Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1856-10-09

ernment to enforce the usurpation that tyran-
nizes over Kansas. This system Of controlling
the majority by the minority in our elective
government can only be made to work by cor
ruption. The oligarchy of England subjects
the masses of ireland to the small body of En-
glish land lords there, by buying with money,
or peerages, or high appointments, the leading
men to whom the democracy Of Ireland confde
their interests. The circumstances under which
many northern aspirates among us have be-
trayed the will of their constituents, and sur
rendered their rights to the slave oligarchy, !
make it obvious that the corrupt influence of
olhclal barter has taken root here, and certain
~ the managers for the southern minority
could not employ a more skilful adept to ply
the trade Of yenal intrigue. through which
they hope 10 succeed in the North, that James
Buchanan.
1t is necessary to success that notorious ar
hste in an illicit pursuit should conceal his
art. Lie must put off, if possible, the badge
that marks him That Mr. Buchanan shoald
endeavor to obliterato the signal impression
which his experiment on general jackson left.
is pardoaablo and would not have provoked
comment from me had it not been accompanied
by an attempt to disparago Gen. Jackson's
character, and, that too, by unnatural hands.
The adopted son and witness is not only brought
forward to prove that his fresde opinion was
III direct contradiction to that publicly ex
pressed, but he is made to account for this NOR
al obliquity by delracting from tue visor of his
mind. 1t is pretended that =" nomenfarv irri
tdti0n could influence him to write down
what he knew must stand as his deliberate
Judgment Of Mr.. Buchunans character, being
pronounced when he was sensible the grave
would soon close over him aud call him to an
Swer for its conscentousness.
Toimpress the public with the belief that
Gen. Jackson's understanding was impaired
and thus indirect y weaken the force of hisopin
ion, the adopted son, by way of excusing him
self for wasting the estate left him, is induced
to say
When General jackson returned home a
the end of his Presidency, he had not so mucI
Us hundred dollars left Of his salary Iii
generous entertainments ut Washington to hi
friends and to the public left him but little
The profits Of his estate were also consumed
There was scarcely day after his return tina
his hnucp W tbrnnraJ IL -
different portions Of the country. The proceed
of his estate here coald not and did not. NEE
bis expenses Under the circumstances, and b
the advice Of friends he deemed it adyis Bile +
make purchase in the South to raise cotton =
Under his direction, | went South and made III
purcfI'ae Of placc tht fsfd been erouinsst.,le
to him at $23 600, andaGterwards small trac
additional at the cost Of 50 500. To meet thes
and other smaller liabilities, he secured loan
from the bank and individuals to the amount @
nearly $4,000. He left me his estate saddle
with tlis heavy liability, all drawing interest
! have been thus particular in order to disabus
the public mind of the charge made by tho Pa
r'0t, and communicated no doubt by lrivat
sources that had incurred the heavy debt res
ing upon the Hermitage property"
None know better than the advisers of the il
dividua who puts his name to this paper, th
Gen. jackson was q most exact and pnnctu
business man-that he abhorred debt--ncver i
volved himself in one that he had not prepar,
the means to pay; none knew better than tn
that the embarrassment and ruin of the esta
left the adopted son was the work of the latte
exclusively To defend General jackson frC
the imputed lncapacity the want of care in
} expenditures, and the want Of circumspecti
as to making Obligations, and Judgment and {
crgy in providing and applying the means
| discharge them--I am compelled to give deta
D of - transaction to which Mr. Rives and mys
= were PARTIES, and to which Mr.. Jacksen rele
A simple statement will show how unusily G'
: Jackson's memory is assacd in the paragra
y quoted. 1t is but a repetition of the inside
v rumors spread by the newspapers inimical
h him, few years after his return to the II
C mitage.
}. They suggested that he had inextiicaby
e volycd himself in debt, and that, like anotl
l. chief of the Democracy Jefferson
h would probably apply fora law to enable b
i to get his estate disposed Of by lottery to p
G his debts. Seeing these attempts to mortify Il
l. harass him, and suspecting that his adopt
IS son, who had been creating debts without
= knowledge before he left Washington, mig
It have contracted engagements which the Gencl
n desired to discharge, wrote to him that b
L money which he could command. This was
e reply to my offer, the first part Of the letter
J. ing on other subjects
q HERMITAGE, February 3, 1912
'e "Now, my dear Mr.. Blair
70 am truly happy to find that your peeuni,
~ y. matters are SO prosperous, and may God gri
. u that that prosperity may continue to you d
4 yours in all time to come. Twill with all c
IL dor state to you that have felt some pccuni
III pressure-that we have had to make some pc
10 mary sacrifices in selling some valuable proE
ty, and that am not yet entirely free fl
I'll them and that loan would be u convenie
eo to us for short time, which we would well
Ao cure. hold my homestead unencunbercd,
Is do not owe in my own right five hundred {
Gu lars. Andrew owns first rate tract on
wv Mississippi river, Of llS0 acres, and on the
wv plantations we own about two hundred and {
IT, negroes, old, middle-aged and young l co
'le not stand by and see n combination Of sharp
IN swindlers-an .unprncpled combination as t
N were-strip and harress Andrew, who had b
he drawn into endorsements for them, and otl
M wise imposed upon, without stepping forward
tn relieve from the grasp of such men, Andrew