Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1828-01-02

partmen, OF State, or any otEcr department, IN
The even, that Mr.. Adams SHOULD be elected -
Nor do believe any propositions were made
to MIR. Clay or his friends, by MIR. Adams 0.
his friends. If ih-re were | know il not"
never made 10 Gen. Jackson or 10 any Of hi
friends any proposition, in reference to th,Prr.
siden,ial election, either as regarded the az
p0intmen, Of AIr. Clay or any othrr person I,
Office, or the exclusion OF Mr.. Adams or -,
o'her person from Office. was neither syo.
ken TO by MIR Clay, or any OF his Friends abon.
making any proposition to Gen. jackson g.
his friends of any kind whatever, nor did e..
or hear it insinuated or limited, that any PROM
sirion was IN ade or intended 10 be mad, b.
Mr.. Clay or his friends to Gen Jackson @: his
friends, or to any other candidate OF their
friends for or relating to the Presidency. AoG
do believe, had any proposition been madt g.
intended TO have been made by Mr.. Clay o. his
friends, from my intimacy and constant in.vr>
course with ,h"m, l should have known O.
heard thereof"
Mrssrs. Gurley and Bren; were the Two men.
bers who gave the vote IF Louisiana TO Mr.
Adams Mr. Gurlcy declares chat ! have 10
knowledge Of any propositions having been
M Jde by the friends Of Mr. Clay or any Of them
II the friends o.! Gen Jackson or TO any olhr.
, erson, in relation To the election of President.
or the proposition OF conditions Of any sort, on
d compliance with which their vote wus mad
to depend. ] believe the charge wholly. drs.!
tutc Of truth"
CT Brent SAYS, "In aIiusiou to the FIycttr.
willie letter cannot express The Indignant Ice,
lug il excited. 1t is The fabrication OF Il de-.
perate man, who to obtain his object darcs 10
a scrt what he knows 20 DC false. You ask me
to Say, whether know o! believe that ouch a
proposition was ever made, OF whether csnd.
tons of any sort were proposed by The friend
Of Mr.. Clay to any one, on the compliance vi l.
which their vote was made TO depend. No
honorable man can believe fUl 4 moment th,'
such proposition was ever made, o. such e
condition stipalatcd | was friend oi Mr.
CLAWS throughout de contest, was in the
confidence OF Ill his friends, and ] declare 10
God iha; never heard Of such thing until il
was asserted By the disappointed adheren:s Of
Gen. Jackson. | am not only ignorant Of any
such arrangements Suit DO uot believe they e..
or existed.
Thus there is now before the Publ the u
n'ca G. idence OF the delegation from every
Western State whose vote was conferred upon
Mr. adams. except that OF Mr.. Cook, the Re
presenistivc from Illinois. a long and finger
ing illness, terminating IN ihc death Of tina:
Gentleman, prevents the submission Ct his
But it is well know r-tlia! Mr.. Adams was his
choice, throughout the whole Presidential can
vass, Although thu re existed between him &
myself good will aud respectful intercourse, he
never was politically nor personally my friend.
Including MIR. White, the public has the CT
idence of twenty different members Of Con-
grcss embracing all my friends, from theWes-
tern States, who voted for Mr.. Adams. Ihei:
attention was chiefly directed, in The prepare
lion Of their respective statements, 10 lhe Fay
etlevilic letter, and it is 10 that their les
tlmouy principally applies. On that point, they
ell concur, in pIonouncIng the most unquaiiIi-
ed negative, and, on other points, several oil
them are not less explicit. Is il credible, Is il
consistent with The ordinary operations Of hu-
man nature, that these Gentlemen, without any
personal interest or motive whatever, should
have first ba,ely given their concurrence to dis
honorable ovrrturcs, for my sole benefit, and
then should unanimously agree in fal,iying
themselves
In the published circular which, in March
1925, addressed to myConsttiVtnls, remark.
ed "a, tina, early period" (earIy in No,cmbce
1920 81 stated TO DR.. Drakr, one of the protes-
sors in the medical school Of Transylyanla Uni
versi:y, ard TO John J. ,rittenden, Esq. OF
Frankfort my determination 10 supper, NJ.
Adams in preference to Gen. Jackson" do
rot, at that time, recollec,, nor do i probably
now, all the occasions Oh which espresso, in
conversation, my opinion Of the unilness o!
Gen. Jackson for the Presidency; aud my pre-
ference Of either OF the other candidates re-
memhereG distinctly the conversation ! had
held with Dr. Drake and John J. Critlendon,
ESQ. and therefore RI fcrred TO them. In sew
eral in,tances, simiar Converse ions have been
since brought 10 my recollection by Gentlemen
with whom, or in whose presence they occur
red; and it is, from voluntary and friendly
communication Of the pufnort Of them, Mat !
am now enabled to lay before the Public con
siderable portion Of the mass Of testimony, i'm
GLIDING that Of DR. Drale) on that particular
topic which is now presented (Sce Appen-
dix B.
This testimony establishes that, on various
occasions and times, beginning IN kentucky as
early as about the LIST October 1924, and con-
rinu,d in The city Of Washington, down. to the
period when my determination 10 vote for Nh.
Adams was generally known IN his city,l UNI
formly expressed my conviction OF Gsnrr".
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