Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1831-07-14
MR.. INGIAM.

Bucks county, Pa con horseback, in car.
riages, gigs, dearborns, and on foot" and
was escorted by them, IN procession, TO a
tavern where dinner was prepared for the
company. After dinner a short address,
signed by many names, was delivered 10 him,
IN which regret was expressed at ''the ex-
lstence oil that inauspiclous Influence, what
ever It may be, that had caused him TO leave
the elevated station he had iilled"-and also a
strong desire made known "for some ex
PLANTATION of this extraordinary measure which
has shocked the public mind and broken up the
elements of party throughout the county
alluding Gas Mr.. Ingham understood the SEN
teHce) to the dissolution Of the cabinet.
la reply to the expression OF this desire,
Mr. lngham, not ohjectIng TO the request as
improper, deemed il prudent however 10 say
cerned, 'the proceeding was exclusively the
act OF the President, who alone can explain
his own motives, ut might therefore seem
improper for him "to anticipate the expana
ton, which, as none is above the reach OF
public opinion, he will no doubt think it his
duty to make Of these transactions to the A
merican people, But should it be thought
that MIR. l. incurred auy responsibility in the
proceeding, he had only to say, ''letthe facts
be Investigated, and the veil which now en-
velepes this matter in SO much mystery be
completely removed"
In reply to request made by Judge Fox,
Mr. lngham gave the following account OF
the late disgraceful transactions at Washing
ton: from which it appears, that an attemp!
aoGs made to compel him and has family 10 as
sociate acih a ,poaaa trhom the respectable so
cicty Of that citu had deemed unworthy Of sach
countena,ace. He resisted the attempt aud tbs
as the complaint Of MAJ. E tor ,c'ich he sought
Mr. rs. yeW
On Friday evening the seventeenth, about
ten O'Clock 1 received note from MIR. Ea
ton, by the hands Of MIR. Randolph, then
chief clerk in the war department, demand
ing an avowal or dsavowal OF publication
in "a newspaper, without any other connex-
ion with the paper being suggested, than
that it was supposed to be friendly to inc,
and was published in the city where resd-
ed | could not doubt that such demand
was prelude to wanton and premeditated
quarrel, and although | did not understand
whether it was the fact stated in the paper,
viz that my family had refused to associate
with his, or the authority TO publish which,
void prolonged correspondence, and gave
him my answer in each decentralization
have probably seen the correspondence and
Ineed not be more particular On The same
day that my note was delivered, | reccived
challenge, viz: about three O'Clock, by the
hands OF Mr.. Randolph, the chief clerk, now
acting secretary of war. Having company
to dinner and until late in the evening, sent
no answer that night; the next morning, sun
day, thesam MIR. Randolph lntruded himself
into my room, and threatened personal VIC
lence if did not answer the note.
informed him that should take my own
time to do il, and showed him the door. On
the following morning ! replied to Mr.. Ea-
toms note, and went out to take leave OF
some of my friends in the city, which occu-
pied me till after one O'Clock. On my return
to my lodgings, learned that Mr. Eaton had
been at the treasury department. in the morn
ing inquiriDg when | would be at the office.
and that he also inquired for the treasurers
room and went into It, and that he had spent
a part of his time, since about ten O'clock, in
the lower rooms OF the treasury department,
occupied by the register and treasurer, and
that he had been seen in company with those
officers, and had been for the greater part OF
the time stationed III grocery store about a
half a square from my lodgings, durlus which
he was occasionally visited by Mr.. Randolph,
and by MIR Vankcleck, another clerk in the
war department, who appeared to act the
part OF videttes
From the information | received Of the
movements Of MIR. Eaton and MIR Randolph,
| expected the assault to be made by them
and prepared myself for the purpose Colo
mel n. Towson had been invited to my lodg
ings, and went with me unarmed as wit
ness, and to prevent surprise. Three other
young men were IN company; but directed
to follow at some distance behind, TO prevent
or resist an attack by superior numbers NV
son, being the only person whose life had
any right to expose in such conflict, was by
my side, both OF us well prepared for de-
fence. expected the attack III the passage
of the treasury department, as Mr.. Eaton
had not long before entered that building,
and after having taken SO much pains to Oh
tain meeting, it was scarcely to be expect
ed that he would then avoid it, and as my
approach would easily have been opposed
We passed in, heweVer, unmolested. went
into the second story TO the room occupied,
and finished wbatllttle business had to close
before finally left the office, which hae been
previously fixed for that day. learned while
in my room, that Mr.. Eaton anG Maj Lewis,
whose offices were in another building more
than a quarter of mile distant, went out of
the treasury department in direction to
wards the presidents house where Mai Lew