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

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not positively certain tohich.0
The reader will be surprised also to learn, that
of the circumstantial detail Of what transpired
in the Cabinet, about Cen Jackson's confidential
letter to Mr.. Monroe, and the suggestions that il
the Presidant approved of the proposition to take
possession of Florida, che had only to give a
hint to some confidential member of Congress,
say Johnny Ray, and he (Gen. Jackson) would
do it, and take the responsibility upon himself, "
being read in the Cabinet Council referred to,
was as great fiction as the charge about the ar
rest. For it was proved by Mr. Monroe, Mr..
Writ, and Mr.. Adams, as well as by Mr.. Cal
houn's declaration, that no such letter was read
ON that occasion.
Mr.. Calhoun says: '''Fhe statement is entirely
destitute of foundation. 1t is not true. Strange
as it may appear, after an account so minute and
circumstantial, such letter as he refers to was
ever before the Cabinet, or alluded to in its de-
alterations. My memory is distinct and clear,
and is confirmed by the no less distinct recollec-
tion of MIR. Monroe and MIR WHIT
MIR. Monroe, in letter to Mr.. Calhoun,
dated Oak Hill, May 18th, 1880, says 'my
impression decidedly is that it was not before the
cabinet nor do recollect that it was alluded to-,
in the elaboration on the subjecto
MIR. Writ, says in letter of MAY, 1880 :
" The letter from Gen. jackson to Mr. Monroe,
therein mentioned, is entirely new to me- Ac-
cording to the description given Of it in the ex-
tract, it is one of so singular character,
think, that could not have forgotten it. = =
think, that if such letter had been produced
and read, in my presence, should have RETAIN
some recollection of it whereas il strikes me
as thing perfectly new and of which never
heard before"
Mr.. Adams, in letter to MIR. Calhoun, 18th
January, 1881 after saying that Mr.. Crawford had
written tohim, relative to the sabjectsays 'G an
swered him, that had no recollection of such a
letter as that to which he referred"
1t is thus clearly proved that Mr.. Crawford's
charge that Mr. Calhoun moved the arrest of
Gen. Jackson, although made with all the de-
which would leave on the mind an impression
that there could be no mistake about it, and the
new version of the same charge, admitting that
the first was untrue, notwithstanding the circum-
stantial detail, alledging that Mr. Calhoun pro-
posed that sGen jackson should be punished in
some form, or reprimanded in some form, accom-
panied the latter is, by equally minute details,
are both of them untrue. For the details about
the letter, so infinitely given by Mr.. Crawford,
are not only disproved by the concurrent evil
dence of MIR. Monroe, Mr. Adams, Mr.. Writ,
and Mr.. Calhoun, but Mr., Writ adds / have
no recollection that PUNISHMENT had been
proposed by any one, unless an INQUIRY into
The official conduct of the General can be regard
I'd as PUNISHMENT"
The only explanation of all this is, that Mr..
Crawford's health and habits, about this time
were such, as to enable bad men to use him,
and he was, so used.
The reader, who is not familiar with General
Jackson, who has seen, that Mr.. Crawford's let
ter to Mr.. Balch, and Mr.. Forsyths letter to Mr..
Hamilton, placed in his possession long before
his first election, both failed to produce rupture
with MIR Calhoun, will be at loss to under
stand why this new version was COTTON up,
or why the correspondence should have sub
stituted the bittercst personal animosity for the
strong personal and political friendship which
had so long existed between those eminent men.
1t will be seen, in tho sequel, that the declara-
ton that Mr.. Calhoun's letter of the 18th Nav,
1880, was the 'sfrst intimation that he ever en-
tertained any other view or opinionn in relation
to his orders, and that the charge of d,splicity,
which was the point raised by the correspond
ence, was so clearly disproved by the confiden-
tial correspondence between Mr. Monroe and
General jackson, that General Jackson was COM
PEELED to retreat to the confidential letter to Mr.
Monroe, and to allege not only that it was re-
ceived and read in the cabinet council, but that
Mr. Monroe did authorize Johnny Ray to make
known to him the wishes of the government that
he should invade Florida; and such was his ex
IRENE solcitude to establish this fact. as the only
means OF breaking the force of the publication of
the confidential correspondence between himself
and MIR. Monroe, that he afterwards brought
Johnny Ray to Washington, and induced him.
under circumstances highly disreputable, to adj
dress letter to Mr.. Monroe, at a time when it
was supposed that Mr.. Monroe was dead or
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intended to be-used to impeach MIR. Monroe's
testimony, and establish the truth Of Gen. jack
sons assertion that he was carrying into effect
the secret 'oistes of the executive 1t however
so happened, that Mr.. Monroe, as the last act of
his life, placed it in the power of Mr.. Governuer.
his son-in-law, to disprove, in the most indisput-
able manner, this statement likewise. And it
is proper that should here state that | have
introduced this correspondence between General
jackson and Mr. calhoun, not to vindicate MIR.
Calhoun, as some may suppose, but it is to
show that the end and object of the establish
ment of the Globe was to indicate Gen. Jack
son against the consequences of the publication
OF that correspondence; that, with that view,
Kendall assailed MIR. Calhoun with the most de-
liberate and unblusliing falsebooJs and o,o+ nm :,