The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-01-28

From the .Nississippisn.
GovERseR QvrTmAs AND SENATOR Rusx.--
The slang mongers have for some lime indus
triOusly circulated an extract FROM speech. pur-
porting to havebcen delivered by Senator Rusk.
casting severe reflections upon Governor Quit.
man. The subjoned correspondence puts the
SANDER to rest. II does not need explanation,
and we submit it TO the public, with the single
remark, that we have no doubt the extract was
| Inadvertently published in the Sea Shore Senti-
mel, (the paper in which it was first seen by the
GoyernOr) without the knowledge Of its intelli-
gent and gentlemanly editors We are under
the impression that it orr .inated in one OF The
New Orleans papers:
JACKSON, Jan. 10, 1851.
MEssRs BARKsDALE AND HAYNES, GENTLE
MEN The scandalous report alluded to in the
letter which ! enclose. has been widely circu-
lated in the columns of the Picayune, the Wash
ngton Union, the National Intelligencer and
other presses.
AS n means of partially correctly the caInmny,
respectfully request you to publish the cores
pondence enclosed, with the hope that sense OF
justice will prompt those papers that have cir
culated the f.lsehood, to make the correction.
have passed unnoticed, tho thousand false re-
ports disseminated TO poison tho public mind
against me, and merely correct this because u
distinguished gentlemen with whom have long
been on friendly terms, has been falsely pre-
scented to the public as my assailant.
Very respectfully yours,
]. A. QUTTMAN
JACKSON, Dec. 4, 1880
Hon Thos. j. Rash, Washington city:
SIR IL enclose an extract from the Sea Shore
Sentinel, paper published in this State, which
a just met my eye.
| am informed that similar statements are
made in other papers. Aware that but little re-
lance is to be placed upon newspaper reports
of speeches. and unwilling to believe that you
could have uttered such language in regard to
me, still deem the circulation Of these reports
as emitting me to call upon you to say whether
you have made the statement attributed to You;
or used any other language in connection with
my name to warrant such report; and, If
was alluded to in your speech Mt San Augustine,
what were your remarks about me? ! feel
| quite assured from your candor and sense of
justice, az well as from the kind relations which
have existed between us, that you will appre-
ciate the motives which prompt these enquiries,
and will reply to them promptly and frankly.
Your Obedient servant,
]. A. QUITMAN.
| Extract from the Sea Shore Sentinel:
General Rusk made speech ut San Angus
| tine, on his arrival there, in which he defended
| the ten million bill, and the Union, and bore
Town pretty sharply upon the Southern ultras
| not even sparing Governor Qutman, Of whom
| he is represented to have stated that he Ohe
| Governor) had once failed to redeem the pledges
| of assistance to Texas, at time more fraughf
with difficulty and danger than the present, and
that they were not to be desired now"
WAsHlKGroE, &c Dec, 1850.
His Ercellency John A. Quitman -
SIR Having been detained by sickness on my
Journey TO this city, did not receive, until las
nj hit your letter of the 4th inst enclosing an ex
tract from the "Sea Shore Sentinel in relation t.
speech lately made by me in Sa Augustine.
take the earliest occasion to answer the enquiries
made BY you in the frank aud friendly spirit in
which they nre presented
| On my way home addressed the people OF
! San Augustine in defence Of my course in the
Senate upon the ten million bill, and urged
| them to accept the proposition, rs the best way
Of settling the boundary question, with honor
and advantage to the State.
| In the course of my remarks ALLUDED to you,
but in style the reverse of the one described
| hy the correspondent of the Sentinel" it is
impossible for me to rccollect the precise Ian
| guage used, but the idea intended to be con-
veyed was that in n contest with government
as powerful rs that of the United States, il
would be the duty of Texas TO rely upon means
which she could command more than upon the
| sympathies of other sections Of tho country
which she would doubtless have had, but had no
| right to demand.
In this connection, | mentioned tho fact, that
you had in 1886 come to the aid of Texas, and
stated my belief that tho expression of your
readiness TO do SO again, continued in your let
ter of last summer had probably been of service,
inasmuch rs it showed the country that, in the
event of collision with the General Govern.
ment, Texas would possess the good wishes of
her sister States-but added, that under such
tr,ing circ instances her chief reliance should
be placed upon the resources which she could
| command promptly.
l believe that If you had heard the remarks
| in question, you would have been convinced
that they were dictated by spirit of Kindness,
rather than disposition to censure.
Very respectfully,
Your ob't serv't,
TIlOS. J. RUSK.
The New YORK SESAToR.--ALBANY, Jan. 25