The Western Register and Terre-Haute advertiser, Volume 5, Number 27, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 27 September 1828 — Page 5

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SAL JACKSON

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jls left for doubt, that .amongsl other means ,,iite wealth, engaged in the

NEGROES and

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k.. Andrew Erwin, K,e N&tionai Banner, prin'VLhville, August 5, 1828, ^\l proof of the fact alleged

Vit io our readers without L-Certainly, it requrtres bent. ,frtilts' Mvocate.

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ihiir to prove you a negro trat' dared to deny it. I con,L publications of the 30th of td the 11th of July, ia the Reas intended to be a flat deL'ourpart, of the charge, par1 the latter p.jbhcation—and \ndentiv jour authority -ft

indeed, you oo not wish Sieved. It has been projjj by your supporters, a caLiously implicating y»ur char-

'an infamous falsehood 'a statement is made by one printer-, on your own au-

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the circumstances of one in of the kind, enough, more 'sou^h,is admitted., completely jaia the charge 'i'his has been hown, in 'he very conclusive answerable letter of Dr JVlcwhich neither you, nor any rpartizans. have even attemptcontrovert. It is remarkable, er that you did r.ot contrive a in tV-efirst instance, which you our friends could steadily ada. On the contrary,"we find newspaper giving

30th of May, and quite a dif jne on the 11th of July. Be ether material variations, it will en that the former repreihe amount of the first payment, 00, while the latter fixes it at

Yet great exultation is exon the presumption of the ,e accuracy of this latter state-

In fee idea that the sum of ,45. is not a proportional part of and consequently, could not aeen your thare of the first est to Epperson. But before with any further comments UTadmissions, 1 will lay before id the public,-a little evidence subject derived from another

A purchase of negrefcs is ivledged to have been mad«. II, by tbe firm of Coleman, 5and Jackson The members firm v-ere Joseph Coleman, cs Green,aud yourself I wili SrsLplace, present you with a ertof your partner, Mr. Kor 'jreen, who, you know, was 'shiille a few da)s since, JS seen and conversed with rw cf your warmest partiznns 'hey did not procure from him •twnt of the transaction, will be

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VaJ vi!!e, 18lh July, 1&28. •-\oiir note inquiring of me ifea in relation to some NK which Gen Jackson li a-

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have received. To give tttvicw cf the transaction, ac 1 food it, 1 must connect it with

In the latter part of the Capt. Joseph Coiemnn •^dto me to join him in the of some cotton and tobac--^r Benr.et Snnth, to which •ted He staled to me thai "•ffiith would require security, 'ta would procure. Some lime after this understanding

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KT'Muyr te placed in the Iia I'AltTJYEli, in order that have a controlling power, if

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were accordingly purtaken by me to New- Qr1 placed them in the hands of ,dr'd Taylor, then 'commission '^ts of that place, for sale, as ^•t)'of Coleman, Green and

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return, in May, 1811, A NUMBER /V

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part in hand—1 paid

I'' and understocd the balCapt. by Coleman, and negroes were fit to jSf&uhes, jfor SALE,

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aud a pait of them sold—Iii the month of^December, (I think) of the same year, I received letters from Gen. Jackson, (which letters are at this time mislaid)'^ advising me }C7*he had purchased oat Capt Cole mnn iu BOTH these tmntachons, and offering to sell out tx wi£ at cost% by curing hitn, or to but me ouTyund refund to me the advances which lhad MADE*"* I thought proper to sell In relation to the purchase of the ne groes, although I had no understand ing to that effect, from either Capt Coleman or Gen Jacksftn, thought he stood in the same situation as in the purchase of tbe cottou and tobac GO, from the circumstance, as I then believed, it ivcis his credit which had enabled us to naJce the purchase Capt Coleman made the negotiation, and I made the Selection. The negroes were, at the time of the transaction, at Capt Coleman's plantation, near this place, and I do not now recollect that he saw them before ihey descended the river

1 am, reipectiully,

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the impulse^ of a too (j0ietnan, aud Horace Green, lou were applied to. in the first place, it is true, to become a security, but you insisted en being placed in the Igiht of a partner. A lirm was 'therefore constituted under the style of

man, Green and Jacks-on and'iu the spring of 181 If a purchase was made by th. firm, with your assent (lor your printers admit, that the contract with Epperson, was signed by yourself, as well as by the other partners,) for the purchase of nqrrote, io thi: amouut oi ten thousand dollars. Unethird of that portion of the purchase money which was required ad

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was paid by him, and the other twothirds, he undersiood. were paid by Capt Coleman and Gen Jackson. Now sir, let us see what you yourself say, as to the payment oi tnese two* thirds The following is an exact copy of a memoramduui, in your hand writing, which, in connection with the above statement of Mr. Green, leaves no room for the slightest dovibt as to the nature of this transaction.

A Jack son amount of proportion of cash for negroes bot ot hichaid Epperson, $j929 45 Coleman us to pay the note in Bank for interett on purchase of cotton from li. Smith for $613 39, and the sum of $19 ti, which he is to pay, and the sum ot

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tor boat, makes up his propo, lion .A Jaekson h*s paid for keel boat, To Capt V\ etherali dis count, l/its QOih oj November, 1811 on the bill remitted W. Jackstn ami co on James Jackson & -co. $14 5i. Hiid also $16 ou note endorsed by

H. Smith Aote- provision? furnished cotton boat 5( O ibs pork and flower, and meal,in ali $17 oO

The above is in your own handwriti'.g—ail iu oiie paragraph, ai couid not have Detn written previous io the ^Oth of JSovember. yei it cor rectiy recites your .pa ment to binof the 21st of Way, and was my au thojity 4'or saying it appei»reu by youi own hand writing, that your two pro portions of the tirst payment, weic $1858, 90i and for saying you wrot« it six rnontiis alter the date ol tiie purchase of the negroes, and your lirst pay merit to Epperson INow sii, I know nothing about the amount -ot

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Coleman, he informed me

^mith would take no other than Gen. Jackson and that ."kekson would be such but,

lirst payment, (and never said I did,) except from your own statement above quoted, and now from the additional statement ot Horace Green, liut it wiil not do for you to rely upon any private memorandum or agreement ot your own, in contradiction ot these statements, unless you candidly develope the whole matter, bring back all your books and papers, which you have withdrawn lrom bank with so much trepidation, and release the. bank officers from all obligations of secrecy, so that we may have a lull view ol this transaction, as well as of some others perhaps of a similar kind It has been

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ft seems then, from this statement, that a partnership was formed in tbe

''and has-been cailed by your year jb|Q^ between yourself, Joseph

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45 spoken of iu the memorandum, as paid by you to Epptrson, might have been the expenses attending the attempt to sell the negroes, ascertained and refunded by you after they were brought'back. Miserable subterfuge

^by them to shipit round That amounfsir, you know full weH

'•^elphia, I l^ft it with them, l. 'uctfd thein to do so for OUR

paid by you to Epptrson, three days after the alleged date of the contract for the purchase ol the ne groes a»d

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conclusively shows, that Coleman wns to pay a*um almost precisely equal By adding together tiie three sums ®618 89,'?9»8S. «nd 125 we +iave the amount ot $929,72, which is cents more han

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ilar amount and he tells UH distinctly that he paid one third, and that the balance, as he understood, WAS paid by Capt, 'Coleman and Gen. Jackson It is possible indeed, that the aggre gate sum thus advanced, may have paid'not only the firist instalment to Epperson, but also sundry expenses attending the transportation such as the purchase of a boat, provisions, &c and this is "tbe more probable, #s it is stated in the memorandum, that $125 of the amount paid by Coleman, was for a boat. But it is quite unnecessary forme to puzzle myself about the details of these transactions it is enough that you are conclusively established as a NEGRO TRADER, not as SEcum fr, for that idea is perfectly ridiculous, but AS A PARTNER in the transaction. You were solicited to be a security for Coleman' and Green,in the purchase of cotton and tobacco, but would not, on account of the magnitude of the risk, consent to lend yo-ar capital and credit unless admitted as a partnerj and Mr.'Green one of yo&r'firm, says, th although nothing special was said about the relation you wefre to occupy in the npgro speculation, he considered you

Y\ should then see when the payment was made to Epperson, which I assert was three days aft?r the alleged date ofyour agreement. On the contrary, you have hurried all your documents away to your private desk, w,h£re they remain1 carefully concealed and in the vain hope ol preventing the pro ducticn of evidence, you have taught your printers not only to hint "at the ind gnnnt flash'ng ofijovrtyo but to itempt to intimidate peaceable cit izens by threats on their part, prompt^ ly to assail the private character of any man who

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same situation as in the purchase'of the cotton and tobacco," for the very obvious rfason, that your credit enabled the firm to make the purchase and he might have srio'ed the still more conclusive circuinstaces. that ou signed the contract as a partner, and actually paid down in cash, one third part of the amount required in advance it is periectly ridiculous, indeed, for you to expect to ESCAPE the odium of this"transaction, byrepre ehtmg jourself as a security, and not a principal. 'You paid your money, risked yotir credit, signed your nam' to a contact, drew bills, gave n«itf s, wrote checks, and afterwards pui chased out the interest of your partners, became yourself sole owner, went tc the lower country, and findrg yourself unable to sell them to advantage, you brought part of the objects of your speculation back with you, passed the Choctaw agency in triumph, and afterwards, no doubt, disposed of them some «thei way, as you admit you sold ti greater part of them. Is it not then a pitiful story to say you were not a volontary agenf in those transactions? "lou were a security forsooth and how do vou attempt to prove a thing so improbable aid absurd? Not by your friend, who was himself concerned in he timixoction 4-Je §ay you BKFUsfcD to be a were Security, but insisted on being a PARTNER!! that your credenabled the firm to make the pur •hase, & that HE understood, you advanced your proportion (one third,) oi he purchase money How thcr do vou attempt to prove your ridiculous ale? The only parliHeof proof oferrd by you. is an alleged copy ol a numorardum of your vn n, contradicting all your other memoranda, and exhibited only to a tew of your cho»eu confidants If you are so ready to refer to a part of your documents, why are you not equally ready to expose them alt? Why have you not Candidly exhrbited all your books and papers, which cannot foil to discover how the transaction really was, and boldly calkd on friend and foe to c. me tor ward and examine them?

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mony unfavorable to you. Tlhat confidence then, under such circumstances, can be reposed in this q^leged memorandum, on the back cf your agreement? Ooes it not rather create suspicions of something worse than has hitherto been discovered? But sir, without dwelling lunger on this point, I will call your attention, and that of the American ^people, to the following letter from a gentleman whose high standing is well known to the cilikens of Tennessee—-a gentleman not anly above reproach in pri yate life, but distinguished for hi^ public services in the legislature of tiiestate, and the congre» ot the nation. .. ,-J 'V'

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Col. Akdbbw F.nwiN, 'SIR:—In answer to

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addressed tome of the 26*h ult. ni»kiDg enquiry relative to what knuwi-

e^ge I have respecting General An drew Jackson's buying and selling negroes for profit, "and his bringing negroes from Natchez—In the year t8ll or 12,1 understood that a Mr. Horace Green took from Nashville a

Hmbcfc. of negroes to Natchez, for gale, and that those negroes were the property of the late Joseph Coleman, of Nashville, General ANDREW JACKSON, and said Horace Green, (yet I do not know this of my own knowledge I heard Gen. Jackson say, he went to Natchez, or some where in that country, and had brought said negroes back to Tennessee and about that time, a Mr. Dinsmore, the States Agent lor the Choctaw nation of Indians, was in the habit of stopping all persons travelling through soid nation with a negro or negroes, who had not a passport. The General observed. that he had token no passport, and on the momhig he was to pass the agency, that fry he armed two of his mo$1 re olute negro men, and put them in front cf his negroes, and gave them orders to FIGHT IHLIR VV A\\if necessary. He further observed, that a friend had put iuto his hands, the night before, or on that morning, a GOOD R1FJLE that when he caiu opposite the agency, he directed his negroes to go to a branch, aud eat their fcr-akla&t,—that he rode up to the agency, where he saw several Indian countrymen, inquired of them for Mr. Dit smore, who informed him, Mr. Dinsniore was not there, nr from home. He told them to tell Mr. Dinswore, he should have been glad to hare seen him, but he could not wait, that he was going on home with his NEGROES. A fellow named John Amp, whr.m I raised, and was sold by the then Capt• John Brahan, to the said Joseph Coleman, was one of the negroes armed and put in ffoitt as the General then sta tedT—The above is a true statement of %hat 1 heaid Gen. ANDREW JAOSSON say in Nashville, after his return from Natchez. It may not be th^ precise words, but it is the sub stance, to the beat of my now recol lection, fUlly,

1 am, sir, yours respect* R. WEAKLEY-

It seems from thi9 letter, that thi purchase from K^prrson was not tlu Only negro speculation in which you, ti-in was concerned. You bought or John Bralsan, and probably, if al the transactions could be brought ti ight, ot several other .persons. But niy main object in introducing the vibove letter, is to show your resp'-ci lor the laws and constituted authorities of your country. Y'ou even boast -d. it teems, ol having armed your negro slaves, iu order to FIGH I the-ir way, if necessary, tather than tontuim to the regulations of government and procure and produce a passport tor them. This, sir, is perfectly »onsistent with your declaration, in your celebrated letter to G. W Campbell, about sweeping from the earth the invader of legal rights, and involving Silas Dinsniore in the flames if his agency houseU Is this a spirit to be pationized and cherishthe pkOple ot these U. States? Does this not also explain the height and deph ol yotlr untiring, ipahg uantpers cutiun ot myself, who, alone, or nearly so, defended my unsuspecting, poor, but honest neighbors, against voui swindling combination to ICY DK1JR1VE 1 HEM OF 111EIU HOUSES AND HOME!?, so I airly and honestly bought AND paid Jo, by them,as set forth in transcripts In the record*, by the STennesscan," in his numbers, from too to seven, each included.^HDmsmore was threatened with consuming fire, for giving you the trouble of obtaining a passport in strict conformity with the laws of the country, and in the faithful execution ol the confidence reposed in hiin by government. My crime was of a deeper dye. I deprived you ot sweeping three or fcur hundred thousand dollars worth, ot my neighbors fands, into vourown pocket by taking advantage of your own ^gtncy.tso well discribed ir Judge AndeiWs letter, (iu the seventh number Oi the

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nessean,') for which you had not paid one dollar neither had yoyr partner. P. H. Darby, who got £5000 ot the 10,000 you so unrighteously extorted out of the people, rathet than be longer harrassed by you

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sim.—-You also got 6 or worth of land from me, for your in dividual benefit in Said compromise, about whicl) you have been very sint and are yet* in open violation vd tfSiit article ot compromise— causng five or six of my worthy, hut poor eighhors, to be hariassed with lawuiU although every iota of the gret ment has beeu complied with .u our part. This accounts lor th-,

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YOU SOUGHT FOR THB EXPRESS PURPOSE OF SELLING to Kennar and Henderson at. New-Orleans, expecting to obtain for him the enormous sum of S&2000, provided you could procure the cer-. ificate of Moore, and otheis. as :o his being a good blacksmith. You/'5 uo doubt recollect the circumstances •f that case and notwithstanding the eluctance which may be felt, to encounter, unnecessarily, tne

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perpetual torture I have undergone for ten year9, by your printers, partisans, dependants, and expectants* and particularly for my persecution here and elsewhere, by co-worker*. in the fire-side business Eaton and Calhoun, who used Wilts' official,, character, for your special benefit, do not positively say, knowingly urx' his part. Is a man to be elevated tt the Presidency, who will not only resist, himself, the constituted authorities of the country, and boast of his arms as his only passports, but will even encourage his ne^ro slavey in rebellion, and order them to fight their way, and if resisted, to spill thz blood of respectable freemen, engaged.^, in the discharge ol public duties

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will now ask your attention to^. the following brief extract of a letter *. written by you to a gentleman oa.business, (not in bank) and dated Hermitage, March 20th, 1812. 5 4Haviug to attend Wilson circuit*. court, it will not be iu my power ta be in Nashville next week. I am very much engaged to arrange my business, so that I can leave home on the trip WITH MY NEGROES FOR SALE."

The letter containing the absve sentence, is in your own had writing, and is signed

ANDREW JACKSON/ v» I shall not trouble myself to conjecture whether it relates to some ."* of the same aegroes purchased ot Kpperson, by the firm, Coleman*' Green, and JACKSON, or whethe?**' 4: it refers to another speculation. It is enough to show, at any rate, that -., you did not hesitate to speak freely at that time of your being actually^* engaged in negto traffic Nor is it ."L necessary to dwell upon a dispute between yourself, and Epperson, which was referred to the arbitration of Judge Haywood and Judge Overton, respecting a negro fellow"

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nant flashing of your e:ye,it som*" an br produced in relation to

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own hand writing likewise, it it should be lound expedient to recur* again to the thread bare topic.

I have already made this communication so long, that I will only trouble" you at present with one other little document relative to 8CP ANOTHER INSTANT?. OF 5 NEGRO TRAFFIC, IN WlilCH I YOU WERE CONCERNED. The writer of this letter is a respectable r\ citized of Summer county, and he' is well supported by the records ol asr controversy about this same negro in court, of many years standing. in the names of JACKSON and Hutchings, t*5. Rollins. Mr- Blythe's letter to a friend:

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Jlsh Groic July 2(Mh 1828.

^SiR,*-i re to a to my knowletlge ot Gen. Jackaon being concerned in buying and sel- *J ling slaves, I will brieily state, that** about the year 1805 or 6, Gen. Jackson & a Mr. Hutchings, (his nephew hy marriage) had a store in Gallatin. About that tim*, 1 HEY PUR- I CHASED or DR. ROLLINS, A EGRO BOY, AND BENT HIM TO THE

LOWER COUNTRY TO SELL. Ihe negro had been previously in the ihands sf Dr. R. to cure a sore leg, and was sold by Rollins to them, with a knowledge, by both parties ot that fact, as I understood at the time. '-r Some time afterwards, I had been up the Ohio, and on my return by the way of smithland, I came to the placo I called the Horse Ford, below Eddyville, where boats were compelled to stop, by reason of, low water, where 1 saw the negro above alluded to, iu a barge on. his return from the 'nwer country, where they had beeri unable *o sell him, by reason of hi9 leg breaking out afresh. When the -s no^ro came h«ma* he w»s put under Dr Ward, and died. Jackson and Hutchings, sued Rollins lor a fraud in the negro the suit was pending several years, and finally decided iiv favor of Rollins. I wa* summoned HS a witnes^in the case. I •hat there were OTHER SLAVES PURCHASED BY JACKSON *£3! and agnt 0 the lower courTtry for sale^blfTftfis so long since, that do lect any other particularjpw* f-he one ramedf-and 'ibit one is 1 rfssed on my menu## from the or-, cuiuetauce ot the \e*ttti^B»

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