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

Of George Kremer e. Co. had a short
Vine befose Ineanly shrunk from appearing be- :
tore the committee of the House OF Nepresen,
natives, to make good their charges, requested
a senator of the United States, when my nom
nation shosald be taken up, to ask OF the sen
ate tho appointment of committee of inquiry
unless n should appear to him TO be aitosetne1
unnecessary. One of our own Senators We
NcompelIcd, by the urgency of his private Jus.
ness, to leave Washington before my hoii M
ton was disposed of; and as nao put $50; -
'confdence ian the fidelity and prolesseo r.oiiu
ship of the other was constrainneu " p no
my application to a Senator itoih 1i,o.
State. | was afterwards informed, that wheii II
was acted upon, Gen. jackson ana every o!nel
Senator present was silent as to the lnlputdliohs
now made, no one presuming TO queston my
honor or integrity. How can Gen. Jackson
Justify to his conscience or to his country this
paIpable breach of his public duty 1t Is vain
TO say that he gave silent negative vote: He
was in possession of information which, II true,
must have occasioned the rejection OF my NOM
nation 1t does not appear that any other
Senator possessed the same information, N
vestigation was alike due to the purity OF the
National Councils, to me, and as an act OF strict
Justice. TO all the other parties implicated. 1t
is impossible for him to escape from the oiienir
ma that he has been faithess, as eenator OF
the United States, or has lent himself to the
circul1tion of atrocious calumny.
Tar tho plpPtlOn.f
7he first who eagerly pressed his congratola-
tons upon his successful rival. If Mr.. Adams
had been guilty of the employment OF impure
means to effect his election, Gen. Jackson
-~>paght to have disdained to sully his own hands
by touching those of his corrupt competitor
On the 10th of February, 1925, the very next
Slay after the election, Gen. jackson was inylt-
cd to public dinner at Washington, by some
of his friends. He expressed to them his wish
that he might be excused from accepting the
invitation, because, abiding to the recent cleo
ton, he said, j." any evidence OF kindness and
regard, such as you propose, might, by many
be viewed as conveying with 1t EXCEPTION,
murmuring, and feelings of complaint, which
l sincerely hope belong to none OF my friends.
HTore than one month after the corrupt
proposal is pretended to have been received,
and after, according to the insinuatIon OF Cen
Jackson, a corrupt arrangement had been MADE
between AIR. Adams and me-after the actual
termination of an election, the issue OF winch
was brought about, according to Gen. jackson,
by the basest of means, he was unwilling to
accept the honors of public dinner, lest 1t
should imply even an exception against the
result OF the election.
Gen. jackson processes in his letter ofthe 9Th
of June-I quote again his words, ito have
always intended, should Mr.. Clay come out
over his own signature and deny having any
knowledge ofthe communication made by his
friends to my friends and TO me, that l would
give him the name of the gentleman through
whom that communication came. He pre-
<7ends never to have seen the Fayetteville letter
and vet the pretext of denial under my SIG
nature is precisely that which had pe9:: urgeo
by the principal editors who sustain his cause
II this be an unconcerted, it is nevertheless a
most wonderful coincidence The General
never communicated to me his protested IN
tention but left me in entire ignorance of his
generous purpose like the overture itself, II
was profoundly concealed from me. There
was an authorized denial from me, which won,
the circle of the public prints, Immediately
after the arrival at Washington OF the Faye:te-
vile letter. In that denial my words are given
They were contained in a letter dated al
Washington City on the 18th day of April last
and correctly stated to have been " that
the statement. that his (mVl friends had made
the friends of General Jackson was, as far as
he knewor believed, utterly destitute of founda-
ton: that he was unwilling to believe that Gen.
jackson had made any such statement but
zhat no matter with whom it had originated
ne was fully persuaded it was gross fabrca.
ton, of the same calumnious character with
the kremer story, put forth for the double pur-
pose of injuring his public character, and
propping the cause of Gen. jackson and shaI
for himself and for his friends he defed the
substantiation of the charge before any fair
tribunal whatever" Such were my own words
transmitted In the form of letter from friend
TO a kno1Un 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 3Ist
January, 1925, published in the National Intel
3igencer Was not there substantial denial
OF it in my letter to Judge Brook dated the
18th of the same month In my Circular to
my Constituents In my Lewisburgh Speech ?
And may | not add, in the whole tenor of nv
public life and conduct? If Cen jackson hsa
offered to furci-L :.,e the name of a member of
-Gongress, who was capable of advising his
acceptance of base and corrupt proposition,
ought to have resorted to his infamous and
dscredited witness?
Irejoice again and again, that the contest
has at last assumed its present practical form
Heretofore, malignant whispers and surmises
have been clandestinely circulated, or openly
or unblushigly uttered by irresponsible agents
They were borne upon the winds, and like
them were invisible and intangible No res
ponsible man stood forward to sustain them,
with his acknowledged authority. They have
at last local habitatlon and a name Gen
Jackson has now thrown off the mask, comes
confessedly forth from behind his concealed
Batteries, publicly to accuse and convict me-
We stand confronted before the American
people. Pronouncing the charges, as / again
do, destitute of all foundation, and gross as
pensions, whether clandestnely or openly issu-
ed from the halls of the Capitol, the saloons of
the Hermitage, or by press, by pen, or by
tongue; and safely resting on my conscious
integrity, demand &c witness, and await the
even. Eith fearless confidence
The issue is fairly joined. The imputed
offence does not comprehend single friend,
but the collective body of my friends in Con-
gress; and it accuses them of offering, and
me with sanctioning corrupt proposition, der
ogating from honor, and in violation of the
most sacred of duties. The charge has been
made after two years elaboration Gen. Jack
son has voluntarily taken his position, and
without provocation In voting against him as
President of the United States, gave him no
just cause of offence exercised no more
than my indisputable privilege, as, on subse-