Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1832-06-14
POLITICAL.
From the National lntelligencer.
CONVERSATIONS OF THE PRESI.

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Saturday last, contains an article which
has attracted land will continue to attract
much attention among all thinking and
reasoning persons. 1t is headed "Iht
Conversations Of the President" 1t sets
out with reciting the terms of the Reso-
lutions proposed by Mr.. Condict, few
days ago, declaring the lives and per-
sons ofthe Representatives Of the Peo-
pie to be no longer safe, Sc. sc. and,
alluding also to the allegations Of Mr..
Stanbelry concerning the presidents con-
versations on the subject Of assault upon
Members Of Congress, adds that ''All
these horrors have the Coalition worked
up, out Of the caneing which Gov. Hous-
ton gave Mr. Stanberry, for the abusive
speech published by the latter in the In
telligencer, and the subsequent affair
which grew out Of it, between the two
friends Of these parties, Mcssrs. Heard
and Arnold!w If the coarseness and
lcvity OF this language, with lis double
note of admiration, from the Organ of
the Administration, do not add to the
"horrors" Of the present state of things,
we much mistake the temper and taste
ofthe People Of this Union. To-day,
however, other engagements of our
columns not allowing US room, we do not
propose to 60 into a commentary, but to
submit to our readers the text thus intro
duccd, from which they will learn, au-
thentically, what are the opinions which
have been expressed by the President,
as recorded (or rather paraphrasedl by
the official editor. What ace have briefly
to say on the subject of this Expose, we
must reserve to another day.
Estraets from the Globe, Of May 26th.
From certain remarks made by Mr.
Barringer on the floor Of the House,
when the vote to admit these resolutions
was taken, it seems that conversation,
held in his presence, between the Presi-
dent and the Rev. J. N. Danforth, is the
groundwork of the monstrous charges
presented, first to the notice ofthe House
by Mr. Stanberry, and nos to the nation
by the rejected resolutions published in
the Intelliaencer, and which are re-
echoed by the opposition prints through
out the Union. There were several
persons who heard this conversation, and
since it has become important as form
ing the pretence for the counterteited
apprehension exhibited in the resolutions
quoted, we have taken some pains to as
certain the substance of it. We will not
attempt to give the tenor of the long and
familiar dialogue which occurred be-
tween the President and MIR Danforth,
who principally maintained the conversa-
ton, but we can lay before the public,
the "opinions" expressed by the Presi-
dent on the occasion, and other occa-
sions in his fireside conversations with
his friends in relation to this subject, with
sufficient accuracy, to satisfy the inquiry
of the prompters of the rejected resolu-
tions. If Mr. Condict himself had really
desired to know what the President
thought or said in relation to the broiI
which has occupied so much of the
time Of the House, we have no doubt he
would have told him his inmost thoughts,
with all the open-hearted sincerity which
marks his-character; and he would have
made him sensible, as he did MIR Dan
forth and the rest who heard him, of his
virtuous republican principles and feel
ings. II
The monstrous fabrications propagated
through the opposition press, in relation
to the Presidents private conversations,
are intended to supply the place of
proofs, and to support the insidious alle-
cations against him, which are 50 artfully
in the rejected resolutions.-
We are directly informed that MIR Clay's
most trusted agents have been busted in
he effort to conjure up some alarming
phantoms in connexiOn with the late af.
rays, and that Messrs. Doddridge and
Mercer have been particularly anxious
o pry, by an ex pare inquisitiOn, into
he private and familiar discourses of the
President, by way of preparation for
heir contemplated proceedings in the
House. They shall be gratifed. They
'hall have not only every sentiment en-
enained by the Chief Magistrate, to
,btain which they have expressed so
much solicitude, but they shall have also
he opinions expressed by him on the
anne subject, in the presence of one Of ,
he most honorable men of their own
arty in the healing Of the Editor Of this
rint. 4
We shall give the sentiments avowed .
y the President in the interviews allud- q
d to, without attempting to preserve the I
ialogue Of third parties by which they b
'erc elected, retaining, as far as recol- il
on can furnish it, the emphatic Ian
uage in which he conveyed his ideas. d
Ie said: 4
"That the arrest and confinement of =
Iouston by the House Of Rcpresenta-Il