Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1831-08-25
From the Correspondent of the Neao York Dailv
Advertiser.
WAsHINoTow August I6,

WAsHINGToNs August 16, 1881.
Considerable excitement has been caused in the
political circles of this city, by circumstance the
Prnclpai scene ofwhich was laid in your CITY, and
the most worthy, in the actors in which. now
sleeps with the unforgotten dead.
You VIII recollect, that, in the published cores
Psndence between General jackson and the Vice
PRESIDENT, reference waa made, in letter from
;mr. Crawford to Mr.. Forsythe, to the letter said
20 nave been written by General Jackson to Mr.
Monroe, on the subject of taking possession OF
the Fioridas for the United States, in which the
former suggested, that eff the President approved
~ u, he had only to give hint to some confden-
stal member of Congress, say Johnny Raw &c
The existence of any such letter was denied, and
has been generally doubted Johnny Ray, the indi-
vlduai thus distinguished, has been in the city OF
washington during the present year, probably
about the end of May or juno. He is an old and
inhrn man, in state of approximation; and he
was therefore the precise individualto be made the
nam lnstrumentn tho plot which had been hatch
ed by sorne of the birds which have recently made
the palace their nesting place
Binder dctation, MIR. Johnny Ray was induced
to- address letter to the late venerable James
Monroe, then lying under the oppressive agonles
of his final sickness in which he declares that he
had seen, at the time, the original of this preten
ded letter from General Jackson to Mr.. Monroe
and had received hints which had been suggested
by the General. This letter, it was calculated,
would reach Mr.. Monroe when the energies of ma
1ure would have been too far exhausted to permit
him to adopt any mode of contradiction; and thus
the friends of General Jackson wonId be enabled,
effer the death of Mr.. Monroe, to say that the as
eartion of Johnny Ray had been uncontradIcted
and therefore was to be received as correct. But
the calculation was an erroneous one. When he
received the letter, indignation gave him prefer
natural strength, and summonng some of his
friends, he rose in his bed. for tho last time and
holding up his eDaciated hands, pronounced a
solemn denial of the whole story.
1t ought to be cause of gratulatio to the count
less friends he left behind him; but more especial
ly TO the immediate circle of his domestic relations,
that he had tho power and presence of mind left
him, in the hour of his greatest debility to make
this sublime and unanswerablc vindication of his
characters and to defeat the vile Vaccinations of
those who had planned its defamation. / have
understood that the principal witnesses of this af
fecfing scene, were Mr.. Southland, GcDerel Scott,
Mfr. Tench Riggold, and perhaps some others.
Gen. jackson and his friends, it is supposed,
have obtained knowledge of what passed in Mr..
Monroe's chamber; and there Isl strong suspicion
among our politicians, that, on this account, the
publication of Mr.. Crawford's exposition, which
thu Globe, has been delayed. 1t is not impossible
that information has been sent to MIR. Crawford
,of the facts have stated in order that he may
modify his production accordingly.
Thusw have a new proof Of tho determination
of General Jackson and his friends to sacrifice the
reputation Of every citizen, be bis standing Gle
waited as it may in order to establish the fame oil
him who has been elevated, in evil hour for the
count, to its highest hopors and to transmit t.
fuiare ayes false and foul caomnies, in the stead
vertabie and edifying history of the times, which
have pfoducei this political abortion, Virginia
which enjoys the reputation Of having given brit
TO James Monroe, and New York, which receives
his last breath, must both feel indignant at this de
grading effort TO wound his reputation. n.