The pilot and transcript. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1840-1841, 1840-06-23
AMOS KENDALL.
CHAPTER s.

CHAPTER D.
TO THE ORIGINAL JACKSON MEN.
We have seen that in 1927, MIR. Van Buren,
was in correspondence with Mr.. A. Balch, of
Nashville, who was designated by Mr.. Lewis as
Mr. Van Buren's F'deputy," who also denounced
Mr.. Crawford as the printe of intriguers. 1t will
be remembered, that in the electoral college, Mr..
Calhoun was chosen by an overwhelming major
ity. MIR. Adams, Gen. jackson, and Mr. Craw-
ford, were returned to the House, as the three,
one of whom was to be chosen president by that
body On the 18th of December, '27, Major Ea-
ton, who was the confidential friend of General
Jackson, wrote to Mr. Stephen Simpson, as fol-
lows:
Gin your paper of to-day, perceive an ed
itorial remark that Calhoun and his friends will
seek to produce failure in the presidential cleo
tion here, that he may succeed Your informant
is IN error. It is no friend who has made the
communication The friends of Mr. Crawford,
it is evident, would dislike Mr.. Calhoun's acces-
sion more thau either jackson or Adams =
Every State, where Mr. Calhoun has been sup
posed to have any strength, will stand for Gen1
jackson, and what more can the Generals friends
desire than that they should be true and firm to
him. So, change your editorial remark, for the
reason that its tendency is alone to do injury to
yourself And do you build contradiction, not
on any communication received from Washing
ton, but base it on your own calculation and the
high confidence reposed in the integrity of Mr.
Calhoun and those who are his friends, for you
may rest it on such grounds"
In the spring of '27, Mr.. Van Buren, and Mr.
Cambreleng made pilgrimage to Georgia, and
were authorised by Mr.. Crawford to make known
that the difficulty in the way of General jackson
with MIR. Crawford and his friends, was the APP
nrehension that il he was elected, MIR. Calhoun
"ouiu come s~sa power; and on the 14th of De-
cem6er, 1927, Mr.. Crawford wrote to Mr.. Balch.
tHIr. Van Buren's Nashville deputy,) whom he
Immediately rewarded ON coming into office, that
.'d he could ascertain that Calhoun would not be
benefited by Jackson's election, he would do him
benefit by communicating the information" to
Mr.. Crawford. In January, of the same year,
Mr. James A. Hamilton, (another of MIR. Van
Buren's deputiesJ was at the Hermitage and ac
companied Gen. jackson to New Orleans In his
letter of February "a, 1881, published in the
Evening Post, he admits that he had eenuch con-
Versation" with Major Lewis on the subject. and
at the request Of Major Lewis, he volunteered to
ascertain truly, what occurred in Mr.. Monroe's
cabinet deliberations in relation to proposition,
jackson for his conduct in the (Seminole) war,
and to inform him (Hdajor LeUis,) of the result
Accordingly, he returned from New Orleans bv
way OF Georgia, and at Augusta wrote to Mr.
Forsyth, requesting him to obtain from MIR.
Crawford statement in relation to the said pro-
position in Mr.. Monroe's cabinet eeto arrest
General jackson. From thence he came on &c
Washington and induced Mr. Calhoun to believe
that some one was endeavoring to make an i'm
preston on General Jackson's mind that such a
proposition had been made Ito wit, to arrest
General Jackson in Mr.. Monroe's cabinet, and
that General Jackson, whose election was then
supported by Mr. Calhoun and his friends, was
about to be assailed on that point Mr.. Calhoun
told him, as he asserts, that no such proposition
had been made or even thought of.
few days thereafter, he received a letter from
MIR. Forsyth, dated ON the 9Th of February. AZ
Mille1geville, from which the following is an ex-
tract ua.sl,4.t
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