Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1825-05-10

Oh opHiioHs Jus NAVE ledTHt since INC
election,) which they early imblbed that
the western vote would be only inAu-
, enced by its own sense Of public duty j;
and that if lis judgment pointed 10 eny
other than MIR. Adams, nothing which
they could do would secure it to him
These professions and manifestations
were taken by me for what they were
worth. ! knew that the sunbeams would
quickly disap pear, after my opinion
should be ascertained, and that they
would be succeeded by storm; al
! though | did not foresee exactly how it
would burst upon my poor head. found
myself transformed from a oandidate be-
fore he people, into an elector for the
people. | deliberately ex mined the
duties incident TO this new attitude, and
weighed all the facts before me, upon
which my judgment was to be formed or
reviewed. II the eagerness of any of
the heated partisans of the respective
candidates suggested a hardness in the
declaration OF my intention, believed
that the new relation, in which vas
placed 10 the subject, imposed on me an
obligation to pay some respect to delica-
cy and decorum.
Meanwhile that very reserve supplied
aliment 10 newspaper criticism. The cri-
tics could not comprehend how man,
standing as had stood towards the other
gentlemen, should be restrained, by a
sense Of propriely, from instantly fight
ing under the banners of one of them,
against the others. Letters were issued
from the mandatory at Washington,
10 come back, after performing long
journeys, for Washington consumption.
These letters imputed to" Mr.. Clay and
his friends mysterious air, porten-
tous silence" &c,--From dark and dis.
lant hints the progress was easy to open
and bitter denunciation. Anonymous
letters, full Of menace and abuse, we're
almos, daily poured in on me. Person
al threats were communicated to me,
through friendly organs, and was kind
ly appraised OF all the gIories of village
efiigies which awaited me. A systema-
tic attack was simultaneously cornmenc-
ed upon me from Boston TO Charleston,
with an object, presen. and future, which
it was impossible to mistake. No man
bur myself could know the nature, ex-
tent, and variety of means which were
employed to awe and influence me.
bore them, trust, as your representa-
tive ought to have borne them, and as
became me. Then followed the letter,
ai,erw ards adopted as his own by Mr..
Kremer, TO the Columbian Observer.
With its character and contents you are
well acquainted, When saw that let
| Ter, alleged to be written by member
OF the very House over which | was pre-
siding, who was so far designated as to
be described as belonging to particu-
lar delegation, by name, member with
whom / might be daily exchanging, al
least on my part, friendly saluiaiions,
and who was possibly receiving from me
constantly acts OF courtesy and kindness,
l felt that could no longer remain 81
lent. A crisis appeared to me to have
arisen in my public life. | issued my
card. l ought not to have put in it the
last paragraph, because, although i, does
not necessarily imply the resort TO per-
sonal combat, it admits OF that construc-
ton; nor will conceal that such pos
sible issue was within my contemplation.
| owe it 10 the community to say, that
whatever heretofore | may have done,
or, by inevitable circumstances, might
be forced to do, no man in il holds in
DEEPER adherence than do, that PERM
cious prac,ice.-Condemned as it must
be by the Judgment and philosophy, 10
say nothing Of the religion, Of every
thinking man, it is an affair of feeling
about which we cannot, although W.
should, reason. It's true corrective will
be found when all shall unite, as all ougb,
to unite, in its unqualified prescription.
A few days after the publication Of my
Card, Anorher Card under Mr.. K,e-
mer's name, was published in the Intel
| ligencer.-The night before, as | was
voluntarily informed, Mr.. Eaton, Sena-
tor from Tennessee, and the Biographer
Of Gen. Jackson, (who boarded in the
end of this city opposite to that in which
Mr.. Kremer took up his abode, dis
lance of about two miles and an hall,
was closeted for some time with him.
Mr. Kremer is entitled to great credit
for having overcome all the disadvan-
tsges, incident to his early lite and want
of education, and forced his way to the
honorable station of member of the
House of Representa,ives.-Ardent in
his attao hment to the cause which he