- Beale George W
- Harriet Welsh
- Anna Henshaw.
Mr.
Beale called on me this morning to enquire the price of
one of my gallery pews in the Stone Temple. I asked him which of them
was desired— He said he wanted two— One for Mr
Emmons who is building a house opposite to his, and the
other for Coll. George T. Bigelow, who is also about to build
near the widow of Edward Miller whose daughter Hannah is his wife— Mr Emmons married a daughter of Thomas Beale Wales, by Ann Beale sister of George W. Beale— Mr Emmons and Coll. Bigelow are both inhabitants of Boston, but are preparing
for Summer residence at Quincy— I said to Mr
Beale that I did not know what to ask for a gallery pew— He said he knew
what it had cost me—50 dollars— I told him I should not ask more than
that and the interest of the money.— I promised to look up my deeds of
gallery pews and give speedily a definitive answer— I made an effort
this day to resume the routine of my daily occupations broken up by the
dissipations of Commencement week— I devoted the morning to the Journal
of yesterday, and after dinner to writing two short Letters— One in
answer to Calvin Colton who in a
Letter dated New-York 28. August asks my permission to publish a
paragraph of my last Letter to him of 25 August—concerning the Letter of
John Rhea, in the imbecility of
second childhood or bought with the money or promises of Andrew Jackson, affirming falsely the
connivance of Mr
Monroe with Jackson’s military Occupation of Florida in
1809.— Colton wants to disclose all the facts of this specimen of
Jackson’s honour and honesty— Gouverneur also wishes the whole story divulged, but kept
the secret during Jacksons life from motives of prudence and now keeps
it still for fear of Jackson’s ghost— To all these transactions I was
knowing only by correspondence. It is not for me to make myself busy for
its publication. Jackson’s vengeful hatred of Monroe was stimulated by
Monroes disavowal of his conquest of Florida.— His hatred of me was
stimulated by my services in saving him from the public indignation—and
he glutted his revenge upon us both in the same way, by spinning out of
his own brain fictitious, and slanderous charges against us— If the
metempsicosis of Pythagoras were a
doctrine of Christian faith, the Soul of Andrew Jackson would be a
derelict from the body of William the third
of Orange, the glorious deliverer of Ireland—the murderer
of the two De
Witts, and the Hero of the battle of St. Denis, fought four days after the peace
of Nimeguen— My other Letter was to William
L. Marcy, Secretary of War, requesting that the name of
Enos T. Dickerman of
Stoughton may be entered on the books of the War Department as a
Candidate for a Warrant of Cadet at the Military Academy at West point,
for the 8th. Congressional District of
Massachusetts in the appointments of 1846. and with this Letter I
enclosed the 5 recommendatory documents which young Dickerman had left
with me— Another evacuated Irish Shanty just below our orchard was set
fire to, and burnt this evening. Miss
Welsh stays with us this Night.