Delaware journal. [volume] (Wilmington [Del.]) 1827-1832, 1828-09-05

conclusive circumstances that you signed the con
tract as partner, and actually paid down in cash
one third part OF the amount required in advance.
1t is perfectly ridiculous, indeed, for you expect
to escape the odum of this transaction by represe
ting yoursefas security and not principal. You
paid your money, rlsked your credit, signed your
name to contract, drew bills, gave notes, wrote
checks, and afterwards purchased out the interest
your partners, become yourself sole owner, went
to the lower country, and finding yourself unable to
sell them to advantage, you brought part OF the OBJ
i1ects of your speculation back with you, passed
the Choctaw agency in triumph, and afterwards no
doubt, disposed them in some other way, as You adj
nit you sold the greater part ofthem. Is it not then
| pityful STORY to say you we're not a voluntary
agent in those transactions You were security
forsooth and how do you attempt to prove thing
30 improbable and absurd! Not by your friend.
who was himself concerned in the transaction. He
says you refused to be security, and insisted
on being partner /! that your credit enabled the
firm to make the purchase, and that he understood,
you advanced your proportion Zone third) ofhe pur
chase money. How then do you attempt to prove
your ridiculous tale? The only particle of proof
offered by you, is an alleged copy of memorandum
! of your oogn, contradictng all your other memoran-
da and exhibited only TO few of your chosen con-
/ tidants. lfyou ready to refer TO a part OF
your documents, why are you not equally ready to
expose them all ? Why have you not canddly ex-
to discover how the transaction really was, and
boldly called upon friend and foe to come forward
and examine them? We should then see zphen the
payment made to Epperson, which, assert,
was three days after the alleged date Of your agree
ment. On the contrary you have hurried all yourdo-
cumens away to your private desk. where they re-
main carefully concealed and in the vain hope OF
Fl preventing the production of evidence, you have
taught your printers moi only TO hint sat the aadig
nan flushing your eye" but to attempt to intimi-
date peaceabe citizens by threats, on their pare
promptly to assa the private character Of any NAH
who shall dare to give testimony unfavorabe you.
. What confidence then, under such circumstances,
: can be reposed in this alleged memorandum, on
the back of your agreement Does it not rather
e create suspicious of something than has hith
: ero been discovered But sir, without dwelling
. longer on this point will call your attention, ar d
l. that OF the American people to the following letter
from gentleman whose high standings we'll knowx
d to the citizens of Tennessee-a gentleman not only
above reproach in private life but distinguished
for his public service in the Legislature of the state
. and the congress OF the nation.
Lorke1and, June, 14tA 1923.
; co., .andre4v Ersvin.
sln-ln answer to your letter. addressed of the
26h u making inquiry relative to what knowedgeI have
respecting gen Andrew Jackson's buying and selling ne-
groes for profit and his bringing negroes from Natchez-
in the year 1911 or H. understood that Mr.. Horace
took from Nashville number of negroes to Na'chez
sale and that those negroes were the properly OF the
said Horace Green, yet do not know this OF my own
Il knowedge) Some time after heard Gen. jackson say
he went to Nachez somewhere in that country, and
had brought said negroes back to Tennessee and about
that ne Mr. Dnsuore, the United States agent for the
Choctaw nation of Indians in the habit OF stopping
all persons travelling through said nation with negro or
negroes, who had not passports The General observed.
he had taken passport and on the morning he was
pass the agency that he armed .'o h most ssoufe ne.
II orders FIGHT THEIR WAY, necessary He further
Observed that friend had into his hand the night be-
fore, that morning. agoodrfe that when ne came op-
posite the agency he directed his negroes togo to
branch and eat their break ast-tha he rode up To the
agency. where he several indian countryme inqur-
ed of them for Mr. Dnsmore, who informed him Mr.. Dns~
more was there from home. He told them to tell
Mr. Dnsmore should have been glad to have hims
but he could wait that he going on home with his
lie negroes fellow named John Amp, whom raised, and
sold by the then capt. John Braham to the said Joseph
Coleman, of the negroes armed and putin tron
as the general then stated The above is true statement
of what heard General .andep jackson say i'll Nasiviek
after his return from Nachez 1t may not be the precise
but the substance to the best OF my now reco
IN lection. ~
r. WEAKLEY.
d II seems from this letter. that the purchase fo,p
= Epperson NOT the only negro speculation in which
y ham, and probably, if all the transactions could bs
~ brought to light, of several other persons. But MP
- main object in introducing the above letter, is to
show your respect for the laws aud constituted att
nr thortes of your country. You even boasted' u
ID seems, of having armed your negro slaves. in order
fight their way, if necessary, rather tAan to con-
form to the regulations of government, and procure
r. and produce passport for them This. sir per-
y ecty consistent with your declaration, in your ces
a. ebrated letter to G. W. Campbell, about sweeping
e from the earth the invader Of legal rights and in
no yeying Silas Dinsmore in the flames If his agen-
a. cy house. Is this spirit to be patronised and
,a cherished by the people of these United Statesp
-, will now ask your attention to the following
~ brief extract from letter written by you to gem