Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1831-02-22
CORRESPONDENCE
Between General ANDREW JACKSON and
JOHN c. CALHOUN, President and Vice
President of the United States.
CONTINUED.
No. 10.
General Jackson 10 Mr. Calhoun.

No. 10.
General Jackson 10 Mr. Calhoun.
HERMITAGE E, June 49, 1880
SiR; Your letter of the 2ld June last has just been
reccved,via Washingto City. | regret that mine
10 You of The 9TH of May covering copy OF one 10
Mr Forsyth from OF the same date. had not
reached YOU. as It would have prevented you from
falling into tn, gross errors you have, from the
{. iaunded nicrences you have drawn from Mr. For
syth's letter To me, ana would have informed you
that had no conversation or communication with
Mr. Forsyth the subject alluded TO. before the
receipt of the copy of Mr.. Cra~lord's letter, which
| 50 promptly LAID before you. To Correct the er-
rors into which the differences you have drawn from
Mr. Forsyth's letter have led you, | herewith again
cnclose you copy Of my letter to Mr. Forsyth Of
The 7lI May aud his thereto OF the 18th June
lssi which received OH the 9Th instant, and have
tcgset that any interrupt of the mail prevented
your receipt of mine Of The 18th of May which was
mailed the same time mine to Mr. Forsyth was.
Mr. Forsyth having promised, in his letter to me
OF he 7;h june that he would explain. and by letter
you the unjust and untoundcd Infer nccs
winch you had drawn from his letter; and must
add here, for Jour information, thai, if understood
yOIr other illusions, they equally unfounded
have never heard 1t even ntinatei, except III your
letter, :hst the individual 10 whom suppose you al
lrda had the slightest knowledge the subject, or
the most remote agency III the matter In CONCLUSION
repeat, have always met the ina ions of your
having mais before the cabinet. in secret council
sgalnst me- injurious movements, with fiat and posi-
tive denial, and brought into view, by way of rrout-
ter, your uniform and full approval of my whole con
duct ON the Seminole campaign, so far US !, or any
Of my friends, had heard you on The subject; and
the high character you sustained for fair open, and
honorable conduct in all things entirely opposed
to the secret, uncandid and unmany ascribed
to you by those limitations, and banlshcd from my
mlaI wat CONCEIVED 10 be- unjust inputations upon
your honor by ascrlbng duplicny to you, and never
until after tie Intima,ions communicated to Inc
al the slggcrti0ns of the Marshal, as stated in INV
letter 10 Mr. Forsyth, "a copy of which enclosed
TO you. Ii was then that had d, sire 10 see the
statement said TO have heon made by Mr. Crawford
and, when information (m;Urnied) by Colonel Ham-
ton hat SUCH statements had been seen in writing
That made the request TO IT. with the object OF
Iiying 1t before you, which then supposed would
meet your prompt and positive negative But re-
gret that instead of negative, which had a right
to expect, had the poignant mortiica ion to see in
Your letter an admission of its truth. UNDERSTANDING
the matter now, feel interest IN this alteration
and leave you and Mr. Crawford and all concerned.
II settle the affair in your own way and now CLOSE
this correspondence Tor ever.
am, very respectfully, your most ob't. serv't.
ANDREW JACKSON
Hon. ]. G.. CALuoUy,
ce-President Of the United States.