Alabama state intelligencer., 1831-10-22


 to represent hls country at of the most impor- tant courts of Europe. He and his family were not fit and good society for the families of such pure honorables as Ingham, Branch and Berien, and yet they were to be considered quite good society," enough for one of the first and most powerful mon archs of Europe.
 | But more! They were even willing to afford me triumph. For the sake of getting me away from the | President, they were ready and disposed that Mir Branch, one of the friends of whom they had made a dupe and instrument, might be dismissed. Amidst all this tirade ofabuse and insult previously offered merely to get rid of my supposed influence, they were yet willing to bestow on me office and emolu ment to mount me on triumpha car and tie their | friend, MT Branch, to its wheels Now, can any man in bis senses fail to wonder, that should de- cline all these liberal offers, and finally retire from the Cabinet for no better than IS asserted by these gentlemen that the families of lngham, Branch and Berrien would not visit me and my family2 Tru ", they make me out greater patriot than am will ling to be considered while they afford to Mir Branch | no great cause for thanksgiving to them. Their profer shows how little he knew of those persons, who for all his zeal. and ardor and magnity to serve them and their cause were yet wiling to sa- crlhcc him to their ambition and to ther thirst for office. As part of the consideration in getting rid of me, they were willing to dispose of him in sny way, and at any sacrifice. Thus you perceive, my countrynlen, the real objection to me, member | of the Cabinet, and why it was that Messrs lngham and Berrien entered it with concealed purposes, and with hypocrtca professions You can perceive the reasons why and my family have been so relent- | lessy pursued by the friends of Mir Calhoun and you perceive the origin of the progressive and con certed attacks, first upon me, and next upon Mir | Van Buren, and lastly upon the President that the one might be sent to Russia the other to 4iJany, and the third to the solitude of the Hermitage All has originated in the restless spirit of Mir Calhoun and his 2artzans and in a determination that Gene raI lun I,aD rt that Mir Calhoun must and should be his successor. l In the winter and spring of 1S29-30 MT Greens paper gave confirmation 0ithe feelings and plans de- veloped Tn his conversations with Messrs Webster and Welles. In December the New-York Enqui- Ter intimated that the reelection of Gen. Jackson was desirable and ventured to suggest that MT Van Buren might be a candidate, provided he declined. MT Green sharply rebuked the Editor for meddling with the subject, and especially for introducing the | name of the proposed successor. In March, 1880, Mir Webb again introduced the subject, though in a different shape. He says:" We repeat, that Gene ral Jackson. and he only, will be the candidate of the republican party for the next Presidency In reply, the Telegraph again took exception; and d. though not frank and iull in the previous con | versations had with Mir Webster and Mir Welles, yet the article dimly discloses the same designs General Jackson must not again be candidate least, his acts should be subjected to the imputa- ton of selfish ends, and eectOneering purposes"-
  vae comforts;" in the more distinct language held to Mir Webster, he ought to go home'' to the Hermitage. There is in this article, nothing of Mir Van Barens designs and lnrigues, or Mir Calhoun's claims. These could be better managed and to happier effect, through private arrangements which | were then in progress, though not completed. It was not yet time To appeal to the public for the cor rectlon of "evils" which the President could not be made to see; but utat time was considered to be near at hand, and was evidently ioreboded by the tone of the Telegraph.
 | Most of the Presidents nominations had been be- fore the Senate during the whole winter, and the public were at a loss to know why they were not disposed of. The friends of MT Calhoun were con- stantly pouring into the ears of those who de- pending on the Senate for confirmation, exaggera- ted accounts of his strength in that body; and the political preferences of those in nomination, were secretly and aruily sought after. They pretended to have boiled both houses of Congress- and to have ascertaincd that majority in each, his friends. Mir Hill rejected from the office of Second Comptroller of the Treasury, and MT Green paid him visit of condolence, during which he sought to persuade him, that he had been sacrificed to "the Eaton and Van Buren infuence." Others were pri- vately warned, that they in danger from the same quarter It certainly would have been mas tery stroke of policy, if Ar Hill could have been sent to New Hampshire, MT Kendall to Kentucky, Mir Noah to New-York, and other former Editors back to their homes to their professional du- ties, impressed with the belief, that they had been made the victims, not of an lngham, Berrien aud Branch, but of" the Eaton and Van Buren influence" It was good idea, if 1t could have succeeded; but being rather far-etched it failed. Thus il is appa- rent that it was not the Secretary of War alone that they desired 10 get rid of but the Secretary of State also. One of the members of Congress, who attended the preparatory meeting about the 20th of March, for the purpose of regulating the Presidents Cabinet, being inquired of, if my removal would satisfy them, answered emphatically: "NO; ue ,cW be sotised ,oith nothing short cf he remorat of Tan Bu,en."
 But the removal of these two unrepresented Se- cretaries at this meeting, not the only subject probably discussed before it, and which failed of success. The Premier, General Jackson himself, a more important parsonage than all, he too was to be disposed of: and the better to effect it, conversations were to be held with strangers visiting the city; and private letters were to be written, to prepare the minds of leading politicians at distance, to support the decisive movement. It was not proper, nor the proper time, openly to take ground in the newspa- pers s;-sapping and mining were preferable. An anti Van Buren party to be gotten up, and un- der that banner, without seeming to be in opposition to the President it was thought the dsconented and dissatisfied of all parties could rally, until the scheme being fully matured the mine was to be ex- pIoded, when MT Calhoun and the Telegraph were " to ride on the whirlwind and direct the stOrm."- On the 18th of March, but day before this prepara tory meeting of members to re-organize the Cabinet at least in part MT Green wrote letter to Andrew Dunlap, United States District Attorney at Boston. In that letter he says:
 .The political horizon rum day day. more clearly in dicating the point whence the storm comtth The article
 from the Journal and the last the Un States Gazete leave doubt Webster has push forward boldly, and Clay alone fClay succeeds webster's fortune made II Clay falls the Lieutenant becomes the Commander of the defeated forces He comes into the market the head of organized and powerful party, and associated as he intends to b, with NewYork fMr Van Buen he will have powerful influence his command
 ..Mr who much with Webb, gave me as piece of advice intended for my benefit and guidance, in formation that Mir Webb had, while here, been advise 0 attack Mir Webster Will it be well to keen an eve