Virginia advocate. [volume] (Charlottesville, Va.) 1827-1860, 1827-09-01
From the Boston Courier.

10 the Editor: The respectable FOREIGNER
who conducts the PhiladcI pha Democratic
Press, already eXuits at the appearance of
MIR. BuehanaI's letter. He triumpls, bn,
without victory. To convict General
Jackson of baseness would, without doub,.
10 his mind, and TO minds like his, admins
ter real satisfaction. But, Sir, L appea. to
you, and TO any other man who is qualities
|" form an opinion upon the subject, and
candid enough TO declare it, whether Their.
Is any thing in Mr.. BIS letter that fairly
conveys the most distant reflection upon the
Generals honor or truth. What are the
facts as asserted by Mr. jackson. and dis
closed by MIR. Buchanan The former a.
vers that respectable member of Congress
on a certain occasion held certain CONVEX
sation with him, and that he inferred from
all the circumstances, the respectable mem.
Der whom he declares 10 be Mr.. b., did moi
wait upon him {" anauthorized,' Sc. lie no
where charges Mr.. Clay or his frier DIS with
havins-authorized MIR. Is. or any other man
TO make proposition TO him. If he does.
show mo where. On the contrary, he ex
Pressly and repeatedly. disclams the impu
tation and intention of making such a charge.
lie says, in language that is neither dark
nor ambiguous. thar fit was an inference he
had collected-an opinion he had adopted.
NOW what, ask, is there in Mr.. BPS state.
meni, that clearly shows the General was
pieciPitate in forming, or has been iiIiberal
IA maintaining that opioiou? Mr.. b. states,
That rumor prevailed that Gen. Jackson
had avo"ed design of appointing Mr.. Ad-
ANS Secretary of State-that he apprehend
ed The effects of such report, if NOT contra
dIcted, might prove disastrous or fatal to the
cause vi the Geuerai--lhat he proposed to
Mr.. Eeton oil the Senate, personal and pol
i,icai friend Of the GeneraI, to call on him.
and soiicit him TO contradict it if unfounded
-and thai Mr.. Eatop declined. He states
further, that he got into conversation with
Mr.. Markiey, an admitted partisan of Mr.
Y-that Mr.. NJ. remarked, it would be
Of great service to jackson, If the rumor al
'uded TO we're discredited-if the General
would just say he would not appoint Mr.. AID
ans TO the Department of Slaie-,hat some
OF Mar. AS friends had intImated or affirm
ed, If Mr.. A. was elected, the Office of min.
;sler of state wonld be offered 10 Mr.. Claw.
and that General J.'s friends had now an
opportunity Of fighting their nauersaries
w'th their o,on ,oeapons. Mr. Buchanan re-
plies, that he had been thinking of that mat
Ter. lie repairs to the General, who, ON be.
ing interrogated, denies that he han intima
ted IN any way that he would place Mr.. Ad-
ans al the head OF the Department of State
mat he would not say whom he would or
would not invite TO take ofiice--that he " ouid
be President, if ele eted, without solicitation
and without intrigue. and would thus be left
free to select the abIest and best tnen in the
nation. Now what is there in ali this tina,
mapifesily proves that Mr. BIS observations
to the General were Unauthorized % The
question is, whether they plainly show the
General betrayed q malignant precipitation
IN concluding that they toere authorized
Was he ignorant Of MIR. 3 3 interview with
Mr.. Markiey, the aro,ced friend of Mr..
Clay? Was he ignorant of the limitations
OF Mr.. a.'s friends, that If their candidate
was elected, he would make Mr.. G.. Score
tary OF State? Is it improbable that Mr..
Buchanan ! mean no disrespect to that dis
iiDguished gentlemap,) may have forgotten,
and so omitted 90 state all that he said to
The Generala The General says, that the
gentleman who waited upon him, remarked
1T 'Oas fair to fight their opponents with their
oton Weapons. Mr.. Il. makes no mention of
his having made such q remark, but he dis
tinctly says it was made to him by Mr.
Marley. / will not now pursue tho sub
ject farther. will only add that am not
the political champion Of General Jackson.
On the contrary profess to be partial to
the existing administration. But I am dis
gusted with the airocious calumuies so in.
dnsiriously propagated against a veteran
warrior by towards, rcucgados, aud vsga-
bonds,