The Litchfield County post., 1827-07-19
COUNTY POST.
GEN. JACKSON AND MIR. CLAY.
LITCHFIELD, JULY 1s, 1897.

Our readers will remember that sometime since published report that then in circulation stating that Gen. Jackson had said before large number of gentlemen, at his house, that just previous to the late presidential vote in the House of Representatives the friends of MT. Clay offered him the presidency dition that he would make Mr. Clay Secretary ofSate
 This direct charge of corruption against Mr. Cay and indirect one against Mir. Adams, purporting to come from Gen. Jackson, and from him reported by "dis- tinguished individual" nobody knew who. did not take with the people it had been expectedt
 and lest should pass by without stirring up the peo- pie to "mutiny ard rage" the General has fit to cause the charge to be published, his sigma ture, in the form of letter Mir. Carter Beverly Who this Mir. Beverly is, we know not; he appears however, to be political recruiting officer for the General sort of Capt. Squib, whose chance for pre- fcrment depends entirely upon the success of the military chieftain." Accompanying the Generals letter, which will be found in another column, togeth
 Niles, of Baltimore, several of the southern papers have published sundry letters which have passed be- tween Mir. Beverly. Mir. Zane, and MT. Holngs- worth, relative to this subject These letters, howev
 CT, not in the least material they neither tablsh contradict the charge ofcorrupton contain cd in the Generals letter, and appear have been offered to the press by Mir. Beverly, in order pro- cure for himself little newspaper celebrity, and save his name from oblivion. We are heartily glad this letter from Gen. Jackson has been written and published The charge ofa corrupt coalition between Mir. Adams and Mir. Clay has been bandyed about, without any one daring to out as aecuser ever hair of4 d. charge is brought home; Gen. Jackson despairng of
 finding any other person who would dare take the re- sponsbility of supporting the charge has come out with 1t hinnself Relative to the modesty he has dis played in so doing, himself being a candidate for the presidency, and now the principal accuser of his op- ponenis' we shall say nothing; we will simply exa- mine into his own conduct in relation to his affair." He was at the time in question member of the Uni ted States Senatehe professes to have ever acted in firm and independent manner, regardless of conse- quences, being "guided by principle in politics. as in every thing else ;"-Mr Clay had most grievously of tended him by dearng that his motive for giving his Vote to Mir. Adams was that he preferred distin- guished statesman, to man who had no other claims than those which arose from being "mitary chief tain;"-he knew that Mr. Clay's friends had offered him the presidency if he would make the former Sec. retay Of State and he prosses believe that he lost this exalted station from stern regard to principle
 the offer having been made him. and by him reject, cd, Mr. Clay's voting for MT. Adams, and Mir. As making Mr. Clay Secretary of State, appear to have convinced him that the same offer was made to MT. Adams and accepted; yet, notwithstanding all this Knowledge Corruption, and this firm regard for prin
 cpIe, when the nomination of Mr. Clay was present. ed to the Senate by Mir. Adams, Gen. Jackson voted for the former to be Secretary of State. Strange inc consistency where is that frmness, that regardless
 ness that patriotism that zeal for the honor of the country, which is said have ever mark
 cd his course? Here his integrity appears to have r- sakeD him; he knew Of the corruption ofNIr. Clay,