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- Strong or Sullivan? / John Park
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- 1806
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Strong or Sullivan? / John Park
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STRONG or SULLIVAN ?
Published (from the Repertory of March 28, 1806 J by Thomas C. Cushing, Salem, Massachusetts.
TJj Jb'TDjjnin thisCom-
mou- - V-, - " ?bofe private
Ytews depend on ti. . ’!.r- Sullivan
to the thief magiftracyi; • sr^-ijssib abfolutely
difregard all evidence of Bis being a very im¬
proper candidate for that high office. As no
man, however, is hardy enough to avow a
ftate of mind fo dangerous to the public weal,
it has been admitted on all fides, that if the
charges which have been made againft Mr.
Sullivan are true, be ought not tobefupported.
In the following animadverfions I fliall
(peak as an individual & in my own humble
name, merely to prevent that wretched fub-
terfuge, of which Judge Sullivan is fo prompt
to avail himfelf, that the charges againll him
are anonymous.
With all poffible deference to the difcern-
riient of the public, which cannot but perceive
that the caufe before them is ferious, and im¬
portant to alt, I trull that the explanations
4 offered by Mr. S. will receive the attention
they merit, and that the evidence in fupport
of the accufations will be confidered with an
honed difpofition to afcertaln the truth. Sure¬
ly no upright man, no real friend to good
government Sc the happinefs of the State, can,
either for himfelf or his family, with the reins
of civil power committed to any individual
without virtue Sc without character. Is Judge
Sullivan that man ? — Let us proceed to the
final trial. - 1 fliall take the few cafes which
the Judge has felefted for reply, in the order
he has chofen. Let it however be remem¬
bered, there were other charges, no lefs im¬
portant, againll which he has-offered no vin¬
dication. It is natural to fuppoie they were
not the eaflefl to encounter, or they would
not have been paffed over in lilence.
From the Chronic l r of March 24 7b,
NOTICE OF THE REPERTORY SLANDERS.
СУТке
Cafe of Morris and Ogden.
Judge Sullivan, Judge Sewall and judge Wells,
were appointed about 17 years ago, agents for the
ftate, to fell two millions of acres, lying in the ftate
of New- York.— They fold- the land to Robert' Mor¬
ris. of Philadelphia, and a Mr. Ogden, of New Jer¬
sey. — The late Thomas Ruflell, Efq. aftifted his
drierid, Mr. Morris, in the purchafe. Mr. Sullivan'
charged the government the fame as the other a-
grnis did. He did not aft in the office qf Attorney-
General ; felling land is not any part of his-duty
in that office. If he made a draft of the contracts
and conveyances, he was probably paid for it by
the purchasers ; they never were difiatiificd with his
charges or conduft. He does not now rccolleft
whether he drew the papers or not.
Were Judge Sullivan to bring me to a
court of Juftice, I would prove by the oath
of a gentleman of this town high in refpeft-
ability, that the ftatement in the Repertory,
xefpefting this buflaefs was corre<51. As it is,
it is fortunate for me, and unaccountable in
the acCufed, that he has furni&ed all the evi¬
dence the cafe requires.
Mr. Sullivan afted, by his own concelfion,
as agent for the Commonwealth, and charged
the-government the fame as the other agents.
He does not, he durft not, deny his receiving
60 dollars of Mr. Ogden. If he was acting
for and paid by government, whether as^Att.
General or as Agent, to receive a fee (for no
Rian will pretend that 60 dollars was the price
for drawing a deed) from the perfon to whom
the conveyance was-to be made, was prefidy
t'o his employers, the Commonwealth. It car¬
ries bribery on the very face of it, allowing
the Judge’s reprefentayon,yi far as he recolleCls,
to he correct. —
CfrTbe Cafe of Patrick Conner.
Conner is impofed upon. He is a man quite de¬
bilitated by age and the manner of hit living. In
the yean 794, twelve years ago,Mioturn & Champlin,
of Rhode-llland, employed Mr. Sullivan to com¬
mence a iuit againll Jonas Wilder, for a large debt,
and gave orders to hold him to bail ; he lodged at
Conner’s who then did, -s he now does, keep a ta¬
vern in ltofton ; and Conner became his bail- Oc.
tober 1795, judgment was recovered againft Wilder
for 2718 dollars 7 j Cents. He abfconded. Conner
was fued as bail, was defaulted in June, 1797. and
judgment rendered for the debt and intereft. The
coft taxed in the firftduit, 30 dais. 67 cents ; on the
fcirc facias. 65 dollars 66 cents. On Mr. Sullivan's
tequeft, M inturn Sc Champlin agreed that on Con¬
ner’s paying the coft, then 96 dollars 33 cents, the
execution might be difeharged, if he could obtain an
endorler for his note for the debt-for ninety days.
Me did nor obtain an endorler until the 20th of Nor.
1797. and was then dilcharged-f If he had been
allowed by thecreditor’s attorney, in Oftober, 1797,
to go out of the prifon yard, the bonds would have
been rendered void. If the creditor's attorney
would have done it for 100 dollars, he would have
been a fool, and the debtor a greater fool not to
' have paid it. Chronicle of March 24 tb.
“ Conner is impofed upon.” That Judge
Sullivan fliould infult the good old man,
whom he once fo crtfeiiy treated, ffiffll remit
it is to be hoped, rather from the exafperat-
ed date of his mind than malice of heart _
How is Conner impofed upon ? His narra¬
tive is only revived — the ftory of this gentle¬
man’s misfortunes and the oppreffion he ex¬
perienced were familiar to the town at the
1f|^e, and have never been forgotten. I
learnt it of many, the laft year ; I went this
year, to Mr. Conner for confirmation. My
application awoke the flrong fenfe of pater¬
nal affeftion ; he had loll a lovely child and
was torn from her in the laft moments. Yet
faid the good man, as his agitation fubfided,
“ l forgive James Sullivan, I wifh no man
* it mutt be remarked that thele explanations art
Judge Sullivan’s* though lie is (poked of. irf the
third peifoh- They immediately follow the piece,
figned with his name, and certainly no perfon but
the Judge couid tell what he RECOLLECTS and
what he docs not. Ed. Ref
+ Since the above was publifhed, Mr. Sullivan,
probably finding this ftatement very infuffleient,
conics forward again in the Chronicle of yefferday
(March 27th) with a column and a half on the fame
jubjeft. It is altogether unfupported, and much of
it (life. To weaken the force of Mr. Conner’s
ftatement,' he fays, “he is an infirm man, unable to
go from his chamber.”' To (how how very loofe
indeed are this gentleman's alfertions, I beg leave to
add the following certificate.
Bcjlon, March 17, 1806. I certify that my fa¬
rther was below, in his parlour, when the late depo¬
sition was applied for and taken, and that he is not
confined to liis chamber.
RICARD C. CONNER.
Mr. Sullivan wantonly brings in the name of
Benjamin Whitman, Efq. feemingly for the mere
purpofe of abufing hint- l am authorifed by Mr.
Whitman to ftate .hat what Mr. S. Tays concerning
his agency in applying for the Depolition IS FALSE
and'l declare it; to be fo. Thus it is Judge Sulli¬
van defends himfelf— Pul he will hear more of this
hoieaticr.
any harm.” He then related the cireum-
llances publifhed in the Repertory, and ma¬
ny others, which I fuppreffed at that time,
to avoid any appearance of an addrefs to the
paflions.
Mr. Sullivan, whole veracity I will place
in its proper point of view in the next charge,
gives an unfupported account of Minturn.
and Champlin’s letter. As a man of bufl-
nefs, he undoubtedly has the letter on file.— -
Why was it not produced. The ipfe dixit of
party, and of a party fo infallible as Judge
Sullivan will foon appear, cannot counter¬
balance a folemn Depolition. Captain Con¬
ner having for many years kept a public
houfe, in Bofton, is much known in town and
country His probity and truth have never
been queftioned. To fubftantiate the pub¬
lication in the Repertory, and fecure myfelf
from future difficulty, I applied formally to
two Juftices of the Peace, notified Mr. Sulli¬
van of my intentions, and. obtained Mr. Con¬
ner’s depolition, which follows
1 Patrick Conner of Bofton in the county of Suf¬
folk, Gentleman, of lawful age, teftify and fay that
fometime in the year one Ihoufxnd feven hundred
and ninety (even. I became refponfible, in what
form l do not particularly recollect, to Minturn and
Champlin of New- York, for the debt of one Jonas
Wilder jun.to the amount of three thoufand dollars ;
James Sullivan Efq- Attorney General of this Com¬
monwealth, applied to me for the payment of this
debt, as Attorney to the Creditors ; not being able
to pay it, I applied to one of the creditors, at Provi¬
dence, I think Minturn for delay ef payment; and
he confented to allow me the term of ninety days ;
end that 1 might tell Mr- Sullivan fo. Upon my
obferving that my telling him fo would not be fuffi*.
cient he gave me a written paper direfted to him ;
it was lead to me, but I do not rccolleft the exaft
words of it— the purport however was to allow me
the ninety days credit, as it was read to me. I re¬
turned to Bofton and prefented this paper to Mr.
Sullivan ; upon which he obferved that it faid
fomething and meant nothing— but that one hun¬
dred dollars might be of fome fervica _ I then re¬
plied that 1 had not got a hundred dollars ; that the
thing was plain before him, and if I could not be
indulged, 1 mult go to prifon. This was on a Sa¬
turday, and I was taken on Monday, and committed
to prifon ; on the Saturday, I mentioned to Mr.
Sullivan that my daughter was very ill, and 1 did
not expeft (he would live but a flxort time ; and on
the Wednefday following my daughter died : After
her death 1 law Mr. Sullivan in the ftreet near the
prifon, and wilhed him to give me liberty to attend
my daughter’s funeral ; he faid no; for an hundred
dollars you might have been.
P. CONNER.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
Su fxolx IT. Town of Bofton. This Twenty fe-
cond day of March in the year of our Lord one
thoufand eight hundred and fix, perfonally appeared
before the fubferibers two juftices of the peace in and
for the county of Suffolk, juorom units, the aforeiaid
deponent, Eatrick Conner, and after being carefully
examined and duly cautioned to teftify the whole
truth and nothing but the truth, made oath that the
foregoing Depolition, by him fubferibed is true; tak¬
en at the reqult of John Park, Editor of a certain
Newlpaper printed in Bofton atorefaid called the
Repertory, and publilher of a certain writing or par¬
agraph in faid paper of the eighteenth inftant, to be
preferved in perpetual remembrance . of the thing- -
And we duly notified all perfons living within
twenty miles of this place of caption, we knew to be
interefted, in the writing or paragraph to which the
faid Depolition relates and efpectally, Janies Sulli¬
van Efq. Attorney General offaid Commonwealth ;
but he did not attend-
WM. WETMORE, ) Juftices of the Peace
JOHN PHILLIPS, J and Quorum.
What cafe Mr. S. fay to this I He fays Mr.
Conner is impofed upon !— that he is old and
infirm ! Mr. C. was neither old nor infirm
when the circum (lances- happened; the facts
and the relation, to which he has now atteft-
ed, were then notorious in Bofton ; and pro¬
bably hundreds of people, now living, well
remember, that when the funeral proceffion
paffed up Court-flreet, it halted within the
limits of the prifon liberties, and the coffin was
opened, that parental fondnefs might enjoy
its laft indulgence— that when crowds were
lheddtng tears at the interefting and diftreff-
ing fpe&acle, the ftory was brief, That the int-
prifonrssent of Mr. Conner vsas optional with Mr.
Sullivan ; and the popular indignation then ex-
preffed, muft non» be frejb in the memories of hun¬
dreds.
But fays Mr. S. Mr. Conner is old and in¬
firm— his depofition is nothing— let me tell the
Jlory, aud I nuill fet the public right. - -If foci-
ety is thus to be duped, then indeed has the
mod folemn teftimony loft all its force. Mr.
Conner faid, before the Juftices and under
oath (I appeal to them) that he heard no¬
thing of a new note being the condition of de¬
lay of payment. It is incumbent on Mr. S.
to invalidate this declaration, hot by his dif.
fufe, endlefs affertions, but by plain teftimo¬
ny. Where is Minturn’s letter ?
— With teriliu hundred dulls. Isfr.flui-
livan’s explanation is not without plaufibility.
Admit, however, Mr. Sullivan’s own account,
that the payment of the coils was proper be¬
fore Mr. C. could be releafed, and that that
was the fum he required of Mr. C. What
man, particularly a man of -vffluence, could,
for the fake of 96 dollars, drag a man from a I j^V^nfi^hareed 300 doilarV. The
dying child, when the demand would have :|jud geof .Probate aff0WJ aoo. To prove
been good agamft Mr. C. at any other tune j ^ of this j in refer t0 the SCC0UIlt
Th tsnhuman.ty, which this ftory was quoted rer)dered and allowed at the Probate Office,
to tlluftrate, remains as glanng as ever. It ^ Tol. I0J, p. 493_as follows
°Л'°
Qe ,ralC ’ l°T t, ’ I The account of
ТЬепЛег
Dorr, Adminiftrator on
that Mr. Sullivan took all poffible means to theelUteof
ЕИа5
Norbtrry, late of Bofton, mariner,
deprive me of my teftimony, by menacing deceafed, inteftatc.
the Juftices, prete fling againft their afting, i Said Adminiftrator charges himfelf
and addreffing a long and pathetic appeal to '"I*1}1* balfnc® former aatountagree-
, . JP
„у и „
e r — ably to the decree of the Supreme Ju-
their compaffion. They could not refufe me, dicial Court of Probate, .zth Match, D. C.
tho’ fo fcrupuloue were they, that in Mr. C’s ig©$ ........ ... 882-4 iz
depofition they fuppreiled every circum ftance And prays allowance, as follows
that was of ah aggravating nature, obferv- ‘
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to caufe the money to be paid into the Treafury.—
Nearly nine thoufand dollars were decreed by the
Supreme Judicial .Court to be paid by Mr. Dorr. —
(This decree was made» after many arguments, in the
Supreme and Probate Courts. Mr. Dexter, Mr.
Dorr’s Counfel charged 300 dollars. The Judge of
Probate allowed 200. Mi. Sullivan charged zoo,
by confent of the Conful’s Agent. The money
jvas paid to the Treafury, with a eledudiion of thefe
fit ms (fated. The whole was confidered in the laft
feflion, on another petition of that conful, and the
balance» dedu&ing thofe fumsi ordered to be paid to
the next heir to the deceafed, when he fliall appear,
ond the judges are to decide on the proof of his rela-
tionlhip. The bufiriefs was no part of the Attorney
Ceneral's duty ; nor has the State any inteteft in the
property. Heirs will ito doubt appear. —Thefe pro?
ceedings were in the Circuit Court.*
I fliall now proceed to unfold a tale, which
will confound the mod violent partifan in the
ranks of Mr. Sullivan’s friends, and fliall fub¬
ftantiate every pofition by documents on re¬
cord. Mr. S. fays, “ The 'bufinefs was no
part of the Attorney General’s duty.” The
following is extracted from the Probate Re¬
cords for this county, book 99, p. 387.
г&овАТв
Ri c qri>s'*foji
тик
County ok Sur-
folk, Lib 99, 387.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
In the Houfe of Reprefentatrvesy June 13, i8ot.
Whereas it hath been reprefented to the General
Court, that Elias Norbery, other wife called Elias
Newbury, formerly of Sweden, and a naturalized
citizen of the United States of America is now dead
inteftate, that adminiftratien of his goods and efie&Si
rights and credits hath been duly committed by the
Judge of Probate for the county of Suffolk, to Eben*
ezer Dorr, of Bollon, in the famecounty, merchant —
That there is in the hands of the faid Adminiftrator
a Urge fum of money, the eftate of the faid intef-
late, to which no perfon has yet entitled himfelf as
next of kin to the faid inteftate. and that the fame
money in the cafe of defeat of heirs of faid inteftate
doth and will belong to the Commonwealth.
Therefore Refo/vedt that the ATTORNEY SEN-
ERAL OF SAID COMMONWEALTH, be and
heieby is authorifed & direfted to take all due mea-
fuces to obtain a decree of the faid Probate Court, that
the fame money be paid to the Treafuretand Receiver
General of the Commonwealth, in order that the
lame may be retained by faid Treafurer and Receiv¬
er General to and for the ufe offaid Commonwealth,
until fomo petfon or perfons (hall be entitled to re¬
ceive the fame as next of kin of the faid inteftate, or
in fome other legal way and manner. And alfo that
faii At to&nky Giniral caufe fuch decree when
obtained to be carried into effeft.
And it is further refolved that' the Secretary
caufe the Attorney General to be furnifhed with an
attefted copy of this refolution.
Sent up for concurrence,
EDWARD H. ROBBINS, Speaker.
In Senate June 13, x8«i .
Read and concurred,
DAVID COBB, Speaker.
June IC# 18*1* Approved,
CALEB STRONG.
In the 103d vol. 493d page of the fame re¬
cords is Judgev Sullivan’s account, rendered
■ as Attorney General, and his receipt figned
James Sullivan, Attorney General.
Now if Mr. S. adted as Attorney General
in this cafe, he had no right to make a charge
too dollars. Bat fays Mr. S. tho’ I
was~Attorncy General, this <was m pswt ofmy
duly as fueh. Thus Mr. S. paves the way for
a full difdoiure of his iniquity. His vindi¬
cation has prompted me to an inveftigation,
which has difeovered
л саше
that I did not
before fufpeft.
This money, every perfon mnft fee, was
the property of the Swede’s heirs, or of the
State. There was no perfon who could aft
for the heirs, indeed no heirs are known to
exift. How then did Mr. Sullivan dare to
touch the property, without the authority of
Government ? This leads to a circumftance
blacker still. Mr. Sullivan was fo well
convinced that be ought to have a refolve of
the Legislature to fanftion his taking the mo¬
ney, that he virtually forged authority, in or¬
der to get it out of Mr. Dorr’s hands, by giv¬
ing the following receipt : .
Aug. • 1805. Received of Ebenezer Dorr, two
hundred dollars on the aforegoing decree and in
virtui or
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KllOLVI
0»
th* Giniial
Court. jas. Sullivan, Att. General.
This document may be feen in the Probate
Records, book 103, p. 493.
When the Attorney General is direfted by
Government to perform fervices not being a
part of his duty as Attorney General, he ap¬
plies to the Legffiature for a Refolve, au¬
thorizing payment. But no fuch Refolve, at
Mr. Sullivan here quoted, in order to impofe
on the Judge of Probate, was ever paffed be¬
fore or fince the date of his receipt. This cii-
cumftance alone would blaji any man's reputa¬
tion forever— an Attorney General avowedly
claiming money by virtu, of a refolve of the
General Court that never exifted 111
Mr. Sullivan favs. tho State has no intereft in
the property. The Keiolve of the (Jr. Court,
quoted above, fays exprefsly that “ this money
in cafe of defeft of heirs of faid in teftate, doth
and swill belong to the Commonwealth.”. —
Such is the man, who alks credit for his long
ftory about Mr. Conner ! ! -! •
Mr. Sullivan fays “ Mr. Dexter, Mr,
ing, ‘than they ihould take only the eifeaiial
points. —
I come now to the cafe of Newbury, or
Neuburger, in which I Hated, in the Reper¬
tory of March 18th, that Mr. S. aftingas
Attorney-General, received zoo dollars. This
charge brought from the Judge the following
explanation-:
CCjT T he Caje of Neuburger.
Elias Wcuberger, a Swede, died in this conntiy or
at fea in an American vcftel. Ebenezer Dorr, Efq.
took adminiftration on bis eftate. Six years ago, the
-Conful of Sweden petitioned the governmeut fcii its
authority to obtain the, money, which Mr. Dorr was
ready to pay when it Ihould be demanded by any per¬
fon authorifed to receive it, in fuch a manner as to
exonerate him. The General Court di redied a. pro-
cefs in the name of the Commonwealth* which was
ioiendcd for the benefi t of the heirs of the deceafed,
Allowed the Adminiftrator for fer¬
vices and expences on the appeal by
confent of Attorney-General - - -
Paid Probate fees ------
Cafh paid J antes Sullivan. Attorney-
General of the Commonwealth, on -
account of balance contra - - - *
20a
1 1
Balance in the hands of Adminif¬
trator to be paid the Treafurer of the
Commonwealth -------
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Bofton, Oft. 18, 1803.
8824 ta
EBENEZER DORR.
* This aftertion was undoubtedly made to make
j it plaulible that he did not adt as Attorney General.
I Finding however that it was too barefaced not to be
difeovered, it was *• correfted” in the next Chroni¬
cle.
Suvvolk, IT. At a Probate Court held at Kcf-
ton.on Monday, Odt. 28, 180;, Ebenezer Dorr, Ad¬
miniftrator, prefented this account, produced
vouchers, and was fworn, examined and allowed.
THOMAS DAWES. jun. Judge Probate.
In Mr. Sullivan’s receipt, be pretended to-
receive his two hundred dollars by virtue of
a (fiftitious) Refolve of the General Court—
In his vindication in tbe Chronicle of March
24th he fays he charged his zoo dollars by
confent of the Swedifh Conful’s Agent I
Shame ! fliame, where is thy blufh ! How s
moi infidious and cunning man becomes be¬
wildered, when he drays from the paths of ho-
oefty.
I have thus proved according to my pro-
raifc, by publick Records, open tq the Infpec-
tion of every man, that Mr. Sullivan has ut¬
tered falfehood upon falfebood, that be hat
obtained money fraudulently; and officially
claimed the authority of government, where
he had it nor.
I fliall finifls thefe remarks with confirma¬
tion of the laft, and . by no means tbe lead fe¬
rious charge — that (CP MR. SULL-IVAN
POCKETS PUBLIC MONIES RECEIV-
ED BY HIM FOR THE COMMON¬
WEALTH. If this has been bis praftice,
can any man in confcience vote for him to be
our Governor l Let us fir ft attend to the de¬
fence in Monday’s Chronicle :
63" THE PUBLIC MONIES.
On the aiit of January, 180a. the Attorney-Gen¬
eral fettled his accounts with tbe General Court ; a
balance of 173 dols. 4 cts. was in bit bands. The
General Court ordered the treafurer to pay him 1 50
dollars more, to carry on civil fuits, which he is rea¬
dy to account for.
This explanation, when duly examined,
affords another inftance of Judge Sullivan’s
adroitnefs in impofture. The Refolve to
which he refers the public is as follows :
RESOLVE No. LVII; January 180a.
Whereas by i Refolve palled on the 26th of June*
1798, the fum of ninety -feven dollars and twelve
cents, and a further fum of thrse hundred dollars,
was advanced from the public treafury. to the At¬
torney-General, to be expended for the fervice of the
Government, in iuits on its behalf ; and whereas the
faid Attorney-Ceneral has accounted for the fame,
and there is now due to him a balance ot 1.73 dolls.
81 cents for expences of civil fuits, in hehait of the
Commonwealth, and a fur titer fum may be necell’a-
ry to enable hint to defray iimilar expences — There¬
fore
Refolved, that the fum of 173 dollars 81 cents be
paid him out of the public treafury to balance his ac¬
count, and that a further fum of 150 dollars be ad¬
vanced him to defray fimiiar expenfes on behalf of
theCommohwealtht 'he to render an account of the
fame when required.
The evident intention of Judge Sullivan
in this reference is to impofe on the unin¬
formed a belief that, at this time, he had fet¬
tled all his accounts with the Common¬
wealth. They muft however be very igno¬
rant who do not fee, that this was a partial
fettlement, limited to certain objefts. That
be had merely accounted for firms granted
Imadior-fpecific- purpofes. They muft. be ig¬
norant indeed who do not know that there
are many and various channels, through which
monies belonging to the Commonwealth Sow
into the attorney general’s hands, tefides
his grants from the Legiflature. When he
levies Executions in behalf of the Common¬
wealth, and receipts for tbe money, where
does he account for it ?— But as my evidences
in thele cafes are but private letters, I pro¬
ceed to another of a clafs fubftantiated by
public records. And now I invite the atten¬
tion of the eleftors of Maffachufetts.
Firft of the attorney general’s duty, as de-
fignated by law.
In an aft, paffed Feb. 14, 1790, “ mak¬
ing compenfation
со
the attorney general of
this Commonwealth, for his fervice:,” the
laft enafting claufe provides as follows.
*• That in all bills of colts, in criminal pfofecu-
tions, before the Supreme judicial Court in' thie
Commonwealth, the fum ot fifteen fbitlinzs, (hall
be taxed for the fees of the Attorney- General,
without any allowance of travel; and all fees
thus received by the faid Attorney-Ceneral,
SHALL BE ACCONNTED FOR BY HIM AN¬
NUALLY, WITH THE TREASURER OF THIS'
COMMONWEALTH.
This law (hews that it is Mr. Sullivan’s
duty to do, when he receives fees in criminal
profecutione. The grand queftions are, does
he ever receive the fees in thefe qafes— and—
does he account for them at the Tteafurcr’s
office.
REFERENCE TO DOCUMENTS.
In the counties of Suffolk and Effex, Mr.
Sullivan lias been cautious. For his manage¬
ment in diftaot counties, take Hatnfhire for
ait example. — tu tue Ticaruict'a buuku In il.,» — -
county, it will appear that the following feet
were made up by the Attorney General on
Indiftments in tbe Supreme Judicial Court
for that county. April term 1795, 15 dol¬
lars. September term 1795, 7.50. April
term 1796, 22 50 April term 1797, 22 dol¬
lars. September term 1 797, 7.50 .April
term
т
798, 20 dollars. April term 1799,
9.75. September term 1799,625. April
term 1800, 17.30. Mayvterm 1801, 12 30.
September term 1801, 16.25. September
term 1802, 2.50. May term 1803, 8.75.
September term 1803, 7 50. April terra
1804, 15 dollars. September term 1804,
6.25. September term 1805, 26.25.
For thefe funis the Treafurer of that County
has Mr. Sullivan’s receipts. 1 have applied at
the office of the Treafurer of this Common¬
wealth, to know whether Mr. Sullivan ac¬
counts for thefe monies, and whether they
wete dedufted opt of his falary, and am au¬
thorized to fay that no accounts of fees have
been rendered by Mr. Sullivan, nor has there
been any deduftion made in his falary, fince
Mr. Jackfon has been ‘Treafurer ! ! •‘Now let-
Mr. Sullivan wince, and explain in volumes— <
thefe are proofs which coovift him beyond
all poflibility of evafion. Any man who
doubts can fatisfy himfelf, and where this em¬
bezzlement ends, I know not.
Let the public decide whether I have not
fupported ,my chargee ; and if fatisfaftorily
fupport ed, can’ any citizen of Maffachufetts
confent to difgrace his State with fuch a
1 Governor !
I JOHN PARK.