Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1826-08-04

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subsequent day, you admit that in that
very conversation, - I remarked to you
that The friends of.,fr. Crawford wOnid
ohtoSe me" Can you not then say you
had as much reason, at that time, as you
norv have, to Sukhoae expected opposi-
ton from the Jritnds Of Mr.. Cray'
ford"
So far, however, from dreading that
opposition, as you would now insinuate,
you know very well that the reason as
signed tor being willing to acoommo-
date you with the room | occupied, and
to take another in Mrs. Queens house,
only TWO days before the day which you
seem disposed to insist on as the date
of the alleged conversation was, that
expected, IN consequence OF my nomina-
lion, to remain but short time in the cl-
ty. Upon this subject, however, shall
have more to say hereafter.
In the cursory notice which | now
propose to take of that part of your oath
which was suppressed by the committee,
and your authorized statements which
have subsequently appeared in the
Washington Gazette, l will not dwell
upon the strong improbability that, at
time when my friends had just afforded
me the ltrL sgsst proofs of their DISPOSE
ton to serve me, and when their con-
tinued support must have been the more
nee essary 10 me, in consequence of the
opposition which you represent me to
have dreaded, should have had the fol-
ly to have Jtopardized my standing with
them, by ungralelu'ly abusing and be-
traying them to one oil their political OPP
ponents, awarm caucus partizan, who
had acknoy pledged to me his decided
preference of another gentleman, as Mi
mister to Mexico, and who had no "pre
vious consultation with me" on the SUBJ
ject of my nomination But knowing,
as you did, the relation in which | stood
10 the Presidenl, Mr.. Calhoun, &c.
would ask how you could, under such
circumstances, have considered me, as
you say you did, "as sheaklng as an
honest candid man 90
AS 10 the base Jnsinualions which you
represent me 10 have made against the
President, it is worthy OF remark, that
the agitation of those ISLANDERS against
that venerable aid distinguished patriot,
had not occurred till after left the city
of Washington in March last; and in
this, as in several other cases, you have
made me assume facts which you your
self had the best opportunity of knowing
at the time, had no foundation in truth.
Colonel Lane never was, to my know
ledge. a member ofshe Presidents ia
mily," unless he could be considered as
such while he lay on his death bed, ST.
iuation very unsuitable tor those free
disc closures which you insinuate. Until
then, he had, according TO my present
reCollectIon. boarded either at DAVIS Ho
tel, Mrs. Peyton's or Mr. Grants. You
were member of Congress some years
before | was; and if you were even ig-
noraut OF these facts, you had visited at
he Presidents too often not to have
known that Col. Lane was not " mem
Der of his famii, " But be this as it
may, | have no hesitation in saying, that
The first information l ever received in
relation TO the transactions alluded TO,
was from the President himself, who sent
for the, as the friend and brother in law
OF Col. Lane, during the last illness oil
the latter, to assist IN settling the ac-
counts between them; aud that, so far
as | was informed by either OF them, the
Presidents conduct was scrupulously
honest, correct and honorable.
You have sworn that 81 told you
knew, for year, that was to get the
appointmen, to Mexico" will barely
rem ark that, if, as you suppose, my at
ten,ion had been so long directed to this
appointment, 1t is hardly probable |
should have forgot that, within the period
mentioned, il had been in the hands Of
ano' her gentleman-that, in fact, Gene
raj Jackson's nomination to that office
had been confirmed by the Senate Of The
United States on the 9th Of January,
l823-lhat on the adjournment Of the
last Congress, on the Sd OF March, it
was generally believed, and particularly
by the administration, that he would &C.
cept; and that the contrary was not
known even at Washington, until the
April following.
With equal, but certainly no greater,
correctness, you also state that told you
F" never had any tear of not being no.
" minated, except for short time, whilst
F." Pennsylvania appeared disposed to
" support Calhoun for the Presidency,
" then l had some apprehensions OF Dali
g las success: but the moment thai