Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1841-05-11

nal Of course repuhlshcd ii endorsing ITS statements
and telling pretended story about letter written b.
the General TO gentleman IN tins city, declaring Ia
inability TO meet note of 500; and IN an exutn!
tone characterized this misfortune Judgment upo
General Jackson, for running SO many thousands b.
veolng the bill charterlng the L. ). Bank, and sucl
like disastrous measures, not agreeable to The fede
raj party Added to the indecency and foul magniil
OF such reflection upon an aged public servant, at
time when the columns of the Journal were clothed
the garb oil mourning for the loss OF another Puoc ser
want whom the hand of death had just stricken down
the entire falsy of the story upon which this display
OF low malignity is founded
The following communication TO the editor OF th'
Nashville Union, puts TO rest the statement relative
Gen. Jackson insolvency, which, we believe, was hrs
| started in the notorious Louisville Journal
NASHVILLE, April 90, ISL.
Sir ] was not aware, EMIL your paper reached mi
this morning, that there statements in the paper
representing that Gen Jackson had become embarass
ed on account Of his liabilities for me. You corrcc
in the notice you have taken Of those statements. &c
neral Jackson has paid, been called upon
pay, debt of mine that am Of and he has M
liabilities my account that could under any contln
gency give him the slightest Inconvenience. He is no
endorser for in any bank here, elsewhere;
is responsible for contract Of mine in any shape o
form, for the discharge Of which have not abundan
means of my own.
II may not be improper for me 10 add here, that The
rumor so ndustrolisly propagaed, representing Gen
Jackson estate insolvcnt, ~ entirely uniounded
From my personal knowledge Of his pecunlary aliurs
can say with confidence that if he were called upor
10 morrow TO close all his liabilities, his estate wortl
nj least S00,0O0 would not be diminished fraction
| request that the Editors Of newspapers who hay.
given circulation to the statements IN question, WI
do the justice TO publish what have here SAID re
speeding them
am, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
A. J. DONELSON.
MIR. J. G. Harris, Editor Of the Nashville Union
GEs. JAcKsoS.-The two principal iabrcators Of
gossip for the iabe-loyng party are Master Brooks,
Of the New York Express, and comrade from the
school, Prentice, Of the Louisville Journal, who
is indeed the master workman The latter IS notori.
Gus for his political biography Of Mr. Clay, well as
political abrications; the other for the fcons Of his
letters, rs a traveller as well as stationary hreling
scribe. This pretty pair, between them, got up the
story about Con. Jackson bankruptcy.
The Nashville Union, by very plain tale, puts an
end to all this crocodile sympathy. 1t thus gives the
material out of which these two spiders have woven
their web
1.-THE above paragraphs in The Weekly Cincinnati
Enquirer having met the observation OF General jack
SON. he has authorized TO state, that the impression
sought TO be conveyed by the two frs respecting his
pecuniary affairs is entirely erroneous. The amount
of the correspondence with Mr. Resides is this MIR
Resides wrote 10 him from Louisville, Kentucky, that
he was there sick and in Distress and not having means
10 carry him home had drawn bill for $780, which lie
wished General Jackson to pay. General Jackson,
not owing Mr. Resides cent, stated to him that,
as he was in funds, being pressed with respon
sibes which he had incurred for his adopted son, he
could not give him the money he desired but that,
good blooded mare would relieve him, he would freely
present him with one. Nothing more was heard Of
The transaction or Mr. Reesides, until the clrcun
stances were the subject Of newspaper comment"