New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-09-04
worse consequences. In the same paper after telling
Barkey Of the call he meant to make on General

worse consequences. In the same paper, after telling
barkley Of the call he meant to make on General
Jackson, he says :as-EF .95 1{ Il 5zg,,i@ ~
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Mr.. Buchanan puts these words into Mr.. Markley's
mouth. They obviously exhibit the design formed by
Mr.. Buchanan himself, and for which he sought MI.
Markleys cooperation. Mr.. Marley denies that he
used the words. Mr.. Buchanan reports them as en-
ployed in his conversation with Mr. Markley, and both
General Jackson and Major Eaton, without any
knowledge of the conference between Messls. Bn-
chanan and Markley, state that the same argument
was used by Mr. Buchanan in separate conversations
with them, ending with the same recommendation
"totight the Adams men with their own weapons"
Can there be doubt Of the truth of Gen. Jacksons
solemn averent when it is not only coroborated by
Major Eaton, but by Mr.. Buchanan for, after ascrb
ing the proposition to Mr.. Markley, Mr.. Buchanan adj
mts that he related to General jackson :" the sub
stance of the conversation he had held with him."
but forgets whether he mentioned his name or merely
described him as friend of Mr.. Clay Aud yet,
Mr.. Buchanan has the harihood to say, in the same
paper, that until he General Jaeksons letter to
Carter Beverly the conception never once entered
his head" that " he could have supposed me capable
iof expressing the opinion that it was right to fight
such ntriguers with their own Weapons 4 lr g.
Is this not singular atectatson of surprise when
it is considered that Major Eatons statement, al
though not published, was put in Mr.. Buchanan's
before General Jacksons letter to Beverly written
and had not been denied by him? a. ra...
Why, then, did he deny the fact which produced
such an outburst Of feeling from General Jackson
that he could not have forgotten it, or if that were
possible, must have had it revived by Major Eaton's
reminder? General Jackson's comment in his letter
to Major Lewis divulges the secret of Mr.. Buchanans
selfcontradictions. He wanted moral courage If
he had avowed the wrong which General jackson
rebuked and pardoned, it would have brought him at
once in collision with Mr.. Clay, who had made known
his fixed purpose to call to account any man who
stood upon equality with him, and who suggested the
idea that he capable of being influenced in his
vote by the tender of the Secretaryship. If Mr. Blu
chanan, then, had acknowledged what he had told
Major Eaton-what he urged on General Jackson
what he conned over with Mr.. Markley, and what the
latter says he falsely imputed to hn-Mr Clay would
have had no alternative but to hold him responsible.
In this dilemma he threw himself upon the magnan-
unity of that man who he knew would pardon any
weakness in who could plead that his faults had
originated in friendship for him. Mr.. Webster was
enabled, from what had passed around him in Com
gress to fathom the depths of the intrigue
General Jackson's letter to Beverly was published,
and before he had named the man who approached
him with the overture. Cotton gives letter from
Mr. Webster to Mr.. Clay, about Gen. Jacksons letter
to Beverly, Of June 6:
l. sToN. July d. 1897.
Iave suspicion that the rcspecable member Congress'
is Mr. Buchanan. If it should So will place him
awkward situation it he did recommend bargain
with your friends, the suspicion that such bargain had been