Lincoln telegraph. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1836-1846, 1840-02-13
Important Correspondence,
WIscAssET, 18th JAN. 1910.

To the Hon. JOHN HOLMES.
DEAR SIR:-Fron an acquaintance with
YOU since the commencement of your pub
lie career, have taken the liberty to adj
dress you on a subject, which | consider.
involves the political welfare if not saliva
ton, of this country. Were my inquir-
ries dictated by personal considerations
only, such motives must find common
grave with me, in very few years at far-
thest, as | must soon be beyond the reach
Of those injuries. which the present despo-
tic administration is now inficting on the
enterprise and industry of the people. I
have lived to see the first great uggle of
my country for liberty and life, against
British oppression And have lived to
contribute my humble share, in the estab-
lshment of Republican principles in this
Stale, under THOMAS JEFFERSON, one Of
whose earliest supporters claim to be;
and to sustain whose measures, prior to-.
and during, the late war, cheerfully sac
rlfced an ample fortune, as is we'll known
to those who suffered with me. To pass
over the many struggles of that PERIOD to
sustain sound Democratic principles, in
which you and | were fellow laborers, and
which the limits of this letter will not per-
nit me to discuss; come to the first great
change OF those principles which had gov
erned the administration Of jefferson and
Madison. In 1928, when the friends of
Gen, jackson saw fit to place my name on
the lists of candidates for their Electoral
College, | had fondly hoped that the great
landmarks of Democracy would be pre-
served; and am unwilling, even now, to
believe, that had Gen. Jackson's first cabi-
net been composed of different men, the
present wretched condition Of the business
of the country would not have been pro-
duced.
1t is an old fashioned proverb, that
when "rogues fall out, honest men have
their rights" During the cabinet quarrel
of 1880, between j, g. Calhoun the then
Vice President, and Martin Van Buren,.
Gen. Jackson's Secretary of State and
privy counsellor, Mr. Calhoun says in his
letter TO Gen. Jackson, dated Fort Hill.
25th Aug. 1880, SIT affords to my mind
conclusive proof that you had permitted
your feelings to be aienated by the ARTFuL
movements of those, who have made you
the VICTIM of their INTRIGUE, long before
this correspondence commenced" Now
as this correspondence commenced in Jan.
9th 1929, it follows, that Gen. Jackson
must have been the victim of an INTRIGUE
prior TO his Inauguration. In Justice to nv
opinion of Gen. Jackson, as here express.
ed, have referred you to this correspon-
denco as proof, that the disastrous expert
ments on the currency Of the nation were
first suggested by his secret and anfal adj
p,se's, with view 10 their own self ag-
grandizement, by commencing series Of
financial operations calculated to form the
administration into a monied aristocracu.
on the ruins of the mercantile class of the
community. And this opinion is confirm
ed by the recent message of M. v. Buren,;
great part of which is occupied in The
daring and reckless attemp. to force on the
people of this country an "OFFICE
HOLDERS BANK" under the specious
title of an "independent Treasury!' This
"Ofice Holders Bank" will, indeed, rem
der the Treasury, independent, of the
people. because it places the. Treasury be-
yond the reach Of the people. One would
think the downfall of our Republic was
nigh at hand, when our Chief Magistrate
in his public Message, has the hardihood
TO quote 90 out of 81 of the corrupt Gov
erDments Of foreign countries as examples
for this Republic to follow; and that too in
one Of their most hideous features Of defor-
nifty; their manner of grssping the purse
strings OF people grooming under tho