Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 182?-183?, 1831-10-07

so many great men.
Was the notiue merely to exclude me from
the Cabinet! Was my prcseace there dan
gerous 10 the interest of the country, or to
It's institutions: Had the power or the dis
position TO injure the enc, or overthrow The
other? Was it pretended that wanted the
ability, intelligence, or integrity, necessary
10 The management of the De lrtment of
war: vi IT'S management, there has been
no complaint while it was in my hands:
lett II at least as prosperous as found it
W as II suspected that | was not true TO the
President, and would prove false and faith
less TO his administration? A confidential in
tercourse OF more than fifteen years the high
est admiration ofhis character, and the deep
personal interest felt in the success of his adj
lhlnistraiion, were surely sufficient TO guard
| me against that. Nothing of this sort enter
cd INTO the minds of my traducers They
had no desire for my exclusion on account of
any suspicious entertained that would will
lingly do injury TO the interests of the coun-
try, IFS institutions, or to the President. To
what, then, shall we look for this nlotire 2
An ardent friend of the Vice President. in
1929, in one short sentence disclosed il
Major Eaton is not tae friend Of lIr.
Calhoun"
III was this which rendered me unfit for
the Cabinet, and for the respectable society
oil MesSrs. lngham, Branch and Berrien.
Could not, perhaps, be used 10 promote the
views OF MIR. Calhoun, and might exert an
influence TO induce General jackson TO stand
second election. twas not thought that
IN my hands, the influence and patronage of
the War Department could he used in favor
OF successor. In that they did me Justice.
1T was not so used, nor ever would ave been.
Ii was subject, about which | spoke not.
and felt not Nor even was solicitous for
General jackson again to be selected except
on the ground that his principles and the
course Of his administration, when fairly test
ed, should be found TO accord with the gem
eral sense of the people and the country. AT
proper time they would determine this
matter, and there was willing TO rest il, I'M
disturbed by any private or official intcrlcr-
enCe of mine
But "Nlajor Eaton was not the friend of
MIR. Calhoun" and this was a sufficient rea-
son, why he should not be permitted TO enter
the Cabinet, if TO be prevented or for fore
ing him out when there. The Intellectual al
tempts 10 exclude me, have already heen al
luded to. Ii has been shown that Berrien
and lngham, concealed deep in their bosoms
their feelings, entered the Cabinet, under a
full conviction that presently would be eX-
cluded-that Mr.. Calhoun's family & mine.
before my appointment, interchanged civil
ties, and that he sought of me the appoint
ment Of friend as Chief Clerk-and that
thereafter all private and official intercourse
between us, ceased. Let it be borne in
mind, that the princip als-those who have
been actively employed against me, are the
friends Mr. Calhoun-his devoted, active
partizanS. Ii is readily 10 be inferred, then.
that this "high wrought tempest" has pro-
ceeded from political designs, connected with
the future hopes and expectations of MIR.
Calhoun; and this inference have it in my
power to confirm, by the most unques,iona-
BILE facts.
Duff Green, Editor Of the United States
Telegraph, has been from the first the in
strument of Mr.. Calhoun, by whose move
ments he has sought 10 bring his plans into
operation. To him the feelings and plans of
his party have been known. He has been
their chief manager; first their private, and
now their public organ. Him they chose TO
carry on their private correspondence~-him
they selected to make their debut against me,
they standing behind the scene with their
notes, memoranda, s. concerted statements.
TO back and sustain him. As he is their wit
ness and their friend, their agent and asso-
ciate, they will not impeach the testimony
borne by his acts. His ,cord would not be
introduced by me as evidence against any
whom lie was DESTROYS TO inure Before /
knew him, rendered substantial services to
this man; but his ingratitude is warning TO
the friends who now Confde in him. of what
they may expect if interest or policy shall
hereafter make Unnecessary Before he left
missouri, he was poor and pennyless, TOO
much so, as he informed me and others, to he
able TO remove his wife and children TO this
place, where he had then lately established a
press. Upon this application TO me, and
stating his necessities. | borrowed for him
fourteen hundred dollars; part of which he
repaid IN about fifteen months, and the bal
ance only recently; when he found the sense
OF the community shocked by the bascness of
employing the means furnished by my unre-
turned advances TO destroy my reputation.
In difficulty here, and pressed for money,
he again IN 1896 applied 10 me, when, thro'
a friend OF mine in Baltimore, obtained for
HIM > 800 For the very press from which
probably, he daily circulates bis abuse of me,
i nave note which was protested and paid
by me, on which was not an endorscr, and
winch has been in my possession several
years. inc Whole, OF part of which still re-
mains unpaid. 10 my eXertions aud zeal in
his behalf, as most oflhe Senate of the Uni
ted States can testify, is he indebted for his
first success as public printer, the annual re-
ceipts of which appointment at this time are
not less than from thirty TO fifty thousand dol
lars. These things might have been omit !
ted, for charity and friendship are secret in
their operation, and should not he proclaim |
ed to the world; but surely may be per-
milted 10 mention them, not in the spirit of
nm ostentatiOus liberaity, but that the public /