Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1828-08-23
POLIIIGAT..
CFon lie NidshpiNe Ba.usr Of ,lurv,
20 GENERAL ANDREw J,cyso,

Nm -AObkG.s 3ACkS0V
SIR: l have remained silent for some time.
in order to afford you an ample opnortr1ity
to display your boasted candor, and scorn
Tor concea!ment, By coming ont in YOUR own
name, with a full statement of facts in rcla-
sion to your negro specu!Qticms. You have
not don so, but have furnished such of vour
private papers as snlted your purpose to the
printers OF your tayorlte newspaper and have
permitted to go forth in that paper, uncon-
tradlcted, statements, profcsscdly founded
on competent authority, not only of your at
tons, but OF your Intentions and desires in re.
iation to Your dealing in slaves. You have
justly been held responsible for those state
ments, lnasmuch as they were clearly intcn-
ded to be regarded by the community az
your own representation of the case; and, in
deed, the information could not have been
derived from any other source bat Yourself
Sou cannot now shrink from. this response
Dillty, bccausc, although it is not supposcd
that you wrote the articles in question:, it is
clear you must have furnished the statements
therein contained, and by permitting them
10 pass uncontradlctcd. You have given them
the sanction OF your appreciation. To suf-
Ter them to 80 forth through the official organ
OF your party as your defence, and to remain
Sub Sltentio while you know them to contain
palpable ia!schoods, would be On act of i'm
position on the public as gross and as outra-
gcous as If they had been issued under vour
w signature. I shall continue to rcnard
them, therefore, as coming from yourself, and
shall use them accordingly. You know, sir.
that | baFc not come forward rs YOUR volu!,-
tary and uriproyokcd accuser. II your too
ready indicators had permitted me to re-
malp unmoiested, | should have pursued my
ordinary avocation, OF the farm on which I
reside III Bedford county, without interfering
with you or your ambitious projects; but !
vas called forth by a slanderous attact upon
my W character, and, in Standardization. I
teit IT due to myself to throw back in the teeth
o. my accusefs the charge of negro trading,
as applicable to you, their leader and idol.
As an excuse for attacking me, it was falsely
asserted that was the writer Of the Number
signed Il 3cRncSstcun, published, so much TO
your annoyance, III the Kentucky Reporter.
That foattcr is eiieciuaIly put at rest, the
real author is known, and has received, rs tho
reward OF his presumption, not only the
growing Of the "sick lion and tho sindig-
hdnt flushing of his Cyr,'' but the inefficient
faylnSs OF his Jacb0Us, and the still more So
nous assaults Of bis s,lbservient bullics. II
seems, sir, from this scandalous outrage that
II you arc maf.o(ed and pjnjonc& dorm by the
suing anu u PuOItC opinion, Jour followers
who partakc Of the spirit so well described
by your friend Colonel Benton, arc not res.
trained by the same power, but arc perhaps
too ready to resort to the paesporis by which
you rCsc.Tcd (" secure Il free passage bv the
agency house of Colonel Dinsmore for your,
self and gdm' n@grosS. Whether this is Il
specimen of what the people Of this nation
must expect from your elevation to the Pre-
sldcncy, | leave to the people themselves, at
ter viewing all the outragcs on personal lib
erty and safety committed by yourself and
your followers, impartialIy to decide. As it
respects the SANDER upon my character foun-
dcd on Mr.. Wirt's one-sidcd report, T have
only now TO say, that it is completely rcfnted.
by the certificates given in 1924, by the Jury
and bar ut Milledgoville, (Geo.) who heard
all the evidence and arguments in court, in
relation to the facts referred to in that report,
They thoroughly understood the whole mat
ter, and have given az impartial opinion,
whereas Mr.. Wirt's report was founded on
e1 Parte statements procured by my bitter po-
ltical encmies, Eaten, Calhoun, and Clark,
and was called UP, nearly two Years. after all