Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1871-04-21
Oa'L Letter from General Jackson.


The following private letter from Gen.
jackson, while he was President, to Rev,
Andrew J. Crawford, was furnished to
paper publishedin Lynpi Mas, by gem
tleman Of that city, WHO sasssit has mol
before been printed:
WASHINGTON, May l, 1888.
4 MYfDEAR SIR. IL have Just received
your letter of the 9th ultimo, and have
only time in>reply tosay that Gen. Coffee
well understood Mr.. Shackleford, and
urged your nomination in his stead. I had
nominated you, but on the serious impor-
tunity of Col. King, your Senator, with
Gen. Coffee, the change was adopted, and
you dominated for thesoffice you now fill.
Before the receipt of yours, Gen. Coffee
had written me, and requested that I
would appoint you to the office vacated by
Mr.. Shackleford. If we had a, Senate, in
whose principles weicOuld rely, this would
have been done, but l did not believe it
would be prudent tosbring your name be-
fore the Senate again, and am happy you
are content where you are, .asrsp al
The enate cannot remove you, and i
am sure your faithfulness and honesty will
never permit you to do an act that will
give good cause for removal, and if Moor
and Poindexter discovered that you sUere
related to me, that would be sufficient cause
that let well enough alone, although /
know it would be convenience to you to
be located where you are; still rejection
by the Senate might prove a greater in
convenience, and for the reasons assigned
it was not done.
| have had a laborious task here, but
notification is dead pand its actors and
courtiers will only be remembered by the
people, to be. execreated fol, their wicked
designs to sever and destroy the only good
government on the globe, and that pros
perity and happiness we enjoy over every
other portion of the world. 4
Hdn1dg' s gqylosos ought to bethe fate Of
all such ambitious men who would involve
their country in civil wars, and all the
evils in its train, that they might reign
and ride on its sOhirt,Cinds and direct the
storm. 50 sssEsxREs3 HessBxffsIf8s
The free people of these United States
have spoken, and consigned these wicked
to their proper doom. Take
care of your nullifiers, you have. them
among you let them meet with the In
ffowiisi Of every snian who loves
his country.
The tariff, it is, now Ewell known, was a
mere pretext; its burden was on your
coarse woolens. BY the law of July, 1882,
coarse woolen was reduced to five per cent.
for the benefit of the South.
Mr.. Glay'ssbill takes itup and classes it
with woolens at fifty per cent. +; reduces 1T
gradually down tosstwenty per cent, and
tnere it is to remain; and Mr.. Calhoun and
al the nulliiers agree to. the principle
Inc cash duties and home valuation Will
9e te equal to fifteen per cent. more, and after
th the year 1912 you pay on, coarse woolens
tnlrty-hve per cent IF this is not protec-
tnriep .om 4 cannot understand. Therefore the
and Southern Confederacy the real object
Inc next pretext will be the negro or
slavery question.
sIy nealth y nos good, a9itgi simRro1ihg
aalitue present me Kindly to- your 1ady
and family, and-believe me to be your
fqepaC i Fwll alYaysr he4 happg to hear