Mr Uirt to Mr Calhoun.
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MAY, 70, lS3U.

 DEAR SIR: Your letter of yesterday relates to meeting ofthe cabinet in the summer of 1878, rela- tive to the Seminole war. should not feel myself at liberty to disclose the proceeding of any cabinet meeting without the concurrence of the President, and olal the members who attended it; but as your inquiry relates to your own course only, and can speak ofthat without involving any one else, see no impropriety in doing at your request Among other Ideas thrown out for consideration according. to the usual course of cabinet consultations think that at the first meeting you suggested the proprety of an inquiry into the conduct of the commanding general; but remember that the course ultimately adopted hadyour hearty concurrence ; and remem- Der it the distinctly because you mentioned ii repeatedly to me afterwards as a striking evidence of the practical wisdom oftie President who suggest ed it. Thus much feel myself authorized by the call to say of those deliberations The crcunstah- ces mentioned in the extract you enclose purporting to be "an extract of letter from w. H. Crawford Esq to John Forsyth. Esq. dated April 30, 1s3O." have no place in my recollection. The letter from Gen. Jackson to President Monioe, therein men, tioned, IS entirely new to me. According to the description of the letter. given of it in the extract it IS one ofso singular character, that if it had een exhibited at any meeting at whichI was present, I thinH that could not have forgotten it. The occur renee IS said to have taken place twelve years ago. Kept no notes in writing of any of those dsbera- tons, and am speaking merely from memory. But stli think, that if such letter had been produced and read in my presence, should have retained some recollection oft whereas it strikes me, in tne description, as a thing perfectly new, and of wnch never heard before, In the close of the ex tract, the writer says; #Afer that letter was pro