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‘ S at the usual rates: those sent without a
4Sed number of insertions, will be published
', ui ordered out and charged accordingly.
i-Sales of Land, by Administrators, Ezx
ur Guardians, are requpd, by law, to be
, i, on the fust Tuesday in ftie month, between
uo knurs often in the forenoon and three m the
.•? ‘l, at the couurt-house in the county iu
'-‘“ p roperty is situate. Notice of these
' suuiit he given in a public gazette sixty days
irrvious to the day of sale.
r *ales of negroes must be at public auction, un
. Tf Tuesday of the month, between the usual
Se attheplace of public sales in the
SEBUm** Soto, ®>d lke door of the
where such sales are to be held.
"notice for the sale ef Personal Property must
in like manner, Forty days previous to
to'the Debtors and Creditors of an Es
tate most be published for forty
Notice that application mil be made to the
Court of Ordinary for leave to sell Land, must be
''tStoCtU Negroes, must be pi. *
idied for four months, before any order absolut
shall be made thereon by the Court.
" i.vh/.i.v
SPRINGS.
THE subscriber has made large and extensive
improvements to his Establishment at this
ulace, for the convenience and comfort of those
persons who may think proper to visit him.
1 His best exertions will be used to render their
situation as comfortable as possible.
L. A. ERWIN.
Indian Springs, May 26,1831. J3-4t
fry- The Georgia Journal, Macon Telegraph,
Savannah Georgian, Augusta County, and Athe
nian, at Athens, will publish the above four times,
and forward their accounts to “ L. A. E.” Indian
Springs, Geo.
•Montpelier Spring*
Jlouroc county, Georgia.
' jHIIE undersigned, after great labour and ex
-1 pense, is at length enabled to offer this esta
blishment to the notice of the public.
In a climate like ours, where the enervating in
iiuenreoftong and warm summers is experienced
by all, inviting the operation of causes, tending
to the production of autumnal diseases, it is an
object of ik) triiliug import to the community to
have recourse to a situation in which the assaults
•ii disease may be prevented, its violence mitiga
ted, and recovery rendered speedy and effectual.
Such a place the undersigned honestly believes he
is offering in the Montpelier Spring.
Independent of the advantageous location of
this establishment; situated in a region unques
tionably healthy; the Medical qualities of the wa
•er, are of a character entitling it to high claims
upon the confidence of the community.
The waters of Saratoga and Ballston have long
since, rendered them places of extensive resort,
Loth by invalids and persons of fashion. And the
signal benefits derived from their use by persons
labouring under Chronic Diseases (especially of
the digestive organs) have obtained for them well
merited celebrity—and from a pretty accurate
nalysis, by gentlemen of competent science,
comparing the result with the analysis of the
Waters of Saratoga and liallston, as published by
Dr. Mead, they find the waters of the Montpelie-,
Spring,to possess, with a trifling exception the
’amechemicril qualities. Asa chalybeate contain
ingmore Iron than theformer end less than the lat
ter* with a large proportion of the muriates of so
il and lime; the most striking difference being
die absence of uncombined fixed air, with which
ie Saratoga water abounds. Of the beneficial
application of this water in disease, the proprietor
m bear ample testimony.
In chronic affections of the Liver, Spleen, and
•Jieir concomitant functional derangement of the
' tomach ; he can confidently assert that he has
pen no remedy of equal nature. In dyspepsia,
’ ! iat Hydra of modern times, it is an invaluable
'■■medy, when aided as every remedy must be, by
•’* temperate use of a well selected regimen. In
biases of the skin, and particularly Tetter in all
it. is a certain remedy.ln dropsies from
' isceral obstructions, chronic rheumatism, and
owl relaxation and debility consequent upon a
r ?I lence in low, unhealthy situations, its value
p not easily estimated. Abundant testimony could
' produced to establish the truth of this state
-1; nt, were it necessary; but an intelligent com
munity will make the experiment and decide for
mijisejves ; and with their award the proprietor
• ill cheerfully rest the reputation of the Spring.
The undersigned assures the public that he
not thus recommend the use of the Mont
: *’!ier water, but having been extensively engag
l in t’ne practice of medicine in Georgia for noar
thirty years,claims the right to judge of the
remedy he recommends.
"his fountain is situated in one of the most
I' althy and best improved situations of Georgia,
yventeen miles from Macon near the road leading
■ °in that place to Thomaston. His building is
• r ?Ci airy and comfortable, situated on an emi
; nce, high and commanding; surrounded by
"i'nngs of the purest water, and refreshed by an
•‘imospUere pure and invigorating.
I he proprietor will be able to accommodate
‘mfoctably one hundred regular boarders, and as
la jiy transient persons as may favor him with
eir company; and as interest and liberality are
'Separably connected in such business, it is his
•‘-termination to keep as good a house in every
nseoi the expression, as is kept elsewhere in
B up-country. His 1} \R will be stored with the
, ’ > STABLES well furnished and attended.
,s prices will be the same as those charged at
Indian Spring.
comfortable Tents will be prepared for those
’ llo P re fer furnishing their own board.
NICHOLAS CHILDERS.
• lontpelier, Monroe county, May 18th, 1831.
UASB SCYTHES.
I Grass Scythes, with snaths com
'*• p’ete. F o r sale by
%, mwwell,
•1 act ion lit is in ess.
J. T. BOWLAAD
AND
C. A. lIIRGIWB
their services in the above business,
A to the public. They have large, convenient
and safe stores, for the reception of Goods com
mitted to their care. Liberal advances will be
made in Cash, on all goods deposited, or by ac
ceptance by those on consignment.
Goods on consignment, may be made either to
the address of J. T. ROWLAND, or LAM AR &
CO. Macon; which will meet with attention, and
all orders duly attended to.
April 19 2-
JTtmt ileccired^ai
Family grocery A* centetlinncry,
A N additional supply of the different articles in
il his line, among which, are
Old Madeira "1 Lemons
Claret Figs
Port Prunes
Sherry XlYillC. Almonds
Champaigne . Olives
Muscatel and Capers
Malaga J Citron
Claret Isabel-') Filberts
la and l lomestic Fruits in Brandy
Georgia Ma- j WINES Raisins
deira J Sugar Plumbs
Cogniac and ? B . Preserves
Peach Olive Oil
Holland Gin Table Salt
Irish Whiskey Loaf& Lump Sugar
Jamaica and? R Sperm Cadies
St. Croix 5 ’ SacapagosPecan*)
Cordials and Syrups Pecan, Brazil, ! >,
Smoked Beef and Cheese Madeira, and |§•
Sugar toys, cake, &c Hickory J ’
And most other articles in the Confectiionary line.
Constantly on hand,
Spanish Segars , A best Tobacco.
(fp The above Goods are fresh, and will be
sold at the lowest Augusta wholesale prices.
April 18 1-tf
Coolie & Cowles
HAVE received large additions to their Stock
of Staple and Fancy
Which makes their assortment complete, and
consists in part of the following articles;
Fine black and blue Broad Cloths,
Rouen and Merino Cassimeres,
Plain and twilled Linen Drilling,
Silesia Sheeting and Irish Linens,
6-4 Table Damask, Long Lawns,
Linen Cambrick Handkerchiefs,
French Muslins, Chemizetts, Corsets
English Ginghams, new style,
Adrianople do do
Calicoes, new and handsome patterns
Swiss Muslin Inserting,
Thread Laces and Edgings
New style Crape Handkerchiefs
Gauze do do
Pongee, Bandanna, and Flag do
Leghorns and Dunstables
Open Straw Bonnets
Palm Leaf Hats, &e.
They hat>e also received .
4 CASES Fashionable Black and Drab
HJ I2ti&
Elegknt Mahogany Sofas, Fancy Chairs
Matrasses and Feathers
Bagging and Osnabargs
Sheetings, Sacking, Ac. &c. &c.
They will receive in a few days,
A LARGE ANI> SPLENDID STOCK OF
Hardware, Crockery, tlas,
CHINA-WARE AND GROCERIES.
Which, with the above named Goods will be sold
at their usual low prices.
jV. B.—Constantly on hand, White Lead ,
Linseed Oil, Glass and Putty, of the best qual
ity.
May 19 10-tf
©(StfKPIBaS mbWSOh
•Year the Town Hall,
At the .lga of the Harp and ISutfle.
PROPRIETOR of this establishment takes the
usual mode of informing his patrons and the
public, that he has completed his arrangements
for their accommodation, which comprizes an en
tire suit of rooms, (including elegant separate a
partments for select parties, with fire places, tie.)
He has erected a Cook House on an improved
plan, which will be allways supplied with the
most savoury eatables that can be procured here
or elsewhere, including
Hot Steaks, Cutlets,
Chops, Boiled Fowls,
Stewed, A Eggs,
Fried & > Oysters. Soused Salmon,
Plain J Shrimps,
Tongues With good Coffee,
Venison, &c. &c.
MM is Confectionary amt MSar
Are well stocked with a selection ot choice
Wines, French ?
Holland Gin, And old > Brandy.
Jamaica & ? Peach J
St. Croix 5 Fruits, Cheese,
Genuine Cordials Conserves, &c.
All of which he submits to the judgment of
his friends, to whom he returns sincere thanks
for their liberal patronage.
April 16 L'-I*
wiiTilAM M cI’KAY.
( recently of Augusta,)
Barber § Hair Dresser.
BEGS leave to inform the gentlemen of Macon,
that he has taken a room in the rear of Mr.
Mustian’s Confectionary, where he will be
happy to await the call of any Gentlemen, who
may desire his services—to convince them of las
capability of performing his business, he only
asks them to call and try for themselves. He
will use his best endeavors to please, and hopes
by striet attention to his business, to merit a share
of the patronage of a generous public.
Macon, July 22, 1831. 2< 4t
rocket Maps ot*€ieorgia,
By Greene A Wellborn,
JUST received, and for sale, price Two Doi
lars, by M. D. J. SLADE.
May 27 U '
MACON: FRIDAY, AUGUST 5, 1831.
Fruits, Teas, U*ine, &c.
6)f| boxes Bloom and Bunch RAISINS,
eW Prunes, Almonds, Citron, Preserves,
Lemon Syrup, Hyson, Imperial and Black
Teas. also,
A few boxes extra CLARET WINE, be
ing a part of a private Stock.
10 bids, superior CIDER VINEGAR.
ELLIS, SHOTWELL & CO.
June 24, 1831. 20—
Ellis, Shotweil Mr Cos.
HA \ E received at their Drug Store by several
boats.
100 packages of Drugs and Medicine, Glass
Ware, Surgical Instruments, Patent Med
icines, Perfumery, &c.
1000 ke<p Paint in Oil, assorted.
3000 gills. Linseed, Sperm and Whale Oils,
600 boxes assorted Window Glass,
Spanish Brown, dry. do in Oil.
Verdigris, do do
Venetian Red do do
Chrome Yellow do Green.
Red Lead, Umber, Terra de Sienna, Lamp Black,
Ivory, do Black Lead, Blue, Brown, and
Green Smalts, Frostings, Gold and Silver Leaf,
Copper do, and Copper Bronze, Paint Brushes,
assorted, Diamonds, Paint Stones and Mullers,
Putty, Whiting, Chalk, Rotten Stone, Pummice
Stone, Red Chalk, &c. &c.
ffj* Purchasers are invited to call and examine
for themselves.
Macon, June 24, 1631. 20—
Hardware Cutlery .
PTIHE subsribers have received by recent
-*• arrivals a large and general stock ot HARD
WARE, CUTLERY, MECHANICS TOOLS,
Cfc.— a few are given below'.
50 kegs best Cut Nails and Brads, assorted,
288 (24 doz.) Shovels and Spades,
12 Anvils, and 6 boxes Axes
100 pair Trace Chains
6 dozen Sickles and 4 dozen Scythes
550 lb. sad irons, 6 boxes pipes
200 set cart and waggon boxes
4 coils of grass rope, 75 nests Iron W’eights
13,000 pounds castings,
Steel assorted, Weeding Hoes
Wrought Nails, Cotton Cards
Locks assorted, Wood Screws
Chisels and files, do, in sets Cast Steel
Brass Andirons, Shovels and Tongs
■lron do Tea Kettles
Augers, Steel-yards, Hinges assorted
Cast and German Steel Saws
Mill Saws, Pit and Cross Cut do.
Masons Trowels, Bellows,
Sand paper, H miners, Curry Corahs
Looking Glasses.
Glass and Brass Lamps and Candle Sticks
Plated do do Castors
Britania, Coffee and Tea Pots
Do. Plates and Tumblers
A large assortment of Carpenters and
Joiners Planes
Plane Irons, Brads, Brass Kettles, Sugar
Boilers, Waffle and Wafer Irons
Ploughs and Plough Moulds, &c.
Together witii sets of Carpenters Tools,
Smiths’ do. Tanner’s and Currier’s do
Hatters, Painters and Masons do
All of which will be sold on reasonable terms,
at wholesale or retail.
ELLIS, SHOTW’ELL & CO.
June 23 901
HAVE received and are opening, in addition
to their former stock, (next door below J. T.
Rowland’s Scale House, and opposite where Mr.
Helvenston “ broke out afresh,” on COTTON
AVENUE, a complete assortment of
Spring amt Summer Goods :
Consisting, besides other articles, of
Brown") Work Bags
Blue l Broadcloths Linen Cambrick
Black j OcCassimeres. Ribbons assorted
Green J Brown and bleached
Rowan do Shirting
Circassians Sea Island do
Valencia Vestings do Sheeting
Buff, white & stamp’d Cotton Oznaburgs
Marseilles Vestings Hemp do
Calicoes Apron Checks
Stamped Muslins Furniture do
White do Dowlas, Diaper
Cambricks Bombazetts
Irish Linen & Lawns Bombazines
Silks, Algiers And every thing in the
Gro de Nap Bey Goods line, com-
Sinchew Sarcenott prising a good insert-
Pink and buff Beraze meat.
Ginghams Boots and Shoes of all
Black Italian Crape kinds
Barage Shawls Gentlemen’s black &
Gauze do white Fur Hats
Crape Veils Boy’s do
Crape Scarfs Leghorns
Gauze do Ladies Dunstables
MuslinColoret lace do Cottage Bonnets
Ladies Thread Cam- Hardware & Cutlery
brick Hhk’fs Mill Saws
Cambrick Dimity Cross Cut Saws
Furniture do Shot Guns
Coloured C'amblet Cutting Knives
Russia Drill Scythes, Sickles
Paten* Linen Log and Trace Chains
Hosiery of all kinds Carpenters Tools
Ladies white Kid") do Plains
Coloured | Crockery and Glass
W lute, black silk i Ware
Beaver [ § Looking Glasses
Gents, horse skin ' Saddles and Bridles
“ beaverA. buck J Martingales, Whips
Kid Mitts W indow Glass
Jackson Drill White Lead
White Linen do Putty, Medicines
Umbrellas Logwood, chipped &
Parasols block
Musrjuito Netting Whittemore Cards
Furniture Prints Cotton and Wool do
Bordering, Madalins W’riting and wrapping
Inserting Trimmings paper
Thread and cotton lace Powder and Shot
We ave expecting every doy
Iron Hollow Ware, .
Sugar , Codec, and Mtiquors.
These Goods, with many others not enumera
ted, were bought to be sold as low as any in the
market. . M. FELTON.
W. B. CONE.
Macon, April 16 J-tf
Political .
TO THE PUBLIC.
Circumstances beyond my control have
placed me under the necessity of presenting
myself to your notice. I assert no claim to
your attention, which does not belong equal
ly to every free citizen of the Republic.—
But I ask, and I feel that I have a right to
expect, your candid consideration of this ad
dress. Its subject is one of awakening in
lercst to us all. The position in which 1 find
myseif has nothinginviting in it. It is one
which 1 have not sought, but which has been
forced upon me, and one in which 1 am call
ed upon to vindicate not myself merely, but
the cause of truth and the best and dearest
interests of the community, at a hazard to
which fatuity alone could be insensible.
The misrepresentations of a public journal,
professing to speak the language of the Pres
ident of the United States, and published
under his eye, have presented to me, the al
ternative, of submitting, to an imputation,
alike dishonorable and unfounded in fact, or
of meeting the issue which has been tender
ed to me under the alledged authority of that
high officer. If Ido not shrink from t his un
equal strife, it is because I have a confidence
which has never wavered, in the intelligence
of my countrymen, a firm and unshaken reli
ance in the justice of that tribunal, whose
high prerogative it is at all times, and under
all circumstances, to vindicate the cause of
truth.
1 have studiously abstained from any effort
to excite public feeling in relation to the dis
solution of the late Cabinet. I have felt that
the question of its propriety was one, the de
cision of which belonged alone to the Amer
ican People. Personally I have not been
disposed to deny the right of the President
to exercise his own free will, as well in the
change, as in the original selection of his
Cabinet; and with a perfect sense of the del
icacy of my own situation, I would have been
at all times, a reluctant witness in the inves
tigation of the causes which led to the recent
events. It was not however enough that 1
should submit myself to his will, although
the principle by which it was avowedly regu
lated,eould have no application to me; for
this I have unhesitatingly done. But I have
been required silently to witness the entire
misrepresentation of occurrences which the
public were well aware must have come un
der my observation; nay, to be publicly
vouched as authoriiy for that which was di
rectly in conflict with my convictions of truth
—and finally to be called to vindicate uiy
own claim to veracity, assailed as it is under
ihe alledged authority of the President of the
United States, or to submit to an imputation
which no honorable man may bear. I mis
take the character of the American People, if
they would require this. I am totally igno
rant of roy own, if, under any circumstances,
I could yield to it. If, in tbefaceof this
great community, the cause of truth can be
prostrated by the arm of power, at least the
privilege of vindicating it, shall not be tamely
surrendered in my person. I will bow to the
decision of my countrymen—-but whatever
that decision may be, the high consolation of
having faithfully discharged my duty to them,
and to myself, hall not be taken from me.
The disingenuous and unmanly suggestion
of my desire to remain in the Cabinet of Gen
eral Jackson, notwithstanding the occurrences
which produced my retirement, will be my
apology for adverting briefly to the origin of
iny connexion with it, and to the circumstan
ces which induced its continuance.
It was without any solicitation on my part,
or, so far as I know or believe, on the part
of any ofmy friends, that I was invited to ac
cept the office of Attorney General of the
United States. There were circumstances
temporary in their nature, but still strongly
operative, which rendered it not desirable to
me. I felt, however, that I was called to de
cide upon the question of my acceptance, not
merely as an individual, but as a citizen, and
especially as a citizen of Georgia. On cer
tain principles of general policy, some of
which were particularly Interesting to the
people ot that State, the views communicated
to me by the President, were in accordance
with my own : and I felt it to be my duty, not
to withhold any assistance which I could give
to carry them into effect. The annunciation
of the names of the intended Cabinet seemed
to me, however, to present an insuperable bar
to my acceptance of the office which was ten
dered to me. I thought I foresaw clearly the
evils which have too obviously resulted from
this selection. A stranger to General Jack
son, I could not with propriety discuss those
objections with him. I knew, moreover that
some of his confidential friends hail laitnfully
discharged their duty to him, and to the coun
try, by a frank communication of them. In
this state of things, I sought the counsel of
those around me. To a gentleman high in
the confidence of the President, and to a dis
tinguished citizen of my own State, I submit
ted the inquiry, whether, with this view of
the Cabinet which the President had selected,
l could with propriety become a member of it.
The former expressed his decided conviction,
founded on a long and intimate knowledge
of the President’s character, that he would
himself speedily see, and correst the evil.—
The latter urged the poculinr relations of
Georgia with the General Government, as
presenting a strong claim upon me not to re
fuse the invitation which haiijbeen given to me.
1 yielded to these suggestions, and took my
place in the Cabinet, with a firm determina
tion to avoid the coutroveiies which I feared
might occur. T# that determination I have
steadily adhered. Associating on terms of
courtesy with my colleagues, my official in
tercourse with them was never interrupted by
discord.
If there were any combinations growing
out ot the supposed conflict between the in
terests of Mr. Calhoun and Mr. Van Buren, I
had no part in them—and as little in the sup
posed measures of that character, having for
their object te coerce Major Eaton to retire
from the Cabinet——or to exclude his family
from the society of Washington. With mine
they did not associate; but no advance had
been made on either side, and their actual
relation seemed therefore to furnish no just
ground of offence to either party. In this
posture of things, and shortly after I had giv
en an evening party to which Mrs. Eaton had
not been invited, I received and heard with
infinite surprise the message of Col. Johnson.
I could make no mistake as to its charac
ter, for there was a direct and repeated refer
ence to the large parties, which had been
then recently given by Messrs. Branch and
Ingham, and myself. Such a mistake, if it
had been one, would have been instantly cor
rected from the nature of my reply. If the
complaint had been of a combination to evict
Major Eaton from Office, and not to exclude
his family from society, the reference to these
evening parties would have been idle : and
my declaration that I would not permit the
President to control the local intercourse of
myself and family would have been instantly
met by an explanation, which would have re
moved the impression from the minds of
Messrs. Branch and Ingham, and myself.—
Yet we all parted with Col. Johnson, with a
clear conviction that such a proposition had
been made, and feeling a3 we ali did, that an
indignity had been offered to us, there was,
as I believe, no difference of opinion between
us as to the course we ought to pursue, if this
proposition should be avowed and pressed by
the President.
This conversation took place on Wednes
day evening, and the rumor of our intended
removal speedily became general. On the
succeeding day, the personal friends of Gen
eral Jackson interposed, and he was awaken
ed to a sense of the impropriety of his project
ed course. It was then according to Col.
Johnson’s statement to Mr. Ingham, that the
paper spoken of by the Editor of the Globe
was prepared. My two Colleagues bad their
interview with the President on the succeed
ing day, (Friday) and as Mr. Ingham’s state
ment, made from full notes taken at the time,
proves, no piper was shown to him on that oc
casion. Owing to a mistake in the commu
nication of the President’s wishes to me, I did
not see him until the succeeding day, (Satur
day,) and then the excitement of his feelings
had so entirely subsided, that he seemed to
me to be anxious to dispose of the subject as
briefly as possible. He spoke of the false
hood of the reports against Mrs. Eaton, of
which he said he had sufficient proof; and
upon my declining to discuss that question,
he complained of the injustice of excluding
her from society, referred to the large parties
given by Messrs. Ingham and Branch, and
myself, and told me if he could have been
convinced that there was a combination be
tween those gentlemen and myself to exclude
her from society, that he would have required
our resignations. He immediately added
that he was entirely satisfied that there had
been no such combination, and again referred
to those large parties, and to the rumors to
which they had given rise, os having produc
ed that impression. So far from then sugges
ting that information had been received from
any member of Congress, when I claimed the
right of having the names of aßy persons who
had made to him representations unfavor
able to my conduct, he still referred to the
thousand rumors w hich had reached him as
the origin of such impression which had been
made upon his mind. Hoshowed me no pa
per—-spoke to me of none—intimated to me no
terms which he would hereafter require By
his declaration that he did not intend to press
the requisition which he had made through
Col. Johnson, I considered tlie object of the
interview to be to explain to me the motives
under which he had acted, and to announce
the change, of his dctermiiiation. He accom
panied this with expressions of personal kind
ness, which 1 thought were intended to soothe
the feelings which he must have been consci
ous of having excited. Still I thought it was
improper for me longer to remain in the
Cabinet. Admitting that sufficient atone
ment had been made for the indignity offer
ed by the message sent through Col. John
son, there was a perpetual liability to the re
currence of similar outrage. I believed it,
thefore, tolxJmy duty to retire. My friends
thought otherwise, and my own sense of what
the interests of Georgia at that particular cris
is required, induced me to repress my feel
ings.
When at a subsequent period, the contro
versy occurred between the President and
Vice President, I thought I saw ifl this, the
evidence of an intention again to agitate the
question, w hich by the agency of tiie personal
friends of Gen. Jackson, had been before hap
pily repressed. The connection of Mr.
Crawford with this controversy,and.my own
relation to Gen. Jackson, forbade me to take
any part in it—and I studiously avoided oil
interference, except to deprecate Mr. Cal
houn’s publication. I Jeft Washington on
the fourth day of April, one day after Major
Eaton had announced to the President his
determination to resign, according to the
statement in his (Maj. Eaton’s) letter of re
signation, jind not the slightest intimation
was given to me of the intended chan- in
the Cabinet. But when I saw the correspon
dence between the President and the several
Heads ot Departments, I could not doubt for
a moment how, and by whom, the dissolution
had been produced. I did m t feel at liberty
to express my views until my re
turn to W ashmgton should enable me to dis
solve my connection with the President: but
to a few friends who had the right to under
hand my actual position, I stated the utter
impossibility of my continuance in the Cabi
net, unless the President could place the re.
tirement of my colleagues on other grounds
tnan those whicn 1 Oeircred to hare occasion
ed it, and such as I could approve. In full
view of the speedy dissolution of all connec
tion between the President and mvself, I
availed myself of the occasion offered by the
kindness ofmy fellow-citizensof Savannah, to
do an act of justice to his public conduct, or.
a quesUon vitally interesting to the Deopfc of
Georgia. If there be any man who is inca
pable of understanding, or of appreciating the
motive which prompted this act, I cannot en
vy Lns feelings, and will not attempt to en
lighten Ins understanding. I returned to
tins city, had a conversation with the Presi
dent, of which the prominent points are adver
ted to in my letter of resignation which im
mediately followed it, and having brought up
tne public business, which was in arroar, re
tired from office.
While these occurrences were in progress,
Major Eaton addressed to me a letter of liko
import with his first communication to Mr.
Ingham. He called upon me to sanction or
disavow the statement in the T< legraph, that
my family had refused to associate with his.
I answered by detailing the conversation
which had passed between myself and Col.
Johnson, and stated that I had subseouently
expressed the same views to the President,
who had disci aimed any disposition to press
this requisition, referring tq that which I bad
previously stated to have been made through
Colonel Johnson. The Editor of the Globa
has published this detached sentence of my
letter, and has made an impotent attempt ta
distort its meaning. The public shall judga
of the who e correspondence for themselves.
I had no disposition to publish this corres
pondence. Perfectly satisfied that it would
at all times speak for itself, and net emu
lous of reputation to be.acquired in such con
troversies, I have resisted the numerous calls
winch have been made upon me through Af
ferent journals to give it to the public* 3 . But.
the Editor of the Globe is in possession of it
and by the publication of an isolated extract”
attempts to dome injustice. I exercise, a
tight, therefore, which belongs to me, when
1 take from him, this unfair means of annoy--
ante, by giving the whole to the public:
Friday Night, 17th June, 1831.
Mr : I have studied to disregard the abu
sive slanders which have arisen through so de
based a source as the U. S. Telegraph. I
have been content to wait for the full deve
lopement of what he had to say, and until per
sons of responsible character should by
brought forth to endorse his vile abuse of me"
and of my family. In that paper of this eve
ning is contained the following remark ofmy
wife“R is proven that the Secretaries
the Treasury and of the Navy, and of the At
torney General, refused to associate with her.”
This publication appears in a paper wliiclr
professes to be friendly to you, and is brought
forth under your immediate eye. Id. sire to
know of you, whether pr not you sanction this
statement; or disavow it. The relation we
have sustained towards each other authorizes
me to demand an immediate answer.
Very respectfully,
r ivr t J ’ H * EATON.
Jno. M. Berrien, Esq.
Washington, 18th June, 1831.
Sip. : I received to-day your note of last
night, in which you call my attention to an
article in the U. S. Telegraph of the 17th
inst. relating te your wife—and desiring to
know whether I will sanction or dis&vow thd
statement, you add, ‘‘the relation we have
sustained towards each other, authorizes mo
to demand an immediate answer.”
To this inquiry preferred as a matter of
right and presented in the form of a demand,
my answer must be brief. It consists in tbo
simple denial of the claim which you assert.
I cannot recognize your right to interrogate
me, concerning the statements of the Tele
graph, or of any other public journal, which
are made without my agency. You might
with equal propriety select an article from
any newspaper in the Union, for the purpose
of putting ine to the question— and if the
claim which you assert be well founded, I
might be required at the instance of any per.
son aggrieved to give my confession of feith,
in relation to the various statements to ba
found in any of tho journals, in which my
name may chance to be mentioned. Such a
demand, therefore, cannot be admitted for a
moment. But although I cannot rccogniza
your right, either as derived from the relation
which we have sustained towards each other,
c.r from any source, to make the demand pre
sented by your note, lam not quite sure,
looking to the portion in which we stand be
fore the public, that 1 can acquit myself ta
the community or to myself for declining to
answer your inquiry.
In the progress of those events which havo
at length resulted in the dissolution of the*.
Cabinet, ray determ-nation h.ls been not *
do any act which was calculated to p r < vek •
controversy, nor to deviate under whatever
urgency from that line of conduct, which mv
own sense of propriety prescribed. Act ;
NO. SJ.