Virginia free press & farmers' repository. [volume] (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1827-1832, 1831-08-11


Integrity. Had I been engaged in any
Of the purposes thus attributed To- me.
Il is scarcely possible that I should not
have corresp"ndcd with them, and
some others If their editorial brethren
IN Pennsylvania, or else where. on these
subjects. All are now ut liberty To
publish whatever I have written in
respect to this or any other matter
contained in YOUR charges.
Next: "7he appointment Of Mr..
Bdidwm nas den9Wced." Tins from
you is most unexpected, 20 whom it
mu., be we'll known that, in all your
conversations on that subject, what
ever my preference might have been,
! refused to say any thing to dcpress
Mr.. Baldwin and it is with great
surprise, notwithstanding all l have
before seen, that I am made response.
Bile for the denunciation. What may
not be proved w.,en such evidence is
relied on"
The expose proceeds: Remote ed
TORS rere sounded TO bring them out
against your reelection" The only
evidence which have seen or heard
Of in support of this charge. is in a
statement Of Gideon Welles, Of Hart.
ford, CT. who, though he was "shock-
ell and astounded'' at the alleged sug-
gestion, it since appears, had, some
time after, written letter to the same
gentleman whom he had charged with
making it, sending his best respects 10
.Ur. Calhoun, and expressing his own
private opinion that you ought not Ia
stand another poll. 1t is remark able
fact, that this same witness, now 60
much relied upon to sustain a far fetch
ell assault upon me, had written
another letter To the same person, soon
after this shocking overture was said to
have been made, in which he said
among other things of the same kind,
that Major Eaton was a disgrace to
your Administration. So much for
this charge, and the witness: bu; if all
he says. in the face of his letters "a
the contrary, be true, he only testifies
to conversation with another person,
Of which none pretend, that I had any
knowledge. OF its supposed object
never heard ill il was brought out b,
Mr.. Wellcs' perilous statement. Blu,
if there be ground for offence to you
in such an act, il must be found in the
superstition that. contrary to the gen
eral expectation.yo you were then anxious
for a reelection, and had seized upon
and laid up the mere expression oil
doubt Of its expediency as evidence
Of base designs against yourself and
Administration. Ii is surely an act oil
supererogation further to deny and ask
for proofs Of such matter.
The last aud most prominent allie
CATION at this period, is, that Mr.. Cal.
houn came out with "horrible plot, 81
and "tchen this issue irds made riih
The President, he found his CABINET
DIVIDED, and an entire re -orga,is alton
ras determined on, l shall not in
quire by whom, or for what purposes,
this plot was begun, but / may EN-
phaticall y demand in what point il can,
by the remotest possibility, be brough,
in contact with any act of mine, off
cial or otherwise. l have reason to
know that il was not the preface to the
correspondence, nor the letters in il.
which made the issue SO personally
offensive to you. The first was revised
by your particular friend, and every
expression which he thought liable Ia
such Interpretation was erased at his
suggestion; and long after the letters
were written. you had minated your
Willingness 90 receive Mr.. Calhoun
as usual, and invite him to your table,
IT he would leave a card for you.
know through the same channel Of
common friendship, that he objected to
an attempt at reconciliation without an
explanation, which should remove the
cause OF difference adding, that his
honor and integrity had been impugned,
and until this matter was explained,
there could be no cordiality in your
intercourse, and that he would not sub.
init to an ostsnsible reconciliation
with one who perseveTcd in maintain.
ing such unfounded aspersions against
his character.
lou were willing to be rcconciIcd
after all the offence contained in the
correspondence was fully before YOU
consequently, the issue spoken of as
''made with YOURSELF personally, ("
must have been made by the publlca-
ton, not by the matter Of the CORES.
pondence. This could not be changed
by ats transfer TO the printers ink. The
whole iniquiiy Of this "horribIe plot"
is therefore displayed in the act of pub
fishing the correspondence. From this
cause alone, il would seem that you
found your cabinet divided, and de.
tetmined on its reorganization. All
this Is now placed at my door, as the
contamination Of az secpmulating Sc
ries Of plots and consp'raeies, Of which
nv letter Of the Plat ulf. Is considernh