Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1831-02-21
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Mr. Calhoun 10 General Jackson.


Sra: Though you intimate, IN your letter of yes
terday, that no further communication with me is
necessary the beet to which it refers feel my
self mpeed to notice of your remarks, lest my
silence should be construed into an acquiesence in
their truth business. | shah be brief possible
You say that | have entirely mis-. AIKEN your letter
of the 18th May, IN supposing that it questioned
either my motives or conduct. | an not aware
that | have imputed TO you impeachment of my
motivas but Ger AMY did understand that you had
questioned the sincerity and frankncss of my conduct
and must add hat your present letter, notwthstan
ding the most demonS'ratvn proof which had Offers
ed TO the contrary, shows clearly That understood
you CORE tly, asd of course w@ not, as you sup
pose, mistaken.
| have no doubt that lhore arc those who, actua-
ted by enmity to me, and friendship you. have
the most artul manner, for years latimal cd that
have been secretly cndeavorIng tn inure you, how
ever absurd the ldea hut mus express my surprise
that you should have permitted institutions, base
they false, to operate you, when every word
and Of mine gave TO them the lie direct. feel
conscious that have honOrabiy and fully perform
ed towards yOu every duty that friendship imposed,
and that any mputation to the contrary Is wholly
unincritcd.
You mist axe in supposng that have any dispute
with Mr. Crawford. That he bears Ill WILL rs
certain; but whatever feeling of unklndness ever
had towards him has long since passed away; so
much so, that instead of returning his attacks on
mo, the line of conduct which had prescribed to
myself was bear patiently and silently all that he
night do or say leaving it time and ruth to VIM
dica;e my conduct II have apparently departed
from the rule that had prescribed in this case was
not because there any disposition my part to
alter the line ni my conduct; but when you interpOs-
ed your name by placing my hands a copy OF his
letter addressed t. Mr. Forsyth, compelled, by
an act OF yours, III order that my silence might not
be interpreted into an acknowledgment of the truth
of Mr. Crawfnrd'S atemcnt, to correct his mlssatc
ments, and TO expose The motives of en,nity which
actuitcd him, and which sought 10 you i'll
strument of Its qualification.
You intimate, that at some future time. when YOU
may have more II5urc, you will place the subject of
this correspondence IN i different light. | wish you
To be assured, feel every confidence, that when
ever you may be disposed TO tho correct
Of either my statement conduct this affair,
shall be prepared on my part to maintain the truth
of the one, and frankncs5, honor patriotism of the
| other, throughout this whole transaction
That you honestly thought that your orders author.
lied you to do whaty6u did, have never questioned
bur that You can show by any document, public OF
private that they intended give you the au-
! thoriiy which YOU assumed or thai any such con
sirucIlon placed on them, at any time, by the
administration, or myself in particular I believe tC
be impossible.
You remark that my letter Of the 29lh instant IL
the first ntmatlon you had that had taken differ
cnt view from yourself OF your orders That yot
should conceive that you had no animation before, il
to mo unaccounlablc. | had supposed that the lnv
latiOu Of Mr. Monroe IN his letter to you Of the 20t
October, 1915 with tho intention that the dlereu
views taken by you and myself OF the orders shou
DO placed on the files OF tho Department, and m,
letter to you of the 18Th April, 1923, covering
copy of my letter to Ma or Lee, in which refer T.
tho pubic documents. and private correspondence be
tween you and Mr. Monroe, ,ontainuG the view
taken OF your orders, aud The otter winch ! made Il
present ny views more fully, II not gwen sutlicCn II
explicit IN the documents referred u, were at Cas
|, an inmalion that We differed IN the construction
OF the orders; and oc assured that neither my
duct words. actions, or letters, afford the sIghtes
: proof 10 the cont airy
The charge which YOU have made against mo, Q
secret hostility aud opposition, which, iftruc, woul
80 vitality alIec my character Cor sincerity and hono
and which has caused rupture IN our long conInu
Il cd friendship has other ioundn llon but that OF
: difference between us 10 the construction OF you