Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1831-05-11

admltted that efforts had been made L
impair his confidence in my friendship
for him, upon the ground that was too
much tho friend of Mr.. Calhoun. asl
| the reader to bear this in mind, willis
] proceed to show the means by whicl
4 Mr. Kendall operated.
Mr.. Kendall, in his letter to the cd
tor the Ohio Monitor, dated the lJtl
of February, 1881, says:
"Movements here during the yea
1899, tending to sow dissention i'll his
cabinet, arising rs they did chiefly from
Mr.. Cahoun's friends, and seeming tc
have in view the destruction of some o
the frmest and best personal and politi-
cal friends of the President, together
with the nullifying schemes of South
Carolina, created some distrust in the
Presidents mind. Accident brought to
him a commune alton of Calhoun's hos
tlity to him in Mr.. Nonroe's cabinet
through new channel, and he now
desired to know the truth"
In his letter to the editor of the New
Hampshire Patriot, Of the 18th Fcbru-
airy, he says:
6 The attempt made in 1899
to distract his cabinet, and throw
firebrands among his friends COM
ing chiefly as they did from the
friends of Mr.. Calhoun, excited his sus-
picion that the Vice President was not
so candid, nor so clear of intrigue as he
had supposed. In this state of things,
it happened altogether by accident
that he heard of Mr.. Calhoun's hostility
to him in MIR. Monroe's cabinet through
a new channel, which induced him to
express wish to know the truth of the
statement"
The Nashville Republican of the Sd
of March, says:
"During the year 1929, circumstan-
ces occurred, which led him to believe,
he might be mistaken in his estimate Of
Mr. Calhoun's character, as plain fair
dealing man devoted to the interests of
his administration, and the peace and
prosperity of his country. Through
several channels, the story Of Mr..
Calhoun's opposition to him in Mr..
Monroe's cabinet again reached him,
and finally, letter from Mr. Crawford,
broadly making the charge, was put into
his hands"
The Louisville Advertiser of the 9Th
of March referring to the same subject,
says:
"lt is fact, however, that many
have doubted the sincerity Of the at
tachment prolesscd by Mr.. Calhoun for
the present Executive, since they saw,
in 1899, an attempt openly made to
identify the present administration with
the nulHGers of the South That move
mcnt was followed by others in and out
of Congress, which served to strengthen
rather than to allay suspicion. The
character of the opposition manifested
by Mr.. Calhoun's friends to certain
cabinet appointment"
In the Globe of the 10Th February,
Mr.. Kendall says:
"Compelled at length, by facts and
circumstances to doubt the sincerity Of
his supposed ancient friend, he deter
mined to know the truth. With this
view, he obtained, in authentic shape,
the charges which had been made Of
Mr. Calhoun's course in the cabinet, so
from what he had supposed,
submitted them directly to the person
implicated, and asked whether they were
true.o
Again, il, that paper Of the 10Th
March, he says:
"The writer of this knows all about
the establishment of the Globe.
But for in,rigucs hostile to Gen. Jack
son, to the peace, usefulness, and cili-
cheney of his administration of which
that editor (thc editor of the Telegraph
was the principal agent, the establish
mcnt of this paper the Globe) would
have been discouraged, and it is presum-
ed would never have taken place"
Now, no one can mistake the "cir-
here referred to. And no
one can hesitate 10 believe that, whilst
| was laboring to guard against the et-
Iccts, apprchended from the appointment
Of Major Eaton, Mr.. Kendall was busily
engaged, using the circumstances of
1929" to supplant me in the Presidents
confidence. No one can doubt, be-
cause it is here expressly admitted, that
the objections made to the appointment
of Major Eaton, gave rise to the first
suspicion in the mind of the President
that Mr.. Calhoun had acted with du-
plicty; and accordingly We find, that in
The autumn of 1899, Major Lewis visit
I'd New York, and that he and MAJOR
Hamilton, at Major Ilamilton's house,
examined Mr.. Forsyth's letter, IN winch
MIR. Calhoun was falsely charged with
having moved Gen. Jackson's "nrcsi." "