The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1827-08-08

- ,o'eu his judgment, to act upon tn,
co9nseiS OF his official advisers. | add
WIZ uhlhlXt pleasure, that, from the com
ihenoeileht OF the Government, with the
exception OF MIR. Jefferson's Administra
tloil' 10 Chief Magistrate has found the
members or his Cabinet so united on al
PUNE measures, and so cordial and friend
" II all their Intercourse, private and
dent. P0''--' l l COL
Had voted for General Jackson. in on.
position to the weli-known opinions which
entertained of him, one-tenth part of the
ingenuity and zeal which have been en-
ployed to excite preiudices AGAINST me
would have held me IN ia nniveroaI o.,
tempt: and what would have been worse.
Ishould have felt that | really deserved it.
1t must have been conviction that the
justice OF the public required a definite
charge, by responsible accuser, that has,
at last extorted from Gen. Jackson his
letter Of the 9th of June, lately published
approach that letter with great reluc-
lance, not on my own account, for on that,
| do most heartily and sincerely rejoice
that 1t has made its appearance. But it is
reluctance, excited by the feelings of re-
spect which | would anxiously have cult
waited towards It's author. He has, howev-
er, by that letter, created such relations
between Us, that, Ill any language which
hay employ, in examining its contents,
feel myself bound by no other obligations
than(hose which belong to truth, to public
decGum, and to myself.
The first consideration which must, on
theperusal of the letter, force itself upon
every rejecting mind, is that which arises
ontof the delicate posture to which Gen.
JACKSON stands before the American public.
lie Is candidate for the Presidency.
avowed and proclaimed. He has no COM
pettor at present, and there is no probable
ltypf his having any, but one. The charges
Winch ne has allowed himself to be the
organ OF communicating TO the very pub
Tic who Is TO decide the question of the
Presidency, though directly aimed at me,
necessarily duplicates his only competitor.
Mr. Adams and myself are both guilty, or
H"s~2te both innocent Of the inpGted az
rangement Setween US us innocence
Is absolutely irreconcil1inle with MAJ ruilt.
If General Jackson, therefore, can estab-
lish my guilt, and, by inference, or by in
sinuatioa, that of his sole rival, he will
summation of tire object of his ambition
And If he can, at the same time, make OH:
his own purity of conduct, and impress the
American people with the belief that his
purity and integrity alone prevented his
success before the House of Representa-
uves his claims will become absolutely ir-
tui motives to propagate,-Wa there ever
greater interest, at all hazards, TO prove
the ruth of charges?
Estate the case, l hope, fairly l mean
to state it fairly and fearlessly. If the
position be one which exposes General
Jackson to untavorable suspicious, it must
be borne IN mind that he has voluntarily
taken 1t, and he must abide the consequent
cces. am acting on the defensive, and it
IS he who assails me, and who has called
forth, by the eternal laws of self-protec-
ton, the right to use al legitimate means
Of self defence.
General Jackson has shown, in his let
ter, that he. is not exempt from the infu-
ence of that bias towards ones own inter-
tests, which is unfortunately the too COM
mon lot of human nature. It is his interest
innocence, and of unsullied integrity; and
to establish, by direct charge, Or by neces-
sary inference, the want of those qualities
in his rival. Accordingly, we find through
out the letter, a labored attempt to set forth
his own immaculate purity in striking con-
trast with the corruption which is attribut-
ed to others. We would imagine from
his letter, that he very seldom touches a
newspaper. The Telegraph is mailed reg
| ularly for him at Washington, but it ar
riyes at the Hermitage very irregularly.
He would have the public to infer, that the
postmaster at Nashville, whose appoint
ment happened not to be upon his recon-
mendation, INSTRUCTED his reception of it
In consequence of his not receiving the
| Telegraph, he had not on the 9th June
1927, seen, Garter Beverley's famous Fay
ettylle letter, dated the Sth of the preced.
| ing March, published in numerous, gazettes
and published, have very little doubt, al
though have not the means Of ascertain.
ing the fact, IN the gazettes of Nashville
| will not say, contrary to General Jack
sons assertion, that he had never read thai
letter, when he wrote that of the 9th o.
June, but l must think that it is very
strange that he should not have seen it
and that | doubt whether there is another
man of any political amiuence in the Unit:
ed States who has not read it. There is 4
remarkable coincidence between General
Jackson and certain editors who espouse
his interest, in relation to Mr.. Beverley's
letter. They very early took the ground
in respect to it that | ought, under my o,0r
signature, to come out and deny the state.
ments. And General Jackson now says, il
his letter Of the 9th of June, that he cal.
ways intended, should Mr.. Clay come Out
over his own name, and deny having any
knowledge Of the communication made by
his friends to my friends and to me, that
would give him the name of the gentleman
through whom that communication came
The distinguished member of Congress, who
bore the alleged overture, according to Gen
I Jackson, presented himself with diplomatic cir
cumspectlon lest he should wound the very
great sensibility of the General. He aver!
that the communication was intended with the
most friendly motives, 4" That he came as ;
friend" and that he hoped, however, it nigh
he received. there would he no alteration II