Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1824-09-14

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From DE .Nsn York .4rnc,ffau.
The letters OF which the following are copies
We're written by JonN taINcY ADAMS Ia, ), nnol;, z
!it;ai Trend, who was then amernhcrof Congress-.
III the years 1905, aud 1900. They are now
! published entirely without his priyity or know
iecSe, aii from sense of what is due as we'll
to his character as also 10 the citizens of our
coh''non country al the present junctute. The
views which they contain, thrown out as tbev
| were IN the unrescved f.ankncs. of epistolarv
intercourse develope pretty fully the real cha.
racter OF the writer, and the undiseuised SEMI
fnentS which he then entertained and incuIcatel
amongst ms friends OF the important events and
o. t'at very trying period in our ma
| tionai history; ana must If we mistake ro ~,
hit' honor amongst the candid and reflectlue OF.
all parties at the present time, whatever preiu-
dices they might have excited against Am in
some portionsof the community, had they lave
oeeh made pubic at the period when they were
written. They leave no doubt of the zeal viii,
which he cspoused, and the fidelity with which
ne adhered TO what have been deemed the car.
ninaf measures Of Dir. Jeferson,s ud,Sni,fru
f'oa at that crisis in our affairs. And it is
most singular TACT, that the great State of New
orh, through the management of a small ssNi.
bany Regency" protesting to act as The ,x,
slre disciples oftte Jefferson school and tn ,n,h,
an adhcrence7to h's systems, and RS measures
the greatest of public character;-itis is we re,
peat, a most singular fact, that tins state should
ny suc,i management, be attempted to be tied to
the wheels or another pi.eSidsjitial candidate
who began his political career BY writing a,,nl -
tory addresses TO John adams, in 1893 and who
when member of the national councils nm
posed and voted against the embargo and the a..
thcr great measures of Mr.. Jesferson,s policy inn
iaoI, together with many of those recommend.
ed by Mr.. Madison, preliminary to the wa sfs
i"n-'-ior such man as the public records,
VIII testify, was William III. Crawford, -
! Republicans OF New York!-But WHY sbou,,k
we address you--for with every portion of yo,,r4
leiio"-citiZens OF all parties in this State, YOU
! are now DISTINGUISHED and inanacled BY your
own servants, who have taken all you,. nowars
INTO he'F own hands, and left YOU wifboufa
voice IN the election of the chief ,nan;str,fe-f
TINS great nation The vote of single citizen Of
ei,heroi The nallStates of Connectcutor Rhode.
Island, Is now of more rloment in tI,;s ,,r,,.as.
question, than that of one bulieifed and tbiriv
thousand %! the electors of this powerful ami :;
sing State We will not then insult Won s., 81
much as 10 ask OF you 10 examine into the ouai
iica'ioas OF The two principal candidates offered
10 your choice, for 1t seems now 10 be settled e
! mat no spct choice shall you hare The iron
hand OF your masters has been axten5aJ go
you' and the fetters with which they have bonnd
| YOU are at this moment heard clankipr unorY
yeur legs IRON Georgia TO Maine. II wnnu
therefore be cruel to mock YOU BY any r,rete,,,l
Gu eAhor'aoon 10 action. But, republicans Of
other States! whose voice, unlike ours can ypt
be heard with effect on this great ouest;cn 49,
we not can upon yow to compare the auaf:ca
ions OF the two PRINCIPAL candidates which arr,
now presented for your suflrages--John Quincy
-7dains' the firm and inhexible supporter of the
o oa measures adopted by MIR. Jefferson,
VII. Madison and Mr.. Monioe 10 uphold No
national honour and to repel lawless aparess;orss
upon our rishts;-and VIM. H. Crawford dc
open o2poser, rthe cold reluctant supporter 'ofs
most OF them. The man on the one hand. who,
Miinout any ioid professions of loyalty assumes
IN nus public character the heavy respopsib;l;t,
oil those measures, and in his private interconrs,
rHhaicates and sustains them; and the man or
the other, who protesting a-gcneyal attachment
10 Tie principles of those administrations a,,,,
ehdcaYouring TO ally himsefwith their good for
tunes, yet M1O,cs himself IL, oDDos;j;o,, 10 noL
measures IN detaI, and witbraws from 49,
a most pcr!lous season, his individual rnsrons;
bility. rSP'nsi-
But 1t is not to those only who have in linn,
past been designated by the distinctive appeIIa.
l.oh OF fep"bhcans, that this appeal may viii,
safety be made. We leave il with horor,bl,
and rejecting men of all former parties 4,
TO winch description ofcharactcr they would AZ
all times most willingly entrust their own for
tunes and the rights the interest, and the safe
~ OF our common country
III WI! be rccocctcd, that the period at which,
the letters of which the following are extracts.
were written, was one of portions trial to tite
hationai government and to- AIr. Adams in his
public capacity, he having little before, il, CON,
sequence oil his votes on the embargo and Other
questions, been suspended as senator sro,t, z
Massachusetts by the legislature of that stale.
ana having from considerations of duty and lo.
nouT, resigned his scat for the ren,apJsr. Of Iis
;cTn, was then in retirement. They deye,ope
ms undisgnIsed sentiments on the measures and
events oil that day, and the full shareof resnon
aioihy which he was at all times willing TO as.
sumo asto the part which he had been called
TO bear III them They are now placed before
| TIE pubic by one who for many years has had
no political or personal intercourse will, Mr., "A
dams, and who neither expects or homes for is
hereafter. Whether Mr.. Adams Gen J,clr
son or Mr. Clay stall succeed to the highest ofg
nee IN the gift of any nation To- bcstow Is not IN Z
hn SO much subject of anxiety, as it is that
ne should fail OF IT, 10 insure whose uuincritcd
elevation, the free electors of great republican,
commonwealth have been slIameessly denied
the exercise of the first birtI,-rigit of frccnor,
and been degraded to be the mere IooIsers.o,,
upon the game which is soon to be PLAYED for
them by u'e great political jugglcrs of The day.
PUOCION.
BosroH, 17th Nov. 1906