Alabama state intelligencer., 1831-08-20
From the Washington Globe, of July 27.

From the Washington Globe, of July 27.
 MT Belrien having answered our last let ter by an appeal to the public, we do not choose to permit him to escape reply by changing his address. We are prepared to meet him before that tribunal or before any other to which he may choose to carry his ap- peal. It seems that he had been preparing for some time to make an issue with some an tagonist, and having chosen his man, we think he has no right to dismiss him. --
 In his letter to Col. Johnson, dated the Eth July, shortly after his resignation, he says !" If, without imputing to me the alleged want of harmony in the Cabinet, my retirement is placed on the ground of the Presidents MERE WILL, so far as l am concerned, it is well. l do not dispute his right to exercise that as he thinks fit; but for the sake of my children, l will not submit to the continued misrepresentations of the public Journals. " What public Journal first asserted that the President sought to impose on Mrs Branch, and Ingham, the condition of submitting their family affairs to his control, as the price of their continuance in their employments'- What pubic Journal, after having annoyed the ears of the people for months, with the clamor of the malign influence, at last called on Col. Johnson to prove the assertions that it made? Was it not the Telegraph, and has it not given again and again the version which Mir Berrien now gives us, of the dissolution of the Cabinet? And let us ask who prompt ed that press, which is known to be the or gan of the disaffected portion of the late Cabi net? The prompters were MesSfs Berrien and Ingham. They were closeted repeated ly with this Editor while engaged in propa- gating their version of the transaction, and preparing the public mind for the reception of their own account of it. He was contnu- ally admonshng the public by the signs of his Telegraph, that these gentlemen would presently come out to make good the charge which he was so solcitous to establish against the President. They have at last come out to make good, by their own evidence, their own accusation, which they themselves pre- fvrred thneusI, sn, thu 9'~iS sruI,i,. They are the plaintiffs in this case-the Edi- tor of the Telegraph their attorney, and Col. Johnson was the witness upon whose testimo- ny they were to recover damages-upon his evidence they have been nonsuted!! And what next9
 MT Berrien now takes the case out of the hands of his attorney, MT Green, undertakes to file his own declaration, and plead his own cause in the opposition columns of the lead- ing Clay newspaper, and by a most unjustifa- ble stratagem, brings in his late partners, Messrs Branch and Ingham, as witnesses to defeat their own evidence by impeaching the | veracity of the individual whom they have called as witness-one whom they admitted to be common friend, impartial and disin- | terested-immediately and personally conver- sant with all the circumstances-intimate with the private views entertained by the President on the subject, and the umpire who so suc- cessfully interposed to settle the difficulties ,cJ ,,,o,c;1., tho m of no Cabinet After the Telegraph had reitera- ted the statement so frequently, and vouched | it by intimatng that his allegations would be sustained by the three Ex-Secretaries, he then ventured to point to member of Congress, as having pressed the demand on these gentle men by the authority of the President. It is not improbable that the managers of this bu- sness, persuaded themselves that the form- dable array of Mree to one, would prevent Col. Johnson from disavowing the agency im- puted to him. MT Berrien himself endea- vored to defeat the effect of the contradiction in the Globe, by insisting that it was unau- thorized; and at the moment that he attempt cd to inpeach the veracity of the Editor oi this print for making his statement, contra dieting in the name of Col. Johnson, the as- sertion of the Telegraph in relation to that gentleman, MT Berrien had in his own hands, letter from Col Johnson, which justified, r the utmost latitude, the declaration on ouI side. In that letter, Col. Johnson says:
 "Tho Telegraph has allnded to some commun
 cation made you by member of Congress, author ized by the President-the substance of which is that the President wished to coerce social inter course between your families and Mrs Eaton. see the Globe denies it. have thought it barely poss
 ble that the allusion could be made to me- because il I had ever communicated such an idea, should have | tl,a Wnnf Ini ire to the Presidents for he disclaimed, on all occasions any right, or desire, intention, to regulate the pr
 vate or social intercourse of his Cabinet. The Pre- sdent had been inducedto believe that part of his Cabinet had entered into deep laid scheme to drive Major Eaton from his Cabinet, and of this he complained. did not believe it, and as the mutual friend of all concerned, Iproposed that should have the opportunity to with that portion of his Cabinet before he had an interview with them, and | he acquiesced-and the interview which had with you, resulted as understood in better understand ing, and in fact considered it a reconciliaton.- Whatever came from me, upon the subject of a so cial intercourse, was the suggestion of ny soiiestud' to restore harmony among friends" h t
 l And what do they bring to repel this volun- tary, explicit and impartial testimony of the only disinterested witness produced? Nothing but their own unsupported assertions, if we may be allowed to call that an assertion of a charge which does in effect absolutely dis
 prove it. as originally made. The charge
 as put forth in the Telegraph, June, 1881, un'
 der the eye of some of those who have now
 stepped forward to assume the responsibility is thus specified: "He," the President, "pu
 his own fame, the interests of the country
 and the republican party, upon desperat
 attempt, to control the private intercourse society,"" ''' '''c- --' ''''''