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MT. Livingston was member of the Senate from the State of Louisiana when he was nominated by me. Can MT. Clay say that he opposed the confirmation of his nomina- tion, because he was defaulter If so, the journals of the Senate will answer. But his confirmation by the Senate is conclusive proof that no such objection, if made, was sustained, and I am satisfied that such a charge against him could not have been substantiated. I am also informed that MT. Clay charged me with appointing Samuel Swartwout collector of the port of N. York, knowing that he had been an associate of Aaron Burr. To this charge it is proper to say that knew of Mir. SwartWout's connec- tion with Aaron Burr, precisely as did that of MT. Clay hinase!f who if the history of the times did not do him great injustice was far from avoiding an association with Burr when he was at the town of Lexington III Kentucky. Yet MT. Clay was appointed Secretary of State, and may say confident ly with recommendations for character and fitness not more favorable than those pro- duced to me by the citizens of New York in

 behalf of MT. Swartwout. Mir. Clay too at

 the time of his own appointment to that high office, it will be rccollected, was di- rcctly charged throughout the Union with having bargained for it, and by none was this charge more earnestly made than by his present associates in Tennessee, Messrs

 Bell and Foster.

 Under such circumstances how contempt ible does this dcmagogue appear, when he descends from his h igh place in the Senate

 and roams over the country, retailing slan- ders against the living and the dead.

 ANDREW JACKSON. Hermitage, Aug. IS, 1S4O.