Alabama state intelligencer., 1831-08-13

after require. By his declaration that he did not iT tend 10 press the acquisition which he had mad through Col. Johnpn, l considered the object oftle 1 interview to be to eTpdin to Me 1n0tires undf ,cich he had acted 0od 10 announce Me change 0f hs dctermindtion He accompanied thIs with expre- slons of personal kindness which thought were iI-
 tended to soothe the feelings whchs he must have been conscious of having excited. Still thoughtt was improper for me longer 10 remain in the CahA net. Admitting that sufficient atonement had bed made for the indignlty offered by the message set through Col. Johnson there was perpetual liabit l to the recurrence of similar outrage. believed { therefore, to be my duty to retire. My friends though otherwse and my own of what the interess of Georgia at that particular crisis required induced me repress my feelings.
 When at subsequent period, the controversy a. cured between the President and Vice Presdent,l thought saw in this the evidence of an intentn again to agitate the question: which by the ageny of the personal friends of Gen. Jackson, had bedl before happily repressed The connection of Nr Crawford with this controversy, and my own req ton to Gen. Jackson, forbade me 10 take any partin lt,-and studously avoided all interference except to deprecate Mir Calhoun's publication. left Wah- ngton on the fourth day of April, one day after M Eaton had announced to the President his determl- atlon to resign, according 10 the statement in lis (Nlaj. Eaton's) letter of resignation, and not tie slightest nmation was given to me of the intendal change in the Cabinet. But when I saw the cq- IespoHuSnce DetWeen lne IGeSluenl ana lne SeVeml Heads of Departments, l could not doubt for mo- ment how, and by whom the dissolution had bean produced. l did not feel at liberty to express my views generally, until my return to Washington should enable to dissolve my connection with the Presidents but to few friends who had the right to und., stand my actual position. stated the utter i'm possibility oi my continuance Tn the Cabinet, unless the President could place the retirement of m, col leagues on other grounds than those which bel eyed 10 have occasoned it, and such as could approve In full view of the speedy dissolution of all connec- ton between the President and myself 1 availed myself of the occasion afforded by the kindness of my fellow-ctzens of Savannah, to do an act of jus tce to his public conduct, question vitally n- eresting to the people of Georgia. If there be any man who IS incapable of understanding, or of ap- preciating the motive which prompted this act, cannot envy his feelings and will not attempt to en- tighten his understanding. l returned to this city, had conversation with the President, of which the prominent points adverted to in my letter of re- signation which immediately followed it, and hav- ing brought up the public business, which was in aTear, retired from office.
 While these occurrences were in progress, Maj. Eaton addressed to me d letter of like import with his first communication to Mir lngham. He called upon me to sanction disavow the statement in the Telegraph, that my family had refused to associate with his. 1 answered by detailing the conversation winch had passed between myselfa and Col. Johnson, and stated that had subsequently, expressed the same views to the President, who had disclaimed any disposition 10 press this requsition referring to that which had previously stated to have been made through Col. Johnson. The Editor of the Globe has published this detached sentence of my letter. and has made an impotent attempt to distor its meaning. The public shall judge of the whole cor respondence for themselves had no disposition to publish this correspondence. Perfectly satisfied that it would at all times speak for tself and not emu lous of reputation to be acquired in such controver sies, have resisted the numerous calls which have been made upon me through different journals to give it to the public. But the Editor of the Globe is in possession of it, and by the publication of an isolated extract, attempts to do me injustice. ex- ercse right, therefore, which belongs to me- when take from him this unfair means of annoyance by giving the whole to the public:
 Friday Night, 17th June 1881.
 Sir have studied disregard the abusive islanders which have arisen through debaed the U. s. Tele graph have been content to wait for the full develope mn of what he had to say and until persons of responsible of me and of my family In that paper of this evening IS M e n h n nS o the ad of the Attorney General, refused to associate with her.
 % yo nm under desire know of you neither or not you sanction ast or ner authorizes me o an m mediate answer. Very respectfully, J. H. EATON.
 Jno. M Berrien, Esq
 Washington, 1Sth June, 1s3l
 tO-day call my article the U S. Telegraph of the 17h nstant relating to your we-and desiring to know
 the relation have sustained towards each other, autho rizes me to demand an immediate answer
 scented the form of demand, my must be brief It consists in the simple denial of the claim which you as sern e f9ne e sh Tegph other public journal, which are made without my agency You n with .eee1 an off enp me m to he uesoH-and if the claim which you assert be well ounded to give my contt sson of faith, in relation to the various be found in any of the journals in which my fore, cannot be admitted for a moment. But although recognize your right either as derived from the ea" any other ource to make the cemand presented by your note am not quite sure, looking 10 the pooh m wheh we stand Diore the p19c @ G s o Vo
 In the progress of these events winch have at length re has been do any which was calculated provoke controversy deviae under whatever urgency, from scribed Acting upon his determinations have necessarily pursued course, winch refusal 10 answer your inquy inference would be unjust as 1t regais myse, ana deuse in relation the public Although, therefore, have ue rainy do not your right to demand it seems that you have, by making the inquiry, imposed upon
 owe to myself and to public have then to state to you, that up to the time of your mariiage mad not heaa sented to the public and was ignorant of Mrs Eatons ra- ton the society of this place. accepted your invitation inc of my doing so other that which resulted from my own situation that period. You yousef no doubt, how much that event. and your subsequent introduction the Cabinet made these rumors the sub ec of could not longer continue in gno of that which publicly and generally spoken oi became for embnrihsse question was the official relation in which we stood each other determine upon my future conduct In do ing th it did not seem to me to be necessary to decide the truth fasehood of the statements which were made It sufficient ascertain the general sense of the e9mmu ny, of hch had recently member; and having done conform it. In the winter of 1850, as pre- sume is knewn you, called upon by gentleman whe represented himself acting and who doubt not did act under the authority of the President, to express with the want of harmony or of social among the members of s Cabinet, and his deermnauor