Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1828-10-10

Treaty must certainly be a fabrication: 1 can
find NO traces of any such correspondence a
mone my fathers papers. This "circumstance
"a a nsralIel TO wha, | saw stated some months
since by a Southern Heroite in a letter Contain
ing many peryersions: it was shat Gen. jack
son had in his possession a secret.Journa' SUP
sorised bv nv father. which would triumph.
an,ly exculpate him from the i"pnta'i"n oil
any mpropriety at the Chickasaw treaty, as
near as I can recollect. The letter was shewn
10 me by a friend, and as / believed that II was
all a Eradication to in,imidate our family and 10
smother he truth, | took the liberty OF saying
10 its author or authors under my own sigma,
ture chat my father had always entertained
the opinion, that Jscksou acted not only lain
lesslv and ar.ogantly al the ChicEasa" irsa'!
but corrup,iy"
NV mother informs me that after his return
f. ON the Treaty my la'her uniformly s'a'eo'
that he could have saved the Government iro"
800 10 Sl5o,oo if he had been the sole com
missioner to trta: Wv the lndians-that JACK
sons's proGigality Ne public money was be-
,ond all measure-.hat his wastetul contingent
expenditures, his rich presents 10 the Indians;
his in,rigues with personal friends, and with
the principal chiefs, together with his arro-
gance at The council board in making offers on
his sole authority TO the Indians. were wholly
foreign from his idea Of a faithful public SER
want, and crea'ed in him the strongest disgust.
The circumstances" under which Jackson's
portrait came INFO the house are these.-on
| heir return home from the treaty, Jackson was
| anxious 10 rface a recollection Of their differ
ences, and solicited in the warmest manner that
my father would suffer Mr.. Earle to take his
likeness as he raised through Nashville. His
advances and solicitations were toodiiect 10 be
with decency denied. Alter a delay of three
or four days in Nashville, during which much
hospitality and attention were shewn him. Mr..
Earle took his likeness, and my father in per-
forming an act of the most ordinary courtesy
in rrciprocaling the compliment OF Gen. jack
son, directed tina, Jackson's portrait should be
sent on to him. u was elegantly executed and
sent on, and, as you know, hung in the house
as a handsome piece of furniture for several
years, occasinning numerous It petitions Of the
facts l have here given in connection with II by
my father when in conversation with his par
tic ular friends. The publication Of the CORES
pondenCe between Mr.. Monroe and General
Jackson on the formation OF a Catine, in 1917,
IN whichJacksun set forth ,hr strong claims of
('he before un,hong!t" f Col. VIM. H. Dray-
ton OF S. C.. to The place OF Secretary Of Wal,
with his ssge.like objection 10 my fathers ap>
poin'ment, unveiled the hypocrisy Of his pro-
f%ession, and lis portrait was consigned 10 a
place with the rubbish of the garnet.
! Th' facts that I have given you, can be am.
ply attes,ed. You may rest assured that The
statements made by vpur Jackson County com,
mi'tee to prove my father an admirer of Gene
raj Jackson, are like many other Jackson stale
ments, even those having their "origln at his
own fire side" destitute of the necessary foun-
and will Confirm The have piven
Won IT they may appear necessary for your de-.
feuce.
Yours very respectfully.
ALFRED SHELBY.
Col. C.. ToDp.