Alabama state intelligencer., 1831-10-15

ther. as conceive, had right to complain.
 MT Berren's family never did refuse to visit with mlne, for they never had the opportunity. Custom required when they came to the city, being last m their arrival that should first call them, if we desired their acquaintance but we never did call.
 How ridiculous does this single fact render MT Bemien's publication, which he has set forth with such grave fornality He had ascertaned the sense of society here, he says and condemned to fl Tn hs matter, when m fast he never had an opportunity to conform to or depart from it. He maintains that Inc President threatened to dismiss him, because he would not compel his family to visit where he did not choose they should. when in fact they never had an opportunity to visit there. Throughout, he pre- sents me and my family craving the socpty of hls which he haughtily refused, when in fact the first the natural and the usual advance, on ourpart, had never been made.
 It will be seen then. that had the President set out to regulate the intercourse of society, and to d- rect its social relations, he ought to have begun with me- not Mir Berren. He must have threatened to dismiss me- if did not compel my family first 10 call on his and leave card What force Mr Der rien under such circumstances, to tOrce his family upon us The President certainly ought frso have f0rced us to give them an opportunity to decline our acquaintance. To force together unwilling people, and particularly to begin with the wrong persons, would indeed appear an odd and strange procedure. | In the autumn of lS29, new attacks began 10 be made, in whispers on my integrity. It was sad had conspired with my wife's first husband, Mir Timberake, to deiraud the government of large sums of money. Other attempts to get rd of me, having failed, was now to be presented as being in default to the government, through fraud prac- tised on it. Mir Timberlake had been Purser in the Navy, and this charge was based upon report
 I J. hsiIn.J |" i'is "DSUunts Q. iti div puDlct anu on priUdte letter of mine 4etained in the 4th Audi tors ofiiCe showing that gn my suggestion, he had remitted money to me. Copies of my prioate conf dential letters to him. bas been taken from the office that knight not escape through dppTehended indulgence and far0r on the part If Mir Kendall Matters considered we'll arraAged, and the proof complete to show that this delinquency was wholly occasion- ed by remittances bf money to me- and which was yet in my possessDn. Such were the whispers cir culated through the society of this place. But q close investigation, which occupied some time, show ed that Mir Undertakes account had been deprived through seriss of shocking frauds of credits to the amount of iiyn 12 to 20,000, and that justly he was largely creditor, not d debtor to the Govern ment. BN with mutilated books-abstract of ac- counts Glssing, and the inventory gone from the De- partmem his family can only appeal, under all the circumstances, to the justice and honor of the coun try for redress.
 While sander held its open day. and midnight round of whisper on this subject, received from some malignant being, who subscribed himself Iago, the following note:
 sSi, have written letter to Mir Kendall about the ne! that paid for oNeas houses. You know what mean Refenge sweet, and have you in my power and will rOa you, and boil you and bake yOu and hope you may long live to prOong my pleasure. Lay not the haterng uncion to your on that you can escape me would not
 that death or any evil thing, should take you from my grasp for half the world
 Who the writer of this fendsh note is, l have ne- yer ascertaned. cannot turn my thoughts on an enemy mplacable, that he would be unwilling the man he hated should find repose in death Yet is in character with the acts of those whose fore cast pointed to the means, by which the evil ofmy selection, member of the Cabinet, was to be made apparent, and the President forced "speedly to and correct the evll.h If l could have been driven from all respectable society," or had fixed up- on collusien and fraud, in obtaining the funds of the Government, then would the Cabinet have been relieved of my presence, and the prophecy of Mir Berrien completely fulfilled.
 Congress had now commenced its first session af- ter the inauguration of the President. The recom- mendaons in his message had been received with uncommon applause. But it was soon perceived, that litle in furtherance of his views was to be ex- pected from some of the political gentlemen who were protesting regard to the administration. Move ments amongst some of my colleagues, with others in the same political interest, indicated disposition again 10 wage against me, Il war of exclusion. Ru- mors of q combination to force me from the Cabinet, attracted the Presidents attention. He suspected that portion of his Cabinet had entered it, in dis guise, and had fomented some of the mischief he had encountered and accordingly determined, if it should appear that they were guilty of such dupci- ty and had combined to harrass and drive out one of their colleagues, they should share the fate they were preparing for another While reAecting on the course proper 10 be adopted, Col. Richard M. Johnson called on visit; and 10 him he disclosed his difficulties and intentions. Colonel Johnson en- terained better opinion ofthesc gentlemen than to believe they harbored hostile views towards me- CT. had entered into a combination to expel me from the Cabinet. Accordingly he solicited the consent of the President 10 converse with them friend, that by ascertaning the suspicious entertained to be n- correct, he might relieve them from the mputaton. He had no other authority permission than this: The mission of his own seeking; he was actua- ted solely by desire to maintain harmony; and if he could, to be of service to these gentlemen - Whether he spoke upon potcs-religion-phioso phy-adles' cards, invitations to large parties or small-social or political intercourse-all, all was upon his own responsibility, and upon his own al- thority. Through him the President made no pro- position, no requlston, and no threat. For myself knew nothing of it.
 It IS little remarkable, that neither of the three gentlemen, in their published statements, speak of any proposition as coming directly from the Presi- dent, which was considered at all insulting or i'm proper. Though they insist, that Col. Johnson was authorized to threaten, and did threaten them; vet not one pretends that directly the President nsinua- ted any thing of the kind to either !" It is strange, passing strange" that Col. Johnson, man ofknown integrity and honor should deny this-stranae that when they met the President he breathed to them nothing like it-and yet stranger still that in defiance of these proofs, and these circumstances they still insist, that they were nsuted Who now will won der that the Cabinet was changed or who maintain that it ought to have been longer continued No sooner had Mir Branch stated that Col Johnson had threatened their dismissal, than it was promptly de- nied by the President, who said he would forthwith send for Col Johnson; and for that purpose called servant. Why did the messenger not go MT Branch explains? "It is unnecessary to send for Col. Johnson; for your word is sufficient" And why is that word not now sufficient? Then, Mir Branch received it as true-tod it, doubt, to his