Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1843-05-10
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facts connected with the history Of the time.
From the Madisonian.
JOHN VI. BOTTS.
Our attention has been called To the circumstance that
some papers have given currency TO the latest, most improv.
ed, enlarged, aud illustrated edition Of the base labrications
OF this notorious individual. lie Is represented rs having
charged the President publicly in his late olccuunorring
campaign, as having said to him on the third day OF the cx-
That he meant to be a candidate, not only for four. but
for oighf years from the 18th March, -, thus making the
whole tenn OF his service twelve years; and then
That the Preidcnt had offered him any office in his gift.
provided he lBots@ would sustain him in his aspirations;
and then
That he, John Minor Bolts, from this time ceased to visit
the President.
So far as the first specification is concerned. IRE are au.
ihoused 10 Sav, that NJ the time OF which tins invented con-
ycration of Mr. John Minor Bolts Is said by him tn have oc-
cured, ne President had no iRteHfiOR Of being u caudi-
date for tie Presidency in -. The President was only
prevented from introducing an annunciation to this effect,
~ has Inaugural Address, 10y considerations OF great public
weight, and would have made 1t in his second Veto mes
sage, II ms hseH Cabinet had not urgently opposed il, upon
the question being so!emnly submitted to them.
50 far a. the second specification is concerned, ire are
authorised 10 sag, that the President never made To Mr..
John Minor Bolts any offer of any office, Of any sort. or Of
any character, at any time or al any place, for any purpose
OF object whatever. And,
So far Us the third specification is concerned, IRE are au-
hOTi=ed 10 say, that 50 far from Mr.. John VI. Bolts having
ceased 10 visit the President from and after the 81 day
OF the extra session, he repeatedly called at the White
House. until lac pursued a course which precluded
the President from having any further communica-
e"' NNA mum iHA N'N'h' va hWSs bhliNE
the tendency before the Senate Of Mr.. Clay's Bank
bill 1t was asccrtained tina, Mcssr,. Merick, Preston, Rives
and Archer, would not sustain 1t without the insertion of
such modification aswould reconcile itwith the constitution
al scuples OF the President, and with their opposition itstoOd
IN a minority. At tms iunciure Of affair Mr.. John Minor
Bots called upon the President, with a paper pumorting To
be such an amendment, which he sad had been drawn up
by himself and thought would remove all difficulties upon
the subject ot a Bank. After eNacting from Mr.. 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 1t and examined 1t
aud instaHeously rejected H., with the emphatic declaration
mat ne would inevitably veto atN bill continuing such n
clause. Whercupon, MIR. John Minor Bolts reiterated his
promise To destroy il and retired. The President thought
no more Of the matter until a lew DAYS afterwards, when the
Wing press was filled with laudauons OF Mr.. Bolts for hav-
ing fallen upon this very e%Spedient; aud Mr.. Clay subse-
qucuty offered II ia the Senate Chamber, substantially, it
not literally, n an amendment 10 ls bill The tcachey in
the whole conduct OF Mr.. John Minor Bolts became 50 APP
parent, that the President ever afterwards refused To- hold
any intercourse with him either by word or ia writing.
The charges O. Mr. Bolts reminds us of one which he
made against the President al an early period of the contest
between Mr.. Tyler and the ultra Wings. The Hon. gen
lehman % then stated that, while Mr.. Tyler wns at Browns
Hotel acting rs President of the Senate, shortly after the
Inauguration Of General Harrison, he waited upon Mr.. ~
Ter at hs rooms ia company with another gentleman, and
Mr.. Tyler did then and there to them declare himself in ia
vOr OF a Bank Ut the United States. We have never, by
authority, denied this charge beiorc-but ie are ROo dH-
hOri=ed 10 say. that Mr.. Bolts, IN making such a declam-
lion affirmed what was false an every particular.
To the Editors Of the Wig, and through them to all
Ofhsrs ohO may feel an interest in he matter.
Inc above nrtclt, winch originally appeared ia tne Ma
dsonian. the official organ Of Mr.. John Tyler, and which
has Just come to my notice through the "Richmond Star"
having been published by the authority Of, # not written by.
the Individual who occupies the elevated post Of acting Pre-
sident Of the United States, would, from the position he oc.
cupes, seem to demand such attention at my hands, rs ]
woud neither pay to him a. a man, nor to the channel
through which his communication Is made.
In the reply I am about to make, I shall confine myself to
a simple statcmont Vi facts, avoiding rs far as | can every
Thing like vitupcruton and abuse, beyond That which mny
he embodied in the simple cxpcssion ofmy reasonforit, which
F, that I have long since held him, a. ninc-ieon.twenticth
OF his countymon hold him, indeed all but his purchased
parasites, and hired stiPcndiarcs, a. too degraded and con
iempuble, and sunk too low, in al the attributes that adou
the character ola gentleman 10 cnutc him TO rise to the digni
" at abuse: for ! am not one of those who think that higl
station can confer either dignity, responsibility or credible
" On an unworthy man. But ! am not a little gmtifcd tina
the opportunity has at length been afforded by this hard
wrng and reluctant denial, to make known to my friend.
throughout the country, the occasion and the cause Of my
INSTRUMENTATION Of Mr.. Tyler, on the floor Of the Hous,
ol representative, ns a Traitor to hs party aud his coun
try, and Of entertaining a design to crush the power Of tn
Wings, who had elevated him To office, and 10 build up
party for himself upon is mim-but for atimoly exposure
Of which, the consequences would be difficult now to est
mate.
BY this statement, a question Of verachy Is raised botwcoi
Mr.. John Tyler and myself, the result 81 which canno
dread, where We are both known. In the language Of the
"smr," I trust. that "fa the eonnirg. Jsioeen John Tgic,
and John W. Bons. and especially here, nhsre boh az
best koooB, something more than VI. John TVief's tn0r,
wiu he vanfed geaHsf ME rofd NJ NJ. BOhs" Whel
The day ahal arrive dat %one.balf, it not ihrcc-fouHls ri a
American Conrr,a bail hc prepared a. testify, upon uatl
tnt they believe me to have been guilty Of the most wilfu
aud deliberate falschoods in various instances !-whon suc
tasehoods shall have been established upon me 10y the con
current testimony If such mon ns Thofnus Ewing, Johi
Bell, John j. Cnucndon. George u. Badger, Frances Gran
ger, John McPhcrson Bcr1on, aud John Sergcont!-hna
ly, when IL shall have been charged upon me by the mo-
eminent aud honorable mcnhcn Of the bar, and made q mat
tcrol record THAT have obtained, ~ fraud, abpnd from ui
Idiot ward, and that charge shall be sustained by The big
Court Of Chancey IN Virginia, and shall be- perpetual
onoincd and restrained itom ever realizing the amount
The bond, thus fmudulcndy obtained from the estate q
confding and unfortunate young friend, who had looked u
g. me as hs friend aud second father then IL will be tim
enough for me o. shrink from such a ontfoycmyi-but ur
ui then Dor ! cannot recognize any equality between ia
word of Mr. John Tyler and myself bcfore) Yet not the han
that has been tainted and stained with corruption nm
fnud-let not the lips lint have been polluted with inls'
hood, ~ the heart that has been damned with trcnchoi
M base o. that Of the fallen angel, or hell itscli-be credi
ed in any assault that be- may make on my character or "
ncity.
But while the conversation which ] am now about to g'
in full detail occurred, tas was not only natural, but ccrtai
10 have h%nppencdJ In the sbscneo Of oil witnesses. yet
p will give such cifcumstantal aud eouoborutivo cviden'
y ofiFhuih. a. will not fail to remove every remnant Of doub
j upon the mind u every candid and dniniercsted reader, u
matter 10 what party he may belong.
, Itwss on Wednesday, The dird day Of the Extra Sesaio
Of Congress, that I viaiIed No Tyler on business that h'