Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1827-02-28

same paper. Mr.. Clay, a'eT aureS Dc /,
controversy between MIR. Adams ana WI. ~,
sell, and to the Appendix tothe pampMe; ." 90.
recently published by the former, say @, ,h;nk
ference to that appendix parueu,as ;.,.nt;onnL.
aho,h az to matters Of fact, and TO matters o.
aon;n;on. in regard to the transactions al eHen;'
ur.l.,no 20 the navigation OF the MISSISSIPPI
m.nI certain liberties claimed by the y. o'a':
a;n Tho fisheries, and to the part which oo'e ~
u, 49, ~. ,r.nsac,ions." IL will at some future
"nrriod. more propitious than the presen. ~
uralm and dispassionate consideration o. nv
ut;ves Law before the public narrative o. 'hose
la,r,ns,c,;ons. as understood them" MT. ~
Jams. in answer, says, "lhe statements oo." VI
~r.cr and opinion, in the papers which i nave
"wri,ten and published in relation 10 'his con
"troversy, will, in every particular essen'a. VI
"important 10 the interests oil The na'ioh' VI "
",he character Of MIR. Clay, be found TO ap'.e'
"upshakep, the test OF human scrutiny; VI y"
s.lenls, or Of time" We have seiec'eu iIon.
these letters The strongest passages "h'ch Wv,
respectively contain; and their amount -, ."a,
Mr.. Clay thought Mr. Adams had con"'i.sve
son,a s.,,n;n,enfionnl errors" during laborious
| and pro,racted controversy; and that W.T. Adams
| fell confident of his accuracy in every pdriicu-
Wlny essential or important" Sc. these are Tue
"charyes of fagitious complexion, paohciy e.
| .6,noed and yeforfed" between Mr.. Clay anu MT.
Adams. on which are founded the anathemas
| ne the denomination" Committee al FREEZER
licksburg!
When thisC Committee inquire "who can believe
,h., NOD Mr. Adams been elected by MAORI
~ NJ ,be neople, he would have liked on Mr'
Claw az his Secretary Of State?" they are best
answered by another question; and this Isl 70
whom could Mr. Adams have more naturally
offered tina, appointment, whether he regarded
the public service, the popularity OF the seieo
ton, or that proper regard Tor geograPnlea'
considerations in the Distribution oil JIM
which every former President had maniles!eu'
and which, 10 a certain extent, IS essen'ai "
the harmonious movement OF our leaerau'e ays-
f tema Was the Western interest, hitherto u'.
represented in the Cabinet, to be again passed
, over. and, when too, an opportunity offered OF
, doing honor to 1t in the person Of citizen
whom considerable portion OF the American
neople had Just before pronounced 10 deserve
, the highest dignity within their gilt: here
: nerbaDs. il NAV be said that the same opinion
. | in regard 10 Gen. Jackson had been pronounced
: by still greater number OF his counuyneh.-
, But none Of them, we imagine, would assert tha'
the General is competent for the office OF Be-
eretcry of State, though it is less elevated, less
1 responsible, and less complicated than that OIL
} President. :,
Il The assertion already quoted from the "Ad'
dress" sufficiently explains in what sense us
D statements are to be considered as not "doaot
ful" LIE, us now examine the fairness oil VIVA:
the Committee, with abundant selt-c ompiacen'
ass!s ssss ssrss%sns: as IS
d ceased to represent, as furnishing evidence tha
their assertions are true, and their deduction!
e irresistible.
d In tia, celebrated circular the writer says
e that so early at least as November, l824, wher
: il seemed probable there would be no election
e by the people, and that he would be excluded
from the House Of Representatives, cit became
therefore my duty to consider and 10 make up an
Y opinion on the respective professions Of the
three gentlemen that might be returned, and a,
that early period stated to DR.. Drake, one Of
the Professors in the Medical School Of Tran
r sylyania University, and to John Critenden,
, Esq. Of Frankfort, my determination 10 sup
} port Mr.. Adams in preference 10 Cen Jackson.
r | wrote to Charles Hammond, Esq. of Cincin-
natti, about the same time, and mentioned GER
tain objections to the election Of Mr.. Crawford,
; among which, was his continued i'll health J
; that appeared TO me to be insuperable." In a
, subsequent passage, referring &c the interval
between the ascertaincd result of the votes in
the Electoral Colleges, and the election by the
House OF Representatives, he observes, 81 found
myself transformed from candidate before the
people, into an elector for the people. deli
berately examined the duties incident 10 this
new attitude, and ,oeighed all the facts before me-
upon which my jedgmen, to he formed or
reUie,cea. II the eagerness OF any Of the heated
partisans suggested hardness in the dee lara
ton Of my intention. believed tina, the new re-
la,ion in which was placed to the subject, i'm
posed on me an obligation to pay some respec,
10 delicacy and decorum" On these passages
the logical Committee at Frederick sburg raise
the hypothe sis, that Mr.. Clay determined first,
and deliberated afterwards; and that "is he
was liable to doubt, he had no, determined,
and was capable Of being purchased" They then
add, ''the Impression that he was purchased,
which the array Of facts already recapi,ula,ed
forces on the mind, so far froln being removed
or weakened, is strengthened and fixed, when
we find tina, MIR. Clay himself can meet it by
nothing better than assertion evidently false,
| and an argument demonstrab.y absurd. He con-
meets his innocence with an alleged act Of his
mind, which, by his own showing, was a moral
lmpossiblity, and Of course establishes the fact
OF his guilt The nature of the ase reou:rex