Delaware journal. [volume] (Wilmington [Del.]) 1827-1832, 1828-08-01
General Jackson to fudge WiNams)

ed honorable gentleman of Virginia, who ioues
truth and k,cars ho'c to appreciate character lose
M time in laying before you the postscript OF hi
letter which is in the following words: 1T may be
we'll to say, that letter was handed about at the
.4dan,S Convention, hear. accusing you OF being
concerned in Burr's conspiracy, upon the authority
of a tutlge Nathaniel Williams, of your state. The
report Is, that this Judge Williams writes, when a
young man. he applied toyou, then Judge, to sign
his licence as lawyer, that you did so, but recon.
mended to him, as you conceived him to be- man OF
promise to push his fortune by joining Burr pho
aUas then IN your house, promising II he would do
so, to procure for him commission. as captain IN
Burr's army. This story is going the rounds from
the Adams delegates, who have returned home, not
withstanding they ought to know that you were the
first person to put Gov. Calhoun one his guard
against the schemes Of Burr
vERBOM soT."
The records Of the country contradict this state
mcnt. as it is we'll known that resigned my APP
pontmpn Of Judge before Col Burr ecer acas IN the
state Of Tennessee cannot, then, for one moment,
permit myself to believe, that you, elevated as yGu
arc, to a seat on the judicial bench of Tennessee,
could give yourauthonty to such an unfounded false
| hood. Duty to myself as well as Justice to you,
therefore. require that should, without delay, adj
wise you Of this libel upon my character. so that you
may at once declare whether are or are not the
author OF this caumny, before expose it as SUCH
am. and have been. we'll advised Of secret com
binatiun Of base and wicked few in Tennessee,
whose object is to SANDER me, but, until noap.
have never heard, or had the least intimaon that
YOU were Of hat group. Nor do now believe that
you, who must be so well satisfied Of the dlsehood
contane, in the postscript OF the letter referred to
above, well AS the rectltude Of my conduct since
your acquaintance with me, could be 50 lost to uir-
ne aud TO truth 10 have originated and put in
i circulation 50 base calumry. With this lnpiea
sion send J. w ID. S. Doneson to you with this
communication, having no doubt as an honorable
man, that you will send me frank Il prompt reply
! "a Copy-Signed,) ANDREW JACKSON.
1 The Hon. NATHANIEL. WILLIAMS,
4 Judge ofthe Circuit Courts of Tennessee.
(Iadge UMiams reply 10 Gen. Jackson.)
Sparta, feb. 81, 1928
After copying from Gen. Jackson's letter to me,
the report as stated in his letter. wrote as follows:
! can very frankly deny ever having written the
letter spoken Of by the gentleman who wrote you
from Washington, but | did write letter to Il
relation Of mine at that time in Richmond. The
letter. it seen. would show that it was designed as
confidential one. do not, at this time, recollect
4 accurately, what the letter did contain ! believe
though, can remember part, if not the whole, Of
4 what intended at the time and will state it, a.
n it is but just that what ha, been by my means pr
# vateIy circulated, should be publicky avowed under
y the necessities of the case
It Some time after Burr had passed Nashville onct
! or twice. to the lower country, before Mr.. Jeffer
sons proclamation, in riding from Gen. Jackson
house to Nashville, Gen Jackson in reference to tina
d conspiracy, or what was afterwards called by other
l. conspiracy, said to me, ''that could, if wouIt
e accept it, obtain commission of captan.''
i. Afterwards, during the session of the Count,
Court OF Sumner, at time when Pa ton Anderson
4 told that either Burr Adar, or both of them
i were at General Jackson's house, in room of
!, tavern then kept by Edmond Crucher. Gen. Jack
= son said to mel think Judge Stuart was then il
:. the om,-"'rake notice, gentlemen. you will fnt
that division OF the United States has taken de-,
~ ROOT you will find that a number of the Senate
? and number of the members of the House of Re
4 representatives. are deeply involved in the scheme"
- am not certain that the above was contained il
:. my private letter to Mr. Nathaniel Kerr but as
have made these statements privately, it is but JUS
! that should now avow them.
!, am in hopes sir, that this letter will be aloae
= or satisfactory to you, for General Jackson may
~ assured (he presidential question asde) no man ca
:, feel more bound to Gen. Jackson than myself, fu
=. the great honor conferred by him on my country.
y Cupy.)
NJ NATHANIEL w. WILLIAMS.
~ Gen. ANDREW JACKSON.
:, !, Under the belief that it is my duty to make Il,
y. following statement, make 1t. l moved to Nasl
nc vile Tennessee, from the county of Pittsylvanii
al Virginia in the fall of the year 1904, at the age
s. twenty-five, that is moved ON Virginia, in I8C
cy to Hawkins Courthouse, East Tennessee, and lro
ie, there, moved to Nashville. In 1906 or'7 the.
Burr matters TRANSFERRED |, before protesting again
70 the proceedings of Burr had been frequently en-
fa ployed in General Jacksons collecting business
,P- other suits of his. think in the spring or fall
ne 1886, in riding from the Generals house to Mas
vile, near the Glover Bottom, he spoke to me in
en-; lation to a commission in Burr's army. And in Il
SIN same year, at Gaiatl, he made the declarations
m relation to the division Of the Union as stated
cr- our correspondence l not only then determin
er- that would not agree to what believed to
Burr's schemes, but that would oppose him as