The Litchfield County post., 1828-01-17

tdButSS uuprGC0ueutou C1FCuulSta0ceS nave been assumed, which had no existence, and differences have been drawn from them which, had they been real, they would not have warranted. Besides my enemies have themselves appealed to the public. exhibited their charges, and summoned their witnesses to the Bar. Ready now & anxious as I am, and always have been, to submit any act of my public life to a full examination before any respectable & impartial tribunal whatever, I surely may expect, at least, that shall be patiently heard by that which my accusers have themselves selected. assure them that 1 will present no plea to their jurisdiction.
 But desirouS as I naturIy am to re- pei calnmnies which have been directed against me, the public would have been spared the trouble of perusing this address, if Gen. Jackson had not in the course of last Spring and Summer, given to them the open sanction of his name. In his letter to MT. Beverly of the 9th of June last, he admits that infering my privity to the proposition which he describes as borne by Mr. Buchanan, he may have done me injustice; and, in his address to the public of the 18th July last. giving up the name of this gentleman, as his only witness. he repeats that he may possibly have done me injustice in assuming my authority for that proposition. He even deigns to hon. or me with declaration of the pleasure which he will experience, if I should be able to acquit myself MT. Buchanan has been heard by the public; and feel iusti- fled in asserting that the first impression of the whole nation was, as it is yet that of every intelligent mind unbiased by par. ty prejudice, that his testimony fully ex- onorated me, had greatly misconceived the purport of the interview between them And further, that 50 far as any thing im- proper had been disclosed by MT. B. touch- ing the late Presidential election, it affect- ed General Jackson and his friends exclu- sively. He having manifestly injured me, speculation was busy, when Mr. Bachan- ans statement appeared, as to the course which the General would pursue, after his gratuitous expression of sympathy with me. There were not wanting many per- sons, who bel evce that his magnanimity would immed ely prompt him to retract publicly his charge and to repair the wrong which he had done. did not partici- pate in that just expectation, and therefore felt no disappointment that it was not real- ized. Whatever other merits he may pos- sessI have not found among them, in the course of my relations with him, that of forbearing to indulge vindictive passions. His silent contemplation of. if not posi- tive acquiescence in,the most extraordina- ry interpretation of MT. Buchanan's state. ment, that ever was given to human lan- guage has not surprised me. If it had been possible for him to render me an act of spontaneous justice, by frank and manly avowa) of his error, the testimony now submitted to the public might have been unnecessary.
 Although I feel fully pursuaded that the community, under my peculiar circumstan- ces, will see without dissatisfaction, if not with cordial appreciation, this further effort to rescue my character from unmerited imputations, should nevertheless have remained silent, and cheerfully abided its decision, on the disclosures and explana- tions therefore made, if I had no addition al facts to offer to it's consideration. But body of highly important evidence has been collected, establishing some mate- rial circumstances not before generally known, and confirming others of which the public is already in possession and have thought it due to the occasion not to with- hold it.
 Gen. Js ckson having entirely failed to establish by ao7 affirmative evidence, ei- ther positive prcsumptive, the charge which !.- 'h sht proper to promulgate against i..e, ! occurred to me that it might be possio.e, ifficult as the task generally is to subs'eitiate negative, to adduce proof of that character, which would es. tablsh the groundless nature of his accu- sation. Prior to the appearance in pub- lie prints of the letter from MT. Carter Beverly to his friend in Fayetteville, da- ted the Sth of March last, I never believ- ed that General Jackson had countenan- ced the truth, or lent to the circulation, of the charge. I had indeed,- long before, seen in one of the Nashville papers. .asser-
 lions, injurious to me, which created some suspicious that they had eminated from him but l dismissed these suspicious as being altogethe incompatible with the lof- ty character which I wished to believe that he possessed. When however I saw
 that letter and the contradicted corrobora- ton of its contents by the Editor of the