Alabama state intelligencer., 1831-10-22


 him. were now again the first to express their conf 7 dence Tn hIs administration, and nominate him for a reelection. Awed by the independence and un- corrupted voice ofhs State, the managers at Wash ngton paused m their career listen for the distant g echoes of this deaiening sound, ,-ths unexpected annunciatlon. Mark how it was announced in the Telegraph.
 rhe position @ s press located at the seat of govern mant-its presumed relation to the President the and decote regard whicht has all times maintained for public opinion, impose rrsrams upon it, to the
 eS'con s te of ther4ry of ' continuance in , Again, voice from New York, responding to the recommendation from Pennsylvania in terms of ap- probation, equally strong, was also heard and these two large States, thus moving and acting together gave answers, that whoever chose to go into retire ment could do so but thatt the claims of MT Calhoun to the Presidency would certainly, for the present. have to be postponed. Before recovery could be effected from these decisive movements the rcto of the President upon the Maysvie Road Bill was an- nounced, and filled the South wth'joy and hope.- IL falsfed the predictions which had been made to Mir Rltchie, and swept away that, whence q suc- cessiul opposition was expected to arse It was perceived that the Presidents moral was no less than hls physical courage, and the people of the South already exhibited general feeling in his fla yor All hope of arraying the South against the North, was seemingly impraccable and for time abandoned. Evidences of better feeling began to | appear, and Tn June the Telegraph undertook to show, that it had always been in favor of the re- | election of General Jackson. In the mean time, the President and the Vice President had differed Tn relation to some incident connected with the Se- mlnoe Indian war, which had occasoned coul- ness and separation.
 Congress again assembled, and it was rumored that Mir Calhoun intended to write book and give to the public his correspondence with the President The papers were shown privately to his friends who busIed themselves m representing the affair, in con versatlon and in their letters intrigue which had been gotten up on the part of Van Buren to de- stroy MT Calhoun In preparing and bringing for ward this address, much policy was necessary, and | 1t was employed I was requested to examine the manuscript, that If there was any thing in it that could have tendency to induce the President to ply to 1t, modification might take place. The re- quest obeyed; but afterwards, that incident was used to prove, that the friends of the President had read and sanctioned the address, before il obtained publication. The statement as it relates to me, was ilberal and untrue.
 The publication of this work again aroused party amnesty and partizans were perceived to take sides, according to their personal prediections and to bring up the question of the succession, prema- turely, as the means of creating division among the orglnai supporters of the administration. The dis cusslons in Congress evidently marked by such lnesof separatlon and while Messrs Ingham, Branch and Berren, could there find apologists and advo cates, the other three membersofthe Cabinet, were struck at, as the points of attack, by the oppos ton. The one was magn in1uence," which was bending every thing to selfish purpose, while our colleagues were receiving honor and commenda ton. Abuse from the papers one side, and dis position to retaliae from the other, were now clearly manifest. We thus had prospect of open war be- tween partlzans of different portions ofthe Cabinet the evls of which, as was plainly to be perceived, could not but penetrate into deliberations, inter- rupt business, affect the progress of public affairs and disturb the quiet and repose of the country.- While party to contest the succession was thus ganlzed Tn Congress and in the Cabinet, one of the prominent friends of Mir Calhoun introduced reso- luhon which contemplated, by retrospective pro- vision, to amend the Constitution so as 10 exclude Gen. Jackson from being eligible to reelection. If those who urged this measure in the Honse of Rep resentatives did not hope absolutely to dslranchse the President by obtaining such amendment, they moved it as means of bringing general principle 10 operate on him alone, and by obtaining vote on the abstract proposition, to urge it the ofthe representatives of the people against his reelection In this mode the war waged against the fame and influence of the man who was elevated by the voice of the people, and who was again summoned | by them to become n candidate, because he had re- alized all their hopes the reiormer of abuses in the government, and was securing the rights of our citizens and adjusting the difficulties of the country
 The situation of the President, was now easily to be perceived. With Cabinet politically divided, and personally, may be presumed not very friend ly, it was impossible for him to move along in the duous duties of his station, with satisfaction to him self, or advantage to the country It was apparant that, in justice to himself he must be under the necessity ofre-organizng his Cabinet, and fit could not otherwise be accomplished to dismiss the dsaf feced portion of it. Having accepted, reluctantly, a place in the Cabinet, concluded no longer to crifce my private comfort be the occasion of em- barrassment to the President Early in April com municated to him (whal in the previous month had written 10 friend in Philadelphia my wish and in- tention to resign which shortly after executed In my letter of gnation it was not necessary or pro- per that should go into history of events such are presented. 1 confined my remarks solely to that which concerned myself without adyerting to, or touching on, the conduct of others felt not that any defence, or vindcation, for voluntarily yielding my office. was necessary; and feeling no disposition 10 nure assa others f0rebore to en- ter into details. The same determination would have been persevered in, had not the iliberal conduct of my colleages made different course necessary. MT Van Buren taking similar view of the condi- ton of the Cabinet and the situation of the Presi- dent, connected with the peculiar circumstances in which he had been placed by his opponents, thought proper also to resign Without going into full plantation his letter of resignation, naming any of his colleagues, he presented briefly the result of the political intrigues, which were dividing the Ca blnet dstractng the party, and which pointed to a change in the councils oft the President as necessary and indispensable.
 | The secret feelings and designs with which my colleagues entered the Cabinet, and which while there, they continued to cherish-their "notes' of private conversations, treasured up for future and concerted use,-the advice of certain caba, and an acquiescence in the counsel given to enter the Cabi net, and continue there for special purposes, not witbstandng "the inseparable bar" which chconscience suggested, and the "ndignity and outrage" which had been offered and borne for fifteen months, were all unknown to me. These were secrets worth pre- serving, and they were kept closely. Yet entire confidence was repossd, that on being informed that MT Van Buren and myself had retired, the others had