New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-09-04

in an illicit pursuit. should conceal his art He must
put off if possible, the badge that maj Ky
Mr. Buchanan should enleavor 70 obliterate the slgna
impression which his experiment on General JACKSON
left, is pardonable, and would not have provoked COM
ment from me had itnot been accompanied by on Nv,
tempt to disparage General shaIaeter, ana
that, too, unnatural hands. The adopted son ana
witness ID brought forward to prove that his fathers
ireside opinion was in direct contradiction to thot
publicly expressed bnt he is made to account for this
moral obquity by detraGting from the vigor OF his
mind. It Is pretended that 3 momentary irritation
could influence him to write down what he knew
must stand his deliberate Judgment Of Mr. Buchan
ans Character being pronounced when he was sensi
bethe grave would soon close over him and call him
| to answer for its conscientiousness.s e q
70 impress the public with the belief that General
Jacksons understanding was impaired and thus indi.
recty weaken the force Of his opinion, the adopted
son, by way Of excusing himself for wasting the
estate left him, is induced to say a
When General Jackson home the end Of his Pres
denc had not much hundred dollars left Of his sa
to the public LEFT Him but little The profits his were
s not hssSssa fass s 5 ss'pe
Of the The proceeds Of his estate here could not and
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nm s the pnrsase e place that
TO hun and small tract adional at the
from NE bank and navids1s to the amount Of
iaSy S Ill drawing interest ere mus parcqar
order db'se the pnb mind Of the charge nude " m
had incurred the heavy debt that had upon the Hermitage
property 137 ri
I None knew better than the advisers of the indi-
vidual who puts his to this paper that General
jackson was most exact and pnnctual business man
that he abhored debt-never involved himself in
one that he had not prepared the means to pay-none
1yuor hiatt fhont nboi,rn
ruin of the estate left the adopted son was the work
of the latter exclusively To defend General jackson
from the imputed ncapacty-the want of care in his
expenditures, and the want of circumspection MS to
making obligations, and Judgment and energy in
providing and applying the means to discharge them,
| am compelled to give details of transaction to
| which Mr.. Rves and myself were parties, and to
which Mr.. Jackson refers. A simple statement will
show how unjustly General Jacksons memory is as
sailed in The paragraph quoted 1t is but the repeti-
ton of the nsidous rumors spread by the newspapers
nimical to him few years after his return to the
4 Hermitage. aIl
| They suggested that he had nextricably involved
himself in debt and that like another chief of the
Democracy (Mr. Jeferson) he would probably apply
Tor law to enable him to get his estate disposed Of
by lottery to pay his debts Seeing these attempts to
mortify and harrass him, and suspecting that his,
adopted son. who had been creating debts without his
knowledge before he left Washington, might have
contracted engagements that the General desired to
discharge, 1wrote to him that had money which he
could command. This was his replyt to my offer, the
first part Of the letter being on other subjects:
| HEnNlTAeE; Feb s, 49,
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You That have felt peeuninry have
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So T %a be haS IT, ss s15 s
in y % he spp lsat s1 w ss
he two Plantations we own about one hundred and
o aged e Sn Ss not nd G na III
ton they were-p and harr'ss Andrew, who had been
without t Stepping forward srp men,
ii s ys e fe
from AL these debts md there only remains due The s,amen
dnetivs state viii Years pay ali liabilities
were obliged those swnling debts brought
5seoe s b sS n G5 crop "n No e Mr. %
you have the lend will interest of six per
sands ha may present themselves But my dsar sir Unless
s s SsT @ make
csye i'll nave injured friend in peennia matters or
wish YOU with candor Of friend to say 10 whether
m ys y ts con o 10 ec sS Hf S s
and then the principal and interest by instruments The loan,
would freely give CENT Interest loan for three
Of friend unless upon just terms to him as
M D HHn"rAef ai rs9s4 ~ ~ a Ions Is2
have generously libeny and friendship which
will cherish in bosom long life l9ss and beqeat It
IL ~ a sa and The sbs' ef
pinePai interest should i've You will i
with that punctuay that have always met borrowed money:
he he a 'a crops q viii meet his loan with surety
lis dear little and charming wife ample fortune
no t gsF cS S9 for Or here e dS.nsS
md this shows .e friendship and iocral!!y IF
Your friend, ANDREW JACKSON.
Mr.. Rives united with me that the loan might not
no,, f}rnftY fbnl cirrr
that the debt should never be burden to Gen. Jack
son. We authorized him to draw for the sum he
wanted. From the account which Andrew first gave
Of his commitments, he supposed $4,000 would be
sufficient, but time after it discovered thai
his first schedule of debts disclosed little thar
half of them and that the provision which he hat
made for paying for the plantation for Andrew wa
absorbed in meeting his old obligations. Eight thou
sand dollars were then advanced and the proceeds o
the Mississippi plantation, well supplied with hands
were set apart for the gradual extinction of the loan
1t was most ample provision, but it was not unde
the Generals eye, and it was entrusted to AndreV
and the oyerseer. Everything failure, ant
the General then ordered the plantation to be sol'
and his hands brought back. 1t was sold for sun
which would have extinguished all the Generals oh
legations including the loan, but his death having ef
the disposal of the means with Andrew, instead Q
employing them as directed and as he promised MI
r Rives he would when he obtained release of tn
mortgage, to dispose of the plantation, he diverte
: them to the purchase of an iron works. in which h
sunk both the Mississippi plantation and created
J debts exceeding fifty Thousand dollars. He the
!. wrote to ME that Mr.. Washington, from whom b
had borrowed very large sum, secured by deed c
a trust on the Hermitage and the negroes, (second
that held by Mr.. Rives and myset) pressing fo
the sale Of the property, and requested me to write
letter to prevail with the Legislature of Tennessee
purchase so much of the estate would berate hill
from debt. addressed such letter to him, putin
. my interest in it, and that of Mr.. Riyes, entirely
r. the disposal of the Legislature, and wrote anothe
E addressed to the Hon. Cave Johnson for the purpos
OF being put into the hands of the members of til
l. Legislature. Mr.. Johnson replied
% NASHVILLE, Nov. G, 1856.
v Sir received your letter days and
J. laycd reply hoping be able give precise info
nation i'll relation to movements here >" ~ had unite
with earnestly, before received letter. in tr
~ enlist members Of the Legislature in the =" n
ID Of Col Nixon devoted friend Of Gen Jncson personally
politically and representative from the county OF nwrenc
Col Travis representative from Henry enters into
IL with all his soul but must confess have but little hope
L. Success, *h4,
as am, sincerely and truly your friend
20 GAVE JOHNSON.
N N 1t did succeed however. The Legislature yott
~ $50 600 for five hundred acres, to include the Ton
w and Hermitage. On this Mr.. jackson sent Inc
ia schedule Of his debts, showing that including Il
10 loan to Blair and Rves, they amounted to $3.50
and after summing up his MEANS after the sale OF Il
a. remainder OF the estate, he adds:
of Thus you perceive shall scarcely get Of debt wit
md friend Mr. Rives will consent to only receive
e principal of debt present. and let me work out the
nd in II