Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1831-03-10

General Green: herewith enclose state
ment, which | wish to be published in your
paper as supplemental to my correspondence
with General Jackson, and which has been
made necessary by the publication of Mr..
Forsyth's letter to Mr.. Hamilton.
j. c. CALHOUN.
c4th February, 1881.
In my letter to Gen. jackson of the 29th
MAY, 1880, published in the correspondence,
speaking of the plst to destroy my political
standing, stated, "that several indications
forcwarned me, long since, that blow was
tneditated against me: will not say from
the quarter from which TINS comes; but. in
relation to this subject, more than two years
since, | had a correspondence with the pres
ent district attorney for the southern district
Of New York, on the subject OF the proceed
ings of the Cabinet in the Seminole war,
which, though it did not then excite parti
cular attention, has since, in connexion with
other circumstances, served to direct my
eve to what was going on" The letter of
AR Forsyth to Mr.. Hamilton, of n. York,
TO whom | referred In the above extract,
published BY the former in the United States
Telegraph of the ED instant. enables me to
trace another link in this artlul conspiracy
against my character, which, | trust, will
form sufficient apology fer my again intru
ding myself On the public attention. If CO
py of this letter, which, II seems, was Pac-
ed in the hands Of the President, when MIR
Forsyth put hira ia possession OF copy Of
Mr.. Crawiard's letter 10 him of the 30th A
pril, 1890, had been furnished me, as in jus
tice it ought to have been, the remarks that
am now constrained to make, would have
appeared in the body of the correspondence
with General Jackson, and could have saved
rae the pain of again troubling the public.
I then conceived had a right TO be put in
possession of ali the facts and circumstances
referred to in Mr. Crawfords letter to MIR.
Forsyth, and that the withholding of them
was an act of injustice to me, calculated,
whatever may have been the intention, to de
prive me of the means Of tracing ont and ex-
posing to the public, what did net doubt to
be base political plot The letter from Mr..
Forsyth TO Mr. Hamilton, now published, it
seems, was the one referred 10 by Mr. Craw-
ford in his letter to Mr. Forsyth, but with
the name of Mr. Hamilton Jeff FLANK in the
copy OF Mr.. Crawiords letter which was
furnished me. The facts disclosed by the
publication of MIR. Forsyths letter to Mr..
| Hamilton, taken ia connexion with the
correspondence alluded to with the present
District Attorney Of the Southern District of
New York, will prove, as | will presently
show, that had just cause to complain That
evidence. material to my vlndcahon, was
withheld; and cannot but regret, that Mr..
Forsyths s'respect to the personal delicacy
of Major Hamilton" has, in its effects, OPP
Grated, though it may not have been so in
tended, unjustly towards me, by preventing
me from tracing, in my correspondence with
4 Gen. jackson, one of the earliest, and | must
i add, the loulest movements in the operations
of this political conspiracy What could
have done, then, in conneXion with the sc
neral chain Of my remarks, am now con
4 strained to do in this detached way, with
II great disadvantage TO nay vlndlcatlon; the
full force of which would have been more
deeply felt by viewing all the circumstances
In conHexIon,
This letter. by its date and other circum-
stances, clearly connects itself with MIR. Ham
ilton's cores pondence with me, already al.
luded TO; makes the correspondence link
4 in the chain Of this corrupt political intrigue,
4 thereby carrying back the movement to the
early part Of the year 1928; and, by its re-
ference to an individual (Major Lewis then
residing in Nashville, as will be seen in the
i copy of the correspondence with Mr.. Ham
alton, hereto annexed, shews it to be part
of the system Of operations which, as ap
pears by Mr.. Crawford's letter to Mr. Balch,
had been commenced against me in Deem
Der, 1927, and following so soon after, pro
baby constitutes the second link in this foul
plot against an individual, zeaousiy cooper
atng at the same time in the political cause
with those censpiring against him; and who,
from their political relation to him ct the
time, he had right to consider his friends.
\ / take no pleasure in exposing transaction
Z go disgraceful, but | feel myself compelled TO
do so in the discharge of private and pub
4 lie duty. 1t must be painful and Notifying
to the public to know, that the practice OF
such arts is possible under our system, but
that tits SO, may guard against its recur-
renee. in future.
In order to give clear understanding oil
the affair, it will be necessary to make few
preliminary remarks
1t appears, from Mr.. Forsyth's letter, that
1T was written in reply to latter, dated al
Savannah, the 25th Jan. 1928, from MIR
Hamilton, who was then on bis return from
New Orleans, where he had been. by the
appointment of the Tanmany Society Of n
York, to represent them, asI understood, in
the celebration Of the Sth January, 1898
General Jackson had been invited by the
Legislature of Louisiana, to attend the cele
bratlon. Mr. Hamilton, on his way TO New
Orleans. passed through this city, in De
cember, 1927, when Congress was in SEES
SION, and after remaining here son.a DAYS he