The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1856-07-08
NO. 5O7.

will crush TINS yer ano osn0pn s'osen'en'
Il am truly your friend,
sASDREw JAoKsoR.'
From succession of letters (which N.
oeived from him in the months Of March ana
April, it is evident he was constantly exerting
his influence to avert the mischief, to what
he called the republican party threatened
in the surrender Of the state by Mr.. Polk,
and the adoption of the Calhoun organ to
represent bis administration. The following
letter, of the 9th of April exhibits the whole
dramatis pesonnoe engaged in the intrigue.
1t is given in full. The names which appear
in this. letter, and the attendant circumstan-
ces, throw light on the whole tIansaction:
HERMITAGE, April Q, 1856.
My dear Mr.. Brair. have been quite
sG5lte6, seysSal ysSa & day. az. reached my hands and
abdomen, and it may be that my life ends
in dropsy. All means hitherto used to stay
the swelling have now failed to check it--bc
it so. am fully prepared to say the Lords
will be dene. Ny mind ever since heard Of
the attitude the President had assumed with
You as editor of the Globe, which was the
most unexpected thing Lever met with, my
mind has been troubled, and it was not only
unexpected by me, but has shown lees good
common sense by the President than any act
of his life, and calculated to divide instead of
uniting the democracy, which appears to be
his reason for urging this useless and foolish
measure at the very threshold of bis admins
tration, and when everything appeared to-
auger well for, TO him, prosperous admins
tration. The President here, before he set
out for Washington, must have been listen
ing to tho secret councils of ssorne political.
elIques, such as Calhoun or Tyler eliques (for
there are such here) or after he reached WASH.
iugton some of the secret friends of some Of
the aspirants must have gotten hold Of his
ear and spoiled his common sense, or he new
er would have made such movement, so un-.
called for, and calculated to sever the de-
mocracy by calling down upon himself sus-;
picious, by tho act of secretly favoring some
of the political eliques who are looking to the
succession for some favorite.. :, sss. !.
have in my confidential letters, and par
ticuarly that Of the 4th instant, brought full
ly to his view, in my plain common sense
way, bis situation, and ask him at last how,
be can justify his course to you--to the real
democracy that sustained my administration
and Nj. Van Buren's.
4 brought to his view, that when / enter.
ed upon the duties Of the administration OF
the government, Duff Green was the demo-
cratic editor whose object was to hear the ex- s
ecutve chair by me for Mr.. Calhoun. he
was the executive organ until found he was
doing my administration injury, and dividing
the Democratic ranks; that the Globe, with :
you its editor, took Duff Green's place. That
you and Colonel Polk went hand in hand in
sustaining bis administration-united in hia
support for a second term-have ever since /,
the Colonels name was announced as tho.
nominee of the Baltimore Convention you
have given him an undertaking support, and
have fully explained to HIM how your pa
per had been drawn astray from your ma
tured views on the Texas question. then
concluded by asking him what. excuse can he
give to the old substantial Jackson and Van
Buren, democrats for not letting You and your
paper 90 on, rs his organ, until you are In
some fault and then, as / did Duff Green,
turn you away. / ask, have you (thc Colo
nell any new principles other than those you
have always advocated, and set forth, in your
inaugural, to bring before the people, that
you think Mr. Blair will oppose at the very
threshold of your administration you have re-
pudiatcd Blair and his Globe from being your
organ. know this cannot be the case, there
fore am entirely lost to conjecture any good
cause for your unaccountable course to Mr..
Blair, and wind up, telling him there is but
one safe course to pursue--revlew his course
send for you, and direct you and the Globe to
proceed as the organ of his administration,
give you all his confidence, and all would be
well and end well. This Is the substance;
and had hopeon the receipt of this letter,
and some Others written by mutual friends,
would have restored all things to harmony
and confidence again. rested on this hope
until the 7th, when ! received yours of the
3Oth, and two confidential letterS from tho
President directed to be laid before me, from
which it would seem that the purchase Of tho
Globe, and to get clear of you, as editor, is
the great absorbing question before the Pres
ident. We'll who Is to be the purchaser
Mr.. Richie and Major A. j.. Donnelson, its
editors. Query as to the lafterP ~ , :. /.
The above question have asked the
President. Is that renegade politician, Ca
moron, who boasts Of his $4,000, to set up o
news pape. to bs one of the ?--who is bank
rupt in politics. and who got elected Senator
by selling himself to the wings, and could
not raise 81, 900 to be one of the proprietors
to unite the democracy. His very election
has divided them in Pennsylvania, and let
ter to me says he has done our mutual friend
Buchanan much injury, he being charged with
using secretly his influence to effect j.; or
would Cameron's ownership in part unite
Horn, Kane, Leiper, Dallas and host of 9th.
er old time democrats in your expulsion p
Whit delusion! Or is Major Walker, Of
Tennessee, to be the purchaserl Here tits
stated he is vastly encumbered with debt; BY
many perfect bankrupt Who is to pnr.
chase, and where is the money to come from !
Is DR.. VIM. Gwin, tho statclite Of Calhoun,
the great friend Of R. S. Walker, Secretary
of the Treasury, a perfect bankrupt in proper
tyl Ny opinion is, that the contract made,
the money cannot be raised and the Globe
cannot be bonght. What thcna The Pres !,
ident win fnd himself in dilemma, have TO
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