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IEiye in advance to Mr.. Bnchanans ealleag que the
irritation in respect teal te sasop s eyi
him against his traduoers The "a kes yet
another and more successful mode Of the
Hodum of impeachng tle memory Of great man, by
using his own instrious name to sanction Its degra-
dation 1t ID like using The feather from the eagles
wing to to the shaft that reaches him in the
| zenith, and brings him to the earth. b
The paper prepared to bring down Gen. Jackson's
fame from itS height opens with solemn formula,
which seems designed to make the impression that be
had commissioned his adopted namesake to sign the
death warrant for his memory after the body was laid
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This protest insinuates what the adopted son, exc
cutor and trusted friend Of General Jackson drawn
out to prove, while he is made to depreeafe vi
private papers, because lie beeyes addition
Who served with him have passed he stage Of action
Does not this intimate that General jackson in his
priyate papers has said Of those who served with him
that which cannot beai, the light while they live to
friend is made to say that his father in the full
freedom of tiTeside ease, and in many CONVERSE
tons had said that he had a the highest esteem and
affection for Mr.. Buchanan and spoke freely Of his
eminent services and moral worth, while his letters
written with his own hand and when he felt the hand
Of death upon him, re affirm after twenty years Of
calm consideration what he had publicly proved to
t|3be his deliberate conviction in regard TO Mr.. Bu-
chanan' conduct in 1925. And what he denounced
to Mr.. Buchanan himself, when he made the proposal,
to be .ssueh means of bargain and corruption he
4 would see the earth open and swallow both Mr.. Clay
and his friends, and myself with them, rather than
the adopted son and trusted friend made to say
4 that the same sentiment as to Mr.. Buchanans con-
duct, expressed twenty years later by him in letter
to MajorI ews, is not the deliberate conviction of
his mind that when the General wrote that Mr., Blu.
chanan was capable Of deep corruptionF in regard
to the chief magstracy Of his country, he was in his
| Preside conversations extolling Mr. Buchanans
| tmoral WORTH He is made artfully to imply that
the publication of General Jacksons confidential cor
respondence breach of trust revealing this
tradction when it was only SO upon the suppOsition
that the adopted sons oral account of the Generals
real estimate Of Mr. Buehanans character is the only
true one and not the written statement under his own
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He is made to claim for himself the right of being
what he calls Il the repository of General Jacksons
i papers, when he knows that they were bequeathed to
| me, and that he wrote to me Immediately on the
Generals death that it was his dying order to him, as
executor, to deliver them over to me- and that if he
retains any OF them he violates that injunction, and
4 is himself guilty Of a breach of trust. They make
him charge it as an abuse that Mr.. Blair had made
of private documents although they were exclu-
syey of public interest," and when the first publica-
4 ton Of them was made it was accompanied with this
u express permission EtS' y Sg5S M
any Of my opinions, may be useful to sustain the great
publican and open the Of the people 10 their best in.
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and pracsed by The sages it, from
the my opinions i should Be known ITO
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Sincerely yenr friend, ANDREW JACKSON.
II The publication Of what he wrote about the in
trigue which defeated his election in the House of
Representatives, Mr. Cotton, in his life of Clay shows,
was directly invited by him, in card to the Nashville
j Union, closing with these words:
General Hamilton Of else has letter from
@ a a " nst s, s 9 t. IN
hays ever written on this Or 9S6 fi5 SPeis
Although had not the least agency in producing
this evidence of Gen. Jacksons dissatisfaction with
4 Mr.. Bnehanandid not, indeed, know of the exist
eneeof the letterits publication, and the attempt
to dscredit it BY drawing up nsidous statements for
the signature OF adopted son, to prove that the
father had expressed opinions entirely incompatible
with his written declarations made at the same time,
calls on me to examine whether Gen. Jacksons writ
aYerment is not sustained by the history of the
transactions referred to- and whether the suggestions
put into the mouth of the adopted son. when tested
4 byit, can avail to weigh down the yeracty Of the
father, and to place Mr. Buchanan's above it. will
array recorded facts and train of undsputed cir
custances apart from Gen. Jacksons testimony,
which establish every assertion of his letter to Major
4 Lewis az Lei i}g & f59
\ feel more imperatiyely called to the discussion of
\ this subject because Mr. Cotton, in his Life of Clay,
published since Gen. Jacksons death, has given q
most unjust and distorted view of it, to tarnish the
Generals fame, founding his argument on the corrupt
proposal said to have been made by Mr. Buchanan to
MIR. Clay but which the latter at the earnest
treaty Of the former, kept profoundly secret while
i the General lived. From Mr.. Colton's own book, I
will collect succnct statement Of all the testimony
bearing on the essential points, which will show how
thoroughly Gen. jackson stands indicated regards
4 Mr. Clay, and how perfectly he is justified in the
opinion entertained of Mr. Buchanan, although kept
absolute ignorance of the remarkable overture OF
Mr.. Buchanan, proposing the Premiership to Mr.
Clay on the contingency of Gen. Jacksons election
Without ercumbering this paper with The arguments
Of any Of the parties to this controversy will give
the issues, as made between the principals and the
statements Of the individuals out of whose actions the
controversy grew. The testimony of these parties
I, as copied by Mr.. Cotton from the authentic docu
. ments put into the hands Of Mr.. Clay, amply vindi
! cate Gen. jackson.
I It is not my purpose to inculpate Mr.. Clay TIT
u grave has closed over him and Gen. Jackson ant
should close the contest between the rivals which the
Il chose to wage IN person. But the originator OF tn
fend who survives and uses the pliabe namesake
! one Of them to lend him the support Of his name
/ damage the reputation OF the man whom he Shout
yenerate as q father, can claim no such immunity
Ine political lntf1guef VINO approaches zen Jacks0
] in his own emphatic manner, rebuked at the instant
must now meet the Generals reiterated reprobatior
inscribed BY his own hand in his dying hour write
to- distant friend, not with reports and hearsay
from his iresde in which he is made to contradit
himself, but by an appeal to the recorded facts
which Gen. Jackson founded his opinions Here
the history of the events written out by the actors
I, them: s u s III. .g,,.
Carter Beverly, being visit to the Hermitage, with 9TH
virginans interogated Jackson the
obtain his promise Of the State Department. vot
O for himself as President. 5
i. Gen. Jackson then related the circumstances a
v tending Mr.. Buchanans application to him, repeatn
= the conversation between them. Mr.. Beverly, in
+ letter to friend in North Carolina Immediately
l. ported what Gen. jackson had said. This being di
5, puted Mr. Beverly appealed to Gen. jackson for
i. written statement. It is thus quoted in Cotton
h /" Life of Clay 5" 4
h z.s.s HERMITAGE, June 6. 1927.
I Early in January, 1895 member Congress of high
sectahity visited morning and observed that he had
70 communication he dearcus to make and that It W
right should he informed of it, that he friend;
let receive the communication might the friendly
tves through which it made he hoped would prevent
change of friendship feeling in regard to him To which
replied From his high standing, gentleman and meh
of Congress- and from his uniform friendly aud gentleman
y conduct toward myself could suppose he would make
), communication which he supposed improper; the
munieaon, my feelings towards him would remain nhltert
The gentleman proceeded He said he had been Informed
the friends of Mr. Clay that the friends of Mr. Adams had
H. overiures to them saying, II Mr. Clay and his friends Wot
le of State that the friends OF Nj Adams urging
to induce the friends of Mr. Clay accee their
ostion, that elected President Mr. Adams wonld
continued Secretary Of State nuendo there would hcno
uof Mr.