Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1831-03-01

was not produced and read in the eabnet Don which
your memory is so distinct DO YOU not, on the
contrary feel convicted of having attempted pass
off falsehood upon the president OF the United
States'
The main fact contained 10 my statement is not
denied directly indirectly in your elaborate essay
But negative is attempted by argument And what
kind of an argument is offered Why, that 4" il
would be TO rate his (your) understanding very low
| to suppose that officer under Cur laws could be
punished without arrest and trial. Sir, rate any
mans understanding very low 'ho acts with total
disregard to principle 1t true, lhat II addition
to the argument you add, thai Il say YOU did not
propose to arrest Gen Jackson, bui thai he should
be punished or reprehended IN some form or other,
IS absurd on its face. What ee,i there for arrest
aud trial preparatory 10 rep-ima4' but is it in-
deed true that military O!hcer canno; be punished
without arrest and trld WIS aut ne iisspproba-
! tien the of the Seminole punishment
! | think Gen. jackson must have tri} II 20 be such.
| should have opposed it, Il had sefu any way of
placing the government an he right as to SRsin,
without disayowingt the principal eveuts Of the Sc
min0e war.
| Ii YOU are not satisfied with the evidence Of Mr.
Crown,ushleld, Mr. Adams, in \ letter dated S0th
july, 1880, SAYS; g The main point upon which it
was urged that Geh. Jackson sholid be brought to
trial was that he bad VIC aed ms orders by taking
ST. Marks and Pensaeoa."T II IS rue that Mr.. A
dams dues not say BY whom 1t urged to bring
Gen jackson 10 trial; but you know ell that there
was proposition made 10 the cabinet affecting
Gen. Jackson personally, but what was made by
yourself Ii you deny this, all obtain the neces.
sary exclamation from Mr.. Adams II may he pra-
per to state, that the letters frola Messrs A.
dams aud Crewniashield, are the on. communica-
tIous have received from them since my departure
from Washington, and hey are IN rps to the on.
ly letters have written to them since the aforesaid
period. There has been LITTLE sympathy either
ind yidual or political between those gentlemen and
mr. "a hrfw them and f,,f asf Y,uch
between MIR. Adams and myself tbae between him
aDd on, At least before the coalition between him
nj Cat In fact, before that event my impression
as, that from tn tine your name put down
Tor the presidency yon favored the cause Of Mr.. A
daaIs AID he fact that all bis electors voted for
you vice rreslent,+ and thar yoa suffered his
printer 20 become proprietor OF the press you had
established IN Washington for the express purpose
Of vlfying my character aud laudng Ours, without
stipuating that il should not be welded against
Gen. jackson, 60 far 10 establish the fact. have
now done with your argumentatye DENIAL, and the
negative eyid .nce Of Mr. Writ, backed by your DIS
tnct recollection.
/ shall noa take some notice of your attacks up
on me, which, with the exception OF MIR AfcDuf-
fe's letter, are ali argnTnehatiye, aud principally
founded upon that letter
For the present shall say nothing about that let
ter or the reasoning founded upon il. You express
much forheaTance towards me, because you say,
have been unfortunate What do YOU mean by uu-
fortunate IS II you mean that have suffered
much bodily affection, you are right; but, thank
Tod, those Affections are past, and am now, and
have been for more than three years, in the enjoy
ment of vigorous uninterrupted health. But it by
unfortunate, you mean that not elected presI-
dent in lS24-5, must beg leave TO dissent from the
truth OF that assertion. ! am conscious OF being
lees unfortunate than you were You, after obtru-
ding your name upon the nation candidate for
the presidency, in manner until then unknown,
and trust will never be repeated, and conducted
yourself in the same unprecedented manner while
your name was permitted to be up, were put down
by the state of Pennsylvania, upon which you af-
tected to rely for success My name was put up by
my friends for the same office, and by them was
kept up, notwithstanding my bodily Affections, till
the election eonsuulmated in the house OF rep
resentstiyes in February, 1925. No man in the ma
ton was better pleased at my exclusion than was Il
for | then verify believed, and do now believe,
that had been elected, my remains would now be
reposing in the national b0rying ground, near the
eastern branch of the Potomac. | was therefore
tar from considering myself unfortunate in the
suit OF the election IN the house OF representatives.
Your forbearance towards me has been affected,
because you believed you could more effectualy in
jure me. | request, that hereafter, ii you should
have occasion to write or speak Of me, you will not
again feign iorbearance you do not feel.
You affect to lament that my friends did not in
tertere and prevent my meddling with this matter.
Mr.. Crowninshield has since acknowl
edged that he was not present, and we here
to annex his letter. See page 6, column /.
t Mr.. Crawford suppresses the fact that
Mr.. Adams has no recollection that the con
fidental letter to which Mr.. c. refers, and on
which he relies, was not produced in the Ca
binet deliberations. See Mr.. Adams's letter;
page 6, column /.
Upon this subject see the note upon Mr..
C.'s letter to Mr.. Balch, page |, column 2, Of