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friends, any improper, inconsistent,
corrupt, or fraudulent conduct, on that
interesting and momenIous occasion,
are base SANDERS, known TO be such
by those who put them 10 circulation,
yet very honestly accredited by many
worthy citizens. My intercourse with
the friends Of Mr. Clay was such that,
rad any proposition been made nv
Them, 1 should have been very likely
10 have known il No man was ever
elevated to an Office by views more
pure and patriotic than was Mr. A
Jams. The assertion impoted TO Gen
Jackson is ridiculous on the face of IT
Admitting thai Mr.. Clay and his friends
we're oscliIstiDg, previous to the char
ges made against Mr. Clay, of which
Nr. Kremer afterwards assumed 90
be the author, those charges must have
separated them from Gen jackson
and his friends; but, as between Mr..
Adams and General Jackson, neither
Mr.. Clay nor his friends doubted for
moment whom to support, and if II
had been known on the day that Con
gress met that Mr.. Clay would not BE-
returned, and the vote had then been
taken, considering Mr. Crawford's
iIlness,) the result would have been the
same as when the election was held
If Mr. Clay's friends were hating
between two opinions, on the morn
ing of the election, how happens it the
charges OF frand, corruption, bargain
and sale, were made ten days or d
fortnight before that timer IfGeneraI
Jackson has any evidence in his pos
session to SUSTAIN bis declaration, why
ioes he withhold 1t from he public?
Very respectfully yours,
K. wHIrTLESEY.
T. Watkin., Esq.
Mansfield, o. .Nay 24th, 1927.
DEAR SIR: Your favor of the md instant wa:
Just received, giving a statement OF the contents
of letter said to have been written by highly
respectable Vrginian, relative TO statement
4 said 10 have been made by Gen. Jackson. on
| he subject Of the late Presidential Election.
Before proceed in justice to the General
! will say that do not believe that he ever
| made the declaration alluded to by the writer
| IF said letter. for the Geaerai was there when
| he Election took place, and mus, inevitably
have known that such statement would carry
alsehood on the very face of 10. [: was well
known that some of the friends OF Mr.. Clay,
from Ohio, would not IN any event, give their
. support to Gen Jackson, because Mr. Adams
vas their second choice, and believed TO be the
second choice OF majority of the people OF
his State; and further, General Jackson mus,
Know thai Two weeks previous to the election
| VI. Clay and bis friends were sssailed in val
gar and ungentlemsnly manner, for declaring
heir intention to vote for the presen,Executive
vet this proposition is said &c have been made
| to the friends Of Gen. jackson, that on certain
| conditions, "tbe General should be President
| in one hour" which. if true, must have been
| made only one hour before the Canvass took
| p ace In the House. This statement Of itself
| needs no refutation except for the respectable
| source from which it is said to have emanated.
was in the House. believe, every day of
| that Session at which the President was cleo
ed; and have no hesitation in saying that so
| far from making any proposition, or overture,
were the friends of Mr. Clay, in favor Of the
General, that had the friends of the General
made such pToposItoni we would have con-
sidered it as an indignity offered TO our inte
gritty and understanding. Icould not have vo-
led tor the General, in any event. for many
| reasons--two of which / will mention: First.
believed him far inferior TO all the other Candi-
dates in point of talents: Second, 7 had doubt
ed his being real friend to the Tariff 60 pro.
ect the manufactures OF our own country. I
will also mention that + had entertained doubts
his being friendly to internal improvement,
under the direction of the General Government.
Three opinions have been, within the pre- sent
veas, verified by declarations, and the course
pursued by the Generals leading friends end
his silence on the sub lect, after being solicited
20 come out.
Z am, dear Sir, with respect,
your sbedenl servant,
M. hartley.
Hon. r. HdtEins.