The Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1822-1829, 1825-04-08

Entertaining these views Of the election
90 which IL WAS made my duty to vote,
felt myself bound, IN the exercise ol my
Judgment, To pielrr Mr.. Adams f; aud az
cordingly voted for him. | should have
been lIghly grdtliird II II had not been my
duty 10 vote on lhe occasion; hut ihat vas
not NV situation, aud did not choose to
shrink from any responsibility which apPer
talnrd 10 your representative. shortly nj
ser the election, II was rumored that Mr..
kremer was preparing publication, aud
tire preparedness for 1t which were making
excited much expectation. Accordingly
on the ~ III of February, the address, I'm
der his name, to the Electors of the 9Th
congressional district of the state OF Penn
~ lyania. made disappearance IN the w ASH
ngton City Gazette. No member of the
House, am persuaded, believed that Dir.
kremer wrote one paragraph OF that ad
dress, or OF the plea, which MAS presented
TO the committee against the jurisdiction OF
the House. Those who counselled him
and composed both papers, and their pur
poses, were Just as well known as The au
thor Of any Report from a committee tn
the House. The first observation called for
by the address, Is The place of its publication.
That place was in this city, remote from
the centre OF Pennsylvania, near which
Nj. kremer's district is situated, aud in IA
paper having very limited If any, circu
lation IN it. The time, also, is remarkable.
The fact that the President intended TO
nominate me TO the Senate for the office
which nov hold, in the course of few
days, was then we'll known, and the publ
cation of the address was no doubt made,
less with an intention to communicate IN
formation to the electors of the 9th Con
gresslonal District Of Pennsy lyana than
10 affect the decision of the Senate on the
intended nomination. OF the character
aud contents of that address of Messrs.
George Krrmer D. Co. made up AZ it
is OF assertions without proof, of infer
"nces without premises, and of care
less, jocose and quizzing Conversations of
some Of my friends, to which | was no
party, and of hieh had never heard, it is
not ry intention to say mach. 1t carried
us own refutation,and the parties concerned
saw its abortlve nature the next day in the
indignant countenance of every unpreiudi
ced and honorable member. In his card,
Mr.. kremer had been made to say, that he
held himself ready to " prove, to the salts
faction of unpreiudicrd minds, enough Ia
satisfy them of the accuracy of the state
IN nts which are contained in that letter, to
Me ertent that they concern The course Of
conduct Of Henry Clay" The object of
excluding my friends from this pledge has
been noticed But now the election was
decided, and there no longer existed mo
tive for discriminating between them and
me. Hence the only statements that are
made IN The address, having the semblance
of proof, relate rather to them than to me
and the design was, hy establishing some
hing Ike facts upon them, to make those
tdcis react upon me.
of the few topics OF the address upon
which ! shall remark, the first is, the accr
satIon brought forward against me of VIC
latIng Instructions. II the accusation were
true, who was the patty offended, aud To
whom wast amenable ? If violated any
Instructions they must have been yours,
9'nce you only had the right to give them,
and 10 you alone was responsible. With
out allowing hardly time for you to hear Of
my vote, without waiting to know what
your Judgment was of my conduct, George
hremer L Go. chose to arraign me before
the American publlS as the yiolator % IN
siructlons which | was bound to obey
II, instead q being as you are, and hope
always viii be, vigllant Observers of the
conduct OF your public agents, Jealous OF
your nights, and competent TO protect and
defend them, you had been ignorant and
euIpahl5 confdins, the gratuitous intcrpo
sltIon, as your advocate, of the honorable
George kremer, of the 9th Congressional
district IN Pennsylvania, would have ner
tied your most grateful acknowledgements
Even upon that supposltlon, his arraign
mint of me would have required for it:
support one small circumstance, which
happens not to exist, and that is the fac
of yoar having actually instructed me to
vote according To his pleasure.
The relations 10 which | stood to Mr.
Adams constitute the next theme ofthe ad
dress, which shall notice. | am describ
ed as having assumed " a position of pceu
bar and decided hostility to the election Of
Nr. Adams" and expressions towards him
are attributed to me, which never used
| am made also responsible for "pam
phlets and essays Of great ability" pub
ilshed by my friends in Kentucky, in the
course of the canvass. The injustice oi
the principle of holding me thus answera
bic, may be tested by applying it to the
case Of General Jaekson, in reference tC
publications issued, for example, flOm the
Columbian Observer.-That was not il
favour of the election of Mr.. Adams. wher
the contest was before the people, is most
certain. Neither was ID favour of that Of
Mr.. Crawford or General jackson. Tha
| ever did any thing against Mr.. Adams
or either Of the other gentlemen, inconsis
tent with fair and honorable competition
| utterly deny. My relations to Mr.. A
dams have been the subject of much mis-
conception, if not Misrepresentation
/ have been stated to be under a public
pledge 10 expose some n.farlous con