The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-04-16

TenI.ytown Gen. Parker handed Gen. Armstrong
note or the witns'' had reason afterwards
to Gen Armstrong to avoid Gsorgetswn In his apProech
to the city He did avoid IT, BY going into washnston
and reached the Six Buildings. (O'Nsals boarding
house In the On alightpg, Gen Armstrong enquir
M es n Of
mill Hill. A horse being provided for Gen Armstrong,
all rode to that spot Snd found Mr.. Madison with
portion Of his cabinet and several gentlemen OF tho Dis
trict, amongst whom was Mr. Charles Carroll Of Belle
vue Gen. Armstrong spoke to Mr. Madison and others
and then Mr.. Carroll, who sat horseback, some
eight or ten feet from him. Mr. Carroll Immediately
with considerable excitement threw out his arm hori-
z'ntay in front Of Gen. Armstrong; face say ing vi
don't know you sir-untl you clear up your character
don't wish to have anything to say to you" General
Armstrong made no reply whatever, and MIR. Msdison
Ths Stiffness yet lives and was at the tins efcer
in the United States army. In duo time his statement,
sivcn 70 the bubble and to hi.ory Ono Of The most
mpudeut and besced Of all denials OF an alleged fact
lie that which characteristics ~ fiction" this incident;
for there hundreds who both heard and saw
It, and it quite we'll known among the popuiaion
Of district the burn pg OF the cspito or that
that sad the result lin the popular belief Of
deences and hence the outbreak Of indignation against
him that forced him from the cabinet and ihto retire
ment from which he came. Mr. insiuustes
that Gen. A. rode to Washington publicly. through
Georgetown, in defiance Of public opinion and those
=" redoubtable men, to whom he sneeringly aludes
The testimony Of the above witness nails thus fiction"
Of Mr. Bakers to the counter IL proved BY the ties
timony OF the witness who went TO escort MIN ieso
Washington that he entered Washington privately and
through bye road having been fore warned by letter
to do so; and It that Gen. A. lett Washington the
following morning at sunrise possibly In the same way
and by other bye road), for Baltimore, and that
Mr. ty his own account accompanied him as lar as
Bsdensburg and afterwards returned to the CITY aud
settled thu accounts of the secretary" This ike
~ as 1t m quito certain that the secretary never return
ed to Washington after his dismissal to settle up''
his accounts himself
IL was not that "my father had cherished through
fsn or that have inherited the deep luminosity al.
legged to have been expressed In my former letter. that
felt called upon to expose the duplicity dsoeptons
and fslschoods Of Mr. Barkers 30 called 4" narrative i;
but that discovered beneath the thin gauze apparent
rsnkpesand an affected desire to Justice to vsne
rable and nimitsble the attempt Of Mr. through
the cooperation Of his cnadjutor, to claim credit TO
himself for exhibition Of patriotic socituda in peril.
times and by cunning and insdous fashcstion
Of history appropriate to himself the honor Of act
which night to elevate him to POLITICAL station.
DANIEL J. CARROLL
New York. Fl brusry o6th ls4s
Doctor arrol has shown the original letter fro m
the fic,r ofthc army from which he quotes in The
above criticize and certify to the correctness OF tho
extract he has made from it.-Ep HERALD.