Delaware journal., 1827-12-14
FRIDAY, December IA, 1927.

dilIe anu idSu Hc oHei Gu a.
to allow to the English the free navigation OF the
Mississippi, from its mouth to its source.
There is not one of those eight accusations which
can be sustained by proof or plausible argument.
The least reflection will suffice, to the unprejudced
man, who has some knowledge OF facts and OF the
most respectable precedents, to discover and esti-
mate the injustice of each. Let US examine them
severally.
lst accusation: ssAdams, it is said, has been
made president against the will OF the people Jack
son the choice of the people"
In state where the people had no part in the
formation of the constitution, it might be possible
that election made similar to the election OF John
Quincy Adams, would be considered as made against
the will of the people. Yet, even, then, we should
think that it was necessary that majority OF the
people should declare, not only against him, but IN
favor of one of his competitors. But IN repub-
lie, such as ours where all powers derived from
the people, where the constitution is the work OF
their special manufactures, instructed to form 1t for
them it is neither Just nor reasonable to assert, that
such AN election as that of John Quincy Adams has
been made against their will. Was it not the Peo-
Pile themselves who required, that when no candl-
date had the absolute orty OF votes IN the elec-
toral college, the house of representatives should
choose, from the three who had obtained the great.
est number. TO say, that in each case, the person
chosen is chosen against the will of the people, be-
does it not render nugatory the provision OF the
constitution, which delegates to the house OF repre-
sentatyes the choice, when no candidate has an abb
solute majority ?lf the people had wished that the
candidate who should have the relative majority
: should be elected, would they in such case have
transferred the right of choice to their representa-
tiyes? And the right to make choice would 1t not
be mockery, if the candidate who had the most
sufrages must necessarily be elected, to comply
H. en- How bp In
has only the relative majority Of electoral votes, be
more considered as the choice Of the people, than
he who having fewer of these sudrages, has IN his
favor the majority of the house OF representatives
/ What are those electors? Are they other than the
simple organs of the will of the people And the
representatives are they not also the organs and
Interpreters Of the will of the people?
But further, in establishing the real proportion,
between the electoral votes which ea-h candidate
has received, and the votes which have been given
in each State it is proved, that Adams had SO l-69
votes Jackson had but sc 1-83; Crawford AZ l-23;
and Clay 27 l-7O. This calculation, made and
published since the 29th January, 1928. IN the Ma
tonal Journal and the correctness and exactitude oil
which has neverb been contested ndisputaby proves,
that it is Adams, and not Jackson, who is what the
opposition is pleased to call the real candidate oihe
; people,
: cd accusation :--"Adams has been raised to the
: presidency by bribery and corruption"
. This caunnious proposition, advanced and re-
peated by 80 many Interested echos, IN all parts o
the United States, for more than two years and 9
i half had been Justly appreciated since the moment
t it was denied by the Secretary Of stae upon whom
J. was evident they endeavored more particularly t
rest the odi0us weight. But il, after the inextrica
9 BILE dilemma in which this able orator had put the
man from whom the calumny proceeded there re
i NAMED any doubts in the mind of any honest citizen
fho nf Mr. ISuc tied
s. ing witness by these hardy accusers, has forever
/ disspated them and since then, no man who re
CARDS his reputation, or the justice OF the peo
pie, as much he ought to deest all odlous perse
!. cution will allow himself to repeat this accusation
J, TThe 3rd accusation relates to his recommenda
" ton of an Observatory the fourth to the establish
= nent OF an University in the District OF Columbia
y y the fifth to his being IN favor OF internal improve
" men the sixth to his opposition to the acquisition
Y of Louisiana the seventh-hs having voted for
q q or not opposing the passage of law which tool
= from them all their rights TO the vacant lands-Now
= the 3d. 4th and 5th of these accusations, the Con
~ =, vention commend--showng that these recommen
- dations ofhe President not only good in them
I; selves, but agreeably to the recommendations o
:, : his predecessors. The sixth is shown not TO b.
- true-by his actual vote for the purchase--and tn
70 seventh is fully met, by Mr.. Adams absence Oh
h. service in Europe.
: :" 9th accusation -" At Client he offered to sur
of render to the English the free navigation OF tn
e Mississippi, from its mouth to its source.
~ BY the treaty Of 1888, between Great Britain
"a, and the United States, the free navigation OF th'
r. Mississippi guaranteed to England, who on he'
IN part accorded to then young republic, the righ
o of fishing in all the and coasts OF her domains
Al in America.
fl At the negotiations at Ghent, three of the com
in mssioners, Messrs. Gallatin, Adams and Bayard
p sensible of the importance of preserving the righ
~ of fishing and of especially of drying the fish upoI
he the coasts of the English possessions, desired it