The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-01-29


and that he Major DoNELsoN] followed Mr. AL
LEN to General HoUsToS's residence, 80 that he
might, by his personal remonstrance counteraci
Mr.. ALIENS efforts, and he has doubtless repeated
| to others the same statements Of what transpred
there. | refer to these facts to show to Major
DorELsoN himself, that, instead OF injuring me
he disgraces himself by making imputations Sc
utterly untrue.
Having thus repealed Major DoKELsoNs i'm
putation, proceed to give some other facts, ex
planatory. found Major DoNELsoN at the seal
Of government of Texas. Mr.. CALHOUN, in
great magnanimity, had given him the office Of
Charge Major DoNEIsoN was, as believe, CRATE
full for it. We conyersed freely Of the past, Of
General JACKSON, Mr.. VAN buren, and others
who had controlled General JAcKsoN's conduct
In one of these Conversations Major DoNELsoh
admitted that General JACKSON had lost his in
fluence in his own immediate neighborhood, and
said that it was a source of deep modification
to him that his influence would not control the
elections in his own precinct. replied, that the
reason was manfest--that by becoming the par
tisan Of Mr. VAN buren, General JACKSON had
abandoned the friends aud the principles which
had placed him in power, that his warfare on Mr.
CALHOUN had encouraged MIR. CLAY to keep up
an organized opposition, which, aided by the
broken the charm Of General JAcKsoN's popu.
arity. General HAMILTON, of South Carolina
joined us few days thereafter, and told us that
he had heard in Mississippi that General Pillow
had said that he was coming to Washington rs
one of Mr.. Folks cabinet, and that MIR. Folks
chief difficulty was to get rid of Mr.. CALHOUN.
Major DoNELsoN admitted that such was Mr.
POLK's purpose, and after consultation with me,
he became 80 well satisfied that Mr.. Polk ought
not to supersede Mr. CALHOUN in the State De-
partment, that he left his important negotiation
in Texas, intending to meet Mr. Polk at the
Hermitage, and prevail upon him and General
JACKSON to relinqush their purpose of pro-
scribing Mr.. CALHOUN and bis friends. Major
DoNELsoN was taken sick at New Orleans, and
| etained there until it was too late to see Mr..
Polk before he left Tennessee, and he there
| fore returned to Texas.
| In confirmation of the deliberate purpose of
Mr.. Polk and Gen. JACKSON, to prescribe Mr..
CALHOUN and his friends, arranged and agreed
upon between them and their confidential adv-
sers, before Mr. Folks election, and Will they
were making the most earnest appeals to Mr..
CALHOUN and his friends to reorganze the De
mocratic party" under assurances of harmony
and good faith. / refer to the declaration made
by Gen. PILow in Mississippi, about the time
of Mr.. PoLK's election, and to the declaration
made but a few days since by the Pennsylvania,
Mr.. BUcHANANs confidential organ, that Mr..
Polk acted under the advice of Gen. JACKSON,
when he superseded Mr.. CALHOUN in the State
Department, by appointing Mr.. BUCHANAN Sec
rotary of State.
Major DoNELs~N knows that explained to
him, in Texas, the reasons why MIR. CALHOUN
should be continued in the State Department
that he was negotiating the adjustment of the
Oregon, as well as the Texas questions, and that
under his guidance the adjustment of one would
be the adjustment ofboth. 1t was the policy of
England to prevent the acquisition of Texas, and
that Sir ROBERT PEEL was unwilling to adjust
the Oregon question so long as the Texas ques.
ION was open. have heard Mr.. CALHOUN say
again and again that had he remained in the
State Department, he would have peaceaby ad
justed both questions in less than three months !;
and | speak of my own knowledge fthe views
of eminent British statesmen, when say that
he could have peaceably acquired the whole of
Oregon, and much more Mexican territory with
less than 1.-THE of the sum expended in the
| Mexican war.
Mr.. CALHOUN and his friends, who placed Mr..
Polk in power, were prescribed, and. instead of
peaceable adjustment, we were driven into a
war with Mexico and after pledging the honor of
| Iilc SOVutiJ w uOSiCCo ~ HiuuttS, VI iISut,
we were glad to accept 40 degrees, renqush-
ing to England the best harbor and the most
valuable fisheries on the Pacific, by the use of
which she is TO protract the struggle for naval
supremacy on the Pacific. The result was that
the people Indignantly drove the old JACKSON
dynasty from power and again put the seal of
Reproduction on the political managers who seek
to govern the country ald plumber the treasury
in the name of JacksOnism
Now contrast my conduct with Major DoNEL-
sons | was the printer to both houses of Con
gress, having the confidence Of the country and
of the party in power to an extent which no
other editor before or since then ever had and
| refused to lend my press, or my influence, in
support of the intrigues and combinations then
formed to "plunder the treasury" well knowing
what the consequences would be. How is il
with Major DoNELsoN Did he not purchase
the Union newspaper under a pledge from GER
tain political managers that he should get the
census printing! And did he not denounce
General DAVIS and Governor Mcdonald as
Secessionists and Disunonsts, knowing that
his charges against them and the States Rights
party were untrue, because he reli on the votes
of the Union candidates for Congress to carry
into effect the arrangement for the census print
ing which had been previously agreed upon ?
hUu uOtS NC NV oCc I'ldb, ii us uUItitiS Iulh
job as his reward for calumnialing the States
Rights party, the intrigue, bargain and manage
ment"--the coalition between the Union Demo.
Gratis and the Wings by which Union men were
returned to Congress, will become the issue in
the next Presidential canvass, and in the next
Congressional election, and that the result must
be the defeat of the Democratic candidate !?
Have the political managers, who seek to obtain
power through the votes of the States Rights par.
ty Of the South, no fear that that party will refuse
to re- organize" on basis which will give all the
power and influence of the government into the
hands of men who have prescribed them, and
illuminated their principles, and who can at
one moment coalesce with the Wings to Sian
der them, and the next smile, snpplicate,
wheedle inwn and hatter those whom they had
before so illuminated For myself, Major
DoNELsoN knows that demonstrated with him
again and again that told him repeatedly that
| if he sincerely desired to re.organize the Re-
publican party in good faith, he should have my
feeble cooperation; bat that would, to the
best of my feeble ability oppose any and all
| attempts to restore the old VAN buren, dynasty,
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