The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1831-09-28
Ernr he Salem Gasel!e.
rur CORRESPONDENTS

Will not De UUdCCepkdDic ~ wi AchutiS.
In a well written exordlum, Mr.. b. exhibits the
miseries brought upon his household by the cal.
umnes of a reckless press" and by tho course
adopted by his late associates in Office. /" Mr. lag
ham. Mr.. Branch. and Dir. Berrien. with evident
concert and deliberate design, by filling the coun-
try with erroneous and dis ;olored statements. and
substituting alsehood for truth, have sought to
summate the ruin which their conduct in Office SO
insidiously began" " Attacks on myself dsre-
gard A mans character is in his own hands; in
his bosom he knows how to protect it, 1t is by his
own acts only, that he can be degraded. Not so
with female The innocent and the guilty alike
the envenomed tongue OF SANDER may reach and
destroy. 1t is a whitening blast, which can blight
the sweetest rose, as well as the most noisome
weed"
Mr.. Eaton states that he accepted scat in the
Cabinet against his will, to oblige General Jack
son. q Mr.. Van Buren, was appointed, because the
President had confidence in his talents and integ-
rlty. Mr.. Ingham, for the reason that the Presl-
dent was induced to believe that the democracy of
Pennsylvania desired it. Mr.. Barry, from conf
dence reposed in him by the President derived
from his personal knowledge of his worth and mer-
it's" MIR. Branch was selected because he and
Mr.. Eaton were born and reared in the same
county Of North Carolina, educated at the same
college, and had been associates and friends in
early and more advanced life" No reason is as
signed for the appointment of Mr.. Berrien.
DIdHCU WAS tudue iiS lDstiuHlGHl vi dDleE
hea DIS. aud attempted to become manager in this
business" of preventing the appointment of Mr..
Eaton from going into effect, but all his efforts
were unsuccessful. "At length the Cabinet was
formed" 50 Not doubt is left on my mind, that
befose the nomination of the Cabinet to the Senate
the means of operating on the public opinion, and
forcing the President to exclude me, were devised
arranged, and fixed upon, by and with the knowl-
edge and appreciation of Messrs. Ingham and Ber-
rien, if not of Mr.. Branch" Mr. Berrien was at
Mr. Eatsns wedding, and they were in habits of
daily friendly intercourse. Mrs Calhoun left her
card for Mrs. Eaton while she was absent from the
city. andin return MIR. and Mrs. Eaton called at
Mr.. Caioun's and were "received with much DO
likeness" and "spent short time quite agreeably -
" This vas short time before it was understood
who would compose the Cabinet of Gen Jackson. u
Mr.. Calhoun applied for the appointment of one of
his friends, as Mr.. Eaten's Chief Clerk in the War
Department, which was at first promised and af-
terwarts declined. From that time he broke off
all intercourse with me- official as we'll as private
After this, the efforts to put him and his family
underline ban of society, Mr.. Eaton says. were in
cesSait. But he does not complain of any one for
not 1ssociating with him or his family. He had
friends enough of his own, fully as respectable as
any q his ex-colleagues Mr.. Eaton devotes two
or thee paragraphs to demonstrate that in fact il
was ans family that cut Mr., Berriens, and not the
revese, as Mr.. Berrien 1ntimates a. How ridicu
ous does this single fact render Mr. Berrien's pub
licatIon. Throughout, he presents me and nv fam
ny as craving the society of his which he haugbti
y refused when in fact the first the natural and
The usual advance on our part had never been
made"
MIR. Eaton represents himselfto have been SLAM
oeredln 1879, by attacks on his integrity 1t was
SAID that had conspired with my wife's first hus-
pand, Mr., Iimberlake, to defraud the government
OF large sums of money" q But close inyestiCa-
ton showed that EIr Undertakes account had
oeel deprived, through series of shocking frluds
OF cleolts to the amount of from 12 to $50 600 and
that justly he was largely creditor, not debtor
to the government" About this time the presi
den. began to suspect that ' a portion of his Cabi
net had entered it in disguise, and had fomented
some ofthe mischief he had encountered ard ac.
cordlngly determined if it should appear that thew
Were guilty of such duplcity, and had combined to
harrass and drive out of their colleagues thew
should share the fate they preparing for anoh
all that ne SAD was upon his own responsibility y
although he had the consent of the President0 n
converse with them as a friend.n W
Mr.. Eaton lashes very Handsomely the servsi+v
OF Messrs. Berrien, lngham, and Branch, exhiIited
by continuing in the Cabinet after the ofTers; ye
message which they profess to have received
through Col. johnson, and publishes letter Tom
Mr. Branch to the President dated two DAYS arer
processing great respect toward the President and
desire TO be at peace with Mr.. Eaton. In com.
pllahce with the suggestion Of this note Branch
and Eaton met at the room of the ATTORNEY Gener.
al, shook hands, and parted as friends" This
was on the Z9th OF January, $780, Notwithstand.
ing TINS reconciliation, however, Mr. Eaton repre.
sents that the efforts to niure him were not dmir.
lshed, and accounts for them all bv ouotinc tbo
remark ola ardent friend of the Vice President
IN l829" Major Eaton is not the friend Of M
Calhoun" M
Inc next column is devoted to showing lin the
editor OF the Telegraph, who it seems. has benn
from time to time indebted to Mr. Eaton for sun.
dry sums OF money, as we'll as to his influence fo,
ms llrst success as public printer. In return fol-
these faVors, " In 1890, Mr. Green was fire..
quent visitor at my house. to LARGE parties and f.
small, with his wife and daughters and invited mv
| wife and myself to his. He on several occosion5
rendered his services and his paper in yindicatio
OF US, against the ISLANDERS and abuse which t tb,
time were whispered about" All this time Eaton
says, Green was denouncng him in whisners snC
uePIecatlhg tIe reelection of Gen. Jackson. but
kept dark IN his newspaper till the winter M
spring of 1880, when he began 70 show H.; ane
objection for MIR. Calhoun. 'i'" HIS pre-
Eaton goes on to describe the artifces ,dor+od
to induce the democracy of the coun,r 81 ~
low IN the train of Mr.. Calhoun. II was .o
to make the rejected editors believe that ill.,, -
1een sacrlhced IN the Senate Z" by the Eaton anG
an DuIeh influence" " 1t certainly would have
"hO VI pOilcy, II Mr., Hill coulf
be sent to New Hampshire, Mr.. Kendall 70 Ken
lucky, Mr. Noah to New York, and other forron,
editors back to their homes to resume tbo;. a.o
fesslonal duties, impressed with tho boi;oc r.
they had been made the victims. not of an t,.a
Berien and Branch but of an Foto -" 11s7" IN
Buren, influence" But it failed y Srb anu ,@t
explosion was to have taken place sevorai lam
before it actually broke out, but tho liiohth
General Jackson for re-electio,, I ~ SN .
pennsylvania and N. York retarded il co. -; "
Mr. Caihouns controversy with the Preai .I,'no
was the signal for open war and the lines
length distinctly drawn. ''"eS were al
MI. Eaton lntimates that his and M. w.. ~
rens resignation were expected 70 ros. en D ~
dissolution of the Cabinet, and in1nIaaui! III th'
rather caustc remarks upon the ta9no ~ soils
( which his late colleagues stuck IN ,hn; WIN
notwithstanding the degrading comn,,n oi. olnces
ed ofthem by the President, throupb CoI rGqalr
| son. b" Coi' John
Mr.; Eaton, throughout his long letto. roo..
the idea that the exclusion Of his family f. u
era society in Washington, was eectod ',oiil yen
the SANDERS and Vaccinations or H. query py
leagues, and boldly calls upon them nto ia,e COZ
concealments, alege specific CHARGES and way" aye al
their proof" anu auduce
In postscript, Mr. Eaton denies an ,,loa.,;.
General Desha, that as soon as E. heard 81 -
Undertakes death, he declared his into y. purse
marrying his widow 1t was not till several .
aterward, that he disclosed his intnntion a.,
eral Jackson, who approved the proposed w. Ven
several notes were appended In tbo la,,i',