The Journal did also ask him the question, whether he intended to make
_one Joel Lee, clerk of this county?_ To which the book, replies that
he never promised any office to any man whatever. It is perhaps
necessary, in justice to the Editor of the Journal, to introduce the
following certificate, and leave this part of the subject without
farther comment.

"I hereby certify, that shortly after the appointment of Wm.
Stillwell, as a clerk, of this county, I was in the city of
Albany, and conversed with Mr. Young on the subject of that
appointment, in which conversation I expressed my surprise at
his appointment, to which Mr. Young replied, it was not his
fault, that there was a petition for him from some of the
most respectable men in the county, and it would not do for
him to oppose it, but that his mind was the strongest on
_Joel Lee_ for that office.--ELI BEARDSLEE. _Milton, March
1816_."

Among others to whom Lee admitted he had been promised of _offered_ the
Clerk's office by Young, is Mr. Nicholas Smith, but it is thought
unnecessary to multiply certificates on this head.

The writer of that pamphlet also displays his characteristic ignorance,
or stupid disregard to truth, when he says that the Journal ever
charged Young with receiving pay in three capacities, during the _extra
session_ of 1815. It never made the charge as it respected _that_, or
any other _year_;--but it so happens that during the _extra, session_
of 1814, Mr. Young did receive $5 per day, which was the pay for a
member of the house, and $2.25 per day, which was the _extra allowance_
on account of his being speaker. See New Revised Laws, Vol. I. p. 528,