Martinsburgh gazette. [volume] (Martinsburgh, Va. [W. Va.]) 1810-1825, 1825-04-21


sembly ought not tohaye induced il to
forbear addressing itself, not to another
legislative body. but to a small part of
il. and requesting the members who
composed that part, in a case which the
constitution had coDfded 10 them, to
vote according TO the wishes of The
General Assembly, whetherthose wish
es did or did not conform 10 their sense
of duty, | could not regard the resolu-
ton as an instruction; for, from the orr
gin of our state, its legislature has ne
yer assumed nor exercised their rightto
instruct the Representatives in Con
gress. | did not recognize the right
therefore, of the Legislature to in
struet me. 1 recognised that right only
when exerted by you. That the por-
ton of the public servants who made
up The General Assembly have no right
to instruct that portion of them who
constituted the Kentucky delegation in
the House of Representatives, is a pro
position too clear to be argued, The
members of the General Assembly
would have been the first to behold as
a presumtuons interposition any instuc-
ton, if The Kentucky delegation could
have committed the absurd.ty to issue
from this place, any instruction to the n,
to vote ina particular manner on any
of the interesting subjects which lately
engaged their attention at Frankfort.
And although nothing is further from
my intention than to impute either alb
surdity or presumption to the general
Assembly, in the adoption of the reso-
luton referred to, I must say that the
difference between an instruction ema
mating from them to the delegation and
from the delegation to them, is not in
principle, but is to be found only in the
degree of superior importance which
belongs to the General Assembly.
Entertaining thes Sc views Of the cleo
ton on which it was my duty TO vote,
felt myself bound in the exercise OF my
best judgment, to prefer w. Adams
and | accordingly voted for him. !
should have been highly gratiied il bad
not been my duty to vote on the occa-
sion-but that was not my situation
and ! did not choose to shrink from any
responsibility which appertained to your
representative. Shortly after the cleo
ton, II was honoured that Mr.. Kremer
was preparing a publication, and the
preparations for it which were making
excited much expectation. According
" on the Goth Feb. an address under his
name, to the ELECTORS OF the ninth
Congressional district of the State oi
Pennsylvania" made its appearance in
the Washington City Gazette. No mem
Der of the house, ! am persuaded, be-
lieycd that MIR. Kremer wrote one pa
ragraph of hat address, OF of the plea
which was presented to the committee,
to the jurisdiction of the house.-Ibose
who counselled him, and composed both
papers, and their purposes, are Just as
well known as the author OF any report
from a committee of the house. The
first observation which is called for the
address is the place Of its publication
That place was in this city, remote from
the centre Of Pennsylvania, near which
Dir. Kremer's districts situated, and in
a paper having a very limited, if any,
circulation in it. The fact that the Pre-
sident intended to nominate me to the
Senate for the office which now hold,
in the course of a few days, was then
well known-and the publication of the
address was, no doubt, made less with
an intention to communicate informa-
ton to the electors Of the ninth Con.
gressional district Of Pennsylvania, than
to affect the decision Of the Senate on
the intended nomination. Ut the char
acter and contents of that address OF
hessrs. George Kremer and Co. made
up, as it is, of assertion without proof,
of ~inferance without premises, and
of careless j~ooose. and quizzing conver-
s~ations of some of our friends to which
l was no party, and of which | had ne
yer heard, it is not my intention to say
much. Ii carried its own refutation,
and the parties concerned saw its abor-
tive nature the next day in the indig-
nant co-untenance otevery I'm prejudicec
and honorable member. In his card
Mr.. Kremer had been made to say, that
he held himself ready ito prone to the
satisfaction Of unprecedented minds, e.
nough to satisfy them of the accuracy
ofthe state ments which are contained in
that letter, to the srtsnt that they con
Germ the course Of conduct Of H. Clay
The object for excluding my friends
from this pledge has been noticed. But
now the election was decided, and there
no longer existed a motive for discrimi-