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due, in justice, to him to s.iy, that I bulievc Gen. Jackson hud no friend tnoro zealous and hon est in his cause. Whatever may be his present feelings, 1 know from his own declara tions, that he was early and de cidedly enlisted in favor of his re-election. Wis own interest evidently lay in that direction, as I believe his views of public policy did. If he has since changed his opinion, many cau ses may be found, in what has since transpired, without attri buting it to any imaginary influ ence over him, on my part, when it must be apparent to all, with the whole power and patronage of the government, against me, I had nothing through which to exercise it. Having corrected the errors of Mrij. Eaton's statements and inferences, wherever he has de scended into particulars, it only remains to repel- his general charges and insinuations, which 1 do by a direct and positive contradiction. It is not true, that I attempted to exercise any control in the formation of the late Cabinet, or to influence its patronage, or that 1 made any attempt to embarrass the admi nistration in the Senate, or else where, or am any way respon sible for the dissolution of the late Cabinet, unless indeed the refusal of Mrs. Calhoun to visit IVIrs. Eaton on grounds exclu sively connected with the digni ty and purity of her sex, or the vindication of my character against an unprovoked and un founded attack, should be con sidered sufficient to render me responsible. These are my on ly offences. In truth the re verse of all these general char ges and insinuations is true. Gen. Jackson never consulted me, as to the formation of his Cabinet. He was even then, as it now appears, alienated from me, by means, which have been explained on a former occasion. As he did not consult me, I had too much self and regard for the dignity of the office I held to in trude my advice; while the dis interestedness of my particular friends freed me from all solici tude on the score of patronage. As a body, they neither sought, nor desired ofTice. The most prominent of them, those who had taken the most decided and effective part in favor of Gen. Jackson's election, had openly avowed their determination not to take office. In supporting him, they were actuated by fiir different, and much more eleva ted motives, than the low and sordid ambition, that looks to power and patronage. Their object was to maintain princi ples which they believed to be essential to the liberty and hap piness of the country, to restore the administration of the Gene ral Government to the true prin ciples of the Constitution, and to arrest thut course of events, which was rapidly bringing the great interests of the country into the most dangerous con flict; and so much higher did they hold these considerations, thou the elevation of anv man to power, that, as is well known, pending the election, while zea lously supporting Gen. Jackson, they refused to ndv.mo,, i.: terest by the least abatement of ..-.. a. m me maintainancc of their principles. Nor is the charge of embarrassing the ad ministration less remote from truth. 1 was most anxious for the success of Gen. Jackson's administration; and, though I saw much, I couId not approve, ct I continued to give him my a"Pport, whenever I possiblv could, consistently with my du ty. That such was my course, I appeal with confidence to all who were intimate with me, to the members of the body over which I fireside, and especially to the two Senators from Ten nessee, both men of great saga city, and both having ample op portunities of forming a correct opinion of my course. In fact, every consideration, public and private, of honor, duty and in terest led me to desire the suc cess of Gen. Jackson's admin istration. 1 had contributed all in my power to the success of his election and felt, to the full, the obligation, which it imposed. It is with pain, that I have forced myself to touch on the prominent subject of this com munication. The question in volved in Mrs. Eaton's relation to the society of Washington, belonged, I conceived, exclu sively to her sex, and could not be involved in political conside rations, or drawn into public discussion, without painful eon sequences. I acted on these views in my correspondence with Gen. Jackson. 1 could not be ignorant of the use made of it by those, who by their art ful machinations have placed Gen. Jackson and myself in our present relations; but the desire to do nothing on my part that could lend to draw the question from the tribunal to which it properly and exclusively belong ed, refrained me from making the least allusion to it, in the correspondence, though calcu lated to throw light on the con troversy between us, and to strengthen me in the conflict. J. C. CALHOUN. From the Globe. Letter from the licv. F.S. Evans. Mr. J3laik: Sir As it is fully in mv pow er to substantiate the statement of Air. Katun, relative to Mr. and Mrs. Calhoun calling upon Mr. and Mrs. Eaton, 1 herewith furnish you with the facts as they occurred. Mr. Eaton was married on Thursday the 1st of January. On Monday the 5th, Mr. Calhoun's carriage drove up to the door of Mr. O'Nnal, and enquiry was made for Mr. and Mrs. Eaton. On heim told that the had pone to Phila" dolphin, Mr. and Mrs. Calhoun's cards were handed to the ser vant, who brought them in and gave them to my wife. These, with many others left during their abser.ee, were handed to Mr. and Mrs. Eaton on their return. F. 8. EVANS. October 29, 1831. From the Telegraph. The Globe says, "Mr. Cal houn must designate he must classify and specify and tell the public, to what illustrious circle it is indebted for the great vic tory that has been achieved in favor of the morals of the coun try." Wo will specify a few, and in addition to the families of Mr. Calhoun, Mr. Ingham, Mr. Branch, and Mr. Berrien, named by the Globe, we give those of the two Senators from South-Carolina, of the Speaker of the House of Representa tives, of three gentlemen from Tennessee, the accomplished lady of the Dutch Minister, the tactics of the President's own fa mily, and we might add many others over whom Mr. Calhoun could exercise no influence. In fact, we might here add the ac complished ladies of Nashville, who, in spite of the President's personal efforts, refused to re cognize her. We do this t. prove that the refusal to associ- ate with Mrs. Eaton did not ori ginate in a political intrigue. Who can believe that the Presi dent's own private Secretary, his adopted son, or that Mrs. Jackson's adopted daughter, the child of her affections, would have become parties to such an intrigue, having for its object the expulsion of Gen. Jackson from office!! It is impossible. Yet the fact we name is notori ous, and cannot be denied; and it proves that there must have been some other cause to which the opinion of society is to be attributed. o p: je.sz. JJ. m 11 - K.'-.-TTTT.'" . u.. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1831. (QVA'1-' are requested to announce Major Wiiitmel Iv. Bi;i.luci:, as a candidate at the next election for the ofiico ol ' Shci iflfof this count)-. Fvreign. lly the ships Silas Ri chards at New-York, and the Courier at Charleston,- Loudon papers to the 25th S'pt. (four days laltM than the previous advices,) have been received. The substance of the intelligence they contain, it is said, is this The Re form hill pa-sed the British llouc of Commons, on the 2'Jd. by a trium phant majority: for the bill 347, a pinsl it 23S on the same day it was carried up to the House of Lords, w lie re it was read a first, and order ed to be read a second time on the 2G!h. Tranquility had been restored in Parison the 22d the Chamber came to the following decision: "The Ch amber, satisfied with the explana tions given by ihc ministers, and confiding in their solicitude for all which interests the honor and dignity of France, passes to the order of the day." Upon a division, there ap peared in favor of passing to the or der of the day, 221; against it, 136; majority in favor of ministers, So. M. lVrier, the Trench prime minis ter, alluded, in the cojic of his speech', to an intended disarmament throughout Europe. There is again every appearance that the peace ofEu ropc will be maintained. (TIn the preceding columns our readers will find Vice-President Cal houn's reply to Maj. Eaton also, the statement of tyr F, S. French, brother-in-law of Maj. Eaton, relative to the stated call of Mr. and Mrs. Cal houn on Mr. and Mrs. Eaton. It appear?, however, that Mr. French's statement is not predicated on his own knowledge of the circumstance lo which he alludes at the time speci fied he was not married to Miss O' Neal, neither was he a resident of the District Mr. Calhoun, it will be seen, fully corroborates the statements of Messrs. Ingham, Berrien, and Branch, relative lo the origin of the distentions which led to the dissolu tion of the Cabinet. But, the Washington Globe has re cently made a declaration which gives quite a different complexion to this affair it says: "The President is entitled to honor for his Homan firmness, in having required his own personal friends to leave their offices, when he found that the harmony of the Government demanded it." The general impression has been, that the resignations of Messrs. Van Buren and Eaton were voluntarily giver., and that those of Messrs. Ing ham, Berrien, and Branch, were re guired of them. If the Globe is cor rect, and we presume no person will question the statement as it assumes to speak by authority, it will go far to convince those who have been scepti cal on this point, that in this as in all his other official acts, the President "has done nothing for which we should abandon him." (CPWe find in the Raleigh Star, the following "Proposals for publish ing in the City of Raleigh, pursuant to the wishes of a great portion of the Baptise Church throughout this Stale, under the management of an associa 'ion of gentlemen of that denomina tion a religious newspaper, to be en ii tied The Messenger of Peace, and Aorth-Carolina Evangelical Her ald. It "will be printed with new, fair type, on a large sheet of fine white paper, in quarto form, to be is sued monthly, at one dollar per an num. Any person procuring five sub scribers, and enclosing the amount ot subscription to the Editors, shall re ceive a sixth copy gratis. Agents will return subscription lists by the 1st of January next, directed to the "Editor of the Messenger of Peace, Raleigh. Another Convention. -The Lite rary Convention assembled at New York on the 31st ult. John Quincy Adams was unanimously called to preside over its deliberations. This surely "iust be the "age of Conven tions. Tariff Convention. This body adjourned on the 1st inst. Previous adjournment the number of mem bers had increased to 509. The Con vention appointed a Committee to prepare a Memorial to Congress adopted an address to the people of the United States, &c. The address is said lo fill about 100 pages of man uscript we learn, from the N.Y. Cou rier, that the following are its princi pal features: Mr. Ingersoll, from the com mittee who were appointed to prepare an address to the peo ple of the United Stales, read the report. The address affirms the constitutionality' of the Ta rill", and presents numerous ar guments in support of this prin ciple. It states that since the adoption of the Constitution, the right to give protection to any particular branch of our do mestic industry was not ques tioned until very recently that every Congress which held a session since that period, ac knowledged the power of gran ting this protection that the success of our shipping interest is entirely due to a protective system that at present ninc tenths of the people of the Uni ted States believe in the consti tutionality of ihc system that it was the system followed in every part of the world between one nation and another. It further states that during tile last ten years, fifty millions have boon invested by Pennsyl vania, Ohio, and New-York all the value of which invest ment depends on the trade and production growing out of the manufacturing system. It is believed, however, that the Ta rill' act of 1828 was in some measure, and iu some of its de tails, the work, not of its friends, but of its enemies. It is denied that it cannot be amended that it cannot be made better than it stands at present but it is believed that this is the worst time to touch its important de tails while its very existence is tbreatened. 1 he moral influ ence of manufactures was ex amined and treated in a few words. In the conclusion the address touched the question of the national debt, and the di sposition of submitting to pub lic opinion the propriety of re ducing the public revenue in such parts as do not conflict wiih the principles of protec tion. It admits that the public mind is leaning towards a judi cious reduction of that revenue, and closes with considerable force and eloquence, "united we stand divided we fall;" The following propositions were submitted to the consideration of the Convention: Mr. SajLinders, of Albany, of fered a resolution, that a com mittee be appointed to inquire what bounties ought to be given on the production of materials used in manufactures in this country. Some discussion on the constitutionality of bounties look place, winch ended in lay ing the resolution on the table Mr. French, of Albany, of fered a resolution which went lo propose the appointment of a committee to petiiion Con gress that a portion of the reve nue which was the result of thc Tariff, might be applied to thr; purchase of young slaves ot from 5 to 12 years of age. A& sooner were the words of tjjs resolution heard than it excited a general burst of indignant feelings several motions were made at once to lay it on the tn ble. Mr. Ingersoll ut hniTij, obtained a hearing, and in a short speech denounced the r(s solution in the strongest terms as unjust, as cruel and insuhino- to the Southern btates. nnd proposing a flagrant breach of the Constitution, in oflerinr tn purchase slaves from our fellow citizens of the South with their own money. The mover eould scarce get a hearing, but hav. ing protested against any Sucj intentions as seemed to hnvo been imputed to his resolution i i , i i immediately witmirew it, amidst loud applauses from all parts of the Hall. Nat Tamer. We learn fir.mt:.. Petersburg Times, that this Moarf. thirsty fanatic was to have been exe cuted on Friday last. Numerous statements have been nublishnl i -- --- - , pecting Nat's conduct, confessions, &c. We copy from the K.deijdj Star me -louowing particulars, caiciully collected from several authentic lei ters, published in the Richmond Com pilerand Norfolk licacon: On the examination, saya orm letter, Nat "gave apparently, with great candor, a history of the operations of his mind for many years past; of the signs he saw; the spirit lie conversed with; of his prayers, fastings, and waU hings, and of his super natural powers and gifts, in cu ring disease?, controlling the weather, &c. These he consi dered for a long time only as a call to superior righteousness; and it was not until rather more than a year ago that the idea of emancipating the blacks enter ed his mind. How this idea came, or in what manner it was connected with his signs, &c. I could not get him to explain in a manner at all satisfactory notwithstanding I examined him closely upon this poiut he always seemed lo mystify. He docs not, however, pretend to conceal that he was the author of the design, and that he im parted it to five or six others, all of whom seemed prepared with ready minds and hands to en gage in it. These were they who rendezvoused in the. field near Travis's. He says, their only arms were hatchets and axes at the commencement that he entered Tr by an upper window nQc through his chamber, and going ihrough the outer door into the yard to his followers, told them that the work was now open to iiij. juq ot tfiem, Hark, went into the house and brought out three guns they then corn- "iisiiicu ineir norrid butchery, he, Nat, civin the first blmv with a hatchet, both to his mas ter and mistress, as they lay a slecp in bed. He says that in discriminate massacre was not their intention after they ob tained foothold, nnrl t ttro r- sorted to in the first instance to strike terror and alarm. Wo men and children would after wards have been spared, and iuu wno ceased to resist.' Another left rvnt states that there was no concert of an insurrection- tlmt Ut AU iMl II V i mention thn sons about the months of April or May last, and that no other person knew any thing about his plans, until the day previous to the attack which was com--
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