Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1831-09-23

ccnsIdeftd well arrar god. and
the prof. ecup'ea, to show that ,tis deli que ncy
wholly oceo'i'psd by re,nitterces Of money 10 me,
nd wh'ch wa, yet in my possession. Such wete the
whi1pets circulated htough She society OF hi, piare
bu' e'ose nyes's.t on, which oscupi.d some tine,
'bowed h, MI. 7 mbrrlaLe's account bad teen d..
p'v-f, Though s'res c fhotki'e frSuds of credits
- 'hs au cuut Of from IL 70 500 600 and that irsily
he largely eredor, oct debtor, to The GSv,ru
mtn BIZ, with mu at,d bocks-abslrsct OF sccouets
nis,ing, and 'h- Inventory gone from The Department,
hi timly only appeal uudsr ell the eireunstr css
o ihe jls'iee and honor OF The country, % redress
While SANDER held ito OPEN day a mdnigh roppd
OF Will per Oh this su, jec ived irop, msg
note:
"s,s have written to Mr.. Kendall money paid
and have you - my power and viii roast and boil
Lay tho aa,,orIps your you escape
from my sa aS hs Sn' d. any evil thing should take you
weo'Le writer OF dis nendish note 10, have never
asserained. cannot iuin my though, on oy
so impiAsable, tina, he would be unwilling the man he
haeo thoud Ind repcse In desth Yet 10 il in charae
ter with the sc OF these whose forecast pointed 10 he
means, by which tie evil OF nv selection ameu-
Der oil the Csbne was 10 be made sppare nt and the
President forced speedily 10 see AID correct the
evil f" could have been driven from all rsspee,a
o obtaining The funds OF lbs Government. then would
the Cabinet have been relieved Of my pcsence, ard
he ,p'Ofhsey Of Mr. r,ien completely ialhlled.
Corgrss 50 had n3w commenced It's hrit session after
ihe insUgura'on oi the President. TIE recommends.
tioos in his message had been received wi uncetn
mon aPplause Butte WA seen perceived, that lille,
W
some Of tho political gentlemen who were protesting
regard to the sdmiusira sp Movements smongH
some OF my colleagues, with otherS in he roli l.
ea' iOteEes", indita'e6 a dispofiOn sgsia 10 wsgs
asap9 me, war o, exclusion Rum pure Of a comb.
nation to torse me from The Cabinet, attracted the Pee
iden . attention. He suspected hat nor ,ion of bis
Cabre. bad entered H. l. disgui'e, and Rad fouerted
some OF the misshie he bad encounsre6 and &C .n,d
'ney determined, IL IL should appeac thai hay wsrs
gun OF sush cupiicy, aud had combined to barrass
and drive ont one OF beT colleagues they soul share
u fd'o they weSe preparing Tor snoibrr While re-
necune on me course pr. per TO be adopted. Colon.
Richard M. hnsOn called 90 a visi and 20 him he
Disclosed bic difficulties and tote nIions. Colonel In.
son entertained better opinion Of these gentlemen
ran TO believe they haTtoured hostile views towards
m-, or Rad eGter>I INFO eolbic alton espel ne from
the Cabinet. Accordingly he solicited tho consent Of
the President 10 eenveTse with Ia friend, liza
ny aceF'sring the suspeions entertained lie incnr
rFc', ne iGishi relieve them from toe impu alton. II,
had no her authority permission than thi: Tie mis-.
son was OF lis Own seeking; he asuated solely by
desire to mao ain hsrmons end II he souid 10 be
service to these gentlemen. Whether be spoke upon
pbosoI hy-iat.s' eard. Invitations
to large parties or smalsoesl political lnereourss
-ah All was upon his own responsibility aud upon his
oSSn authority TBrough biu he Ptesden, made NO
proportion no re9nisi'on, and 40 threat For myseli
| kGew no hing Of it,
1t 10 little remarkable, that neither OF the tbrsc
gen'iemen, in heir Pobibed sistemen s. speak OF any
prop ton as coming directly from the President, which
was considered al all Insulting improper Toougb
ey iDsst maj COL johnson was horz ID to threat,
en-, and did threaten ihen; yet rot one pre,ends ma
directly The P'eIideni usnusted any hing RI the kind
| Col
J0hnsIn, d man oil known cRrty and honor, ,hcud
deny this-e,fanRe tist when they met ,te President
ne bTt a'hed 10 them nothing like it-snd vet stranger
s that In defiance OF these p COTS, and these cfcum.
ranSe', they s iDsisi that thsy were insulled! Who
now will woedsr ,hatthe CaaretSas changed or who
maiusin that II ought to have been longer con nusdi
NO sooner had als Branch stated that Col. John on
had threatened their dsmisssl, than il Ras pfomntly
denied by the President, who said he would forthwith
send Tor Col johnson; Snd for that purloss cell d
sEvan'. "oy did The messer ger not 20? Mr. Branch
explsn'lii i, unnecessary TO send Tor Col johnson:
tor your word is 'nflicienG" And wby is that word
90, AZ ri stem! Then, Mr. Branch received il az
Tue-toid u, no doubt 10 bis cGIessues-apd vet DC
they come before the public boldly 10 esseit as true
"hat men was given up IA msHke-sn entire mis-
conception on their part. Content with The exp.ana-
sion offered Ct The tme-ccnvaest Of the incorrect
ueis OF ,hsit impressions these gentlemen cow asser,
their dlsp't azure ard difeonteni, ard the end of
vel ponihs, come out and maneir that 10 be tEue
Which before bai been given up false ind 10 cor.
rect impression. As for myself cau cav and do ,ruv
ay' INA, never uttered, or brought to the considera
ZION oil 'he President, an5 complaint in reference 10
! myssiE was always content TO keen the redress
! Of my own wrongs and i'jurias In ny own bands
ara 10 AK The aid and assistance OF one in OF out
OF power NO iniimaii2n woe ever had by itnt Col
John'on intended 10 make sueh onry nor did know
h.t be hed made t. The lofty sense OF hoHor enter
tanned by Gen Jackson would never permit him to COM
promit the honor OF his friends. He has not comnro
United mine; and yet he would have done it, had he used
h AZ authority TO ex'ort courtesy in my behalf from
Messrs. lngham Branch and Berrien But wby reason
ABOUT II! III the dsavowa of the President established
even by his accusers who lately were his proessn
"'ehus IL 10 confront MIR. Branch with Col John
son, and which alone prevented by declaration
that he (Nlr Rranch) entirely satsiedif the as
serlon oil Col Johnson, that he had no AUTHORITY IN com
municate any such thing-dd not communicate H. and
so informed the parties at the time if all this he moi
sufficient to prove the falsty of the statements which
these gentlemen, in their magniy have so recklesslv
aZarded before the public, then would IL not be beev
"though one arose from the dead"
by their conduct at he time, my colleagues manifest
ed that nothing had been required of them which a ia
new asserted, they considered dishonorable If thew
had believed so-i alter cOnversing with the President
they thought he had exacted OF them that 10 which as
honorable men, they could conform, thew should
have immediately rendered their designations To sum
pose mey could do Otherwise, is TO presume that for
tie sake OF office they willing iamev 10 subn,i,
10 the 'ndignity and outrage of which thev now com
PiaD' though the cOncealments by which they innos
ed themselves on the President, their conduct
me, and especially Mr. lnghams note book i'm which
oeng CONFIDENTIAL adviser, and in sense part of
MS ay, he noted down, if he is to be believed the
free, the private and familiar conversations of the Pre-
sden Tor future use, present spectacles OF human
dation at which honorable minds would revolt: vet
c"hot suppose that they would remain ia the cabinet
uer consciousness that hourly they ght be expos
eu 10 e same lndignity, involving their rsonaI hone
ana the honor OF their families II is utterly i,apossble
mat gentlemen now apparently sensitive, could have
submitted themselves to such stale of things without
complaint, for fifteen months. BY their re naming in The
Cabinet so long alter the indignty and oufrsge nj
which they complain, must conclude thai The Pre-
sIdent had not insuled them by any dshonorabe and
improper requisiioD, else that they loved heir Offices
better than their hoAor and that their present violence
IS caused only by the loss OF them
Bu' 10 relation t. Mr.. Btsnrh b,v. .on.u,o
even better 'han Mr. I0gbans nole -kost 10 rtove
'cuay wert bis ieslngs owsrds the Pees1, nj AZ end
aOou ne very Time wbsH tGis pretended inipni,v nj
CooseI Johu'sh wac OHsts6. IL Letters sddteSs,d
ny N.Y. branch 10 NE PtssideBt IN his Swn blld wti.
ting, on The ~ OF Jsnuaty 1890 and which ON n,
same day enclosed 10 me- in The bcn. ,b.t .,.a.