Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1827-05-12

Even should the most Tar fetched construction
of the law of nations approach the case OF the
Spark, the conduct exhibited 10 our national
representatives demands satisfaction.
ICE ISLANDS,.
1t was mentioned in the ship news, published
in this paper on Monday evening, that the Pa
ci6c, in her passage from Liverpool, saw i'm.
mense bodies of ice near the Grand Bank -
Navigators who are about TO sail for Europe
may feel an interest in seeing the particulars
somewhat more minutely stated. The floating
islands lay along the eastern edge OF the Bank,
in the latitude Of about AS and between the
4eth and SD degrees Of longitude. Several
of them appeared to be aground, and in
others. the motion upon the waves was per
ceptible. The officers of the ship took the
altitude Of one, whichiose to The height OF 244
feet above the sea, IN a castellated form, resemb-
ling a colossal ruin Others were in the shape
of churches, houses and isolated towers
with the pillows dashing furiously round their
bases. In many instances, fragments Of mode
rate size, apparently severed from the larger
masses, were seen close 10 the ship. fortu.
nately the atmosphere was clear, ana Z vigtan.
watch was kept upon the bow Of the ship by
night and day. For two or three days, the
1 tuSTI1olIlCtCI was bStoN NV P't'' o''
the shrouds were coated with ice. Captain
Crocker, the veteran Ma ter Of the Pecihc, who
has crossed the Atlantic one hundred and thirty
eight times, remarked that he had never seen so
MANY icehurgs during q single voyage. The
passengers were all extremely g~ratihed with the
grandeur Of a spectacle, which none Of them
had before witnessed ". 7. Statesman.
We find in the last Charlotte N.C) Journal
the following very natural and Judicious rrtec-
tions on the declaration relative tn the overture
Of some friends of DIR CLAY, which either fell
from Gen. JACKSON, or has been attributed TO
HIM. We copy il without remark, IN the ex-
pectation that the subject will receive the reces-
sary illustration from the proper source
National Journal.
Some weeks since, the Fayetteville Observer
published a letter from a Virginian, on a visit
10 Gen Jackson. in which it is stated that the
General declared, before all his company, "that
Mr.. Clay's friends made a proposition 10 his
friends, that if they would promise for hi,n, not
10 put Mr.. Adams into the seat of Secretary of
State, Clay and his friends would, in one hour,
make him, Jackson, the President" This, as
a matter Of course, has been eagerly copied by
the "Combination" editors, all of whom adopt
the sage conclusion, that il establishes, beyond
a doubt. the charge Of corrupt bargaining a
gainst Mr.. Clay. Now, admitting that Gen.
Jackson made such a declaration, it is very far
from placing the truth Of the charge beyond all
cavil; for he only relates what his friends told
him, ,ha, Mr.. Clay's friends told them; a rath,
err suspicious sort Of proof at the best. His
friends had before toId Mr.. Kremer the same
thing, and he good honest soul, believed II; but
when MIR CLAW promptly met The charge, and
pu; him to the proof before the grand inquest
Of the nation, his veracious informers backed
out, and left him in the iurch. If the charge
were true, then was the time TO bring forward
the proof, and place the truth oil beyond vail
c~avil:'' the election had not taken place, and a
timely exposure might have prevented The con-
summation of Mr.. Clay's corrupt bargains -
Surely, it was the duty of the Generals "triends,"
to whom the proposition was made, instead oil
cavilling al the jurisdiction Of the House, bold
" 10 have come forward like men and like pat
riots. and declared--We are the persons to
when the corrupt proposition was made, and
those are the men who made IL. Thu accused
would then have been confronted with their ac-
cussrs, and the representatives OF the people
would have decided; but no, they refused, on a
pi:iful bubble, to appear before the committee
Of invesligation, and this was considered at the
time, by all unprejudiced men, as establishing
the falsity Of the charge, "5eyond all ca,il."-
To revive the charge at this late day, on the
hearsay of any one, no matter who he is, with
the expectation Of lis being credited, is ~calcula,
ing rather largely on public credulity'
General Jackson is represented BY his friend
as fearless and independent; let him, then, name
"his friends" to whom the proposition was
made, and give us the names OF Mr.. Clay
friends who made it; both sides can then be
heard, and the truth ascertained. Mr. Clay and
his friends have given thecharge a pubic deni
al; and we know of no reason why as much Gre
dit should no, be given 10 their declarations
made openly aud publicly, and under their own
signatures, as to the assertions OF individuals
we know not who, only that they are the irieha'
Of General Jackson. The very circum stance
that these accusers OF Mr.. Clay are afraid 10
show themselves, but publish their charges
through the medium Of some third person, who
was told so,-or 81 some letter writer, nobody
knows who, who says that Gen. Jackson told
him, that he was told by "his friends" that Mr.
Clay's friends told them, ct cetera,-this circum'
;e ~,Hrian, rs f,eolT ta convince