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political. Mr. Clay A press of other matter, which we considered more immediate ly interesting to our readers, has pre vented us until now from giving them 'an idea of the contents of Mr. Clay's pamphlet. As expressed in the title, the first object of Mr. Clay appears to be to make it a personal concern be tween himself and Gen. Jackson; whom he not only endeavors to bring forward "as his public, but also as his private ac cuserto effect this, Mr. Clay introdu ces the Fayetteville letter, and the tes timony of three or four individuals who heard Gen. J. make similar declarations at different periods and in different pla ces Mr. Clay also insinuates that Gen. J. or Mr. Eaton must have been the au thor of Mr. Kremer's letter to the Edi tor of the Columbian Observer. 2dly, To disprove the charge of any proposi tions having been made to Gen. J. by the authority of Mr. Clay or any of his politicalfriends, letters from nearly all the western representatives who voted with Mr. Clay for Mr. Adams, are bro't forward denying any knowledge of such propositions. 3dly", Mr. Clay attempts to show that he never could have autho rised any such propositions, because he had to several persons, at intervals, com mencing as early as the beginning of Oc tober preceding the presidential elec tion, expressed his fixed determination to vote for Mr. Adams in preference to Gen. Jackson to substantiate this as sertion, letters from several of his friends J and also one from Gen. Lafayette arej produced. Lastly, Mr. Clay attempts to prove that from the existing relations between himself and Gen. Jackson, and their previous conduct towards each oth er, no hopes could reasonably have been entertained that Mr. Clay would under any circumstances aid in elevating Gen.i Jackson to the Presidency. In the first instance, wc do not con ceive that the issue is fairly closed it is hot a private dispute between Gen. Jackson and Mr. Clay; but it is a dif-! ference between Mr. Clay and a large portion of the people of the Union, be lieved to be a considerable majority, who through the instrumentality of Mr. Clay had an individual thrust upon them as their Chief Magistrate", after they had given decided and unequivocal demon strations that they preferred another Gen. Jackson does not appear as the ac cuser of Mr. Clay, nor does he summons the witnesses against him; Gen. J. mere ly stated the substance of a conversation held with a personal friend of Mr. Clay, which he conceived amounted to a pro-position-, and supposed that it was autho rised by Mr. C. as it was for his particu lar benefit; the name of the individual was given up and the conversation sub stantiated, but the supposition not con firmed consequently, Mr. Clay and his political friends are fully exonerated from having authorised that conversa tion Mr. Clay's insinuation that Gen. Jackson conspired with Messrs. Eaton and Kremer to intimidate Mr. C. from voting as lie thought proper, will be viewed as it ought, by an intelligent com munity. 2dly, We have never believed for a moment, that either Mr. Adams or Mr. Clay would make, or authorise, any direct and formal propositions on this subject, to each other or to any other person; this would imply that they were equally destitute of integrity and com mon sense but it is generally conced ed that there were "frequent unreserved conversations" held bv the members of the different parties in Congress, during the space of six or eight weeks prece ding the presidential election, all of which time, as he himself says in this pamphlet, Mr. Clay "remained most mysteriously silent" now, was the language used in these conversations sufficiently explicit to satisfy Mr. Clay and his friends that in voting for Mr. Adams tHerc was a greater certainty of JMr. ivlay obtaining his present office, than in voting for Gen. Jcckson? from the statements of Messrs. Uuchanan and Markley, there can be no doubt but that it was distinctly .ascertained that Gen. Jackson would not authorise, anv com mittal on the subject of cabinet appoint-- menls whether Mr. Adams was equal-! ly scrupulous, is doubtful, from the con current testimony of several of his friends, as weir as those of Mr. Clay; passing entirely over the statements of their opponents. 3dly, That the decla rations of Mr. Clay as to his fixed deter mination in regard to voting were "whol ly confidential, we have the express declaration of Gen. Lafayette, who says in his letter to Mr. Clay: , "In the latter end of December, either before or after my visit to Annapolis, you being out of the Presidential candidature, and af ter having expressed my abpve mentioned motives of forbearance, I, by way of confidential exception, allowed myself to put a simple un qualified question, respecting your electioneering guess, and your in tended vote. Your answer was that in your opinion, the actual state of health of Mr. Crawford routed my conscience as to what I ought- Kentucky, and will shortly us appearance, stating uie p0int5 which they mean to prove, in re, lation to the understanding be. tween Messrs. Adams and Clny that measures are taking to col lect the testimony on which these points are supported, and thatjt will be published as soon as p0s. sbQ Richmond Enq. to do, and that iaithtui guiue iciis me ouWit to vote for Mr. Adam's in a subsequent public address, when remar king on the resolutions of the Kentucky Legislature requesting him to vote for Gen. Jackson, Mr. Clay observed, that "after a full and anxious consideration hp mr.U not comolv with their request again, Mr. Clay said, "I found myself transformed from a candidate betore the people to an elector for the people; I deliberately examined the duties inci dent to this new attitude, and weighed all the facts before me upon which my judgment was to be formed or reviewed" the only deduction that can fairly be drawn from his letter to Judge Brooke, is that Mr. Clav's conscience had only iust then returned a decisive answer to his interrogatory ; the tveniucty rcsuiu tions were not received by Mr. Clay un til after his arrival at Washington; and Mr. Clay says in this pamphlet, that he did not know he was transformed from a candidate to an elector, until the omh IWnn.hpr. 1 824 in the face of had limited the contest to a choice lhese public declarations,which evident between Mr. Adams and Gen.! ly imply that Mr. Clay had not deter Jackson, that a claim founded on mined what course to pursue until about military achievements did not the 28th Jan. 1S25, he now endeavors meetyLprefe had concluded to VOte tor Air. ber preccaing, his mind was "unaltera Adams." ' bly fixed;" how Mr. Clay or his advo- But what will the reader think of the cates can reconcile these apparent con following confession of Mr. Clay, in the tradictions in his public and private de same production in which he attempts to clarations is beyond our comprehension, prove that his mind was "unalterably Lastly, had Mr. Clay been called upon fixed" for months previous to depositing to decide between a political friend and his vote in'the ballot box? a foe, his last plea might have carried 1. '.1 'a I A .1 t Tt rono tKo nJinvuMtlMvliirl, some weignt wun n; nut me spcecnes, the political campaign was TO THE PUBLIC. Washington City, Jan. 8, 1328. The Central Committee of Con respondehce heretofore app0jnt. ed, in pursuance to a resolution adopted by a meeting composed of the friends of Gen. And. Ja4 son, in the District of Columbia have seen and considered a paml phlet issued and signed by Mr, Ulay, touching tne late l residea tial election: In this pamphlet Mr. Clay has undertaken to show, that General Jackson and his friends have practised seductive arts to prevail upon him, Mr. Clay, to favor the views of Gen. Jackson in the elec tion to the Presidency; and that when their efforts failed, he, Gen. Jackson, conspired with Mr. Ea ton and Mr. Kremer to intimidate Mr. Clay and to deter him from, voting for Mr. Adams; that Gen. Jackson, in speaking of the event of the late presidential election, recentlv published, of Lient. Gov. Bar- -u"" rv. ihi Hon. T. P. Mnnrc. J- Pone. Esn. I U K T . ducted in the winter of 1824-25, scv a. other disti..e ushed citizens i ..: . s L.. ' '- i inn. iv ii ii n vii.iv ill i in ii i the first instance to practice stra- litical and personal friends of Mr. CUy, the P"b 1C mlnd Prtrte aga.nst tnrrpin with mv tVw.n.U ar,A mt- establish beyond contradiction, that Mr. Adams and Mr. Way; and, ii nil ill i ivi. iiivi 1 I I . I mm -T have been his private, lastly tlldt lie, iVir. liav, previous tarr - . . Aprnrrlmrrlvtl.nortcnrnnrcnocinM Whatever may wholly directed a- But to the election, had no understan ding whatever, that he would be as I did not hasten to give in my cainst lMr. A(lams adhesion, and remained most mys- further evidence of this fact, the recei fr.rrnusi u sitp.nf.. in nthr ivnrna elections in Kentuckv nrove it most .rA rnr.,...-rA, miT0Jr;ntn o conelusivelv. Air, Clap's mvsterious i be elected. 11 till 11 J I ICU UIJOCll 1UIU U . -j - j - hnitprnn nnrl 7olnu nnrtirnn hf silenoe pending the electionthe ru- r t 1 -.i mors that accompanied his public decla Gen. Jackson, it became necessa- rntJnn .u0 ,llflll rnTnTnnn rv to change that nnlicv and to c i,:. c-'. j substitute intimidation for blan- his immediate tpjiointment as Secretary Protect Gen. Jackson fiom unjust dishment. Mr. Kremer present- of State, are circumstances casting a aspersion, and to develop, asiar -11 we wan leu any r ci r . . i uppunueu 3ucreiary 01 3iiiie, in the event that JMr. Adams would elected. The Committee, acting in re- be- them to a -gard both to feeling and duty, f lievinff it incumbent on then 1 1 1 r ed nimseii as a new work," &c. fit aent in this shde of suspicion over the purity ofiiis as may be in their power, the j conduct, winch ait his special pleading, truth in relation to the transac- 1 though seven times reneated. has not vet tJ a t i r 'PI . 1 j j t ' . V .. ' - iioo uutviiu IU 11J lilt. VJUJ P 1 j ' ..w j"; saiisiaauriiy aL'counieu ior; dui wiucn ,,,,! K.. n rnnt- nn that Mr. Clav's mind was 4unalterablv line rVl t;rrl O fJnotior tinrra frnm (Via iili 1 in." r: 1 1 11111 iiit-: . fixed" at the period specified, that he' unguarded declarations of some of hisiry,or that purpose. considered it so, or that, the lorces of the General" were satisfied of the fact Mr. Clav admits that persuasion and Jlattcry were used to influence his de termination, but does not state whether their efforts were directed against his ambition or his duty as a representative, or whether the "forces of the General" were the only persons he had to con lend with the diplomatic corps, who are generally allowed to excel in these all-important political qualifications, as- sureuiy couiu not nave been idle when the golden prize to which they consid ered themselves peculiarly entitled, was still suspended; to judge from the final result, it might reasonably be supposed that they were not totally inactive had the blandishments of the friends of Gen. Jackson been met by the frank and manly declaration ascribed to Mr. Clay by Dr. Drake, that "no state of things could arise that would justify him in preferring Gen. Jackson to Mr. Adams, or induce him to support the former," it would have been sufficient of itself to substantiate Mr. Clay's assertion in this pamphlet, that "having my mind unal terably fixed in its resolution not to vote for him, (Gen. J.) I wished to inspire him with no hopes from me;" and there would have been no necessity for the la bored attempts so often repeated by Mr. Clay to justify his mysterious silence and still more mysterious conduct but what becomes of Mr. Clay's previous declarations why ho "remained most mysteriously silent:" in his letter to Judge Brooke, dated 2Sth Jan. 1825, which first publicly announced his fixed determination, Mr. Clay said, "I inter- rill n m Ar-tt 1 most confidential friends. "G attempt Ot Mr. Olav to dis- We repeat our recret that Mr. Clav tort be most trivial incidents into thought it advisable to publish a pani-' cvideuce of political design; to phlet instead of appealing to Congress present the negative statements v,ongre:5ionai committees nave 01 iaie!0fius immediate partisans in ex l'P!irs nPPM nrfll rl aA loru on1 iimnl- . n . . - - - S C Z::Z : Clpat.onot himself; to imp..teN f-, 0 J - - 1 - significance, when contrasted with char ges implicating the Chief Magistrate of the U nion, his first officer, and some twenty or thirty of the representatives of the people. In the statements pre sented to the people, men whose simple declaration ought to be received as "proof strong as holy writ," have flatly contradicted each other in plain state ments of facts -have 'charged each other with misrepresentation, with falsehood, with the. lie direct with this contradic tory testimony before him, how can the diligent enquirer after truth, who will "nothing cxtemiat, nor set down aught In malice," decide upon the guilt or in noceace of the parties? Had this degra ding, complicated and mysterious sub ject been investigated by a competent tribunal, before whom the witnesses could have been personally interrogated, all doubts might have been removed but now there is no prospect of termina ting the discussion until the close of the ensuing presidential election, and the mysterious circumstances attending the issue of the last election, must continue to be a subject of mere speculation, moulded by different persons agreeable to their interests, feelings, or wishes. marks to Uen. Jackson in stages and steamboats, to inculpate Mr. Clay and his friends; and that this was the result of a conspiracy and agreement between the General and his friends, is a course so ve ry disingenuous and illiberal, aa tends, in the judgment of the Committee, at once to absolve ev ery individual, who respects truth and honor, from every imaginable obligation, longer to conceal any. fact within his knowledge relative to this subject. The Committee, relying upon the evidence already in their possession, with that which they have a confidence of speedily obtaining, assure the pub lic, that ia a short time they will present a series of facts and cir cumstances, calculated incontesti bly to show, that the late appeal of Mr. Clay and the charges madtf by him against Gen. Jackson, are untenable and unfounded. More over, they will establish to the sa tisfaction of P.vnrv rlisn.ifisionatC It is said, that a ZfnYfis nrcna-'mind. that. there must hnvn been, ring by some of the citizens of (previous to the election, an under-
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