Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1831-05-17
9 6cJ1 aag@esB gEg 500.
8'ssassyssy Morning, .May ~.
10 .Andrezr Jackson, President u Stctcs.

STR: Has Mr. Ulving.'on really INN ,scJ rpon
your crcduty, by !hnsc "Docu.nen.s' Of wbcI OH.
ef your let"rwritcrs speaks' HIS he in truth con-
vinced you, that he legal, nut not real defu
ter! That the ema'z1lcin n; was not If his doing
but that ut his agents and deputies" Tina. he WIS
nof removed by Tho. Jefferson, bot voluntarily re
n 5hcd? Uhat he has submitted f'r five and twenty
years, to. be publicly branded as hatraycr Of %
trust, TO be held up tie natl Iefaulter and de
IITqlens, aud to b, nsuted to his face i Congress-
haviag ali the time, DOcum nts' in his pose .sion,
to vindicae his il1"cencc, ard rescue his finn from
asp"rsion: We oil know tiat yout friendships de
gen"r tie mt fivofl9m and that II" who has
secured your favor, do nothing afterwards forfeit
it, provided he does not relax the devotion to your
person, necessary to original success bat, making duo
allowance for this weakness, yet is possible that Mr.
Livingston has persuaded you that he no defa@lter
that the default of his 'sagents and deputics!"
What ductility, What amiabe facility If honestly
dupcd by his arces you unqucstionably the single
man in the L. Suites who is, who be. If hon
eStly duped, is at liberty to admire the excess of
your simplicity, but not to blame its results. If HON
ESTIY duped, one cannot but wonder where all this
milky compliance, this yielding and unhesitating MALE
ability was, when hccaombs of victims were sa crifced
upon the altar of that Reform" erected to appcase
first reduced beggary, and then ccced of their
honest names, because they had tire gratitude Of
their country by opposing your ill-starred ominous
accession to power. Where them was your favorable
for the plausible tales of reputed deinquents? Where
THEN, your ready attention, and easy belief or
your parascal scribes to communicate your royal re-
vcrsal of Nations decree of quarter of a century's
existence to your obcdient Press?
But sir, allow say 1.-THE play-tl.inr of favour
cs and the toy of knavos, you believed to be
nobody thinks you exactly great fool you contend
be- at least your instructed lotcrwrltcr repre-
SCENTS you 1t is impossible, that you believe Mr.
Livingston was no dcfautcr. hazard the assertion
without the fear of being conradicted by any person who
has taken the trouble to look at the facts You cannot
have received the satisfaction the point which your
letter writer, understood in this community
written by your reqes you to have received
You had determined to appoint Mr.. Livingston and for
your justification, have fegned that satsfac ton
from his documents, which you cannot really feel
Conscious that his appointment would be condemned
by public opinion, unless the faint of delinquency was
first removed you had the modcsty to imagine that
yo"T opinion of his innocence would silence public
oJamor and that the authority your name would an
initiate facts, annul records, and overthrow the firm
persuasion of 25 years. Truly your medesy shines not
roc virtues! marvel that your cuogists numerous
and INSCRIPTIONS, have omitted to find forgotten
to celebrate, this quality inseparabe from the character
of perfect Hero!
What then have you done? Appointed dcfaultcr
for thousands to the first Office within your gift escape
the responsibility, affected to be convinced of his limo
ccncc, and to justify the act endcavored by the mag
nary for imaginary is) authority of your name,
tn dIa
nistnc" in the story of his default All this is vastly
moral vastly dignifcd, and worthy of your Office But
at your knack at accommodating yourself your fath
and your mode of belief the circumstances of time
and person, all must be greatly edited When engaged
in the congcnal work Of ''proscrpto," and in punish
ing freedom of opinion, when that freedom had been
hostile to your wishes, accusations were eneerlv
rcceIvod spies were entertained, nfornors were re-
wafded with the places of those against whom they in
formed and suspicion ofdofolt only but even of anti
'acksonlsn, was ground of removal from Office which
removal when it was complained Of sure to be JUS
tilted anddeended by urging that the party was defaul
ter Thus You dealt with those who had opposed vour O
lection Deprived without warning, g. thrown with help
less families upon the world you scorned in the
of your public honesty, and adherence OF denuuents
to vouchsafc even answer to your victims, when
they respectfully demanded shield against aspcr
sion that you should assign the reasons for which they
had been deprived Of flee You were then too lofiv
70 hear too pure TO be approached by by far serny
just to recnt in favor Of or to shcv the smallest de-
gree OF clemency much less partiaty to Defaulter!
Your love Of public justice, the cloak assumed
without Inconvenience, and which concealed the defor
med and odious motives which impccd you to pursue
with v!ndlctivc rdncor tho unfortunate mon whom,
public natuation had put in your po-.or Bat how, &c
IT, when your friends and partzans arc conccrnod7
low Is when you wish TO rcw7rd instead of 20 uus
Tow is 1t THEN Lot the case Of WIN. T. Barry
especially let the of Edward Livin gston rive the
answer Your frowning dsdain of d9f5ulters is then
transmitted into readiness to hear, and willingness
70 be convinced: your memorable pIblic Justice is then
e0Hrersd into mcrciul considerations and easy forgive
ness and You even enter the public newspapers TO re-
Inon5Tate with public opinion the apoogist Of favo
rite deiaulter, and The avouchor Of belief which it is
difficult, if not impossible 70 believe you sincerely TO or
'efa'n' Dyonisius the tyrant of Syracuse and Dyon
"a Corn n rrrrro go.