Litchfield enquirer., 1831-08-04

hie honor and pOlIlIcal stauun8s ma taken 1av ground or mntnre Feasrlien, as % what vas due to my family, lo my M'encs, and to ra;nst q. Mai. Eaton or his wife, snd had fully determined not to change #, 1haleser might I,e fl,S conse0uenee.
 0s S.ns s.,I | I said that he had been requested by sle president tO have congregation with [ ls ,sxrretary of the Navy and the Attorney rsanesal saiso sSbut, from what had said, he sunnossesl ift.ssotild be of fno avail. The Pres idspt had expressed hope that our families would have been willing to invite MES. Eaton to their IGrgs parties. to give lne appearance of an sostensible intercourse, adding mat he was lso much excited that he was like 2 roar ;nr linn He had heard that the lady of foreign minister had joined in the conspiracy against Mrs. Eaton, and he had sworn thu: he would send her and her husband home, if he could not nut an end to such doings. I repl re1. that it could hardly De possible that the President conte enlplated such step. Col. J. replied that he certainly did; and again re-
 marked that it seemedEtO be useless for him to see MT. Branch and Mir. Befrien. told him that each of us hadtaken our course, uP- on. our own views ofpropriety, without con- cert; and that he ought not to consider me
 as answering fer any one but myself. He
 then proposed that should meet hin aI MT.
 Branch's, and invite Mi. Berrien, that eve
 ming at 2 o'clock; which was agreed tO. Col. J. came fo my house about 6, and we went up
 to Mr. Berrien's, having first sent for Mir.
 Branch. Of, our way to MT. Berrien's Col.
 J. remarked that the President had informed him that he would invite MT. BranGlls MT.
 Berrien, and myself. to meet him on the next
 Friday, when he would inform Qs. in the Ipresence of Dr. Ely, of his dstermination 1 and if we did not agrcc to comply with hts
 wishes, he would expect us to send Ln our re-
 signations. UpOn ot,. arrival at Mir. Berri- ems, Col. J. Fenewed ;he subject lil presenco
 of himaand Gov. Branch, and re0eated sub
 stantialiy, though, thought, rather more ] qualifedly, what he had said to me. He did not go SO much into detail ,nor do lrecDlleet
 whether he mentioned the Presidents re-
 marks as to the lady above mentioned and Dr:. l EiyA-tfose gentlemen will better trecoilect@
 Mir. Branch, and MT. Berrian replied, as uns-
 qaiyocally as had done. that they would
 never consent to have the social relations of
 their families controlled, by any power what
 ever but their own. MT. Branch. dr. Berri- i. en, and myself, went the same evening fO a party at Col. Tows0n's, where asrep0rt was
 current that we were to be removed forthwith, I of which had no doubt at the time. Tue next morning Col. J. camevtO my hOiise, and
 said that he ought perhaps to hayeb been more frank last evening, and told us positively that
 the President had finally determined on eur 1 removal from office, unless wesagreed att ence
 that our families should visit Mrs. Eaton, ,and 1 invite her tO their large parties; and thaf he
 had made up his mind to designate Mr. Dick
 ins to take charge of the Treasury Depart
 ment, and MT. Kendall to take charge of the
 Navy Department, and would llnd an AttOr- I ney General somewhere. IOl1seRved thMtmy l course was fixed. and cOnid not bsSchanSed | by all the offices in the President's gin and l it made so more difference tO me than fOa any other person whom the President designated
 to take my place. Iothe evening of tiesame day, Col. J. called again, and iBtornied me
 that he had just been with the President. who had drawn up a paper explanatory of what
 he had intended and expected of us; that
 some 0fhis Tepnessee friends had been with
 him for seyeiai hours that his pAssien had
 subsided, and he had entirely changed his
 ground; he would not insist on 0ur families
 visiting Mrs. Eaton; he only wished us to as-
 sist in putting down the islanders against her;
 that he believed her innocent, and he thought
 our families ought to do what they couldstO sustain her. i they could not visit her; and that he wished to see mo tho pextsday. Col. Il. added that the President had been exceed ingly excited for severaE days, but was nosv perfectly calm aud mild. The next day I waited 0n the Ksesldenfs and opened the S1A-e jectby stating that Col. Johnson had inform. ed me hatshea,vished to see me to which The assentcd. and went into long argument to show how inn0cent woman Mrs. Eaton
 was, and how niueha she had been pessecutsd, and mentioned the names of number of la dies who had been, active in this rerseculion, and that the lady Ofa foreign minister was al- SO one of the conspifatOrs; adding that he would send her and her husband hume, and teach him and his master that the wife ofa
 nembef of his cabinet was. not t0 be thus treated; that Mrs. E. was as pure aud chaste as Mrs. DOnelsOn's infant danghter, but there was a c0mbinaton here among num- her of ladies, not those of tho Heads of De- partments, to drive. her out of society, and to drive her husband out of office but he would he cut into inch pieces on thsrack, before he would suffer ,him or his wife. .bs Injured by their vile calamnies that he was resoIsei to have harmony in his Cabinet, and he wished lssto join in putting down the islanders against Mrs. Eaton. obseryed t0 the President, that tI shadsneyer consideFed it incumbent on me toinvestigate the chskacteFO Mrs. Eaton; 'Qeha service did not inny judgment, come {3{llnat tue scope of my duties 10 the rovern- Ds5lt !; it belonged to society alons yO deter nlae such matters The power of tl1e M. could not change the onil,ian orS he communjtY even if it could K nrnn~.l,,.f lsetl t0s control the relatiOns eaf ao-sr.s;. I.i
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