Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1829-08-22
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To ANDREW JACKSON, President oFihe I'm
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SIR: On the Cd inst. I addressed letter to
you requesting an explanation of your extra
ordinary course in appointing me Consul
one day, and recalling the commissio the day
4, after, without assigning any other eason than
1" misrepresentation the PERSON intended to
be appointed TO this letter, have not been
favored with reply. Had received a sat
isfactory one, could have had no excuse for
this communication, which exceedingly re-
greet being compelled to make. But your ST.
lence. together with the insidious hint thrown
out in the "oficlal journal of the Govern
ment," that you had good cause for your act,
and the declaration by another Government
journal, that l had acted with deception,
constrain me TO make some comments on your
conduct, and to state the facts in regard to my
own.
Through an erroneous estimate OF your
character, the destinies Of mighty nation
have been consigned into your hands. A self
constituted and self styled Central Commit
tee" appear to have taken the affairs Of the
nation, and you in particular, into their spe-
cial keeping, for their own use and pleasure;
and claim right to 10 so, from having been
instrumental IN elevating you to your present
stltion-a station, for which neither your
character, intellect nor education ever designed
you, and which, from imbecility and wicked
ness, you daily disgrace 1t is said that you
are accessible to them at all times, and that
| they by fattery and adulaton mould you to-
their will understand, Sir, that one Of
! these miscreants, on hearing oflmy appoint
mont, bristllng himself up, and assuming an
air of vast consequence, as one of your conf
dental advisers and friends, remarked, in
lofty and commdn ling tone, that the Presi
dent must and should recall my commission,
or that he would desert him and his cause
| Sir, could-no repress smile at the con-
summate arrogance and impudence of the pup
py, as did not believe it possible that you
would suffer such reptile to tpproach you as
a dictator But, Sir, conceive my astonish-
meat, when, in less than four hours after | had
understood these threats to have been maze,
letter was put into my hands, which, on o.
Eening, read as follows:
DEPARTMENT OF STATE,
Washington 5ia Juiy 1925
john Jackson, Esq
Sir ,ir. ctrd by the President to request yoN
to return the comm ssron appointing ,uu Consul Of the
United States "a, N.r,lnquc, which had the honor of
enclosing YOU Few DAYS ago, to tins office; the order
for meking it out being discovered to have been
founded upon Misrepresentation, as to the person in
tended to be appointed,
DANIEL BRENT, Chief Clerk
After some reflection upon the subject,
the utterer Of The threat, before referred to,
had obtruIed himself into your presence and
demanded that my commission should be re-
called, under the penalties Of FORGETTING his
sage counsel and advice, and that OF his worthy
coadutors, together with the dissolution OF the
said Central Committee for | understand
they met in solemn conclave upon this mo-
mentous question, at the lnquistoral Cham
Der. in the Post Office, their general rendez-
vous, and there debated the question with
great zeal and pertinaclty, and finally decided
that the recall should be demandcd-when
committee was deputed to wit on your FIX
cellencv, to make known their decision, with
the awful consequences that would follow re-
! fusal After, giving an attentive ear, and due
| reflection, YOU truckled 10 their nsoience, and
forthwith ssueI tn, order of rev >caion.
Allow me here to pause, and ask, seriously
and anxiously, whether you, OF their mighty
hignessee, "the Central Committee" will
the destinies of the American People? That
YOU have acted in my case, as | have good
reason to believe you have IN others, agrcea-
bly to their advice and dictation. is, think,
Iincontrovertible. am toll. by one who pro-
fesses to be in the secret of your Holy lnqui-
sition, that, wien your emssarleS had dlsbur-
thened their conSciences-to wit: by telling
YOU that had been an opponent; that / had
written and circulated political matter, &c
&c-that YOU rose in all your majesty, look
ing them sernly in the face and IT. an austere
manner asked If they, of their own know
ledge, knew what they relat d to be true; aad
that they answered in the affirmative. In do
ing so, they told tha, which was tn/Se. Ii
viii be time enough for me 20 admit or deny
the correctness Of the matter charged, when
/ learn, from an authentic source in what 1t
cons Stcd
But, sir. see the ridiculous position you
.:,inh lie