Delaware journal. [volume] (Wilmington [Del.]) 1827-1832, 1828-08-01
~JACKsoN's CONNECTION WITH BURR.

JAcKsoN's coNNEx1oN WITH THE BURR CONSPIRACY.
HIS TRICKS OF THE PRESENT Day.
We invite the undivided attention Of all our
readers to the statement of Judge Nathaniel W.
Williams, of West Tennessee, to be seen in this
DAYS paper,
After long train of circumstances, heretofore
brought to the consideration Of the public tending
deeply to mplicate eneral Jackson in the ne,rous
Conspiracy of Aaron Burr the strong corrobo-
ration furnished in the direct testimony of Judge
Williams, cannot fail to substitute conviction tor
strong and well-tounded suspicion.
The public will rccolect that when Gen. Jack
son, was charged, some time since, with having
threatened to cn off the ears Of Senators, the Cen
era, with his characteristic ioSu cunning, caused
F elk Grundy TO write him letter. requesting in
formation whether he [Jackson) had threatened At
the door Of the Senate Chamber, to march IN and
chastse a member of the Senate. The General,
in reply, proceed that he not in the " Senate
Chamber or Anti Chamber OF the Senate, in the
year 1919" Mr. Gruniy then published the COR
respondence between himself and General Jack
son. us IL triumphant ynllcaon of the General, for
the charge of having threatened 10 tnfict personal
chastisement on Senator's! Although Mr. Grundy
particularly cautious not to PROFOUND TO the Gen
eral, specifically, any lntcrrogatory relative TO his
having threatened TO chastise Senators for Mctr per-
formance of official dutaE In accordance with this
attempt TO impose on the public, was the spirit that
dictated Gen. Jacksons letter to Gov. Claiborne,
dated Nov. 10th, 1906, which letter is claimed by
the Generals paltizans highly illustrative of
his promptaess in exposing the conspiracy OF Burr.
But how stands the fact !? The letter by 20 means
desagndtes the threatening danger; its terms are
too vague and indefinite 10 have admitted OF an in
selligble Interpretation they were calculated on
by to arouse alarm. Ifhe danger so great as
che General minated is it likely that he would moi
have known more about it than the letter TO Cla
borne indicates !! And if being so aware of thf
danger he did not fully dehneae lis character. ii,
he not virtually contradict his Wanting and multi
piled protestations of patrotisn9
1t is now satisfactorily ;scertaincd that jackson
was g in habits of intimacy with Burr" when tbs
latter was an object of general distrust and suspi
clon about Nashville.
Tins now boosted letter to Gov. Claiborne, there
tore, we consider only az Gen. Jackson's attempt t.
rescue himself from predcament when he knew
that Burr's plot the eve OF explosion, an,
as an explanation of the enlgmatcal intimation o
Gen. Adar (made some time since( that Jackso,
had "tarncd 1dlcs 7liaess." lii union with ths
spirit that dictated Gen. lacksons letter to Clai
borne, is part Of the Generals late correspon
1ence with Judge Williams. The General pur
posely ascrlhes to Williams, words that the latte
had not probably used, in the hope Of procuring hi
denial of them, that It might be paraded forth in III
public prints either denial thai he had rlal
The charge aganst the Gene ral-or as an uncondl
tlonal recantatlon.
Gen. jackson takes especial care to make Judg
Williams say, that he was offered the g commssio
in Burr's army" by the General when the late
as Judge of one Of the courts signed his licens,
Then, the willy General, vaunts . the records
the county contradict this !" as it is known that
resigned my situation Judge beor Burr was eve
IN Tennessee Witness his attempt at frictery
blending the alleged offer OF the g commission ,
Captancy" with the alleged application 10 him. /
Judge Williams, fora llcence to practice law. b.
Why these disngenuous attempts Of General Jac
son Are they not strongly indicative of CO.
seriousness of guilt? Fortunately for the cause
truth, Judge Williams was sufficiently self-possesss
to r"terate for the inspection Of the General hin
self substantially what he had written in priva
letter, TO Nathaniel Kerr. of ttsyiyana count
Virginia.
General Jackson. not having been able, by i
gasconade and bullying TO utimidate Judge William
into suppression OF the truth, or to decpg him.
--nsiIons arts, into even anlmateriul contradict
eof himself, the only alternative left him. is to sur
mon goodly number of his subaltern'' libelle
and devise the most expeditions mode of ccrtifgi
and socearang awoy the reputation of William
Operations have already commenced. The four
IF Jmy dinner, at Carthage. planned IN .Nnsh7iHe,
to ne sounded abroad as evidence of the icro's CO
tinued standing among Judge Williams neighbour
But the character of the Judge unlike that of JAG
son, has hitherto not needed the adventurous al
ofaiidavit men and we have no doubt that
direct testimony in the present case, preceded as
has been, by numerous strong circumstances W
be further sustained by the unequiyocal testlno
@. other witnesses. 1t is here worthy Of mentlt
that Judge Williams, in the course of day or t.
after Jackson made him the " offer of the comm
sion Of captaincy in Burr's army wrote to c
John Williams of this vicinity, communicating
information Of the Z" Offer" Then, the Gene
was not dreamed of as a candidate for the Pre-