The pilot and transcript. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1840-1841, 1840-06-13
AMOS KENDALL.
CHAPTER SIX.


those which resulted in the correspondence be
tween Gen. jackson and Mr.. Calhoun, and tbs
personal indignity offered to Mr.. Van Buren, BY
the latter; who, believing Mr.. Van Buren, to b
at the bottom of the conspiracy against his repu
tation, lub'icly, att party at the French Minis
ters' refused TO take his hand. / confess that thi
is painful duty, and it is so because, time ha:
but confirmed the facts about which Mr.. Cal
houn then, had no doubt; and because, believing
that the circumstancial evidence authorised MIR.
C. to refuse Mr.. Van Buren's profered hand; to
break off all personal intercourse, and denounce
hin. as a conspirator against his reputation, L
threw myself and my press in front of Mr. Cal
houn's assailants; I relinquished to Blair and
Kendall the printing patronage of the govern
ment, and united with MIR. Calhoun in oppos-
ing the attempt of Gen. jackson to nominate his
successor.
My personal attachment to Mr.. C. was the re-
suit of my respect for his talents, and of my con-
6dence in his political integrity Mr.. Van Buren,
attempted first to enlist me as his partisan, and
if that could have been done, he intended to have
been himself the candidate Of the party to sue
coed Gen. jackson, in 1892 Failing to do that,
it became necessary to put Gen. Jackson in nomi-
nation for a second term, and to persuade him
that Mr. Calhoun had resolved to be his COM
petitor, as the surest means of arraying General
jackson himself and the whole patronage of the
government, in the conspiracy against Mr. Cal.
houn's reputation. One of the most prominent
measures in that conspiracy, was the denuncia-
ton and persecution of my press All that then
bore-the loss of patronage-the loss of summer
friends, grieves me not. was sustained by nv
confidence in the virtue and intelligence of the
people, and by thorough conviction that what
might be my private sacrifice, it was my
duty to resist, at greater loss, the election
Of Mr.. Van Buren,.
My situation now is of greater embarrassment
Ny experience admonishes me- that such is the
venality of public men, such the deterioration of
public and private morals, that few, very few,
can appreciate the motives under which now
refuse to go with those of Mr.. Calhoun's friends,
who support Mr. Van Buren,. Already those
who are seeking motives for my conduct, whis-
per that it is because MIR. Calhoun's friends re-
fused to support me as a candidate for the public
printing. Be it known to such, that refused to
receive their support any other condition, than
that if elected, l would establish paper to sup
port the election Of Gen Harrison; and to all
those who seek motive, give the answer.
which gave when denounced the conspiracy.
at the time of the breach between Gen. jackson
and Mr. Calhoun. / then said:
eeOur course, although surrounded with diff
culties,is distinctly marked and plain. We sup
port John G. Calhoun, not as candidate for the
Presidency, but as a faithful public servant
1tajustly aSsasted, and sustaining an untarnished
fame, against foul CONSPIRACY, which
invokes the popularity of Gen. jackson, and tn,
power and patronage of the Government. w
support him, not against General jackson, bti
against the CONSTRUCTORS. We sustai
him. not for filthy lucre,-had that been our OF
iect we too would have cringed and fawned an
Emf PRESS, WHICH MAKES COMMON cAUs
WITH TRUTH AND JUSTICE, AND DAREs DE-
FEND THE HUMBLEsT CITIZEN, WHOEVER HIS OF
PRESS0R MAY BEL
These my motives for supporting hin
and deno,ncing the esCONSPIRATORSv ther
and such are my motives for refusing to suppo,
the sCONSPIRATORSn NOW Indeed, I ca
see in the new relation which Mr. Calhoun i
supposed to bear to Mr.. Van Buren,, many stron.
reasons why you and | should oppose him..
tracted and he will not retract one of the charge.
which he heretofore made against MIR. Var
Buren,.
These charges against Mr.. Van Buren's
personal and political integrity They make
him the author of foul conspiracy, to destroy
MIR. Calhouns character, and for the most sell
fish purpose. l, for one, believe those charges To
be true, and time and circumstances confirm nav
belief Hence, whatever may be Mr. CalhoHn,s
motives for permitting it, 1 am bound to expresa
my regret, that he has permitted it to be under
stooo that ne prefers the reelection of Mr. Van
buren, so lar, know Of no overt act, and hone
there Will be none, as his partisan for if that be
established, he cannot exclude the impression
that ne, too, has bowed his lofty spirit and seel.
now to propitiate the executive power ,,h;o, /.
has heretoiore so eloquently denounced. It;sno,
my province to enquire into his motives. Isne,L
OF appearances; and in a government like ours
the preservation of which relies so much ON NH,
iic sentiment, no man, however exalted, should
De permitted to disregard Appearances AND
repeat, tnat II there be the slightest colo
for Deiieving that Mr.. Calhoun has. in the least
apated ms confidence in the integrity. the publ;
virtue and intelligence of the people; and III,
for such cause, he has not only ceased 70 rosie,
but has brought his character and his ;,s,a,a
to aid those whom he has heretofore 90 b;.tar,
denounced, we who have been his friends
have heretofore acted under his lead, owe it I
ourselves, to vindicate the sacred institutions
the country from the imputation that we are go,
erned byparty leaders, who may transfer US :
30 much political capital
It cannot be concealed, and the idea is ass.
cisted with the proudest recollections of NV liz
that Mr.. Calhoun, and those who adhered to hin
by the manner Ia which we maintained the q,
equai conflict elevated The character Of the scuf