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provement, we thought it best to make an effort to enlist Congress on our side. This we were so fortunate as to accomplish. Twenty thousand dollars were accordingly appropriated. Were we not right in doing sol I am sure of one thing that we belie ved we were doing for the best. This appropriation was obtained but a few days before the rise of Congress, too late to act on the bill I reported from the commit tee yielding the assent of Con gress to the North-Carolina a'ct. I thank you, gentlemen, for your attention; and I will here close my remarks. Although I have not touched on a subject dear to my heart, and of vital impor tance, the all-absorbing subject, 1 can assure you that it has not ari sen from a belief that it has lost any of its interest. I believe that the efficiency, the perpetuity of the elective franchise, in a word, that evOry thing dear to freemen depends on the issue. In conclu sion, permit me to give you a sen timent: A firm and fearless assertion anil maintenance of our rights as free men and as free States; not inconsistent with the rights of others or the hallowed maxim Epluribus Ununi "United we stand, divided we fall." By Dr. A. S. II. Buries. The Hon. Willis Alston, the Representative of our district in Congress: His services have been long and valuable, we greet him as an acceptable and highly respect ed guest. Mr. Alston rose and said, that if the state of his health was such as to enable him to deliver an ad dress, he would not now detain his friends, who had already been so long kept together; and, especial ly after the able and eloquent, ad dress just made by his distin guished and worthy fellow-citizen, Mr. Branch, lie was, however, conscious that he did not possess language sufficient to express his feelings of gratitude for the polite attention which had been paid him by the citizens of Halifax. The friendly feeling just expressed to wards him, and the manner in which it had been expressed, de manded his most sincere thanks. If, indeed, his long public ser vices, which had been noticed by his friend, had been productive of any beneficial result to his coun try, the company now assembled and their ancestors were entitled to all the credit; for, by their aid and support, he had been brought into, and continued in public ser vice. -From them he had uni formly received almost a unani mous vote. The highest reward ever asked by him for his public services had just been awarded by his fellow-citizens of the town of Halifax and its vicinity. In con cluding his remarks he asked leave to give The town of Halifax: The birth place of the Constitution of North-Carolina. Mr. Clay. There is no prominent individual at present on the political are na, who has more reason to exclaim, 'save me from my friends," than Mr. Clay. But a few months since, his friends in the Senate of Kentucky in stituted a partial investigation of the charge of bargain, &.c. in the last Presi dential election, and brought to light the declared motives which induced se veral of the Kentucky members to vote for Mr. Adams and now, the "Cen tral Committee of the friends of the Ad ministration in Kentucky," have clinch ed the nail, by giving from under Mr. Clay's own hand, the perplexing inter rogatories which induced his conscience. to remain "most mysteriously silent," for six or eight weeks previous to the late Presidential election. What were "the hopes of the Republican party," as expressed by the friends of Mr. Craw fordor, "the anxiety we all had for a western President," as stated by the friends of Gen. Jackson when put in the balance with the "future interests" of Mr. Clay, as urged in the pathetic appeal of "the friends of Mr. Adams? Could it he expected that the republican, the patriotic, the disinterested Henry Clay would hesitate in his choice, when satisfied that his "future interests" pointed out the course he ought to pur sue, longer than it was necessary to "strengthen the inclinations" of some of his friends towards Mr. Adams? It will be recollected that at the investi gation above alluded to, several individ uals stated that it was known in Ken tucky, some time before the Presiden tial election, that Mr. Adams would be elected President, that Mr. Clay would beappointed Secretary of State, and that this information was derived from Mr. nlair the confidential menu and corres pondent of Mr. Clav. Mr. Blair was called upon to stale from whom he re ceived this information, but he declined doing so, stating that what he knew was communicated confidentially. The Se- nofo 1 ! not ittciut ut-mii li i t f-cl I Pi: I inr ui jiv uuv iuji.i ujii'ii i i lljllljf and the subject was left open to conjee tnrc. hccently, however, the Admi nistration Central Committee of Ken tucky addressed a note to Mr. Clav, re questing copies of bis correspondence with Messrs. IJIair and Kendall, for pub lication.... instead of authorizing the pub lication of his correspondence with Mr. IJIair, which the public were anxiously waiting for, Mr. Clay makes a violent attack on Mr. Kendall, and gives three letters from him, wholly foreign to the purpose. To show the ingenuity with which Mr. Clay c;i ts round this friend ly request of the Central Committee, we give the following extract from his re ply, which is all in fact that has a direct reference to the subject: "1 preserved no copies of my letters addressed to either of those gentlemen. Mr. Blair has fur nished me with copies of several of those directed to him, includ ing that upon which I understand, a reliance is placed to establish the fact of my having made a cor rupt agreement, in relation to the late Presidential election. My correspondence with that gentle man was friendly and familiar and sometimes sportive. Ft is cha racterized by a freedom of lan guage which is occasionally, ad missible in private and friendly intercourse, but which would not be decorous to the public. Mr. Blair has himself refused to exhi bit the letter in question, or testi fy concerning its contents, upon the principle that he will not, vo luntarily, consent to the violation of private correspondence. That principle must command the re- f 1 a - - pect ot all honorable men. So to whom I have shewn the corres pondence, and such is my own. But I will not avail myseu oi uhp advantage, at the sacrifice of a nrinr-inln. the reservation of should have concentrated our for si m.i' 7 i I nit , --x-v ujjuii jvu. j. iiu iiuiuuge ot Air Adams' friends, you give in near ly the following words: "A friend of Mr. Adams comes to me 'with tears in his eyes' and says Sir, Mr. Adams has always had the greatest respect for vnn and the highest admiration for which is a necessary guarantee to social confidence and intercourse. I could not, moreover, publish my own letters to Mr. Blair, without some of Ids, shewing the sense in which he understood mine. Al though he has given me permis sion to publish both, he thinks publican party are upon vou vr and Mr. Crawford were the only I .V41VACllO, i mil been returned to the Hous you e, wo thev ouht not to be published; your talents. There is no station and I will not, on the deliancc oiiw.uuiyuu aiu nui uquai. Yon a profligate editor, be the first toi were undoubtedly the second set a mischievous example, which choice of New-England, and I the other party .to the correspond pray you to consider whether the dencc has refused to establish. I ; public good and your own future must decline, therefore, authoriz-! interests do not distinctly point ing the publication of our corres-; you to tne course wmcn you ought nondehce. But the Central Com-to pursue." i . ... .... mittec is at liberty to exhibit to You then cive some reasons New Cotton. A sample of new Cotton, the production of plants which continued alfve thro' out the last winter, and put out afresh this spring, was shown the editor of the Savannah Georgian, Of! t in lull. .,wl 1 ' T. 1 .1 1 ...v, vntjijr. 11 jua&uosuu uiu'uu us luarus me cnarc against qualities of what is called good me, the publication would benefit cotton, whiteness, fineness, andiinstead of injuring me. Such is length of staple. the opinion of several gentlemen the inspection of anv gentleman, ! why Mr. Adams should beprefe of any party, all such portions of red to General Jackson, among it as relate to the late Presiden- which I remember only the state- tial election, and I will do the ment that the Ohio delegation had same upon any such application determined to vote for jl r. Adams, being made to me." : the alleged want of qualification Mr. Clay must certainly have become in the General, and his military very indecorous of late... at tbe last propensities. You then declare session of Congress, bis official corres- distinctly, and in nearly the fol- pomlence with Mr. took oi Illinois, was , . rf not deemed by nun sufliciently decorous . , c . . to be submitted to the Representatives of . "My friends entertain the bc the people, and now the4 people them- lief that their kind wishes towards selves are refused his private corres- me, Will ill the end, be more like pondence with Mr. Blair, because, ly t0 De accomplished, by so be forsooth, it "would " not, be deco- stowi ng their votes." jous towards the public. Alter the Tr , , , A, . , publication of this letter of Mr. Clay, u 1 ien declare, that you have however, his letters to Mr. Blair were urged them to be governed by shown to Mr. Kendall, who applied by their views of the public good r.ote to the Chairman of the Committee alone, and aver that you have for a copy of the one dated 8th January CGn influenced only by that Con 18, which as he says, "only is of ma- sideration. In conclusion, JOB tonal importance '....the result is jriven , . r . ,; hv Mr. Kendall in a letter addressed to use near,y tl,e following words: Mr. Clay, from which we extract the "Your Representative is incli following: ned to concur with us in these "The Chairman received the sentiments, and as I know his re note with that suavity and polite- spect for your opinion, I request, ness for which he is so justly dis- if you concur in our views, that tinguished, kindly remarking to you will write to him by return my friend who bore it, that if the mail to strengthen him in his in lettershad been left in his posses- clinations. Show this to Crittcn sion, 1 should not have had a sight den alone." of them much less a copy; but You say you could not publish he finally promised to lay the ap- this letter without publishing let plication before the committee at ters from Mr. Blair to shew how their next meeting. As I cannot, he understood it. This waswrit from the feelings evinced by the ten on the 8th of January. About Chairman, expect any tiling fa-1 the 20th he must have received it. vorable from the deliberations ofjl have stated, and he has admitted the committee, I feel compelled to resort to my recollections for the substance of your letter to Mr. Blair. Let the date be recollected it is January 1825. You commence by giving Mr. Blair your opinion upon a work by Lord Byron which you say you have sent im (Franked, 1 presume. You then enter into the subject of iiiu i lu&iuuiiiiiti eiecuon and say, that the time has now arrived when you must begin to think se riously for whom you are to vote. You state that the friends of ali the candidates entertained the opinion that on you rested the de cision of the contest, and that your situation was singular and amusing. You say that the friends of the several candidates accost you in turn; that a friend of Gen eral Jackson says to you, My dear sir, my hopes are upon vou do not disappoint us our partiality was for you next to the hero you Know the anxiety we all had that about the 20th. he told me that Mr. Adams if elected icould make you Secretary of State. Does not this shew how he un derstood it? Mr. Kendall also gives an extract of i letter from Mr. White, the "represen tative" alluded to, in which he says: "I do freely acknowledge; therefore, as I have often hereto fore frankly avowed, 1 now state, that I voted for Mr. Adams with a view to promote Mr. Clay's fu ture prospects for the Presidency. From the JVest. Extract of a letter to the Editor, from a gentleman recent ly from Halifax, dated Portage county, Ohio, 11th July, 182S: "I have never seen such abun dant crops of wheat and corn as there is now growing in this coun tryflour is worth by the barrel $2. 25; corn, 25 cents per bushel; and bacon, 4 cents per pound'-, coffee and surrar about the same as in North-Carolina. f :L 'i "r v, Pwuent: That a-much talked of here, and iro friend of and savs IVJr. Cm 1p arc ii,n;s;vnai i can learn me pew -tlio hopes of the Re-nearly equally divided."
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