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Resignation of the Attorney General. From the United States Telegraph . Washington, 1 5th June, 1831. Sir: I herewith tender to you my resignation of tho office of Attorney General of the United States. Two considerations restrained me from taking this 6tep at the moment when your communication to the Secretary of the Treasury, announcing your determina lion to re-organize your cabinet, firet met my eyc There waa nothing in the retirement of the Secretaries of State and of War, or iu the distinct and personal considerations which they had assigned for Ibis measure, which made it obligatory upon or even proper for me to adopt a similar course. Such a step, with any reference to that occurrence, could only becoraa eo, on my part, as an act of conformity to your will. You had felt this, and had announced your wishes to the Secretaries of the Treasury and of the Navy, respectively. I had a right to expect & similar communication of them, and conformed to the wishes and opinions of my fellow-citizens of Georgia when 1 determined to await it. An additional consideration wag presented by the fact that I had been charged, at the moment of my departure from this place, with the performance of certain public duties which were yet unfinished, and my report concerning which you did not

expect to receive until my return. 1 was graliGed to learn from yourself that you had taken the 6ame view of this subject, having postponed the communication of your wishes to me until my arrival at this place, without expecting in the mean time any communication from me. It is duo to myself further to 6tate, that, from the moment when I 6aw the communication referred to, I have considered my official relation to you as terminated, or as subsisting only until my return to the city should enable mo to conform to your wishes by the formal surrender of my office, which it is tho purpose of this note to make. I retire, then, eir, with cheerfulness from the station to which your confidence had called me, because 1 have the consciousness of having endeavored to discharge its duties with fidelity to yoursslf and to the country. Uninfluenced by those considerations which have been avowed by that portion of my colleagues who have voluntarily separated themselves from you totally ignorant of any want of harmony in your Cabinet, which either has, or ought to have impeded the operations of your Administration, I perform this act 6imply in obedience to your will. I have not the slightest disposition to discuss the question of its propriety. It is true, that in a Government like ours, power is but a trust to be used for the benefit of those who have delegated it; and that circumstances might exist in which the necessity of self-vindication would justify such an inquiry. Tho first consideration belongs to those to whom we are both and equally accountable. From the influence of the second you have relieved me, by your own explicit declaration that no cornplaint affecting either my official or individual conduct, haa at any time reached you. You have assured me, that the confidence which induced you originally to confer the appointment upon me remains unshaken and undiminished, and have been pleased to express the regret which you feel at the separation, which circumstances, have, in your view of the subject, rendered unavoidable. You have kindly added the assurance of your continued good wishes for my welfare. You will not, therefore, refuse to mo the gratification of expressing my earnest hope, that, under the influence of better counsels, your own and the interests of our common country, mny receive all the benefits which you have anticipated from the change of your confidential advisers. A very few days will suffice to enable me to put my cilice in a condition for the reception of my successor, and I will advise you of the fact in soon as its arrangement is complete. I am, respectfully, Sir, your obedient servant, John MAcriiEr.soN Gerrikn. To the President of tha U. Slates. Washington, June 15.-1 C31. Sir: I hav received your Jotter resigning the bGiceof Attorney General. In the conversation which 1 held with yotr, the day before yesterday, upon this subject, it w;i3 my desire to present to you trie considerations upon which I acted in accepting the resignation ot

the other members of the cabinet, and to assure you, in regard to yourself, as well as to them, that they imply no dissatisfaction with the manner in which the dutie9 cf the respective departments have been performed. It allbrds me great pleasureto find that you have not misconceived tho character of thceo considerations, and that ycu do justice to the personal feclitg3 with vrbich they are unconnected. 1 will only rid J, that the determination to change my cabinet wa dictated by an imperious eensc cf public duty, and a thorough, though painful conviction, ttnt the stewardship of power, with which 1 am clothed, called for it as a measure of justice to those who had been alike invited to maintain near me the relation of confidential advisers. Perceiving that the harmony in feeling so necessary to nn efficient administration had failed, in a considerable degree, to mark the course of this; and having assented, on this account, to the voluntary retirement of the Secretaries of State nnd War, no alternative was left me but to givo this assent n latitude co extensive with the embarrassments which it recognized, and the duty which I owed to each member of the cabinet. In accepting your resignation ns Attorney General, I take pleasure in ex

pressing my approbation of the zeal and efficiency with which its duties have been performed, and in assuring you that you carry with you my be3t wishes for your prosperity and happiness. I am very respectfully, your obedient servant, ANDREW JACKSON. John M. Berrien, Esq. P. S. You will please to continue to discharge the duties of the office of Attorney General until you make all those arrangements which you may deem necessary, which, when completed, and I am notified thereof by you, a successor will bo appointed. A. J. Washington, June 22, 1G31. Sir: In conformity to the suggestion contained in my nolo of the 15th inst. I have to inform you that the arrangements necessary to put the office of the Attorney General in a condition for the reception of my successor, am now complete. The misrepresentations which are circulated in the newspapers on the subject of my retirement from office, make it proper that this correspondence should be submitted to the public, as an act of justice both to you und myself. I am, respectfully, Sir, your obedient, servant, John Mactiierson Berrien. To tho President of the U. States. Washington, June 22, 1C31. Sir: Your note of this day is received, advising me, "in conformity to the suggestions contained in my your note of the 15th instant,'! you have to inform you me that the arrangements necessary to put the office of tho Attorney General in a condition for the reception of my successor are now complete." For reason3 assigned in your note, you further observe, "make it proper that , this correspondence should be submitted to the public, as an act of justice both to you nnd myself. I am sure I can have no objection to your submitting them as you propose, as you beJievo this to be necessary. I am, respectfully, Your obedient servant, ANDREW JACKSON. John M. Berrien, Esq. Will any person after reavlin the follow'n correspondence doubt longer tne wis-Aom ami propriety of the President renewing his cabinet? It was a master stroke of policy, worthy of the author of the Veto upon the acts of Congress worthy the fame of the hero of New-Orleans. If Mr. Adams had shown that 6ame hih mindedness, and integrity cf spirit, when Mr. C'ay, the cherished and boasted Ex-Secretary, undertook to SHOOT John liandclph fur the freedom of debate in the Senate Ct. amber, it would have redounded to hU honor and fame. The PEOPLE'S president however acts with more dignity Sc firmness, deserves the thanks cf the nation. Our readers must bear in mind that these difficulties took place more than a year ago, and the president finding it impossible to bring tbem to a harmonious termination resolved to renew his cabinet. The nation rcspondj to the act. We are glad the nation is re! if veil from any suspense which might have remained re'atjve to the dissolution ot the cabinet ministers. These tilings are of a private &. personal nature, Sc all the interest the people can have is, to know that the chief actors have been sent home to learn better conduct in future. Even this act now explained redounds to the honor and fame of the old Hero, in whom the per. pie have never been deceived. Gen. Wash.ugion threatened two otitis miaiaters (.Jcller-

son and Hamilton) with dismissal, unless their quarrels were terminated which threatened .he interests of the nation. Hamilton was afterwards killed in a duel, tnd Jefferson was mads president. OL'o Sun. MR. EATON TO MR. INGHAM. Friday night, 17th June, XS31. Sin: I have studied to disregard the abugivo flanders which havo arisen through so debased a source 03 tho 0 1 umns oftho U. S. Telegraph. It have been content to wait for the full development cf what he had to say, and until personj of respectablo character should be brought forth to endorse his vile abupe of me and of my family. In that paper cf this evening is contained the following remark of my wife: "It is proven that the Secretaries of the Treasury, and of the Navy, and of the Attorney General, refused to associate

with her." This publication appears in q paper which profess-cs to be Inend I m ly to you, and 11 brought forth under your immediate eye. 1 acsire to knot? of you, w hether or not you Eanction 01 will disavow it. The relation wo have sustained towards each ether author izes mo to demand an immediate an swer. Very respectfully, J. II. EATON. S. D. Inguam, Esq. REPLY. Washington, 18th June, 1S31. Sir: I have cot been able to ascer fnin frrm rrti n f T 1 i r J ntrnniriy IUIIJj IIUIU Uvll UUIU Ui KlOfc VH,J1') whether it i3 the publication referred to by you, or the fact stated in the Tele graph, which you desire to know wheth er I have sanctioned or will disavow. If it be the first you demand, it i3 too absurd to merit an answer. If it be the last you may find authority for the same fact in a Philadelphia paper, about the first of April last, which is deemed to be quito ns friendly to you as the lele graph may be to mc. When you have settled such accounts with your partic ular friends, it will be time enough to make demands of others. In tho mean time, 1 take tho occasion to gay, that you roust bo not a little deranged, to imagina that any blustering ot yours could induce mo to disavow what all the inhabitants of the city know, and perhaps half the people oftho United States believe, to be true. I aa, Sir, respectfully yonr?, &x. S. D. INGHAM. .Toun II. Eato:?, Esq. MR. EATON TO MR. INGHAM. 18th June, 1S3I. Sir: I have received your letter of to-day, Sz regret to find that to a frank and candid inquiry brought before you, an answer impudent nnd insolent is returned. To injury unprovoked, you are pleased to add insult. What is the remedy? It i3 to indulge tho expectation that, though a man may be mean enough to slander, or base enough to encourage it, he yet may have bravery sullicient to repair the wrong. In that spirit I demand ofyou satisfaction for the wrong and injury you dono me. Your answer must determine whether you aro so far entitled to the name and characlerof a gentleman as to bo able to act like one. Very respectfully, J, H. EATON. Sa?,il D. Ingiia:i, Esq. REPLY. Washington, 20th June, 1331 Sir: Your note of Saturday, purporting to be a demand of satisfaction for injury done to you, was received on that day; company prevented me from sending you an immediate answer. Yesterday morning, your brother-in-law, Dr. Randolph, intruded himself into my room, with a threat of personal violence. I perfectly understand "the part you are made to play in the farco now acting before the American people. I am not to be intimiJated by threats cr provoked by abuse, to any act inconsistent with the pity and contempt which your condition and conduct inspire. Yours, Sir, respectfully, S. D. INGHAM. Jon:; II. Eaton', Eq. MR. EATON TO MR. INGHAM. June 20, 1831. Sir: Your note of this morning is received. It prove3 to me that you are quite brave enough to do a mean action, but too great a coward to repair it. Your contempt I heed not; your pity I despise. It is such contemptible fellows a3 yourself that have set forth rumors of their own creation, and taken them as a ground of imputation against me. If that be g d cause, then should your have pity of yourself, for your wife has not escaped them, and

vou must know it. But no more; here

our correspcndencQ closes. Nothing more will ha received short ui an ac ccptanco of my demand of Saturday, aod nothing more bo said by m until face to face wo meet. It is not in rr nature to brook your insults, nor will they bo submitted to. J. II. EATON . S. D. hxrmi, E;q. From the Washington City Globe. Jlr. Ingham to the Prcsidcjit. Wauixgton, 21&t June, 1C3I. The President cf the United Stales : Sir: Before I leave tho city, it secma to bo due to tho Government that I should perform a painful duty, imposed upon me by tho events ol the last lorty-eight hours. It id not nects sary for me now to detail the cirenrn stance which havo convinced me of the existence cf vindictho personal hostility to me amorg sumo ct the ttli cers of the Government near your person, and supposed to be in your special confidence, which has been particularly developed within tho last two weeks, and hai finally displayed ittcll in an attempt to way-lay me on my way to the office ye3terday, 03 1 havo reason to believe, for tho purposo of assassination. If you havo not already been apprised of these movement?, you may perhaps be surprised to learn that tho psrsons concerned in them aro the late Secretary of War and tho acting Secretary of War; and that the Second Auditor of the Treasury, Register of the Treasury, and tho Treasurer of tho Uuited States, wero in their company ; and that tho Treasurer nnd Register's rooms, in the lower part of the building of tho Treasury Department, and nlso a grocery eloro between my lodging? and the oilice, were alternately occupied na their rendczvoua whilo lying in wait; the former affording the btst opportunity for observing my approach. Apprised of these movements on my return from taking leavo of soma of my friends, I found myself obliged to arm, and, accompanied by my son and some other friend?, I repaired to the ofiice, to finish the business of tho day, alter which I returned to my lodging in the samo company. It is proper to state, that tho principal persona who had been thus employed for several hours, retired from the Department soon after I entered my room, and that I received no molestation from them either at mv ingress or egress. But having recruited an additional force in the evening, they paraded until a lato hour on the streets nearpjy lodgings, heavily armed, threatening an QEsault en the dwellin" I rcsiuo iu. I do net present these facts to your notice for the purpesa of invoking your protection. So far ns an individual may rely on hi own personal fllorts I am willing to meet ihU peril; nnd against aa assault by numbers I have found an ample assurance of protection in tho generous tender of personal service from the citizen3 of Washington. But they are communicated to you na the Chief Magistrate of the United Slate", and most especially of the District of Columbia, whose duties in maintaining good order among its inhabitants, and protecting tho officers of the Government in the discharge of their duties, cannot bo unknown to you. I have only to add that, so far as I am informed, all the persona engaged in giving countenance to thia business are officers of tho Government, except the late Secretary of War. I have the honor to be, respectfully, your obedient servant, S. D. INGIIA3I. June 22 J, 1C31. Mes?r3. Col. Campbell, Treasurer ;Maj . Smith, register; D-jctor Kando'ph, Acting ecretr.ry of W&r; and Major Lewis, 2d Auditor: Gentlemen: I have thi3 moment received tho enclosed letter from Mr. Ingham, dated tho 2 1st instant, and having immediately, on its receipt, sent ta ask an interview with him, I find that he left the city before it reached me. I wish you to state to me, if you, or either ofyou, havo had any agency or participation, and if any, to what extent, in tho alleged misconduct imputed in h:3 letter herewith enclosed. I surely have been deceived in your characters if you are capable of so far forgetting the responsibilities of your stations as to participate in the reprehensible conduct charged. To the serious charges contaiued in Mr. Ingham's letter, which gave me the first information that 1 have had upon the subject of his difficulties, I wish you to

give a prompt and explicit answer'

Jtespprtfully, ANDREW JACKSON. Wa?ih(:to:, June 22, 1C31. Sir: 1 h tve had the honor to re.. ceive your communication of this day enclosing a copv ol b lottt t to you tioin the late b jcrjt;iry of the Iresury, of tho 2lst instant, complaining of an attempt to wa)-lay him nn the part of certain ofibeia of the Government, for the purpo-e of assassination, and charging ma with being in their c&mpany, and uiy room in the Treasury with being alternately occupied with other officers n a rendezvous for them while lyii g in waif. It might perhaps he sufficient for the purpose for which you havo referred this communication to m?, for me to apply to the charfresv , a gainst mo, a simple and unqualified denial. They arc entirely destitute of the least foundation in truth: but to how you mon claily how far I was from aiding cr participating in nny thing connected with this mutter complained cf, I will bg your permission to add tha following circumstance?. The late Secreiar) of War, M.j E tton, never consulted me upon the (subject cf hi3 controversy with'Mr. Ingham, nor did I even seo him on the dy in question, except in an accidental meeting of a few minutes. I never saw the coirepcndence between them until it eppeared in the Telegraph; and Although I had heard that a correspondence was goirg on which might result in a peroiKil conflict, I did not believe it waa likely to taka place on that day, or even thai Washington vim to be the cccno cf it. Trusting that these facta nnd explanations will ba entirely satisfactory to you, I cannot withhold the expression of my astonishment, that charges jo so wholly uncalled forund groundless, fhoulJ have been made against me by a gentleman with whom j never had the least cause of quarrel, nnd with whom my official intercourse, since my entranco into tha Treasury, had uniformly hem of the most friendly character. I certainly had no idea of arming against him, or of interfering in any wuy'ir hii dirpute with Major Eaton. 1 h HQ the honor to remain, Vcur most obedient servant. JOHN CAMPBELL. The President of the United State?. ."V. Lezvis to the President. Washington, 22d June, 1G31. Sir.: Your letter of this morning h3 this moment been received, and in reply I havo to fay that the charge mado against me by Mr. Ingham of having been engaged in a conspiracy against him, is devoid of truth. If there were any inch conspiracy ogainst him, a3 alleged in bis letter to you cf yesterday, it wag entirely unknown to me. 1 arrived ai my ( tfico cn Monday morning, 20th instant, about half past eight o'clccL', and never left tho building until about half nfter two, when I walked down to the U. State? Bank to attend to feme Bank business. After seeing tho Teller cf the Bank, and informing Lim what I wanted done, f went to a barbeTs shop a little below Mr. Strother'i Hotel. On my roturn I called at the R?gistei's Oilice, r few minutes before tbree.o'clot!;, where I saw, unexpectedly, Mr. Eatonit being iho first time I had seen him sinco last Saturdayevening. I remained in the Register' Office' about five minutes, and then walked up to my own office incempany with no other person than Mr. Eaton. Dr. Randolph was not there, nor did I see him nny where, on that day , oot of the War Oilice, until lato in tho evening. I neither saw nor heard of Mr. Ingham while I wag at tho Treasury Department. I had no arms of any description about me. 1 am, very respectfully, Your most obedient gervanf, W. B. LEWIS. Jlr. Smith tolthe President. Washington, June 22d, 1031. Sir: -In reply of your note o! to-day, enclosing a copy ot a letter from Mr. Ingham to you, bearing date the 21st insr. 1 beg leave to state, that the charges contained in Mr. Ingham's letter, aa far as they relate to me, ore wholly untrue. I have had no participation or agency, whatever, in the controversy between Major Eaton nnd Mr. Ingham. I havo given neither aid nor succour to M j.r Eiton, nor any one for him. I have not walked with him, nor near him. I have not bought Mr. Ingham, nor been in his neighborhood. 1 have been unarmed constantly, and iu all rc-