Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1828-05-07

| ""S IL ih'ehoeu as q Scare-crow to shake the
weak nerves Of Governor Claiborne2 Or
was IT merely aPlayfu effort o" the Generals
IsPoruFe IMAGINATION, to alarm the old
women ana children OF New Orleansa
In hne' did 1t mean any thing or nothingl And
II mere was any meaning In it, was it not that
Burr, his 'newly acquired friend had hon
guilty OF "treachery'' to him, and in conse-
quencc of that treachery, he had Determined
to thwart his sesigns by putting the governor
OF Louisiana on his guard! And do not his 81
ience afterwards, and his hospitality to Barr.
after he had thus, by mue,sdo, conveyed in
formation OF Burr's Intentions TO Claiborne.
prove that Burr satisfied nm when he ar,-
we'd at Nashville, III January, 1907! We
nave seen men hung on circumstan.al evil
dence not half SO strong as this. But we
nave stlii further evidence. b. compari-
son OF dates, it would appear that Col. Burr
must have arrived at Nashville about the LIST
oil January 1907, and remained about eipbt
days; as, on the 9th Of that month. we find
hin at Bayou Pierre, on the Mis,ssippi
whence headdresseda letter to Cowles Mead
then Governor of Mississippi Territory, who
issued Proclamation guarding the neople
over whom he ruled against Burr's s'tiaboli
cal plot, iii which letter he assured the
Governor, that his purpose was merely To e.
migrate with Z number Of his friends. Does
II not occur to every man, at the first state
rent OF the fact that his was the time for
zen. Jackson 10 sound the tocsin! Yes
y oW, lever, he should have warned the Co
vernon OF Louisiana of the impending dan
ger Col Burr had Just tejt hias-beit OH
nigh cmPFlze"-ln his own emphatic Ian
guaBe, the Gods invited to glory and fortune
1t renamed 10 be seen whether we deser
=,
1or Gen. IS patriotism to have exerted itself
to guard his sold friends from the e.treache-
ry' OF his new. Why did he not do it,
We answer, because tico na9etis had BROUGHT
about a change in his views. y4qron Bur-
rad pis'ted tie Hermitage, end .fnd,eap Jack
son zcas satisfied! In no other possible way
can ms premature and ambiguous divulgc-
mcnt in yho0ena5er, 1906, he TccorCiied with
MS strange and ominous silence in Jaa,tuy1,.
1907. y
We have candidly stated above that We
were mistaken IN saying that Swartwout of
New York, bore an Introductory letter from
Burr to jackson. But what Of it! 1t does
not destroy another fact which we stated,
OF '"'sch more consequence; and that is, the IN
4aacg noc existing 6etgceea Szcart.gout and
JachSo0 That Swartwcut was concerned
with Burr no one will deny---ti.at he was at
Nashville during the progress Of BIS conspi-
raGy - adnttcd-and The conclusion is not
q strained one, that he tnen and there be-
came acquainted wish Gen. Jackson Who.
then Is General samuel Swartwouh Of his
private character we Know nothing, and we
nave nothing TO do with ii. Bun, having
thrust himself Oh the arena, as d champion OF
Gen. JAG ks-on, 1t Shall be ioid OF him. IN the
language ot one the most eminent witnesses
III the trial OF Barr, that a partisan of that
man, he was cndeayOying, before revolution
KING Mexico, to regolutonizc LoulS;ana also
Chen portion OF this Union:) the ncopIc OF
which territory, he alleged, were ready to Join
him, and>''he supposed MGt there 7rouLd be
some selling at .Ntso Oylcans,' as a prenara-
tory siep!----Ihat is, III plain language. eve
will endeayor to detach Louisiana from the
Union by creating dissatisfaction among
the People; we shall tl.en revolutionize
Mexico; and as, TO do this, money will be
necessary, why. we Will rob the banks, and
seize the accdfM wherever VIC find it,
Ii Is true, he added, that ''thcy meant ONLY to
6oFfo5r, and would return it,'----as if Deepen
dcnoc were TO be placed on the integrity Of
man, the> first act OF whose enterprizc was
robbery and plumber This Mr.. Swartwout
we repeat, aus Aaron BMr's colleague, and
IS Gen. JacksoD's bosom friend. We leave
the reader to draw what inference he NAV
please from this fact.
We wind up this article; which we have
spun out to an unexpected length, with the
additional fact stated by Col Williams in the
Senate ofTcnnessee, during the last session.
that when Gen. Jackson returned home
from Richmond, where he had been attend
ing Burf's trial. he was treated with cold
neglect and Indifference, such as all met with
who were concerned with that great and i'll
starred maitland that lie (Col. Williams J
almost a'ene, greeted Jackson with a warmth
iinsPned by compassion for his Iaceratod fec
lings.
For the present, we have done with this
subject. Having started it, however, we shall
! probe it to the bottom.
! From the .7Bany Gazette IF .gp,H a.
( STATE CONVENTION.
! Public SEvTGMExL.