Litchfield Enquirer

The Charleston Mercury has heretofore been a thorough-going Jackson print—and the editor (who if we recollect aright was a member of the last legislature of South Carolina, and elected Speaker of the House,)—has used his utmost efforts to extend and build up the Jackson party. Its tone since the famous quarrel in the cabinet is considerably changed—or instance, read the annexed paragraph from a late number of that paper. The editor however is only following the example of thousands in all sections of the country in deserting the falling fortunes of an administration which has proved itself incapable of conducting the government with any credit.

"In our paper of this morning will be found a most extraordinary correspondence between Messrs. Eaton and Ingham who were still acting at the time in the distinguished stations of Secretaries of the War and Treasury Departments of the United States. No parallel can be found to it in any civilized country. We copy it with feelings of the deepest reluctance, and only under a conviction that it is our duty to lay it before our readers, as a genuine exhibition of the true state of things at Washington, and as furnishing a very probable explanation of the real causes of the late explosion of the Cabinet. We have heretofore seen sn abundance of matter, in relation to the subject of this correspondence, in other papers, which we regretted to perceive, having always regarded it as a topic which should not have been made the subject of public agitation or discussion. But now that it has taken, as it were, an official shape, and has become identified with the character of our Government, we place it upon record as a part—a revolting part—of the history of our country. We make no comment upon the dispute itself. We only feel, as every American must feel, that scenes like these, whilst they humble every lover of our country, cannot fail to cause it to be despised abroad; nor have we words to express our regret that such occurrences should have taken place under an administration which we ardently desired and zealously labored to elevate to power, and under whose auspices we had fondly and confidently trusted, that our country would have assumed an honorable and enviable name amongst the nations of the earth."