the transaction, and, without submitting to him came into power, that General Jackson may my statement of our conversation for correction; gratify the passion of his old age; that, led by if it was in any respect erroneous; I obtained for the vile dependants who surround him, and shut that purpose, and enclosed to him a copy of my out the influence of honorable men, he may letter to Major Hamilton. His answer is before appoint Martin Van Buren his successor? We the public. I found, to my surprise, that I had say reader pause-ask yourself if Mr. Calhoun, ERRED IN REPEATING WHAT HE HAD SAID, and, to and the humble individual who addresses you, avoid the possibility of another mistake, I deem-are not justified for separating from the Jackson ed it safest to send to the President a copy of party? Have not all our predictions about Mr. my letter to Major Hamilton, and Mr. Craw- Van Buren become prophecy? ford's letter to me." So much for Mr. Forsyth. But although we reserve one of the most imNow for Mr. Crawford. In his letter of the portant features of this conspiracy to be expos 30th of April, 1830, addressed to Mr. Forsyth, ed in another number, there is one aspect which and published in the correspondence between properly belongs to this. It is the duplicity General Jackson and Mr. Calhoun, (see Week which betrays the hidden purpose of the conly Telegraph, vol. 4, page 324,) Mr. Crawford spirators. says "As Mr. Calhoun did NOT PROPOSE TO AR It is apparent, as we have said, that Mr. HaREST GENERAL JACKSON, I feel confident that I milton could not expect "to produce a perfect could not have made use of that word in my re-reconciliation between" Mr. Crawford and Gelation to you of the circumstances which trans-neral Jackson, by obtaining from Mr. Crawpired in the Cabinet." ford a declaration that he had proposed to a allel columns. Extract from Mr. Forsyth's letter to Mr. Hamilton, 8th of Feb. 1828. Extract from Mr. Craw- But that the reader may see the pretext upon rest General Jackson, and that the known rewhich Mr. Van Buren has placed the contro-lation between the parties, and the declaration versy between Gen. Jackson and Mr. Calhoun, that he volunteered to visit Mr. Crawford far we place the charge as contained in Mr. For the purpose of ascertaining from him what had syth's letter, and Mr. Crawford's reply, in par- transpired in the cabinet relative to a proposi tion to arrest General Jackson, coupled with the assertion that his object was to produce, if possible, a perfect reconciliation between General Jackson and Mr. Crawford, and their re spective friends, is conclusive that he (Mr. HaAs Mr. Calhoun that Mr. Calhoun had made the proposition. milton) knew that Mr. Crawford would say did not propose to We, therefore, find, that to Mr. Forsyth arrest General Jack-there was no concealment. Yet, when Mr. H. son, I' feel confident that I could not reached Washington, he took lodgings in the have made use of that the subject to Mr. Calhoun, he first took counsame house with him, and before he mentioned word in my relation to sel with a very honorable and discreet friend.” you of the circumstances which transpired in the cabinet." "By his authority I' state, in reply to your inquiry, that at a meeting of Mr. Monroe's cabinet to discuss the course to be pursued towards Spain in consequence of General Jackson's proceedings in Florida, during the Seminole war, Mr. Calhoun, the Secretary of the War Department, submitted to and urged upon the President, the propriety and ne cessity of arresting and trying General Jackson." We heard an anecdote which we believe to be true, but, although we have it upon authori ty which we do not question, these are times when the slightest variation will call forth an extraordinary contradiction. We, therefore, do not vouch for its truth, although we believe the statement which we are about to make is stricely true. It is this: Mr. Hamilton having been delegated to go to New Orleans, as Mr. Van Buren's deputy, prepared an address to be delivered on the We hear the reader exclaim, is it possible battle ground," which he submitted to the that Mr. Calhoun did not propose to arrest Ge- revision and correction of a "very honorable neral Jackson? what then produced the rupture and discreet friend," who finding it easier to between them? This is a very natural inquiry, write a new address than to mend the old one, and will be gratified if the reader will have furnished the deputy with a "ready made patience to peruse our next, in which we will speech," which, being conned by rote, was depresent General Jackson in a character which livered with such effect, that the "Hero," by way Cannot fail to excite the alarm, arouse the in- of manifesting his admiration and his gratitude, dignation, and provoke the resentment of every deputed to the deputy the task of preparing candid, dispassionate reader, who will permit the Inaugural address! This task was also reason, truth, and honest regard for the best transferred to this same "very honorable and interest of prosperity, to operate on his judg discreet friend," but executed by a “learned ment. In the mean time, reader, we ask you to messmate and colleague, whose brother-in-law pause, and weigh well the responsibility which was afterwards removed from a lucrative office, rests on you; will you remain the victim of the which was bestowed as a reward upon the sup vile intrigue which has dissolved the Jackson posed author!! Such we believe to be the s party, and violated every principle on which it cret history of that able State paper, and per ! Why this precaution? Mr. Calhoun was the friend of General Jackson. Next, why did he set up the pretence that his object in seeking the information from Mr. Calhoun was to confirm "Major Lewis a confidential friend of General Jackson, at Nashville, in the truth; not with a view to his making a publication on the subject at present, but to be prepared against an apprehended attack founded on events connected with that campaign." (See Hamilton's letter to Mr. Calhoun, February 25, 1828) to me only because I could be instrumental in obtaining the means of resistance, I feel that having done so, I ought to consider myself as no longer possessed of the information. "I have great pleasure in assuring you that I believe the anticipation was groundless. "With great respect, Your obedient servant, "JAMES A. HAMILTON." Now, let the reader compare these letters with the facts and subsequent events. HamilThe object, in seeking to obtain from ton says that he visited Georgia for the purpose Mr. Calhoun a written denial that any proposi-of reconciling Jackson and Crawford, and their tion to arrest General Jackson had been made, friends, and that as connected with this, he proi was to convict him of having told a falsehood mised Lewis, a "confidential friend” of Geneto conceal it, when he should, in the fulness of ral Jackson, to ascertain truly [from Mr. Crawtime, be convicted by the testimony of Mr. ford] what occurred in Mr. Monroe's cabinet Crawford, and, as was supposed, of Mr. Mon- deliberations, in relation to the proposition to roe's entire cabinet, of having made the propo-arrest General Jackson; and, accordingly, we sition himself. That the purpose of the plot find that, in his letter to Mr. Calhoun of the was to attack Mr. Calhoun, instead of to 10th of March, he says, "I have written to defend General Jackson as was pretended, is Major Lewis to say that your name is not to be apparent because Mr. Forsyth's letter con- used in any manner in connexion with the detaining Mr. Crawford's allegation that Mr. nial, should a publication be called for at any Calhoun did make the proposition to arrest time, which I do not believe will be the case." General Jackson, bears date on the 8th of Feb- And in the same letter, he says, "The subject ruary; Mr. Hamilton's letter, asking Mr. Cal- has acquired increasing interest by a communihoun to say that no such proposition was made, cation I received after I wrote to you.”. bears date on the the 25th, and no one can doubt, that he had Mr. Forsyth's letter of the 8th in his possession, at the time his of the 25th was written, although he says in his of the 10th of March, "the subject has acquired increasing interest by a communication I received after I wrote to you." The communication here referred to is Mr. Forsyth's letter. In addition to the fact that Mr. Crawford had charged Mr. Calhoun with having made the proposition, Mr. H. supposed that Mr. Calhoun had been guilty of the folly and the baseness to deny what he had done, and which, if true, could be so easily proved. For when Mr. Calhoun on the 15th of March, 1828, wrote to Mr. Hamilton, as follows: That the communication which gave increas ing interest to the subject, was Mr. Forsyth's letter of the 8th of February, containing Mr. Crawford's charge that Mr. Calhoun had made the proposition, to arrest, is apparent. That communication informed Mr. Hamilton that the proposition had been made, and made too by Mr. Calhoun, the leader, the main pillar of the Jackson party. Yet, when Mr. Calhoun asked Mr. H. to be put in possession of the facts, that he might be enabled to take measures to pary the blow, Mr. H. replies, "I regret to say that I am not permitted to disclose to you what I know of the matter to which it refers." And reiterates, "I have great pleasure in assuring you that I believe the anticipation (of an attack upon General Jackson) was groundless.' "On reflection, it has appeared to me desirHow did Mr. H. arrive at the belief that the able on several accounts, that if an attack on apprehension was "groundless?" Was the inGeneral Jackson is meditated in the manner formation contained in Mr. Forsyth's letter calsupposed, I should be put in possession of the culated to put his fears at rest? If the statefacts from which it is inferred. My knowledgements contained in that letter were true, they of the facts, might enable me to ascertain from what quarter the blow might be expected, and to take measures to pay it." Mr. Hamilton replied, under date of 20th of March: "In reply to your letter of the 15th instant, I regret to say that I am permitted to disclose to you what I know of the matter to which it refers." "The information I received was not declared to be confidential, nor was it from its character necessarily so; and yet as it was communicated haps this is the best apology that can be made for the flagrant violations of its principles, perpetrated through the whole course of General Jackson's administration. gave great cause to fear that an attack would be made; and as Mr. H. must have apprehended that the authority of Mr. Calhoun's name would operate greatly to the prejudice of General Jackson, if he had, as he pretended to Mr. Calhoun, supposed that an attack upon General Jackson was contemplated, instead of refusing, under a pretence that the information was of a confidential character, to impart the facts to Mr. Calhoun, he would have availed himself of the earliest moment to lay before Mr. Calhoun' a copy of Mr. Forsyth's letter, that he might explain the apparent contradiction. But no-instead of doing so he immediately wrote to Major Lewis, and no one can doubt that he transmitted to him, for the purpose of their being laid before General Jackson, copies of Mr. Forsyth's letter, and also of Mr. Calhoun's denial, son. "I entertain no doubt, but that in our county, with reasonable exertion, there might be from four to five hundred subscribers obtained, such is the alarm and indignation excited by the high handed, tyrannical course of this admins tration." Extract of a letter to the Editor, dated thus assailing Mr. Calhoun's character, and assailing General Jackson's confidence in him in the most effectual manner. That being accomplished, it became important to allay Mr. Calhoun's suspicions, and hence the hypocritical as surance to him that there was no longer any cause to apprehend an attack on General JackThe time had not yet come when General Jackson himself could afford to dispense MONROE CO., N. Y. Aug. 31, 1832. with the aid of Mr. Calhoun and his friends, "This county is anti-Jackson by a majority of and, accordingly, the seeds of distrust were but sown; the harvest was reserved for that period 2000, probably, and we think, before the elecwhen the "old man" should be placed in pow- tion, that the majority will be increased, if proer, and when the patronage of the Government per exertions are made to diffuse information. and the organization of party should aid in ma-The county is flooded with the Globe, free of expense. One is sent to me which I do not turing the deep laid conspiracy by which Mr. Van Buren was to be appointed the successor take from the post office." of General Jackson. Accordingly we are told by Mr. Hamilton that the letter from Mr. Forsyth was carefully preserved "until the autumn of 1829, when it was read at my (Hamilton's) house." (See his address to the public in the Evening Post of February 24, 1831.) Extract of a letter to the Editor, dated FROM THE RICHMOND WHIG. . JACKSON CANDOR. the Lexington Reporter of Aug. 29. MÈRCERSBURG, Pa., Sep. 7, 1832. "The Delegates from the different townWhen Major Lewis and Mr. Van Buren had ships met yesterday, the 16th instant. The brought the malign influence to bear upon the Anti-Masons and Nationals, have united on the President's mind, as explained in the communi- same ticket in this county, (Franklin,) which cations which we have copied from the Harris-will, without doubt, defeat the old General' in burg Intelligencer; when they found themselves this county.' in possession of the power and patronage of the Government, and supposed that "General Jackson's popularity could stand any thing," then Major Lewis visited New York, "Mr. Forsyth's letter was called up, and the plan maturAfter all the hurras and Te Deums for their ed, which resulted in the correspondence between General Jackson and Mr. Calhoun, and victory in Kentucky, it appears that the Jackthe subsequent dissolution of the party. Why sonians acknowledge a substantial defeat there. was this? General Jackson knows now, if he They do not acknowledge it publicly, indeed, did not know then, that the charge against Mr. but what is quite as satisfactory, they do it priCalhoun was untrue. He is to derive no bene-vately. We ask attention to the following from fit by the rupture with Mr. Calhoun. Why, "The clamor of victory the Jackson presses then, did he seek the quarrel?. Who is to be benefitted? Will not Mr. Van Buren reap af raised, when the election of their gubernatorial the advantage, if, as Mr. Ritchie supposes, the candidate was ascertained, has settled down sweetest little fellow that ever lived" is by such into a sub rosa acknowledgement of defeat. means elected Vice President now, with a re- Since the election, a private circular has been This addressed to all the leading men of the party version to the Presidency hereafter? neyer will happen if the people of the United throughout the State, in which they say they States can be made to know his character and have been defeated, and call upon the persons his intrigues. Some of which we will develope addressed, to assemble at Harrodsburgh, to form a convention, "for effect abroad." One in a subsequent number. of these circulars has been shewn to a friend of ours, by the person to whom it was sent, and in addition to the acknowledgement of defeat, it states, "that the vote between Buckner and Breathitt is no test of the strength of parties." This is the truth. The leaders of the party, are fully sensible that they cannot carry the State in favor of their candidate, at the Novem ber election, and all they hope for, is to ren der the result of the late election serviceable to their party in other states." Extract of a letter to the Editor, dated MADISON, Indiana, Sept. 1, 1832. "By request of those, a list of, whose names accompanies this letter, I enclose you the sum of thirty dollars, for your Extra Telegraph. This amount will pay for sixty copies on the terms you propose to publish. "This subscription was got up about an hour after your paper containing proposals for the publication, arrived in town, and within 'three or four hours, another individual and myself, with but one subscription paper, procured the names enclosed, and the amount remitted. This was done without calling on our country friends for aid. Another Newspaper Secession.-The Brownsville Intelligencer of Pennsylvania and heretafore a decided administration paper, has hauled down the Jackson and Wolf flag, and run up that of the opposition.-Alb. Ev. Jour. WASHINGTON, OCTOBER 1, 1832. VOL. VI..............$2.50 PER ANNUM..... BY DUFF GREEN. .........No. 25* MR. KENDALL'S VERSION OF THE tures of his Department furnished by Major Eaton, as the data upon which Mr. Ingham's annual discovered and corrected before the veto mes After days of labor, and nights of care, Mr. report was made; which error had not only been Kendall and his coadjutors have made up a de- sage was sent in, but had been the subject of fence of the statement accompanying the veto message. This defence is so full of falsehoods of the Treasury, who is now made the scape much conversation in the office of the Register upon its face, that the most careless reader will detect them. We will, however, give the de-goat of this matter! fence, and our rejoinder on Monday. We have time only to note some of the errors in the statement which are irreconcileable. The President's statement was erroneous in asserting that 11,500,000 had been appropriated for the payment of the national debt, when it was notorious to every one, that the annual appropriation for that purpose is but 10,000,000 Mr. Ingham's statement, which is now admitted to be a true copy from the records, gives of dollars. the real balance in the Treasury on the first of January, 1830, viz: The President's statement sent by him to Congress, gives the estimated balance, viz: Here is an error against the Trea- Here is another error against the 4,410,071 The object was to sustain the veto message. $5,667,790 The Register's statement made a deficiency, the Secretary's left a balance. The President took that which suited his purpose; and that it was a false statement, the mendacious Globe cannot deny. The attempt of Mr. Smith to evade the responsibility by saying that it was made up $1,257,719 from Mr. Ingham's report, shows that it was prepared for the purpose, and that he knew at the time it was false; for instead of making his statement from the books of his office, showing 11,500,000 the real balance to be $5,657,790, he took the Secretary's annual report,and gave the estimated $10,000,000 balance, being $4,410,071, when he knew that that estimate contained an error of $1,257,719, made, as we have said, by Major Eaton, but 1,500,000 which had been detected and corrected before his statement was prepared. Why did he take false data, when he knew them to be false? In these two items alone, we have In our former numbers we have seen that on Now, why was this? The object of the Presi-the 7th of April, 1824, Mr. Eaton wrote to Mr. dent was to make it appear that Congress was Simpson, that, inasmuch as Mr. Crawford had extravagant; that the appropriations had already been nominated by the caucus, he was to be gone beyond the resources of the Treasury-denounced upon the "ground that caucus dicTHAT THERE WAS A DEFICIENCY. Mr. Ingham'station is illegitimate;" and Mr. Simpson was report, which Mr. Kendall calls a private state-old, "policy dictates that nothing on the part of ment, bears date on the 21st-the message on Jackson's friends should be said or done to exthe 27th of May, 1830. Mr. Ingham's state-cite or drive to the Crawford banner the friends ment showed that there was a balance for fur- of Mr. Adams." We have seen also, that on the ther appropriations of 1,672,826. This, howev- 6th of September, 1824, Lewis wrote to Mr. er, did not suit the purpose, and another state-Simpson, "Van Buren, of New York, has writment, (without a name and hereby hangs aten to Mr. A. Balch, his deputy, of this place, tale,) was prepared, making a DEFICIENCY of (Nashville,) that the friends of Crawford and $705,863!! Clay have agreed to unite their forces in favor We repeat that this statement exhibited a of the former, and in that way to secure his false state of the Treasury, and that the Presi-election;" charging, at the same time, that if dent knew it to be false at the time he submitted Mr. Crawford was elected, Clay was to be Seit to Congress. cretary of State, Mr. Cheves Secretary of the It was false in this: It assumed the balance es- Treasury, and Mr. Webster Secretary of the timated to be in the Treasury on the 1st of Janu- Navy; and saying, "I trust in God that the peoary, 1830, viz. $4,410,071, to be the true balance, ple will rise in the majesty of their power, and when he had Mr. Ingham's statement before arrest this giant of intrigue [Wm. H. Crawford] him, showing that the real balance was $5,667,-in his career before it be to late;" and adding, "I 790; and what makes this part of the matter still have thought proper to advise you of these things worse, is, that he knew that the difference be-in order that you may understand the movements tween the estimated balance and the real balance of this electioneering, intriguing, and unprinciwas caused by a false estimate of the expendi-pled gentry." In the same letter Lewis says: "Permit me Mr. Eaton explains the reason why it was that to suggest the propriety of not being too severe Major Lewis instructed Mr. Simpson to "pour on Adams and his friends; I have no doubt that oil into the wounds of Mr. Crawford's friends;" if Adams cannot be elected himself, he would for speaking of the report that Mr. Calhoun and prefer the election of General Jackson to that his friends would produce a failure of the Preof any other person. I am somewhat fearful sidential election, that he, as Vice President, that if Adams should be broken down altogeth- might succeed, Major Eaton says: er, the New England States will go for Craw- "The friends of Mr. Crawford, it is evident, ford if he should get the State of New York." would dislike Mr. Calhoun's accession more On the 2d of November, speaking of the letter than either Jackson's or Adams'. The friends which he had written to Mr. Simpson, abusing of the two latter are too prominent, under any Crawford and his friends, Lewis said, "the circumstances, to give way; consequently, if Crawford gentry feel quite sore under it, and Mr. Crawford shall stand forth, Ohio, Missouri, just now are amazingly restless." But on the and Kentucky, holding the balance, and being 24th of December, when it was ascertained uncommitted, because for Mr. Clay, may make that Mr. Adams was the principal competitor, the decision." how changed then his tone!! He then wrote to Mr. Simpson as follows: Here the whole secret is revealed. General Jackson and Mr. Adams were now the "pro"Crawford's friends cannot believe that he minent" candidates. Mr. Calhoun's friends bad stands any chance of success. I have no doubt already declared for Gen. Jackson, upon the they feel pretty sore. Oil ought to be poured ground that he had received the highest num into their wounds by the friends of Jackson.-ber of electoral votes, and was believed to be With the States that supported him we may bid the second choice in those States which bad defiance to the Yankee nation." voted for Mr. Crawford and for Mr. Clay. So far from denying that these are not true Having secured the friends of Mr. Calhoun, it extracts, the Globe censures Mr. Simpson for the publication of private correspondence; as if it were not the duty of every citizen, who has it in his power to do so, to raise the curtain and expose the base hypocrisy by which Lewis, Kendall, Van Buren, & Co. have cheated the people! was important to conciliate those of Mr. Craw ford and of Mr. Clay, and especially those of the latter, because it was ascertained that they held the balance and might make the decision. Therefore, Mr. Simpson was instructed to "pour oil into the wounds of Mr. Crawford's friends," while the press was held in terrorem over Mr. Clay and his friends. Having brought the intrigue up to the House of Representatives, it may be well to look into We ask the reader to pause for a moment, the game played upon that body. The friends and look back upon the intrigues here disof Mr. Clay, of Mr. Crawford, and of Mr. Cal- closed. Mr. Calhoun, Mr. Adams, Mr. Clay, houn, were each to be operated upon; accord- and Mr. Crawford, were all rival candidates. ingly, on the 13th December, eleven days before Lewis instructed Mr. Simpson to "pour oil into the wounds of Mr. Crawford's friends," at a time when it was important to secure the friends of Mr. Calhoun to the support of Gen. Jackson, Eaton wrote to Mr. Simpson as follows: So long as there was any hope that either of them, or their friends, would aid in the election of Gen. Jackson, great care was taken that they should not be assailed through his parti san presses, while, to prevent their support of either of the other candidates, a charge of detected plots, of bargains and intrigues, was "In your paper, received to-day, I perceive secretly communicated to confidential editors, an editorial remark, that Calhoun and his who were prepared to break forth in bold defriends will seek to produce a failure in the pre- nunciation against either, who did not give in sidential election here, that he may succeed. in adhesion to General Jackson; while be Your informant is in error. It is no friend who was represented to be so indifferent, so purely has made the communication. It is only ne- patriotic, that the hairs upon his head did cessary that you advert to the existing state of not know his intentions! When it was expolitical feelings to be assured of its untruth, pected that Mr. Crawford would be his com Every State where Mr. Calhoun petitor, Mr. Crawford was denounced as the has been supposed to have any strength, will "GIANT OF INTRIGUE;" Mr. Van Buren was stand for Gen. Jackson; and what more can the his agent, and Mr. Clay, Mr. Cheves, and General's friends desire than that they should Mr. Webster, were charged with having conbe true and firm to him. Do change your edi-spired to elect him President, under an agree torial remarks, and do build a contradiction, ment that they were to be appointed members not on any communication received from Wash- of his cabinet. But in December, when it was ington, but on your own calculation, and the ascertained that Mr. Clay and Mr. Crawford high confidence reposed on the integrity of Mr. held the balance, oil was poured into the Calhoun and those who are his friends, for you wounds of Crawford's friends, and Van Beren, may indeed rest it on such grounds--there is who had been his factotum of intrigue, suddennothing of it--no foundation for the surmise, Ily becomes the Hero's annointed! Mr. Clay, verily believe." * It thus appears, that on the 13th Dec. 1824, Mr. Calhoun and his friends had taken decided grounds for Gen. Jackson. In the same letter, too, was treated with kindness, until it was as certained that his friends would vote for M. Adams; then, and not till then, was honest George Kremer," brought in as a witness, to |