Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1844-11-22

since began this letter, by company, and
write with great pain, but am SO anxious to
bring the address. o. ]. @. Adams, in connec-
ton with the. CIRCUMSTANCES in my recollec-
ton, to your Wei, n. could not consult
my ease, or allow ..ae for health to impose
restalnt. I hope jon viii show hiGa in his
true colors to the American people.
Your friend, in haste,
ANDREW JACKSON.
+. p. Blair. Esq. A.I ..
%- HERM1TAGE. Oct. %, 1914.
DEAR Sin: thank you for the copy of the
Z. Adams to the Young Mems club of Bos-
ton, delivered on the 7th inst.
| This address is labored attempt on the
part of Mr.. Adams to discredit the testimony
of MIR. Erving, whose statements We're refer
red to in my letter to the Hon. A. V. Brown
of February 18th, 1913; and, like most of the
productions from diseased mind, proves lit
tie else but its own weakness and folly.
My letter to Mr.. Brown was published on
the Goth of March, 1874, in Washington city,
where Mr.. Adams was at the time. 1t has
been the subject of comment in the newspaper
press of both parties in all portions of the I'm
ion; and the statements of Mr.. Erving, and the
differences from them, have not been deemed
worthy of the notice Of Mr.. Adams, until now,
just before the close of the presidential cam
vass, he pretends to have discovered that great
injustice had been done him, and he makes a
childish appeal to his owns diary" to screen
him from the odlum which has fallen upon
his treachery to the best interests of his coun-
try.
Mr.. Adams has been seven months in pre-
pairing this tissue Of deception for the public.
| pledge my countrymen, as soon as l can OBJ
tain the papers not now in possession, refer
red to in the letter to MIR. Brown, to prove not
only that MIR. Adams has no cause of com
Iplalnt against me, but that his veracity, like
his diplomacy, cannot be propped up by his
''diary." ..'.
L say, in advance of the review shall take
ofthis extraordinary production, thus heralded
before the public eye of the presidential cleo.
ton, that the assertion of my having advised
the treaty of 1919 is barefaced falsehood
without the shadow of proof to sustain it; and
that the entire address is full of statements at
war with truth, and Of sentiments hostile tc
every dictate of patriotism. .a~ -a..
Who but traitor to his country can ap
peal as Mr.. Adams does to the youth of B os
ton, in the close Of his address! 'sYeur tria
IS approaching. YHe spirit Of freedom and til
spirit Of slauery are draacing Together for til
deadly conflict Of arms. Tile annexation Of Tea
as to this Union as the blast Of the trumpet for
f0reign, ciUiL, seruile and Indian avar, Of aohic
the government Of the United States, fallen int
faithless hands. has already taUice given the sag
nat-,tirst By a shameless treaty rejected by "a
rious Senate; and again by The glove Of detfanc
hurled by the apostle Of notification atthe dOo,c
r ed policy Of the British empire, peacefully t
promote the extinction Of sIaUery Mrou ghout til
. aOorM. Young men Of Boston, burnish you
armor-jprepare for the conflict; and I sag
you in the language Of Galgacus TO the ancier
BritOn, think Of yotw forefathers-think IF you
posterity'" What is this but delusion, OF
what is worse, direct appeal to arms to or
pose the decision of the American people
should il be favorable 10 the annexation of Tex
J. as to the United States
may be blamed for spelling Mr.. Erving'
y name wrong, 5ut trust shall never deserv
the shame of mistaking the path ofduty wher
my country's rights are involved. believe
from the disclosures made to me of the tran:
: actions Of 1919, that Mr.. Adams surrendere
tie interests of the United States when h
took the Sabine river as the boundary betwee
= US and Spain, when he mi ght have gone
Il the Colorado, if not to the Rio del-N orte.-
: Such was the natural inference from the fact
7 stated by Mr.. Ewing; and there is nothing
! the account now given Of the negotiation
. alter this impression. The address, on tt
e contrary, does not at all relieve Mr.. Adam
u 1t proves that he was then, as now, an allie
e to the true interests of his county; but he ha
e not then, as now, the pretext OF cooperate
J with Great Britain in her peaceful endeavoI
y y to extinguish slavery throughout the world.
y y Is there an American patriot that can rea
y the above extract, and other similar ones TIL
> NAV be taken from the address of this mona
chist in disguise, without feeling of horror
} Grant that the thousands of those who thin
! with me, that the addition of Texas to OF
J Union would be national benefit, are in e
u ror: are " e to be deferred from the eXpresslc
i our opinions by threats of armed opposition
and is it in this manner that the peaceful pol
&c CIV of Great Britain is to be carried into ex
- cution should the American people decide tn
= we are not in error! Or does Mr.. Adam
i mean to intimate that the will Of Great Br
, tain should be the law for American statesrne
= and will be enforced at the point of the bay
, net by those who descended from the patio
~ of our revolution?
+ Instead of going to British history for Sc
le timents worthy of the republican youth Of o.
% country on an occasion so vitality affecting o.
= national safety and honor, would recommer
IL those in General Washington's farewell al
!, dress, and particularly his warning to US to
~ void entanglng alliances with foreign nation
). and whatever is calculated to create section
a. or geographical parties at home.
- ] am, very truly,
- Your obedient servant,
Is ANDREW JACKSON.
- Gen. ROBERT ARMSTRONG.