: the -oiBoi' dycfcii: : :- ---- - ' 1 1 - j' . I 1 . VOLVJTE l.r RBPKOlJGnr DCECOMCE COUNTY. C.v FRIDAt I . . - m Thrf! aiscd t TUc Tm-toorouzh Scatola," 1 i; D iti:d by Mi K. MXXSISG, An1', printed by J. IK Manning. ) rulH(lieil every week at !!J llara per annum, if pail within tle yr-irj cr 'nri d'-Iiars and fifty, certs,if not paid tikAfT.ofthe .lbcrintion var. It will h r.ury (t thoc Urine at a dUtanre, cr ot ofr?"3! anably in alrancc. io sub- view to ver: , II. nt- nil r w . - - i . . a " uiucrs array cane money hnr their tn.t crest ji o eht to hive Ivcn niorp rowers and nn- iKrifi t r .u " . - v .1 ",v covtntri-nn hUuA :r::lr v: r ,Tmui 3 3"7-oT"1 the replevin hT vi11 fina!lv:kt:W1: IV?1 momtrpus ahnse ot !rSbt.re be tlErm hy the k,me trilmn,!, whenever - . v' 'V' J 1 "' J.'iu un- power, ann reiurnen to the Ii2'la urt? an ! the q-iestidn ?hill Z TiK i "'T orub,ioci,sHove!,?In5:nyritv of memherrptea-., flillvronllered. ,. iu" j .11111 ivUIlHlllIinr I hp Iirl I oil In nl.'.aK I. ! I-I I t . ' - in . . : . i ?v --..5., i.iv.wm.mc niiiiw? nrooaj nnj eourse oi personal tlenunciatim -Jiiiiiiuiii ij i ik.v i i pre Mr. it rPL'in n itiiiaiii erni-.i l I - . . ... v i i 1 1 IIVJU t ILLIJIU lu I IT 1 . ! i iiivr iiv-vi lo ser mv omn- on conf;nned hv the Sjprrme Conr't of the ni.ra ca:e: ani I tian nn . .!,!. k be fairly presented an - 1',. KLit? t par inyariably j-ripiMon will br tpriyfj forali period than a yi-air a.i'l tlie pip r-wi!l nt diicontinuH until yi T m arc received to that efloct, and all arrtarajes Kflh I.ttr ti th Editor motponc free -of postage, ct thr r will not be attended to. AoTETtitMCXT3 will be inrtrd at the rate of cr.' 4Mir p-r-iuw, for three insertion, and !', rnti fir rarh uhrqarr,t insertion. A liberal jdi-iz- nl will be male to those who adertie by t:,-' jr. TIiohc fndinir in adTirtisrmonta wiU tr. irkithc number of times tlu-y wish them inserted. to meet z:inv years t d'ticeri POLITICAL. UKVUY OF MR. KENDALL .TO" MR. HcilinitT WICKLITFE'S BETTER. To hc Editor of the rflcxttndriit Oazett. Having oh.icrvcd the tender of your col umns a a medium of nply to .the strictures ct Mr. Robert. Wickliiro on my character anilj ronduct when you pave insertion to his iproduclion, I determined at once to a a ill myself of the offer. Incessant official ciisitemenls have untihthis time preven tcl i!ie accomplishment of that purpose. Were the fictit of the case, or the charac trr pf Robert WickliflTe for reckless menda city, as well known to the People of the ITni!ed States as they are to the People of Kentucky, I shonld deem it unnecessary to i .. .' . .. r paylany attention to his malicnont elliision ilut as it suits the present objects of a party to circulate his libels where the author is unknown, arid often with gratuitous attes- tauons oi meir auiiienuciiy, it is tiue to my- &ef'to place the truth within the reach of those who honestly seek it. i If I could be flattered by falsehood, I miffed SJtisrJed with the allegation, that I hajv(? been for about Uvcvle years de facto .(loiitrnor of Kentucky and for about eight, President of the United States! Hut. coii- sciotis of uever;,having possessed or aspired tu the Influence nvlfirh b.ia hpen ntiribtitml o mlc, the tscription of it can only impair my self-esteem and. teach me a lesson of I k...J:r.i.. - ' : : 'One who will dra'.v a i parallel, " says Mr.) Wicklifl'e, Mbctwcen the misfortunes of Kentucky from 1S17 to 1S24, (tho peri od v hen Amos held the conscience oi our executives) and the condition of the United Statrs since he has been conscience-keeper cf presidents, may readily account for the alarming prosjects which now threaten the Joss of public credit and the bankruptcy of thousands of our citizens." , i j The following facts will flliow how far I the conscience- of the Governors cf Kentucky from 1317 to 1824. I pok up my residence in the capital pi Kentucky in the Fall of 1816. Geonb forty odd spurious banks, with a flood the State w ith paper sufficient the demands of himself and parti This accomplished, j in two: short lis dernarosuc and his partisans re- ihe labor and credit of the State tr Utter prostration. The whole departments of labor were visited by al wide-spread ruin ; the hanks bankrupted, land the means of paying debts ilestroved. Amps's relief fr all IhCSC miSChiets hroilrht unnn tho nrmn- try, was an open violation of public fiith bv a repeal pf the charters I of all the banks in existcneUthose that hacUnthfully redeem- eo.meir piper and: fulfilled their corporat I' .a I o . . ! p-jwer snaring . me common Lite ot t)SQ thit had both cheated and swindled, the '! . .-r. . . - . . , MJiis hrcach ol raitli and of the Cons!i tution, the first measure of relief frr tin disease creatid bv Amos, l and which h promisea to cure, was found but to increas- rather than abate Ihe maladv. Amos then found out that the fault was in the Courts, not in the iJ tnks of the State His next prescription for relief oirair st his own acts or cvilsj brought upon the country, was replevin and property law.; and -this fail- ing, aisp, nc prcscrihed the plan lor explo sion, of n metallic currency and the substi tution, in its place of paper . through the Lorn mon wealth's Hank. His' party, still victorious, followed this )rescripion also, but thc disease got worse. The courts of justice were net as faithless to the Constitu- inus aim nis parusans; and ins tion as laws of ed bolv that of to have violat Tr t jventucKy ana This cave to and myself differed. He believed that the ; introduced relief were declare.- the Constitution of the United States. Mr.1 Kendall and his party a new theme.- They ipveighed against the Judges, and finally passed a law repealing them out of olhce, and creating a Court of Appeals, uueu vnn mnisans n et irert to carrv relief laws into execution. Here de rebuked the minion, his Gov- Amos's the peo ernor people had no rem.edv: that thev had noth ing to d but to submit to a system tvhich liad been imposed upon them without their consent and contrary to their will, howe ver fatal1 might be jits effects; and he now denounces the abrogation of these "snuri- otis nanKs" as a breach of f.uth and the Constitution." On the contrary, I believ ed that the remedy - remained in the hands of th people; that jtheir Legislature could not, whether their moli ves were founded in error or corruption, place the dearest inte rests of the people, the Value their proper ty", their civil relations and their' nnlitif rights, at the merey of forty-two petty corporations, whose sole motive was the in terest of the stockholders, and whose sole object was speculation and g3in. I there fore considered it. e act of the LpaUtntur. vhich swept them all out of existence, a constitutional ;ilispiajL of popular power, is just as it was signal. ..r Hts next prescription for relief against his own; acts evils brought upon the coun try," says Mr. Wicklille, was property nd replevin laws." The character of this assertion mp be known by reference to the editorial colijimns of the Frankfort Arcus during the' period when the cry of relief was resounding through Kentucky. They, will be found filled With essays against both "property and replevin Laws," with statistics to show, that such laws would in the end be more ruinous to the debter than to the creditor, and were in every way rer pugnant to the best interests ofthe people v nue mis man ani nis associates were ei ther swelling the cry of relief, or standing ivith their arms folded, atraid to breast the approacliing storm, resolutely and almost alone, I combatted the popular delusion, and at the hazard of the ofHce I held at the hands of the Legislature, exerted ,myself to prevent a resort toi expedients which I be lieved would but prolong and aggravate the embarrassments arid distress under which decency and truth, was into the politics of Kentucky hv !ilr. WicSitifle. and bis friend, durini th rontroverst between the old and the new court in .TS25. The silence which Mr VVicktiiTe Nasohscrved for some years, let! me to suppose that Mmieh had flawed retribution which he serious consequence trom it, and the awful had overtaken him. had' taught him some regard for the sicrednes Of truth, and the decencies of civilized life. I shall content myself with a single illustra tion of thi remark! Late inj 1824, a son of Gov. Desha svas charged vi h the murder of Hiker, and ar rested, life applied to the LeisLiture at the next session, for a rh the ground nl in the larged to oiigh thej that he could not have a fiir count v ! where the offence wa have tecn committed Al granting of such a request was ways a nlafer of coarse in Kentuekv- fiobert AVjcklifle When the bill was at it last reading, took occasion to nronounce a studied tih'il nnic asralnst it. in wS.irli Hlft- out a shadow of reason or truth, he charged the unhappy lather with-' conspiracy and cprruptionf j to screen his son froni punish ment. Nor did he cease nursuinff the oli- ject of his hatred w?th these imputations, in puuncanu n private, during the whole course of his administ ration. . i m. .1:1. - I ihe silujtion of Uovernor Desha, than whom no State ever had a more honest Qhief M agist rate, was such as to excite t he sympathy, of every feeling heart. Theson yas charge.l and finally twice convicted of murder; the juther. held the pardoning power and believed him innnrfnt Ti I . v , were circurristances which justified a father in so believing.- -After the son hatf been a second time convicted and been a second time cranted. thi wh jury, as I understood, and a ;rst, Detitioned for hi ri'xrA on . 1 my life ,n mv hani!f a1 - wyy to defend it. Determined rrt to asuH. hut always ready to rrprl. I he met h the street, after one or hi firnd'h tirades, the mn who now a.iN mr frrtrn rnti seen hi eye tremble, anj wander, and Ml the tinerring evidence of a gittltr-'r on science or a coward heart. ' ThronCh all thoe exciting scenes, and ever jitjee, I hafV endeavored to pt rform my rarious da isin public life and in private, at to Irare Ibis persecuting spirit without a polo cv or pretext, reiving upijn the justice of my country to shield me from harm. That fr, I i have not been disappointed. Yon know, nir, that instead of !cinc Mr-vea irom lienturky by public :nginnnion,H Mr. Wiekliffc -now asserts, 4 1 left th Stale in triupph. I left It as the bearer to Washington of the trophies of vietorv. thk votes of Kentucky fa General Jackson Alter my tleparturc the liiislaturc res tored to me the office of Public Printer for the State, which Mr. Wicklitfe and his as sociates had taken away, and I tvas prcren- cu irora enjoying u only Dy lhe,o3er oft more acceptable employment in Washing ton, i ; Mr i Wickliffc's narratirc' of mv'lifa in this City, thouffh enusllv fletltitT !rf - ' r i . . - their reforming law, and restoring the old court.--1 he next, and the dying effort in Kentucky, was to persuade the people of the Stale to repeal their Constitution, if they were not willing to break it The people, however, referred, expelling Ir. Kendal! and his creatures from office, and he the ii, led his followers over to Gen. Jackson in mass, as his last refuge from scorn, contempt and ignominy." ! I first became an Editor in I SI 5, and among my first essays, w ere spirited attacks e tiank ol Kentucky, not because b:mk paper was equal to Gold and , er,'f as iMr. tckhtle now asserts, but ?kv in the Fall of 18ifi. 1 (Ser,rp becauserhavingsusnended snccic navments i " - v m mm1 I . I -'r 1 a .,!-. Mwison, who had been elected Governor '.during jthe war, and her notes being at a in tl.ie preceding August, died a few days ; heav' ?countf she w.ts not, in my opinion, before, and Gabriel Slaughter, the Licute"n-nal) m her power to resume payment, ant Governor, had just entered upon the ! When she reumed, my opposition to her d-itics of the office. A question bet ween! rt-asetl, and my partner in business, Wil tlie absolute right of the Lieutenant Gov-1 limi Gerard, Esq. was for sonic years a tmof to hold the office for the whole term ! Director of that Dank. ! It was the Hank of fotir years, and the right of the people'0 'Me United States, and riot the Relief to elect a Governor at the next general dec-1 Farty which destroyed the Dank of Ken- , jind the whole party, by repealing! the State was groaning. No man knows on tlie 44 her theky by forcing her to a second suspension of specie payments! I he " branches of the former J3ank in Kentucky were instructed to collect the specie ofjhe West and remit it to the Easr as. a means of saving from ruin the principal Dank, then reeling to its cfhit administration. So man knowsl"11 from the eUects -ot gross mismanage- thchusti e rcations wheh existed between ment. l ne notes oi me nan ot rventuc- tio:i,!immedialely arose; and I maintained the rights of the People to a New Election. Tiic consequence was, jo great a degree of j i.05tiuty oelwcen the acting Uovernor and nuHil, that xcc did not exchange, words durihz more than three of the last vears ic'.inj Governor Slatightc'r and myself bet ter than Robert Wiekliffc! 'A fjt he Gubernatorial tdectionin 1S20, the cainlldutcs were Gen.' John Adair, William Lognjn,' Evq , Gen. Jos. Disha and Col. Ai.thony Dutler. Dutlcr was my first clmicv, Logan my second, and Adair my l-'t, My paper was the chief organ of op itionlo General Adair, and' yet he was iVcitd. The hostile feelings generated in the contest were so strong, that it was two CT th ec years hcforeilie Governor and my elf ckclunged common civilities, and ncv- r did he consult me upon any public mea- ire of political movement during the whole w Hi administration. No man knows this Ku.cijal hostility belween me and Gov; d..ir, better than Robert Wickliffe! .ihe administrations of Slaughter and A.hif cover the whole period "from 1317 ' 15, , - uurius; wniciu' .ir. icRiuie f1 , I 4,hcld Ihe conscience" of the Gov t titles of Kentucky I v .Mr. Wiekliffc is quite as unfortunate in i allegations with regard to my suppdrt v nifusures as to my influence over men. 1 Le Mfowinff i xtract embraces the n;th of production on that point, viz: 'Vhen Amos KcnJjlI became Governor facto of Kentucky, public credit 1 was ",;lj and Ihe pcoplo were never more I'losjlxrrous; the Slate had sustained her v- arictcr and fiith in contracts'uutariiLsiicd; t !ar.k pif -T wis pftnal to ih: aul if- ii ii.!. i .. .1 :t iv: an mis u truer mail ick Dut he continues -4,And this failing al so, he prescribed, the plan for Ihe explosion of a metallic currency, and the substitution in. its place of paper through the Common wealth's Dank." A metallic currency" Was exploded before 4 'the Commonwealth's Dank" was thought of, and the notes of the Dank of Kentucky were at a discount of about fifteen per cent. " This project, like that of the ''forty odd spurious banks," was started suddenly in the legislature after the failure of and an attempt to pass ''pro perty and replevijv aws', as a means of re lief. Its paternity has alwaysbeen ascrib ed to a gentleman who has been for many years a political coadjutor of Mr. Wickliffe Certain it is, that, so far from originating ii or being consulted,! I come out in opposi lion to it in the face of the legislature, upon whose votes I depended for continuance in office, but in vain. The act passed by a decided 'majority, land a replevin law of two years, in case creditors refused to re ceive its nauer. was afterwards naSsed to give it the desired eflecL From these facts you will perceive, that, instead of being the author of the Kentucky relief measures, as Mr. Wicklifl'e now as serts, I was their active opponent as long as there was merit in opposition. Out of what, you will ask, is the tale of Mr. Wickliffe manufactured? I will tell you. After the! relief measures had been adopted and the country was accommodating itself to their operation, a set of men, some of ;iom had silently Witnessed the approach the second part of the the hist conversation 1 ever had with the Governor upon the subject, was introduced Hint j F tatviaav "ill. ui IUITU lUClS. He proceeded to say, that his wn xi sent for him to the prison had protested his innocence in the strongest terms had declared his unalterable purpose not to live unless he were acquitted by a jury, and had told him, Ui it if he sent him a pardon, he would the hcxt hour putanlend to his exis tence. It! vas found impossible to procure a third unbiassed jury, and the wretched man remained in jail- from term. to form. Finally, on hat day of horrors when Deau ch np was executed for the murder of Col. Sharp, afteij the suicitlc of his wile and his own unsuccessful i attempt, young Desha cut, his threat w ith a razor, severing the wind-pipejquite in two. In thatawful mo ment, when he believed, himself entering into eternft y, he beckoned for pen and ink, and wrote a solemn protestation of his in nocence while his life bfoud was streaming upon the paper. : I saw it afierwards in ihe hands of his father o besmeared with blood as tot be scarcely legible, s A Father, under such circumstances, had a right to believe his son j innocent. None but. a monster would-hunt h ruin; need no comment from me. If rom its manner it were calculated 1o nfo luce effect, it would still be rendeml harm- ess by. the great number of honorable men of all parties scattered through the Union, jiiju arc rcauv iu acnonnrp in ground I cijsness and injustice; ' ' - Perhaps 1 ought not to comnMn of thl and other ceaseless denuneiitian vi.:k are heaped upon me. To the contrast witri the whole tenor of mv life which ih present, may doubtless be atcribed mom' th in to any unusual merit or talents of mV own, tlie elevation I now hold, and whate ver of standing I possess in the estimation of the American People. To ProviuVne and my countrymen, I trust I shall never cease to be grateful for thus fir overruling to my own good, the malevolence of my enemies.' . : r . ' " j " 1 - ' I have a right to expect, that not onlf you, but all! the managers of the public press, who have given circulation to Sf. Wiekliffes address, will 'do me the justiea to publish this explanation. 1 r : x. j -Very rcapecifully, your obedient scrvanf. I AMOS KENDALL. Washington, Jume 9, 1837. ; v ; ky were collected by; the Dranches and sent back upon her so rapidlyjithat after manfully struggling for a few months and even brincinc from the East several hUn- drcd thousand dollars of specie at a great!,' thf evil and others actively prompted it, conspired to overt hrovy it and take from the people all power of mitigating legislation, by new and extraordina y constructions of the Federal Constitution. -They -.discover ed that 'Dank of the Commonwealth was a violation of that provision of the Constitu tion which forbids the Stales to iue bills of credit; and that the replevin law, wnieh t : . ... .j . , , or varying terms, yere io y lrginiapiuer than the Constitution, violated that clause which prohibit to the States the passage of any law impairing the obligition ol con tracts. Judges were found to espouse the new doctrines, and a controversy bnallv arose between the .Legislature and the Court ol j Anneals. Tnr these questions I maintained the constitutionality of those acts w hose-policy I had condemned, and became in the representations of malevo lence and the riew of ignorance, identified with the advocates of the Relief System. Mr. Wicklifle has not the plea of vignor- ance to screen him in the gross impOM tion he has attempted upon the Americao people. ;-'. The constitutionality of expense she was compelled j to succumb to i ner inexoranie toe ana close ner uoors. From! this blow she never recovered. Yet, Mr.. VVickliffe, who knows all this, and who was himself always denounced the tiank of Kentucky as an unconstitutional Dank, now lauds that institution' and charges its ruin upon me! j The first act of his party," says Mr. Wickliffe, 4was in 1817-13, to destroy the Dank ofjKcntucky and to grant charters to forty odd spurious bank," &.c. Instead of . t - - - m r . i being supported, these fort odd spurious banks" Were as strongly condemned by.me aSj they ever were by Mr. Wicklille. It was a project suddenly started in the Leg islature and carried through, not by cor ruption, but by assiduous management and the delusive prospect that these Danks would enhance the value of property and "shstain industry", wherever they should be located. How far this project Was in tended to destroy the bank of Kentucky- may be i inferred from the fact, that the notes of that bank were made equivalent to specie as. a capital for these new banks, whiph were authorised to commence ope ration as soon : as a certain txirtion of their ( capital should be paid in rioter of the Bank PRINTER'S TROUBLES In these; piping times of pressure, we know of none who fare so hard as the pub jlishcrs of newspapers. They arc CompLin' ed of if they do not hunt up the cause of the pressure and knock that cause overt 'And if Ihey! hunt it up as thevl thinkmi knock it over ten to one if half their friVhrfi ido not torment, them with incessant ding., dongs alioui their having naked up ami knocked dotvn the wrong passcnz'T to gether. If they publish commur iealions insuring the. course ;of the , banks, thd friends of these insiitoiions will mv ther are piqued against the banks. IfihVvre. fuse such conmiunicatiotis, they will b- ie cusea 01 naving neen nought up by t'-c banks. If they make frequent menii'or.or . Theatrical entertainments, Divines uTl C reach against them. Jf they sale w ith UJt; h'vines and lean earnestly towardi! puritaif- ism. or become a little or 9..-1r.i.a :.. . ... t.i.uiiiij I ' I IJ I turn m floun 1 f . - . - .... , - " 1 if mvui ip rit m vi.n. .vkii w.. . .. f be, ?ihng ?! aCli0R a"'di"g,y-1 ss bigon, if not hVp;tcs. In orT Dut none of hese thing, nioved the flinty ;hev A: !ncyCanbt pl'L D'Tni heart or quelled the slanderous tongue cfir thPV , A rv ",. J . jT. hak.h wn.flTnt I i ;i they Rive offence to C. D. will find M)mcV . hinr r n i -A l,....U I. vii iiriiitiii lite general denunciations of this man. roused Mr. Denning, lh Editor of the Kentucky Gazette, published in1 Lexington to a ! proper notice of the man ami hi IiIhHs. A son of Mr. W'ickliffe en tered the office of the Gazette and shot him dead 00 the spot! I The man 'who had for years, persecuted an unhappy father whose son va.i charged with murder, now lelt, il he could feel, the agony of a father upon the arraignment and iriai 01 nis own son a similar crime. I uunif Wicklifl'e was acquitted, and no man charg ed his father with conspiracy and corrun- t ion to effect it.! Dot the aventine hour was ai naiiu. uos aneuuetn man s lrni-t he man" ah.-itl hi htrrt.-l Iwa akn.l j . ' - ...ww. r .ii vl f and a short time afterwards vounp Wiek ' . i . i - f hue fell to a duel with the successor of Denning. I j ... j . j . :. ' jOne would think that these lessons would not have beeri lost unon Robert Wickliffe. lie has indeed for several years been awed into silence by the marked ab horrence of the; community around him; but his recent publication she wi, that the vengeance of Heaven aud thescorflof men have fallen upon a heart of flinty With mountains of crime upon bis cooscince, and the blood of the slaughtered Denningand of his own son upon his head, he resumes that course cf false and ferocious denunciation, which produced the murder of some of the best men in Kentucky, and come near plunging that state into the horrors of a the Relief Laws is the only' principle embraced iq civil war. them of which i Was ever the adrocafj For years, under the effects of this re A? o the ccnstitutiouality ot the Commoo- jniorsekfs spirit, I felt that i was earryiog l 1 1 . . ' M.. 10 ic mau anoui. u.cv mufi set up late of nights, and be up caily of mof. nings. 1 ncy i must sec to the proof sheets of the paper, or it will be? err. u;tk errors in the mornintr. Thev mmt .f. chase paper,' type, and all othcr mrcssary uicriai? niuFi rmpioy; journeymen at great wages; and pay them t-rrry Saturday ni;m, or me paper s:ops they must Ni this they must be that t'hey, rntist li : here thev must be therc-i-the'y must taka that they nust see ibis, and notice thai-1-criticise this, puff that, and condemn the other be independent here, subservient ' there be spicy on this point touch ligfrt lyon that use the meat aie about such an one, and soft soap about another ihV must be independent and depcrulciit tall and towering, and yet not rj'iite sq cortt quential. And yet after all phis' tbc must wait and wait, be pat off and put oft to tb last go Cown, after every body else is ni49 before their bills can be at fended fov Tfdf is the wa v with the world, generally, in re gard to publishers cf newspapers. We wisn every tody lor little lime could be a publisher, juf to obtain a foretaste of the real perplesilics of the craft; Newspaper bins are rtncraiiy small, and might b easi ly met. iu that case, an Ed'tior eoold afford to be independent at alt times and On all subjects. Mobile Mer. Jide. ) i MinissipptYht legislator of this State has adjourned after a session of four weeks, having by b authorize! the banks to issue post notes payable in 13 months after dale, and created ten or fifteen bank to relieve Jhe people withil V ' i - 'f