Alabama state intelligencer., 1831-10-15

met as has been stated at MT Berren's and adjust ed our relations amicaby; and yet this reconciia- ton, produced, as is seen from MT Branch's note, by lhe kind and friendly interposition of the Presi- dent, is represented to have been mmedideiyPreced- cd by "indignity and outrage" and to have been Satceeded by state of feeling too much excited "to sceigh dny reasons uhich might be oferedi" :" How thoroughly is all this contradcted by Mir Branchs cOntemporaneOus note.
 Private difficulties were now at an end, and, as was well understood, families were to visit or not, according to their incinations. In two days the "indgnity and outrage" which had been offered to these gentlemen was forgotten, much so that for fifteen months matters gded on in toerabIe harmO- ny. Nothing more was said or heard of this sub ject until the President as he bad an unquestoned right to do thought proper to request their resigna tons. Then were old notes and memoranda bur nished up, and that over which they had slept so long, immediately became subject of deep and |" awakening interest 10 the American peope."- The truth is this tarce, which is now brought out on the public stage, designed for different occa- sion. It was in January or February, 1850, that they expected to exhibit before the public, and to unfold the iale of threats from the President dismissal and family association. and all that Not being dismiss ed then, as they expected they laid aside their pre- pared tale; but having at length lost their offices, ihey bring it forth upon an occasion which 1t does not fiji, and vany attempt 10 attribute the dissolution of the Cabinet to false ground. That event they knew sprung from an entirely different cause-a cause which will satisfy every impartial man when he comes to understand it. To account for their removal they offer any but the true reason, and hence run into all sorts of absurdiy
 Shortly after this, about the 20lh of March, pre- porntory meeting of few members of Congress l was held with view to request the President to remove me from the Cabinet. Being apprsed of iher design, he made remark which satisfied the leaders m this movement, that to persist in their course Would serve to expose them to public repro baton, ani result in lruitless endeavor According y, the proJect abandoned, or at least suspended
 do not inpute to all who participated in this pre- llmlnary sep,a design to unite ultimately In mea- sure of such high dictation to the President Some were at first msled by false representations, and in duced to believe that his peace and comfort, well as the success of his administrations depended upon Il; others attended the meeting to point out the i'm proprety of the course, and to dissuade their friends from persisting in their design.
 Now, what was the motive for all this relentless | persecution? Could ii be that my wife was indeed the cause3 Was It merely to exclude female from their good society?" Was one woman so danger ous to public morals, and so formidable in influence and power, as to require all this strong array of Cabinet counseors-combinaon of members of | C0ngress-cOniederacy of fashionable ladies? Was It for that, attacks made upon the integrity of her husband; dhonor truth and cardor sacrifced The idea is truly rldiculous She was lone and pow eress. Those who liked her society, sought it and those who did not kept away. Neither she nor her husband, entered into cables and nrigues to the prejudice and injury of others. Their own mul- hplled wrongs, they bore with much patience as could be expected, from morals endowed with hu- man passions and sensibilities. A common under standing prevailed express in relation to one family and which also understood in relation to others that each should seek their own associates accord ing to their own will, unnhuenced and unrestrained The m0tire, therefore, was not 10 exclude us from society It is matter altogether too s0aU to ac- count for the acts aud untring zeal of so many great 1nen.
 Was the mOtire merely to exclude me from the Cabinet? Was my presence there, dangerous to the interest of the country, to its institutional Had the power or the disposition to nure the one, or overthrow the other? Was it pretended that want ed the ability, intelligence or integrity necessary to the management of the Department of War? Of Its management there has been no complaint, while it was in my hands lefit at least prosperous as found 1t! Was 1t suspected that was not true to the President and would prove false and aithless to his administration confidential intercourse of more than fifteen years the highest admiration of his char acer and the deep personal interest felt in the cess of his administration, surely sufficient to guard me against that. Nothing of this sort enter ed into the minds of my traducers, They had no desire for my exclusion on account of any suspicious entertained, that would willingly do injury to the interests of the country its institutions, or to the President. To what then shall we look for this 'nO- tUe? An ardent friend of the Vice President, in 1899, in one short sentence disclosed t:-" Major Eaton is not the friend of Mr Calhoun"
 It was this which rendered me unfit for the Cabi- net, and for the respectable society of Messrs Ing ham, Branch and Berrien. l could not, perhaps be used 10 promote the views of MT Calhoun, and might exert an influence to induce General Jackson to stand second election. It was not thought that in my hands the influence and patronage ofthe War Department, could be used in favor of successor. In that they did me justice. It was not so used nor pvp hoya hpo n suh fnhr t,,b. ol l spoke not, and felt not. Not was solicitous for General Jackson again to be selected, except on the ground that his princp pies and the of his administration, when fairly tested, should be found in accord with the general sense of the people and the country. At proper time they would deter mine this natter and there was willing to rest it, undisturbed by any private or official interference of mine.
 But Major Eaton not the friend of Mir Cal houn," and this was sufficient reason, why he should not be permitted to enter the Cabinet if to be prevented; or for forcing him out when there-| The intellectual attempts to exclude mo, have alrea- dy been audedto. It has been shown that Berrien and lngham, concealing deep in their bosoms their feelings entered the Cabinet, under full con viction that presently would be excluded-that MT Calhoun's family and mine, before my appointment, nterchanged civiles, and that he sought of me the appointment of friend as Chief Clerk-and that thereafter all private and official intercourse between us, ceased Let it be borne in mind that the prin- cipas-those who have been actively employed against me, are the friends of Mir Cahoun-his de- voted active parlizans It is readily to be inferred, then, that this thigh wrought tempest" has pro- ceeded from political designs, connected with the future hopes and expectations of Mir Calhoun; and this inference have ii in my power to confirm by the most unguestionahe facts.
 Duff Green, Editor of the United States Tele- graph, has been from the first the instrument of Mir Calhoun, by whose movements he has sought to bring his plans into operation To him the feelings