The pilot and transcript. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1840-1841, 1840-06-25
AMOS KENDALL.
TO THE ORIGINAL JACKSON MEN

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TO THE ORIGINAL JACKSON MEN
We have seen that Major Lewis charges, tha-
MIR. Balch was MIR. Van Buren's deputy at Nash
ville-that Major Lewis who was Gen. Jack
sons confidential friend, and an inmate of hi.
house, requested Mr. Hamilton to visit MIR
Crawford and ascertain truly what occurred in
Mr.. Monroe's cabinet deliberations in relation
to proposition supposed to have been made to ar
rest Gen.Jackson, for his conduct in the Seminole
war. We have seen that ON the 18th of Deem
Der, Mr. Crawford, as it now appears, under
the promptings of MIR. Balch, (NIr. Van Buren's
deputyO wrote for the avowed purpose of in
ducing Gen. jackson to give pledge that if he
was elected, Mr.. Calhoun would not be benefit
ted thereby, and that then, on the 18th Decem-
her, 1877, all that he could say to provoke Gen.
Jackson's hostility to MIR. Calhoun was se-
writes to me, jackson ought to know, and if he
does not he shall know that at the Calhoun eau
Gus in Columbia, the term CO Military Chieftain"
was banded about more fippantly than by Mr.
Clay, and that the family friends of Mr.. Cal
houn were most active in giving it currency"
Yet, after the interview between Major Lewis
and Mr. Hamilton, on their way to New Or
leans, in which the arrest of Gen. jackson, was
topic of much conversation, in January, 1928,
and which was communicated to Mr. Crawford,
through Mr.. Forsyth, that gentleman CMr. C.)
authorized MIR Forsyth to say, that sat meeting
of Mr. Monroe's cabinet, to discuss the course
to be pursued towards Spain, in consequence of
Gen. Jackson's proceedings in Florida, during
the Seminole war, Mr.. Calhoun, the secretary of
the war department, submitted to and urged upon
the President the propriety and necessity of ar
resting and trying Gen. Jackson" We have
also seen that the purpose OF obtaining this let
ter was to communicate its contents to Major
Lewis, Gen. Jackson's confidential friend, and
that Mr., Hamilton admits that he did commu-
mcate with him. We have also seen by the let
ter, written near Nashville, and published in the
U. S. Telegraph, in September, 1882, that Mr.
Balch admitted that he had placed Mr.. Craw.
ford's letter, charging that Mr.. Calhoun's family
friends, at Columbia, had called Gen jackson
military chieftain, and promising him the vote
OF Georgia, if he would only say that Mr. Cal
houn would not be benefited by his election, i
Zen. Jackson's hands, that Gen. jackson, ha
taken time to consider of it, and that he was III
willing to make breach with MIR. Calhou
This same letter informs us that MIR. Balch ii
snediately wrote to Mr.. Van Buren,, (his princ
pal0 giving him account of the intervie,
advising him to cease his opposition to N
Calhoun.
From the dates and circumstances, there c
be no doubt, as we before stated that Mr.. F,
syth's letter to Nr. Hamilton, charging that n
Calhoun had moved the arrest was also plac
IN Gen. Jackson's hands, by Major Lewis, abe
this time. Yet neither Mr.. Crawford's prom
of the vote of Georgia, nor Mr.. Crawford's
claration that Mr. Calhoun had moved his arr
of punishment could, at that time, induce G,
jackson to make breach with Mr. Calhoun
So far from this, although there was an intrig
as have before stated, to put Mr.. Van Buren,
nomination as his successor, at the end of
first term, which was communicated to him
me, before his Inauguration, acting upon
principle of his own understanding of the reco
msndation, in his celebrated letter to Mr. M
roe, written for him by Gen. Harper, in the
ganization of his Cabinet, he divided the me
bers between MIR. Calhoun and Mr.. Van Bur
giving two to each. His purpose in dong Il
to play off these gentlemen, whom he
heved both to be aspirants for the SUGGEST
against each other; to make them competit
with each other for his favor, and thus
strengthen himself by their rivalry.
Mr. Van Buren, soon understood him. and I'll
ing that Gen. jackson had resolved to be a Ct
didate for reelection, and that Mr.. Calhoun a
his friends would sustain him, he set to wo
first to try his own strength, which was test
by the nomination of himself in the seCour
and Enquirer" Of the 10Th December 1929. a
finding that he would not be sustained, he tn
pressed the nomination Of Gen. jackson. a
identified himself with the movement. by co,
hng his name with the Nomination. This u
done In March, 1880. Connected with this, v
the attempt to induce me- as the Editor of
- Telegraph, in the spring Of 1880, to ass
The Senate, and the extraordinary decIarat;on
Mr. Van Buren,, repeated afterwards by G
jackson TO me, in terms, that when Copor
went home, the people would teach them n
duty to the Executive; showing the ael;her
purpose, on the part of MIR. Van B,ro J, 6,
me into position where would he ..,,,.,a,
% pecome MS instrument to advanc. H. -;
OF selfish ambition, or to satisfy Gen !. ~ -
OF the necessity of establishing anotbar -
Ehici, would support him in the controve
H'th mr.. Calhoun, which was then arranged
For ,bsit remembered, that altbopsh -,