Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1831-10-24

ohasiug The etaJ'i,hnenf 6aa air s.eeGaa, /
assumed TO ply all lie dtb',. but that neither
OF us considered tlc QUO diamond dollars eI-
IRA, agreed - be paid b, Major E,lon and
others, rs n charge upon ". OF tnis Aum i've
hundred dollars OILY wsre paid aud affer my
| return 10 Washington, Mr T.. brought suit Tor
balnncs remaining tue upon srttlement,
which sum paid. Alr. Eaton now says iha,
he has a note. winch was protested aud paid
by him, on which he ~as not an enjorsrr in
his possession, tho whole or paa of,otith still
remains unpaid.
" Mr.. Eiton, II u true, Hid take up the lat
note nfs ,x hundre | aud twenty FIVE dollars
6us he did not do II icttt his 0lgn funds | have
letter written after the dissolution OF the
Cahin.i, IL which hs snys that the SUN OF
3l7o, principal and interest, remains due upon
II.
3" II will he seen that five years interest on
I've hundred dollars IL 500. making the SUN
of sly hundred aud fifty dollars Il from this
Sl1j be deducied it VIII appear that have
pad Tor the establishment fur hundred aud
sevent, five dollars moro than agreed, or was
bound 10 paw.
=" have thus given fair and candid state.
menl OF the pecunlarY transactions on which
Amos Kendall aud NJ Jor Eaton predicate the
charge oi tngrathuda RgaIu3t mC II viii be
seen that VI ,J0r Eaton, who sets up a clam 10
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mere agent OF others, aud that the only service
winch he has rend red, was the OF his name
ior The sums borrowed in Nashville aud BALI.
mare, ioe doug winch he Lad previous indrm-
nhy. Such IuunIfcenCo aud hbcrality ls wor .
thy to be recorded IA the eulosies OF Amos IL en-
dial :"
such IS the history Of DAT Grsen for the last
fourteen years, as connected with the political
'nirgnes, which eVentuated IN the election oil
dhn. Jackson TO the Presidency
Several iacts stalled by Glecn will strike the
reader with great force.
ist. II will he seen that Gen. Jackson him.
sell, Notwithstanding his boast that he - ner
Their seeks nor declines Office" urged Green TO
establish paper in Washington. for the pnr-
pose OF adv ocltlay his pretension. 10 the Pre-
sidency
2iiy. Oae OF the means of efecIing Gen. lack.
son 5 election, was, To purchase the Uaatinlr-
Ion City GaseRe, which had been warm par
taan Of William IL. CraWfol' ia on der thereby
to conciliate tho friends" OF tiiat genllemao,
aud to enlst them against MIR. Adams This
fact 10 confirmed, by letter written about the
same period (Decembsr, 1920 by WIN. B..
Lewis, then as now the confidential adviser and
bosom friend Of Gen. Jackson 10 Stephen
Simpson, which Simpson has recently publish.
ea' IN that letter, Lewis, speaking OF Craw-
tords friends, says, - Oh ought TO be poured
in their wounds by the friends of Jackson :
"ith the States that support him, we may bid
dehhaco to tho Yankee nation Aud the result
has proved, that the oil was no, pou, ed IN win.
\ condition was effected between these plegi
ous'y hostile parties The Washington City
1azetie was purchastd--is name changed 10
the Telegraph the dag of Crawford gave
place To that Of Jackson. Tho means by which
this negotiation was effected doubD less forms an
interesting chapter in The secret history OF the
proiligate aud corrupt scheme OF bribery aud
purchase, which resulted in the election of the
present incumbeu, to the Presidential CHAIR
Silly. The erron,ery with which Green ayow.
hi. agency in purchasing Amos KeGd4ll--the
sang jfoid with which he narrates the nego.
tlaons by which the leaders OF the Jackson
party in Kentucky, (Mr, Barry, Col. Johnson
and John Pope were brought together and
. reconciliation aud understanding" effected
between them, does not argue much Tor his
moral character. And does not the fact thai
such things we're done, argue as strongly the
baseness of the men who were parties 10
them Aud YET these men are leaders Of the
Jackson party Its most Influential .nembers-
men whose word is law TO the President
saI =. "a Al
they hold are the REGARDS OF their votes aud OK.
ertons Inbehalf OF the President Aud Is NOT
his snbserVency to their dlclation an evidence
that he cannot release himself from their 10 au.
ed without ruin 10 the criminals aud Cen
Jackson cannot shake off these men without
endangerins his Standing with the people
This, probably. may account for the fact that
Maj Barry was retained in office, when ey
cry other member OF the Una" was removed
In short, this autobiography of Green,
while it may sayor OF vanity and egofism 10
that individual, is when Combtned with other
Developments which have been made, satsfac.
Gen Jackson, from the very oItset, were
gang Of political Spectators, whose sole object
in desiring the election OF the Military Chief
tain,was to getthe offices OF the coun ry in their
possession aud under their control. That this
10 duenlial means Of eectioneerng in bis favor
was authorised by Gen. Jackson himself MS
well as the more dircc, and barehced slJ,i
(Which proved too successfully to buy the pens
of hireIing writer's, such as Amos Kendall, aud
the influence ofpolincal bankrlpts such as Wm.
I. Barry, is, in our estimation, placed beyond
Dispute, by the single fact that Nashville was
the central seat, 10 which all the suggestions To
this effect can be traced, and Gen. Jacksons
bosom friends the orSinators OF them, and the
furnishers OF the money whereby they wire