Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1824-09-14

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cumstances, TO show that you must I'M
questionably have been mistaken in the
testimony which you have given, trust
the situation in which you have placed
me, gives me fair claim upon your can.
dor to confess or deny that fact. Truth
is fearless--evasion would be suspicious
and refusal to answer cannot fail to be
Interpreted TO your disadvantage, by a
discerning public.
Upon being asked by Mr.. Cook,
whether you understood my conversa-
ton as intended to affect your vote on the
then pending nomination! you reply" !
did nor suhhose that zvas us design, nor
had il any such effect uhon myself"
But upon being asked by Mr.. Forsyth,
on the part of Mr. Crawford, "what do
you now understand as having been the
effect intended to have been produced by
the conversation availing yourself of a
most feIiciious atler-though,, you say, +"
consider him as having expected that |
would take this information which he
gave me in,o that body, (the senate, and
cor formation of his nomination"
And for this change OF your opinion,
the only reason you assign is, bis having
" mentioned that he erhected an attack il,
the Senate, AS | NOW SUPPOSE, from fhe
friends Of Mr.. Crawford And yet,
IN replying to question by myself on a
subsequent day, you admit that 10 that
very conversation, .t I remarked 10 vou
that the friends Of Mr. Crawford you'd
ohhose me-" Can you moi the say, you
had S much reason, atthat time, as YOU
nov have, 10 snthose expected opposi-
ton !" from the friends Of Mr.. Crawford.
So far, however, from dreading that
as you would now insinuate,
you know very we'll that the reason
| assigned for being willing to accom-
and 10 take another one in Mrs. Queens
house, only two days before the day
which you seem disposed 10 insist on as
The date of the alleged conversation was,
that | expected, in consequence Of my
domination, 10 remain but short time
IN the city. Upon this subject, however,
shall have mere 10 say hereafter.
In the cursory notice which | now
propose to take of that part Of your oath
which was suppressed by the commi,tee
and your authorized statements which
ave subsequently appeared in the
Gazette, | viii! not dwell
lpon the strong improbability that, at a
inc when my friends had Just afforded
ne the strongest proofs Of their dispos-
ion to serve the, and when their conrnu-
ID support must have been the more ne
'essary to me, in consequence Of the OPP
position which you represent me to have
dreaded, should have had the folly to
ave jeopardlzed my standing with them,
" ungratefuliy abusing and betrayine
hem to one Of their political opponents,
! warm caucus par,izan, who bad ac-
snow lodged to me his decided prefer
nee Of another gentleman, as Minister
o Mexico, and who had had no" previ-
Jus consultation with ne" on the subject
If my nomiDation.-Bu knowing. as
,ou did, the relation in viii ch stood to
he President, MIR. Calhoun, &c. would
lsk how You could, under such circum-
tances, have considered me, as you say
'ou did, " as sheaking as an honest can.
lid man 90
As TO the base insinua,ions which you
'epresent me 10 have made against the
President, it is worthy Of remark, that
he agitation OF those ISLANDERS against
hat venerable and distinguished patriot,
rad not occurred till after left the city
,f Washington in March las and in
his, as in several other cases, yol have
made me assume facts which you your
,elf had the best opportunity of knowing
II the time, had no foundation in truth.
Colonel Lane never was, to my know.
edge, "a member ofthe Presidents ia
mily," unless he could be considered as
such while he lay on his death-bed, a 81
ualon very unsuitable for those free dis
closures which you insinuate. Untiith
ne had, according to my present recol-
lection, boarded either at Davis Hotel,
Mrs. Peyton's or MIR. GRANTS. You
we're member Of Congress some years
before I was; and if you were even ig-
norant OF these facts, you had visited at
The President s too oftennot to have known
that Col. Lane was not 6 a member ofhis
family" But be this as it may, have
no hesitation in saying, that the first in
lever received in relationto the
alludedto, was from the Pre-
sideht himself, who sent for me, as the
friend and brother law OF Col. Lane,
during the las, illness OF the latter, to as
sist in settling the accounts between