with three separate peti- 
 tions. The prayer of all of them was granted, 
 at the session when presented. He never came 
 here asking, and was turned away empty hand- 
 ed. June session, 1819, he petitioned for re- 
 newal of 29 certificates, amounting to $3709.85, 
 which had lain in the General Treasurer's office 
 since 1795, under suspicion of having been ob- 
 tained by fraud. The petition was referred to 
 Henry Bowen, Secretary of State, and T. G. 
 Pitman, General Treasurer. They reported that 
 the suspicion was unfounded, and an Act passed 
 directing the General Treasurer to issue new 
 securities to Mr. Hart. October session, 1819, 
 he petitioned to have his interest paid on these 
 securities, and an Act passed directing the Gen- 
 eral Treasurer to pay as asked for, June ses- 
 sion, 1820, Mr. Hart came with .$3127.69, peti- 
 tioning for payment. An Act passed to pur- 
 chase this sum of him, at sixty-six cents on the 
 dollar, and directing the General Treasurer to 
 make tiie payment. These facts are all matters 
 of record in the Schedules. The ground of claim 
 in the petition was, that the State had ordered 
 the Trcaswcr to issue the original paper, and 
 
that he, Hart, had bought it in open market. Do 
 not these statements iully show that VVil kins 
 Updike v/as either ionorant of the true facts, or 
 wilfully jnisstited them. 
 
 These statements of Mr. Updike plnce him- 
 self and Mr. Po ter in positions antagonist to 
 each other. If Mr. Potter had always opposed 
 the paymi'nt of State Securities, and had always 
 denied that they were due from the State, by 
 ■what rigiit did he snffer his feeling-s to trinmph 
 over his sense of jiisticp. and abstract from the 
 State Treasury over $Q,OuO, to purchase claims 
 not valid aS'ii"*^^ the Stati^ — to purchase them 
 of a Jew Broker, the business of whoso life had 
 been to manage the rise and fall of stocks, and 
 thereby to sport with a kind of property gene- 
 rally left for tiie support and maintenance of the 
 widow and tiie orphan; and at the same time. 
 if ihat widow and that orpiian had presented 
 Securities issued under the same authority, they 
 would have been told, we owe you nothing. 
 Mr Potter had good right to exercise his sympa- 
 thy for a man both old and poor, and to relieve 
 his wants from his own ample fortune ; but he 
 had no right to abstract from the State Treasury, 
 money placed there by direct dry Taxation, 
 drawn from the limited means of the hard work- 
 ing farmers, to pay what was not due to a J^Tew 
 York pauper, ihrust 07i our T'rensitry hy Letters 
 from distinguished men, to Mr. Potter and Mr. 
 Hazard. In 1844 we were told by Mr. U|)dike 
 that *' Mr. Potter and Mr. Hazard always guard- 
 ed the Treasury of this State, and stood at the 
 door with Jlaming sicords." If they have been 
 guilty of the cbarijes here made, wonderfully 
 indeed have these swords become tarnished, 
 and more wonderfully still have their edge 
 been blunted. Tanxu 15 recited nnth ease and 
 facility, its bearings and resul's are seen intui- 
 tively. Falseikiod requires mentid exertion, and 
 its consequences and effects are lost sight of, in the 
 study to give it the semblance of Truth. Could 
 Mr. Updike have seen the magnitude of this 
 charge against Mr. Potter, he would never have 
 uttered it. That charge must stand against Mr. 
 Updike as one of unqualified falseliood, or n^^xusi 
 Mr. Potter as unqualified plunder oj the 2'rea- 
 sury. 
 
 These suggestions would seem to place the 
 sons of Mr. Potter in a position singularlv deli- 
 cate. They stand midway between Mr. Updike 
 and their father. To justify thpir father ihey 
 must charge upon Updike unqualified falsehood. 
 If they justify Updike, the charge of plunder 
 upon the Treasury stands sustained against 
 their father. Which of these charges are they 
 willing should be sustained, and pass before the 
 people of the State ? The people can only 
 judge by the part they shall take in the ap- 
 ^ proaching election ; for if they support Updike, 
 
 they support the charges made by him. That 
 Mr. Potter has been falsely charged is proved 
 by the official records. It is fully proved that 
 Hart was never defeated in one application be- 
 fore the Assembly. All the statements of Mr. 
 Potter's denials of the debt made by Mr. Updike 
 are therefore sheer fabrication. That Mr. Pot- 
 ter aided in the purchase of Hart's Securities 
 we have no doubt, but it was in the furtherance 
 of public justice, to purchase a valid debt against 
 the State. That Mr. Potter knew the old State 
 debt justly due, we hiive no doubt; and as the 
 first Act which passed the General Assembly 
 after the purchase of Hart's paper, was to appro- 
 priate §10,000 for the purchase of the Registeied 
 Slide Dehl, who doubts that the act was support- 
 ed by Mr. Potter. We give the following in 
 aid of our opinion. 
 
 William Sheldon says, (and we speak by 
 auth-)rity and by his permission,) that he was in 
 the House of Representatives the latter part of 
 Mr. Potter's being a member there, and heard 
 him there say, " He wished we would contrive 
 some way to "pay off the old State debt, and he 
 wished the people would subject themselves to 
 a State Tax to pay it off." Who doubts what 
 William Sheldon says ? Was his word ever 
 doubted ''' When he stated a fact, was it ever 
 said of him, by any living man, "that is 
 one of Sheldon's lies'?" When any one im- 
 peaches the veracity of Wm. Sheldon, well may 
 we say that truth has depaned from our land. 
 
 The light minded infirmity of Wiikins Up- 
 dike is manifested even in matters o^' grave 
 character. His besetting sm of imbecile wit, at 
 the expense of Truth ; his studied effort to turn 
 all subjects to ridicule in his ordinary transac- 
 tions, has perverted his views on important sub- 
 jects, and become predominant in every situation 
 he may by chance occupy. No position in which 
 he can be placed will ever bring home to his 
 mind the importance of Truth, or his sacred ob- 
 ligations to respect the rights or property of 
 others. 
 
 Passing over all the Acts vhich created the 
 Debt, the" payment of the Interest, and the ap- 
 propriatii.ns of 1803, 1804, 1807, and 1820, by 
 which nearly three fourths of the whole debt 
 was redeemed, we come down to the doings of 
 tiie Assembly of a more recent date, viz: 1826, 
 1828, and 1840, when speci-<l references were 
 made of this subject to Committees, with instruc- 
 tions 10 report " the best means for the giadual 
 extinction of the Slate Debt." Every such Com- 
 mittee has confirmed the indebtedness, and we 
 have Letters stating that fact from the Hon. 
 Nathaniel Bullock, Hon. Joseph Child, and 
 Zachariah Allen, Esq., as also the verbal state- 
 ment of the Hon. Henry Y. Cranston, all of 
 whom served on those Committees. In 1845, 
 
Hon. Edward W. Lawton and Shubael Hutch- 
 ins, Esq., were on Committee with Wilkins Up- 
 dike upon the validity of these claims ; here 
 Updike alone denied the claim as just. !n 1846 
 Hon. Samuel Dexter, the Hon. John H. Weeden, 
 Alfred Bosworthand Jesse S. Tourtellot, Esq'rs, 
 were on the Comuiittee with Wilkins Updike, 
 on the same subject. We have Letters from 
 members sayinir, "</ie members thereof, with the 
 exception of Mr. Updike, ivere unanimous injavor 
 oj the validity of the clnims.'''' Cut what is still 
 more, this same Committee, (four of whom were 
 or had been in practice at the Bar.) employed 
 Elisha R. Potter as counsel for the State, to iii- 
 ■ vestinfate the whole subject, and aid the State 
 in a defence against the creditors, if any defence 
 could be set up; and what wqs the result? 
 Why, no defence could be found by the Counsel 
 of the State, or by the Coaunittee, although the 
 claims had been presented and advocated only 
 by a private citizen, wlio had never read gi page 
 of Common Law in all his life, or a Statute atten- 
 tively, unless those found in relation to these 
 Claims. 
 
 We here say confidently, that evenj man vho 
 has at any time, officially examined our Securities 
 and the Acts of Sssemhly on ivhich they were 
 founded, ZL as satisfied of the indebtedness of the 
 State, exceptinij: JVilkins Updike. We tun her 
 s^y, that Mr. Updike has never presented evi- 
 dence, that any man except himself, has at any 
 time from 179.5 to 1847, attentively examined the 
 State Les;islation on this subject, and then denied 
 the debt as unquestionably due. 
 
 We hive also other and high authority in sup- 
 port of our claims, viz. the present and past legal 
 advisers of the State. Hon. Dutee J. Pearce 
 was Attorney General, and Thomas Pitman 
 General Treasurer in 1819. They were on 
 Committee and reported all the details of this 
 Debt as it then stood. Thit report is a matter 
 of record in the office of Secretary of State, to 
 which all can have access. Hon. Albert C. 
 Greene subsequently was Attorney General. 
 In a conversation with Wilkins Updike, at New- 
 port, during tlie last June Session, I am told by 
 a gentleman who was present, thiit Gen. Greene 
 said, " Mr. U|)dike you are altogether wrong on 
 the State Debt; it is a sacred claim and the 
 State is justly bound to pay it." During the 
 same session, Joseph M. Blake, the present 
 Attorney General, was in conversation with a 
 gentleman on the subject of the State Debt. 
 "Mr. Blake observe! thit some years since he 
 had occasion to make inquiry into its validity, 
 and amongst other sources he consulted Judge 
 Childs of Portsmouth, and Nathaniel Bullock, 
 Esq., of Bristol, both of whom he considered 
 men of integrity, and also having much know- 
 ledge of our State legislation ; that from the 
 
 facts communicated by them, and from other 
 sources, he had a full opinion that the claim 
 was a valid one." Mr. Updike was present and 
 said, ''Nathaniel Bullock knows nothing about 
 this Debt, there is not a cent due from the 
 State." Mr. Blake replied, " I do not believe 
 that, and more, I do not believe Mr. Updike, 
 that you think so." 
 
 We ask. do the citizens of this State place 
 more confidence in the declarations of Wilkins 
 Updike, than in all the difl'erent Committees to 
 whom the subject of the State Debt has been 
 submitted — to the past and present Attorney 
 Generals of the State — to the long list of revo- 
 lutionary Patriots and Heroes who were of the 
 Assembly which ordered the issue of the Secu- 
 ties we now hold — who also ordered the payment 
 of Interest on all — who ordered the several ap- 
 propriations, purchasing nearly theree-fourths of 
 the whole debt — and to the Commissioners of 
 purchase under the different appropriations ? 
 We again ask, who is entitled to your confi- 
 dence, a Man ivho panders for office, or this 
 galaxy of talents and integrity, against whom a 
 slanderous word had never been uttered until 
 1844, and then only by Wilkins Updike ? 
 
 The agent of the petitioners, on the 22d of 
 February, 1847, published a chronological state- 
 ment of the advances of individuals, and other 
 sources of liabilities, on ivhich the present in- 
 debtedness of the State originated ; the whole 
 of which was copied from the records in the 
 office of the Secretary of State. 
 
 On the QSd of February, he again published 
 a detailed statement, taken from the same re- 
 cords, fully proving that the State alone was re- 
 sponsible f)r the whole payment of the out- 
 standing Notes or securities. 
 
 February 2Gtli, another communication was 
 published, further demonstrating, beyond con- 
 troversy, the indebtedness of the State. The 
 evidence here was also taken from the recorded 
 Acts of the Legislature. 
 
 On the 5th and 25th of March, communica- 
 tions and addresses were published on the State 
 Debt, extracts from which we shall annex to 
 this exposition, being a reprint of part of the 
 March publications. These embody filets, as 
 part of a liistory of the doings of the Legisla- 
 ture in reference to these claims, from 1844 to 
 1847, developing false statements made by Wil- 
 kins U-pdikc, both in 1814 when a member of 
 the House, and when he addressed the Senate 
 as a lobby member — and also his partizan 
 zeal, when on committee, in 1846 and 1847. — 
 The communications unequivocally charge a- 
 gainst him declarations of foul a.nd false 
 CALUMNV against the most distinguished men of 
 the State, who were in public life from 1791 to 
 
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 18'-i0 ; and these charges are fully sustained by 
 his written and published statement ever his 
 own signature. 
 
 In the publication of March 5th, certain im- 
 lYlulnbk principles are laid down, defining the 
 duties and obligatiois of members of Legisla- 
 tures, and of Committees appointed by tliein — 
 distmctly statinir what constitutes Corruption 
 and Perjuni direct, and Corruption dir-cl, and 
 Perjur}/ by implication ; showing how fi\r in the 
 belief of the creditors o^'the State, these princi- 
 ples are applicable to ihe official acts of VVil- 
 kins U|)dike. 
 
 Tiie publication of March 25th, places in 
 parallel columns, extracts Irom VVilkins Up- 
 dike's calumny, over his own name, against the 
 late Hon. James Surrill and otiier distinguished 
 men ; and also from his published Letter to 
 Mrs. Ellenor BurriU Burgcs, daughter of Mr. 
 Burrill, denying t;iat he ever said or did aught 
 to injure the good name or reputation of her 
 dead fathi^r. However many are the falsehoods 
 heretofore charged upon Mr. Updike, this last 
 in one feature exceeds all others in moral turpi- 
 tude; that it is a falsehood Jul! i/ made, in a Let- 
 ter addressed to a woman. 
 
 We reprint the following extracts from an 
 address to the Men of Rhode Island, who love 
 Ho.NESTV and Truth, published in March last. 
 
 We learn by the Providence Journnl, that 
 Wilkins Updike addressed a political meeting 
 in South Kingstown, on the 15th inst. on the 
 subject of the State Debt. We ! Iso see by a 
 printed address to the electors of the Western 
 District, written hij himself, advocating the claims 
 of the "Hon. VVilkins Updike," in which the 
 services rendered the State by himself in oppo- 
 sition to the "pretended State debt," authorises 
 a call for their votes in his favor, as Represen- 
 tative to the Congress of the United Slates. As 
 that addri'ss refers by name to the undersigned, 
 a reply is unquestionably expected and deman- 
 ded. 
 
 In a recently written article, published in the 
 papers of both political parties, tlie undersigned 
 has at length laid down the principles which 
 should govern members of legislative bodies, 
 and also of committees appointed by thetn for 
 specific duties. He lias fully shown what con- 
 stitutes Corruption and Perjun/ direct, and what 
 constitutes Co>ruption direct and Perjunj by ini- 
 plicalion. 'J he acts done, and the public decla- 
 rations made by Mr. UpdiKe in his official posi- 
 tions, were minutely canvassed and distinctly 
 stated — demonstrating his departure from all the 
 obligations of his official trust; and yet he has 
 the hardihood to claim the support of the elec- 
 tors of his district, for the very deeds which fix 
 upon him the most damning disgrace. These 
 positions are fully illustrated in the written ar- 
 
 ticles above alluded to, and although it id yet 
 fresh from the press, it may in this case be al- 
 low.ihle to give it a reprint. 
 
 "The petitioner^! have, as they think, justly 
 complained of the appointment of Mr. Updike, 
 [to a place on the committee appointed to ev- 
 amine iheir claims, he not being a member of 
 the House at the time,] he having thereby an 
 official power to report to the House, and under 
 no obligations of an oath, the facts on which a 
 large Ciaim oC individuals against the State 
 sliould be decided. His ^vhole feelings and his 
 whole zeal'having been for years publicly volun- 
 teered adverse to the claims, should have been 
 conclusive against him as a fit person to so re- 
 port as not to mislead public opinion. 
 
 Each member of the Legislature is by his 
 0A.TH OF OFFICE bouud to fixercise his official 
 trusts, equally to protectthe interests of the State 
 and the rights of individual citizens. He is 
 bound with equal diligence to investigate private 
 claims, and if justly due, to devise means for 
 their proper liquidation, as he is to expose their 
 error, and oppose the payment of such as hold 
 no obligation against the State. In his legis- 
 lative position, he stands midway between such 
 parties, and with even justice to act as shall be 
 proper to the rights of both. Any deviation 
 from that straight-forward course, is both cor- 
 ruption AND PERJURY. The Same obligations 
 attach to commit ees of the House, appointed 
 to investigate and report on any subject so com- 
 mitted to them. It is equally criminal to with- 
 hold/acts within their knowledge, as it is to report 
 falsely. If individuals not of the House, are by 
 the authority of the House put on Cowimittee, 
 such individvals are bound by the same rules of 
 action, and a report by such individual, untrue, 
 either from facts intentionally misstated, or from 
 facts known and withheld, subjects such indt- 
 vidnal to a charge of corruption direct, and to a 
 charge of perjury by implication. 
 
 The opposition to the petitioners has been at- 
 tempted more by imputations against the integ- 
 rity of every member of the Legislature from 
 1795 to 18'20; to every commissioner under the 
 appropriations, and to every creditor of the State 
 who lias received payments on these claims, 
 than on adverse testimony to be found in the 
 archives of the State. The manifest object is, 
 thereby to divert attention from the substantial 
 merits of honest claims and honest claimants. 
 The more distinguished the individual who iH 
 thus assailed, the more gross and malignant 
 have been the charges by Mr. Updike against 
 his reputation. The living and the d-ad are 
 alike denounced. It is stated '■Hhat the ichole 
 subject has been a fraud, a stupendous fraud, by 
 an unprincipled band of politicians, and by an 
 unprincipled knot of speculators,'''' ^'stimulated by 
 
atctt^onat appropriations^ Subsequently thejr 
 are charged with first ^^speculating on the orj^i- 
 nal holders" and tlien with "sptculatin^ on the 
 State ;" and it is stated that by their ''weioJU of 
 character and injluence, they had been successful 
 171 this plundering process.^'' Accompanying these 
 charges is published the names of those whom 
 he says, are most deeply steeped in tiiis plunder 
 of the Trensurjjy viz : Chailes Lippitt, Jlsher Rob- 
 bins, James Burrill, A. ^ S. De.rl<r, D. L. Barnes 
 and others. Subsequently, in a spetich before 
 the House, all these charges were again and 
 again reiterated, and if possible in more coarse 
 and vulgar phraseology. In this debate, Mr. 
 Burrill was more particularly held up as a dis- 
 tinguished mark, deserving the condemnation 
 and scorn of the House and the audience. Mr. 
 Updike flourished above his head a paper, on 
 which was stated the amount received by Mr. 
 Burrill under each appropriation ; emphatical- 
 ly stalig that Mr. BURK.H.r. HAD DABBLED 
 IN THIS FRAUDULENT TRANSACTION. 
 He was determined to leave his family his $100,- 
 000; and where did he get it? His love of 
 money had been his first object. Have it he 
 must, and have it he would. (See JVote C.) In 
 the course of the speech, ihe Hon. Wm. Hun- 
 ter and the Hon. Tristam Burges received their 
 full share of personal abuse. The assaults were 
 rude and ungentlemanly — such as would flow 
 from a coarse and grovellinGr mind. They were 
 heard with disgust, mingled with contempt, by 
 all, except those few who were of like grovel- 
 ling character with the declaimer, and for their 
 ears were they especially uttered. ToMr. Hun- 
 ter there has been made a most humiliating 
 apology, couched in language of deep regret 
 for the unwarrantable assault — still that apology 
 evidences the p nitence of a convicted calum- 
 niator, rather than the open-hearted retraction 
 of errors originating in less criminal causes. — 
 For unprovoked assaults on the private charac- 
 ter of the living, Mr. Updike can tender his 
 apologies — but neither his base slanders, nor his 
 apologies, will ever reach the blessed abodes of 
 the illuj^trious dead, in their regions of bliss, in 
 the high Heavens above. 
 
 In this communication we have specifically 
 stated the obligations of members of the House, 
 and also of Committees, as regards the interests 
 of the State and the rights of individuals. Mr. 
 Updike, as we believe, has grossly violated the 
 high official obligations imposed upon him in 
 his late official station. We also believe that 
 he did purposely pass over the act of June, 1797, 
 ordering the interest payment on all notes here- 
 tofore issued or those to be issued under this 
 act — thai act being an important fact, proving a 
 fidl acknowledgment by the Stale, against the 
 State, that the notes issued in 1795 and 17V7 
 
 and other acts supplementary thereto, were due 
 from the Slate, and payable b]j the State, and the 
 State alone. 
 
 We further say, that we have, as we believe, 
 good cause to charge upon Mr. Updike, thai the 
 omission of this last fact, was knowingly, pur- 
 posely and corruptly done ; for we well knoio, 
 and ht dure not deny, that very shortly after the 
 vote of the House, rejecting the petition on the 
 State debt, he unequivocally boasted that he was 
 fortunate in making his whole speech, without 
 referring to the interest payment — for had he 
 been compelled to state thatybtrf, it would have 
 been one "/le could not have got over," that it 
 was one that was unanswerable in favor of the 
 petitioners. 
 
 The instructions to the Committee under their 
 appointment, January, 1846, were to report " all 
 acts and proceedings" and "all other information 
 relative to said debt." We have heretofore 
 shown that it is " equally criminal to withhold 
 facts known as it is to report falsely." We be- 
 lieve that Wilkins Updike has knowingly and 
 wickedly been guilty of violating both these ob- 
 ligations. 
 
 In conclusion we say, that sevf.n members 
 have acted on Co nmittees from 1844 to 1847. 
 That each member has spent days investigating 
 the recorded testimony. That six (G)are affirm- 
 ative, and Wilkins IJpdike alone (1) adverse. 
 Are claims thus sustained lo be lightly passed 
 over by the General Assembly ? 
 
 JOHN W. RICHMOND, 
 
 For the Petitioners. 
 
 These charges have been before tlie public 
 since March 5th, unanswered and uncontradict- 
 ed, and only briefly alluded to as " vials of wrath 
 and malice," in Mr. Updike's autobiography, 
 over the signature of a "Citizen of Narragan- 
 sett," and strange as it may seem, all the acts 
 of corruption above demonstrated, have been 
 done by one, who has assailed in the most vulgar 
 language, every leading and distinguished citi- 
 zen of the State of every Legislate e from 1791 
 to 1820. The remark of Mr. Weeden, of the 
 House, in January labt, was strictly true, '■^ that 
 Mr. Updike had slandered every public man ivho 
 had sujjicient leputation to be even known without 
 the borders of his own State." 
 
 For the abuse heaped on the character of the 
 Hon. James Burrill, Mrs. Ellenor Burrill Burges 
 has addressed a note to Mr. Updike, demanding 
 an explanation. The reply of Mr. Updike can 
 he seen in tlie Providence Journal of the 19th 
 of March, The introductory remarks of Mrs. 
 Burges to the Editor, will show the ])ronrnent 
 points in the correspondence. We therefore 
 copy them. 
 
 •' To the Editor of the Journal. 
 
 Sir, — You are requested to publish in your 
 
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 paper, the following letter. It was written by 
 Mr. Updike, in answer to one asking of him an 
 explanation of llie unjustifiable charaes deroga- 
 tory to tlie character of the Hon. James Burrill, 
 made by him before the House of Kepresenta- 
 tives of this State, at their last session. The 
 charges were public; it is, therefore, proper that 
 the denial should also be public, as the commu- 
 nity are not more interested in the detraction 
 than ill the vindication of a good name." 
 
 In Mr. Updike's reply to Mrs. Burges he un- 
 qualifiedly denies every charge of improper im- 
 putations against Mr. Burrill. The following 
 extracts from publications over his oum nnwe, 
 fully prove against him a want of all honorable 
 principles, and a total disregard for truth. 
 
 HiSTORYOF TflE ALLEG- LETTER FROM WlLKlNS 
 
 ED State Oebt, by Updike to Mrs. El- 
 
 WiLKiNs Updike, lkkor Burrill Hur- 
 
 DA.TED Kingston, ges, March 1, 1847. 
 December 16, 1846. 
 
 1. " Bui wiieii h shall 1. " I avow now, as 1 
 be made to appear, that a!« ays liave done, that the 
 the whole sul)ject has been iiifurination conveyed to 
 a fra'id from Ije-ginning to you that I had slandered 
 end, a stupendous fraud, tlie memory of your Hon. 
 by an unpiincipled band of Father, in the del>ate in 
 politicians, and has sine; the House of Represenla- 
 been followed up by an un- tives, or any where else, 
 principled knot of specula- is erroneous — wholly so — 
 tors, stimulated hy occa- never was any th'ng fur- 
 si on al appropriations," ther from the intentions of 
 and that this was done hy my heart." 
 
 " mere speculators instead 
 of honest creditors," &c. 
 
 2. " After these specu- 2. " His name and re- 
 lators had become possess- collections of him I have 
 ed of a sufficient amount, ever revered — and there 
 the Legislature, through has arisen no ficcasion or 
 the political combinations cause for any change." 
 
 of influential men, have 
 been pressed to make an 
 appropriation, and they 
 have spe ulated on the 
 Slate, as they had upon 
 the sellers. 
 
 3. " Madnm let me as- 
 sure you that as a Rhode 
 Island man, I have always 
 venerated the name and 
 character of vour parent, 
 and have uniformly spoken 
 of the glory he has shed 
 upon the reputation of the 
 8laie. I feel llie same 
 ah 1 am impressed with the 
 pride now, and have al- 
 ways stated the eame to 
 you in person." 
 
 4. " Observe also who 4. If I have done any 
 Sield tliese notes as pur- wron^f, it was uninten- 
 chasers and speculators, tiunal, and 1 am not con- 
 viz: Messrs. Barnes, scious that any represon- 
 Gibbs and Channing, Du tation has ever been made 
 
 3. "The iate Charles 
 Lippitl has figured in for- 
 mer ap|jropriations as a 
 speculeior to an amount 
 o( !j^-2,590 7t 
 
 AsherRobbins, 5,148 53 
 James BuitIII, 867 ;:i9 
 
 VVm. T. Miller, 2,841 17 
 J. C. Jones, 3 200 25 
 
 A, & S. Dexter, 3,478 60 
 
 Wolfe, Fowler-, Uowen, by me wearing in itiy re- 
 Hazard, Burrill, Scarle, spect the impressions made 
 &c., the leading men in on you and others." 
 the politics of the State, 
 whose combined influence 
 could change the political 
 complexion of the State." 
 
 6. " The previous spec- 5. " The circumstances 
 
 ulalors had been so sue- that have arisen have given 
 
 cessfid in this plundermg ine great pain, wi en I 
 
 process^ that the present know that the impression 
 
 petitioners have tried their made on you was evrone^ 
 
 hand at the game." ous or distorted whencon- 
 
 Veyed to you. If I cannot 
 
 satisfy you of that I will 
 
 adopt any other honorable 
 
 coursse that will effect it." 
 
 Mr. Burrill was a member of the Legislature 
 when the act of June, 1797, was passed, direct- 
 ing the issue of the securities undtr which we 
 claim, as also the tv/o year's interest payment 
 on all issued under the acts both of 17!)5 and 
 1797. He was himself a recipient under that 
 act. For this he is cliarged by Mr. Updike as 
 an unprincipled politician and spcciilttor, and 
 guilty of a stupendous fraud. He is one charged 
 with speculating on the holders of securities, 
 and then with speculating on the State. He is 
 charged as one who has by his political influ- 
 ence,effected the passage of acts fraudulently ob- 
 taining appropriations to redeem the Notes oiven 
 by the State, he being the owner of such Notes. 
 He is charged as one of the speculators who 
 had been guilty of a previous pitindtnng process 
 which had tempted the present petitioners to try 
 their hand at the game. All this has been 
 charged by Mr. Updike, in his printed report 
 over his own signature, against Mr. Burrill, and 
 yet he has the effrontery to write to Mrs. Bur- 
 g?s that he has never said or done aught to in- 
 jure his good name or reputation. Of all tha 
 vJces to wliich frail man is subjected, no one is 
 more derogatory to the character of a gentleman, 
 Ihan a piliful propensity to practise falsehood, 
 ane of ail the falsehoods charged upon Mr. Up- 
 dike, none are more pifi/'id than iliose in his 
 miserable, imperfect, and disjointed letter of denial, 
 to Jlrs. Burges. 
 
 To show how clf^ar was the conviction on 
 the minds of the House th;-tt Mr. Burnll and 
 others had been maliciously assailed, m Mldi- 
 tion to (he remarks before stated by Mr. Wee- 
 den, we hereto placp an exiract from the sjieech 
 ot the Hon. John il. Clark, in llu; House of 
 Representatives, afier the close of iMr. Up- 
 dike's speecii, on his soini-ofTiL-ial report, in 
 January last. Mr. Clark, in a spercli distiu- 
 enislied ("or its force of reasoning ant] eb g oice 
 of di( tion, coniineiited on the uncalled lur im- 
 putations against ihe Hon. Wm. Hunter and 
 the Hon. Tristani Burges, appropriately eulo- 
 
u 
 
 gising their distinguisheJ talents and public 
 •ervices. His vindication also of Mr. Bnrrill 
 was delivered with a dignity of manner, fully 
 evidencing his own honorable principles, his 
 kind feelings, and full coDviciJDn of its perfect 
 truth. Mr. Clark said, " amidol unmeasured 
 denunciation against such as may bjve favored 
 these claims, and are living. I had hoped that 
 the character and the memory of the dead, 
 might at least have been spared. The late Mr 
 Burrill has been arraigned as a speculator in 
 these claims, and also with having fraudulent- 
 ly procured the passage of acts by which they, 
 with others, might be recognized by the State. 
 His whole life was a contradiction to tliis 
 charge. Mr. Burrill was known to very many 
 of us — his memory is cherished by us all. He 
 was honored for his high and commanding tal- 
 ents — his lofty eloquence and his stern integ- 
 rity ; and no man in our State possessed so 
 much of public confidence. His hfe was spent 
 HI her service, and he died whilst a Senator in 
 Cong»'ess. devoting his last energies to the 
 public good. His remains are entombed at 
 the Capitol — dedicated by his Children to his 
 Country." 
 
 Had not Mr. UpUiUe been guilty of the un- 
 manly and cowardly assaults charged upon 
 him, this just and withering rebuke would 
 never have been uttered. 
 
 The writer of this is no politician. He has 
 never received or sought office, either of the 
 State or of the United States. Hk has NEVEa 
 
 SOLD HIS PRINCIPLKS OR HIMSKLF, OR THROWN 
 
 RKPEATED POLITICAL soMKRSETS to obtain pop- 
 ular favoT. He has never addressed a political 
 caucus, or vvriiten a political article for a par- 
 ty press. His tiir}e and his services have been 
 devoted, with untiring industry, to his private 
 business transactions ; and the object of this 
 publication is to apply a corrective io false po- 
 sitions taken by an unprincijAed politician, tvho 
 knoivs no true, open, manly aud honest course, 
 hut vainly hopes by his selfish acts to ride into 
 political power. 
 
 JOHN W. RICHMOND. 
 Providence, August 10, 1847. 
 
 P. S. The foregoing having been sub- 
 mitted to the Hon. Samuel Dbxter, he has 
 granted us permission to annex to it the fol- 
 lowing letter, dated April 2Ist, 1847. The 
 letter will explain Mr. Dexter's views and 
 opinions of Wilkins Updike. 
 
 " Docf. Jno. W. Richmond : 
 
 Dear Sir, -Your note of the IDth is re- 
 ceived ; the subjoined reiDarks will, 1 be- 
 lieve, ansv-ir ail your inquiries. 
 
 I was chairman of a committee appointed 
 by the Hon. General Assembly at their Jan- 
 uary session, 1846, to invostigite the valid- 
 ity of what is called the Registered Stale 
 Debt. I would observe that at a meeting of 
 the Board, it was pro[)ose(l to appoint Eli- 
 sha R. Potter, Esq. attorney for the Stale, 
 to search the rec(jrd3, and obt.iin all possi- 
 ble infortnation on the suhjoct ; and he was 
 appointed accordingly. Mr. Potter, it is 
 believed, faithfully and industriously inves- 
 tigated the subject, reported the result of 
 his enquiries to me as chairman, in writing, 
 accompanied witii all the documentary evi- 
 dence appertaining to the same. 1 then 
 took up the subject, spent a good deal of 
 time upon it, and upon a full consideration 
 of the matter, I came to a full conviction 
 that the debt was ju?tly due from the State. 
 T do not recollect at any meeting of the 
 Boird when the subject was discussed, that 
 any member of the committee took any 
 other view, except Mr. Updike, who was 
 understood at the time of his appointment 
 to hold opinions adverse to the allowance 
 of the claims, and as having within his 
 reach evidence which might be produced 
 by him before the board, in support of the 
 views he had previously advocated. On 
 being desired to do so, he declined taking 
 any perfoiial trouble in the matter. I cou- 
 side ed at the time, Mr. Updikes conseniinpr 
 to serve on the coinmiliee (he having de- 
 nounced the petitioners.) an act of great 
 indelicacy, and afterwards (previous to the 
 report of the committee, and before the in- 
 vestigation was completed,) coming out in 
 a public paper, as he did, commenting upon 
 the subject matter in dispute, a violation of 
 public duty, and a gross indignity to the 
 Other members of the committee. 
 I am Sir, Yours, &c. 
 
 SAM'L DEXTER. 
 
15 
 
 NOTE A. Pending]; the hearing of the pe- 
 tition of the holders of Slate Securities, Jan- 
 uary session, 1847, Hon WiMiaiii Hunter was 
 requested by several members of the House of 
 Representatives, to state his recollections of 
 tlie claims, known as the Registered State 
 Debt, and the opinions of the distinguished 
 men at the linie when the State Secutilies were 
 issued, and when the appropriations for the re- 
 dcmpiion of ihe greater part of them were 
 made; Mr. Hunter then being a member of 
 the House. Tlie statement was clear as to the 
 consideration, and tlie repeaced recognitions of 
 l.he debt : also of the desire of the Assembly 
 to make the payments, and a detailed state- 
 ment of the ajipropiiitions for that purpose. — 
 For this alone, Mr. Updike indulged in abuse 
 so gross, that two members of the House 
 simultdtieously called him to order, one of 
 whom said in addition, '"if he could not ob- 
 serve more decency of conduct, he had better 
 leave the House." Subsequently, Mr. Uodike 
 apologised to Mr. Hunter, by letter, dated 
 Jan. 25, 1847, from which we make tlie fol- 
 lowing e.Ktract : — " I cannot but be aware that 
 in the discussion of last Monday, on the sub- 
 ject of the State Debt, I was betrayed by the 
 impetuosity o( my feelings into expressions, in 
 which 1 forgot the respect due you. and lo llie 
 audience, as well as to mvself. My cooler 
 judgment has severely admonished me of that 
 hasty wrong, wiiich ] sincerely regret. Permit 
 me to say to you how unfeignedly I admire 
 the gentlemanly and magnanimous forbearance 
 which restrained you i\o\n retorting upon me 
 as you so justly might have done in reply lo 
 the iinwonhy expressons in which 1 rasl:ly 
 indulged." And all this "impetuosity of feel- 
 ings" was produced on a plain investigation of 
 a claim [iresented against the State, during 
 which nothing had then been said or done by 
 the claimants, to excite or disturb any citizen 
 of the Sinie, or any one in official statif)n; the 
 agent of" the peiioners having stated to the 
 House, '"that although the creditors of the 
 State had for more than three years been char- 
 ged with fraiidulenily .utempiing to plunder the 
 Treasury, they should vindicate themselves 
 only with f.icis proved by the records of the 
 State — -and that their respect for the House, 
 their respect for themselves, would forbid Ihcm 
 to reiterate abuse for abuse. Tliat they have 
 since demon-itrated Mr. Updike's iniquity, and 
 severely castigated him with the pen. lliev are 
 free to admit. He mounted the State Debt, 
 as his hobby to ride into office, and thought 
 his poliliciil reward could be best obtained, by 
 
 FOR CONGRESS, 
 
 WILKINS UPDHiE, 
 
 of South KingsLorvn. 
 
 showing how holdlij he could use both Whi]* 
 and Sphv. 
 
 NOTE B. In 1833, WiLKtNS Updike 
 was the Dkmocratic candidatk for Rep- 
 resentative to Congress from Rhode Island-^ 
 The Providence City Gazette was then pub- 
 lished by tlie present "John Smith, Jr. of Ar- 
 kansas." who advocated the claims of Updike. 
 Smith had something "wayward" in his dispo- 
 sition, and when fair occasion oftVred, could 
 not resist the temptation to give a Irft-handed 
 hit, even against his political friends. Updike 
 was at :he head of the leading column, and di- 
 rectly parallel, in the next column, was an ex- 
 tract from the Boston Courier, published by 
 Buckingham. Thus : 
 
 A Compliment. — 
 The Boston Courier, 
 whilst speaking of a 
 Trading Politician, 
 says of him, " He 
 would never let the 
 dead rest in peace, if 
 he could gain a vote 
 or a dollar by robbing 
 the sepulchre." 
 Either "Smith" knew Updike's disposition 
 then, as well as we do now, and so arranged his 
 published matter as to create some inquiry, or it 
 was one of the strongest accidental coinciden- 
 ces to be found in periodical record. 
 
 NOTE C. Extracts from Updike's Letter 
 to Mrs. Biirges, were published in March last. 
 We now give the le ter entire, as an evidence 
 of the chaste style of his epistolary efforts. It 
 furthei shows that our extracts were correct, 
 and that after he had, to the extent of his pow- 
 ers, abused her dead Father, he could have 
 the contemptible meanness to deny what he 
 had published over his own name. 
 
 Providence, March 1st, 1847. 
 
 Dear Madam: — I have this moment receiv- 
 ed your note by the hands of my son. post- 
 marked the 19ih of February. Where it has 
 lain from that day to this 1 cannot say. If I 
 had have received it before I should have an- 
 swered it instanter. The reason of the delay 
 I hope is satisfactory. 
 
 I avow now, as I always have done, that the 
 information conveyed to you that 1 slanded the 
 memory of vour Hon. Father [Hon. James 
 Burrill] in the debate in the House of Repre- 
 sentatives, or any where else, is erroneous,— 
 wholly so, — never was any thing further from 
 the intention of my heart. His name, and re- 
 collections of him, 1 have ever revered, — and 
 there has arisen no occasion or cause for any 
 change. 1 heard that you felt offended frotn 
 
16 
 
 \he representations of others of what I said, sentation has ever been made by me wearing in 
 
 when in Hict I never said any sucli thing, and any respect the impressions made on you or 
 
 the very "rntleinan thai distorted my remarks, others. 
 
 first informed me of it, and advised me lo call Mrs. Burgeg shall have every impression re- 
 
 on you. i immedr.iielv repaired lo your house moved, or satisfied in some shape, that rests on 
 
 for the purpose of disabusing your mind from her mind. I should have called again for the 
 
 the unjust loilgment made there. You was purpose, but Mr. Burges did not ask me to, 
 
 out, and I then called on your husband, and in and I thought I would do ii through a friend. 
 
 conVersaiion with him disavowed any such in- The circusnstances that have arisen have 
 
 tenfion or design in all its phases. 1 have not given me great pain, wlien I know that the 
 
 the Itasl doubt that I can saiisCy you in a few impression made on you was erroneous or 
 
 moments by a personal representation. distorted when conveyed lo you. If 1 cannot 
 
 And if, firtiher, in the heat or vehemence of s itisfy you of that, I will adopt any other 
 
 a warm debate, any observations escaped from honorable course that will efteci it. 
 
 me. or that I was hurried into any imjjroper, 1 am under the necessity of leaving town 
 
 unjust or hasty remarks, I should feel thai it by 2 o'clock, but shall be here on Saiurday, 
 
 beionued to my own character to retract them, and if Mrs. Burges will le so good as to 
 
 as well as justice to that distinguished man, bis drop me a line at Kingston, I will attend 
 
 child or descendants. upon her, and have no doubt every impres- 
 
 Madam, let me assure you that, as a Rhode sion hostile to my course can be satislacto- 
 
 Jsland man, I have always venerated the name rily removed. 
 
 and characterof your parent, and have uniform- I wish that 1 could have received your let- 
 ly spoken of the glory he has shed upon the ter before ihis day. I hope things will re- 
 reputation of the Stale. I feel the same and main nniil I return to the city, 
 am impressed with the pride now, and have al- Wiih great respect yours, &cc., 
 ways stated the same to you in person. W. UPDIKE, 
 
 if I have done any wrong, it was uninten- Mrs. E. B. Burges. 
 tional, and I am not conscious that any repre- 
 
 NOTE D. As only a small number of our citizens have ever seen a State Security, we will 
 give a copy of those issued under the Acts of 1795 and 1797. 
 
 STATE OF RHODE-ISLAND AND PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS. 
 
 [No. 100.] GENERAL TREASURER'S OFFICE, September lOth, 1795. 
 
 I HEREBY certify, that there is due to Reuben laj/lor, of Portsmouth, or Bearer, 
 
 from the STATE OF RHODE ISLAND Sfc. one'hvndnd andfjti/ tloUars, and 
 
 forty-seven cirnts, being a Balance not provided lor by the Transfer of the funded and 
 
 deferred stock of the United States belonaing to this State, agreeably to an Act made 
 
 and passed by the General Asseinb/.i/ of this State, at their January Session, A. D. 
 
 1795, wljich Certificates, by order of the said Assembly, are to carry an Interest of Four 
 
 per Gent, per Annum, from the First Day of January, One Thousand Seven Hundred 
 
 and Ninety-five, until paid. H' Y SHERBURNE, General Treasurer. 
 
 Endorsed — " Two years' interest paid to January, 1797." 
 
 STATE OF RHODE-ISLAND AND PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS. 
 
 [No. 88 ] GENERAL TREASURER'S OFFICE, Newport, Nov. 2Si/i, 1797. 
 IN virtue of an act of the General Assembly, passed at the session held in June, 
 A. D. 1797, "for calling in the notes and securities issued by this state for services and 
 supplies during the late war with Great Britain, which have not been liquidated and 
 exchanged, and lor giving the hr)lders of them new securities." I hereby certify. 
 That there is due to Doctor Benjarnia Richmond, of Little Compton, or bearer, from 
 the State of Rhode Island, &c. One Hundred and Thirti/ Three dollars and Sevrnty- 
 thrcc cents, with interest thereon at the rate of four per cent, per annum, from the first 
 day of January, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five, until paid. 
 
 Dolh. 133,^oV ^'Y SHERBURNE, General Treasurer. 
 
 Endorsed — "Two years' interest paid to January, 1797." 
 
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