Alabama state intelligencer., 1831-03-23


 hecause you believed you could more eifectualy n- ;uro me | request that hereafter, if you should have occasion to write speak of me, you would not feign a forbearance you do not feel
 You affect to lament that my friends dld not inter Fere and prevent my meddling with this natter l noLe no doubt that you would have been very clad to have been spared the trouble of making so slaborats q comment upon letter of three pages make no doubt that you dislike the idea oi helng exposed and stripped of the covert you have been en- loving under tbc Presidents wings, by means of falsehood and misrepresentation. Ton assert the susncion that vou wrote or caused to be written, the letter which was published in the Nashville Gazette is without foundation. man who knows as well is do the small weight which any assertion o yours is entitled in matter where your interest eaos you to disregard the truth must have other evidence than your assertion, to remove even suspicioh' 1ou ask why not charge Mir Adams with having written or caused that letter to be written The answer IS easy and conclusive. That letter contained two falsehoods-one intended to njure me; the other in- tended to benefit you and that which was for your benefit taking from Mir Adams half the credit of de- f1anding General Jackson, and giving it to you Ad- hitting for the sake of argument, that MT Adams was disposed to iniure me, one will thlnk, sup pose that he would voluntarily ascrbe half merits of his own actions to the man who was the most strenuous opposer ofhs wishes If the intrinsic evi- dence of the letter fixes ii upon you and not upon Mir Adams, subsequent events strongly corroborate the inference deducble from the contents of the publish cd letter. During the whole of the Presidential can of '23, 24, have recollection of any act of MT Adams, tending to villify me- but you knoo, that you set up the Washington Republican in Washing ton, for the express purpose Of vIliylng my repua- ton and had the etontery and shameessness to 1t to be published by clerk in the department wh"sc tenure of office was your will. The facts winch have stated will exonerate MT Adams from the charge of having any concern with the NashVlne letter. and fix thatcharge upon you in the estimation nfr rSn To napn vpur withstanding,
 You place great stress upon the conduct Of gentle men in Congress, whom you assert to be my friends. This is what might be expected from man of your loose principles, or rather no principles My friends in Congress were men who would have been insult ed, had any man, however elevated, approached them in language of entreaty and persuasion. never did and never would, if were to live q thousand years interfere with man who was acting under the obligations of an oath, to persuade or en- treat him to act contrary to tie convictions of hls own judgement; and if I such member, and any man, however elevated he might be- were to interfere with by way of entreaty or persuasion, I should feel myself nsuted, and should certainly insult the person so interfering. The only cosyersa- ton I recoect ever to have participated in with member of Congress, in reference to the foregoing subject was with MT Cobb, at my own house, in the presence of Mir Macon of N A (: In that c9szersa- , Anlbrister to death. Mir NIacon I believe was COHNluCeu, Dul dlll HOI CeItdlu uldt CODO was That gentleman acted in concert with MT Clay, in the part he acted in the discussion upon the Seminole Mir Forsyth and Mir Lacocl were of high character and experience, and eant upon no person. MT Eppes made speech in favor of the report which was intended te be made, and was in consequence placed on the committee in place of Dlr Forsyth. 1 wonder you had not discovered, that he too was particular friend ofmine.
 You say that, as it appears from Mir McDufiie's letter. had no scrupes about disclosing the secrets of the cabinet, had it in my power to change the opinions of my friends, by disclosing the contents of the confidential letter. Noperson who had proper regard for the feelings character of Mir Monroe, coull make of that letter; for it manifestly written under the impression that Mir Monroe was capable of that dupcity which would eonnive at the execution of a measure, and dsavow it after it was executed. must confess, had been President, I should not have been 0attered by its reception If had, as you errOneously represent me, been little scrupuous about disclosing the secrets of the cabi net which is positively denied, notwithstanding MT McDufie's statement, should have made no use of that letter, and this from respect to Mir Monroes feelings and character.
 In the whole course of my life, have been so much in the habit of uttering my opinions and sta ting facts as they are known to me, when made pro- per hy time and place, that when am charged after any lapse of time, with having uttered opinions or made statements of lacts do not hesitate to admit such opinions were uttered, statement of facts made, II tne opnlOns cOTespOndeu Witn tn0se en- tertaned, with the knowledge of facts then pos sessed; but when l am charged with uttering opin- ions never entertained, with making statements of facts. inconsistent with my knowledge of them at the time they are alleged to have been made or un- der circumstances not rendering the disclosure pro- per, have as little hesitation in declaring the charge fase Applying this rule to Mir McDufe's letter. have no hesitation in saying he is mistaken in every part oft can account for his mistake in the first part of his statement In my letter to Mir Forsyth,
 stated that previous to Mir Monroe's return to the city, you in private conversation with me, stated your determination to pursue tho course in tr cabi net that you did, and thut approved off Mir Me- Dufie has applied this conversation to the cabinet deliberations, and has made me approve of your proposition unfriendly to General Jackson, which is untrue and you yourself know it to be untrue. At the time of this private conversation had seen the orders under which General Jackson acted, nor any of his dispatches, heard of the confden- tial letter. relied upon the accuracy of your repre- sentations, and according to them, Gen. Jackson appeared clearly in the wrong and did not hesitate to tell you l though you in the right. At the time I visited Georgia, had recollection that General Jackson had adopted any measures to forestal public opinion and thereby to anticipate the decision of the administration have at this moment any re- collection of the existence of any such measure. If none such existed, and believe none existed, then it is utterly impossible that should have expressed myself as Mir McDufie makes me. I have there- fore no hesitation in saying the whole of MT Nc Dufiie's statement IS a mistake. say nothing of the motives of Mir McDufhe in making the statement, because do not Know them; but this will say, that Mir McDufie has, upon former occasion, shown willingness to lnjure and asperse me. It is what doubtful for what purpose MT McDuffies stae- ment was obtained as his statement has no direct bearing upon the facts stated in my letter to Mir For syth It appears to me, on reflection that the princi- pal ob]ectl in obtaining it, was to impeach my yeraci- ty, If that the OJiect have m faar oft tho ra