to take copies of them for party purposes,with-which has been attached to it by the Official out the knowledge or consent of the Secreta- Organ, and the singular facts which have been ry ?The publisher of the recommendation, disclosed, lead to developments and conclusigned "George Poindexter, William R. King," sions of no ordinary interest. It may be askalleges that the endorsement thereon is in the ed, and for one, I should be glad to see the proper handwriting of Mr. Poindexter; and it answer, are the Departments of the Government, follows, of course, that he must have had pos-hitherto held acred, now thrown open to subsession of the original. I do not hesitate to deserve the purposes of the partisan editors of clare my own conviction, that this privileged public journals, and their correspondents in person was no other than the famous, or rather in this city? Who can doubt that such is the infamous, Amos Kendall. The fact is too well fact, after the perusal of the letters herewith known to be denied, that this individual, here- submitted? The Secretary of the Navy, under tofore notorious as a partisan editor, and for his his own signature, denies that copies of the bitter hostility to Gen. Jackson, and whose papers taken from his office, and forwarded to treason to his benefactor was rewarded by his the editor of a party newspaper in Mississippi, appointment to the office of Fourth Auditor at were given by his sanction or furnished by any the commencement of the present Administra- clerk in his Department; is it not then clear, tion, holds a paramount place in the confidence that some unauthorized person had possession of the President; and it is undeniable, that no of these papers, and took the copies which had head of any Department dare to refuse him co- been thus forwarded? There does not seem to pies of the records and papers in their offices, be a reasonable doubt on this subject, and can whenever he may deem the contents of them it, or will it be denied that Amos Kendall is the useful, either to prop the administration or confidential agent of the Executive, on whom denounce its opponents. Enjoying, as he does, is conferred the prerogative of searching the a salary-office, held at the will of the Presi- public archives for any paper which he may sident, he is the co-editor of the Globe, and judge it expedient to circulate through the va corresponds with the affiliated presses in every rious presses in the Union, regardless of the quarter of the Union. His adjuncts and con- sanctity which ought to protect them from eve. temporaries in this crusade against the charac [ry eye, save only the officers to whom they are ter, public and private, of every honorable confided by law? man, whose downfall is desired by the party in The object of the Globe is to shield the power, are numerous; and I feel fully justified President from merited censure for his nomiin saying, that there is not, in the ranks of nation of Hays and Gwyn, citizens of Tenuesthese underworkers, a single man whose previ see, to fill offices located within Mississippi, ous character and conduct would entitle him to which were rejected at the instance of Mr. Poincredence, as to any fact which it might be his dexter; and for this purpose it is alleged that interest to misrepresent. There is indeed one the midshipman recommended by him was not individual near the President, whose high and of that State, and that he was appointed over chivalric honor might redeem the errors and the head of a son of the late Senator Adams, follies into which his friend and patron is led who had been recommended by his colleague, by bad councils; but, if I am not misinformed, Judge Ellis. The subterfuge is worthy of the he is not listened to. I have been thus expli- wretched cause which it is intended to sustain. cit, to avoid all misapprehension in reference 'Tis false, as will appear on the face of the to the source of this muddy stream, which communication, that Mr. Poindexter placed the inundates the country, and generates an impure name of William May over the head of any apatmosphere, destructive to the health of the plicant from Mississippi. 'Tis false, that the body politic, and which, by its pestilential in name of a son of the late Senator Adams was, fluence, ruptures the ties and relations of social at that time, or is now, on the list of persons re. intercourse. To raise the curtain and expose commended for a midshipman's warrant; and to view the dramatis personce, who perform the this fact must have been well known to Amos various parts in this drama of political intrigue Kendall, when he wrote the article in the and management, would be sufficient to excite Globe, which his christian brother of the Richfeelings of honest indignation in the bosom of mond Enquirer has had the goodness to copy every highminded and intelligent spectator for the benefit of his readers. The youth of who might look on the disgusting scene. Will Mississippi are generally educated for profesa virtuous and enlightened people close their sional or agricultural pursuits; and it rarely eyes against truths which demonstrate the happens that their parents or guardians wish downward course of the Government, and them to enter the navy; but when an instance blindly worship an idol who sits like an incu- has occurred of such an application, no difficulbus in the Executive chair, and, under the ex-ty has ever been experienced in obtaining the citement of passions and prejudices not to be warrant. There was none such at the time ontrolled, tolerates the servile miscreants, who! William May was appointed; and if there had use his popular name to deceive them and over-been, it was expressly excepted in the endorseturn the proud edifice of liberty, erected by ment made by Mr. Poindexter, on the letter the wisdom of their ancestors! I hope not. of recommendation. Numerous midshipmen The occasion which has given rise to these have entered the navy at the instance of Senareflections, might well be deemed too insigni- tors and Representatives from the western ficant to draw them forth; but the importance States, where such appointments are seldom desired, selected from other portions of the be used in my place in the Senate, which were Union, and placed to the account of those refused without the ceremony of a previous call States. One of these was but a short time from that body for such papers, you will readipast appointed, on the recommendation of the ly perceive how much I ought to have been asentire representation from Alabama; and, in- tonished to find similar recommendations to deed, the practice is so common, that it was those which had been refused me, published in never before brought to the notice of the pub a distant party newspaper. lic. A midshipman performs no duties which I trust, Sir, under these circumstances, you are located within Mississippi; and if the friends will recognise my right to ask of you, whether of the President imagine that this poor attemp a copy of a recommendation for a midshipman's to fulminate abuse against a Senator, who has warrant to William May, son of Dr. Frederick fearlessly vindicated the rights of his constitu- May, dated Senate Chamber, March 3d, 1831, ents, will justify or extenuate his total neglect addressed to the " Hon. John Branch, Secreta of the people of that State, whose claims to of-ry of the Navy," and signed "George Poin fice have been postponed to subserve the in- dexter, William R. King," on which there is terests of a drunken nephew, and other partisans an endorsement under my own signature; and in Tennessee, they deceive themselves. also, a letter on the subject of an application of The journals of the Senate will show that the like nature from Mississippi, dated "Washthese nominations have been rejected_by_the ington City, December 7th, 1831," signed votes of those Senators who are most uniform "Powhattan Ellis," were furnished by the Na. in their support of the administration. On ano vy Department by your order, or by any subor. ther occasion, these votes will be published to dinate officer of the Department, and if so, to verify the truth of this statement. But it seems whom? In making this application, I am actuthat Executive denunciation is reserved for ated solely by a desire to learn whether the him only, who was bound, by every sense of rale, which has been observed towards me, and duty, to interpose his negative to such appoint- other Senators whom I might name, in relation to copies of letters recommending individuals ments. The mystery which veils these foul transac- to office, is to be considered general, or special, tions, will, at no distant day, be removed; and whether a privilege, accorded to others, wher, the rays of truth will dissipate the cloud can be limited at the will of any Department of which conceals from observation the dark the Government, so as to promote individual deeds of a band of reckless conspirators. The views and party interests? I take this occasion reader cannot fail to perceive, by a candid pe- to assure you, that, as at present advised, I rusal of this communication, much for serious wholly discard the belief, that these copies have reflection, demonstrating the corruptions which been given with your knowledge, or by your pervade the several Departments of the Go-order, entertaining as I do, and ever have done, vernment. This small matter, raised into im- for you, the highest respect, both personally portance by the political managers who sur- and politically. round the President, may furnish a clue to the operations which are in progress to retain power in the hands of those who now abuse it, by the pros itution of the press, and the wanton To the Hon. LEVI WOODBURY, violation of that confidence, which, under all former administrations, has been reposed in the I have the honor to be, With great respect, your obt. servant, Secretary of the Navy. entire correspondence with the Secretaries who Letter from the Secretary of the Navy to Mr. are placed over the several Departments. Viewing, with the deepest emotions of re gret, the present degraded state of our public tion. Poindexter. NAVY DEPARTMENT, 12th April, 1832. SIR: Yours, of the 11th instant, was received affairs, I am ready to exclaim, in the language this morning. of a celebrated political writer, applied to the I have not seen the publications to which you court of a British Monarch, that honor and allude; but in reply to your inquiries, have the honesty are no longer tickets of admission" to honor to state, that I do not recollect ever havthe halls of the Chief Magistrate of the na-ing directed copies to be made of any of your FIAT JUSTITIA. recommendations for any person, or of ever beCopy of a letter from Mr. Poindexter to the Seing requested to furnish any; nor do I know that such have been furnished by any clerk in cretary of the Navy. this Department. In connexion with this anWASHINGTON CITY, April 11th, 1832. swer, however, and as bearing on some geneSin. I have seen with some surprise, copies ral remarks in your letter, it may be observed, of recommendations to which my name is ap- that whatever is the present practice in the pended, addressed to your predecessor, in fa- other Departments, or may have been the forvor of certain applicants for appointments in mer practice in this Department, I have never the navy, published in a paper, edited by an of- felt justified, when applied to, in refusing perficer of this Government, at Clinton, Mississip- mission to any person to take copies of any pa pi. I can have no possible objection to the pers whatever on the public files of this office, publication of these recommendations, but hav-provided they contained nothing in its characing made frequent applications myself at the ter confidential or improper to be communiDepartment, for copies of recommendations to cated. The certificate requested from the Register-sure of public policy? No, there is no difing Clerk is enclosed. Reciprocating your friendly assurances, I remain, Sir, respectfully yours, Hon. GEORGE POINDEXTER, Of the Senate. Certificate from L. B. Hardin. ference, not even the shadow of a difference, between the principles entertained by him now, and those expressed by him in his address to the legislature when he was a candidate' for the Senate. His principles are the same-they remain unchanged. Why then is he hunted down by a venal press and a pack of greedy office expectants? He has interposed a barrier to the personal promotion of a few goNAVY DEPARTMENT, April 16th, 1832. vernment pets, men who love offices more SIR: Agreeably to the request contained in than they love their country. He has refused your letter of the 14th instant, received this to barter the local offices of the State for the He has arrested the impormorning, I have the honor to enclose to you, smiles of power. with the approbation of the Secretary of the tation of foreigners to fill those offices, the ob. Navy, a copy of the letter from the Hon. P. El-trusion of whom upon the State must be relis, of the 7th December last, which is the only garded as an insult to its dignity and a stigma document that appears on file in the Depart-upon its character. This is Mr. Poindexter's ment in favor of a young Mr. Adams, of Missis- crime, this is the head and front of his offendsippi, for a midshipman's warrant. Very respectfully, Your obedient servant, L. B. HARDIN, Hon. GEORGE POINDEXTER, Of the Senate. ing. Poindexter is to be put down to promote the selfish purposes of the magician, Van Buren. He is to be put down that the other office hunters of other States may fatten upon our Indian agencies, upon our land offices, and our post office, to the exclusion of our own worthy and intelligent citizens. But we are told that Mr. Poindexter has violated his pledges. What pledges? Did he WASHINGTON CITY, Dec. 7, 1831. pledge himself to render a blind homage to SIR: The enclosed letter from Messrs. Wil- the Executive will? Did he pledge. himself to kins & Walker, of Natchez, in favor of a young surrender his reason, his talents, his patriotism, man applying for a midshipman's warrant, I beg and the honor, the dignity, and the offices of leave to submit for your consideration. I would the State, to the keeping of selfish politicians, most cheerfully join those highly respectable gentlemen in their recommendation of Mr. Alexander, if I had not previously promised to apply for a warrant for the son of the late Mr. Adams, of the Senate. P. ELLIS. I have the honor to be, yours, Hon. LEVI WOODBURY. L. B. HARDIN, FROM THE VICKSBURG ADVOCATE. who arrogate to themselves the right of dictating to the party who have the Government in their hands? If such had been his pledges, the State would have spurned his proffered services with unmingled scorn. But these were not his pledges. His address to the Legislature contained a full avowal and a candid exposition of his principles respecting great measures of public policy. These pledges, pledges of principle, he has faithfully redeemed. But in that address not a word was said of his adhesion to, or partialities for men. His previous well known opinions were, it is true, an implied pledge on his part, to support the administration in all things right-in all things consistent with the honor and in erests of his constituents and his country. And has he not redeemed this pledge too? We defy the most virulent of his calumniators to designate a violation. What if he did vote for the rejection' Will not the people reject Van Buren for the Vice Presidency? His conduct respecting the It seems from the movements at Washington importation of foreigners to fill our offices, has and in this State, that Mr. Poindexter is to be received the public approbation. Of what else abandoned and denounced. He is to be driv is he accused? Nothing. Will the people of en in disgrace from the ranks of the party the State, then, the patriotic, intelligent, rewhose cause he has hitherto espoused with so publican people of Mississippi consent to much zeal, ability, and success-and for what' have their Senator denounced and hunted We repeat the inquiry, we put it to candid down, to elevate Van Buren, "a pitiful, inmen of all parties-to an intelligent and re-triguer, a selfish calculator of chances," to the publican people, for what is Mr. Poindexter to Vice Presidency and then to the Presidency, be denounced? Has he neglected the interests and to have the Federal offices of the State of the State? No, he has been their vigilant pounced upon by vultures from other States, guardian. Has he been a perfidious represen- who make loud professions of patriotism, but tative in regard to any great and leading mea-who only love their country for its offices? We commend the letter from Mr. Poindex ter, which we copy from the Mississippi Patriot, to the serious and dispassionate consideration of the public. It is a plain unvarnished tale, bespeaking the sentiments and feelings of our distinguished Senator, without equivocation or disguise. FROM THE MISSISSIPPI PATRIOT. conversation with a gentleman high in his con Extract of a letter to the Editor of the Mississip-fidence, and whose views I believed to be hon pi Patriot, dated and his language became so extremely intemperate and undignified, that it excited disgust and mortification among his best friends, who were compelled to listen to his coarse vituperation. est, who, at my request, communicated the substance of that conversation to the President. WASHINGTON CITY, Feb. 25, 1832. But these efforts, on my part, to avoid the conDear Sir-1have received information through troversy, which had for a long time been broodvarious respectable channels, that letters have ing in his mind, were wholly unavailing. His been written from this city to Mississippi, pur- hostile feelings towards me were strongly indi porting to have the sanction of Gen. Jackson, cated, whenever my name was mentioned in his which placed me before my constituents in the presence, and his repeated expressions were attitude of an open enemy to kis administration. calculated to call forth corresponding feelings These communications emanate from individu- in my mind towards him. But I extended to als near the person of the President, and I shall, his frailties, in this respect, every indulgence therefore, consider them as his own. The fact which his age and past services entitled him to is distinctly known, not only in the State which receive at my hands. Matters remained in this I represent, but to the whole American people, situation until the Senate acted on the nominathat for a number of years preceding my ap- tion of Mr. Gwyn, who had been taken from pointment to the Sena e, I Ead taken a deep the Post Office Department here, without any interest in defending the character and promo- recommendation whatever, and sent him to Misting the elevation of Gen. Jackson to the high sissippi to fill the office for which he was nomi. trust which he now enjoys. If, since that penated. The rejection of this man closed all inriod, my relations to this distinguished indivi- tercourse between myself and Gen. Jackson, dual have been changed, it must be ascribed to causes over which I had no control, and for which I cannot be held responsible. To disa buse the public mind, and to enable my fellow citizens properly to appreciate my conduct, as This act of mine, which is universally ap a Senator in Congress, and to judge fairly of the proved here by men of all parties, constitutes course pursued by Gen. Jackson, towards both the head and front of my offending; and I `me and them, I submit to you for publication, should regret to believe that there dwells within your newspaper, a candid summary of the in the State which has honored me with its events, which have led to an alienation of his confidence, one man acquainted with the subformer professed friend hip for me, and which ject, who would so far degrade himself, as to he now seeks to turn to my prejudice among submit to, or approve of, the indignity so often the people of Mississippi. I need not detail to repeated by the Chief Magistrate, by a total you, because it is already known, the circum-disregard of the rights of its citizens, and of stances under which he attempted, from time the practice uniformly observed towards every to time, to encroach on the acknowledged rights of Mississippi, in common with all the other States of the Union, to fill with her own citizens, offices under the General Government, located within her limits. My course was a plain one; I resisted, as I was bound by the high obligation of duty, these attempts to de. grade my constituents, and place the State on a footing with a Territorial Government, on the subject of appointments. other State of the Union. It will be seen by reference to the vote taken on this nomination by ayes and noes, that one half of the Senators who voted against the nominee, are ranked among the most decided supporters of General Jackson. Why are they not denounced for contumacy? These honorable men could have no motive to interpose any objection to nominations made by the President, unless there ex. isted the best reasons for doing so. They have I commenced my opposition in the mildest by their votes sustained and illustrated the pu forin practicable, and for some time indulged rity of my conduct on the occasion; for had I the hope that the President would see his error, given just cause of offence by my opposition and retrace his steps. But the hope was vain to this nomination, they are liable in an equal and illusory, for it is evident that from the mo-degree, for the high crime of having presumed ment I refused to lend myself to his purposes, to differ with the President on the subject of he entertained the most bitter feelings against distributing throughout the Union the patronme, and formed the determination to denounce age of the Federal Government. My actions me at a convenient time, as he had done some as a Senator in Congress, are dictated by no of his most distinguished friends, for causes factious considerations; they rest on the firm which only existed in his imagination. Antici- basis of principle, and I am at all times prepared pating that some difficulties might arise, of an to justify them against the assaults of power, unpleasant character to me, during the present and the bickerings of disappointed aspirants to session, and wishing to soothe the acerbity of office. No man knows better than General temper which is so prominent a trait in the cha Jackson, that on all great questions involving racter of General Jackson, I waited on him im the interests of the nation, he has received from mediately after my arrival in this city in No-me a candid and liberal support. But this was vember last,and endeavored by my deportment not enough, without yielding my own judgment to conciliate him, and to reconcile him to the and affording my aid to advance the views of course which I found it my indispensable duty certain favorites, who endeavor to wield his to pursue. With the same object, I held a power and influence to subserve their own un holy purposes. More importance seems to be attached to individual interests, than to great measures, connected with the highest destinies of the American people. A constituent of mine, a highly respectable gentleman, in conversation with the President the other day, asked him, as a matter of favor, to state his objections to my course in Congress, He instantly adverted to those nominations and my opposition to them, and applied to me the most approbious epithets. But, said the gen tleman, as one of the constituents of Governor Poindexter, I wish you to mention any vote, which he has given against your administration, of which you have a just right to complain: did he not support you at the last session of Congress, when, without that support, your measures would have failed? Sir, said the President, I believe he voted with my friends on all important, questions:-the Journals will show: "Tell Mr. Poindexter that I thank him for his `support, and for his generous defence of me on the Seminole war." Notwithstanding these declarations, which were forced from him by a knowledge that the facts were undeniable, he permits himself to use language indecorous and unbecoming any man who respects his honor, whenever he speaks of me. He cannot drive me from my principles, which were formed on great consideration and reflection, without reference to party or personal attachments, and which I shall endeavor, honestly and firmly, to adhere to through life, whatever may be the circumstances in which I am placed, or the responsibility which I may incur. opinions of the present state of things, and I I am, Sir, with great respect, Your friend and fellow-citizen, GEORGE POINDEXTER. FROM THE COLUMBIA TELESCOPE. Our readers will find some strong remarks of language now frequently used in the northern our correspondent "Onward," in regard to the States on the subject of disunion. For ourselves, we consider this question as altogether premature and useless. We are about to apply Constitution all that it was intended to be by its a remedy, which, we believe, will make the wise founders, and render the Union still more strong. We are about to NULLIFY, and we doubt not the full success of the operation. Disunion will never be thought of by the State other means of avoiding slavery and ruin. Rights and Nullification Party, until we have no bringing this question forward. See a few ex-" Our northern brethren, however, insist on tracts from northern papers. FROM THE NATIONAL GAZETTE. FROM THE VILLAGE RECORD. It is evident that Gen. Jackson is fast declining, both in his body and mind, and I am persuaded that his own fame, if not the good of the country, ought to admonish him to retire at the end of his presont term of service. This course, I am inclined to believe, he would have adopted, but for his known solicitude to intro "Could not the middle, and eastern, and duce Martin Van Buren into the Presidential western, and southwestern States, subsist withchair, as his successor to this end all his ef out South Carolina? Does she form, or embrace forts, for some time past, have been directed, "the last hope of civilized man?" or has she and he now suffers his name to be placed be- power over human destinies? Can she destroy fore the American people for re-election, under the strength and prosperity of such commonthe belief, that before the expiration of ano-wealths as those of New England, as New York, ther term, the public mind can be prepared to Pennsylvania, or Ohio?” sanction the pretentions of this New York in. triguer to the first office in the gift of the people. Strong exertions will be made to place him on the Jackson Ticket as Vice Presidentcalculating on the known popularity of Gen. Jackson to sustain him, and in the event of his success, on his becoming President by some casualty which may create a vacancy in that of fice, and devolve the trust on the Vice Presi dent, under the constitutional provisions on that subject. This is the plan; and it remains to to be seen whether the people of the south will fasten this curse on themselves, to gratify the whim of a man whom they have heretofore de lighted to honor, but whose mind is enfeebled by age and debility, and who lends himself to a combination of the most corrupt and unprincipled men, who have ever aspired to control the destinies of the nation. These are my candid cle from the Charleston S. C. Nullifying Mercu House. When it does come, every possible ef"The tariff has not yet been fairly before the fort will be made; every nerve essayed by the south to procure such a modification, or rather such a total repeal as would bring destruction upon the western, middle, and northern States. WE, therefore, cannot, WILL NOT yield our asthey call for the exercise of great discretion, call sent to such a suicidal policy. The times, whilst equally loud for decision and firmness of purpose, in sustaining the settled POLICY of the Government, even at the hazard of the AWFUL alternative with which we are menaced.” FROM THE BALTIMORE PATRIOT. "EXPLOSION OF A POPGUN! "We copy the following most frightful arti |