Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1828-08-19
Captain Stockton.

More Of the Tt'e6ster ieitcr.--it ia high time
the public mind was entirely disabused respecting
this letter, and the following communir alton writ.
ten IN this office and in the preseLce of the senior
editor this forenoon is therefore submitted 10 our
readers. What subterfuse will now be re sorted
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To The Editors Of he .As,o York Ecening Post.
The evidence of the existence of the Webster
letter spoken OF ia your paper of last evening, does
not rest, rely upon 4, upon the avcrriens OF Mr..
Webster alone. In confederation OF what you pub
shed yesterday, it may be added, that in the .,u-
umn of 1896 "a short time previous TO the election
for members O.! Congress) Mr. Secretary Southland
travelled through West Eew-lersev visiting all
the distinguished federaliss of that part of the
state, assuring them that such letter was writ
ten and that the iedcrssts would be provided for
by Mr.. Adams g numerically" This word mi
nercaiiy' is ayerred most positively to have been
the very word inierlined by Mr.. Adams himself
la this way, and in this alone, the interest of the
federal party obtained for the administration
ticket in n Jersey that year. Among others, 70
whom Mr.. Southland recapituated the substance Of
this letter, are General Franklin Davenport, and
j. Moore White, Es9mres, OF Gloucester county,
New Jersey; and the writer OF this was one of A
coterie TO whom il also rehearsed. Indeed
the journey Of Mr.. Souihard, and the object OF il
are OF such nolorety in n. j. that neither the
one nor the other will be denied by the party i'm
pIicaied Should, however, MIR. Southard or his
friends controvert any part OF his statement they
shall hear more OH the subject, and will learn the
name OF a JERSEY MAN
We give place 10 tle following letter. not mere.
IS because it is connected with the history Of
distinguished individual now competitor for the
highest Office in the gift OF the citizens of the Uni.
ted States, but also on account OF the interesting &
affecting incident itre'ates The letter Itself was
written long before General Jackson vas thought
of for the Presidency and in the course of an init
mate and confidential correspondence between two
brothers. The writ.T was Military Secretary 10
Gen. Jackson through the Greek war, and his
name is attached to the treaty of Fort Isckson-
The letter is addressed to his brother the Hon.
George Cassidy, Of New Jersey, -yybo for several
years past has been "A member of Congress from
that state. II affords striking proof of the resdi
ness with which all prcjuiices against the eminent
parsonage 20 whom 1t relates, yield TO knowledge
of his real character, aud it proves also how much
he has inclined TO temper the administration Of
military discipline with mercy, whenever severity
was not impcrjously demanded by the interests Of
the service. The pardon granted TO the dclin.
quent was the act OF Gen. Jackson the man who
has been siigmitized by his enemies a. deligbting
In bloodshed for its own sake.
IN J. Ep. Posf.
FORT JACKSON, 29th July, 1914
Dear Sir--Another opportunity presents ITSELF
through which by express this communication can
reach you. We this evening expected the return
Of the messenger mentioned iu 10y last, witt, an
answer 10 the i;terrogsiorics put to the Governor
Of Pensacola. He has not returned agreeably TO
OUT hopes ana expectations but probably VIII be
here previously TO Monday next, the day set apart
for deciding the fate Of the Creek nation by gen
eral convention Of the chiefs and warriors The
treaty or capitulation Is prepared foI them, which
II they refuse to sign, will be productive probably
OF an onset. which will lead to the total suhjuga-
ton % the hostile part of the nation General
Jackson has made requisiiiOn OF seven hundred
rihemen from Tennessee, who are stationed i'm the
tort IN our vicinity, and who will be here the e.
yeniog preceding the 1T Of August These, com
bincd with the 81 regiment, will probably consti-
tuie force which will deuosh opposition before
Il can become dangerous. You can have no con-
ception Of the harmony which perVades he army
under Gen. Iackson's control. The officers Of the
81 regiment, none Of whom had before seen him
were sstonished to find in him a man of such OK.
quis;c scnsibility and urbdnty OF manners; and
iron having found him, instead Of a turbulent and
Overlooking character, man Of delicscy and re
inement, have become very much attached TO