Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1831-07-27

wy essPesssoH 10 press s2ch Gf<Hu:S dec
iaf alton that hs made such rrlu,s,,ioo.
But hud, in the ehaas,er you have always sue
Sinsd before The public, 9th conclusive pro- ths,
SUCH reqnsiion was ever made OF you. aud that you
knto &C. tho President had signihed 10 you, direct
~ or Indirectly, that he req aired you 10 compel your
family TO associate wi h any one, contrary 10 heir
wiz and your, you wooii not, as a man, OF hon
or, have visited for an imitation to resign.
You would have ihIown your sopmi.,iou In the
lace OF the President, aud said 10 him, "Sr, am 10
longer adv"er or associate with mn who requires
nc to disgrace myself and f-miiy, though he be the
President Of ihe U, S;ate,!!" In your public
character 1 had a guarantee that you would not
'ot 'he ssks OF your honor, salary and eDouenis ~
attorney Gsneral, sink youe character a. man, ny
,sneiy listening to such requi,i,ion. No, Sir; u IL
impos'ibis TO believe that yu could have listened to
such sreqaisiicp; dIsmi-sed your .e re.pecs forget
your souihstn homo, and HI mbly bowed ia seeming
rrversnee, TO tia no ba ii.ui-d yon un III DO.
hfey inved TO resign! /, inposibis that you cooJ
buy such an nsult profess to be the trie nd oil the
sden' make he spsech ,h. you did recently In Georgia
and now that you ars GU, of otics ci.co.e tact which
nou d seal your own sham. M, IL; such propo-
''pp wa,ever made TO you; You had carss 10 conn
srva'e; aud you would have sisjy asted as Attorney
GsneraI % thu end Of his ad had you not
been inpited TO resign
But the circumstances under which the harmony of
me late Cabinet was restored, rcpe the inference,
which you will have it, in your last note that the ex-
tract from your letter Major Eaton leaves open i'm
the ambiguou ness OF its expression From the mo-
ment that you denied TO the President any paric pa
In the political combination TO drive- aior Eaton from
the Cabinet, the usual courteses renewed among
It's members, without any association between their
spec,ive families. Major Eaton would have been as
reluctant 10 receive vsiters driven into his doors by
the power of the President they could possibly have
been to submit to such tyranny and degradation His
mouse was thronged by those who among the
most respectable people Of The ely, by tho most ho-
norablc families visiting, annually, here and by those
from abroac most distinguished by station. To the
gaety and responsibility Of parties thus attended, the
appearance Of persons constrained by the authority
the Executive, IL IL could have been exered for such
perpose, would have added nothing II could have
served purpose to have exacted such requisiion
that now imputed, to the injury Of the President. To
have forced the wife of the Secretary of War upon
mat portion oil society which unwilling receive
her, could have added nothing TO her reputation. IL is
ridiculous to impu'e TO the failure of such design,
The dissolution OF the late Cabinet You, think must
know that this step the result of the diversity Of
political views, which attached the ttro partes in the
Cabinet to different divisions of the parties which
became app rent in the dssenon between the presi.
dent and Vice President This produced in the then
state OF the Cabinet combinations in Congress- cacu-
lated TO defeat the most sautary measures of the adj
ministraton La the opposi ion which showed itself
with regard to the Turkish negotiation the members
OF the C,bnct favorable TO the newborn opposition
were expressly exempted in the denunca;ions of those
members of the Senate, who then came out and dis
closed, for the first time, the hostility the President
and part OF his Cabinet That wish 10 bring Major
Eaton and his family into society here, had influence
in producing the dissolution of the Cabinet is apparen
from the fact that il operated 10 consg n them and him
to privacy The want of the harmony essential to the
political effects, and Produced this result.
You require OF me TO correct The OF DE ara
urn, predicacd on the information " ch Col JohpfoT
communicated to nie, Up1u the g,cund hat bavs n,
authority to the evdsr &c wheb establishes The
The testimony which have my pcs 'esrion, undp
Coll johnson hand sa i f,' IN oul hy Of the Gu,t
Of Tue assertion hsvo mate, ami therefore, will no
admit IL 10 be au error. Your exception to the use
have made OF his testimony, may be applicable a, q
nsura upon my course.-Bat consider, that circun
s'Ancee fully justify that course, and cpiy pom
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letter Yonr objection 20 the authority under which
have acted Col. Johrson's evidence does not il
be iesa, chang tho nfturs of that evidence. II /,
convincing II eoulJ be pnter ful authority to i,
snd probably oTe so than evidsnes purPosely prepared
for The pnbiic eye.
You seem 10 ihi,k tha: am bound "a publish, OF
my own account, hs espondenee between Msjo
E.ion and Yourself. because have used paragraph
having exclusive references 10 The Preside Mt. do Go
hink So, wiz have nothing 10 do wi h The ecnro-
very between Majrr Exon AID yours H. You have q
rg TO BRING iha, subject before tie public 10 any way
you pieasSsnd on your own responsibility will no
h'saie 10 pint il, any part you may choose 10 en-
b otly. In the discussion with me.
closed my last note TO you, by nimation that il
would conclude our correspondence. did so because
the issue between us dep ended altogether upon the veri
ty OF the statements had made contradctng assertions
in the Telegraph for which did not know that vol
were responsible. when you volunteered TO question
my statements, l laid before you frankly the grount
on winch acted and them in second letter, brough
10 your view the proof on which, TO myself, wa.
willing TO rest the issue. But you seem inclined Il
make, through me, an attack the President and Il
use the correspondence which you entered (cer,an
ly without being called for by any thing said as Il
yoursef0 as the medium OF bringing on a general dis
cussion OF the question OF the dissolution Of the
Cabinet, shall certainly sacrifice my inclination wha
you Consider my duty. My reluctance continue the
correspondence with you proceeds from no want of re
spect TO you. But believe the public is sick OF the
suJec is sat fed with the dissolution of the old Ca
bine and the formation OF the one and this Undue
ed the inclination have evinccd TO spare The counr,
the digust OF the dissection of subject, which seems
willing TO bury. At all events, the progress we have
made will he sufficient for lecture. IL you think
fit, we will resume il again. Yours, &C.
F. p. BLAIR.