Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1831-02-23
Hon. JouH FoRsyru.
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ShF. calhoun 10 General Jackson.
PENDLEroN June % 1890
SIR: embrace the fist leisure moment since nv
return home to enclose you copy of q letter
from MI. Forsyth the original of which was handed
10 me on my passage from Washington to Norfolk
swcr. 10y 81"
lou will learn, by perusa of Mr.. Forsyth's let
tel .ta. It refers to the correspondent between US,
n' nat 1t places the subject of that correspondence
~ " HSh III some respects different from what had
PfeVIous y regarded it. | had supposed, from the
complexion OF Ut letters to ME, that the COPY of
Mr. CFawfn'ds letter TO Mr. FORSYTH lad been nac
ed by the latter in your hands without any preyious
act or agency on your part; but, by Mr. Forsvth's
letter 10 me- informed that such is not the fact
IL seems that he acted as your agent in the affair.
lie states that You applied to him be informed Of
what took place IN the cabinet of Mr.. Monroe ON
the suffice! OF the Seminole campaign; and infer
as the information could be obtained only from some
one OF the members Of the cabi net and as Mr. For
syth was rot one, and, far as | am informed not
particularly intimate with any Of its members except
Mi Ora wtord that the ohlec of your request was 10
OBTAIN the information through Mr.. Forsyth from Mr.
Crawford, and that, consequently, in Wrltng to him.
and IN placing the copy in your hands he ca,, be re
garded in mn other light but that OF your agent
Under this aspect of this affair conceive that
| rave the right to claiu, of YOU to be nut in pos
session OF all the additional reformation, which I
might fairly have 4 raUdsd OF Ajt Forsyth had the
correspondence been originally between him and
myself on the suppOsltion on which acted previous
/ ~ 10 tho receipt OF his letter. He avoWs himself
ready If desired By to furnish me with the add
tional Information; but sense of proprety would
not permit me to make the request of him. Consid-
cred your agent in this affair, is not for me to
make he request OF information Of him w hat ad-
dona information conceive myself to be entitled
to- my letter to you of the Goth May will sufficiently
indicate. part of the information it seems from
Mr.. Forsyths letter, is already in your possession
and there can be doubt but the whole would be
furnished at your request.
! ] make this apple ion solely from the desire Of
obtaining the means of enabling me 10 unrave! this
mysterious affair Facts and circumstances light OF
themselves. may, when viewed in connection, afford
important light the origin and object of what I
firmly believe to be base political intrigue rot
up by those who regard your reputation and the
pubic interest much less than their own personal
advancement.
must remark, in conclusion. shat the letter of NJ,
Forsyth affords to my mind conclusive proof that the
lntimations To my prejudice, TO which YOU refer in
your letter of the 3Cih ultmo and winch Won seem
ia think made impression on your mind have not
been without their intended effect. On TO other
suppostion can explain the fact, that, without civ
ing me any inlImaon of the step, you should apply
for Information, to my in The cabinet to one
whom you knew 10 be hostile to me as Nh era wford
is, and who could not, you know max the disclosure
consistently with the principles of onor&fidety when
my previous corrcspoc dence with you ought to have
satisfied you that was prepared to give you, frankly
and fully, any information which you might desire in
relation to NV course the orcasion.
JOHN C.. CALHOUN,
To pREsIDFST JACKSON