The New York Herald Newspaper, August 23, 1856, Page 1

, | : THE NEW YORK H , WHOLE NO. 7298. MORNING EDITION—SATURDAY, AUGUST 23, 1856. PRICE TWO OENTS. which severed kaon democracy 4 ition stated, T have done injusties to him. If so, the | tion was made of cabii itments, and I did not ascer: K peopel ols ir the frien fentenaa informing me an eral, fom tery regesiul tain ot the candidaser ae: Cla would YY CURIOUS DOCUMENT. oid wayport vex shows on the face of it the motives which induced General | 1¥, your moat obedient servant, sion Sain Deckenc sain belay ste) fa the conver. . CARTER BEVERLEY, pation with Mr. Buchanan fof Mr. Clay mov- fackson to consign his papers to me. He saw in the ih conse ‘@atinctly recoliect THE «PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF 1824, course held by the rornmnant against the litical organ This was shown to Mr. Clny’s Siena ot Whectng, tig OS me hove’ teat the, West wont he bad estab! at Wi ‘on, that it would pass | being received the night ae, Mr. Glay’s arriy into the hands of his enemies, ving confidence in my ere, Py ha is yr Ld Fone ge Andrew Jackson, Henry Clay and | sielity, and seeing mo stripped of the in‘tuence which the ; 4 ‘ueoae Se i 3 g Bes g e i wae ge he ET Mr. B, to see General Jackson, siipouns i F. : i g z= t : et if hing ition he had conferred gaye, to support his principles, | ther he was going, he put out a card deny ~~ par hah cloved it m a blaze of glory. He e udeavored by corrupt James Buchanan. be ated ie papers tomo, and the charge to de: | eaed the chargos of Gen. Jeckton He a cit | Canteen tue apron weve tone Ta ory cer to bring absat a cvalition, y “hich wou fae one fend cause an character. eneral Jacl m hav! at volurfarily pl was ry me. ‘rom the coilection I Lave the is eview 10 BUCOES~ That makes Hy uy. toexrmse the ert now | ine Ysa tamt rade aea | ameeui gee Me Buin antes zien sd cunning tia doable nt, vet or iol FRANCIS P. BLAIR ON THE STAND. made by Mr. Buchanan's, cartaan prose, the N pasrie scouse:, hts ‘at Length appeared, though at the dance ot that the object of va thas evening wan to urge the Eroprie: | General ‘Ghat ees ee, © ee oe ing the inion, with A a since the charge 4 Washington, to tmpair the coaiidonce of the couatry ia | forth frvuch ie, Georg’ Kremer” Tt will be univeraiy ad tsportahes of bir idendiyiug hinselt wide Benweylvenies ie ; confidence of both the illustrious m "te whom tie ‘The Democratic Nominee Crowded into a Smali | Gexera! ‘Jackson's exalted character for veracity. ‘The | mitted that the accusation is of the most serious nature | support of General Jeckone Lontertained no doubt that Mr. So tar from being willing to pledge the State || scheme world have attactod diehonor. EM third expert- principal agent in this attempt, as I learn froma letter in | Hardly ary more atrocious could be preferred the | Bucl was hopestly determined, that no exertions on IMs | Department to secure his election, he re) ‘the idea by | ment is now Defore the country. Corner. reply toone written to obtain the information, is the Hon. ir Od ia ya wey eo, a ze IS: AB jig that he felt confident he could | saying — For years part he bas ideztitied himself twith the milf. Cave Johnson, Mr-Buchanan’s colleague in Mr. Polk's Gabl- | ere made by my Congressional friends colieetively, through |! {Flends, thal, in case of the election. ot Goneiae tate ee a tac Sees aes rand keep to himselt--Be wouldcon- 11 S7INg Party of the South, soxtributed to weteblish shete ‘Interesting Facts, Testimony and ee aes eieastea ie wetetaen, "Shion it appears | gu suhorised “Ther OU)SCL Wate teens eee Or BOFERES ff OSE ear ae Me wPpolntment of Mr. Clay as Secre- | te rer ey anes of is bead that Revere) | calking-themmmbines of the otitis davencting intoae ‘Reminiscences y he would excuse the attack made on Gen, Jackson's iu and corr ‘uption,” to exclude Mr. ‘Adams trom the Depariment }, eat: Buchanan concurred with me in opinion that, Pennsy!- gbposntments to olllee, he would cut it off and com it into the | cphich sways that section, ant through it :'eeks now t+ + "@, or re ion to of ) vi a Z a a - us si ‘es orm Seine one ok exyesmmdiizuns util | weakoe betas brivy atfaotented fo these propustions and tothe employ: jf Person as ef nary of State, a ron the oblig ion ie Gen: €r. Buchanan omits what General Jackson gives as the pothictens Wes bnve tended bgemeet aed koe oreo” ad in his own nan¢writing;”’ and yet he urges on the adopted poe yghe ety cousation, the unde vents, that he wou! Oto gcatt f, conclusi Be -— cert in one section to enable the rtinority ther >t0's! bon of General Jecksou to publish his views im deroger'on | 56%, eine, te accuse Sein a tight rote fete ott siectad wenlieer ears Ging.” he beileved the General, st |) tay Jowld react the Presitental chair by euch | {Be Bujority ta the other by dividing it. Hi TO THE PUBLIC. of General Jackson’s written testimony, wituout ven- | substantiate his charges by the exhibition of satisfactory evi: | * * * . . * mann of paras Farce My would see the earth open | Penaeylvenia toabandon her sister States of (8 Ne Mr. Buchanan, through some of his partisans, uses the turing to look at it to see i! it is “in bis own hand | dence Jn ‘hat event, there ig no punishment that would ex- PHILIP S. MARKLEY. boty ~ Clay friends, and myself with | in ber vote for pledges himself to ssrrender” of " writing,” although invited to dogo. I give in advance | ceed the measure of my offence. In the opposite event, what Philadelphia, October 30, 1827. to Mr. Bechauan's colleague the same favitation tare. | ugh‘ to Le thejudgment ot the American ‘public is erty Here is Major Eaton’s testimony touching the applica- cause s Kin to'Mrs. Jackson, is now induced to sign his | ;Peck 1a all he manusct ipt evidence have weed, or may “Tuan aha tion madeby Mr. Buchanan to him to sound General (thagy Jackson as t> his willingness to tender the office of Sec- name to letters given to the press, detracting from the re- In reply to this General Jackson denied that he was Nh Polion of Geboral dackron. "io" make iho atiompi | Atsalanl takes yet another aud more succeeeil mode of ao gece ib cpl the uacrato of fuga retorence | {tie Of Sie as & make weight Iu his Proxdentin effectual, the Grst effort is to impatr the standing of tho | man, by using his own illustrious name to sanction its | t0 he disposition of sr. Clay anc jas to the Pro s friends to whom he Loa mtg the duty of defending his degradation. it ig like using the feather from the eagle’ sidential election, coming from @ source on which he had In pmyot teres a few days:-before # had been known that , and the rights of tho North—to sanctioa the breack of faith’! pee er reed Fry eo) Laika 2 i ve the ai overnr: enforce the usw: that tyrenminns oon Kansan system of controlling the majority by the eye our elective government'can only be made to by corruption. Tho her pase shadow of a great name to dim the bright original. An- General Jackson, when strongly moved, uttered Grew Jackson, the child of a Mr. Donelson, adopted be. feelings ‘with vehemence, ‘ands Lis titd fred, with cumulative figurea. It is not improbable, that the la @ remembered by Mr. Buchanan was em- ployed, and werked up-that heat which exploded in the denunciation tbat blew vp Mr. Buchanan’s plot. But Je hy Ergiand gubjecte the *» Clay and his 1 how can Mr. Buchanan ve believed, wien~he says in the | masses of Ireland to ‘small body of English landlords r, wi . wing to give fight to the shaft that reaches him in the | Eelaner—le repeated the information en oe Bt Tian cates gpon by Mr Bushanet of Pence rakes: | next line, that this anawer to his question was gush aeons | there by buymg, with money or he or high’ ap Mr. Jackson, sho thus londs hia name to this impious | Jopitn, and brings bim to the earth Shen gives:tho proof of it y Mr. Clay in ‘said ft Was preity well ascertained that overtures were ma- | ‘a8 be expected to receive ””—aueh @ one as he {hs igading men to whom the deruves ‘work, cannot be held entirely accountable. He is a weak The paper prepared to bring down Goneral Jackson's | DF#erayh -— King by tie friends of Adamson the subject of Cabinet ap- | to obtain, not for his own, but for the sai rel confide Interests. ‘minded, as, sana ey forever brooding | me front its eight ‘opens with’ soleran formula, which | This disclosure was made to me by Mr. James Buchanan, Jackson should fight them with their own | others, and begged leave to repeat it | How can this be be- Ne ailence over visionary projects, w! whicn he cheats - | &member of Congress from Pennsylvania, a gentleman of | Wea} le faid the cpininion Was that Jackson wou! sbimself and does mischief to others ; and when awakened | tr Cnotcr fra dota Gamecnts to sina tne ipatte soon, | te first respectabliuy and inoligence. ‘The eveuing before | Fetal Avan, and, that it was. Going hitn injury,” that toa sence of what he has done is sorry for it, He is in- | “ui qued pus aopled, namesate to sia the deat wat. | Le had communicated substantially the same proposition to J He Ccneral ‘should sate whom he “would make Bec- offens! 1 ¢isposed to do what he is per. | Tut for his memory after the body was laid inthe | Major Katon, my colleague in the Senate, with a desire, | Te yo ae an A closed that I would name it to perry 6 oc ol grill gra is pee willing t to grave:— Warmly manifested, that he should communicate with me, | bi. y reply was, that I was satisfied General Jackson i; id say ing on the t. Mr. - Oblige, but, from utter want of judgment, is scarcely con- |, The undersigned, as the adopted son, executor and trusted | 4nd ascertain my views on the subject. This he declined | Wane aay ating oe Mis mublest. Mr. Buchanan then re. under which’ so many'Northern aspirants ‘ us have betrayed the 7 til of their copstitueasee and surrendered their righta to the slave cligarchy make it obvious that the corrupt influence of of ber- ter has taken root here, and certainly the managera for lieved, when Mr, Buchanan says his object was to get Gen. Jackeon ‘to declare that’ he would not appoint to that office the man, however worthy bs might be, who stood at the head of the most formidablo pat ef his political enemies”? He here expressly admits that the hope the Southern minority could not employ a more skilfat* 0 or : doing, suggesting to Mr. Buchanan that he, as well as 4 will merely say he wi'l not retain Mr. | which induced bis application was; that Goneral Jackson | atept te ply the trade of vena! intrigue which » scious of what is right for others or for himself, | ffiend of General Jackson, protess most solemnly against | himecis could converse With me. and ascertain my opinion Adame, that will anewer.| (replied, E wasaalixied General | would not only deny that be bad bald he would sppoint | they hope to succeed in the North than James Buchanam. General Jackson had an excessive tenderness for him. | hondence of his father, and he appeals mos: contidently tothe | 0% the m ough, from his knowledge of mo, he thought | cocretary of State, but that ye (ir Buchaue) krew hie | Mr. Adams Premier, but that he would declare he would | It is to success that a notorious artiste in am ‘While he loved others attached to him for the ability aad | public to sustain him in this protest; he himself was the repo- | Le could conjecture my answer, that £ would neceeding this | Well. and might talk with him as well as I could. Mr. | Bot appoint him, which he not only refused to do, but illicit pursuit shoulda conceal his art. He i of, « uchanas b prota p age he morning they exerted in any cause in which he was enga- | sitory of most of his father’s private papers, and hag never | £4s¢ment ; f = Buchanan then said, that on the next day, before the Gei said he thought very well of Mr. Adams; when this | possible, the badge that marks him. That Mr. (god, Be loved “andrew’? thore thin ail, because loft to | comssared to the ‘pubtioaiion of ‘any of thent, becanse he be- | oi the euiiees and betore Lied wor at foe ame Kedmingete | Ful went tothe Senaie, he Wwouldcall., He'dld to; aa Taller. | hope is blosed: keedralen teat nocuaat’ he eatured | pheuld cadenvor to obiiterate tho slgnst impronsicar whale “his tenderness by his wife, and because he was helpless Heves that vo such addition can be made with justice to tho } eCaniol, that Mr, Huchanan came to viait me and where | Wards understood. bi * sonm n. waron, © | 28° 1 that it was the very: taing ‘be expected,” | bis experiment on General Jackson left, is rand dependent. have passed from the stage of acuon. Maes On gt ane mated look place. The answer re- | we axmuim, Tennessee, September 12,16 * | and what ne wished for the ‘satisfaction of others, to | and would not have provoked comment from me le Biddle and his Briareus bank waged war upon “ eae DrBed San Siren ay HOt PURTENEG, jae Wen, SE NNIO? " whom he asked: leave to repeat it. not been accompanied by an attempt to di i fh . ; This protest insinuates what ‘‘the adopted son, execu- | peated. id * ° It is clearly established, from Mr. Buchanan’s own ‘gon’ pee | th bim—while Calhoun and bis nullification conspiracy ea. a ae Mr, Buchanan involves bimself in this contradiction, to | Jackson’s character, iat; too, by unnatural . tor, and trurted friend of General Jackson’ is drawn out Under ail the cireumstances, appearing at the time, T did not | cautious studiously. led, copstrained admissions— -dangered the Union—while the giants Clay, Webster and » hile hi ails 0 a te it: resist the impression that Mr. Buchanan had approached me, ‘th tof Mr. Markl h escape from a difficulty which tureatened worse conse- | The adopted son and witness is not only brought forward Adams made every step of his administration a struggle pee Aghia vd ees : sie C any of hie tother’s | 0.2 o sutiously submitted propeaition of sore uphorized = Pet bey ; eee, cng’ inthe Se = quences. In the seme paper, alter telling Mr. Markley of | to Prove that is a iather’s + Lireaide 0 on was in direst althou, fe le never consented to the pub) y s father's ont di 4 tran: a meant tradiction xXpreased, made ‘White Howse, a7 nconadlons of the sete, Meat io these | private papers, because. he ni such additionexn be | mio cay to Me Ciny and his feieuds what that aoner ket | from the testimony of Major Eaton, which was drawn up {2° BORE Ne Se Penarth oe al obligui made witl ice to the memory of the deceased, until the De Wheth “around him seemed wholly ignorant that ‘there Was i ee en ee ee ee Tron Tha aaa ae | been. W bethe all this epything of importance. Although I was always | tion. his friends I he Communication was made to Mr. Clay and | by him and put into Mr Buchanan’s hands the year His fricrds T know not. Jus, though, Ido know, that while | before the latter explained himself upon the subject— on familiar and Kindly terms with him, and the more | Docs not this intimate that General Jackson in his pri- | butmuatier of conjecture with many, sand before thistime, | Wat Mr. ge I Ty ag ld 80 as the business of the White House made it a solitude | vate papers has said of those who served with bim that | very shortly after this conversstion took place, his and his bre Qe oy a — a's fran! a ra to him, Ido not remember taat I ever knew him, in the | which cannot bear the light while they live to repel is? | friends’ opinions became forthwith matter of certainty and pin the b tempt mado on a coerced to a deve- most exciting times, to open his mouth about politics; } And then this ‘adopted son and trusted friend” js | general Knowledge, Sul. I have not sald, nor do Tuow sy, | lopement. J a a ane Son enatn hate gs and now, for the first time during the twenty-six years made to say that bis father, ‘in the full freedom*of is ot Be Cla: Paalitie tees Teak that bie frietat ae a. eae = 4 @ confidential a with a have kuown him, he, of a sudden, is brought out in Mr. | fireside eate,” ‘“‘and in many conversations,” had said ‘pre Dee ry che ; tne ania = | — i bringing the ’ press a8 a political gladiator, to strike un. | that he had “the bighest esteem and a(lection for Mr. Hexwirace, July 18, 1827 ANDREW JACKSON, [| "renulorship to bear Shae tan road peace egg arctan, and 15 hosteog toe ohana eo eave, him | Buchanan,” and spoke freely of ‘his erainent services | fr. Buchanan thus cailed out, replied in the Lancaster | \nhrhiae stom tee pede. Nees eaportance, be Be Ee ae een ey dete eeace pu wham | and moral worth,” while his leiters, written with his | yurnal, and after stiting that he was promptea ta his | Wigca tin Ge ate oe we Jaa that to make he thought most likely to defend it. Now, I hold Mr. | own band, and when he felt the hand of death upon him, | tov. mente by a rumor ‘that General im to ac . a view 0 to account for this'moral obliquity by detracting from the vigor of his mind. It is pretended that “moment tr tation’’ could inf'wence him to write down what he must stand as his deliberate judgement of Mr. Buchanae's character—being pronounced when he was sensible the poe would soon Close over him: and call bim to aaswor for its conscientiousness. To im} the public with tho belief that Gen. Jack weaken the force of Ns opiuion, ths adopted gon, by way weaken the opinion, yy way = rp himself for wasting the estate Toft hime’ ist luced to say:— datermined whom he would appoint Secre- tary of State, and should say it would not be Mr. Adams, it might be gréat advantage to our cause for ua so to declare, upon his own autiiority. We should then be placed on the same footing with the Adams men, and might fight them with their ‘own weapons.”” Mr, Buchaman puts these words into Mr. Markley’s mouth. They ly exhibit the design formed by Mr. Bucha and for which he sought Mr. Markley’s uon. Mr. Markley denies that be used the ir. Buchanan reports them as em- gress tone propositions tome, * 827. 8 \ jackson had de- . . Te Mtn ate Ee ate When Genera! Jackson returned home at the end of his Jackson, in every sonse, incapable of concelving, much | re-ailirm, after twenty years of cuim consideration, what | (ermine, should he be elcctod President, to continue Mr, —— pv ig sppenre One ke seeaee bee tastier Besorat # aud Major ag erties gi that Frositeney: Ee’ eS een eee ae eee Jess executin; wm and I shall treat it as the } he bad publicly prapounced to be his deliberate convic- | Adams Stcretary of State,” he comes to the Point put in | at bis own room, and, as Mr. Clay’s friend, asked hisco- | ledge of the rence between Messrs. Buchanan and | friends aud to the public lef him butlitde. The protite’ ot bun ‘work of Dir. in and big emissaries. They are the | tion in regard to Mr. Buchanan's conduct tn 1825. And issue, and thus relates the umstinces which brought | operation in the scheme, and urged bim ‘to use no delay | Markley, etaic | 1st the same argoment was used by Mr. | estate were also consumed. There was scarcely a day after interested parties. They have the motives for the un- | whathe denounced to Mr. Buchavan himeclf, when he | j,i: with his proposals to General Jack son:— in seeing Mr. Clay.” That the object (of Mr. Buchanan's) | Buchanan in separate conversations with them, ending | bia return that his house was uot (honged. with Visitors dertakizg, and the intrigue develo; in the letters hav- | made the proposal, to be ‘such means of bargain and ~ - % - is ’ - “ , different portions of the country. The proceeds of his eatale ‘Mr. Jackson’ eaane 18 ith all Mr. b id peo tin low both In the month of December, 1524, a short time after the com- | visit (to Mr. Markley) that evening was to urge the pro. | with the same recommendation, “to fight the Adams i Ie scum te ook aes Under the Peaaran's mangeneet T® SO & Plece with all Mr. | corruption he would see the earth opea and swallow both | mencement of ive seasion of ‘Congress, I heard, among otber | Prigty of his seeing My, Clay ed ine Mo te ence | oe ah eee woapons.”” Can there be a doubt of | Here Could not and did not. meet hie expenses. Under tbe ay aneree ee Oa ne re eee ct Shem, rather | rumors thew in civewiation, that General Jackson bad deter- | {> the importance of his tentifying bimeelf with Pon. | the truth cf General Jackson's solema averment: whoa, | Circumlances, and by the advice of-friends, he cotion. Unier The t for bringing Mr. Jackson before the public | than use, he adhered to at the close of his life; and yet | mined, should le be elected Preaident, to continue Mr. Adams sylyania in support of General Jackson, and that his (Mr. | it is not only corroborsted by Major Eaton, but by Mr. | his direction, 1 went South, nud ade the purchass of a wlace ‘88 my assailant is to repel this passage given froma letter | the ‘“‘adopted son and trusted friend’’ is made to say that | Secretary of Stare. Although I felt certain he had never iuti- Buchanan's) solicitude “toma on acobant of hie (Mr. | Buchanan; for, afler ascribing the propesttion be hr. | thet het boos recommended to bias GhBGLIAR ant ohaniaetn Of General Jackson to Major Lewis:— the samen nanlinead a8 10) Ue. Dachaaan’e conden, on] SSeS Sulnied, hell! io cool the apaor at tie tiaabo ead. Gare) Miteeion. peltion! (pean leclarivg that he | Markley, Mr. Duchanan admits that he related to General | ®*tall tract additional nt the cost cf $2.60). ‘To meet these Serer anean ye regres tn Xvi Dochanans soe nevvest: f Frepew | reed pense, later by Rie inn betes 80: Siaioe Hiapire his enemies with eontdesce, than’ the belief that he | (Mr. Buchanan) oped to. seo afr Clay’ President of the | Tac the substance of the conversation he had held | Aud other smaller liabilities, be secured loans from the bani showed a want , ady selea chief comp r i ? buy name trigne of Adams and Clay—did uot do me justice in the expose | that when the General wrote that Mr. Buchanan was ca- | Mainnrhie sit Ttronphet eckson owed th nied Reatesjind that wanancther venson why ho should | “with Biss,’! but forgois ‘‘whother he mentioned hie same his eatate saddled with this heavy liability, all drawing inte~ tie ae teen, ue Ronde by the By rie . mi e charge made Ma Fated no doudt by private souresa.chat T hal incurred tha heavy debt that had rested upon the Hermitage ” and ce ht General Jackson owed It to himself, he then made, and I am sure about that time did believe there | papie of ‘deep corruption’” in regard to the chie? magis- | snd to the cause i which hus pouitieal triends were, engaged Fea toes ie, Sag Reseatary of Site ta guns General Siar A perfect understanding between Adams and Clay about | tracy of his country, he was in bis reside conversations | to contradict this report; and to declare that he wor jackson was elected. phe cry de Ad oy cals Tons are oe extolling Mr. Buchanan's “moral worth.”” He is made | PC' Appoint to that oflice the i) however wonky It appears poy Poo we > tmatysern ay Aa) enlist case oF not, I know not, but one thing I doknow, thathe wish. | artfully to imply that tho publication of General Jack- | B¢,mizht be, who stoot at the head of the most for. | Major Baton as the jeneral Jackson, in carry or merely desoribed him as.a friend of Mr. Cin} yet Mr. Buchanan has the hardihood to say, in paper, that until he saw General Jackson ter Beverly, ‘the conception never once is tered his ida} tot his political mies. These bei with ; that irged. « that head’? “hi ld have supposed capable of ex- None knew better than the advisers of the individus) si rrsio combat thea with inal own weapons. ‘ats was. let | non’s confidential correspondence was a breach of trast, | impressions, { addreased a letter to =. contdeatial fiend | wee prenty well escericines thet ortroaies tans coating | peesbiog the cyto tee eee toight such imuig: | who pots is uamo to, this that General Jacksuw By Reotewy tt Mo rae aaat ed dee ie een | Tevealing thie contradiction when it a Pe tina Wana nen and sull igh tn oflies, and exalted in 1 by the iniends of Mr. Adams on the subject of Cab uers with tlicir own weapons.”? man—that be Fepelied it with that honest indignation as [which] I thought it | (re. *yPPostion thas the adopted son's oral eccount of the Gackson’s election, requewed his oonion andad, | Sppointmente—that Jackson should fight them with their | — Is this not @singular aileotation of surprise, when it is in one that he 7 n a th w. I ived his , dated the 27th Own wea] 7° I knew nothing of this publication, nor whence the ox- | {2 Only true one, and not the written statement under | Ti}. 'imiver. Yast pon ihe ai. whics is now before me, | “Ttappeara that Major Eaton declined the service pro- considered that Major Eaton’s statement, all not poblighed, waa put in Mr. Buchanan’s hands, attributing iit tract from General Jackson's letter btained. 4 and which strengthened and confirmed my previous opinion. | posed, and that Mr. Markley failed, after making threo at- | this thing to him, nearly a year before General Jack- latter Sckvon, and those who oblained his mignatare to the fo. | ci, i# made to claim for eer Gencral Hecke as Mat | T then imally determined, either that {would ask General | tempts, to accomplish spytbing favorable wer. Thu. | cou’s letter to Doverly was writen, and had not been from the imputed lowing comment, knew that the letier quoted from was | when he knows that icy ‘were Denuatie! to ie ed | eet ere ieee ng friends to sek him. whe- 1 chanan’s designs with Mr. Clay It al that Mr. | denied by him? incapacity-—the want of care in hig expeaditures, and ts not written to me, nor furnished by me, but by Major | that he wrote 10 me immcdyately, on the General's death | iri¥ of state. In ihis manner f hoped a coatradicuon of the | Buchanan then made his movement lately and per | Why, then, did he deny the fact which produced such }| want of circumspection as to making obligations, Lewis ; yet they so directly pointed at me in thetr animad- | that us his di: ve cetee-dhlies oh anenane- te do- | feport might be obtained from him or be might probably de- soon both Mr. Clay and General Jackson. “It isnow | an outburst of feeling from General Jackson that he could | judgment and energy in providing and the versio: os to make the inference inevitable to others, chai | (A4it was his dying order to him, ns, excoutor, 40. do- | chime It wa not hisinteution to wppolit Mr. Ad reves means to discharge ‘m_ compelied to give , ‘A short time previous to the receipt of the letter to which I | toy Wwe: tite ot ¢ var Lf é : abort time previous reev cl 1 t was cerived from me:— he violates that injonetion, and is himself guilty of a | ave reierred, my iriens! Mr, Marley aud myself got into co | $n“ gy \iveat har atone Generar Janeen eke ‘The undersigned, as the adopted son, executor and trusted | breach of trust. They make him charge it as ‘an abuse | versstion, ax we very often did, hoch before and after, upon Mi % Buchanan ‘undertook the task of ascertaining how friend of General Jackson, protests most solemnly agains: | that Mr. Blair bad made of private documents,” a-! | the ful,ect of the Presidential election, and concerning the oy " nag ag roomy his unscrupulous use of the private and contidential corres- | tnough they were exclusively of public interest, and | person who would probably be selected by General Jackson | Mr. Clay would receive the tender made by him of the pondeuce of his father, and he appeals most confidently to. the nb Set Reales GF dheon oen-toah t [OAM the office of Reeretary of State. I feel sincerely sorry hip ina Jackson cabinet. Tais account of the Public ty sustain him in this protest; he, himself, the re | When the firs eG ion of m was made it Was BC- | that Tam compelled thus to introduced his name, but Ido #0 1g Suppressed secret overture on the part of Mr. Bu- of most of his father's private papers, never | companied with this express permirsion:— with the lets reluctance because it has sirewly, without aay | chanan, testing Mr. Clay’s inolin i9 marke meal, we my | puttileen‘entse: hud open ths even cf te poopie toile ben’ | seckae Ghapes fund tt way-ialo the mewapapers in con J threnghout by” italice, tn the volume, | a n the © pec! wi 18 transaction. s fatereata in bringing back the administrador of our govera. Mr. Markley adverted to the rumor. which I have mention. | from statements made by the author of the work :— ment to the real reading and prin of the constitution as | ed. and sald it was not have forgotten it, or, if that were possible, must have had it revived by Major Eaton’s reminder? General Jack- son’s comment, in his letter to Major Lewis, divulges the secret of Mr. Buchavan’s selfcontradictions. He wanted “moral coursge.’’? If he had avowed the wrong which General Jackson rebuked and pardoned, it we have brought bim at once ja collision with Mr. Clay, who had made known his fixed purpose to call to account any msn who stood upon equality with bim, and who suggested bee ty wy hn bony capable of being influenced in his ¥ of @ transaction to which Mr. Rives and myself were parties, and to which Mr, Jackson refers, A simple etate- ment will show how unjustly General Jackson's memory is apsailed in the paragraph quoted. It ws bute repetition ° of the insidious rumors spread by the newspapers imt- mical to him a few years after his return to the Hermé- a ted that he bad inextricably involved him. self ip debt, and that, like another of the deme- lated to Injare the General. he ob | gome 1886, and not to teotio the teuder of tho Secretaryship If Mr. Buchanan, | cracy (Mr. Jefferson) be would probably apply for a daw explained ond praciised by the sages who founded iit dae | served that Me’ Clay's trienda were. warmly attached to him, | of Precidene seta Gaited orci ty the hates Hees: | ines, bad sckpowleded what he told Majon Beas any | to ectabie bim to et. bis estate disposed 7 lottory to from me to ‘he peoplethat my opinions, if desigad, should be | snd that he thought they wohl endeavor to-act in concert | {veg the Hom, Jomen I ; tien a member of the House, | be urged on General Jackson—what he conned over with | pay his debis, Sroing these atlompts 10 mortify and Oe ie Steed, * peRw iol a s rib itn at the slection ; that pa Wy +4 and afterwards many yeures Fenster fe Usted States, Mr. Markley, and what the later says he falsely imputed him, and suspecting that his adopted son, whe nce 4 KSON. | elect Mr. Adams or Gi sou jeasure, Coney = been creat: knowledge before ToF, P. Baik, Ee. {hat maniy of them would never agree 0 vate for the lator. if | supporter of Geueral Jackson Inthe preeeding canvass ant | (02M, Clay would hay» had no alternative but to | had been creating debis wittout his knowledge - hold bim responsible, In this dilemma he threw himself upon the magnanimity of that man who he koew would pardon avy weakoess in one who could plead that his taolt bad originated in friendship for him. Mr. Webster was enabled, from what bad passed around him in Con- ‘The publication of what be wrote about the intrigue | ‘hey Kew he hnt predetermined to prefer another to Mr. | was supposed (0 enloy his unbounded contdence, called a) the left Washington, might have contracted which cefcated his election in the House of Representa. | the first office in his gift; and that some ofthe friends of | lodgings of Mr. Clay. in the eity of Washington. Mr. Clay waa family that bis confidence in them had abaved tives, Mr. Coltcn, in his life of Clay, shows, was directiy nt afr Clay ‘igh, probably, be oMered these, | Sinai tune in the room of hls only mesemate In the house, his Tiltics tennnis ee cokocmees ; invited by him, in @ card to the Nashville Union, cloetug is ' y int mate and confidential friend, . B ny, chan, of Sta Governor of Kentucky, then also a member of the House. Known to all who were well acquainted with with these words:— ¥ that I felt confident General Jackson “ . : his reply to m: ir, the first of the letter being om other tubjects:— a aller Mr. Buchanan's entry into the room, be intro: | frega, to fatl atrigue as soon Henwitage, Feb. 3, 1942, ron that he clung with intense pertinacity to the interests If General Hamilton or any one else haa. leiter from me on | had uever said he would appoint Mr. Adaras Secretary of | Gueed the su ‘of the approaching Preaitential election, Se Sion s onte sere blebs A. * oe * —* Now, my dear Mr, Blair, is of “thoxe whom he regarded aa friends—as somewhat | this subjec’, all they have 0 is to apply to hun for it. As | State, because he was not in the habit of conversing upon the | and spoke of the certainty of the election of his favorite, add” teabobe ted od the 4 aed him, happy to find that. your Pecuniary matters are so dependants, and whom he had raised up by his patron. | for myself, I have no secrets, aud do uot tear the publication | fubject of the election ; and if he were, whatever might be | ing, that ‘he would form the most splendid Cabinet that the fore be had named the men who wl im with | iy God grant that that prosperity may eonunue to . age.” These persons (requently (as can and might easily | of ail I have ever written on this or any other subject. hia secret intention, be had more prutence than t@make such | country had ever had.” Mr. Letcher asked, “How could he | the overture. Colton gives @ letter Mr. Webster to ‘sin all time to come, I will, with all condor, state te. be shows) appealed errnestly Se an for aasidance ta ANDREW JACKSON. ast ecll tea i I ae tote have one ‘more distinguished than that of Mr. J 7B, tn Mr. Clay, about General Jackson’s letter to Beverly, of if eatary preesure—that we have advancing their own schemes and vi! even to the close of foul wl 4 w were Hatin? woul june 6o— 6 some pecuniary sacrifices in se) sone valum- iif withering disease Although I bad not the least agency in producing this de ty do fo, and thus endeavor to get from be able to lind equally eminent ment” Me. Bi June 6: ing his life. ist suflering upder a painful, & r a reglied, earnestly pressed artful siggestion, he woul | evidence of General Jackson's dissatisfaction with Mr. of the report, although I doubted whether be * id ‘not go owt of this room Beeretary of five bean sated than busca be hel wot hormiied expres. | Wecbanan—did not, indeed, know of the exmrence of the | SeukaLetens cnremenen eee teeter Rute," fosking i'r Clot.’ This pentioman Mir, Olay) plac sions of momentary irritation to creep into private letiers; and | letter—its publication, and the attempt to discredit it by Mr. Markley urged me to do #0; and observed if General | fully remar ‘he thought there was no tumber there lit So ae of Be Seromten wre pot in bim who wrote, but | drawing up imsiduous stavements fur the signature of an | Jackson, Lad not de voy gg pee Bg a for &Gablaet officer, unless it were Mr, Buchanan himeelt.” ‘ it] in those whom unwisely trusted wuld iy it Dy Lams, , Clay, while was 80 nasal charge of **The ictier of General Jackson in regard to Mr. Buchanan, | S¢0Pted fom, to prove Gas the ther bes expremed c ss . 4 Roston, July 24, 1827. T have a suspicion that the‘ respectablo member of Con grese’ ie Mr. Buchanan. Ifit turn out so, it will place fim in an awkward siivation, aines it seems he did recommend a bargain with your friends, ou the suspieien that sucha bar. erty, and Lam not entirely free from them,, & loan Woull be & convenience to us for ashore time, which we woud well secure. I hold my homestead cumbered, and do not owe in my own right five hundred lars. Andrew owns a first rate tract on the M! pl river, of 1,180 acres, and on the two plantations we own about £ ° antage to our cause for us soto declare, | tion, A the administration of | {uj lied teen proposed 16 them, on the part of friends of Mr. | ft Mired i Toes, old, ‘eget aod young written in February, 1845, (dated 28h ) exiracts of which hi ‘opinjons satively incompesivie with his written ¢eclara- his own authority. “We shoukt then he placed upon the | pirselz ey tained Me heshaaan of Wie intontse te publish oo car aely pox erie Waneren? | coud sei choad OF eptiewe a euapbiuntine of changes tetas been recently published, is precisely one of the character, and | tions made at same time, calls on me to examine footing with (he Adams men, and might fight them with | {ne above opcurrence; but by the earnest entreaties of that | '#*!é aor o dlers—an unprincipled combination as they were—stelp and ‘written under the eireumstances above allu ted to, and did not | whether General Jackson’s writen averment ta not sus | ‘bcirown weapons. That the Western vers would m&- | ceneman he was induced to forbear doing so. After Mr. Buchanan came out with bis response, and | harrass Andrew, who had been drawn into in lorsemente for contain #ny deliberate conviction of his mind, as is si tained by the history of the traueaction referred to, and | (tslly victor vo'ing for» Western man. if there was a proba. |" ‘The author has understood thak, several times in inter | Mr. Clay bad commented on it in his speech at Lexington, | them, aul otherwise imposes shown ty his cordial treatment of Me. Buchiaan duriog his | whether the suggestions put into the mouth of theadopied | Villy That ie claime of ar. Clay in the second oMice ln the | sears khan been intimated to Me Huchanan dati might ve | Kentucky, Mr, Webster, remarking “on this speech, | trnlicnetnan he sre at mi of property. These liabilities. amounted to more than T a Lurst anticipated, = great exertions, be is free from all these: debts, and there only remains duc the instalinents upoo the pantation upom the Mississippi, which is now in a pradue- tive state, and wil, now ins few Years pay ali abilities, But the means to meet the future instalments on the place we Were obliged to use, to mect those swindling debta broughtoa. Andrew by & clique of sharpers, and somo of the li become dio hefore another crop. Now, my dear Me, . nt should be fairl ted; and that if the y ‘hese {aots, quent recommendation of him to oth: the firesid son, when tested by it, ean avail to weigh down the ve- | foiritproper «. rote for General Jacks, they could soa pot Ay ney 3’ Bucinones parenting Versations with his family to which T 8 of the father, nud to place Mr. Buchanan's above tthe coutect in his favor. Mr. Colton yet retains the manuscript, in Mr. Clay’ Tris not the intention of the undersigned in this public it. Twill array recorded facts and Ir. ne Page A gh pt, b 4 ‘= to interfere in the political eonilicts of the day, or todo any. } circumstances, apart from General Jac c time, —eee = wa) ~ xy phe fing further than to protect the reputation and fame of hie | mony, whieh estab.ish every assertion of his letter to and on the St et-daatury, tay T tied | vee aS By ‘< pply ay — a father, and preserve the consistency and harmony of a charac: | yigior Lewis, be asked me to take a wall vernor Letcher, and found lips sealed by a pledge of Ser Geartp (Re Waele Atnorionn porons, Tfecl more imperatively called to the discussion of this ANDREW JACKSON, ¢° Wore Walking. together upom the | silence given to Mr, Buchan we subject. I told I wished to ask Governor Letcher applied to Mr. Buchanan, in 1844, to ‘writes to Mr. Clay :— iN, August 22 1827. Bosro: Mr Buchanan is treated too gentiy—many persons think bis letter candid—I deem it otharwise. It seems to me to be la bered very hard to protect the General as far as he could with ot injury to himself. Although the General's frients this way, however, aftect (0 consider Kuchaana's letter as sup) ing the charge, it ts possible the General himself and the Nashville commentator may (hin otberwiee and compial Bachanan, Kver truly you DANIEL ER, subject, because Mr, Colton, in his Life of Clay, published Although this was expressly appliod to me by tho ad- | Sincg Gen, Jackton's death, bas given a wost unjust and if you have the money to lend, we Will, on an interest of atx. ration organ at Washington, yet, as my nate wag i 3 y } lon to the Presidential eleetion—that I | be released from thi , Which ho declined in a'let- Mr Webster saw at tho Grat glance what all must soo Bot used ini and { saw hat'ihe biject was’to ombron | distorted view ot Ue Gace wee ene ieee nf to convaree upon the’ pubjech, thet, | tor, resteling. Bis presales aad insteting on bie house to | Dow, that, Genersl da good reason to “com: | Herons thar may present themselves,” Bur my deal se ae mo with Mr. Jackson, for whom I folt great kindness, and Lapog Ay BH eur Gane "bat aback ae ic he deemed the question improper he might re: | Obtorye it, inthese worda:2- plain of Buchan Fepeatedly com | ler the loan proposed, paying interest annually, would ‘Who was cousidered 'by mo the unwitting instrument of | jatter, at tho earnest. cutreaty’” of tao former, kept | {une.io fire st an auawor, that my only motive in asking it was | ° The pubhieation, gus tea to calsarrags ons cau forso'sas | Emtrestion, ew Kisnseil called om as ths chose ef ais to ex | Bot aseniee heed kone’ ores inidod sirens ta: be Siivers, onus fallore, induced ‘Mr. Jackson ihen to pus | Profoundly secret while the General lived. | From Mr. trodacing » subject about which Ikuew he wished tobe | Por ssinents into tho pending contest-—which 1 desire to srond, | Cute Mee tiuchanta's sister comduce tnede bree Ma, | maitors or otherwise, and I will never do i for the short timp oot tt veo ate Cit cen ban Sesser eaten | "Hwy mvggnmry tw mye. utara | Saran Fie, ten rts | Fetes, heer o'r ra a | Fs orem er ee a Pabscaucniiy changed to Mr Hisire La speaking of nis par | cated as regards Mr. Cisy, and how porfectly he i» jasti. the. Adama Secretary of Stale, in ease he were | Menses, without my express permlesion.” 18 thie Zou have | Viewing vee ret of Mr. Buchanan's’ course torande | cache, are Fear; and then the, principle. aad inte coon epee et PS ES fled in the opinion ent tained of Me. Buch aan, although sud that I wishes to.sscertain from him J ff VAMES BUCHAN. them, after deploring the injustice which he thinks his | undoubted, to.cover it; we would (recly give seven por oni, Miytep'y ‘wos, that [was young and inexperienced, and would | kept ia absolate ignorance of the remarkable overture of r or Seignages ves ge rpaatien: ore a | ‘The late contrib of str. to the history of M great friend received at the bands of the majority of the | Interest on « loan for yearsor four. On the reosipt that no doubt there were several A KL. this please write me. 1 cannot borrow of a friend unless upom ‘fund well tried friend. tt bi | Buchanan's plot, with the re of the latter to let the rican people, sums up bis conclusion with saying greatly prefer, if Mt met hisjudgment, to have them left to | Mr. Buchanan, proposing the,Premiership to Mr. Clay, on . abl L y lend. Vi on thereafter Mr. Amos the contingency of General Jackson's election With: ry just terms to him. Tam, as usual, sincerely your rh eavialcame on tothe Genera}, and alice tho foan of encumbertog this paper with the arguments of any of tne | Wout men in i, Sou, amore hom, weueht ME, Cay | whole De known' by permiting Me. Latcher to reveal the } that is Hechanda wae ‘tho very man by whose tr ANDREW JACKSON, letters and papers to compile his history 7 ties controversy, I will give the issues, as made believed he had arendy de'ermined te int bis chief ~ eo “ep Henwrtioe, February 24, 1862. waa seceded t with pleasure, and the most f ween the , - were beliew oad iy ae General Jackson lived, would have confirmed suppo- f self the only guilty party—that he pertinaciously sougti eoed Ss ed ove principala, and the statements of the indivi- { competitor. it might have ® most unhap 5 * so be: My Dean Sin. 1 accept of the loan you PWaatall ard tes balance youth pave been, weet a oy duals cut of whose action the controversy grow. Tho Long and these of their friends: that, unless he had not de- eT, ae one en eg pe ap po hn aA pom Af A] wma General 80. crously oftared mone Morell ond {ricndabip ‘ards Dutfor the arrival of Mr. Blair. Mr. Mair questioned | testimony of these parties, as copied by Mr. Colton, from ~ pth ——— should be promptly contra, om) im on . subj Mg J ny and Fuption that be ceased (9 be charged upon Clay and | ferns otcthiees © call Ge meme be = the General about h's papers and the writing of lis life and his- | the authentic documents put into bis bands by Mr. Clay, a fa — -) tnjery, pnd ore. | ofan Gane Sema, earn camone® Be weed Gotan Foon has Ieper’ Antes nar ii the cnlosnitive thas enty tote cael , Hating that ifhe would leave them with him he woulleare- | amply vindicate General Jackso., +7 = : ms gomne laser? pad ore. | of Mr. friends,” and ‘‘thorefore, in giving hin a * ore D kcaien ane a ua, arrange them for Mr. Bancroft; that he (Blair) had re wh nae fy mp get bY answer, did request him to say to Mr. Clay and his But the Judgment which Gon. Jackson iced in I Th deprive. you from pollties to the shades of Bilver Springs, and would It fs not my pur to inewlpate Mr. Clay. The grave jarkley. I do rot remember whether [ men: bat had been.” This did } al! bis public and private letters touching Mr. Buchanan’s | J0Ur princi u Cone the Oh gh P| has choeed ver him and General Jacksts, asd should ne or merely described him aa friend of Mr. | ‘tends what that answor . answer “4 10 implicate him in’ "deep sorraption,’” his | ceive # with that punctuality th father With plesoure consented, and directed j | close tho contest between the rivals which they chose to | (lay. Ater tnd iniahrd, “the General" dociared ‘he } notauit Mr. Buchanan's design, ani hence it seema be | aitempt to imp um in “deep coeraption, money. y mrt py = : ° " had ‘pot the least objection to answer my question that | forgot to give it to Mr. Clay, or that it was ever given to | ad son fs bid to was any Tate COM- | ities, and the annual crops will meet this loan, with surety, decease to forward a}) of the important documenta retained to Wage in person. But the originator of the foud, who sur agit a™M "Ade but had never ssid § Co vietion of bis mind, as simply shown by his cordial | even asthe presen low price of cotton—place me at ease, and Hr. Blair, except some private and confidential correspon: | vives and uses the pliable samesske of one of them to | oe ic utte: that the woah or would non appoint a anle = a ae | during his wholo sdministration—his appoint. | secure to hin ama his dear litile oncaud el ee ace Feta ul the papers which be‘rvorirod, and’. Diair some | KR him the support of is wague to damage the repata: | Him “berretary ‘of. flat: Tint these were aeoretabe-would | BOY, versued Oa, Mesere, Cay and Letcher, and repaaied, | treaime munaia yt ae Mr, Buchanan, before be brocobed sr fe ra eee of less impartance. “General Jackson réquested Me. Kendaii | Hon of the man whom he should venerate aa a father, | keep to. bimselt—be would conceal them from the | 1 trough | aoe pg ag % | bis proposal ts Gen. Jechecn, lated. Im advance, (in terest; Uo ‘cous to retain the ra he had in his possession until he com- | CaM cleim no such immranity. The political intriguer, | very hairs of his hs conehe teem Marebioet af an inight be his sy a aety ‘to publish these cae it was disapproved,) for pardon. His design ‘our friend, CBO. Neted his life and history. It was no reflection upon any of | whose approaches Genoral Jackeon, in his owa emphatic | band then knew. what his lef would dq on the suliject of ap A these tacts, being friendly, Gen. Jae a > he eeraiy te a . A goamonrs Neagle tey cl rath 0 igorticn Febuked at the tostant, must now mect the | fin sever ‘che fohouid be, elected, Prewient, it would be | "Chara us theg nad Gonctton Picket cent aespired | boke test tse time, aid, mot make its ber toll tabee- | Mr. Rives united with mo that the, oun might not bene fm them have, mae the uke Of them What therm tog very hand tn his'dying hoor, written to) ac ustant trends mot | uneehcelacauon and Mion ipigwe on bis par at BG} to fabricate & falsehood to impeach Me. Thucbanaa, aa be | quent inte se Ly ee reue — and in his or, written to ® . otidd then go Ito alllee ‘perfec! ‘and nntramelied. a i Fer eenctuston, T respectfully ask the public to obsereo why | With reports nnd from hie im watee Be rest Ly vf pe perfec very to if MPa ETS: | him wih the Premiere i anlle wre pa. Cag Ve tomart | wun sews of trendehip. be was apt 0 be indelgemn, || thcrieed him to draw for the scam he wanted. From the ; ‘ oe hie > ment wih | . ". . t Seate rocrek covmed b proper tad ries ie tenes ike | corcen fete oe eh nao, bat by an eppral to the re- | Sica ond the ben fe the Soumery. stances apd other evilence o prove it, MF. Markley re- | without looking Into their selfish motives, or relying |) sccount which Andrew at iret Euve of bis Comaniimenta, Fa emery and faune oc tay father, when T saw the | Here iste history of the evenle written out by the ac. Shed expected toreceine, If he suswenea K'sheir ead ieee? | prev, see astets 7 oe Neen ene NT ee arenes te Learalt aad tio menns ta prevena al |) enter 6 wan dusctvores that his.Sest ‘of debte dim abuse Vint Sr. Bale had made of private dooumenta, nm the | tec in thome [hed expeoted to receive, if he answornd it at all: aod toatl 7 him to use mo delay 10 see Mr. Cla 5 so pense Closed Italo mere than half of ‘and that the provi mrgrvaleand.confentaliers'o a sapponed trem, | ,Crter Beverly, being on a visit to the Hermitage, with | eked him it were a fvery to Repeat Meanewer.”Tieaud, | Tere Sertin, Unt We. Clay's views ware invarabie to | designs in ad men oe smiechievous remy from ine J sioa mhioh ie nad route for paging fr the tor Publihed inthe Repwblinn Danner, weiien February ax, | otber Virginians, interrovated Gen. Jackson as to tho | {wns at perfect liberty to do so, to a Gen, Jackson's election, he would take an ear! eer eet ee neree ere One nore eee. i andrew wee sbeerbed in mawung bis of Tous, some fo moniha botore his dealt, T'saw proper's re: | overtures made to obtain his promaive of the State Depart: | Pert pt — ee © | New Orleans. sod fel thas he bed nothing to fear from thoweand dollars more were then advanced, ian dee cae meee va ba ty tp gh An gl LS {de ard In all our intercourse nee, whether personally |” ‘This shows that Mr. Buchanan was inteut to ascertain | his want of priaeiple while wader his command. Ia hie | the F hat he Mckeciye paahien, wen cureaad wus te Seria of 1843; Thad not then “retired trem | Me. Duchanan's application to blie, repesting tne convert Sei deo itietied uf tne sulen price tthe date of hisier, | Whether “Mr. Clay's views were favorable” before he aes ae en See Se ee at & eee in . ~, BD v nev! > actverted to the subject, 2 ” ‘even trur 5 ‘politics to the shades of Blver Spring.” I was in the sation between them. Mr. Hevertp, in a leter ton (riead | ter ie Ste Loo pngetaasige: are pee ede apy wf gE ge ont oEMS A most ample provision, att was not wader lina, i jon. J iY recollect that - den! 4 ¥ a oar SRS Tepes weeks rest tn he reshorstion of rr fen | oon had oad. Tels betog duepuied, hie Bennie epee agate ara to, Mowry ay, oad hie fide: though | Rowor. | He told Major Eaton that was “pratiy well as, | Hh contence brought him tte dimeulues, but heed} tre cone Gener Eastin Pt eer tion yt py ts i « at lates heen i Conon wute of Guy" Statement, It is thus quoted } fej, s'reet, it might bave escaped my obser . Adams.”” Why, then, might he not make overtures ms pale a vous bore tems Comme, par back it & sold ay A 2, whieh would have aa " "7 nit - vatiqn. in a delicate way to Mr. Clay? He had urged Mr. Markley | ing Mr Duel . m : “caretully to arrange’’ Genoral Jackson's papers for Mr. Re ; Hanmirace, June 6. 1827 bs y/ _ . - P : it be had been a weak and timid President, aa Proof ofa | extinguished all the General's obligations, including tia. : 3 . 1825, & mem. 1 a ” . | doit. Mr. Markiey’s three tr ais had proved abortive, Bancroft. At the svggestion of Mr. Van Daren, in 1890 Sabla Vistek oe tae eet Cok ees ene (Gj | Laxcasten, August 8, 1907. Pha eee and he had gone to attend his courts im Peensylvania, unscrupuloas iniriguer, whose } loss, but his death having lef the d FAR-T mentioned Mr. Hancroft, communvcation he Ww jus to make to te, i arkl: y. A eons. , tnates: tor General Jockooh aa 'one who, if ho hed access | fgummuneauon he waa desirous fo male toi jit wae | wye'feend of Me Clap, maton that MrBuchanan came to | TS time of decision was approaching, and It the | hia a be promised Mr. Rives cuit 1 ' ‘ informed there was a great intrigue going on, and that It wae | the friend : sary, if any bargain could ack, to unite the great pers, Would mako thom usefal to the history of | right I should be informed of it; that he came as a f sand | bis roots, be believes, but cannot say with certainty, on - - > release of the movtgage to > Teo aeeaey, wad conuedt with, a momelr of bie Lie, it reeeve ihe commotion ae Tight the friendly mo: | the cor Tecember, 1824, He was alone, end repeats renee pee prey Ty hy ~ yt. ~ diverted them to purchase in Satan weed tak * ped woubl progent nny . . ‘i General . cam ben ew bso yo coed Genes Ieckeen toktne t, | change of iriendship. or feciing tn Tegard to him. Fo which | Syant ar ve poy Te dy Ry ‘Wr Adams jm Opa 1nd Major Eaton ‘retaring Wo go 10 Genera ae erceading ay towel . Reply, then, that he had premized the aso of his paper | jcr'oc Conareas, and ffom his upiiorm friemily. nai gous. | His recretary, and then continued his account of Sir. Bu- | %*KlOn. | contrived toe that e Mr. Washington, ye ws 5 to Mr. Kendali for the work ! proposed for Mr. Bancroft | manly conduct toward myself, Leould not suppose he would | cbanan’s conversa ion, thus:—. » i his fiend, Generel dnemmen, Precaems, tes a very large seen no ‘When I went ‘to the Hermitage “in 1843, sevon years | make an: communtontion it@ me which hesappose was im |, Me. Buchanan Hed that be hed written to, or received 9 friend Secretary, with “the safe precedent In hand Hermitage [St } ~~) (secoad to 7S proper: therefore, his mate, tet ine. ti etter fro aal friend in Pennaylvanin, i , presain, er ooo ervecinh, and the thought of obtaining. | mish ot the communication, my feelings towards him would | wuniect of te Presidential eleevon and caine apportments, | wo assure hit of the guccersion M crowned With success are 6 rege Totter to prevail = fo bis possession, an one ee | remain unaltered. The gentieman proceeded —He sail he | snd tha’ be had determined to eall pon the General himself, | by bis interposition,” could hardly fail to put Mr. De ihe lature of Fennosees to a for Mr. Bancroft, which was dismissed in 188, | io’ been informed by the frienda of Mr, Clay that {ne trien is | crio get Mojor Raten to mention to him the reports nat were | chapan In the line ‘of beiratl support wi wT ucnld tberese odie Gould not, under such circumstances, have occurred. | 6: My, Adams had made overtures to them, ‘stying if Mr. Clay | fn circulation, and obtain. rhe could, & comtradiction of them. | qhe Virginia triumvirate— Je! Madison, Monrae— }— Ky to him, a Lam certain that nothing was said during my stay at | and his friends would unite in the aid of Mr. Adams’ el Mr. Ruchay niso asked if I had seen Mr. Clay, and whether | 144 fe an official succession which ambitions politi for a diplo. ] such a letior y set Ge Rermtage tn referenes to changing the dlepentucn of | foe Dy. Uy otic be Heaceenry of State) ah ree Price te ot eee on? sealed earl hed ere Presidential | cians wore eager to emulate. Mr. Buchanas resolved to would havo eriaeed | Mr. Rives, entirely Af the dleg Aad {Se papers siready made by General Jackson, and it will | HT. Ciavte necede to We proportion, teat T'were vissted | had no convermation with hen on that ; bat sald | was | court the good graces of Mr. Olay, in which he had al- towards those who | wre I veang pon mt 4 ae be seen by the terms of the bejuest made in 184 President Mr. Adams would be continued Secretary of state, J anxious to get an opportunity to have a convergation with him, 3. He approached him with } made appeals to his kind Saelings, based. on servions ren 4 [elias “ae Scaasen Fepeeds after bgt that there fo me eres or that | finuendo, are, would be ne soem a Kentucky); that the | as i frites a s3 ent ait Se Boats vee oy en he had previ. was a amd ss . porary use em granted . , riends of Mr. Clay stated the West did not wish to separate tr. more ? thore great State s, to assiet Mr roit's historical labora. from the Weet, and if I would say, or permit soy of my | ous re ‘ham he did himself; that It was important not couse of gratitude. He Dean @in—t em. ber loter fidential to say, that in lected Pres | only f recess‘ of General Jackson's el that Mr. doubt, with | delayed areply, to BO EET F- ti 845) | ont, Sir. Adatos shoul Zot be costinued Secrersry ot state, | Clay shousl go with Pennaytrenta, But on account of ie ite os wetl ie. | yy! io om = by a complete union of Mr. Clay and his is they wonld | rior a {G'trence, Sombinteg hn Mowers, Polk, Buchanan Xion endl tothe Presideptial okeion inoue boar, And hobo: kepel Toree Meee y of the mand that . Lay oe te. ter, in irying, Jo. eal hay others, had defeated Mr. Van Buren’s nomination at Bal- | fioved it w; to fight such intriguers with their owa | was avother reason why he should like to soughe that y . timore, and concerted to supplant the @lobe by a nulll- reapons Tow me, in Substance, T replied, that in polities, iowe on ie Soon we q Te 4 Wey in laced it in the hands of ont way beta lee py be able to write you; but the expremwed Sy ‘Tabisased will of be people Jnakaon’s election, he ¥ ‘age on seppeimeny yA wend can live or die, T am your friend, {and never deserted one from | step into the Presidemtial chair; and a Goperel Zectae oa So suger, oe from Henty, enters into our projects papers ai! reputation in your keeping. Mr. Clay and his (for Tt did ‘ye; that be thought by 80 cca ey J oy Peer my — 1 kaow you will shiel ne =A) Clay, foo . the Fr ¥ and truly, your fr, more pon truth, nothing but before reac Mr 828 ivuih will mete to me: Alt tay: housdhold, Jorn me in | ot bervalaandorruption, T wool see | Clay. To boon three epochs in Mr. Buchanan's naa newer, ‘Wishes for your Bealth and prosperity, and that of all ow bene Be Clay and bis Lots myselt F Clay, at his ase ‘which mark his character, to ir family; and that you may tridmph over all enemics. May | they hed fon lemon in me bm ay hoy St and show devious his gourse, for five hag a jod's cho.cest blessings be bestowed w and yours | elected, that I would call to my aid in again, but be © ‘without regard to On Mr. hy Life, ta the prayer of your ainoere friend, first virtne, talent and integrity, not porary 7, con tary eelfish ambition, Pome ty ie oe re showing Yney the loan t Bale wed OB Brain, Ben. ANDREW SAOKSON. | Cuma day alter thls comm and vereation wi Tah Fa " eatee, bas beon the nar of tho T Siven’ they amounted to 872 6°0; wat Aer Com wing ap ‘This lelter, given at lengtl in that addressed by me to | Pe it the newspapers that Mr. may far pre aay ree, MR ee ean eaten 1 | pitrent to him ety for the eqenes ony | inet wor with Great Britala te gare all his ‘) 4 " . s BIGES Page wwe New York meeting in April tant, "exponing the” con: | fyi"ou te woyostioa aa hf Oar Dod with bi Wap OC Teer euerelgbaveaces, Ay ws | Po HE MF, Cay J clatosmea ng «prea down the adsuinistravion Maison, and give [corrinyBP ON BIG ae)