Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1828-08-23

~ SOiCFInlpnf In.
Deen accomplished, (by the removal of
erai AiItchel,) for the purpose, as bc,iarn
Oh using 1T as an e~lectioneerinu onu;no -
Sailst me IN thus State. | ask only y cand;r
Perusai OF The statement furnished bv mo :.
'he Baltimore M~aryiander, aud ~re-nubIisbaG
at my request, III the Nashville Wh;~ ,nr
banner OF the Goth July, in order 70 sot;,G
every impartial mind of my complete vind;!
catlon against those malignant. ,nfoundcd
,iidrSeS on my enemies, around which thev
pave rallied for sevcra! Years, with vour ammo,
baton and advice as L verify believe. Tan
warranted in saying so, from tie free usc
hladc OF 1t N the press of your former mart
ncr' and then devoted friend and agent =. IT.
l|afny' when L WAS Il candidate, with fair
prospects OF success, for Congress. Tho
lFec circulation your influence then rave this
~uhiounded and malignant charge, caused mo
10 lose my elections III 1923 and 1925. as !
'cf!ly believe Your minions circulated and
'ouciled Tor It's truth throughout the district
on both occasions.
HhI now, SIR, 1t remains for me to redeem
NE pledge L have given 10 the nublic. to
prove You a neSyo trader, if you dared to
oeny 1t: | consider the publications Of the
?u'il OF Nay and llth Of July, in the Rcpuh-
icah' as intended 20 3ca fat dcninl on your
part, OK The charge, particularly the latter
Puo4catlon-and both evidently by your all
lnoIity' Ii IS manifest, indeed, yoU do NOT
nlSi II 20 be believed. Ithas been prououn-
cNu ny your supporters a c~alunny ScriorSly
'"5gi'c"tH9 yorf character, and has even been
o"'eo py your printers, under tho impulse Of
q 100 nasty zeal, IAN Infamous li!sehood. >,
ic'' "hch statement is made by those same
printers, on your own authority, Of the cir
ClIlllStalCCG Gf mo tu-I.o-, III, = 1 =. I
ehou9li--inorc than enough-is admitted.
completely to sustain the chargc. This has
Oven already shown III the very conclusive 6,
lnAns"efable letter ~. M'Nairv, which nci-
thef you I,ofany OF ycuP partisuns have even
attempted to controvert. 1t il remarkable.
however, that you did not c%untrivc a story in
the tLfsi instance, which you and your friends
could steadily adhere 70. On the contrary,
we IN" yeur newspaper giving one account
on the 3oth of May, ard quite a different
one on the 18th Of JulY. Besides other ma
teriHl variations, it viii be seen that the for
Iner represents the amount of The first nav
ment at $1,000, while tic latter fixes i If
5000. let great exUita1iou is expressed.
on the presumption of the minute accuracy
OF this latter statement, in the idea that the
SIM CT n923 ID is not d proportional part Of
5000, and consequently could not havc
been your share Of the FIRST payment to Ep-
person. But before proceed with any fun
'iicf On your own admissions. |
VIII lay BEFORE you and the public Il little cyi-
dence OH the subject, derived from another
source. y purchase o~tncrroes is ackuowr-
edged to have been mode. in 1911. by the
HIN OF Go!ena'n, Green and Jackson. The
members OF this firm we're JOsnph Coleman.
Horace Hfccn4 and yourself. Twill. in the
flfat place, present YOU Wiih~the statc,nenrof
your partner, Mr.. Horace Green. who. Won
Know, was in Nashville Il fcw DAYS since. and
was seen and convcFsed with By Il number Of
your Warnest rartsans. Why they did not
procure from him an account Of the transac-
ton, will be readily SCRIP on a DerIsdI of tire
following letter:
NASHVILLE. 18Th July, 1925.
oLR; iohf no'e, inIuir;ng OF me Information in re
iattoH to smne' negroes in tcHirb I;cp. ,Juhsdt arms nm,
ornfR, l have received. TO give a correc, yrey of
'"e transaction as | under5food it, 7 must Connect it
w''n aho,her- IN the later part of the year 1910,
Captain Joseph Coleman proIuscd to me 10 iojn him
III The purchase OF some cotton and tobacco Gf 4 Mr.
i5@hnet Smith. 10 Bi:ci, I assentel. He stated 10 me
's'at AtF. Smith you'd require security, which he
wo"'d procure. Some short lime after this uaGefstan
Ding with Capt. Coleman, he informed me that NIr.
smith wonld take no other security tfan General
Jackson, aud HAT Gen. Jacks0n would be snci,, but he
71"'E bs phq"cd in NE ighE of n r.HRY,4 Err. I'm o,der
Ia ~ ''g"l nave a controlling power It Ire thOrntIt it
necrssary. J ire cotton and tobacco were aCc0rdn,Iv
purchased, and token y me TO New O~orfeahs. placed
thchr 10 the bands of Gray and 4'aylor, tfen cofumig
sfnn merchants Of that rlatH, for sale, az tho n1,oDe,b,
Of Coleman, Green, and JtciEnii. Tie article o: cot
ton heIng somewhat depressed at the lime, I was a3yi
sei by them 10 ship it round to Philadelphia. LETT #
with item, and Inst! urred lhem to 10 so for orr benefit
ana returned 20 this place.
After my return in May, 1871, Us ~PurchaseG a NUN
5nr OF Degroes, ofa Mr.. Appcrson. for which wt were
10 paw n part III lTaUi-I mill glpyIjrI ord r,,gu-
s'ood NE b11d1Zc1c7s pail by Capt. Coiemau nqd Or
neArl JGrEsol. The negroes were taken by me 70
NaichezJor soih, and a part Of them soib. IN the
month OF I1ecaiDber ] think) Of Tire saIne year, receI
we'd letters from Gen, JdcGsons which letters are 81
tbs time mis7aid,) advising me lie had p~Dyr6a4ed on
Capt. Coleman in boht these transactions, aud eEerlpg
&c Sf1 mi to the at cost by securing him, or 10 Inn nj
CRI, nhf refund 10 ne the advances which bad made.
J thought proper to sell IN relation 10 the pIrc1,ase
OF the negroes, although lad no understanding 10 the
elect from either Capt. Coleman or Gen. Jaolson. ]
tbengbt IT probable be stood in tie same sRyqirui az in
the purchase Of lie coftoh and tobacco, from ie cir.
CIimstancp. ps I fhan Lp,ieypj y ,r,s Js ..s.C, .t.E