Alabama state intelligencer., 1831-03-23

MT Monroe's letter to General Jackson. dated Ja ly 19, 1918, begins thus; "I received lately, your letter of June 2d, by M, H01nbty, at my farm in Loudoun" &c.
 Thus the time at which the confidential letter wa. looked up "on the suggestion Cf Mr Calhoun" i. identified within few days. It was after MT Mon roe's return from Loudoun, on the 14th, and before the 18th of July, 1918, the rery period daring Oei the cabinet were deliberating about the Seminole war, and at the very time Mir Crawford says it was produced before them
 There is n remarkable coincidence between the details of Mir Crawlord's recent statement and llr Monroe's account of this affair." made out in ISIS, which proves the identity of the incidents alluded to. MT Crawford says,-
 N, Gst,ltoNH DTutiu ,,S,-...v,s 'h General hdd loritten to the President sco had 0Tgo ten that he had receued such letter, but said, if he had received such an one. he could find it, and wen' directly to hs cabinet and brought the letter out"
 MT Monroe, in his letter Dec. 21st, 1918, says
 "Your letter, &c. was put aside, tSc. and never recurred to, until after my return from Loudoun, &c. and then on the suggestion of Mr CdihOun.'
 Here IS conclusive proof of two things.-1. The confidential letter produced "on the suggestion of MT Calhoun, after Mir Monroes return from Lou doun on the l4h and before the writing of his letter to General Jackson on the 18th July, 1878.
 9 Mir Crawford was present when the suggestion was made and the letter produced The cabinet it seems, were several days in dellberat'on. MT Wir might not have been present when the letter was produced. At any rate, the proof is conclusive that it was then produced, at least to Mir Crawford at Mir Calhoun's suggestion.
 MT Calhoun's own evidence proves that his count Of the letter IS incorrect. He says:-
 "My recollection in relation to it, accords with MT Monroes statement Icame into his room when he had apparently just received the letter He was lndisposed at tbe time. think he opend the letter in my presence, and finding that it was from you, he gave me the letter to read l cast my eyes over it, and remarked that it related to the Seminole war; and that 1t would require his attention something to that effect. fhougM more of it. Long after Ihink t ,oas at the commencement Of the nert session of Congress, heard some ausion which brought the letter to my recollection. It came from quar- ter which induced me to believe it Mir Craw- ford. l called and mentioned it to MT Monroe and found that he had entirely forgotten he letter. After searching sometime, he found it among some other papers, and rcdd h as he told me for the first time.
 Mir Monroes account of the letter written in De- cember, 1918, shortly gtter the meeting cf Congress, proves this story, as to time, to be entirely dubious That letter connected with that of 18th of July pre- cedlng, proves that the hunting up the letter. " ct the suggestion of Mr Calhoun" and the reading it, '.tor the first time" took place directly after MT Monroe's return from Loudoun on the 14th July, lS1S, during the deliberations of the cabinet
 Upon this evidence may Mir Crawfordturn round and pity and taam MT Calhoun for decay of memory. He has notorously published to the world s'v's misrepresentation oi this affair, with the evidence of its incorrectness before him in his o,en documcnts- If memory had failed him. he might have relied, for correct information, on the account given by Mir Monroe in 1918, which is certainly more likely to be correct than any statement made by him now.- He could not then have forgotten the facts.
 Thus vanishes one of Mir Calhoun's clouds of dust which he had raised to blind the eyes of the people in relation to his own conduct towards Gene ral Jackson.