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Editorial tnorntnvr, ed , w re- a , nd, ill your pijJ' S ,.bkb htt rvlt'M 1 1 a c nitrkt j " AubK point, we sulj have drop ped the cCTtrovery, but we have under Hood, that St it rrpoited to give count) nince to ,lhe contradicted atatemeni of the Ttlegrsph, (bit Mr. J3crrien has r ceied leuer from Col Johoion, which ihew that e bitl no wtrridt for the .i . - I did nut ll)p a thil ou h.! inthnr lt l (lis repJfi. KicH itno.eJ on m uie neceii!y or fcivi : ja er.ct fiom Col. Juhniori't lejier- k Under wucl) n iinprf .iort, 1 would not bm hctidlnl to cttl on " oil to dlMjrow It. ,Tbe repurt, knew, at f.Ue, nd wai mctel tlrcuU ted to keep in countenance ( :he chifgc made 4nn the 1'rcii.Jcnt t'totil It couH wrk tome prejudice icilit blm' ln uo ntiMic mhd''I lld not uppyeUit Vau were an tcecisirjr In ihii tuilncn, and, thtrcfareaouiI Dotin.uli yon by tn'tpf Inference.- v urie I hive tiken witbreirird Hnion'a letter, grew out oCcir i which will jutiifr in to him ' ' aittnorice uieto pu K'i.i o!c. object wai, at 10 C C'J!.. . I iliiti hit once, to tit ,r : ; t,! 1 Vn id;nt of charge h ) 't r denlf, wt made ti toblm., l"e lake L j i l CoI.John.on, nf trigs likt.tUl now : :r;v::. . ,,l,,,a : . " tm:u'ediohirn. Tk"7 ,7. s . : !. WW con,.,..,., w.. t'T -v. ..J. ... i tourMll mI Cl. Johnaon, I shall rer Jickwn;neir luthoriied mo to require ,.ii. .H.,v-rt I , a.s.i.-,... til , . II . I ""J ' iiiiu.iiv u foci-, imercourie, c. C. .. iwif ,.a nrd. from making an n.,tU or 7. ' r wtil c.K..!. 1 n ,! of r.if CU.h. which ihi o-iMiuu I'-Mlii.ll- l - (';, f , to inttfff ri , kt oily i 1 J lid m r. ! i ii'i tic liJiniony trgy gruundi upon Jed, iro aub tUim the iiiht .liner, in the di paper, irc ,i!fcum!inre to rilicUimed It f I told - the pirtie io " These are the vordt of ibe Cot. to the wore, point, md letter. . If thi doei not itWfr, we mutt refer the parties miking the charge, .to the ttuocss called by tbem.w ' - The reference thus made to m, ren Aert U necetsart, tbt I should submit ;be following oberfi'ions to' the 'public, end will imperfect statements.' I am, Sir, your obedient serrant, F.' P. BLAIR. ': t. . ., f ;ifr, Dcrriai to Mr. Blair. VV4jaiatwa,2tnh JeLf, 1831. .Sij Your-mu of yewerdajr, was re ceifcd under . circumstances which ore d I have accordingly to that you unled my Immediate .ttentioo toh. II gI,e them . place In four p.pe-. ft (0 J 0 cor.ecl I bare not authoriied the report of h.;ilM1 nIA .srh , iV. which ou srek, and I would have told 1 . l V 1. """iTl" ,BU' -;,K,.,.K;ll,.t0n.if.r,uh.rfln,i r"1 r91" J0 77:"": : 1; ' : : l D,f e n 10 M calculated to mnuad maiCU II (iiixuvv w ins. sua, ui ii a course would bae been tnore conform Me to the views of Col. Johnson, I infer from the following, considerations i I have letter from that gentleman, in which after stating bis object, and mo tires, in seeking, the interview, which . . . .... r.t . n. t . ... a . I !T 1 -e n l T VT , M..nd, explicitly declared, tb.t be nciowiiB Wc ... """U'aimrd to you, at the time when you n.ir ka nrnrf.ih in rrmiik Ijll1 hi ' ' M .,.., .V,.v - - - - WCrem communication with Uol John pts noi mmic'i in the public I extract from your note the following sentence i 44 My sole object was at once, to clear the akirts of tbe President from charge which you are well aware ought not to be attached to him for you hatches I uo mesiia rr I , ,r ici .i1 Intercoune of any mciiiiiir ( f rot Catmet, nor hate lis l inny nwnitcr DticmpteJ It, fcc. C. ift'.he c '(;,cJuk i cf the same ailifucai)! uli in . i . , a h ' tjtcji he h uiitJ to call tour attention. he sin, n tl,- r'eaulf "of the' matter. . V a. . ' a. . i. m a . " xoeMottr. ti.w. I kounht thl Interview, io'faVule yi if litre i any iruiFl in the trporrthat vol hare entered inirv the combination cfired, to drive Maj. Eton fiom n CahiiVt, thjt 1 tifl.lt an iodic nitt and In.uli iflcreil it uivaelf. and bf cbaittr tct will be conidered of.' ;.l Ins I tbe f-tujnd on hich this mat ter wj placet!. b the PreUdent In hit ntetvio .wttu y j in ihv'beinr.ing o hq dilTuuhics. ' And from it, andlhe ab -u'e asteveration of CoL Johnson. ered my ai.te if nt, that tou were ? ' n vae ht the Prektdeot declaimed .l ii mii fj "rf:re and dictate the so lijl i I'm member of t ranted. . Tiut I am . aaid that you, y the President C -, pukition of tl.e t , extract which 1 r. Ilavinj; thus dispose i cf the pper to which you refer, and i!.co that this cn furnish no ground for your understand- in?, of what i was or.was not awsro of, ctdvd and fallowed the fommijnication, wa aUo latmcdiatcTy redated to vrriilpf , and connected witit the do wnunt read to you, trial itoihiiii; in in it uit to ra- i, tbt family ot nv et, 14 if fottl war- n ranted in having , had declared that I to you any dia ?fiear from the o f i letter of your own, cow tcLie t..e. After recan liuiaiing a cooversatton rt your own, held with Col. Johnson, fthe ter.r.r cf which you inform roe it to be adi . td between you and bim.l aod-make dent i : v f- " In lh interview xk which I wit In. vlted by the Presided, some few days afterwards, 1 frankly a pressed to him myi '. .i . . . I J' . a. t A Tiers oo mis suoieci, ana ne oiaci.irneu any disposition to press such reouisip lion. I if it becomes r.c u ry In this vou have allusion to the wrft iournalist, you will of course, setae tbe ten declaration read to you by the PrtAl occasion to correct your error; you can, at - tw ft w. . . a - . z ..i.tia a ana. tura.ai dent, which can bear too other intertf e no rJouoi ae mis, ia rciiuw i i yv i.in iK.n ik.t .k'wk h... ALaJk 1 1 nr. which VOU bsVO PUCCO BO IDUCO ICII man ssfw w WaM W WW UP f W as ff '' a atD in this eitract. . .. , . iance.by e direct appeal to the President, In both the nointa presented h mfc. in who Will not, I Ibintc auinofiM me S'ate i r 7 v i . : a he extract quoted in your latt nine, I Intent, that that paper vm tTtr inown io feel mrs'elf fuilr suitalned br thedocu I me. .However this since I never saw It, ana Its conientiicoiicctiui.. ll cir uukui r i at a remote were never communicated to ine, 1 ad I period shocd m'aLe ' refer cere to It ne . tert next'to vour sureesiion, that this iccisary. Viih ree r'l to u transaction so understanding is warranted by Col. John-1 recorded, and vouched by the concurrent " ,1 ' .1 It .1.1. . t .1 ... J ... .c ' SOn a posture esseserajun, ujuu inn icauiuuuy vi iuuk conauneu on mo oc . lubiect, ! have already told the public,! casion, rrr tun It nft a A man' tbrpugh- you, ""tLat'I consider rnystlf memory fni)rtdlifiicterf.us when the ; . bound br the Implied understanding re. men' himself is boneit. I am willing to sultin? from ml". correspondence wlthlbclieve this is your esse, ion lave in- that gentleman, ootio publish any state.-J noceotlr ft poll en the detfjra'i'H)' rYiade' '-r: mrnt of tha conversation which (ncorred by tbe President, wbfeb standi auihentic between blm, Messts.: Branch and Ipg lsted, 'at 1 have told you, as well as the, ham and mrstlf, until be ahsll have bad the communication of the same purport a reasonable time to reply to my letter. Irnide to you by CoL Johnson. , " . . I told you, at the aime time, that any I tm obliged to relv on this written rt" departure from this understanding, which corafof a fact rather than on your memory , 1 was embodied by that gentleman, .would especially when I find this positive proof ' absolve me from la obligation. I still confirming tbe statement of CoU John . adhere to this View, and content myself, son, that the President disclaimed any -at presenf, with repeating In reference to lighL or desire' to interfere with the prlv ' that of which von suppose me to be well vale associations df vourself or rourfatail aware, that I have io such knowledge; and that vou knew it. The time rouit speedily arrive whee this , ocxf otC(J your o;o writtenadroU. ' forbearance will be, no longer esssry. fi tmgtmoR ',h, lt.,eroenl 0f Colonel Ynue next reference is to a. letter of A .. .j .t mine to Mat. baton, wbicn yon say, it I Prk,lA Tt In I K aw favllywaif rrm wavfa4 14 law . In your possession.. As you have pui lh nleew l0 whicb WM iafhti b. Itbed .an extract-you are oounu ,o K'V lhe prf ,i(fen, .ome few da v afterwards., . - ..a. AhAia Iia ka wikuwajaai - ' w m the correspondence-. ... . " rafter Col. Johnson's visit.! I franilr ex. done, it ia very eaay toaee m.iyou enu - . . . , -n relv raisuoderstood the expression which . t,. j.t.s ........ you have quod-that a ditctaaer ol eji h requisition.-.' ' ' . (mention to ira e requi.hbn, is e whol- r different thing, fiom a denial otcver , -v v. .u hsvintf made ii-and that in .using this V1." I ""'" V,noi' r 4 rion, UpuW not have had allu.ion X rcnt tbInRt from a debial of ever vtr teen orheard f ' ' . wj a w .a V l t i inougnt nor, in mis oecause no men itll the President disclaimed to him any -. : are .holly unM;;ai" f" V'VS?!? cire to control your domestic ffJlra,or; V of your a: pri.tt. in,ercoure, end he told you - r v liuDwbichroua-. VJ'JJ Tbe record of what the President sal to , , without autho.ry. . d which will be me . , , . . ..... a. . f :.Lf..i I TOU a a launiui r . , ....... i interfere m ino ujiuci.it ,hi.iwii or personal iotercourte ol any member of his Cabinet and, in allusion to the same conversation, you-n' bo "UlaimeJ sny disposition to press auch a ; requisi tion." Wben uo such refuitJ;ion bad a, a, aTa A ' I ' . been made bv vol .onnsonj wnen ne I. necessity, or m,. ,c .. : I .kUi. t i.. v- I uittmnnv ta the trut pivprieiy.oi y w.ww-aMcra, hjrn , ' . fore you lndt tru: o"ill ajtocon- controversy nor see snouto consioer f M)il,s l0 y0u, that you have been i en- "hich have made. Having thfts justl KreBl OUICCl 1UWII v ...v vv.. :,,. , ,, tt,, . K-M r an,i ham. I ma ,n rni. versation correctly, tor wnlch purpose, a , .hi.yir.ni. ... j Irlmt mw rnr,runAnre with ion : .... ,..... ........vv. i - -v -rrrr"--' - i .. j .:,.. I by any declaration ever made by me ; 1 ni Wr, your obedient servant, truoe myaeii uncaucu lawifS ua.ined bebray-ibe public, other 1 1 - r. lypurtin,. I .aitj vwyntiw eMlciulit-- oroof. that no aucb requisition ownxircni ; . !. 1 waa cm uiiua w-y-""'""" jur. mar I c I bea r t bis 70U th President made Done , an4 : - r king Political effecS IrectlynrecUr I . , . t.T. - ..,)!, t i om unuersiance our oBfciaiauuu,ui - . ;.f r tv.' . jmust either apeak or "fT ..wquWlWIw ife public to be mislead. 1 have a su.,Jcni his views were made known in- that letler, -i-ordet that,.ao y mix'l u dlL ! Dili" &, might be corrected. Acquiescing In tbe propriety of this ,autjir,f ;ion, I immedi ately communicated to Col. Johnson, a statement of the conversation , referred to, as It was very ilUtinctly ImpressfTd noon mv memory, and sufficient time has not yet elapsed, I beliete to author ias me to expert an answer in the reg ular course of the mail. However this may be I hsve not received any. Indei pendewly therefore of my reluctance to appear before the public, in relation to any matters connected whh the dhsolu lion of the late cabinet, e . reluctance lilomcrprris such , i .. dcclaraUon-tii)t litJ, TZZZ - e - J awl.. a. I UllUt IUWH iv$raweeww : sense oi wnansuuo wiu.w, ..w. , R . . ri7hra"rT?r."ou haVw . WW IH,.UIl..'l'W"VJ T and -vhII waauiiting il-lo Ije-youv wish-1: represent this matter truly to tbe public, I am under the necessity of asking you to give publicity to this note.; 1 am, very respectfully, Sir, your o!xd'i. scrv't. JNO M.CPHKKk'ON BKRRIEN. - To KhsmCI'. P. I!lair, Er. Editvr of the Gtobet aBllla. Mr. Blair to 'Mr. Berrien. W4Shti.to.x, Jrtx 20, 1331. Iiri Yournoteof this morping will i be given immediately to the press. In inTieTCwmxorpertnirine tot Mr. Berrien to Mr. Blair. the performance or my duty. J I . . . a.il . t- I WaaiusdTos, 20th Jclt, 1831. m, very respecuuiiy, air, your o.s- Sir i I have this moment received 0W"Mrvam. vour note, in answer to rriia'e of thia date. I make no apology for continuing this correspondence, although you intimate aj ish to conclude it, because it will be readily understood, that it ia in your chiracier aa a public journalist, and not as an individual, that I address vou. I exercise a right, therefore, which, as the JN. MACpHERSON BERRIEN. To Fbancis P. BLAiij Esq. Editor of the Globe. v . ' Mr. Blair to Mr. Berrien. VV . Washiiiotow July 21, 1831. it. If tbe President had-rjgnined to you, . directly or indirect ly, that be required ' you to compel your - family to assoclalf witli anyone, contrary "to thefr will" and . yours, you would not, as a man of honor have waited for an invitation to Tesign. You would hsve thrown your commission -in the face of the President, and said to him, 5!r?J am no longer adviser or at Sit i Your last letter was received late f socfate wittv a man who requires me to Jruiiii - i'a Lnieht. when the Qlobe yy.mrl4Haiitiac.tmr ,tatlf-andfamilyihoui Editor of a public journal, you can with for the Dress. To eive it insertion with I h. ,h Pridcnt of the. U. States!!" In no propriety withhold, when 1 claim the! the correspondence which preceded it,Lm,, .nh!ic character I had a cuuranteo insertion of this note in tbe same ptper rendered it necessary that 1 ahould defer (na. you W0UJ not, for tbe sake of youc ' which conveys your own communication the whole until this day, and substitute honor, salary and emoluments, as A tif t' to the public. , ' other matter previously aat up, for my nef General, sink your character as a man I rep at the quotation from your note paper. . " bv tamelv liitenine to auch a requisition ' ' " of yesterday ' Without adverting to tbe pecial plead vft. kj, . s. u imoossible to hen ve that tb3t you My sole object was at once to clear ing of 'your letter,' in which, being no you couid have listened to such a requisi e implies- ,he 8kirtsof the President of a charge, la wyerjha ve no ki 1 cismo et once tion.;.dUmlaa'ed jOTf-.felf'I,Pcct :or ' ' to be at whTch you aire welf aware oughfnoTVo He' to the poirt. You take itsuo sgainw ftb otten vour Southern honor and humbly which could only be yielded to my own reference to the subject of which it treats, strong conviction or the propriety ot sucn vou fj0 mc Dui justice when you say that a measure, I bare thought that the.un- Im'ih to represent thii matter truly to erstancing implied in tne correspon uhe public." You will permit me, there dence, to which I have r fired, would oe fore, briefly to show the ground on which violated, by publishing a statement of I felt myself authorixed to say that you wnat passed at toe interview in qucuion, vere veil ware," that the charge Jintu it could .be. accompanied av. tne rer j in. be President, ought not inarda of Col. Johnson, on that which I. ,,rhed t0 him, and that you had yourself a((achcd t0 him ; for you h,ve, as I urr me, by declaring that no ,uch fiafier a, boWed L ntmnc, reverence to the man hid transmitted to him. A departure explicitly declared that he disclaimed ders,amI, declared that he declaimed to that quoted by me a, ever read to you ho had insulted you, until polittly invl- Irnm tkiat i,nelrc fainHiniv. hw that fefsl If! - ika r.Aa ar.tatal a.. L! . . - . ' J ... V J I ,,v aueuiivw. J ' T . . u...-..v...b, -7 - Hu.K ....pu.vu .u ....... y0Ut lhe IJrne wnen vou were ineom l,evnto uouor,fioken of to you." And you Ied to resign I It is impossible that you man .himseir, would ol Icourte .relieve me As to the first branch of this statement, munication with Col. Johnson, any de- fu her say, that the President twtf nor, you could bury such in lou1t, profess to b H orn us obligation,. Hut Irom t hejpor whicb. y0 not ,eero Erectly ,0 coh- sign like that now imputed Jo him think authorize the atatement that that pa- the -. frieftrj " of the President, Jnake 4lt myour editorial article inler, that the ,rort, have t0 support me the posi- Thefirst remsrk which I have to her toarevcr ,hcwn to fyou. sneech that vou did recently In Georgia aa oi pumisnin? tne extraci.om nis lei tjre writieirdeclarathm of Colr-Johnsorn maktrunihrrrjorationT rwitrrrefereTTTf nCnheTelwenTnvhich-! alTeThEd now thft y5u"ireoat of fther tcr, is not anthonred by him. in which he says that the President al- to vour obaeriation. that I do not secnTto nredicated unon Col. .Joknann'a lutr. Li.. .-c. .w:,k vour 6wn therefore at Dresent. to the uu-.a k . ..i.:.s. ..j ' .u. ' ...... L .i.:. 1... " Ir.a , """ "L V Z , w u" " w,,,v'" V ' ' ..t.: , . . , J " v.a .vuiamun, aiuu i L'uilliUTcii wic urn urinm ui ii.ia aiaic I was IllJcacnci in your SCCOna note, I Shame. fNo Sir 00 SUCH . prcj'wa.MW.i -t inai ne ioiu you . ucaiucs mis, i i I adhere determination have I ment, is the following made the appeal to the President, which I was ever made to you ; you lad no cause. . . ."nmitrjnnarTOurojecrflrTTUotiOTt-tr,, me, , the hanowrilinK of Ihel Fuur assertion thai was well aware vou seem to think 1 ought now to make. ,n ,ni7;, .r.k.T.idenf i voU eolCF ich he that the charge against the Presidfntj to He immediately put into my hands the hzed him In public and private, and you nnliats, is to present nothing to your rea ders. which is not true, and not lo with hold from them, that which is so, I take the liberty of sugresiinR, as well to the editor of the Telegraphy as to yourself, the propriety of abstaining from any par tial and imperit statements of the con versation, whf jV.occurred at the inter view in questWil The delusion pro duced by such statements, must be spee dily corrected f'buruwit that eorrectibn Is made, their effect is to mislead the pub; !ic mind,' on a subject of awakening inter tst to the American people.. . . . I am, very respectfully, . Sir, your oh't serv't, - - JNO. MACPHERSOtf BERRIEN. To Francis P. Blais.' Es. " " Tf r Editor of tbe Globe. J Mr. Blair' to Mr. Berrien. Washington, Jcm 19,1831. IJEAR Sir l I have this moment received your let ter, to which 1 will give immediate pub- President, the identical paper, wh read to yourself, and Messrs. Brunch and which you referred, ought not to be at original memorandum which he wrote, I would pladlr have acted as Attorney Gen- Ingnam, and which presented the atd- Itached to him, was made exftrettly torett I and which he read to Messsrs. Branch, tude that he thought it his duty to as-1 upon your under Handing.- that I had ex Ingham and yourself I and I am now ex suroe in relation to the circumstances plicitly declared, that he thc'P.esident pressly authorized to state again, that in which affected the harmony and charac- (disclaimed to me, any design. .When, I the interview referred to in mr note and ter of his Cabinet. The course which j therefore, I told you, that auch a state fin vour own letter, quoted therein, Ae he thought proper then to acopt, was i ment was not warranted by any declare- held in hti hand and read to you the iaicr predicated on information given him by j Hon ever made by me and of courselVom which I have given the extract, .ml mmhfr of Concrrca. ahowin? I that vour lindratanIina. win nor rnrrrrl.! mhirh vm, . in n.vr raaA 'tk... -.. ifiaTa'cftmblrta i r. u.ImK m mt ro a 1 1 an1 I h a nthftft n nt la I hawtrsrv anw Bt.vU lr nntaUlsHr caw I K aa l k ! t. I L 14 .:. -..If L . I tA4 ft s fa m VNad w It rfilW InC IliW ' men named were concerned, to disgrace! you had imputed to me. In more di I Veai'deftf, he will again ewtziiTanrfrraJ ment that you denied eral to the end of bis bdmtr.istratiori. had you not been invited to resign. But the circumstances under which T the harmony the late Cabinet waa re. toredr repel thee inference; which you will havri it, in your last note, that the extract from votir letter to Major Major Laton and coerce, ;hts dismission, tmct terras, however, if that be - possr to you Are original document,-It -was pre-, ajiy participation in the? political com- j--from the Cabinet. After a prefaratory hie, I now renew that declaration. I pared by him' in contemplation that the bination to drive M jor, Eton froca ' v. verbal explanation oC dhe reasons indue- have no such knowledgeNay, more, interview might lead lo an immediate' the Cabinet the usual courtesies were? i ing the interview, the President proceed Sir ; I have no knowledge of he paper, dissolution of his Cabinet, and it was in reca, t t. without ' ' ed to sav. that if it were true thai you "in the band writing of the President," tended by him to record the basis he as "eu mfnS memucro:,wuwu , . - . . s - t-j..,...u -r -n,s-k k. . .k;-k -r- ...-k , -a jus inj association between tneir resucv- nnu iuhcii me .uui si. ui nuivii uo uvi i TTU1V.U fuajsiui ..ubuv.ii paper wujisuiiicu in uuiug an at. I wnicn IIIVOIVVO ... , lis he felt himself called on to make the de even-ead to me, or shewn to me, or spo bis own character and the interests oj; Ke" jilics. Major Laton - wouia c'aration which he read to you from hi. .ken of ttrme. If it had be. n, 1 should the country. The paper thus prepared J . e as reluctant to rftcetve vis written memorandum, in which he sys most certainly not now have had ocea by the t resident, was communicated . . a : & r that it was, using his own words, ?tof pnly unjust ii itsdlf, butilghly disre sptciful ta me" Xlhc I'rcbidcntJ 44 and sion to address myselt to the public on the time to several of his Inencls, whom ' thu subject, through the columns of your I he consulted on the occasion. And Uu paper. substance of the conversation which pre- 'ters, driven into his doo' by the pow r of the President, as they could pot iibly . httve'bfeen to submit to iqcH tvH anny 5c tlegradatioB. Ilis house ff9, 9 .J I f . '-it ' t':M v 7" e , . . . . I '-t -.y ' v,.v :.J,-c;-,',,,,. p-;-.; .-, . I j .5w:4i''