New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-09-20

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through which they hope 70 succeed In the North
4 than Janles Buchanan.
1t Is necessary to success that notorious aftste
in an Illicit pursuit should conceal his art. He must
put Oft, possible, the badge TINT marks him. That
Mr. Buchanan should enaeavor to oblterate the signal
Impression which his experiment on General jackson
left is pardonable, and would not have provoked COM
ment from me had mot been accompanied by an at
tempt TO disparage General Jacksons character and
that, too, by unnatural hands. The adopted son and
witness is brought forward prove that his fathers
freside opinion was in direct contradiction to that
publicly expressed bnt he is made toaccount for this
moral obquity by detracting from the vigor Of his
mind. u is pretended TINT 's1lonentary Irritation
could influence him to write down what lie knew
must stand as bis deliberate judgment Of Mr. Buchan-
ans charaeter--beng pronounced when he was sensl-
BILE the grave would close him and call him
to answer for its conscientiousness.
To impress the public with the belief that General
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
When General jackson returned home the Of
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house witl Visitors iiom dasent PORTIONS
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in the South to raise cotton. Under ill Went south
Anna mad" 1t p " anS IF pas hHd
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lis estate saddisa viii fao9 Rsay y
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4. None knew better than the advisers of the indi-
ydual who puts his name to this paper that General
Jackson was most exact and punctnal business man
tr,yynl
one that he had not prepared the means pay-none
know better than they that the embarrassment and
ruin OF the estate left the adopted was the work
Of the latter exclusively. To defend General jackson
from the imputed incapacity-he want of care in his
expenditures, and the want of crcumspection as to
making obligations, and judgment and energy in
providing and applying the means to discharge them
am compelled to give details of q transaction to
which Mr. Rives and myself were parties and to
which Mr. Jackson refers. A simple statement will
show how unjustly General Jackson;s memory is as.
sailed IN The paragraph quoted 1t is but the repeti-
ton of the nsidious rumors spread by the newspapers
lnlmical to him q few years after his return to the
| Hermitage.
They suggested that he had inextricably involved
himself IN debt, and that like another chief of the
Democracy (Mr. Jefterson) he would probably apply
for 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 slspecting 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, wrote to him that had money which he
could command. This was his reply to my Offer the
tilst part OF the letter being on other subjects:
Now, h NY dear H. Ff Sip + 49, nm
truly happy 10 find that pecniary matters prosper
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property and that am not entirely free from hem that
o g is V Pa
rate tract Mississippi river Of $50 acres and on
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combination Of sharptrs swinlersan anpricpsd combina
drawn into them Nnl imposed upon
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to more than At first By excrion
dHsve State and will few pay abiles p''
But the the instruments on the place we
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become due before another Now dear Mr. Blair it
cent sks much Win pressing de-
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s wise %sf#nI e
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Of time could loan IT, receiving the interest first year
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On he Ills rse g S4 Sa eah ss
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generously literally and friendship Which
t. my ado o as e9i ii R. it. sha secured
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dho 9an YIN sna BIZ, me met. 70 meet al Anew sbs
low price of cottonpace ease secure to him
and his dear little ones and dn sTng an wife q. ample
six PER s s indulgence so9
"' @' ' Yoar and HNbE% " JACKSON
Mr. Rives united with me that the loan might not
bear on one alone, and that to carry out the design
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 10000 would be
sufficient, but some time after it was discovered that
his first schedule OF debts disclosed little than
half Of them, and that the provision which he had
made for paying for the plantation for Andrew was
absorbed in meeting his old obligations. Eight thou
sand dollars then advanced and the proceeds of
the Mississippi plantation, well supplied with hands,
get apart or the gradual extinction of the loan
1t was most ample provision but it was not under
the Generals eye, and it was entrusted to Andrew
and the overseer. Everything was q failure and
the General then ordered the plantation to be sold
and his hands brought back. 1t was sold for a sum
which would have extnguished all the Generals OBJ
legations, including the loan but his death having left
the disposal of the means with Andrew, instead of
employing them as directed, and he promised Mr..
Rives he would when he obtained release Of the
mortgage to dispose of the plantation, he diverted
them to the purchase of an iron works in which he
sunk both the Mississippi plantation and created new
debts exceeding fifty thousand dollars. He then
wrote to me that Mr.. Washington from whom he
had borrowed a very large sum- secured by deed of
trust on the Hermitage and the negroes (seeond to
that held by Mr. Ryes and myself) was pressing for
the sale of the property and requested to write a
letter TO prevail with the Legislature of Tennessee to
purchase so much OF the estate would lbelate him
from debt. addressed such letter to him, putting
my interest in it, and that of Mr.. Riyes, entirely at
Nod re
addressed to the Hon. Cave Johnson for the purpose
of being put into the hands of the members Of the
Legislature. Mr.. Johnson replied
/ NASHVILLE, Nov. G. 1856.
Dear Sir1 received letter days and de
laye reply, hoping to be able You precise nfor
nation i'll relation to here %# NM had united
with earnestly before received your letter
ing to enlist members Of the Legislature in the +"
delighted with letter. Ihavc placed the hands
of Col Nixon devoted friend of Con Jackson personally
politically and representative from county Lawrence
Col Travis representative from Henry into pro
jcct with all his SOUL but confess have but little hope
am, sincerely and truly, your friend,
GAVE JOHNSON.
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