Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1856-10-09
NEW SERIES, NO. ~.
TERMS $l,50 strictly in advance.
~; $500 at the years end.

mr' Jackson after the purchase was COM
pietea py the state, sent on state bonds from
which $i6,0Oe of the $4,000 due Blair and
kives was realized, and for which he was cred.
tied $4,000
His proposition was that we should release
the lien on the remainder of the estate for the
$4,000 of tho loan, that he might sell it to
pay hts other debts. knew that his extr;ca-
tlon from old debts was only to make way for
new ones, and therefore preferred using the
lien on his property to secure it for the benefit
OF himself and wife, during their joint lives.
Their only daughter is married 10 rich and
very respectable gentleman one son is proveded
with an appointment st West Point--the other
NEARLY grown and educated. ny saving one
halt of Tho Hermitage, tract aid all, the scr
sahts # tlie family fi5f I tsl1n Or ines, likely
to last some forty years, and putting beyond
the power of Mr. Jackson to waste it on his
hopeless schemes, the steady increase in the
value OF the real property made more rapid by
the state improvement Of the adjacent portion,
together with the increase of servants during
the life estates, would make it easy to return
the original advance, and leave babiad con-
siderable inheritance. Instead, therefore, Of
| giving up the property bond of our debt, to
pay other debts Of Mr.. jackson, if that were
possible and assist him in new career of spec
ulaton in iron works, lead mincs &C., we
thought it best to act ON our own experience Of
his capacity, and the opinion of gentleman
of Nashville, and one friendly to him, from
whom we had this hint:
He Mr.. JackSon) thinks that the surplus
coming from the bonds will pay all his OUT
standing debts but whether he is correct or
not no one can tell, us he knows no more about
his affairs than child, and is not able to at
tend to them much better than one"
After consulting Mr. Rives, therefore wrote
as follows to the Hon. Cave johnson, who had
interested himself with me in getting Gen.
Jaekson's grave given TO the guardianship of
the state, and seemed also to share my anxiety
to provide for the family
SILVER SPRING, May 2, 1856.
Sc | am anxious to see
Mrs. jackson, whom the General loved SO well,
and for whom feel on his as well as her own
account a great interest, we'll and securely pro-
yded for talked the matter over with Mr..
Rves to-day, and told him | was willing to
contribute my share of the means to effect the
object, and he said he would assent also, and
ibuto tD tbo ,ol, b.,
the whole of his property under the deed of
trust, buying it in and holding it in the hands
of trustees, first for the benefit Of Mrs Jackson
and himself, and then to be subject to cur debt,
unless it shall have been paid. am no lawyer,
and know not how such trust could be created
but my idea is, through our means, by which
we still have lien on the property, to make of
it "a future support for them during their joint
lives, and then on the payment of what may be
due us, the whole to revert to their heirs am
+ ready on my part to sink portion of what
y might come to me Of the fund.- and this at once
:, by release, but do not think this anythipg
!. more than so much thrown away. for other debts
would soon emerge to take the property.
81 wish you would have talk with y
~ on this subject, and if he and you think any
q thing useful can be done in this way | hope
. you will sound Mrs. jackson as to the scheme
. proposed, and if she and her family thinks well
of of it, they may persuade Mr.. jackson to come
:. to it. Let me hear from you about this matter
"Your friend, +. P. BLAZE"
N This letter was received about the time tha t
ID my letter to the New York meeting appeared, ),
l. exposing the conspiracy of Mr.. Calhoun with
" Mr.. Polk and his followers to destroy the organ
&c set up by General jackson at Washington and
# install that of uullilication in its stead. Mr..
q Buchanan and his colleague and especial friend
10 of the Cabinet were both implicated in this
re original movement, which embodied the South
C in sectional party to command the North.
d did not suppose that our political warfare would
t, have the effect to break the truce between us,
ii which had for its object the care of Gen Jack
d SON s remains and his adopted attachments.
If But mistook my man Mr. Buchanan's
e colleague seems to have embraced the opportu-
nifty which his introduction into the concerns
of the Hermitage gave him, to attack me from
n that quarter. Instead of answering my letter
10 Of charitable intents, and cons lltng with the
n family and the attorney and Mr.. Rves and
d myself to the best form of relief the first in
e, timation that had of changed feelings on the
in part Of those was laboring to serve, was the
It insidious letter signed with Andrew jackson :
= ak oc
r. publishing Gen. jackson S correspondence with
We out authority. My name was not at first men
toned, because those who assailed INC knew that
% the immediate subject of complaint, (he extract
chanan about the corrupt bargain he proposed)
was neither written to me nor published by me
This not being noticed by me, was followed by
ra another, signed Andrew Jackson, denouncine
- me. by name, as a violator of Gen. jackson
~ confidence and the rights which his adopted sol
no asserted over his papers.
es. How my good friend Andrew, whose last let
M ter to me was an eausion of gratitude, wa
in broughtto this point | can only conjecture =
i'll | never gave him an unkind look or an unkin
lh- word or did an ankind thing to him or any {
mt his family
al If the new friends for whom | have bee
if thrown away, and my kindness rejected, MAX
if good, out of their own means, the hopes the
for may have inspired, shall rejoice in it for tt
lt) sake of Mrs. Jackson who is one of the mo-
yes lovely and excellent of hersex. She was "a mil
or istering angel" to General jackson during a