Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1828-07-31
General Jackson TO Judge Williams.

postscript OF his letter. which is in the follow
ing words, 70 wit: alt may be well TO say that q
letter was handed about 1T the adams CeHvea
non. hear, accusing you Of being concerned in
Burr's conspiracy. upon the authority OF q
Judge Nathaniel Williams, OF your state. The
report Is, that this Judge Williams writes when
a youog man, he applied TO you. then Judge,
20 sign his license as lawyer. that you did so,
but recommended to HIN, ~ you conceived him
TO be man OF promise, to push his fortune BY
loinIrg Burr, Who was then in your house, pro-
msing. II he would do SO, 20 procure for him a
commission as captain in Buri's Army. This
story Is going the rounds from the Adams De-
egates, who have returned home, notwithstsnd.
ing they ough, to know tina, you was tho first
person to put Governor Claiborne on his guard
sgains, the schemes of Burr VERNON SoT."
The records or the country contradict shis
statement, as IL is well known thai resigned
my appointment OF Judge before Colonel Burr
euer vpas in Ire STATE Of Tennessee. | caDaot
then, for oae moment, permit myseIfto believe
that you. elevated ~ you are, to seat on the
Judicial bench OF Tennessee, could give YOUR
authority 10 such an unfounded fssehood. DUTY
30 my self as we'll az justice TO you, therefore
require 'tal | should. without delay, advise
you Of this libel upon my character. so that
YOU may a, once declare whether yea are or are
not the author of this calumny. before expose
IL as such.
am, and have been, wen advised of a secret
combustion of base ana ieicked FEW in Ten.
nessee, whose object IL to SANDER me but, until
NOW, I have never heard, or had the least init
nation thai you ware of that group. Nor do /
now believe that You who mus, be so we'll salts
ffd Of the falsehood contained in the postscript
of the letter referred to above, as well as the
roetitude of my conduct since sour scqnaintance
with me, could be SO lost to yirfue and o truth
as to have originated and put IN circulation so
bsse calumny. With this impression | send
J. w ID. s Donelson To you with this commune
cation, having no doubt as MI honorable man that
YOU will send me frank aud prompt reply.
a copy sgned,l ANDREW JACKSON.
The Hon. NATBAsisL WILLIAMS,
Judge Of tie Circuit Courts Of Tennessee.
(Judys Williams reply to Gen. Jackson.
srAarA, Feb ~, 1928
After eopyeg from Gen Us letter to me. the
report as stated in bis letter, wrote ~ fol-
lows:
can very frankly deny ever having written
the letter spoken of BY the gen,iemsa who
wrote to you from Washington. but did write
letter to relation of mine, at that time in
Ricbmond.-1'he letter if seen, would show
that IL was designed rs o confidential one. do
not at this time recollect accurately what the
letter did contain, believe, though, can re
member part, II not the whole of what in.
tended at the time; and viii state il, as it is
but Just that what has been by my means pri.
vately circulated, should be publicly avowed
under the necessities of this case.
Some time after Burr had passed Nashville
once or twice to the lower country, before Mr.
JeHfrson's Proclamation, in riding from Gen.
J'shouse to Nashville Gen. J in reference TO
that conspiracy, or what was sfterxar called
by others conspiracy, said to noe, ',hat
could, 1t would accept It, obtain commission
oil Captain
Afterwards. during the sitting of the County
Court OF Sumner. al time when Patton An
d-rson told ne that either Burr or Adair, or
both of them, were at Gen. Us house, in room
ofa tavern then kept by Edmund Crutcher,
Gen. j. sad to mel think Judge Stuart was
then in the room--"fake notice, gentlemen,
you will find bat division Of the u. States has
taken deep root; you will find that number If
the senate, AID number ct the members Of
the House OF Representatives are deeply lnvol
we'd in the scheme"
am not certain that the above was contained
in my private letter to Mr.. Nsthsn,el Kerr; su,
as have made these statements privately, it is
but just that should now svow them.
am IN hopes. si,, that this letter will be al
together satisfactory to you. for Gen. ]. NAV
be assured (the presidential question aside) no
mao can feel more hound to Gen. j. than myself.
for the great honor conferred By him on my
country.
Copy NATH. w. WILLIAMS.
GEN. AND REV JACKSON.
Under the believe that il is my duty TO make
the following statement, make It, moved
to Nashville, Tennessee, from the county Of
Pttsy vania, Virginia, in the fall Of the year
1904, at the age of twenty five, that is, moved
from Virginia, in 1903, TO Hawkins Court
honses East Tennessee, and from there moved
to Nashville. In 1906 or z, these Barr matters
Ganspired. !, before protesting against the
proceedings of Burr. had been frequently en-
p'oyed ~ Gen. Jacksons collecting business
and other suits ofhis. think in the spring or
fall Of 1906, in riding from tho Generals house
TO Nashville, near Clover Bottom, he spoke q
me N relation to . commission in 6urr's army
And IN the same year, at Gallatin, he made the
declaration in relation TO the division of the e.
mon, as stated IN our correspondence. no
only then determined that would not agree Il
| what believed TO be Burr's Schemes bat tina
would oppose him as far as | could. Ethe
before or after SIR. Jefferson's proclamation,
was. thought, intended TO impre sslthe publs
mind with the belief that ball, then on han,
in Nashville, vas intended as mark Of respec