The North-Carolina standard., 1843-05-10
JOHN NJ. BoT1s.

From the Madisonian
JOHN M. BoTTs
+ Our attention has been called to the crcum-
stance that some papers have given currency to
the latest, most improved, enlarged, and illustrated
edition of the base fabrications of this notorious
individual. He isrepresented as having charged
the President publicly in his late electioneerng
campaign, as having said to him on the third day
Iofthe extra session
That he meant 10 be candidate, not only for
four, but for eight years from the 4th March, 40,
thus making the whole term of his service twelve
years; and then
That the President had offered him any Office
in his gift, provided he (Botts) would sustain him
in his aspirations; and then
/ That he, John Minor Bolts, from this time
iceased to visit the President.
So far as the first specification is concerned ace
are authorized TO sag, that at the time of which
i this invented conversation of Mr.. John Minor
Bolts is said by him to have occurred, the Presi-
dent had no intention of being a camdidate- for
the Presidency IN 1914, The President was only
prevented from introducing an annunciation to
this effect in his Inaugural Address, by consider
atons of great public weight, and would have
made it in his second Veto message, # his then
Cabinet had not urgently opposed 1t, upon the
question being solemnly submitted to them
So far as the second specification is concerned,
aoc are authorized to say that the President never
made to Mr.. John Minor Bolts any offer of any
office, of any Sort or ofany character at any time
OF at any place, for any purpose or object what
lever And,
So far as the third specification is concerned,
nwtA0rized to say that so fur from MIR John
Minor Bolts having ceased to visit the President
from and after the third day Of the extra session,
he repeatedly called at the White House, until he
pursued course which precludcd the President
from having any further communication with him.
| That transaction was this: During the pendency
! before the Senate of Mr. CLAWS Bank bill it was
ascerained that AIessrs Merricl Preston, Rives,
and Archer would not sustain it without the inser-
ton Of such modification as would reconcile It
with the constitutional scruples of the President
and with their opposition 1t stood IN a minority.
At this uncturc Of affairs Mr.. John Minor Bolts
called upon the President, with apaper purport-
ing to be such an amendment, which he sad had
been drawn up by himself and thought would re-
move all difficulties upon the subject of Bank.
After exacting from Mr. John Minor Bolts the
positive assurance that if the amendment did not
meet his approbation, it should be destroyed ana
never more heard Of the President took it and
amncd it. and instantaneously rejected 1t, with the
emphatic declaration that he woul inevitably We
to any bill containing such clause, Whereup-
on, Mr.. John Minor Bolts reiterated his promise
to destroy it and retired The President thought
no more ofthe matter until a few days afterwards,
when the Wing press was filled with laudations
Of Mr. Bots for having fallen upon this very ex-
pedient; and Mr. Clay subsequently, offered it in
the Senate Chamber, Substantially, if not literally,
as an amendment to his bill The treachery in
the whole conduct of Mr.. John Minor Bolts be-
came so apparent. that the President ever after
wards refused to hold any intercourse with him
either by word or in writing.
n + ID l.
which he made against the President at an early
period of the contest between MIR. Tyler and the
ultra Wings. The Hon, gentleman ~ then Sta
ted that, while Mr.. Tyler was at Browns Hotel,
acting as President of the Senate shortly after the
inauguration of General Harrison, he waited up
on Mr.. Tyler at his rooms in company with an
other gentleman, and Mr. Tyler did then and there
to them declare himself in favor of a Bank of the
United States We have never, by authority, de-
MED this charge before-bnt 1ce are fao0lo 0utA0r-
ized IL say that MIR. Bolts, in making such de-
claraton affirmed what was false in every particu-
lar.
Is it not little strange that any Democratic pa
per should give currency to the alsehoods of the
most uncompromsing Federalist and unscrupu-
lous factionst in the land ? A man who denounc-
ed, upon the floor of Congress, the author of the
Declaration of Independence, and then James
Madison as the simple seats paw" of Thomas JEFF
ferson and used by him for his selfish and de-
signing purposesl We candidly confess that we
should never have condescended to have given our
selves this trouble concerning the always exag-
gerated faad other contradictory public remarks of
Mr. John Minor Bolts but for the factthat others
should have apparently countenanced them by
giving them circulation. We are sure that all
such as have done so will publish this statement.
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THE RIGHT SPIRIT
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