Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1831-07-25
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.UOnd0y Evening, fully 9s5.
THE "MALIGN INFLUENCEr

Our readers deprived to-day of the usual VARIETY
Of news, will find ample amends in the command
ing interest of tho Correspondence between Mr.
bcrrien and others. Urged by the insulting tone
OF Mr.. Blair, who wrote unquestonabiy for and
under authority of, the President himself judge
Derrien has boon goaded into publication, before he
received from Col. Johnson, tho reply to his letter
which he had previously determined TO wait for
The National Intelligenccr thus introduces Mr..
Berrisn's publication:
1.-The Address of Mr.. Berren, ato Attorney Ge-
moral of the United States to the Public which we
this day publish, will fix the attention of all our
readers The subject of il is no longer a contro-
versy between Editors, Auditors, &c. 1t assumes
new shape, and higher rank. Neither does
this address form any part of the controversy be-
tween the heads of rival factions. striving to rise
Upon each others ruin. Mr.. Berrien, standing 4.
loot from the struggle between tho parties of Mr..
Calhoun and Mr.. Van Buren,, and anxious as we
really believe, not to be brought before the Public
at all IN rotation to the late rupture in the Cabinet
or Its causes, feels himself now obliged to come
forward, to sustain what he himself has stated
We feel that he is entitled to a candid hcarinp
and to an appropriated Judgment, at the bar of the
Poblic, to which he appeals. The same Justice we
shall OF course rendor to all the principals in the
controversy, when they ask 1t at our hands.
''Io understand the motive of Mr.. B. for thus
Unexpectedly addressing the Public the reader will
perhaps best fret peruse the articles from the Off
eial Paper of yesterday morning, which will be
touho on the preceding columns"
Mr. Bcrrien's high and unimpeaahed character,
the fact that he is neither the partizan OF Van Bu-
ron, Calhoun Clay, the internal evidence Of
truth which his statements bear, and tho complete
manner in which he is sustained throughout bv
Mr. Ingham, cannot fail We presume, TO establish
the correctness of all his statements, beyond the
possibility of doubt cav The exclusive friends
Of the President, must and will admit. shat it is
oh,bIe that ;r ~
paper, which be declares was read by him TO
Messrs Berrien and Ingham, he was mistakcn-had
Jorgottcn-than that those gentlemen should have
combined to PALM wilful and deliberate fqlsehood
upon the Public. 1t is not necessary to sustain
them, that Gen Jackson's veracty should be i'm
poachedl He is very old man-all old men arc
forgetful of recent transactions--andh he foegot-
That's all.
But the "MAL1GN INFLUENCE" Ave-
Messrs. Van Buren, Jackson Editors-tho snralipr
inhuence"-is it established, or is it not? What
hole will you creep into now? How will YOU re
over MIR. Bcrricn's affrmaton-Mr Ingham's cor
roboration-that inter. al evidence of truth strong
or than any mans assertion which sristane them
What shift, what expedent what special pleadinq
what equivoque, what unblushing effronterv, will
you resort TO next, to conceal or To mitigate the
truth Nobody expects you to abandon Cen
sral Jacksonville bread of too many among
you. depends upon the patronage of his Go
Ternment-but hour are you to defend hin?-
What defence is there for Dcspotsnl which sought
to regulate the intercourse OF society and to force
by the strong hand of power, equivocal virtue upon
unwilling recipients? Is this Republics nism? Was
this worthy employment for President ri the l..
States Is this your second WASHINGTON ?
we are profoundly curious to SEQ ,c hat tho affia
ted Press Will have to say for it's Idol. We are Gu.
nous to know if they seriously propose to press
tho claims of this unfortunate old man, VINO with
Ecau folly, has stripped from his own brows, the
laurols with which admiring gratitude had decked
thsm--any longer upon the People oftho U. States
Certain We now are, that all their arts all their
INSCRIPTIONS msndacty, will avail no longer 10
blind and misle2d generous people Patriots
VIII rise to the rescue of the country-party feel
ing will be merged in the higher and holer
claims of Country-nnd Gen. Jackson will retire
TO tho Hermitage, from which it was unhappy for
his glory, that he permitted himself to be
drawn by the lures of ambition.