Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1831-08-03

4 lStTatf0n Eitu WHICH was COnDeCteQS II uOeS
not belong to tie human mind to act without mo-
tive;-even jealousy itself will not believe all the
evil it hears Of the object Of IT'S suspicious, unless
the evidsnce be corroborsted by the appearance
Of some rational motive to control their actions.
In this case..l can imagine none. It remains,
therefore, for YOU to show how this charge can he
made TO reach me. Here leave II with my IN
qualified denial, whatever form or shape It may
assume.
! s.Ihe CaLtou, Telegraph and Lagham Sea,i-
mel eui,ced theis disafeetson." Again, demand
the evidence. Let the columns OF these papers
be examined for the fact of their disaflection -
The former was deemed the paper Of the Admin
istraton. and the only article which, up to that
period. have heard of having been ascrihed to
such feeling, the editor says, was dictated, in
substance, from your own lips. and approved in
form by you before publication. As to the lat
ter. have had no political correspondence with
it's editors from the time OF my appointment to
that of my removaI. Those gentlemen land none
who know them will doubt their word) will bear
me out in this declaration. admit that regard
them as my personal friends. They have long
conducted, in the capital Of Pennsylvania, the
leading paper Of the political party with which
tried moral and political integrity. Had been
me. it is scarcely possible that should not have
correspohded with them, and some others of their
editorial brethren in Pennsylvania, or elsewhere,
on these subjects. All are now at liberty to pub
fish whatever have written III respect to this Or
any other matter contained in your charges.
Next: " The appointment Of Mr.. Botd'0n soas
denoulce!" This from you is most unexpect-
ed, TO whom it must be we'll known that, in all
your conversations on that subject, whatever my
preference might have been, refused to say any
thing to depress Mr.. Baldwin; and it Is with
great surprise, notwithstanding all have before
seen, that am made responsible for the denunci-
alton. What may not be proved when such evil
depce is relied on!
The expose proceeds" Remote editors Ucrc
sounded to bring them om against your re, cleo
ton" The only evidence which have seen or
heard Of in support of this charge, is in state
ment of Gideon Welles, Of Hartford, CT who,
though he was - shocked aud astounded''a at the
alleged suggestion, it since appears, had, some
time after, written letter 70 the same gentleman
whom he charged with making it, sending his jsst
re pccts TO Mr.. Cdiioua, and expressing his own
private opinion that You ought not, on principle,
to stand another poll. Tits remarkable fact,
that this same witness. ROWs much relied upon
to sustain tar-fetched assault upon me- bad writ
ten another letter to the same person. soUn after
III is shocking overture was SAID tohave been made
in which he said, among other things OF the same
kind, that Major Eaton was disgrace TO your Ad
ministration.. So much for this charge, and the
witness: but If all he saysn the face ofhis letters
to the contrary, be true, he only testiiies to con-
versation with another person, of which none pre-
| tends that bad anv Knowledge. Of its supposed
object never heard till it was brought ont by
Mr.. WelIcs' periiouS statement. But if there be
| ground for offence to You in such an act, it must
/ be found in the superstition that. contrary to the
/ general expectation, you were then anxious for a
re election, aud had seized upon and laid up the
mere expression of doubt of its expcdiency rs
evidence Of base designs against yourself aud
YOUR Administration. 1t is surely an act OF supe-
rerogation furthert to deny and ask for proofs at
such matter.
The last and most prominent allegation at this
period. is, that Mr.. Calhoun came out with "a
horrible plot" and "When this issue CaS made
,ciih the President. he tosma his CABINET DIvTD-
Ed. and an entire reorganization acas dcfcrmin-
Ell on" shall not inquire by whom. or for what
purposes, this plot was begun. but may cmpha-
ticaly demand in what point it can, by the re-
hottest possibility, be brought in contact with any
act of mine, official or otherwise. have reason
to know that it was not the preface to the cores
pondeUSe, nor the letters in it, which made the
issue so personally offensive to you. The first
was revised by your particular friend, AMI every
expression which he thought liable to such inter
probation was erased at his suggestion: and long
after the letters were written you had intmate'l
your willingness to receive Mr.. Calhoun, as
usual, and invite him to your table, it he would
leave card for you. know through tic same
channel Of common friendship, that he objected
to an attempt at reconciliation without explana
ton. which should remove the cause of the differ
ehce; adding, that his honor and Integrity had
been impugned, and, until this matter was en-
planned. there would be no cOrdlallty in your In
tercourse, and that he could not submit TO an os-
tensible reconciliation with one who persevered
IN maintaining such unfounded asperslons against
his character.
You were willing to be reconciled after all the
offence contained in the correspondence was ful.
ly before you: consequently, the issue spoken OF
as ''made with (youseif) personally" must have
been made by the publication, not by the mates
of the correspondence. This could not be chang.