Alabama state intelligencer., 1831-03-16
Mr Calhoan 10 General Jackson.
PENDLEToN, June %. 183(


 SIR: embrace the first leisure moment slhce my return home to enclose to you CO., py ot letter from Mir Forsyth, the original of winch was handed to me on my passage from Washington to Norfolk, on board the steamboat, and also a copy of my answer.
 You will learn, by perusal of MT For syth's letter. that if -afere -.L - d.nce between us, and that 1t places the sub jeet of that correspondence in light in some respects different from what had previously regardedit. had supposed, from the com plexion of your letters to me, that the copy of Mir Crawford's letter to MT Forsyth had been placed by the latter in your hands, with cut any previous agency on your part; but, by MT Forsyth's letterto me, l am informed that such is not the fact. It seems that he acted as your agent in the affair. He states that you applied to him to be informed of what took place in the cabinet of MT Monroe on the subject of the Seminole campaign; and infer, as the information could be obtained only from some one the members of the ca binet, and as MT Forsyth was not one, and, as far as am informed, not particularly in innate with any of its members, except Mir Crawford, that the object of your request was to obtain the information, through Mir Forsyth from MT Crawford, and that, con- sequently, in writingt to him, and in placing | the copy of his lettcrin your hands, he can be regarded in no otherlight but that of your agent.
 | Under this new aspect of this affair, con- ceiye that have the right to claim of you to be put in possession of all the additional in formation, which might fairly have demand ed of Mir Forsyth, had the correspondence been originally between him and myself, on the supposition on which l acted previously to the receipt of his letter. He avows him self ready, if desired by me, to furnish me with the additional information: but a sense of propriety would not permit me to make the request of him. Considered as your o. gent in this affair, it is not for me to make the request of information of him. What ad- ditional information l conceive myself to be entitled to, my letter to you of the 29th May will sufficiently indicate. A part Of the in- formation it seems, from Mir Forsyth's let ter, is already in your possession, and there can bcno doubt, but the whole would be fur nishcd at your request. | make this application solely from the de- sire of obtaining the means of enabling me to unravel this mysterious affair. Facts and circumstances, light of themselves, may, when viewed in connexion, affcrd important l light as to the origin and object of what firmly believe to be a base political intrigue, | got up by those who regard your reputation and the public interest much less than their own personal advancement.
 Imust remark in conclusion, that the let ter of MT Forsyth affords to my mind conelu- siye proof that the intimations to my preju- dice, to which you refer in your letter of the 30th ut. and which, you seem to think made no impression on your mind, have not hecn without their intended effect. On no otacr supposition can explain the fact, that, with out giving me any intimation of the step, you should apply for information, as to my course in the cabinet, to one whom you know to be hostile to me as MT Crawford is, and who could not, as you know, make the disclosure consistently with the principles of honor and fidelity, when my previous correspondence with you ought to have satisfied you that I was prepared to give you, frankly and fully, any information which you might desire, in relation to my course on the occasion.
 J. C. CALHOUN.