Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1844-11-22
Letters from General Jackson.
From the Globe Of November 2.
Gen. Jackson and MIR. Adams.

The Nashville Union contains letter
from Gen. Jackson to Gen. Armstrong,
containing a brief notice of Mr.. Adams
late Boston speech, in which the latter
seeks to deliver himself from the, faint
which his veracity, blostered with his dia-
ry, suffered in SO, in the assertion of facts
in regard to the making of the treaty with
Spain in 1919, which were disproved a
like by the State archives and the public
Journals. In letter to US from General
Jackson, requesting republication of his
letter to Gen. Armstrong, he alludes to cir
cumstances which make it a proper intro
duction to that published in the Union.
We therefore insert it at full length, and
shall hereafter bring up some reminiscent
ces of the life of Mr.. Adams, which will
satisfy the country that his dishonorable
conduct in the instances exposed by Gen.
Jackson, as affecting himself, is in perfect
keeping with earlier and more obscure
passages in his career. >.-.-.<.
HERMITAGE, Oct. 81, 1914.
My Dear Mr.. Blair: On the 18th instant.
l had a return Of hemorrhage, and two days
after, chill. With the lancet to correct the
first, and calomel to check the second, am
greatly deblitated. But being aroused by j.
y. Adams's address to the young men of Bos-
ton on the 7th inst, (sent 10 me on the 22d
inst, by my friend Mr. Robert Armstrong; I
made a concise reply thereto-all that my fee
Bile health and the absence Of my papers per-
mltted. | sent this to the Nashville Union,
and In that paper Of the 23d, it will reach
you. trust yon will give it place in your
Globe, to meet the falsehood in the address.
You will observe that Mr.. John @. Adams
relterates the false statement made by him
years ago. in new form; for he says
s. This very boundary Of the Sabine in the
Florida treaty was, before it was finally pro-
posed to the Spanish minister Onis, by the
direction of President James Munroe, shown
by me to the hero for his opinion and advice,
which was in its favor.'' All this statement
pronounce now, as did the first one, when
made eight years ago, falsehood. If MIR.
Mnnroe wished my opinion and ADVICE why
did he not ask it himself? He knew that
came to Washington, under impressions with
regard to the movement in his cabinet to ar
g rest me, which would not allow me to have
interviews, or hold communication with either
triumphant vote of the House of Representa-
tives, acquitting me of all the improper con
duet alleged in the resolutions of Clay anC
Cobb, left tile city Of Washington, having
the day after the vote, visited the representa-
p tive body by invitation, | think on the next
. left the city for West Point Academy. This
n base falseheod was, | thought, nailed to thu
counter, when first made by Mr.. Adams, b.
the Globe, and there it has stuck for years
= but on the eve of the Presidential election
and when Mr.. Adams might we'll have sup
posed me nearly dead, and SO entirely enfee
bled by sickness as tobe incapable Of reply
= he produces it again, with new face upon it
> Providence, kind to me, has disappointe'
him; and l again declare this new-vampet
statement, that was consulted by him on tn
boundary of the Florida treaty before it wa
made, and that agreed to the boundary pro
posed-the Sabine--is positively false, hi
pretended diary to the contrary notwithstand
ing.
What honorable or just man can repose be
lief on his statements, after his receiving tror
DR.. Mayo, the copy of letter marked "cor
fdentiaI,' and producing and reading it to tn
House of Representatives, and urging that.
meant the reverse Of its express instructions
to prove me guilty of duplicity'! This lette
was to Judge Fulton, then acting governor {
Arkansas, in the absence of Gov. Pope. H
(Adams) saw it marked ''confdential." Fl
also knew that it was purloined from me b
his accomplish in this transaction, and if
honorable man, would at once have returne
r. it to me. Instead of this he kept it. and rea
it to the Representative branch OF Congress
and totally perverted its meaning. Was ther
ever such dishonorable conduct practised b
st any man Of the least pretension to respects
H. bilty before! But this is an act of perfd
IN on the part of one once holding the elevate
station of the Presidency! True, he obtair
J. ed it by intrigue, bargain, and corruption
but the distinction should have impaired som
consideration for the public's sense of homo
if he himself he'd no sense of the kind. b.
his interest now prompts him to shield hin
self from the charge of giving to Spain, b
the treaty of 1919, the greater part of Lou
siana as ceded by France to the U. States b
the treaty of 1903, extending to the Rio Gran
Del Norte, and he fabricates the positive fals'
g hood, that, before submitting it to Onis, h
consulted me, and I agreed to the Sabine {
the boundary. In proof, he cites diary pr
pared by himself TO suit an emergency, an
produces it eight years after it was called TO
by the Issue made by me in regard to the tat
it was referred to for the purpose of vouchin!
hope he will make known to the public VIII
f. his diary says to the purloined letter take
from ME, and handed to him by Dr.. May
marked confidential" Has he noted in h
Il diary that he knew this purloined letter VIZ
m stolen, and that his reading as lawyer taugI
OF him, that in contemplation of law, the rece
YER of stolen goods, knowing them to be st
len, was as bad as the thief, especially if
converted them to his own use?
But the bold, daring, and unblushing falls
,r hood in his address, where (attending to Il