The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1843-05-01
John NJ. Bolts.

The latest, most ImIfo'e"' NA"'o "
trated edition Of the base iabrca'lons OF
this notoriou, individual. He is represented as
having charged the President publicly in his
late elecioneering campaign, as having said TO
him on The third day of the extra session
That he meant TO be candidate, not ly
for four, but for eight years from the 4th March,
,a5. 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 (Bous) would sustain
him in his aspirations and then
That he, John Minor Bots, from this time
ceased to visit the President
So far as the first specification i. concerned,
zoe are authorized to say, that al The time at
which this invented conversation OF Mr.. John
Minor Bolts is said by him 10 have occurred,
the President had no intention Of being a can
didate for the Presidency in ls4i. The Pre-
sidenl was only prevented from introducing an
annuncation to this Effect, in his Inaugural Ad-
dress, by considerations of great public weight,
and would have made il in his second Veto
message, ifhis then Cabinet had mol urgently
opposed IL, upon the question being solemnly
submitted to them.
SO far as the second specification is concern
ed, are are authorized to say, that the President
never made to Mr.. John Minor Bolts any off +
of any Office, of any sort, or of any character,
al any time or at any place, for any purpose or
object whatever And,
SO far as the third specification is concerned.
zoe are authorized TO say, that SO far from Mr..
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 precluded the President from hav-
ing any further communication with him.
That transaction was this: During the
pendency before the Senate OF MIR. Clay's Bank
bill was ascerlaned that Messrs. Merrick, Pres
ton, Rives, and Archer, would not sustain il
without The insertion of such mod as
would reconcile il with the constitutional scru-
pies of the Presiden', d with the opposition
il stood in minority. AT this Junclure OF af-
fairs Mr.. John Minor Bolts called upon the Pre-
sident, with paper purporting TO be such an
amendment, which he said had been drawn up
by himself and thought would remove all diff
culties upon the subject of Bank. After ex-
acting from MIR. John Minor Bolts the positive
assurance that if the amendment did not meet
his appreciation, it should be destroyed and
never more heard of, the President took il and
examined it, and instantaneously rejected II,
with the emphatic declaration that he would in
evitsby veto any bill containing such a clause.
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promise TO destroy ii and retired. The President
thought no more of the matter until few days
afterwards, when the Wing press was filled with
laudations Of Mr.. Bolts for having fallen upon
This very enpedient Il and Mr.. Clay subsequently
offered IT in the Senate Chamber, substantially,
if not literally, as an amendment to his bill
The lreachey in the whole conduct Of Mr..
John Minor Bolts became SO apparent, that the
President ever afterwards refused TO hold any
intercourse with him either by word or in wr-
ting.
These charges of Mr.. Bots remind US OF one
which he made against the President at an
early period of the contest between Mr.. Ty
Ter and the ultra Wings. The Hon. gentle
man (7) then stated that, while Mr.. Tyler was at
Browns Hotel acting President Of the Sc
nate, shortly after the Inauguration Of General
HARRISON he waited upon Mr.. Tyler at his
rooms in company with another gentleman, and
Mr.. Tyler did then and there 10 them declare
himself in favor Of Bank Of the United States.
We have never, by authority, denied this
charge before-but ue are nor authorized 10
Say, that Mr.. Bots, in making such decara-
ton, affirmed what was fslsein every particular.
Is it not little strange that any Democratic
paper should give currency TO the falsehoods of
the most incorporating Federalist aud un-
scrupulous factonst in the land7 A man who
denounced, upon the floor e Congress, the au-
thor Of the Declaration # Independence, and
then James Madison as the simple ''cats-paw"
ofThomas Jefferson, and used by him for hi, sell
fish and designing purposes! We candidly confess
that we should never have condescended to have
given ourselves this trouble concerning the
always exaggerated and other contradictory pub
lie remarks of Mr. John Minor Bolts. but for the
fact that others should have apparently counle-
nanced them by giving them circulation. We
are sure that all such as have done so will pub
lish this statement
Although the Enquirer was by no means one
Of the Democratic journals which aided in Civ
ing circulation to the statement Of Mr.. Bots,
yet we would be exceedingly obliged to that
journal, if it would lay this contradiction before
the People Of Virginia.
We think the rumor Of his (Mr. web.ter's) retir.
ing from the Cabinet put forth 10 operats on the
Virginia eiections.-Giobe Of Saturday.
If Mr.. Blair really thinks so, does he not sub
.tantialy admit that the Administration i, or