Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1828-01-05
z. U-a:kias, Esq.


LEAR SIR: Your letter OF the 2nd OF May last
addressed to me at Carlisle, in this State, having
been duly received by my family, and handed to
me on my return home few days AFRO from the
State OF Mississippi, hasten give YOU the inior-
nation required As to the letter which is said TO
nave pcen written by g a highly respectable Vir-
Snan, dated at Nashville, on the 9Th dav of last
/ March, which first appeared in the Fayetteville
observer, stating that he the writer had been told
that morning by the General, before oil his
company, that q proposition had been made
ny the friends of Mr.. Clay to the friends
oil. jackson, that if they would promise f0y
him not to put Mr.. Adams in the Seat OF
Secretary of State, Clay and his friends would
IN one hour make him, Jackson, President.
&C. have to state that never heard or thought
OF such proposition until the letter of the hiSb
ly respectable Virgnan appeared in the public
prints. Some time before the Presidential vote
was given IN the House of Representatives. [ well
remember to have heard il stated by some one
that IN the event OF the election of General Jackson
MIR. Adams would most probably ne withdrawn
from the National Cabinet, and made Governor of
Massachusetts,; that it not likely that he irO,tlG
accept an appointment under the General If offered
10 NM Neither before, nor since that election
have interchanged word with Mr.. Adams res
pectng 1t. But my opinion at that time was that ii
not elected, he would retire from the Cabinet as
matter OF choice, and not OF neceSSitV As one OF
tie friends of Mr.. Clay, ! enter the most So
Tenn protest against the right OF the General.
Though his organ the highly respectable Vireini-
IN making him President on the condition stated.
On the contrary, if could have been made TO be-
heve that Gen. Jackson would not have offered TO
Mr. Adams the place which he had filed with so
much ability under Mr.. Monroe, that belief would
have constituted in my mind a strong additional
objection to the Generals success. | should then
have taken il for granted, that it was the intention
OF the General to surround himself with that class
or party of politicians with whom ne had in a great
degree become identified, aud between whom and
myself there existed such radical difference of
opinion in relation TO the great leading question of
national policy. allude 10 the CrAlV, the nylti-fa-
1!J and GntiinteYn1t Improvement parties If il
Is intended to import the belief that Mr. Claus
friends were DESTROYS of obtaining the appointment
tor HIM TO the exclusion of Mr.. Adams or otherwise
under General jackson, as one Of his friends
lpronounceit base and an infamous assault upon
the motives and honor, so far as concerned or
believe, OF those who did not choose to support him
for the Presidency
In reply to your second enquiry, have TO say
that If conditions Of any sort were ever made by
the friends OF MIR. Clay TO any person. on a com
Phancc with which their vote was made TO de-
pend, L knew nothing OF il. Believing that Mr.
Clay would not have accepted an appointment I'M
der the General, am at loss TO conjecture where
or from whom the authority for making such pro-
positions could have been derived But If any in
dlyidUal, calling himself the friend of kIr CLAW
dld make proposals OF such character why not
name the man, and let him state 10 the public bv
what authority he made them?
with great respect, am, dear Sir, your obed-
ent servant,
THOMAS AIETCALFE.
T. Watkins, Esqr. 4h .Gsid. Urea. Deparsole1..
lancaster, h-y. 2Gth .Tit7e, 1927.
DEAR SIR: Yours of the I'd May did not reach
me until day or two ago. You inquire whether
know any thing in relation to the following state
1nent said TO have been made hy highly respec-
table Eirginisn" g He, General jackson told
me this morning, before all his company in reply
TO question put to him, concerning the election
OF >. o. Adams TO the Presidency, that Mr. Claws
friends made proposition 10 his friends that fthey
would promise for him, not 10 put Mr. Adams into
the seat of Secretary O. State Clay and his friends
would, in one hour, make him, jackson, the Pres
ident"
know Of no such proposition or intinatiop,
nor have 1 a knowledge of any feet OF cir
cumstance which would induce me to believe
MI Ciays friends, or any one of them, ever made
such proposition TO the friends Of General Jack
SOD
With great respect, your obedient servant,
II. Z. LETCHER.
r. T'atFnr, Esq.
CrCeHs5vrg, ny. Hay &c, 1927.
DEAR SIR; Having been absent from home
for some time, yours Of the I'd OF this month was not
received until day or two since You mention
letter, said 20 have been written by highly
respectable Firginian," dated az Nashville, SIN Of
March last, irst appeared in the Fayetteville
Observer, in which General Jackson isrepre sent