Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-07-03
An Interesting and Important Lettsr

This mornings mail brought US a slip from
the Nashville Union office, containing the
following letter to the editor of that journal.
Ii is from the pen of Gen Jacksons adopted
son and executor, in whose keepingihis memory
rests most appropriately. 1t has been drawn
out evidently by f P. Blair's sinister publi-
cation of garbled extracts from letters written
by the hero and sage of the Hermitage As
no comments of ours can possibly add force to
ITS plain and sensible statements, we repub
hsh it without them:
HERMITAGE, June 20, 1856.
GENTLENEN: Be kind enough to give the
following letter insertion in your paper:
Within the last few weeks, several individ-
uals, claiming to have been personal friends
OF ten. Andrew jackson, have published let
tiers addressed to themselves, under the seal
OF confidence and friendship, which were
never intended for publication, and are CAL
culated to wound the feelings of many per-
sons who stood high in the estimation of Gen.
jackson to the close Of his life. The object
OF these publications is so manifestly for the
advancement of petty, personal ambition, and
TO lpJure or destroy those who stand in the
way OF those housing schemes, that no good
motive can possibly be attributed to those who
are gratifying a morbid public appetite It
seems that they are willing, for the gratiica-
ZION OF their own passions, to raise the current
of the past, open fires, over which the ashes
nave long since gathered, and destroy as far
their puny efforts can accomplish it, the uni
versa generation with which the name of Gen.
jackson is regarded.
The undersigned, as the adopted son, erscu-
tor, and trusted tTiend Of Gen. jackson, pro-
tests most sOlemnly against this unsci upulous
use OF the pirate and con fdentiaL CORES
pondence Of his father, and he appeals most
confidently TO the public to sustain him in
this protest, he, himself, was the repository
OF most OF ms fathers private papers, and
has never consented to the publication OF ann
OF them, because he believes that no such ad-
dltion can be made, with justice to the memo
~ Of the deceased until the men who served
with him have passed from the stage of &C
ZION. Ii would, however, be unfair to the
feelings OF those who may have been touched
by the extracts or full letters from Gen Jack
son, heretofore published, to withhold the tes-
tlmony OF the undersigned, that up to the
close OF his life he entertained for President
Polk and Hon. James Buchanan the highest
esteem and affection. In many conversations
during his declining years, when in the full
freedom of Preside ease he spoke freely of
their eminent services and moral worth on no
occasion did he ever intimate to his family
that his confidence in them had abated, or his
kindly feelings towards them undergone any
cnange. 1t Is well known to all who were
we'll acquainted with Gen. jackson, that he
chung with intense pertinacity to the interests
OF those whom he regarded as friends-as
sonslcttGt DEFENDANTS, and whom he had
raised up by his patronage" These persons
frequently (ss can and might easily be shown
appealed earnestly to him for assistance in ad-
ysncing their own schemes and views euem to
the close Of his life. Whilst suffering under
a painful, whitening disease, and earnestly
pressed by every artful suggestions he would
have been more than human, if he had not
permitted expressions of Dgonlentary trrtta-
ttsH to creep into private letters, and the
fauIt OF their expression was not in him who
wrote, but rather in those whom he unwisely
trusted.
The letter of Gen. jackson in regard to Mr..
buchanan written in February, I845, dated
2oth.) extracts from which have been recently
published, IS precisely one Of the character,
and written under the circumstances above
alluded to, and did not contain any deliberate
conviction OF his mind as is amply shown by
his cordial treatment Of Mr.. Buchanan during
MS whole admlnistratiOn-his appointment 10
hussia-his subsequent recomme nd alton of
him to others-and the ireside conversations
with his family, to which have before al.
luded to.
1t is not the intention Of the undersigned in
this publication, to interfere in the political
conflicts Of the day, or to do anything further
than 10 protect the reputation and famc of his
father, and preserve the consistency and har
mony OF a character dear to the whole Ameri-
Can people. ANDREW JACKSON.