Delaware journal., 1827-10-26
PALLADIUM AND POST STORY.
From the New York .l,nerican.
The slander concerning the pledge said

Mr.. G. c. Verpianck, member OF Congress, who !;
saw. the story was told to him BY Mr.. McIaDe. OF
Delaware. We have only to repeat what we before
said that by whomsoever told, Or by whonsoever
vouched for it is utterly and entirely untrue. Inc
Philadelphia Palladium, from which the lie was
first copied no.o says, that the statement ''was not
made aoitho,d the sanction Of responsible name.
When it first made it however, the names OF two
members of Congress were said to be lett with the
editor as vouchers for its truth. Where are they
now Have they shrunk from the responsibility u
or did the editor seek to give currency to the abr-
cation by the additional one, that it rested tor Its
truth upon the authority OF two members of Con
uress The public will have these questions an t
swered.
From the Nesv York .lmerican, Of Oct. 90.
In reference to our remark on Thursday that
Mr.. 6. G. Verpanck was. as we understood, the
authority upon which the Post reasserted Its
calumny against Mr.. Adams, that paper OF last eve-
ming says
.ssWe are authorized and requested to state that
Mr.. VerpIanck has never made any assertion ON tn's
subject ia or through the Evening Post, or any 9TH
er paper. He was not in Congress at the time OF
the election referred to, and has no personal KNOW
ledge respecting the transaction.
MIR. Verpianck has never said the story was
told himby Mr. McLane. He has observed. lin prr-
vate conversational that the statement made IN the
Palladium, and repubshed in the Evening Post.
whatever It's IOunudtlOn HiISht Hu'c Dco", wi.
some confederation from its agreement with the TACT
Of Mr.. McLane having before going iato the Pres'-
ential ballot been requested by Mr. Weoster TO read
a letter avlich might affect his ultimate uote and
sohich Mr.. McLane refused to see."
From the Richmond Enquirer, Of Oct. 10.
The Ne,c York american pronounces "apon the
highest aHhoruy," 1--WE presume, the President OF
the U. States, the late article in the Philadelphia
Palladium, as "utterly untrue, and without the sha-
dow of foundation" Mr. Bailey comes out under
his own name in the letter which we lay before our
readers, to deny any agency which he represented
tohave had in the same transaction We entertain
no doubt of the truth of his statement Indeed
we never heard his name brought into question. All
that we did understand was. that Mr.. webster hao
showed MIR. McLane a letter corrected by Mr.
Adams pen marking out the liberal course winch
he was disposed to pursue towards the Federal par
~. We had this statement upon such authority,
that it was impossible for Us to disbelleve It, Howe
yer. as things now stand, we have put the matte
iptoa train Of nvestigation-and we shall submit t
our readers the result Of our researches as soon
possible IF there be no foundation for the assertion
il is due to Messrs. Adams and Webster that tn
error should be corrected: If there be any truth
the statement, it is due 10 the country to have 1t sui
stantiated.
From The ". York american.
The Evening Post iabricates detailed and Gil
ycumstantial story, I'VE say fabricates it. because
though in the first publication Of it, that paper rete
red to another in Philadelphia; yet it is added, th
the facts had been long in its possesson,) which
distinctly conradicted. Nothing daunted by t
detection, it perseveres IN the design OF imputlT
baseness to Mr. Adams. and in substance says
SWELL if the story told be not true, there is SON
other story that is.'' Now, without commenting he
upon the indecency, un[alrness, aud wrong OF SUI
a course, against man, and particularly again
the highest officer of the nation, the representa-
not less of its character than OF its sovereignty,
ioin issue here again with the Post. and say that
is utterly untrue, that any story. that in any mann
imputes to Mr.. Adams a tampering, directly Or in
vectly, with any individual or individuals. for
purpose of gaining their support to his election,
The least foundation in truth. We use the langua
in its broadcast sense 70 the proof, therefore,
calumniatOrs !
Faom the National Journal.
The Editors of the Richmond Enquirer. dri'
into dilemma in consequence of the gratuitous
sponsibility they assumed in circulating the rect
sander respecting Mr.. Adams and Mr.. ebster,
forms us that they shave put the matter into tr
ofinvestigaton," and promseus the result ''as 81
as possibe.'' If our memory be faithful, tn
Editors, when detected, took the same course
specting the East Room. Then they Piled.
themselves upon the species Of authority
now; then, as now, they were shown to be cit
ignorant!y or wiifully guilty Of falsehood them,
they promised to inquire, and give US the res
And what did they dol They ADMITTED, that t
had been most egreglously duped that they
been insulted!by the abuse of their columns b
Member of Congress they suffered the di,tingu
cd individual to add to the first insult by max
them the vehicles Of lame apology. in which
admitted himself to have told pa pable untru
yet, after ALL they could not reconcile it to
ideas honor to surrender to the contempt it IN,
the name Of the individual who had thus gru
abused their confidence and lessened their reputa
and the standing of their party, by his Violate
truth and honor. Will the pubIic he satisfied