Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1831-02-28
Ior. JOHN EoR,YrH.
No. 3.
Mr. Calhoun TO General Jackson.

ihNDLET0N June ~, 1880.
| SIR embrace the first leisure moment
since my return home to enclose TO youa cory
OF letter from Nj. Forsyth. the original oil
which was handed TO me on my passage from
washington to Norfolk, on board the steam.
boat, and also copy Of my answer.
tod VIII learn, by perusal OF MIR. Forsyth's
letter that II refers 10 tie correspondence be-
tween us, and that II places the subject of that
correspondence in a Ugh, in some respects differ.
ent from what ! had previously regarded il.
! hal supposed, from The compile 1ion OF
your letters TO me, that the copy OF Mr.. Craw-
lords letter 10 Mr.. Forsyth had been placed by
the latter in your hands, without any previous
act or agency ON yonrpart-but, by Mr.. For
sylh's letter TO me, | am informed thai such Is
n1t the fact II seems that he acted as your
agent in the affair. lie states that you applied
10 him TO hr informed of what took place in the
CABINET of Air. Monroe on the subjec, of the
Seminole campaign; and infer, a. the infor
nation could be obtained only from some one
of the members OF the Cabinet, and as Mr.
torsJ tn was no one, and as iar as | am is-
torned, not particularly in..siate with any Of
lis members, except Mr.. Crawford, that the
OBJECT ofyour request was TO obtain the infor-
| nation through Mr.. Forsyth from Mr.. Craw-
lord, and that consequently, ia writing To MIN,
and III placing the copy OF MS letter in your
hands, he csa be regarded in ~ other light but
that OF our agent.
Under this new aspect of this affair, -on
cese that have the righI to q, i'm ot you to
| be put ~ possession OF ali he additional nlor
lnation. VIII lch might lalry have demanded
| OF Mr.. FORSYTH, had the correspondence been
originally between him aud myselt, on the sup
position on which acted previously to The re-
| c,ipt Of his letter. lie avoas himself ready, il
desired by me, 10 furnish Inc with the addition
| al information but a sense Of pToprety would
| uot u. remit me to make the request oil hIm.
| Considered as your agent in this aftolr, y Is
| NOT for me TO make the request of irfJrmatlon
ofhini. What additional Information conceive
myself 10 he entitled TO, my letter 10 you Of the
29tn May will sufficiently indicate. A part of
the information, i, seems from Mr. Forsyth
letter, is already in your possession, and
,bsre can be no doubt but The whole would be
furnished a. your request
| make this application solely from The desire
OF obi aiming the means OF enabling me TO un-
rayei his my sterious affair. Facts and cTcum
stances, light of themselves. may, When view
ed in connexion, afford important light as 10
the origin and object OF what firmly beiye 10
be base political intrigue, got up by those
who re ard your reputation aud the public
interest much less than their Own personal ad-
vancement.
l must remark, in conclusion, that the letter
of MIR. Forsyth affords TO my mind conclusive
proof that he intimatons TO my prejudice, to
which you refer ia your letter Ut the Goth ui,
mo- and which you seem TO think made no
impression on your mind, have not been with
| out their intended effect. On no other sUppo,
silion can explain the fact, that, without CIV
ing me any intnation of the step, you should
apply for information. as TO my course Ia The
cabinet, TO Que whom y on knew 10 be hostile
10 me as MIR. Crawford IS, and who could not
as you know, make the disclosure consistently
with the principles Of honor and Gdel'ty, when
my previous correspondence With you ought
To have satisfied you that was prepar ed
10 give on, frankly aud fully, any information
which you might desire, IN relation to my
cosrse on the occasion.
J. C. CALHOUN.
| Tn presipent JACKSON