Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1827-08-01

saying that Gen. Jackson did spedc Of the ore,uyes
as male to him By .H.,. Clay all his friends MIR.
Clay says:
cat the end OF more than two years after a cor,upt
overture is made Gen. Jackson, he now the s,
tine, openly proclaims 1t. 1t is true, have as
certaned since the publication Of MIR. Beyerly,s FAY
e,tevillc letter, the General has been for long time
secretly circulating the charge. Immediately on the
appearance at Washington fthat letter in the public
prints, the editor Of the Telegraph asserted i'm his ma
per, that Gen. Jackson had commun icated the oyer
ture 10 him about the period Of the election not as he
now staee but riding TO Beverys version of the
tale Since left Washington the lOthof last month
nave understood that Gen. jackson has made SIM
liar communication to several other persons at differ
ent and distant points,
We think il manifest them that in his leficr to Rev
erly, Gen. Jackson in saying that .the overture was
made him by highly respectable member of Congress-
OF uniform friendly department towards himse!f,n has
not adhered TO the statements which he made collooui
ally, to Beverly and others. we think manifest that
he was in the habit of speaking of his competitors to
his guests in term of repIoach, severity and Injustice
which he virtually retracted when he to address
the public, and when he knew what he said would be
closely examined, and openly commented on before
an intelligent people. Was this magnanimouso Does
it comfort with that lofty chivalry which an admiring
and grateful country had annexed in agina ton TO his
character? Is there any thing in this resembling the
old Roman; of that stern and nlexbe justice towards
an enemy which his besotted partzans say he possess
es, but which Fabricius only knew how to act:-
Does he think the modest and vrtuous Lowndes
whose beautiful and characteristic language he has
doPted as his Own, would thus have sought detract
from the character and merit of rvaso Never. We
have no fault TO find with Gen. jackson for not being
Lowndes, lor where is anoher:) but we have right
TO exhibit the discrepancy between his pro essions and
contrast his ambition in the rseection
of model for imitation, and his woul failure in per-
soniiying his chosen character.
Yet we do not mean TO be understood as conveying
an 'nsinuaton that the variance between the Generals
letter TO Beverly and bis statement in versatioD is
proof of wilfu misrepresentation either in his letter
conversation. We have doubt that Gen Jackson
did suspect, that MIR. Clay at the bottom of the cor
rupt proposal made to him. Thinking SO, he so ex
pressed himself TO his company; and when Beverly call
ed on him TO conrm;the statement with view 10 re-
lieve him from the disagrccable prcdicamen, in which
he was placed BY his oficious mcddling, lie perhaps
for the first time, perceived that he had gone too far
Hence the qualifications in his letter to Beverly
Hence the paated pressions che supposed the pro-
posal had come from Mr. Ciayn-"if be had done him
injustice, he sorry for it,"&c When he was sen
sible that what lie then said 10 he CLOSELY sed and
scrutinized, he changed his language from positive
accusation of Mr. Clay and his friends 10 nilder form
OF WORDS IN which he merely says the proposal had
been brought him by respectable member, aud he
"supposed,'i came from Mr. Clay. We do not say
there is wi!ful misrepresentation in ths-we DO not
believe there is-but what he said in favor OF ,e
candor and magnanipity of the course? What righ;
had he 10 suspect! MIR. Claye Was the communca-
ton Of the proposal TO him, when the person who
brought it, did not pretcnd TO from Nir Clay,
sufficient grounds for receiving deadly and injurious
suspicion against standing so high aud so far
as Mr.. Claw Having admitted the suspicion was he
acting with his boasted magnanmity in preserving a
dead silence and total inactivity, when Mr.. Clay de-
manded an investigation of lis conduct? Wien call
cd upon to approve reject Dir. Clay's nomination 10
the Department of State, in his capacity of Senator,
he acting The Old Roman, the modern Lowndes,
in rejecting Mr. CaJ's nomination upon suspicion,
which II was bis duty either to expose to the Senate.
if he thought it well founded, or to abandon forever il
he believed it otherwise? What are the crcumstan-
ces under which lie comes forward aud expresses
his coDrition if lie has wronged Rir. CLAY: After
acting upon this groundiess suspicion as IL it were Ger
taintyafer suffering ii 10 influence bis conduct so far
as TO induce him TO put his veto upon MIR. Clays no.
minaton as Secretary of Stae-ater contributing BY
remaining passive to deny Mr. Clay the tria! which
he clancd-atter giving the suspicion currency and
permitting ii to take root and iDane aud tester in Che
public mind-he now at the end of two years and {
half when the mischief is done, when Mr. Clay has fol-
that whole period been held up by his friends as vepa
and corrupt, and made the butt for thousand po
sonous arrows, and when he finds the charge IS al
length to be Investigated and the truth 10 be made
manifest comes out and says he supposed The proposal
came from Mr.. Clay but if he did him injustice he
sorry for it, Truly this is magnanniy-this is play
ing the old Roman wi,h vengeance!
The more we examine Gen. Jacksons course in re-
ference to this natter the less like it. Either he
suspected Mr. Clay OF corruption, in which case ne
must also have suspected Dir. Adams, (or takes two
20 make bargain and ought not to bare congraula-