Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1826-08-15
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TUESDAY MORNING, AUGUST is. 1906.
we are indebted TO "Cascan in The National rrr,l
Tor an enumeration of the appointments by Mr. eTer
son. of Members of Congress TO office who voted 10,
him in the election with Burr
1t is needless TO remind the public that the chiercars
which has drawn down on the present Adfn;pis,r,,;
that gross and unnercul abuse which has no parallo
IN the history ofoppostous, the appointment, Of MIR
Clay 10 be Secretary of State MIR. Clay had voter
r W.T. Auans ard liis subsequent appointment to tina,
once IS the evidence of his and the Presidents corrup
"' Upon THIS basis, rs erected the opposition TO Tn,
administration and that unmanly persecution of Mr.
Nay' "hich has driven him TO decnd his honour bv
I appear 10 arms. Upon this transactions the demago
CUES have seized, and affecting great abhorence o.
"ir' Clay's corruption, propose by railing against
vice. 10 establish at cheap rate, their own reputation
for virtue
II Mr. Adams be corrupt for appointing Mr. CLAW
secretary of State, and the latter for acceptnc the
appointment what shall be said for Mr. jefferson, IN
little more than twelve months after his election g.,
the Presidency in 1901 Mr. Jefferson made the follow
ing appointments:
Lew Lincoln of Massachusetts, Attorney General
OF the United States: Albert Gaatu of Pennsvlvania.
secretary of the Treasury: WIN. Charles Cole CIai
oorne, Governor Of the Mississippi Territory: Edward
Livingston, T. States Attorney for Tie District of N
York SiiaS Lee of Massachusetts u States Attorney
Tor tie District of Maine: Thomas T. Davis of XIV.
/ Judge IN the Indiana Territory: Ro. Williams of n.
carolina, Commissioner of Land Titles in the Missis
/ sPpi Territory.
Il" OF these gentlemen were Members of Congress.
on tue LIST Feb. I30I-and all of tIeIa voted for Tho
Jefferson TO be President of the u States Goyerno,
Claiborne was at the time sole Representative o
the Stale Of TpnnpSsen 80.
Jefferson as good vote did the State of Virginia
I Mr. Livingston voted originally for Burr but changed
his vote in the progress of the ballot and we believe
by doing So carried the State of New York for JET
lerson.
Now we ask the opposition, was Mr.. Jefferson cor
ruPt? were Gaatin, Lincoln, Livingston, and the O.
theirs corrupt If they were WHY were tev not char
ged with corruption at the time and why is not The
example cited BY them, in illustration of the presen
instance of corruption? On the other hand they pre
tend to show Jefersons coloTs-tbey affect TO maintain
1ehers0F PrinoPles--under the pretended sanction
ms name they wage war against the Adninistra ton
and demand the confidence of Tie people.
| We ask the reader TO reflect on tins statement OF
facts-and to attempt satisfy himself hog il is that
transactions bearing perfect similude should at one
time, be fair and hopourabIe at another foul and cor
rnpi? when performed by one man under particular
circumstances that they should be considered entirely
proper and justiiable; when by another man under
exactly similar circumstances that they should be re-
probatcd as damnng and iniqutGusa This is not all
The woDder-or in many instances the men who iusti-
fed Mr. Jefferson in making the appointments we have
cited, are the very who condemn Mr. Adams
and that too in the most unqualified and opprobrious
terms, for the appointment OF MIR Clay. Whence the
difference Are actions be judged by tie men who
perform them, or by their intrinsic merit? Does
time change the standard Of truth or can that which
was right in 1901, be wrong in 1882 Can what was
honesty in Mr. Jefferson, be rogucry in Mr. Adams
what is roguery in Mr.. Adams lave been honesty in
Mr. Jefferson
| Letrus look dspassionately at Mr. Clay's appoint.
ment, and every candid will acknowledge il TO
have been recommended by stronger considerations
than authorised the seven appointments by MIR. JcGcr.
son. of Members of Congress who had voted for him as
President, with the single ey ception of Mr. GaIlatn
The duties 10 which they appointed were such a.
hundreds of men in the country were competent to
perform Gratitude the motive of their selection
or the phrase is, "tiey got their reward.,'-
But whose claims in truth, were so strong as Mr. Claws
for the Secretarysbip of Sateo He bad been for 4
years in The Government. The House of Represen-
tdtiycs the direct Representatives of tie people, had
advanced him to their chair, and he thus stood CON
fessedy at ibe head of the Delegation of Tie whole
United States, situation he had retained FOR many
years. That station and his mission 10 Client, had
brought him famiIary acquainted with the foreign
relations of the Union. lie came from that section
Of the Union rapidly growing into the first con5e-
quence, and which except in the instance Of Geo.
Washington Campbell, had supplied no member Of
the Cabinet. Several Populous States had given hm
their votes for the Presidency. Ills name was fami-
liar throughout the civilized world and at home and
abroad his talents and cloquence were celebrated
WheTe is the man who bad superior claims to tie
Office, and to The confidence Of the Republican rar,2
During the war; when others sbruub from responsible
lily, or openly thwartcd the measures demanded by ma
tonal existence, Henry Clay representing the demo-
crscy If the United States, chastscd the murmurs Of
the disaeced, and encouraged the dropping spirits Of
tie patriotic. Is this now 70 be sacrificed TO the