Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1828-06-03

Jackson as her second choice, and requested him.
tovote, what right had he to turn round and tell
her, I" will not do it-you know nothing about !;
i;-Jackson is wholly unqualified for the Office
have long since come to a fixed aud unaltcrablc
resolution not to vote for him." Docs such Ian
gusgc become republican, servant Of the peo-
pie! Shall such conduct pass with in,punily. lift
does let the people change their Constitution, aboi
sh the election Of President and let the Secretary
OF State be his successor. Mr.. Clay will have had
an advantage over all those who have come in or
may come in by virtue OF % the safe precedent
He has already forced US one President, as his
predecessor, and when President himself he will
give another as his successor
But is it possible that Mr.. Clay could believe
General Jackson worse qualified for the presiden-
cy than he has asserted Mr.. Adams to be, in the
charges circulated with his own hand, and by his
own money. Was General jackson worse quail
ihed than the man who was guilty Of" bearing
false witness against his neighbour OF &" weighing
dollars against blood" of attempting " 10 make
the western people pay exclusive tax of rival
ship, war, and blood for the security Of those fish
ernen who frequent British waters" OF :. manu-
featuring facts" OF gross % absurdities, nconsis
tencies, and contradictions, of possessing views
too narrow, feelings too sectional, and temper too
| vndictive, for the Chief Magistrate of free peo-
pe" In short, is il possible that any man could
be worse qualified for the Office of President than
Mr.. Adams, according to the charges scattered Tar
and wide by Mr. Clay himself?
In speaking of the declarations he had made
laivc to g Gen. Jackson's want Of qualifications,
page Is, he says: {" These sentiments, long cher
ished, were deliberately expressed to gentlemen
OF the highest responsibility most of them my per-
soua and particular friends, in all of whose estim
alton must have stood disllonorcd if l had voted
tor Gen. jackson, contrarily to my declared pur-
pose. These declarations Of opinion were p,t-
rdtefy made, like his attacks on MIR. Adams. Now,
let the world Judge whether lac did not, in the
| same clandestnc manner, express and circulate
opinions detractng thousand times more from the
Qualifications oil MIR. Adams, and whether, in
ting for him, ho does not, upon his own PRINCIPLES
" stand dishonored,' not only i'll the estimation of
his personal friends, but Of the whole world. ii
the charges were true, he &c stands dishonored''
! Tor having voted for n SO wicked and deprav-
ed, SO destitute OF principle, and untitled in tenn
per to be the Chief Magistrate of free people.
IL they were not true, he stands dishonored' for
having given them countenance and circulation,
ana then cringing to receive an office from the
hand OF the man whom he had grossly HJeiled.
Its impossible that Mr.. Clay could have thought
worse OF the qualifications of General jackson than
he did Of those of Mr.. Adams Nor, whatever
might have been his own opinions, could he
have stood halt as much &c dishonored'' in voting
for General Jackson, in accordance with the wish
es OF kentucky, as he does in having voted for Mr.
Adams, against those wishes, and then accepting
| an Office at his hands.
We do not doubt that Mr.. Clay used the cx-
pressions which he has successfully labored to
prove; but we do doubt whether in reality he
had come to any fixed and unwavering resolution
as early as October, November, Or December 10
whom was it made known! Col. Davidson did
not state it to the Senate of Kentucky; George Ro-
bertson did not declare it to the House of Repre-
sentatives; nor did j. J. Crittenden proclaim il to
the people. So carefully and coniilentialIy had
1t been communicated, that the zephyrs had no,
heard ii; the birds of the air had not WHISPERED III
political Jealousy had not suspected it. No man
iisped 1t IN Kentucky, or breathed it i'm Washing
ton CITY In his address to his constituents, Mr.
u says " during the month of December and
the greater part OF January, strong professions of
high consideration and Of unbounded admiration of
me, were made to my friends in the greatest prof-
sion, by Of the acvetrends of all the returned
| candidates. s'I knew the sunbeams would quickly
disappear, after my opinion should be GScerfatned
and that they would be succeeded by storm,''
&C lie proceeds TO narrate events until the ap-
pearance OF Mr.. kremer's letter, aud 81 issued
my Card" In his speech at Mobiles he abors to
prove that his determination vote for Mr. Adams
was not publicly announced or known at Washing
ton, until near the end of January. IT, therefore
he had declared, "about the LIST OF October 1924
that he was already unateraby resolved to vote
for MIR. Adams, against General Jackson, il was
Kept profound secret until near the end of Jan.
1925
Ia this late Address, page 20. Mr. Clay saws:
4 mere does not exist human being, and If the
dead could be recalled, one could no, be summon
ed from the grave who could truly testify, that
ever expressed or ever insinuated the renotest in
tenton TO vote for Gen. Jackson in any continpen-
cy whatever" Again: page %, he says: "Not
particle oioppcsing testimony has been or with truth
can be, adduced. have, indeed, derived consola-
ton from the reflection, that amidst all the per
turbation OF the times, man has been vet fou nd
hardy enough to asset that ever signiiied pur.
pose o! voting for Gen. Jackson.
We have ample evidence that Mr.. Clay did,
notwithstanding these bold assertions, saw to sew
erai gentlemen ofas sterling honor as any that live
after October, 1924, that his mind was not made
up, and DID convey the impression that he mighi
ultimately vote for General Jackson This he did
TO the Hon. Z. A. Wickliiie, in October, to Major
Thomas ID. Carneal, in November, 10 the Hon
Ihos. l.. Moore, in December, TO the Hon. John
Floyd, in December or January, and TO other per-
sons known to the Committee, whose statements
have not yet been rcceived.-It may be- that he
did not say he would vote for General jackson. in
many words, but he reps cspnted that he was,
committed; that he was hesi,ating between Mr.
Adams and Gen Jackson: that the KentucISy de-
legation could Vote for ether with entire safety
and perfect propriety; and he left the impress
sion that he would soon vote for the one as fol-,
the other, and was 10 be determined by future
contingencies. Moreover, in his address 10 his
constituents, after this election, he informs them
oil the elaboration which ii cost him TO make I'D !
his mind, alter e found himself excluded from tile
House otRcpresentatives This fact, he informed
them, was not kn0wn 10 bin until the goth day |
OF December, 1924. He says: s. found myself
transformed from candidate before the people into
an Elcctor before the people deliberately ex- |
ahmed the duties incident to this new attitude and
WeiShed All the facts before me, upon which nv /!
Judgment was TO DC formed or reviewed" Yet
Notwithstanding all this grave deliberaon he now
says his mind was unaltcrably made up not TO vote
for General jackson almost three months before I : ,
again, he says: '' will, for the present, leov,
hin (hr kTcfner) and proceed to ASST IN the rea-
sons 70 you, TO whom alone admit myself 20 be
ohciaiIy responsible, for the vote which gave on
the Presidential election The first ii,Qlf0 which
tGnOOyed ma IVA 4,