To Chandler Price, Chairman, Jacob Holgate and Henry Horn, Secretaries of the Committee of Superintendence and Vigilance, for the City and County of Philadelphia

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Excerpt from To Chandler Price, Chairman, Jacob Holgate and Henry Horn, Secretaries of the Committee of Superintendence and Vigilance, for the City and County of Philadelphia: In Reply to Jonathan Roberts, Esq. To Chandler Price, Chairman, Jacob Holgate and Henry Horn, Secretaries of the Committee of Superintendence and Vigilance, for the City and County of Philadelphia. The address lately presented by you to the public in favour of the election of Andrew Jackson, has awakened the attention of Mr. Jonathan Roberts of your state. He has ventured to present a reply, and by way of producing a stronger effect, has accompanied his remarks with his name. My object in addressing you, is to afford further explanation and greater certainty to the statements submitted by him, and to show, as I expect to do, most conclusively, that his entire production, must be, and in fact is, the result of a deeply prejudiced mind, for the reason, that in it there is nothing of truth. In such an undertaking it is but an act of justice to Mr. Roberts, that he should have my name, as well as my remarks, and therefore are both presented, with permission for you to use them after whatever manner your discretion may dictate to be right. As early as the year 1819, while the famous Seminole campaign question was pending at the city of Washington, Mr. Roberts was found the earnest opponent of General Jackson, hurried to his conclusions then, through the same false reasoning by which he has been carried to the results he has arrived at in his late publication. I speak the things that I do know! At that period of his political history, a circumstance that cannot but appear strange, he was, and since has continued to be, the warm friend of Mr. Monroe, who was then President. Then was he not ignorant, that as well by previous acts, as by declarations repeatedly made, the President constantly maintained, that he desired no line of separation, or reference to affairs in Florida, to be drawn between himself and Andrew Jackson. But more than this was known! It was known to him, nor can it here be forgotten, that the Secretary of State, Mr. Adams, in an official dispatch to our Minister at Madrid, and which was laid before Congress, had proceeded to an elaborate defence of every step which the Commanding General had taken, and of every act he had performed during the prosecution of that war: acts, every one of which, was by the representatives of the nation in Congress, maintained, justified and defended. These things I allege were familiar to Mr. Roberts in 1819, nor can the recollection of them have faded from his memory now. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.