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

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take that place in his route to the city. Our friend
ly intercourse having been restored, in the manner
stated, l was very DESTROYS that he should arrive' prior
to my departure from home that ] might offer to MN
the hospitality Of my house, and lest he might misih.
terpret the motive of my departure, If it preceded
his arrival. In this temper Of mind. ! think 1t quito
possible that l may have said that, i'll had been aware
OF his intention to pass that away, l would have writ
ten to him when ! intended to set out, and urged him
to reach Lexington before / started on my Journey. !
certainly never ontemplat travelling in company
with him, having sometime before made all my arrange
ments tor the journey with the gentleman who accom-
panied me, and having determined upon a route, diff
ferent from the usual one, which was taken by Gen.
Jackson. 1t has been affirmed that ! wrote to him
expressing a wish to accompany him to the city OF
Washington, and his silence would seem to imply an
acquiescencc in the correctness Of the statement fit
were not put forward ON his suggestion. am quite
sure that ! did not at that period write him a letter
of any description /; hut if did, l here express my en-
tire assen: to the publication of that or any other let
ter addressed to him by me. ! do not believe did.
because do not think that there was time, after ]
heard OF his intention to come by Lexington, Tor a
letter from me to reach Nashville, and an answer to
be returned, before it was requisite to commence the
journey-a punctual attendance on my part being no.
cessary as the presiding officer of the House. Hsuch
4 letter had been (s most undesignedly 1t might have
been) written, can any thing more strongly illustrate
the spirit ofhostilhty against me than the unwarrantable
differences, which have been drawn from that assumed
fact! When left home in November ] did not certain
ly know the electoral vote ola solitary state in the I'm
ion. Although l did not doubt the result ofthat in Ken
lucky, the returns had not come in and the fl st authentic
~iniormatio which / received of the vote OF any State
was Of ,hat o.. Ohio, which reached me on the Kama
VIVA, during the journey, more than two hundred miles
ifon my residence.
whether | would be one OF the three returned to
to tiie House OF Representatives was not ascertained,
unit! more than three weeks after had reached Wash-
ing;on. Is it not, then, most unreasonable to suppose,
1t had written such a letter as has been imagined,
proposing that we should travel together. that ! could
nave had any object corrected with the presidential
eicction!. i reached Washington several days bef)re
hun. shortly az or his arriva! he called to sec me, but
l was out. returned the visit, considering it in both
Instances one OF mere ceremony met with him but
rarely during Tia session, and always when ! did see
him, IN company. j sought no opportunities to meet
him, FOR having my mind uali;ef ably fixed in its resolu-
tion not to VOC Tor hun, | wished to inspire him with no
hopes from me. The p csidcniia! election never was
a ,opic, to which the most distant allusi,n was made
by me, IN any conversation with him, but once, and
that happened at a dinner given by the Russian Min
lister, the late Baron of Iuyll, on the 9th December,
1924. rccolcct the day, because it was the birth
day Of the late Emperor MISUNDERSTANDING thirty
gcn,lomcn composed the party, aud among them, MIR.
Adams, Lir. Calhoun, General Jackson, and think.
MIR. Macon. Just before we passed from the drawing
into the dining rooni, a group OF some eight or ten
gentlemen ware standing together, of whom General
Jackson ani were apart. and Internal Improvements
q do not recolect how became the subject Of con-
versd'ion. / observed to hin, in the course Of it,
that ii he should be elected President, | hoped the
Cause would prosper under his administration. He
made some goncrahrcmarks, which | will not UNDER
take to state, lest should do him Justice.
My principal induccmen. to the publication Of this
address being 10 exhibit the testimony which it embo-
dies; 1t forms no part oimy purpose to comments on the
statements which have been published of Messrs.
Buchanan, Eaton, lslacs, and Markiey, all of them
the friends OF Gen. Jackson, on the occasion of the
Late election. Neither shall | notice the numerous
falsehoois OF anonymous writer's, and editors of news
papers, with which the press has tcemed to my preju-
dice. The task would be endless. To guard against any
misinterprctation that might be placed on my silence,
in respect to a letter from Mr.. Harrison Munday
which has been widely circulated, and which was
published at a period chosen to affect the Kentucky
election, ! declare that whether this letter be genuine
or not, its statements are altogether groundless. I
never had such a conversation with him as that letter
describes, respecting Mr.. Adams, who at the time
when it is alleged to have happened, was abroad, and
of whom at that early period, there had been certainly
no general conversation in regard to his election to
the Presidency. The appointment which Mr.. Mark
ley holds, was conferred upon him in consequence Of
the very strong recommendations of him, principally
for a more important Office, from numerous highly re-
spectacle persons of all parties, in various parts Of
Pennsylvania, from some of the Pennsylvania dclepa-
ton, among whom Mr.. buchanan took q warm and
Jealous interest in his behalf, and from the support
given to him by the Secretary of the Treasury, to
which department the appointment belonged.
When 1t was ascertained that | was not one of the
titSC niiudl WHO WtTC TcIuTncu L tnc HOUSE Oh
Representatives, ] was compelled to vote, if voted at
all, for one of those actually returned. The duty
which the people devolved on me was painful and
perilous, and | anticipated that it was impossible for
me, whatever course | should take, to escape censure.
| confess that the measure hastransccnded all expec-
tatioa if it be not unexampled. 1t has been seen that
my opinion was early and deliberately formed, under
circumstances where no personal motive could have
swayed me that it was adhered to without deviation:
and that it was avowcd again and again, not to one
mr. Nn lntf tn many nnrcanc not in annr,t kt
standing high in the public estimation and in my own.
Not a particle Of opposing testimony has been, or with
truth can be, adduced. ] have indeed derived conso-
lation from the reflection that, amidst all the pertur-
baton Of the times, no man has been yet found hardy
enough to assert, that l ever signifcd a purpose Of
voting for Gen. Jackson. II has been seen that, so
far as any advances were made, they proceeded from
the side Of Gen. Jackson. After our meeting at Le-
banon, aces might have rolled away, and, il we both
continued to live, l never would have sought the res
newdl OF any intercourse with him. When he came 10
the senate, and at the commencement of the next ses-
sion OF Congress. the system of operation decided on,
in respect to my friends AMI me, was one OF courteous
and assiduous attention.. From that, the transition
was to a scheme OF Intimidation, Of which Mr.. Kro-
ner's letter is only a small part of the evidence. In
tim!dltion Of representative OF tc people in tho
dischatgc ola solemn trus.! That is the last day of
the Republic on which such means shall be success.
fully employed an publicly sanctioned: Finding mo
inn jvciblc by hlttcfy OF icr, the las, resort has b,en
TO crush me by steady aid unprecedented caiunny.
Whether this fual ain shall BE- crowned with success
or not, depends upon the intelligence Of tho American
people. / maze no appeal TO their sympathy. / in-
woke only stern justice.
Iftruth has not lost its force, reason its sway, and
the fountains of justice their pu ity, the decision ,nut
be ausp. ciouy. With a flu roliinc; upon tie n',gh>
egei u alignment OF the public, AMI conscious o; the re i
and u~prigrtncs with which ave executed every
trus, committed to my care, await the cvegt without
alarm or apprc, ension, Whatever it may be, my