The pilot and transcript. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1840-1841, 1840-06-25

houn, which charge being fully proved by ~
publication of Mr.. Monroe's confidential Letter
Gen. jackson had no other alternative but q
fall back on Johnny Ray.
It turns out that Gen. jackson did write sud
letter to Mr. Monroe, but it came to hard
when MIR. M. was too sick to attend to business
and was not read until long after the invasio6
of Florida. Gen. Jackson construed Mr.. Mon
roe's silence into an approval, and no doubt SUP
posed, at the time, that he carrying inf
effect, the wishes of the Government. When
found, that MIR. Monroe and Mr.. j. G. Calhoun
as in the confidential letter of the 10Th July
1928, took the grouud that he Transcribed hi
orders, it became important to him to show tina
he was acting under secret instruction, and ht
then charged that Mr.. Monroe did authorise
Johnny Ray to communicate to him col5fdefitt1
ally, TIE secret wishes, or orders of the Co
vernment, and that at subsequent period he
to destroy the evidence which he had in his pos
session to prove that Mr. Monroe did give him
the secret orders through Johnny Ray =!
Yes, strange it may seem, Gen. Jackson, in
the spirit which brooks no resistance, and which
would introduce one falsehood to sustain an
other, writhing under the exposure of his own
Implicitly, as the only means Of breaking the re-
coil of the publication of the private correspond
ence between him and MIR. Monroe, fell back on
the Johnny Ray letter; and as the agents of Mr..
Van Buren, had practised on the infrmity of Mr.,
Crawford, so he sent for Johnny Ray, then very
old man, in his second childhood, and intemper-
ate withall; took him into the white house, and,
after much preparation, induced him to write
letter to MIR. Monroe, intended to be used by him,
after Mr. Monroe's death, to prove that Mr..
Monroe had communicated to him secret in
struction inconsistent with MIR. Menroe's con-
struction of his public orders, under the follow
ing circumstances
Mr.. Monroe had been long ILL., and it was well
understood that he could survive at most but
few days. His son-in-law, who was in Virginia,
had been sent for to New York, and passed
Washington express, not expecting, when he
reached N. York, to find Mr.. M. alive. At this
time, Johnny Rays letter, going into minute
detail, intended to prove all that Gen. jackson
had said, and to disprove Mr.. Monroe's private
to affirm it. 1t is clear that it was expected it
would come to hand either after Mr.. Monroe's
death, or at time when the state of his health
was such as to render it impossible for him to
answer it; in which event, Gen. Jackson intend
ed to use Johnny Rays letter, thus gotten up, to
sustain his, and to impeach Mr.. Monroe's tes-
timony in relation to the secret orders; and thus
L. 4 T. IL.
ing quarreled with Mr.. Calhoun, under false
pretence, and of having been himself guilty of
falsehood in making the charge Of duplicity
against Mr.. Calhoun.
That there may be no mistake about the pur-
pose for which this letter was written, quote
the following from the Globe of 1882. The
Globe says:
ffBut there is another circumstance much more
decisive on this point. The individual who COM
municated to Gen. Jackson, MIR. Monroe's pur-
pose as to the mode of carrying into effect his
public orders, invited by his letter, as / have
understood, the attention of the latter to the fact
alluded to in the article of the Globe, and pre-
sented to him all the particulars of the trancac-
ton, with inquiry to his recollection on the
subject. With this gentleman, then, if there
were any certainty diversity of opinion, in re-
have been made, and not with one, merely re-
peating what this individual, cognizant of all
the circumstances, had asserted, without contra
diction.'
The individual here referred to, was Johnny
Ray, and the letter was the letter we have de-
scrlbed.
Mr. Governuer replied to the Globe;
'EThere is no shape in which the fact alluded
n. 4 ..fn
Monroe, that it has not been CONTRADICT
ED. 1t is as his representative AND UPON
HIS AUTHORITY, that l contradict it, and
that you may at least do some justice to my mo-
tves and views, do not hesitate TO add, it is
under circumstances of sacred duty, that do
contradict it. l have every personal motive to
be silent.o
York. He had large unsettled accounts with
the department., and the allusion is to the adj
iustment Of those accounts He paid the forfeit
ofrefusing to set quietly by, while Gen. jackson
Yves endeavoring to immediate the character OF
Mr.. Monroe, for although his threat to defend
Mr. Monroe, prevented the further use of john
NY Rays letter, it did not protect him from
Kendalps persecution. He was dismissed from
the Post Office, and harrassed with vexatSNps
lawsuit, Kendall refusing to adjust his accountsy
or to make him allowances that were awarded
by the jury
And now reader, am asked why have gone
into this minute detail, and what relation they
have to Amos Kendall' will tell you. My pur-
pose is to prove that the Globe was established
for the purpose Of writing down Mr.. Calhoun
that Kendall was the chief instrument relied on
to support the warfare on Mr.. Calhoun's reputs-
tion-that he did sustain these false charges, and
by doing so reelected Gen jackson and put Mr.
Van Buren, into the Presidency-and in doing
this, propose to show that as he deserted his
early friend and patron, Mr.. Clay, to then sup
port Gen. jackson, who had the means of re-
warding him, so he will now desert Gen. jack