Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1828-03-19

the letter OF the highly respectable Vryinian APP
| Peared in the public prns.' lie proceeds
As one of the friends of Mr. Clay | enter the
most solemn protestaganst the right of the Gene
raj through his organ the highly respectable
'irSInian, or otherwise, to say that would have
| assisted In making him President on the condi.
| .ioh stated. On the contrary, if [ could have
been made TO believe that Sen Jackson wou,1
not have offered to Mr. Adams the place which
he had filled with so much ability under Mr
| Monroe, that belief would have constituted in
my mind strong additional! objection to the Gene.
RAJ success" . If it is intended 10 import the
| beief that Mr. Clay's friends were DESTROYS OF
outlining the appointment for him to the exclu-
sion OF Nlr Adams or otherwise under General
Jackson, as one of his friends | pronounce it n
oase and infamous assault upon the motives and
honor, SO far as am concerned or believe OF
tnoSe VINO did not choose to support him for the
iresiaehcy. . In reply 10 your second inqui-
| ry, have to say that if conditions of any sort
we're ever made by the friends of Mr. CLAW TO
| any person, on Il compliance with which their
vote was made to depend, know nothing of il. -
| Judge Letcher, the only member of Congress
! VINO boarded in the same house with me, during
| the session at which the Presidential election
was made, tesliIies: 81 know OF nc such proposi-
uon or intination, nor have | Il knowledge OF
| any fact or circumstance which would induce
me to believe Mr. Clay's friends, or any one OF
them, ever made such proposition to the
| friends OF @ en-. .Jackson"
| Mr. Thompson says: {" know Of no propo.i
ton made by the friends Of Mr. CLAW 10 the
| friends OF Gen. Jackson to make him president
II he would not select Mr. Adams 10 the seat OF
| Secretary; ai1l' do moi believe a proposon
OF any Sind WAS made, and expect if the friend
| OF the General should ever speak on the sub
/ lcCt. he " Ill Lp Il
Mr. Buckner tcstilies: ..iu answer to Your in.
/ quIries on this subject | will remar!; that
have no reason TO believe that any such pro
position was male. Indeed no proposition o
Tany description relating 10 the election Of Pre-
I sd emit WAS -n.ie, tlr as ! know or believe
BY Mr. Gays friends to those OF Gen JACKS o L
or OF any os.er person."
Dir Scott, the member from Missouri. state
| that ''ncither Dir Adams nor his friends eve,
| made any promises or oVerinres to me nor did
l-they hold out to me any inducements of any
| sort, KIND or Character whatever, to procure
| me TO vote for Mr. Adams Nor did Dir Adams
| or any OF his friends ever say or i,isinuate who
| would be placed at the head OF the Department
| OF State, or any other department, in the even
] that Mr. Adams should he elected Nor do |
| believe any propositions were made 70 bIr Clay
or his friends, by Elr Adams or his friends.
| If there were ! know ii not" * never made
to Gen jackson or to any of his friends any
proposition, in reference to the Presidential
election, either as regarded the appointment of
Dir Clay or any other person TO office, or The
exclusion Of Nj Adams or any other person
from office. was neither spoken to by Mr.
Clay or any of his friends, about making any
proposition 10 Gen. Jackson or bis friends
of any kind whatever, nor did | ever hear it
insinuated or limited, that any proposition was
made or intended to be made by Mr. Clay OF
bis friends tu Gen. Jackson or his FRIENDS, or
TO any other candidate their friends for or
relating 10 the Presidency. And do believe,
had any proposition been nude or intended TO
have been ma1e by Mr. Clay or his friends,
from my intimacy and constant intercourse with
'hem' shoold have Known or heard thereof"
Messrs Gurley and Brent were the two mem
hcrs who gave the vote of Louisiana To- Mr. Ad-
ans. Mr. Gurlcy declares ',that have no
knowledge of any propositions having been
made 10y the friends of Mr. Clay or any of them
10 the friends of Gen Jackson or to apy other
person, in relation TO the election of President
or the proposition of conditions of any sort
on compliance with which their vote was
made to depend. believe the chlrgc wholly
destitute Of truth"
Col Brent says, "In au5inn 20 the Taycttc.
VILE letter cannot express the indignant feel
lng5 IT excited. 1t is the fabrication of a des
perate man, who to obtain his object dares to
assert what he knows to be false. You ask
me to say, whether know or believe that such
a proposition was ever made or whether con-
dt'onS OF any sort were proposed by the friends
OF Mr Clay to any one, on the compliance with
winch their vote was made TO depend. No
honorable man Can believe for moment that
such Il proposition was ever made, or such 4
condition stipulated. ] was friend of hr
Clay's throughout the contest, was 10 the
confidence of all his friends and I declare 70
God that never heard Of such thing until it
was asserted by the disappointed adherents OIL
Cen Jackson. am not only ignorant &c am,
such arrangements, but do not believe tbey
ever existed"
Thus there is now before the public the unitel
evidence OF the delegation from every Westerr
state whose vote was conferred upon Mr. Adams
except exc that Of Mr. Cook the Representative from
Illinois; Along and lingering illness, Terminating
IN the death Of that gentleman prevents the sub.
mission of his. But il is well known that Mr. Ad