Litchfield enquirer., 1831-08-04

posed measuFes Of that cnaFacters nattnb " | their object to coefne Majsr Eaton 70 res.re
 from the Cabinet--0r to exclnae n,. .aIn.y
 from the society of Washington Wltn mn % | they did not associate but n0 safencc nae | been made on either side, and tnels actual tes
 lation seemed therefore to furnish no Just ground of offence to either parry. Tn tnIs
 posture of things, and shortly aiter had glv. en an evening party 10 which Mrs. Eaton na6
 not been invited, received and hearo wNn
 infinite surprise the message ot CoiOnel SOnn-
 son.
 could make r,eS mistake as to its character, for there was direct and repeated reference to the large parties, which had been tnen res
 gently given by Messrs. Branch ana Insnan' and myself. Such mistake, II n naa Oeen one, would have been instantly c0sEecteu' from the nature of my reply II tne c"Hl7
 plaint had been of combination 'O egtos VIZ E: jor EGton from o6Gce. and not 10 eLc.1as N.s
 ming parties would have been idle and my declaration that IswOuld not permit the fresr
 ident to control the local intercourse oi my
 self and family, would have been instantly
 met hv an explanaliOn, which would nave re-
 moved the impression from the minus oi
 Messrs Branch and Ingham and myself Yet we all parted with Col. Johnson, with clear conviction that such proposition had been made, and feeling as we all dld, that an indignity hadaheen offered to us. there was' as l | believe, no difference of opinion between us as to the course ws ought to pursue II tnis 1 proposition should be avowedt and pressed oy
 the President.
 This conversation took place on Wednesday, evening, and the rumOr Of our Intendeo re
 moyal. speedily became general. Oh the succeeding day the personal friends of Gen. 1 Jackson interposed, and he was awakened to ] a sense of the lmpropriety2 of his projected
 course. IL was then, accStaing to Cel. Jonn--
 sons statement to Mr. Ingham, that the pa ner spoken of by the Editor of the Globe was prepared. My two colleagues had their ID -' | teryiew with the President on the succeeding day, (Friday) and as Mr. highlands statement. nude from .fil notes taten at the time, proves.
 no paper seas sho,Vn 10 hins on fhat soccasion.-- ] Owing to mistake in the cOmmunlcallon ot' the Presidents wishes 10 me, did not see him until the succeeding day. lSaturday) and. lthen the excitement of his feelings had so en- l tifelv subsidized that he seemed to me to be l anxious to dispose of the subject as briefly as lpossible. He spoke of the falseh0od oft l reports against Mrs. Eaton, of which ne sad I he had sufficient proof; and upon my deciin- ling to discuss the question, he cofnPlalned 0t
 the injustice If excluding her from society; :; l referred to iheslarge parties given by Messrs. lInghatn and Branch, and myself. and told me If he could have been convinced that there j was combination between those gentlemen l and myself to exclude her from society, that
 heWO0ld have required our resignatons. He limmediately added, that he was entirely sat's- | fed that there had been no such combination. and again referred to those large parties, and to the rumors to which they had given rise. as
 having produced that Impression. So far bfrom then suggesting that information had ! been received from any meInher of Congress, when I claimed the right ofhaying the names l of any persons who had made tU him repre- senfati0ns unfa vorable to my conduct, he still referred to the thousand rumors which had reached him as the origin of such impressien,
 which had been made upon his n1i6d. He
 shotred me no paper-spoke to me cf none--ta-
 tim0ted to me no terms tchich he iC0utd kereGfter
 require By his declaration that he did not
 intend to press the requisitlon which he had
 made through Col. Johnson, Iconsidered the object of the interview to be to erpldia to me
 ghe notives 1nder scbich he had dcted. and to. dnnounce the change of his detsTminGtion. He accompanied this with expressions Ofperson-
 al kindness, which I thought were intended to soothe the feelings which he must have been conscious of having excited. Still | thought it was improper for me longer to re-
 main in tho Cabinet. Admitting that stuff cient atonenient had been made for the in.
 dignity offered by the message sent through Col. Johnson, there was perpetual liability to the recurrence of; similar outrage. be- lieyed it. therefore, to be my duty to retire.
 My friends thought otherwise, aud my own
 sense of what tho int~rests of Georgia at that particular crisis required, induced me to re-
 press my feelings.
 When at a subsequent period. the contro- versy occurred hetween the President and
 Vice President, I thought saw in this, the eyidence of an infention again to agitate the 1 question, which by the agency ofthe person al ffiends0f Gen. Jackson, had been before ! happily represssd. The connection of Mir.
 Crawford with the controversy, and my own relation to Gen. Jacksons forbade me to take1 any part in is,--and studiousIy avoided all interference, except to deprecate Mir. Cal [ houn's publication. I left Washington on the fourth day of April, opeday after Maj. Eaton had d,announeed to the President his deternain- ati0n 10 resign, acc0rding to the statement 0f N hts Mai. Eat0n's) letter 0f resignation, and N not the slightest iniimatioh was givensto me of the intended change in the Cabinet. But, E. when saw the correspondence between the President and the several Hsads of Depart ments, could not doubt for a moment how, Ii and by whom, the dissolution had been pro- duced. l did not fee. at liherty t0 expressil my views generally, until my return to Wash ington should enablc me t0 dissolve my cun- nection with the President; but tO few s friAnda vhfs hnf It