Alabama state intelligencer., 1831-05-11

to move an enquiry into my conduF, and perhaps the only man for censuring me. Can this be true what hind of an answer ought to be expected from q question so drectl By all that is due to candor by every consideration which gives value to sjncari ty, which adornS the truth and gives unladny nstre 70 hdeiy was he not entitled to reply as open and unequlVocal as the question had been honest and manly Is this the character of that renly? Does MT Calhoun answer and say:--Gencra Jachlson it IS not true ;-or General Jackson I never gave you 10 m understand that supported you ill that council These are the only two replies that could or ouph to nave been returned to question so simple But instead of the one or the other of these answers what does he sayi-l appeal to the people-as their pub-
 nc servant, acting so long for their best interest hay Ing the constitution constantly in vew--aways go- vened by strong feeling of duty, and stronger sense of the public welfare, whether 1 ought to an swer such q qnestion-whether ought to be arraen- ed for my official conduct-wheher ought to Ie questioned for my Constitutional priviege-.whehel General Jackson though he is President should put me upon the rack for opinions exercised in the faith
 aaraed asdd lfeSaFfessy for my country and from coin igtters ot ir Monroes private correspondence with General Jackson, he had right to believe that he LOOK Florida contrary to orders-Feow- ow-citizens ths Is all plot to ruin my political sandng- can convict General Jacksons informant, of falseiocd in some part of his statement, if he will only give me mn all the names of the persons concerned intho plut and all ther letters, and all the other information which
 my hSe,i' Ills N Ioui FiDt, and have been most inhumanly treated abused and traducedl Is thia Il fair answer to fair question: In vain Gen Jack son fepiIes:-Mr Calhoun, do not upbraid you with oii1ciai misconduct. do not arraign vour motives l They are with your God. I do not question your Public or private rights. 1 do not denounce your opinions They are saered. But only ask you, have been deceived! Is it true that you were for celsHring me, for my conduct in Florida. when you told me and my friends you were not Understand me; do not mistake the question It is not your oplnion blame. No one denies your unouesinoable right on that poit But is the dcaia of that opin ion Of which wish to be informed It is the doing ol one thing and saving another Did you not nt tempt to make me believe that you were for me. when It turns out you against me / And did you not seek the more strongly to confirm this i'm presslon by laying il upon anotherl This is the true question between us Do not attempt to divert the public mind, by long and labored statements and by assaliing their pity from what every body must per celve IS the true and only eround.-Whai ia the re- sponse of Mir Calhoun 7-it is all a blot, foul plot against me. l will not answer the question any oth- CT way than by saying that you treat me very nnpe- nerously m withholding the letters and names of the consplrators-in arraigning my official conduct and Tn believing William H. Crawiords statement. though by my present mode of treating you you have every right 10 believe it is true.
 What could General Jackson do2 With thnt scorn Which CONSCIOUS integrity feels, he says to Mir Calhoun: "i regret that instead of negative Which fad right to expect, had the poignant modification to your letter an admssion of if s truth Understanding the matter now feel no n-
 erest in thls altercaton and now close this corres | pondence forever"
 | we shaii now attempt more mehodca analysis of tins correspondence. Mir Calhoun with sensi- blllty amounting almost to agony, rests his dcfehce mainly upon two grounds
 I. IHGt Bfr Cyurto,a has Gcen gu;lfu Of ff1ysehood I H. 1hot the mhote agaiy, is q base intrigac, and t0W plot against lis poiitici siandinG
 J. The hrst position Is attempted 10 be supported by negative testimony, and tlis is of two kinds l.
 MT Crawford enmlty of long standing, and recent evidences of its exercise towards Mir Calboun 9
 The testimony Of MT Monroe, Mir Wir, and Mir Ad- ans, as to their want of recollection of particular fact te certificate of Mir M Dulie and the Diary of | Mir Garnett. as to his confessions
 The hrst gentlemen who are made to enter upon the stage (more to be sure in the character of pl- 1ghfers, than in any oiler) Wilson Inmpkin and Daniel Newman. They both give 1lr Calhoun the alarm that certain poiiticaL jHggiers are plot tng separation between him and General Jackson, by representing that Calhoun has pursued decep- tYe course towards General Jackson on previous r occaslons MT Lnmpkin sates T feel the more at liberty and authorised to make this communca- ton, because l know, of my own knowledge, you and your friends are nisrepreSented upon this sub lect. Ho'eerer, General Jackson himself must and hnoio the object ofdiese ahahou efforts "-Again: "
 do not know one conspicuous friend yours but what has constantly, zeaously, and uniformly supported Eeneral Jackson, from the day that Pennsylvania declared in his favor to the present time How, then, can 1t be possible that General Jacson can sus- poet the friendship, consancy pr sincerity of you or your iflends No; he cannot--he will not-he does not have quite too much confidence in the Gene ral, to believe snch idle tales" MT Newman states Il nope Mir Calhoun will take the earliest opportu- my of seeing General Jackson, and putting all lhihgs slralght; for l cannot believe for one mo- ment,the allegations of W. II. Crawford" These
 letters are addressed to Mir Calhoun, in the month oi January, iS29. How must he have felt, know ing what he did, when these his friends expressed such soctude to guard him against the effect of
 's'epresenfatons, which he, in his own heart, knew to DC true Why did he not undeceve these psr. sons Why did he not say: Gentlemen, there was Il time when believed General Jackson acted
 wrong, and under the strong obligations of idelt, to the constitution of my country, moved an tn,qai | " into hls conduct, in the Seminole war, with view to censure him, though that war was to say, , your own women and children from the iomabawl
 and scalping knife Think you that these mel would have felt and pronounced such confidence il } the falsehood of Mir Crawlord's 'alegations"?- l They would have gone to their graves in the belle
 that Crawford was political juggier," but for tn, late unfortunate development which General Jack f son has and ioiH and does believe in spite of tn, 1 confidence" of one of the gentlemen, is no "idl,
 tale"
 How they feel, and what figure they cut befor,
 the world, IS far from provoking the envy of, per 3 haps, any one but Mir Calhoun himself In leokin, 5 round for situation which the eye could rest fo relief, his, we confess, is the only that proer any comfort.
 g The next is the testimony of MT Monroe MT Wrt l and Mir Adams It that in Mir Crawford' statement, made through Mir Forsyth, to the Presi I dent, he had alleged these facts viz My owl views on the subject had undergone materia
 change after he Cabinet had been conrened. MT Cal r houn made alluson to a letter that Genera Q Jackson had written to he President who had fot