Literary cadet and Rhode-Island statesman. [volume] (Providence, R.I.) 1827-1829, 1828-01-09

my SOFT were proposed ny the friends nf Mr.
Clay I, any one. gu the conipl:ance witt, which
the r vote was muie 10 depepi. No honofab!e
man can believe for a moment that such a prop.
oJtion was ever made, or such II condition sti =
uiated. ] was IA friend of Mr.. Gays through
out the conies'.-l was in the rol6ience 81 all
his friends, and | declare to Col that never
head ofsuch n thing until il was asserted ly the
disappointed adherents OF Gen. Jackson. sm
not only ignorant OF any such arrangements, but
10 not believe they ever existed
Thus there is now before the public The unit
I'd evidence of the delegation from every Nes-
Tern State whose vote was conferred upon Mr..
Adams. except that OF Mr.. Cook, the Represeo-
tative from Illinois. a long and lingering illness,
terminating in the death OF that gentle nan pre-
vents the submission OF his. But il is well known
that Mr.. Adams was his choice, throughout the
whole Presidential canvass. Although there
existed between him aud myself good will and
iesIectiul intercourse, he never was politically
nor personally my friend.
Including Mr.. White, the public has the evil
dence OF twenty different members Of Congress,
embracing all my friends, from the Western
States, who voted for Mr.. Adams. Their aiten-
ton was chiefly directed, in the preparation Of
their respective statements, to the Fayetteville
letter, and it Is to them that their testimony
principally applies. On Tint point, they all con-
N@f :" N''N'ttS US A'oS' A'feo''iAS'
tive, and, on 9th r points, several of them are
not less explicit. Is IL credible, is it consistent
with the ordinary operations of human nature
that these gentlemen without any personal inter-
est or motive whatever, should have first basely
J siven their concurrence to dislonorable over
lures, for my sole benef', and then should unahi.
mousiy agree in f.isii ying Themselves?
la the published circular which, in March,
1875. addressed 10 my constituents, remarked
- at that early period (early in Novemte 1924
" I stated to Doctor Drake, me Of the professors
in the medical school of Trahs ylvania Universi-
ty, and to John J. Critlenden. Esq. Of Frankfott
my determination to support Mr.. Adams in pref
crence to General Jackson" did not, at that
tine, recolloct, nor DO PROBABLY now, all the
occasions On which expressed in conversation,
my opinion of the uuftness Of Gen. jacks on for
The Presidency, aud my preference OF either Of
the other candi ;ates. Remembered distinctly
the conversation I had held with DIR. Drake anil
JOHN J Critteudea, Esq. and therefore referred
To them. la several instances, similar CONVEX
sations have been since brought TO ny recollec-
tioI 10y gentlemen with whom, or III whose pres
ence they occurred; aud it is. from a voluntary
and friendly. communication of the purport OF
them, that am now enabled TO lay before the
public u considerable portion Of the mass OF tes-
t'tnpny Concluding that of DR.. Drake on that
patt.ctl. ar topic which is now presented. (Sec
Appendix b.
This testimony establishes TINT, on various &C. !
casious aud times. began ng in. Kentucky as
early rs about the ist ut October, 1924, and
continued in the CITY Of Washington, d"wu to
the period When y determination to vote inr
Mr.. Adams Was generally known in this city,
uniformly expressed ny conviction of General
Jackson's want OF qualification. AMI my fxsd
re, olution was not TO vote fog hlm,i | were Cali
ed upon 10 give 1t vote. These sentiments. long
cherished, were deliberately expressel,to sei,le-
men OF the III hest responsibility, most oi taeul
my personal and particular friends in all oi
whose estimation ! must have stoo disi,onored,
i'll had voted for Gen. Jackson contrary tony
declared purpose. Tits purpose was av"wed
Immediately preceding IN. departure from Ken
lucky 10 attend Congress, aud Immediately GA
my arrival here after the termination OF Tia
jpuraey. David l~rimhle, Esq. states that, aboui
the first of October, 1924. h" hri! con, cr,at'ou
with me at Frankfort, ia Kentucky, oa the sab
Ject and prospects of the pending election, when
he details niuutely. aud that IN the course al II
| said " that could not cunsIsteotly with my
PRINCIPLES vu:e Tor Gen. Jackson. unGsr anD
possible circumsianceS." urged ia hIm II he
objections which weighed Oh my mind, and
whicl, have been so often slated and especially
that which Is funded upon Cen. JAcks"n's pos
session OF military prcteusi"n only. sad, III
reference To IN obicction Nhicfi Mr. Frlnhie un-
ders'ooI me az ent' rtainls against Air. Adams
growing on. OF the ne ,o:latipns nj Client, Mr..
Trinble states that remarked that 1T had heen
- greatly magniiel 10y the friends al his com
petitors," I" for eicetioneerlng purposes Z" that
IL ought to have no nllu ,ncc In the vute when
lie might be called upon to give; that, If he wa
weak enough to allow his lefsoual feelings to
infl uence his public conduct, there would be no
change in his MUD on that account, because he
was then on much worse terms with General
Jackson abuat the Seminole war. than he could
ever he with fIr. Adams about the treaty OF
Client; that in the sele ;,ion of a chief Magistrate
for the Union he woujd endeavour TO disregard
all private feelings, and look entirely to the IN
terests of tie coultry and the safety OF It's in-
stitutions."
Il appears from the letter Of MIR. Robert Trim
BILE. Zone of tho associates Justices of the SUI
creme Court of the United S~iates) which ac-
companies that cf Alr. David Trimble, that the
latter had avowel To the former, as early as
February or March. 1924, his preference OF Mr..
Adams 10 either Of the three candidates VINO
were actually returned to the House OF Repre-
s,nfatives.
Col. Davidson (he Treasurer Of tho state Of
Kentucky, an a man of unbiemished honor ! NJ
unqucstionahIe veraciiy) states that during a
Vi. [ which | mn lie 10 Frankfort in the fall oi
1891, und he thinks only atew days prior to my
departure from Kontucky. to attend Congress
(t must therefore have been early in Novem
her, a. ielt hoane before, or about the tenth OF
hat month"; he had n conversation with me
about the then pondins Presidential election, IN
the cour,c oi w!,ich he remai ked, that | would
have some difficulty to encounter in making h
Q election amongst the candidates If ] should bt
exclude! from tive House To which /, replied:
| su ppo-e not mich; in that event | VIII en-
to do,ny duty fai,,tul'y.' lie adh'
that I stated in the course Of the conversation
:. Jc,nnotc conceive of any event that can pos