New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-09-20

yfeWs ii Of General Jacksoni written te
kHfon tliout Tentfiflg to look at il to see Ills
\ gise in advance to Mr. Buchanan colleague the
same id respect to all the manuscript evil
dence hove used or may hereafter we 70 defend
hin sainst his ducers The assaiaI,S takes yet
another and more successful mode of escaping the
odian Of of \ great man, hy
using his own mai w sanction its degra
ation III using The feather from the eage's
wing give the shaft that reaches him in the
4 zenith and brings him to- the earth. F&s4 ia Z
The paper prepared to bring down GEN. Jacksons
fame nom its height opens with solemn formula,
which seems gned to make the impression thathe
had commissioned his adopted namesake to sign the
death waTantfor his memory after the body was laid
4 In the grave
The adopted SON, executor and trusted
friend Ct i ss protest this
II Nj 5 III b Il ss S s posls
& 2 81 hag SIN m s
dtion be Justice to the the deceased
until NE men with him have passed from the stage
This protest iiisnuates what tile adopted son, exc
cutor, and trusted friend o General jackson drawn
out TO prove, while he is made to deprecate it
The publication Of any IF his fathers
maae S ai justice d memory until the
who served him have passed from the stage action
Does not this intimate that General jackson in his
nryate Dale1s has said of those who served with him
that which cannot bear the light while they live to
repe il q And then this I" adopted son and trusted
friend is made to say that his father sin the full
freedom of fresde ease, ~. and in many conyersa
tons had said thathe had 8 the highest esteem and
Affection for Mr.. Buchanan, and spoke freely Of g his
eminent services and moral worth, while his letters
written with his hand, and when he felt the hand
death upon him, re affirm, after twenty years of
calm consideration, what he had publicly proved to
be his deliberate conviction in regard to Mr.. Bn
chanan's conduct in 1926. And what he denounced
to Mr.. Buchanan himself, when he made the proposal
TO be $ such means of bargain and corruption he
t11an Hath
and his friends, and myself with them, " rather than
use he adhered to at the close Of his life and yet
fhe adopted son and trusted frlendn is made to say
that the same sentiment as to Mr.. Buchanan's con-
duct twenty years later by him in letter
to Major Lewis is not s the deliberate conviction of
his mind that when the General wrote that Mr. Blu
chanan was capable Of deep corruption in regard
to the chief magistraey of bis country he was his
moral WORTH Heis made artfuly to imply that
the qualifications Of General Jackson's confidential cor
respondence was breach of trust revealing this CON
tldiction when it only so upon the supposition
that the adopted sons oral account of the Generals
real estimate of Mr.. Buchanan's character is the only
true one, and not the written statement under his
hand. #is5s iY$a5 a7si Ia s.isE@=
He is made to claim for himself the right of being
what he calls the repository of General Jackson's
papers when he knows that they were bequeathed to
me, and that he wrote to me Immediately on the
Generals death that was his dying order to him. as
executor TO deliver them over to me, and that if he
retains any Of them he violates that injunction, and
il himself guilty Of d breach Of trust. They make
him charge it as an abuse that Mr. Blair had made
Of private documents, 4 although they were exclu
sYely of public interest, and wien the first pubca
ton OF them was made it was accompanied with this
express permission:
any of opinions be useful to sustain the great
faa e s Rs0 81 Their 5 int
to the real and principles Of The
~ people HAT opinions, DESIRED should Known
s45itfs Sincerely vor friend + ANDREW IA ok SON
To r. P. BLAiRs ESD. -
The publication of what he wrote about the in.
trgue which defeated llis election in the House OF
vas directly invited BY him, in card to the Nashville
\ Union, closing with these words }5s$&
MI Hampn y else has letter from
haT my 5 PEI to for
q al ever written on this or ep pe salss
Though had not the least agency in producing
this evidence of Gen Jacksons dissatisfaction with
Mr.. Buchanan-did not, indeed, know of the exist
enee Of the letter-ts publication, and the attempt
to dscred by drawing up insidious statements for
the signature of an adopted son, to prove that the
father had expressed opinions entirely incompatible
with his written declarations made at the same time
calls on me to examine whether Gen. Jacksons writ
ten ayerment is not sustained by the history of the
transactions referred to- and whether the suggestions
utinto the mouth Of the adopted son, when tested
by IL, can avail to weigh down the veracity of the
father, and to place MFR. Buchanans above It. will
array recorded facts and train of undisputed cir
cumsances, apart from Gen. Jackson's own testimony
which establish every assertion of his letter to Major
Lewis. q II 25s=|z=sl45s l+7 y
feel more mperatiyeIy called to the discussion of
published since Gen. Jackson's death, has given a
most unjust and distorted view of it, to tarnish the
Generals fame, founding his argument on the corrupt
proposal said to have been made by Mr. Buchanan to
Mr.. Clay but which the latter, at the earnest en-
treaty of the former kept profoundly secret while
the General lived. From Mr.. Coton's own book, I
will collect d succinct statement Of all the testimony.
bearing the essential points, which will show how
thoroughly jackson stands indicated as regards
Mr.. Clay, and how perfectly he is justified in the
opinion entertained of Mr. Buchanan, although kept
in absolute ignorance of the remarkable overture Of
Mr.. Buchanan, proposing the Premiership to Mr..
Clay on the contingency of Gen. Jacksons election.
Without encumbering this paper with the arguments
Of any of the parties to this controversy will give
the issues, as made between the principals, and the
statements of the individuals out OF whose actions the
controversy grew. The testimony Of these parties,
as copied by Mr. Cotton, from the authentic docu
ments put into the hands of Mr.. Clay, amply vindi-
cate Gen. Jackson. D. s..4.7s -
grave has closed over him and Gen. Jackson, and
should close the contest between the rivals which they
chose to wage in person, But the originator of the
fend who survives and uses the pliable namesake of
one of them to lend him the support OF his name to
damage the reputation of the man whom he should
yenerate as q father, can claim no such immunity.
The political ntriguer, who approaches Gen Jackson
in his own emphatlG manner, feDuheu al Ine instant,
must now meet the General reiterated reprobaton,
inscribed by his own hand in his dying hour, written
to a distant friend not with reports and healsays
from his fireside in which he is made to contradict
himself but by an appeal to the recorded facts on
which Gen. Jackson founded his opinions. Here is
the history of the events written out by the actors in
them: f's@
CARTER Beverly heing visit 10 the Hermitage with other
Trgnias nterrogaea G. jackson the overtures made
for himself as President: wv"
Z Gen. jackson then related the circumstances at
tending Mr. Buchanan's application to him, repeating
the conversation between them. Mr.. Beverly, in a
letter to friend in North Carolina immediately re-
ported what Gen. Jackson had said. This being dis
puted, Mr.. Beverly appealed to Gen. jackson for a
written statement. It is thus quoted in Coton's
6 Life of Clay y 5.
Early in January 1925, member Of Congress Of high
spectabity visited morning and observed that he had
communication he DESTROYS make and that il
right lhold be informed Of it that he friend; aud
let receive the communication might the friendly
vcs through which mae he hoped would prevent
change Of friendship feeling i'll regard hi, To which
replied From his nigh standing genni and member
of Congress, and from his uniform friendly and geuemanly
conduct myself could suppose lie would any
communication which supposed improper;
fore, his motives being let think might Of the
municaion. feelings towards him would unatered
The gentleman proceeded He said he had Informed
te friends of Mr. Clay the friends Of made
'unie in the aid of Adams election Mr. Clay should be
rotary Of State that the friends of Mr. Adams urging
reason TO induce the friends Mr. Clay
olon that il elected President Mr.. Adams would
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