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THE JOURNAL.
N4CKtu-twtaI,b.utlha( of Kouit.
THURSDAY JULY 10, 1845.
FOR CONGRESS, GEORGE P. 1J. WILSON.
Whig Candidate for the Legislature, CONRAD BAKER, ESQ.
OrWe are authorized U announce ft'H. M. WALKER, as a Candidate for re-election for Sheriff of Vanderburgh County, at the August Election, pis fee $2 07-We are requested to announce SAMUEL T. JENKINS, as a candidate for reelection for the office of Clerk of the Van derburgb Circuit Court atthe August electionC$)r5 fee $- - We are authorised to announce EBEN D. EDSON, of Posey County, as a candidate for Prosecuting Attorney, for the Fourth Judicial Circuit. O-We are requested tQ announce ALVIN P. HQVEY, of Posey county, as a candidate for Prosecuting Attorney, for the Fourth Judicial Circuit. pis fee $2 (t- We are authorized to announce ZA-
CHARIAH B. AYDELOTT, as a Candi
date lor SheritTof Vanderburgh county, at the next August election.
Mr. Editor: We have prevailed upon
Mr. John Echols to become a Candidate for Assessor of this county. You will please
announce him accprdingly. MANY VOTERS.
MEDICAL LECTURE.
Dk. D. S. Lane will deliver the Quarterly
Lecture before the Evansyille Medical Speie
ty, on Monday evening, July 14th, at the
Court House. J be l'ubhc 13 respecttuliy in
rited to attend. Lecture to commence at
8 o'clock. .
G3-The following (remarks were rnde by
Mr. Robert Owen in bis lasj speech prev ious
to leaving this country for '-Old England.1 How do our people relish them? How do
they like to be thus abused every ctoss of
them, f.om the highest to the lowest ? They should remember, as they approach the ballot box, that such were, and as they have
never been recanted are, the ' sentiments
of the son, Robert Dale Owen. It was to
reform "tliese abuses" that Robert Dale and
Faimv Wright undertook the Dublicalion - of
j ; - -e- v
the 'Fkee ENauiREK," We are, in the ey es of RoberU Dale, a degraded, superstitious,
idle and vicious race, and be only has the
foresight and wisdom to bring u? out of the
slough into which our forefather cast us. He
told us as much two years ago, when he said
"the eight dollars a day' should be no ''ob
ject" when members of Congress were to be
elected. According to Mr. Owen's way ol
thinking, a poor farmer should not think of
iffering himself for a scat in the councils o
lis nation, when one belonging to the "upper
ten thousand!' thought proper to offer himself
for it. Well, we shall see how many are 0
his way of thinking, ere long. All wc ask
is? that the Christian portion of the communitythose who have no desire to see our most sacred institutions entirely destroyed
will remember on the first Monday iu Au
gust the remark made by Mr. Owen's tnoutl
piece "When the hypocrites" (the christian
portion 01 the community) "practice what
they preach, then, but not till then, will Mr
Owen be defeated. Here are ;h-c rernaik
we have referred to:
The press of advertisements which
jcame in just as we were going to press, has
crowded out seyeral articles of our own which we bad prepared, among them a notice of the celebration of the 4th by the Sunday Schools, and others. Tlie truth is, we have Le.ea so crowded of late with advertisements jlhat we plial I, at the close 0 ihe present volume, be under the necessity of enlarging our sheet. Our subscribers wont object to this move. AH we ask isasligbt help from them. 05-The Statesman dont deny thai Mr. Endecott so legislated last year as to present the collection of either the principal or interest of the School fund of that county. The people have had enough of him.
"In proportion as your scientific power to
create weaih has increased, individual com petition has increased your ignorant selfish
ness, vice, crime and misery among the mas
ses, so as to make all parties blind to thei
present position of high capabilities and t
their interests as individuals and members ol
society
"Your statesman are occupied in tinprofi
table and nationally injurious politics
"Your politicians in petty local party con
tests, useless lor the attainment of great suits. .
"Your capitalists and extensive merchant
are overwhelmed in speculations, hazardous
05-Decidedly the most waspish individ
al we have met is our neighbor ot . ine
Courier. You cant touch mm ever so
erly but it is an "un provoked" and "un
called for" and "most unparalleled" and "un
mitigated attack: and he is painfully sur
prised, nay, astounded, that we of the Jour
nal could do such a thing; and then comes
the warning, delivered with that stern and im
posing gravity for which the Courier is so eel
ebrated, (and which has been so effectual iff
brin"in" to their senses the editors of uhe
ondon Times, New York Express, &,c.,)
giving us to understand that "it wont do" "cannot be permitted" "ibis time it will be
overlooked but if," &c. &c, to the end of
the chapter. ' -
This way of making mole-hills into Moun
tains is a faculty , some people have; and
rnnph rrnodmav it do them that use it. A
o j
while ago our neighbor got as mad as a hornet
yes, as two hornets, simply because we per
mitled a correspondent to indulge himself in
a little good natured pleasantry atthe expense
of his vanity, and we were threatened
Lstant annihilation. Mercy, however, ten
pcred his anger, and, thank Heaven, we sur
vived. We trust that this storm may likewise
blow over without any very serious conse
quencjes; but if our neighbor thinks that i
:iinl "ikliculous" to praise the "Test" at th
expense of Aijiclin, or if lie still believes
that a critique, which censures, condemns
and burlesques its subject, can be applauded, (by being pronounced, "an able, .us and searching critique,") "without any expression
uf opinion as to the merits of the work criticised," he can win two dollars and a half of us, that's all.
PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS. The following are the remaining appoint
ments of Messrs. G. P. R. Wixson and R.D. Owen: , '- , -.. - V . ; .:" . .
Anthony's Ferry, Van. Co. Friday, July 11
vansville, " ' Saturday," 12
Newburgh, Wairick Co. Monday, "14 Meeting House, near Widow Everton's, "
in Spencer Co. ; 1 uesday, " 15
Boouville, Warrick Co. Wednesday 1G
Gentry villefSpencer Co. Thursday" 17
Rockport. . ' , Friday, "18
Troy, Perry Co. "Saturoay," l'J
Meeting House in lobjn Uotiom,ren - -
County. Monday," 21
Rome, Perry Co. - Tuesday, 22
Carts', " ' Wednesday 23 Leavenwoith, Crawford Co. Thursday," 21
lLilllluivif , , Milltown, "
Amsterdam, Ilainson Co.
Newmarket,
Laconia,
Elizabeth, Lanesville,
Coryeon,
it tt ft ' u tt
Friday, 25
Saturday," 20 Monday, U8
Tuesday, " 29 Wednesday 30
Thursday, " 31 Friday, Aug. 1 Saturday, " 2
37-Our amiable neighLor of the Courier complains that he was prevented from being present to partake of the luxuries of the 4th of July Ball Supper, by "a serious indisposition, which forced him "reluctantly to retire." We remember to have missed "our friend" just at that interesting stage of the festivities, and to have felt at the same time sorrow and
anxiety on his account -sorrow for his losp,
The following are the appointments made
by candidates for county offices ia this coun
. In KKionT Township. s
On Saturday, July 19th at Jesse Lane's, ;
" Monday, " 21st " John S.Terry's
In Centre Township. On Tuesday, July 22d at B. Royston's,
" Wednesday " 23 " S. McCutcheu's
- ' In Scott Township.
On Thursday, July 24th at Cbas.' Knowles'
Friday, . " 25. " Win. Thurston Y
In Armstrong 'TowssniP. , '
On Saturday, July 2Gth at Charles Martin's
" Monday, " 2S " Mich. Mentzer's
In Perry Township.
On Tuesday, July 29th at Dayid D Grimes
" Uednesday " 30 " EzekielSaundeis
In Union Township.
On Thursday, July 31st at Anthony's Ferry
rnday, August 1st at John Ldmond s, In Pigeon Township, v -
On Saturday, August 2 atthe Court House
in Lvansville.
and anxiety for its cause for we had noticed
to themselves, and of little comparative ben- him several times eviiicm.T unmhstahcable
eht to their country or t,o the world. There is no foresifht. wisdom, ororder nn nprmn.
uent, prosperous future in any of their pro- M"18' l!'at 'his "im"os indisposition" was not
cced.ings. - I the same disease -as the "late indisposition"
: Your traders, wholesale and retail, are 0f which he complained after that "Canal
wasting, most injuriously, much of the capi-j jjj tal. talent and indnstrv nf vonrrniinirv nrul
atthe same time keeping the mind and mor- Reading his paper a few days after that oc
alsof the Union upon a low level, most dis- currency, says one mend to another, what trie
Pabscto. "Jmmy, what, u a jnembej 0faJvantageou3 to every class. d1 does Newton mean by his "late indis-
Congress?" " - .UUl 1,M,u lyuStn1,S,rBht1n.m- "ITaUia! ha!" I.innhed lhn nl!i-
"Amemberpf Congress is a common sub- neccessarilym toil, ignorance, and . conse- ' ,
stantive, agreeing wkli self-interest, and is lni ui-greuauon. . r- "j "
i... :t,t ,i.,n a.. u..n iaeuseiess superstitions pervade tlie land position to go nome as iona as tnerc was a
Jo 3 I ,;.i n ..nr;n i r.:... I . - . . . . . ........
Mr. Owen is no exceolion to the rule, not- : . "eai-ropot that wine lelt, to be sure; ha'.halhal"
... i 1 KX uenvet'u anv ui ine cia.ssts. spr. is r.r mr.
IV 1 fief
6 , j .. - iut, jjuisciu" uiy wic 01 uiese monster 00-1 px?nT MPYtmr!n-nrnT,nv T
. . .. . . . . . r ippn mirlo fi Hor trrs.r. i.a. . 1:. la.iu. ' ivuih iium m. i.,v;t vjiiuuiio
iv in! ! iniif i hp. rns!t hppt7' tiirnikliPM Mr kv'' " "" ivm. . unu iri"iun
: .i. .fAflnn , ,' perverted to worldly purposes. ' "
w . I lour prisons and punishmenls increase, broke out at Tabisco on the 12ih of June
and the necessity (or more, while t h nrospni 1 .. t t. :.. ....t -r .1
(V-- T,,I,r. T..n;i o , rr.o.K. ' T ,1,o. ... J . ' . . . ; . ' I " " 11 ICI I I C& U UU u 1 II UIO O V U 1 1 II I O W O I 1 11 u con
yr v" x uui, fMtuiwi sji n- '-m state oi tilings continues, will dai v become
. w ' k
a . o:.. r .i o., i .1.... i..it
i icuyiuie ui uic ,nu iiimuui iimi u luvoiuiiun
broke out at Tabasco on the 12ih of J which resulted in the overthrow Gf the stitutcd authorities and Central system.
extent, The Picayune says: "But few particulars
Congress fio'm this Slate, and the same per-1 stronger
eon who introduced a resolution todr-awav! You have already, to a
with the services of Chanlains to C.narr,R. "S"""1'0. Union, ignorance, poverty, have reached us, but from a letter received
- ' . ' aivision ana misery.
iiueiHiiicu vo cui a inaji s liiroai in a tuiggery
in Lafayette a few days ago. John is a real
by a highly respectable comercial house here
we learn that the garrison at Tabasco head
It is thought be will be elected.
cotton fields. It was about noon when I ar
rived. Throngs of people were in attendance,
waitinc to see the General." lie would re
ceive only two or three at once; so I sent my
card, and atter about an hour, was ushered, in company with a stranger Gent, into the presence of the Hero of Orleans, &c. The
feeble old man was lying supinely upon a sofa, his head and shoulders elevated upon the bolster He was clad in an old - style snuffcolored coat, with high, stiff colar, and a coverlet was thrown over him, from his feet to
his bosom. His only attendant was a negro
boy, who stood near, fanning away the flies
with a bush probably hickory. The Hero
is now extremely ' emaciated. His chest is
meagre and collapsed; his cheeks, hollow ana
ghastly; his once lalcon eye sunken and ray-
less: and his whole countenance, when un
der no excitement, languid and insignificant,
"quantum mutants ab illo Ilectore," &c.
The Gent, who had entered with me, brought a letter of recommendation from Gen. Arm
strong, commending him to President Polk
for some oface, and he had come here to get
the signature of Andrew Jackson, before he
should carry it to Washington. The way he got jilted was truly hickory. The old Gen
eral repulsed him, with a stern "no, no, no!
I can do no such thing-they'll say I'm
dictating to the 'President." And then he
fell to lecturing on the way he was annoyed by the office-seekers. . 1 am' dying," said he, "as fast as I can, and they all know it but they will keep swarming upon me in crowds, seeking for office intriguing for of
fice." The Gent, after assuring Jackson that Gen. Armstrong directed him to call and obtain his autograph to the "pa per, concluded to put the document iu his pocket, and say no more about it. We remained in the General's private room about twenty minutes, and had to give place toothers who were waiting.
03- We are an attentive reader of our
friend Newton's paper, but here is a rich i-
tem which we overlooked at the time, and
wTiich returns (0 us in the Pittsburgh 'Iron
City. Is there a Paddy in the West ihatcan
icat it?.". - ' ' '' .
A Real Brit. The Evansville, (Indiana)
Courier of the 10th inst., contains the follow
ing notice: i. '
"Owing to the severe and sudden illness
of his family, the Editor is unable to attend
to his paper, this morning. The readers of
the Courier, will please to overlook any Or missions should they appear. -
"Urnissions snovio they appear, ;ood.
is
rot-house politician, fond of whkkev. cards uarque eu oy uen. iuan.nez anu v,ois. luontero ana
. ' ' ,1 Anihnio arrtool r.-, V. f M n J 1 "1 r c.i' i r-
&,c. and neve, a! hotnp save in a lfiraerv '.u m . xu.tv uuruo, ueciareu in iuvor 01 ine pcuerai.uov
ca I (I, Olol li 'Pl, TT.. ... Ol ' t . n- :.
"u-ijL UH. jint- iiuu. ,1 nson o anno ermiiont an; rnm t ie nn ion n i n trmir
. was on board, but with none of the missing ed in 1S34 with the except ion of Santa Anna
Right. The Terre-HauteExp-essspeak- i,lsia,men,sof,he Mexican indemnity. This who put down said system at that time.
ing of Lafayette, la., says: - . renownea plenipotentiary has been thro ugh They were successful in the movement wi
"As Lafayette and Tefre-IIaule "arc as far suc" scenes of difficulty having been twice little or no opposition. The people remain
apart as New-York and Philadelphia, it must robbed and once thrashed, besides being most ed quiet, but the commercial communit
be evident to the most jealous-minded friends essentially snubbed by the Mexican Secre-r were dissatisfied with the movement; fcarfu'l 01 t he resneetive advantages of ihese Mora- . . . ...... '
tions.'that there is plenty of room for botholY ' .reign A.flitI-that we think he of its consequences and of the losses they
them, and Cov nLMon. too. to become res.4""'" tuoweu 10 reure to me shades ol might sustain
pectable' towns?" .. . private life without further annoyance. His
To which the Lafayette Journal replies: official employment has been found 'no bed of "...A Tale with a Moral. Some unknow
4-Room enough! To be sure, there is roses.' - ' - . poet in an exchange paper rclats,in very touch
and wealth, and enterprise, and advantages When the Anahuac sailed from MpvI ing verse, the oposite fates of two early friend
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u i .1 . , -11 1 "iu uniauiun s oi -iiiat countrv lelt assured " c uolcl; wmi x iciu ui me iveve ne, who the prospects of other sister towns and villa- - 1 11 "ssu"-u . '
ges along the line of our great canal, both assurcd thal e annexation, of Texas to the sai"s 11131 ,Iie U ine story has a great moral
below and above us. 1 he long and short of United fetates could never lake place.' "They I - 'Jne took a paper, and his hie
the matter is, that our entire valley 13 des- relied upon England to help them out. They
j , 1-11 . . . . a naa nothing to talk about except waT in case garden, intcrsjersed with beauuful hamlets, 0 - . 1 ' - villanes. towns and cities. Nature has ren- lhe Iexan Congress should accede to. the
tiered it possible man has wiljed ir and! terms offered by lhe United States.
muustry and art will accomplish it. Away, then, wilh nil splfifi anrt nrrrrw-rnf rnntenl
JV "v,., . - . , . .. .
Views.- We are one people our interests 1 l,e pnsonorsconuneu in ourjait, tour
are mutual and so should be our aims." I in number, made iheir escape by - breaking
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Just so. All that this end of the State, through the flooron Ttfesday night last. They J
jask3 is, that this good feeling shall prevail, were all imprisoned for crimes which would
and it will not be long before we emerge from have sent them to the penitentiary. We have
the darkness and debt which now surrounds j not learned Jhat any of them have Jjcen recap-
U3. i,ettue Worth and the South, the Last lurKU-
1
and the West, join togeiher in devising some
Was happier than a king's; -
Ilis 'children all could read and write And talk of men and things. Tlie other took no paper, and While strolling through the wood, A tree fell down upon his crown, ; And. killed him as it should. Had he been reading of the news, At home, like neighber Jim I'll bet a cent that accident Would not have happened him. . Exactly.
r-larj for the speedy completion of our Canal
and Indiana will agaiu take her stand among
the debt-piying States.
The following recipe is said to be a sov
ereign cure for bed bus:
We see it staled that Mr. McLane, the
recently appointed minister to Great Britain,
is an old and consistent federalist, lhe remnant of that old and much abused party,
SANTA ANNA. A Ilivaua correspon
dent pf the Charleston Mercury, alluding to
"Tbe General is at present residing in the lsert lhe bed but leave the room.
city; he appears q-iite cheerfgl, and jn con.l
Jr
Take a quantity of whale oil. and about ,Iie memory ot which is so odious to the ho-
. " - , . 1 . - 1 . . 1 .
the same quantity ofJard or tallow simmer COCOICOS are S31' i;,voreu unae' me pre-
Uiern a ICW minute? loiet u.r o n !. ..,;!! auiiimiananon. mcsaio. uutiiaiiau omu
mix. Annlv the mixturf? will, v,,i;l.' Bancroft, old Federalists, have seats in the
fine brush, to the crevices an,t ,t, Cabinet, and Mr. McLane has the most un-
the arrival ofSaiila Anna at that place, says: bedsteads, and these vermin will not onlv de- Pertant foreign mission. The Locofocos, we
eralism more tenderly than they do, as their violent denunciations are extremely unnala-
versationis agreeble;his wife ia yery youtg, THE HEART. Guard well the heart.- table to some of their leaders. Louisville
not more tl.an seventeen, and has a sweet When a chord is"1 struck, it mailers not by rour
pna pleasant jace; sue uppcdra uj manners wnoae iiano, uio wue 11 gIves win dwell in (Vy Prentice savs: "There is quite a stir
almost a girl. It is the General's intention the memory long long after vibration has in Steubenville; caused by a difficulty in
m remain here until the end of February, ceased, and even if the note be discordant, getting out of church alter service. As us-
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l,rn. if events, do not asain call him to the melody will linger with .1 sirana,, ,uh,U. uai',ne e are ,wo 'larrei. ne
. , . . .. , . . . , , - , , , 0 contends that "the church doors are too Mexico, he will make Venezuela, it is said, ery which may not be understood, nor its in- small," and the other that "the 'bustles' are
KllS ltJ(UV V.3iUV)MVV I uuvhvw iviivu, 1 wv
SYDNEY SMITH ON WAR. Among
the last of the productions of the pen of Syd
ney Smith, was one "on the duties of the
Queen," in which this forcible paragraph oc
curs: ;
- "A second great object which I hope will
be impressed upon the mind of this royal la
dy is, a rooted horror of war an earnest and
passionate desire to i keep her people in a
state of profound peace. The greatest "curse
which can be entailed upon mankind is a
state'of war. All the attrocious crimes com
mitted iu years of peace; all that is spent in peace by the secret corruptions or by the thoughtless extravagance5 of nations,, are
mere, trifles compared with the gigantic ev
ils which stalk over the world in a state of
war. God is forgotten in war; every princi
ple of, Christian charily trampled upon; human labor destroyed; human' industry ex tinguished; you see the son, and the bus
baud, and the brother 'dying miserably in dis
tant lands; you sec the waste of human affettions; you see the breaking of - human
hearts; vou hear the, shrieks of widows and
children afier the battle ; and you walk over
the mangled bodies of the wounded calling for death. I would say to 'that royal child,
worship God, by loving peace; it is not your
humanity to pity a beggar bv giving hi
food or raiment J can do that,- that is the
charity of the humble and the unknown; wi
den you your heart for the more, expanded
miseries of mankind; pity the mothers of the
peasantry who see their sons torn away from
their families; pity your poorsubjccO crowd
ed into hospitals, and calling in their last
breath upon their distant country and their
young Queen; pity the stupid frantic folly of
human beings who are' always ready to tear
eacn oiuer 10 pieces, anu toueiuge ine cartn with each others blood: this is your extended humanity, and this the great field of your
compassion. lxtinguish in your heart the fiendish love of military glory, from wliicb
your sex does not necessarily exempt you,
and to which the wickedness of flatterers may urge you. Say upon your deathbed, 'I have made few orphans in my reign; I have made
few widows; my objectjias been peace.
have used all the weight of my character
and all the power of my situation, to check
the irrascible passions of mankind, and" to turn them to the arts of honest industry: this
has been the Christianity of my throne, and
this the Gospel of my sceptre; in this way!
have strove to worship my Redeemer and
Judge." " - - -. .
CENSORSHIP OF THE PRESS. ' A very curious and somewhat important
instance suppression of the truth has recently occurred in the . Washington Union, the special Executive organ. That paper
on Friday contained the following notice of
the meeting of the 'Democratic Association' of that city,',n Thursday evening to take
measures tp pay respect to the memory of
Gen.- Jackson:-- ; "The association met pursuant to adjournment, John Rives. Esq., president elect pier senled himself, and was regularly installed. Being conducted to the Chair he rose and delivered en address. , :The President having to leave the chair
to make a report, requested Robt. Coltman,
Esq , vice president to take, the chair.
"Uu motion 01 air. yaru, ine secretary was requested to solicit the remarks of the president for publication." -
Then follows the "Tribute ol Ucspect"
which was paid by the meeting to Gen. Jackson's memory; but nothing whatever of the
address or Mr. Rives appear. We are in
formed, on very reliable authority, that a
copy of his address was furnished for publication; and that it was in type and about to
be put to press in the Union, when it was ac
cidentally tdiscoveied by,. 'the business
partner, of that paper, who stopped the press
and posted to the editor, lhat gentleman,
in turn, posted off to the president, who
summoned to council his ofhcial advisers.
The speech was laid before him, and the re
sult of their deliberation may be inferred
from the fact, that the speech of Mr. Rives,
though in type at the Union office, has never
appeared in that or any other paper. It was
decided by the executive authority that cer
lain tacts should not be laid betore the puo
lie, and forthwith the press is muzzled!--
The censorship of the press in Austria, in Italy, in Cuba and other countries, ruled by
the will of individuals, has long been a theme of democratic reproach and denunciation:
but it never surpassed this instance on the
part of our "Democratic" rulers, -
The remarks thus suppressed by an fcx-
ecuttve mandate, were of general interest
and will yet, we are persuaded see the light. N. Y. Courier. '
GENERAL JACKSON. The following is an extract of a letter from a gentleman who visited General Jackson a few days before his
death : - - . Clabksville, Tenn., 30th May, 1845.
I must tell you something of my visit . to the Hermitage. This famous place is twelve
miles from Nashville, up the Cumberland nv
er. On Monday, the 19th inst., I mounted
a "pale horse," and set oil from the City Ho
tel to visit the dying Hero. My path lay through a rich, undulating country, divejsi-
ficd with hickoiy forests, stagnant pools, audi
GEN. JACKSON: AND MR. POLK.
The removal of Major W. B. Lewis from the office he so long held in' Washington, ex cited at the' time, much astonishment, as from the personal - relations, which .existed between Gen. Jackson. and Major. Lewis, the removal was regarded as little less than a direct fling atthe General, who was at the time lying on his, as it proved, death bed. It comes out now that Mr. Tolk not only made the removal in defiance ol Gen. Jackson's wish, but that it was attempted to be
justified by MrPolk on false grounds and
by the secret circulation of calumnies against Maj. Lewis.. - ; ' . The revelations in the case come to us through the Nashville Whig of the 17th inst. and we must allow they make" out a very strong case against Mr. Polk, of injustice to Major Lewis (not in the mnoval from office that was perhaps all right, seeing that Major L. was a good Locofoco, and had held the office a long time but for predicating the removal on grounds offensive in the highest degree.) The publication in the Nashville Whig also proves that Mr. Tolk treated Gen. Jackson very . cavalierly in in the matter, and whilst the latter would
not condescend to ask for the restoration of
of Major L. be did not hesitate to denounce the manner of the removal, as showing a want of "magnanimity" in the President, and stigmatizing the alleged reason of it as most unjust. The following letter from Gen. Jackson to Major L., and which the Nashville paper
would not have been long before he would have "opened" on Mr. Polk in his Own pe- s culiar way: Bait. Pat. : From Gen. Jackson to Mnjor Lewis.: . HERMITAGE, April 10, 1845. -
My Dear Major: Yoursof the 31st, and. postscript of the 1st instant, are just received and the information therein contained, "That President Polkconsulted with me on the subject of your removal from office, and that this step was taken with my knowledge and -consent," is positively false and not even the shadow of a shade of liuth to support it. The first notice I had that you were removed or would be,was from a confidential letteijwritten by President P. to his friend in Nashville, which was shown to ine on the 4th inst., by directions of Col. Polk, with a long' list of ' grievances against you for years, a.c' of the
danger of the position you were in -'.hat he was aware of my friendship for you, and " that your dismissal would be unpleasant to . rae &c. This, on the 4th instant, was the first intimation I ever had that Col. P. design- ; ed to dismiss you from office, in my 'confidential letter to him of April on another subject on which I had been writing, I took occasion to refer to the subject of your dismissal. I assured the Colonel that in one case his fears were groundless, arid in them " the great injustice he had done you to my own knowledge- that you were too much of a palrio- to do an injury or suffer your own country to be injured by a foreign Govern-
mentby either withholding information that might be beneficial, or imparting it to the foreign power. That my relations of friendship -with you were of the greatest intimacy and confidence that 1 was sincerely your friend but that my friendship for officers of the"
Government should not interfere with his dismissal of those who. were obnoxious to him or in whom he had no confidence. It appears from your letter that he had comniis-'
sioned Gen. McCalla on the 31st of March to take charge of your office on the first of -
pril. His confidential letter was shown
me on the 4th inst., four days after your removal. My dear Major, I . regret your removal as well as the manner of it. I did sup
pose that the magnanimity of Col. P. would 1
prevent him from the removal of any officer without giving him notice thereof that the
officer might make arrangements to hand the office over to his successor. I You know, Ma
jor, lhat I neither beg for myself or friends,
and if I had been in the habit.' it was too late
you were removed. JIy dear Major, I am
very sick and my disease has assumed a drop.
sical type, and bow soon it may end my days,
none but my uou can determine. rothin
but the request in your letter and justice
due to mysell and you could have induced me to. make the atteirp' to wii:e this letter, -It a kind Providence will permit ma to shake you once more by the hand at the . Hermitage, I will be gralely thankful as well as all its inmates Here all are your fiien'ds and will greet you as such always, and all "
join ine in kindest salutations. v s 5
' .ou gincete iricud ANDREW JACKSON. - Mnj W. B. Lewis, IVashingion, D. C. On this letter the Nashville WThig makes the following remarks: From this letter, it is manifest that Major Lewis's removal was made without General Jackson's "knowledge or consent," and that he deeply regretted it, and the-manner of it, particularly,as not comporting with true 'magnanimity on the part of Mr. Polk. It is further apparent, that Mr Polk, aware, as he says he was, of Gen. Jackson's 'friend- " ship' for Maj. Lewis, and that his dismissal would be "unpleasant" to the General, did not deign to consult the latter at all about the matter. He merely despatched a letter to a friend iu Nashville, containing a long list of alleged grievances against M-.j. Lewis "for years,1' with a request that the letter might be shown to the General; and before the let ter could possibly reach its destination, proceeded summarily and unceremoniously to eject the General's ancient friend from office. "As truly remarked by Genejal Jackson, the deed was done before he . had the slightest intimation that it was intended. Major Lewis's removal took place on the 31st of March, and was undoubtedly and necessarily determined upon some days before, while . Mr. Polk's letter was shown to the General on the 4th April. On that very day, ,K however, Gen. Jackson ignorant that the removal had actually been made while writing to Mr. Polk on another subject, took oc-' casion to vindicate Major Lewis from a foul aspersion contained in Mr. Polk's letter to his friend in Nashville the -only one, it is evident, that he thought worlhy of notice out of the "long list" which Mr. Polk'in this private way was casting upon Major L. To his own knowledge Mr. Polk had done Major Lewis great injustice, in supposing him capable of betraying the interests of his coun try to a fort ign Government, because 1 lit JAIinister ol lhat Government had chanced io marry a member of his family. Mr. Polk'a fears ovt that point, the General assured him, were altogether "groundless." As Gen. Jackson had continued, M;jor Lewis in office and given to him his unbounded confidence after the connection by marriage of a hear relative or the latter with x the French Minister took place, Mr. Polk's imputation on the intcgrilj and patriotism of Major L., in consequence of that connection, wa3 an imputation upon Gen. Jackson's vigilance, sagacity and discretion. Bait. P't.
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