The pilot and transcript. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1840-1841, 1840-06-27

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same misrulc by the election of MIR. Van Buren,,
there will be an end Of public liberty in this
country; if it be possible for a press guilty of
such gross injustice and falsehood as | will show
that the Globe has been guilty of toward Mr..
Calhoun, to command so much of the public
confidence as to secure the reelection of Mr..
Van Buren,, notwithstanding his disregard of
public opinion in his administration of the gov
eminent, it will be in vain hereafter to rally the
people in any attempt to reform any admin istra-
ton.
Mr.. Calhoun, in his letter to Gen. jackson, of
May 20, 1880, says:
'ST should be blind not to see that this whole
agar is politi al maneuvre in which the de-
sIgn is that you should be the instrument and
myself the victim, the real actor carefully con-
cealed by AN artial movement"
And, again, in his letter Of the 22d June, 1880,
he says:-
I SsFacts and circumstances, light of themselves,
NAV, when viewed in connection, afford impor-
tant light as to the origin and object of what
| | firmly believe TO be a base political IN
TRIGUE, got up by those who regard your
reputation and the public interest much less than
their own personal advancement"
And, again, in his letter to the public, oath
Feb, 1921, speaking of Mr. Forsyth's letter to
Mr.. Hamilton, he says
'''Fhis letter, by its date and either circum-
stances, clearly connects itself with Mr.. Hamil-
| toms correspondence to me already alluded to,
and makes that correspondence link in the
chain of this CORRUPT POLITICAL IN
| TRIGUE, thereby carrying back the movement
to the early part of the year 1928, and by its
reference to an individual Major Lewis1 then
| -, Ill LII l. Al.
copy of the correspondence with Mr.. Hamilton,
shows it to be part of system of operations,
which, as appears By Mr.. Crawford's letter to
| MIR. Balch, had been commenced against me in
| December, 1927, and following SO soon after,
probably constitutes the second link in this FOUL
PLOT against individual zealously co-operat-
| ing at the same time in the same political cause
with those COSPIRINGi against him, and who,
from their political relation to him, at the time
he had right to consider his friends. take
no pleasure in exposing transaction so DIS
GRACEFUL, but feel compelled to do so in
the discharge of private and public duty. 1t
must be painful and Notifying to the people to
know that the practice of such arts is possible
under our system; but the knowledge that it is
| so, may guard against its recurrence in future"
That the offence for which Mr. Calhoun was
thus denounced, may be clearly and distinctly
stated, quote his own remarks. In con; lusion
he says:-
'Little did think, twelve years ago, when
| daring TO construe orders which | myself had
drawn, and to which could give no other con-
struction than what did consistently with the
constitution acting as | under the oblga-
ton of oath, to abstain from the infractions
of that sacred instrument, and in venturing to
suggest the course which | honestly supposed
ought to be adopted their infraction, should
be exposed at this late day to so much difficulty
and danger. YET THIS Is MY ONLY oPFENcE.n
1t will be seen that the offence was for daring
to construe orders written by himself, and Sin
venturing to suggest the course which he hon
estly supposed ought to be adopted, upon their
iniractien." And, that Notwithstanding such
course was perfectly consistent with the support
which he afterwards gave to Gen. jackson, that
very support was seized upon to raise against
him charge of duplicity, as the colour for the
| warfare, which it was determined to wage
against him. And that was deliberate and
systematic; and that Mr.. Van Buren, was its
prime mover, need not go farther than Mr.. Cal
houn's own authority to prove; but l now pro-
coed to demonstrate it, by combination of facts
and circumstances, which will develope the du-
plicity and venality of Blair and Kendall; and
that the Globe, their organ, 10 venal and cor.
rupt and unworthy the confidence of virtuous
people.
, have shewn that Messrs. Blair and Kendall
were the confidential friends and partisans o
Mr.. Clay, in 1924. The public already in
, formed Of the manner in which Mr.. Kendnll de
: serted his early patron and friend, and came
witness to prove that which he had before dc
nounced as SANDER. Upon the investigation
: before the Legislature Of Kentucky, MIR. Blai
was mute, and offered to go to Jail, before h,
would testify against Mr.. Clay. Gg-The silvc
, had not yet touched his itching palm.
q The reader will recollect, that in the Sprin;
. of 1880, MIR. Van Buren,, in conversation will
! Judge Rowan, said, E'let Congress adjourn ant
II 90 home to the people, and they viii teach then
Il their duty to the Executive" That on the mex
V day, Gen. Jackson sent for me, and in long con
versatioD, in which he endeavorcd to urge upoi
IS me that should assail the Senate, for delayin;
k to confirm his nominations, he repeated in terms
: the same remark; and | beg that it be borne il
mind, that, at this very moment, the correspond
/: encc between Gen jackson and Dir. Calhoun hat
f commenced; and that in fact, although Maio
, Lewis went to New York and held a consllta
ton with Mr. Hamilton, in the autumn of 1929
in relation to Mr. Forsyth's letter to MIR. Ham
ilton, it was not until Mr.. Van Buren, had so fai
operated upon Gen. jackson as to Induce him to
believe that MIR. Calhoun would be candidate
for the Presidency in opposition to him in 1882,
that Gen. jackson entered into the conspiracy to
impeach Mr.. Calhoun for duplicity, and autho-
rised MIR. Forsyth to write to Mr. Crawford, and
obtain his letter of the Goth April, 1880. And no
one can doubt that if had consented to make
war upon the Senkte, and thus to sacrifice my
sense of duty to propitiate Gen. Jacsson's favor,
/ would have been taken into his confidence, and
that Mr.. Blair would have been permitted to re-