From the Charleston Mercury.


A CARD.
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10 GEN. ANDREW JACKSON,
Sr u have just this instant seen your card,
dated the 3rd May. from the Hermitage
L he call you make upon myself does not per-
NIT me TO be silent. You are entirely correct in
your statement. You never wrote letter to me,
or even verbally in my hearing, made any state
ment IN either the the other, OF your con-
Vicuon OF the injustice of the charge of Bargain
and Corruption" referred against Messrs. Adams
and Clay. Nor have | ever stated to anv human
being that you had ever even entertained any
such opinion.


presume that the mistake has grown out of the
lact' that at a time when went :. thorough stitch
Tor you and your preferment said. without re-
serve TO our friends, that did not think we could
make much political capital out of the charge Of
Bargain and Corruption" because did not be-
lIeye IN its justice, and that we had hund re bet
ter cows to milk in pen than this acc usation ;
hence, we had we'll have done with it. But
this was my opinion, pronounced on no authority
Of yours.


can scarcely however quarrel with the occa.
sion which breaks the silence, which has so long
closed intercourse. After painful separa
ton Of more than ten years. thank God. before
we de- that we are both on the same side of a
great American question, which is to give an EN-
pire to our Confederacy, and Gibrater to the
South.


Accept the assurance Of the veneration and
respect, with which am, your
Fellow citizen, J. HAMILTON.
Oswechee Bend, Russell county,l
Alabama, May %, 1914. !