Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1824-08-20

And for this change of your opinion, the only |
reason you assign is, his having ''mentioned
tn L he expected attack an the Senate, AS Now
SUPPOSE, from he friends ofVur. Cra,cford."-
Aul yet, in replying to a question by myself on
a SUBSEQUENT day, you admit that in that very
conversation, III rem trhed to you thd tie
friends Of Mr.. Cru,ofori ,couid oppose me.N-
Can yuu then say, you had not rs much reason,
az tt,t tine, as you no,o have, To Suppose cx
pectel opposition '..fi'on, tie friends Of M.
C,w.oford'"
So far, however, from drcaiing that OPPOSITE
on, you would now insinuate, you know very
well that the reason assigned for being willing
to accommodate you with the room occupied,
and to take another one III Mrs. Queens house,
only two days before the day which yJu seem
disposed to insist on the date Of the alleged
conversation was, that | expected, in consc-
qucncc of my nomination, to remain but >, short
time in the city. Upoa this subject, however,
shall have more to say hereafter.
In the cursory notice which I now propose
to take of that part of yonr oath which was sup
pressed by the committee, and your authorized
statements which have subsequently appeared
i'm the Washington Gazette, will not dwell
upon the strong inprobal;lity that, at time
when my friends had Just afforded me the
strongest proofs of their disposition to serve me,
and when their continued support must have
born the more necessary to me, in consequence
of the opposition which you represent me to have
dreaded, should have had the folly to have
jeopardized my standing with them, by migrate
fully abusing and bctraying them TO one OF their
political opponents, Il warm caucus partizan,
who had acknowledged to me his decided pre-
ference of another gentleman, as Minister TO
Mexico, and who had no - previous consulta-
ton with me" on the subject of my nomination..
But knowing, you did, the relation in which
stood to the President, Mr.. Calhoun, &c.
would ask how you could, under such circum-
stances, have considered ne, as you YOU
did, Z" as spe.iting an honest rcandid1 nlt,,7n
As to the base insnuations which YOU repre-
sent ric to have made against the President, it is
worthy of remark, that the agitation at those
SANDERS against that venerable and distinguished
patriot, had not occurred till alter left the cit,
of Washington in March last; and in this, rs in
several other cases, you have made me assume
facts which you yourself had tho best opportuui-
ty of knowing at the time had no founaat ION in
truth. Colonel Lane never was, To my know
ledge, &c n member Of the Presidents tta,iiy,n
unless he could be considered as such whlc he
lay on his death-bed, Il situation very unsuitable
for those free disclosures which Won iusinuate
Until then, he had, according 20 my presont re-
collection, boarded either at Davis Hotel. Mrs.
PcytoH's or MIR. Gantt's. G0u were a rnemberof
Congress sorte years before was: and if you
were even ignorant of fiIcSe facts you had vi.i-
ted at the Presidents too often not TO have
known that Col. Lane WAS not . a member OF
his EAaHy.n But be this as il NAV, | have no
hesitation i'll saying, that the first information
ever received in relation to the transactions al
luded to- was from the President himself who
sent for me, rs the friend and brothcr-in-aw of
Col. Lane, during tue last illness of the latter
to assist III setting the accounts between tic,i
and that, SO far as | was informed by either of
them, the Presidents conduct was scrupuio,lsly
honest, correct and honorable.
You have sworn that &C told Won knew, for
year, that was 10 get the appointment to
Mexico" will barely remark that if, as you
suppose, my attention had been so long dlrec iea
to this appointment, 1t is hardly probable 1
should have forgot that, within the period Inen-
toned, it had been in the hands of another rcn-
tienan-that, in fact, General JacSson,s uorni-
nation to that Office had been confirmed by the
Senate of the United States on the eth of Jami-
AIRY, lSS3-ttiat OF the adjournment of the last
Congress. the Sd of March last, it was gcn-
crafty believed, and particularly BY the admins
tratICn, that he would accept and that the
contrary not known even at Washington,
until the Aprii following.
With equal. but certainly no greater cor
rcctness, yOu also state that told you IL rcyer
&c had any fear of not being nominated exceDt
g COR short time, whilst penn.y lvania appeared
6 disposed 20 support Calhoun for the Presiien-
''cy, then had some approximations of Dallas
" success ; but the moment that State gave
Sup Calhoun, then lii no longer any fears.
I" as Dallas, knew, would soon De out OF the
"question.'
This statement Won have made on several o.
.thcr occasions, and to different individuals
Could you have believed it Yourself: And did
you, really consider me, i'll making these dcc!a-
rations, &C as speaking as an honest man, Let
us attend n little to the respective dates of the
events alluded 10. PENNSYLVANIA never gave IN.
Mr. Calhoun" until her delegates met in con
l"cn!ion at Harrisburg, or the 4tlIof March last
day a trr my
the Senate, and tl'e very day which IT wa,
confirmed. But suppo5iiig the alIusion to have
been to Mr.. Dallas having given up Mr. Cal
boun,-tlIat event took place in PhaAclnliia.
on the 18th of February, the very ,lay on which
l was nominated, and was not known at w ash
ington till the third day afterwards 1t is no
part ofmy present object 10 make any comment
upon these facts. Indeed, none appear to be
necessary.
If, sir Won have not been volunteer in q
plot intended To ruin my reputation forever. whv
did you, after having rJt as far as Frederick
town, on Your journey home, return, without
being summoned, to give testimony against me.
winch, If true, involved a most Harrani breach,
of private confidence ? and if otherwise. yyas
StI!i less excusablc And how can Won rc
conci'e such conduct with tue professions of
friendship towards me, which you made 10 Ger.
tain gentlemen, even after my late return TO the
city:
NINlAN EDWARDS.
July 10, 1924.
Editors Of Newspapers who have published
MIR. Mobiles testimony, will DO an act of Justice
and much oblige me, by publishing the above
n. EDWARDS.