Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1827-10-12

solve them from all iaiinctions of secrecy and
cali out your own communications. Ycu know
these men well without further specification by
M. They ar. men Of honor aud will tell IN.
truth. IF you so very innocent, call ON them
go pub.b any letters or parts of letters which
relate 70 the presidential election, received 10y
them from you during the month of January 1925
Or, if they had such letters and have them m
longer, cell on them to state their con'en,s IT,,
thus authorised, they declare ON their honor that
they never received saw any such letter or let
ters from you. then will l acknowledge my mistake
aud stale to the world that you were not the man
vfho gave the information.
Rut, sir, this il not all which il necessary for your
vlntiicat Your denial OF the existence of an
understanding coOprebends your friends at Wash,
ihyton as " ell as yourself. If u was not YOU i, il
therefore necessary for you to require those friend.
70 disclose the name of him who gave them the in
formation which they here disseminated. who
vas it, that gave VA intelligence which 20
iorong and We, 80 right? Who was it, that dared
TO say, il was understood that you would be Sc
cretssy if Mr.. Aliens was President, when tbere
was in truth no such Understandings Who was y
that communicated to your friends here orTdnf
he for your benefit. and yet told the huth?-
." .NnsEs OT;" call ont your friends; exhibit your
usnal bold front; and let have this affair probed
Ia the bottom. Your friends here will not hear OF
an investigation by Congress-. They fear the veil
of confidence which cannot be withdrawn may
then be rent. &c Let every r,ate TO the public
wirs, he knows" s,y they, well knowing that no
Of honor will voluntarily be,ray the conf
dence you and your friends hsve Ieposed in him.
With this subterfuge, and Buchansn's letter, in re
lation TO which, il nu-t be confessed, yoa have
played sdroi' game with FIJI view OF your adj
verssry's hand. they hope to'delucs the country
a,J escape from an investigation. ii you are in :
nocen,, call on your friends here TO show out; If
guilty, Drag or be silent. Ia either alternative the
hpx tn nIers nt
cannot close without calling your attention TO
this incident in connection with Bucbansn's inter-
view with Jackson. Some OF the letters to our
representative ELECTED Ivy the information from
Washington relative TO your advancement by
Adams. written before the goth Of January,
1875 IL therefore probable, that this nfor ma,ion
wa. received about the 18Th of that month. 1t
then took letters from twelve 10 fifteen days to
trsvel from Washington tn frankfort Those
which conveye ed this intelligence must therefore,
have LETT the City early as The second or third oil
January. Buchsnsa's interview with Jackson,
which cut off all hope Of your advancement by
him, or at least proved that 1t was impossible o
obtsin any pledge from him, took place the SOL.
of December. Between that interview and the
date of these letters, there could have been but,
three or four days. What is the inference? Why,
when you found no pledge could be obtained froui
Jackson, you closed with ''the ideas held GU, by
some of the friends OF Mr.. Adams" assented 10
the making of him President on his consenting &c
make you Secretary OF State, and immediately
despatched letters 10 Frankfort, with the object oi
securing the vote of our representative and con-
eliminating the arrangement.
lam not done with this subject; but here close
Ey the present, with repeating, that you alone, I
Ieligiousy believe, remove all doubt from the
incident have related, by prompt and public
call upon your friends. And let me tell you, sir
there many who canno, give full credence 10
your assertions in reply General jackson, until
TRY the history of this transaction in it's origin
a, Washington, well its rsmiications in
Frankfort.
Probably in my next, shall touch Hpon another
subject in relation to which your friends are seek
ing pretences to reproacb me.
AMOS KENDALL