Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1828-07-07

was i, right or was il honS;t Tor Hen:'acSsonl
to disturb il, seeing re had been the agen' anu
attorney Of tina, pony? Their sole reliance .nen'
appear to be on The testimony of ]. Wbitcsides,
ESQ. and the tears Of Mrs Erwin. approach
the examination Of Mr. Whi:esides' testimony
with reluctance, because he Is dead; but ]u.iee
10 other. and 10 truth requires u. Ana mere
lie, me ask if any and every mar does not p'ace y
himself in suspicious attitude, VINO mas nesn
one third interested in claim valued al thiee
or four hundred thousand dollars, and who re-
Iiuquishcs That interest In order to become
witness? |, is stated in The defence tha'
.Wbite sides afterwards released all his interest
TO James and Gen. Jackson; and Patrick DARBY
was employed TO assist in conducting the le-
pal proc dinrs, and 20 attend 10 The taking OF
depositions' Poor Mr.. Darby is but s'ighuy
noticed, although al the time spoken oil he had
become the raliying point Of the whole comni
nation; and was moreover partner. II is also
ted, that Col. Erwin knew before his par
chase from Prior in 1908, that the lille derived
| from the Marshal WAS absolutely null and VOID;
! and vet they dmit that he Is man OF sense.
Pa,,en and Erwin gave Prior $4,000 i"r his
part Of the land Let me now ask u any man
in his senses, whether man of sense or not
would have given S25 900 to Prior(w al i9at
time was insolvent for land, The tile to when
I he kueW was null and void! The story VIII not
bear telling and the case tina, requires such
suppositIon, is in desperate situation indeed.
| agree iha, Col. Erwin is man OF sense; but
previous 10 The years 1907 aud 8, he mad igle
or nothing 10 do with landed business; and Ge-
neral Jackson and Mr.. y hiiesides have the no.
nor Of first Inducing him into a knowl' dSe oil
is ntrcacies. Before that time his whole at
,en,ion had been devoted 20 mercantile transac
lions Again, Patien and Erwin were mer'
chants, who could have commanded almost any
amount of money and credit they pleased; aud
tank Won as u man Of sense, Col. Erwin would
. have continued SO long al case, it he had known
the title was bad, WHEN 1t was so readily IN MS
power to have Dough, up the light oil The All
, sons aud thereby, if he had been like General
Jackson, laid claim to the whole? The suppo
sition is consumma,e folly, and carries lie IN
The face of it.
, Mr. Wh,esides says, he told Col Erwin In
the wear 1907, or the fore part Of the year 1903,
: ,ha, the title was null and void ,-and yet this
pen,leman owned $500 acres OF land under The
, Same title, and never communicated the inior-
, nation 10 Gen Jack ,on until the year 1905
nor did he make any ,ffort TO better his own
claim j. ,his reasonable? the Generals's a.
biologists urihcrsay, that after the rumor oil It's
Y invaii!ity FIRST reached his ears, no sooner in
fact did il rea, him, than he ha>tehed 10 Judge
> Campbell for his opinion. That opinion was
un,a, ourable,' * then add the opinion oil judge
Csmpbe, having been quickly confirmed oy
Jenkin Wh,csides Esq the situation OF Gen.
Jack son became truly llarmmg, might i not
, say tina, instead Of alarm, his cogi'ations
we're how shall proceed, in order to g. al! the
land? thus situated the principle of self preser
t... PrS pare TOT me coming
; Storm II flut need by the considerations above
5 mentioned, Gen. Jackson in 1912, mounted his
horse, rode (mark they do not say secretly TO
the state of Georgia, ana purchased from the
heirs OF Allison The equity of redemption. BY
their own accoun, OF this matter Gen Jackson
had three years 10 ponder IL in his own breast,
{ before he began to prepare for the coming
storm, - and vet he never said one word about
: i, to his former clients, Prior and Anderson,
, nor to Col. Erwin; and il seems that instead Of
: preparing for the coming storm on his and
their beu alf - he was medIating how he should
raise a'storm that would sweep from them all
I ihe profits of the whole matter into his own
, pocket, But the General haslened to Camp,
? bell and Whi'csdes for their opinion. and then
began to prepare for The coming storm How!
I Why, 5y reasoning from what subsequently
followed, we are justified in drawing the con
Ia sion tia, this witness Whitesides & him
self were plotting plans 10 wrest The whole Of
| the land from Prior, Anderson, Erwin, & from
all the Innocent purchasers TO whom they had
sold--and converting it 10 their own use. At
or he land was sold under the decree Of The
+, deral Court but before any deeds were made
W the Marshal the General sold 5000 acres
f his part Of the iand'to Overton and Whites
sides, for five hundred pounds, Virginia money
and they only received the Mars!,al's deed;
SO that Mr.. Whitesides was deeply interested
10 prepare for the coming Storm as well as
the General But where, or from what quart
err was This storm gathering? From Philadel-
phia? NJ; Prior had sold his enIerest 10 Pat
, :rn and Erwin, and conte,ted-and after
as AN honest man, in 1878, when the storm be-
/, gan 10 lower from the hermitage, he assigned
his interest in mortgage TO the men to whom
H., had sold, 10 assist them in keeping off the
nlast; and this storm continued to blow from
that lime until 1920 and 82l, at which time
il increased 10 perfect hurricane, by the as
ISOLATION Of Mr. Darby as a partner, and the