Delaware journal. [volume] (Wilmington [Del.]) 1827-1832, 1827-09-04
From the UnitedStates Gazette.

Extract ola letter from Shelbyve, Ky. gentleman in
Philadelphia.
"Crttenien, the Administration candidate for
Congress in our district. would unquestoDably have
been elected over La Count, jackson man, but Tor
the handle which was made Of his having brought in
the resolution. which legislature passed, re-
Guesting the Kentucky delegation in Congress to
vote for General Jackson. in the eventof MIR. Csay's
failure to be returned to the house. The people not
looking upon the present Congressional Election as
any decided expression OF their opinions as to the
Presidential contest.
am very sorry to find the history Of our political
divisions upon the Presidential question subtitle I'M
derstood abroad as 1t is. You remember the origin
Of our money difficulties, and the weak legislation
which attempted to release the embarrassments OF
the state. by charterlng forty independent banks
They deluged the country with bills. whose mme-
date effects led the people into excessive extrava-
gances, which were soon followed by ruinOus de-
probation of those bills; total failure Of some Of
the banks increased pecuniary difficulties and a
general want of confidence. Many of your mer-
chants, believe, suffered and yet suffer, from the
confusion Of those times, and some Of them, as
understand absolutely failed from this cause.
The people of Kentucky, in their distresses and
conluson looked to their legislature for relief and
elected members to that body on pledges that they
would make efforts for legislative relief Here arose
the relief and anti-relief parties. The first predo'
mnated-past laws posponing the payment oil debt<
and established loan office with branches over the
state. whose notes became legal tender. The anti
relief party held, that contracts should be met &C
corng to the faith which existed at the time Of con-
tracing, and that the new laws unconstitu-
tiona A case under the laws came before Judge
Clark who decided that all those new enactments,
impairng cont acts unconstitutional and void
Upon this decision he was mpeached before the le
gislature, but the relief party faxed to remove him.
He Immediately resigned. Other judges decided
in after cases as Judge Clarke had done. The re-
| lief party became incensed against the whole Judi
cary. and attempted the annihiIation of the Supreme
Court by repeating the act merely of organization
press provision by which alone Judges may be re-
moved. This party appointed new Judges from
amongst themselves, and assumed the new name
of Judge breaking Party, while the anti-relie, took
that Of Constitutionasts' Under these names
they contcnded most furiously for some months,
when the Constitutional party began to be ascend
ant, and have gradually increased to decided ma
iurity. They have reinstated the old judges repeal
ed the expost acto laws, and leading affairs into
something like regularity.
Judge Clarke has through all this been held up by
the Judge breakers as the great evil and in conse-
quenee of Mr.. Clays friendship with him, and the
fact of Mr. Clays siding with the Constitutonalsts,
the Judge breakers determined to take up General
jackson, and thus obstruct at least some of the
views of the Constitutionasts, who had defeated
them in the state politics.
You remember the violence of "a and '25-It
has not abated by the overthrow of the Judge
Breakers, but yet RACES under the flags OF Jackson
men and Administration men.