Virginia advocate. [volume] (Charlottesville, Va.) 1827-1860, 1828-07-26

ally intended that copies should be seen at all. at
least for the present. The day after the pub
LEGATION Of the letter which gave permission to
your Committee here "to exhibit to the inspec.
ton OF any gentleman OF any party, all such por-
tons of it your correspondence with Mr. Blairl
as relates to the Presidential election" gentle.
man called on the Chairman and requested the
8 ght of the documents. Ihey had none to sho.o!
They proposed applying to Mr.. Blair for copies,
but could you have expected that after referring
to your committee for sight of copies of your
letters, instead Of MIR. Blair who had the origin
ais, that gentleman would give copies without
your special request1 You had left the affair in
such condition that the letters were not vet &C
&C ssiNle, and there is good grounds to suspect
that 1t was done designedly. But Blair very
properly, and 1 believe unexpectedly, replied to
the application of your committee by sending CO.
pies 81 tho letters. -
AT last, these famous copies are accessible. I
hare seen them. The one is dated January Sth
1925, an ominous day, the other January 29th.
The iorrner only is OF material Importance 1t is
perhaps unfortunate for you that it is not accom-
panied by those letters from Mr.. Blair, Showing
In what sense he uRderisood Them" to which YOU
aiiude; Tor aver, that no candid man can read
\, without perfect conviction that the vote of
Kentucky was given TO Mr.. Adams for the Dur
pose OF promoting your personal ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.
Indeed, it is impossible for me to conceive how
any other construction can be put upon the lette,
than that the friends Of Mr.. Adams had promised
you the first Office in his gift with their rntpre
support; that Jour friends had determined to vote
ior Mr.. Adams on that account; and that YOU
were using personal exertlons to brins the mem
bers OF Congress into your views
Let the date be recolected it is Janu9ry Sfh
1873. You commence by giving MIR. Blair your
opinion upon work by Lord Byron which You
say you have sent him (frankcd I presume.
Ion then enter into the subject of the presiden-
tlal election, and say, that the time has now ar
rived when you must begin to think seriously for
whom you are to vote. You state, that the friends
| OF all the candidates entertained the opinion that
on you rested the decision of the contest and hat
your situation was singular and amusing You
say that the friends OF the several candidate ac-
cost you IN turn; that fre nd Of Gen jackson
says to you, My dean Sir my hopes arc unon YOU
do not dIsappont us--our partially was for YOU
next TO the hero--you know the anxiety we all
had for Western President: That a friend of
MIR. Crawford comes and says, the hopes of the
republican party are upon you; you and Mir
Crawford were the only republicans candidates
had you been rcturncd TO the House, we should
all have concentrated our force upon lou. The
language of MIR. AdAms' friends, you give in
nearly the following words:
| 9 A friend Of Mr. Adams comas to mo "with
tears in his eyes" aud says-Sir, Mr. Adams has
always had he greatest respect for you, aud the
highest admiration for your talents There is
no station to which you not equal. You were
undoubtedly the second choice Of New England,
and pray you Jl..ssyasad- .~he,her the public
good and your own iS13te interests do no, dis.
tinctly point you to the course which YOU ougbt
to pursue"
You then give some reasons why MIR. Adams
shonid be preferred to General Jackson, amonr
winch remember only the statement that the
OHIO delegation had determined to vote for MIR
ADAMS, the alleged want of qualification in the
GENERAL and his military propensities. You then
declare distinctly, and in nearly the following
words:
" My friends entertain the belief that their
KIND wishes towards me- will in the end be more
iikeiy to be accomplished, by so bestowing their
votes"
You then declare, tina, you have urged them to
be governed by their views of the public good a
lone&aver that you have been influenced only by
that consideration. In Conclusion, you use near
ly the following words:
" Your representative is inclined TO concur with
us In these sentiments, and as know his respect
Tor your opinion, request, if you concur in our
views that you will write to him by return mail to
strengthen him in his incnaions Shew this to
Crittenden alone"
You say you could not publish this letter with
out Publishing letters from MIR. B air to show how
he understood it. This was written on the Sth
OF January About the Goth he must have re.
ceived 1t. have stated and he has admitted
that about che Goth, he to d me that lur. Adams
= elected, .oouta make you Secretary of State
Does not this shcw how he understood it?
The letter concludes by saying, "shcp this to
oitfenden alone Doubtless it was shcwn to
HIM. On the 18th January, Mr.. Crttendcn wrote
to " o"r representative" as follows
thinking as do of Mr.. Clay-of his great in
tegrIty his lofty American spiri;&1his consummatc
ability, believe it to be highly important to the
public interest that he should occupy distinguish
ed station IN the Executive Department. Under
all present circumstances my first wish in regard
to this subject (and it is dictated both by my
personal partIalities and considerations ofthe pub
Ic good) would be, that jackson should be the
President and Clay his Secretary Of State: And
L really do believe, that the common good is more
concerned In Clay's being Secretary, than it is in
the question whether Jackson or Adams shall be
the President. (See No ll)
Docs not this show how he understood IL?
On the day, Mr. Blair wrote to Z" our
Representatives. follows:
GU have ii in your power 10 vote not Only