Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1856-09-25
slowed upon you and yours through liie' is the
prayer of your sincere friend,
f. B. B ain ESQ"

ANDREW JACKSON.
f. B. B. AIR ESQ.,"
This letter. at length in that addressed by me
n the Nav York meeting in Apsll last. expos
no the conspiracy which severed the jackson
democracy aad created southern secrional par
y 10 rule the confederacy, shows on The lace OF
4 the motives which induced General Jackson
% consipn his papers To me HE saw in the
course held by the government against The pa'it-
ral organ he had established at Washington,
that il would pass into the hands oil his enemies
Having confidence in my fidelity, and seeing me
striued Of the influence which the position ne
had conferred, gave. to. support his principles,
he bequeathed his papers 10 me, and the charge
40 defend his cause and his character
This trust makes it my duty to expose the ei-
fort now made. BY Mr. Buchanan' 5 partisan press
The Nashville Union, associated with Its ANY,
the official organ at w shingipn, 70 impair t,e
Confidence of The country in General Jackson
exalted character for geracity. The principe
agent in this attempt, as learn from letter IN
renlv 10 one written to obtain the intormation' is
the lion. Cave johnson. Mr.. Buchanan co''ea,
gne IN Mr. Polk cabinet. This IS confirmed
p, an extrac, oipen; in the Official organ from
letter Of this gentleman, by which II appears nc
rvonld excuse The attack made on Zen Jackson
;n,eor;ty nv saying--ss / shall mol behere maj ne
rG;en Jacksop euer so expressed himself, mnt
see The letter IN has o,cn hand'prfng :, and
vet ne urges on the adopted son OF Gen. JACK
son 10 publish his views in derogalon OF Ueh'
Jackson 5 written testimony, without veh'nrihg
to look at 10 see if it is IN his own land
writing" although invited TO do 81. gave IN
advance to Mr.. Buchanan. colleague the same
Invitation in respect 10 all the manuscript e'i-
dence have used, or may hereafter USE To- DC.
fend bin against his raducers. Slhe assailaht
takes We, another and more successful MODE Oh
escaping the odium OF impeaching the memory
of great man,, by<ctsiag hlssoWn INDUSTRIOUS
name 10 sanctioniis degradation, 1t Is hHe using
the feather from the eagles wing y, give iheh!
to the shaft that reaches him IN the zehi'h' ana
brings him to the earth.
Thepaper prepared to bring down Gen. Jack
sons fame from its height, opens win a solemn
formula, which seems designed to make The
imnressiun thai he had commissioned his adopt
ed namesake TO sign the death warrenl Tor his
memory after The body WAS laid in the grave
nT6e undersigned ; is adopted son, executor
and trusted friend Of Gen. Jackson, protests
most solemnly against this Inscriptions use OF
the private and confidential correspondence of his
fathers, and he appeals most confidently to me
public TO sustain him in this protest, he himself
was the repository of most of his fathers prl-
yate papers, and has never consented to the pub
LEGATION of any of them, because he believes THAI
no siich addition can be made with jus ice 10 the
memory of the deceased until the men who SER
we'd with him have passed fIom the stage OF ac-
lion..'' st
The protest insinuates what" the adopted sou
executor. and trusted friend Of Gen jackson? is
drawn out to prove, while he is made 10 depre-
cate it,. !" He neuer consented 10 the publication
of any Of has fathers pricate paper because HI
believes no such addition can be made 'onA Jus
tice to the memory of the deceased, uuhithe men
,uho serUed Nth him haze passed from The stag
of ectien." 5s
Does not This intimate that Gen jackson it
his private papers has said Of those who servet
with him that which canno, bear the light while
thcy live 10 repel It! And then this = adopted
son and trusted friend " is made TO say that hi,
father. F" in The fall freedom of Preside ease.
and in mann conversations" had said that he
had g the highest esteem and affection for Mr.,
Buchanan and spoke freely of 3" his eminent
services and moral WORTH" while his letters,
written with his own hand, and when he fe't the
hand Of death upon him, reafhrm after twenty
wear. of calm consideration, What he had pub r.
" pronounced 10 be HE deliberate conviction in
regard 10 Mr.. Buchanan s conduct in 1925. Aud
what he denounced to Mr.. Buchanan himself.
when he made the proposal, 10 b. . such means
of bargain and corruption he you'd see the eath
open and swallow both Nj. lay and his friend
and mvself With thetl rather than use. he ad
herea A., al The close uf life---snd yet :. the
adopted son and trusted friend is made to say
that he same sentiment as 10 MIR. Buchanan
conduct, expressed twenty years later by him in
letter 70 Major Lewis, is not ''hhe deliberate
eonuiesion of his mind ;, that when the Genera
wrote that Mr.. Bucnanan was capable of dcel
corruption" il. regard TO the Chief Magis'raci
of his country, he was in his Preside conversations
extrolling Mr.. Buchanans " moral north,
He is made arlfuliy 10 imply tina, the pubica
lion of len. Jackson confidential CORES pondenc
was breach Of trust, revealing this contradc
zion, when it wis only so upon ihs supposio
that the adopted sons oral account of the Grn
erals real estimate Of Mr.. Buchanans charrcle
is the only true one, and not the written state
ment under his own hand.
He is made to claim for himself the righI u
being what he calls " the Repository OF Ger
sackson's papers, when he knows tn In"
were bequeathed TO me and thai he wrote I" III
Immediately on the Generals death that it Wa
bis dying order to him as Executor I" de'ye
them over TO me, and that if he retains any {
them he violates that injunction, and is hnse
gully Of breach Of trust They make hlr
CHARGE it MS "an abuse Tint Mr.. Blair ha
made Of pripate documents, although the
we've exclusively of public interest and when tn
first publication Of them was made, il was nc
c,mpanied with this express pc mission:
..H any Of nv opinnions may be useful
sustain he great Republican cause, snd open III
e Al. .t..,- kx-k ,.Sa
hrinoino bact The administrator of our Govern
men1!,n the real readino and PRINCIPLES of III
Tons,;,,;,;ao 40 arn,.;nad and nrac,;sed Nv n
cages who founded h, j, is due from, ma to III
nennIe ths, INV on;nions if desired. should h
fnnwn IN ,bem
~, :. !. S;ocsrsrv vour friend
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