Alabama state intelligencer., 1831-10-22

country at being deprived their important sery,ces Ihelr honor and the harmony of the administrations was quite insufficient! They must needs place their resignahons solely on the request of the Presden, that on his shoulders might rest the undivided re. sponsiblity of the awful deprivation which the Go< vernment and the country to suffer from their retirement Their wishes were gratifed and de- sire communicated that they should resign. Thus was the Cabinet dissoved and thus far the country evidently has sustained injury, rave in the dstur. 1 bances and interruptions to the public which the com plants and murmurs of this dismissed and disbanded | corps have accustomed If as has been stated the | President offered to two ofthem, MT Ingham and MT Branch after their removal, places of trust and ho- nor let 1t be set downt to his kindness, noto theirmer it's. He did not then know these men. He did not know how incapable they were of properly appreci. atlng acts of kindness He was ignorant that they had entered his Cabinet, all smiles and fair profess slons, with daggers concealed in their bosons He little knew that these persons, who were admitted fo hs familiar intercourse, had been taking notes his prvate conversations and free expressions which had been conned over between them and prepared and carefully laid away for future use. He did not in iact know, they had been spies upon him from the begnnlng of his administration; and that finding themselves deprived ofthe means of longer stealing into hs bosom, to hunt out, and note down his 'nough's they were now ready for open, impracable and extermlnating war These things he did not then know. Recent events have disclosed them.
 Nor did comprehend the depth of the designs of these three gentlemen. Having resigned my seat in the Cabinet and being about to retire to nv tesis dence in Tennessee, did not cslcalae that should be detained here from my home ant business to de- lend myself against their unprovokeG attacks. In this was mistaken. My pursuers were resolved ina,
 should not escape the sweet revenge, which their deep modification at the loss of office had aoused could not bear it longer Messrs Ingham all Der. nen' who were here, were in habits of daily Inter, course with the editor of the Telegraph and trcir names being used in connection with the abuse whd, was propagated through that print against me- con- ceved had right to inquire, whether their names had been used, and references 10 them made with their sanction.
 readily admit, that no imperative obligation rests upon a man to engage in private combat merely be. cause lie Is invited to do so Public opinion sane tions such appeals only when the injured party has rlght and justice on his side, without other remedy. But man who asserts u claim to the character of a gentleman is bound to act like one Mir Ingham did not thus act when to plain and proper question, he returned an insulting reply, and sought ito strut the hero, and to ape the warrior" without the capa- city to go through with that which so improvdently and reshly he had begun. never asked him to ad- init or deny, that my family and his did not associate He never so understood me- It was for the publca- toR only, and his supposed participation in it, that held him responsible. My correspondence with MT lngham, his degrading apprehensions false charges
 
 been made known to the public. He is suffering merited punishment, in the contempt of the brave, the abhoirence of the honorable, and the detestaton of the community.
 addressed Mir Berren on the same subject The correspondence which took place, he has laid before the public in his recent address. When it termina- ted, had hoped our difference was ended His late address however, was of character to induce with me belief. that my forebearance on the former casion, had tendency to embolden him to further malignant assaus and accordingly without seek ing explanation, l made direct call upon him for personal redress.
 His answer never communicated to me. The friend who acted in my behalf, finding it an argu- mentatve, labored reply, to plain and simple de- nand returned 1t as paper not of character to be presented or received See Apptndi1 c. se- c0nd call was made which resulted in refusal on the partol Mir Berien, grant the satisfaction which had been asked He has proved that with malice and hatred in his heart, he could wear the gab of friend. Pretending to have claims to honor and chas racter. he could become the traducer of a womat, seek the ruin of family which had never harmed him, and shrink from responsibility. It must be ever so! Base men not brave. A guilty conscience is bad panoply on the field of honorable combat.- The conscious wrong doer anticipates the worst and calculates to suffer, from knowledge that he de- serves it. It is not surprising, therefore, that Mir Der riens conscience did not permit him to trust himself hone, whom wantOnly and so pertihacionsly The had wronged and sought to injure. These two men,
 gham and Berrien will stand together in after time | and with honorable men, monuments of fduplicity,n- gratitude and baseness-traitors to their friend and destroyers of themselves-a memorable illustration of the melancholy truth, that "a man may sniie and smile, and De q villian."
 For Mir Branch, feel but pity and contempt. He has been the dupe of his own ttleness of mind, and tbe victim of his more willy associates. Though he has entered into their feelings, and aided them in their desgns-bas asserted unruths, and offered Tn. I E.-l tz.~& certain feeling ofrevenge towards so humble an | compce.
 The restless, troubled spirit, that, through such secret agencies moved and controlled all this intrigue | and management, became visible last winter in his proper person. His influence and address have sociated in hsscbemes many partzans, besides those who embarrassed the late Cabinet with difficulties. They have made themselves victims to his ambition. If he can now find pleasure in the course he has a' dopted for the promotion of his views, Tn the afc: tions with which he has visited my dwelling, or in the sacrifice of the willing instruments who. a friends, were employed to do this service, he must owe his satisfaction to the delusiOns of ambition- The time will come when the victims of his policy shall rise before him, like the shades which appalled, the nsdous and heafess usurper Richard to disturb his sumbers, and to drive peace from him.
 Distraction has struck at every thing around me. And although it has been uniformly pretended that the persecution against me originated in great regard and delicacy for public feeling and morals, yet what are the proofs to authorize tie rumOrs, about which MT Ingham and MT Berrien ,couid not trouble them selres to inquire, but which, notwithstanding, they could silly and secretly whisper into circulation They have produced none If this be legitimate wariare there are few who may not be subjected to the ordeal from which the most innocent cannot al. ways escape with name unbghted. It is well known fact that in this city, there hired writers for papers at distance; and If some incident does not, from week to week, occur to fill their page