Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1832-10-12
ANOTHER LETTER FROM MR.. GoUvER-
NEUR
FRANcis p r., T.,

NEUR
FRANCIS +. BLAIR, Esq.
Editor of the Globe, Washington.
or: 10 your Editorial article OF the 4th, deem
II proper to reply. 1 shall take the same liberty
| with every other remark which may escape you,
calculated TO mis'cad the public, to the matter
| at issue between Where you grasp at insinua-
lions, viii continue to supply You with facts.
You say .'the question should have been made
IN Mr.. Rhcas life time" 1t more than once
When the proof shall be required, will afford it
Your declaration was not made until after you had
heard OF his death. Why did you not do IL bcfoIel
The Washington papers assure us, that tho west
orn mail of the 9Th of June, brought the intelli.
gence that MIR. Rhea dead. Your assertion
bearu date the very next day. do not say it was
designodbut is it not singular that il should be so?
You say, 'the fact of communication having
been made by Mr. Rhea TO Gen. Jackson, has never
been disputed" 1t would DO singular, that it should
be- He may have made many, and probably did.
How can be presumed to know what letters NAV
have been written or when, or OF what construct.
ION their contents may have been susceptible? II
on tho contrary, as you seem to imply, you have
been more fortunate, and having become possessed
| of their contents, think by the production of any
| that you can strengthen the position you have as
snmed-why do you not do so? Mr.. Monroe, as
discover, from his papers, long since, released
all obligations of confidence in reference to this
subject anu at there DO any thing of which 1 All,
not possessed, say IN his name, come from where
1t may, you are liberty 10 Use it, Your attempt
to bring .the Presidents veracty" into discussion
| is rather too shallow device to induce me for a
moment to question it. have shown every feel
ing srikingly inconsistent with such disposition.
beg you to recollect, for it seems necessary to
remind you very often, that my discussion is 10Th
you, and on single matter of fact Was Con.
Jackson, "in conducting the Seminole War, in fact
acting under the secret orders of the Gorernre
You have asserted it-you bound to retract, or
TO prove 1T. will not permit you to hide behind
others, who, are not, as have right to suppose,
responsible for all your assertions. therefore,
dismiss all your obvious evasions, all your wordy
explanations about messages, ATOMS
| "interonces," &c. and hold you to the proof OF
that which you have asserted--or that you frank
| ly admit that you have been detected in error.
But sir. there is one point in our remarks too
giaringiy inconsistent with truth reason to adj
NIT OF my silence. You say "f Mr.. Monroes
| character and conduct, are made theme for par
titan discussion, it shall not be your fault" Do
You then mean to nsinuate that the fault is mine?
Why did you not think of ''partizan discussions"
when you thought proper to make the original
charge? Did you suppose it would be permitted 10
pass without notice1 When you found 1t W as not,
why did you not as you promised you would, sim
| ply announce that il had been promptly contra
diced by me, and the discussion would not be in
| vited for obvious reasons at the present tmel
| Why did you again repeat the assertion marked
too in italics, when had told you was solemny
! pledged TO deny it?
| IL there be any thing 10 be regretted in this
matter, now or hereafter, you-and you alone are
responsible for it.. What right Sir have you to
mako an assertion whether it he injurious or not,
| 1t you do not believe it to be true7 When, if
you do so believe and assert it, it is questioned
as injurious, what right have you to evade an en-
qury, repeat again, and refuse to listen to any
evidence respecting it? What right have yon,
when you have asserted fact, that which
deny to be true, to endeavor TO involve me in
a controversy with others, which you shrink from
yourself? You shall not do it. | hold you respon.
sible for your assertion-and you must recall
Pro0e IL, or be silent.
| Yr. OBJ. ST. SAM'L. l. GOUVERNEUR,
| New Y ork. 5th October. 1892