Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1827-07-31

GOOD their charges, requesee L.,L
the United States, when my nomiha''o" '"o
be taken up, to ask OF the Senate ,ne sPPo niJ
ment of a committee OF inquiry, unless II snos,.
.nn.,r 20 him 10 be altogether unnecessary
One Of our own Senators was com?eheu' =!
,h. ,roencv of his private business, to leave
W,sb;op,on before nv nomination was o.spos-
ed of and as had bur little confidence ~ u"
SdeIitv and professed friendship oil .he o'"ei'
wa, constrained to present my aPphca'ioh 70
Senator from another State was a''eI 60
informed. that when IL was ac'ca 'Po"' 49,
J,.Lson and every other Senator present was
s;isr, &C IN rbe imputations now MADE, no one
r,resnm;np 70 question my honour or integrity.
How can Gen. Jackson Justify to his conscience
or 70 his country this palpable oreach oil MS
OubIc du,y9 Il, is in vain to say that he gave |.
s;len, negative vote. lie was IN possession OF
information which. iftrue, must have occasion.
ed the rejection of my nomination. ~ W. ~.
appear that any other Senator posseSs.vu ,"s
same information. Investigation was a"he uus
70 the purity Of the National 'ounv's' " ne'
and, as an act Of strict justice. 10 a" 'ne ~
n,r,;.s IMPLICATED Ii is Impossible jor ni''
- eseane from The dilemma that nc has oeeh
r,;,hI.ss .s Senator of the United States or
has len, himself 10 the circulation OF an a'ro-
cious calumnv.
Amer The election, Gen. Jackson was among
the FIRST who eagerly pressed his consratu'a-
,;ons ,non his successful rival 1t Mr. Adams
had been guilty of The employment oil impure
means 10 affect his election, Gen. Jackson ought
10 have disdaned 10 sully his own hands oy
launching those Of his corrupt competitor
On the 10th of February, 1925, the very mex.
day after the election, Gen. Jackson was lb'i'ea
10 public dinner at Washington, by some oil
his friends. He expressed to them his wish
,ha, he Nigh, be excused from accepting me
invitation. because, abiding to the recent e'ec,
lion he said"an evidence Of kinGness ana
"regard., such as you propose, might, oy ma
orv' be viewed as conveying with II ENcEP-
"rios. murmuring, and feelings OF complaint
switch sincerely hope belong 10 none Oh my
"friends." More than one mon'h aver Tue
corrupt proposal is pretended to have oeeh recei,
we'd, and after, according 10 the insinuauon oi
Gen Jackson, corrupt arrangement hau oeen
made between MIR. Adams and me--atter the
actual termination Of an election, the issue Oh
which was brought about, according to zen.
jackson. by the bases, of means, he was unwil-
ling TO accept the honors OF puolc dinner,
lest il should imply even an ercePi'o0 against
The result of the election.
Gen. Jackson processes in his letter OF the
s,h of june quote again his words, ITO have
always intended, should Mr. Clay come out o.
yer his own signature and deny having any
knowledge of the communication made by his
friends To my friends and TO ne, that l would
give him the name of the gentleman through
whom that communication came" lie pre-
tends never to have seen the Fayetteville letter;
and vet the pre,ext Of a denial under my sigma
ture is precisely that which had been urged by
the principal editors who sustain his cause. II
this be an unconcerted, il isneyertheless most
wonderful coincidence. The General never
communicated TO me his professed intention,
bur left me in entire ignorance OF his generous
purpose; like the overture itself, x was pro-
foundly concealed from me. There was an au-
thorised denial from me, which went the circle
of the public prints, Immediately after the arri-
val at Washington of the Fayetteville letter.
In that denial my words are given. They were
contained in letter dated at Washington City
on the lSth-day Of April last, and are correctly
stated to have been.."that the statement that his
(my) friends had made such proposition as the
letter describes, to the friends OF General Jack
son was, as far as he knew or believed, utterly
dcstnIte of foundation; that he was unwilling
10 believe that Gen. Jackson had made any
such statement; but thatno matter with whom
ii had originated he was fully persuaded twas
I gross fabrication, Of the same calumnious
character with the Kremer story, put forth for
the double purpose Of inluring his public char
acter aud propping the cause OF General Jack
SON; and that for himselfand for his friends he
dsfed the substantiation of the charge before
anv fair tribunal whatever" Such were my
own words transmitted in the form of letter
from friend to kno,on person. Whereas the
charge which they repealed was contained
in letter written BY person then unknown to
some person also unknown. Did ! not deny
the charge under my own signature in my
card of the Slst January, 1925, published in
the National intelligencer? Was not there a
substantial denial of it in my letter to
Judge Brooke, dated the 2sth of the same
month? In my circular to my Constituents? In
my Lewisburg Speech' And may add, in tho
whole tenor Of my public life and conduct? If
Gen Jackson had offered to furnish me the
name of member of Congress who was capa-
BILE of advising his acceptance of base and
corrupt proposition, ought to have resorted
to his Infamous and discredited witness?
Ithas been i thousand times asserted and re-
heated that | violated instructions which