The Litchfield County post., 1828-01-17

of Secretary of Stase, Clay and his lsiends would in one hour mako him (Jacksonlth lthe President. He asoss indignantly rejected ihapnpoxiliOn, and declared that he would not compromise himself; and unless most openly and fairly nsdc the President by Conuress, he never would rceive it. He declares that be said Co ilom that he would sec the whole earth sink under him be- fore he would bargain or intrigue for il. '" In the Washington City Telegraph of the 25th day of April last, the editor states {: s' In the Journal this morning we have d. mother quotation from the Democratic Press, purporting to be the official contra dirEion by Mir. Clay of the statement of Gen. Jackson relative to the overtureS made assto the formation of the Cabinet, previous to the late election of the PreSi-. dent. That Gen. Jackson has spoken of such overtures sCe personally knO'0." In the same paper of the 18th of April the following paragraph: "The Journal is out this morning in reply te our remarks of Thursday, in which they affect to conSid- CT it highly improper in Gen. Jackson to speak of the overtures made by Mr. Clay'S
 
 nal, he is a Candidate against Mr. Adams. Now we state explicitly that Gen. Jackson spoke of these overtures in March 1925, before he was announced by the Legisla- ture of Tennessee as Candidate"
 The change,i if it did not originate with, having been thus sanctioned and circulated by General Jackson, and duplicating as well my friends as me, thought it proper, having myself repeatedly and positively denied its truth, to resort to the testimo- ny of these gentlemen from the West who had voted with me for MT. Adams. Ac- cordingly friend of mine, Dr. Watkins, at my instance, addressed circular let ter to those gentlemen, during the last Spring inviting their attention to the Fay elteville letter, and inquiring if there were any truth in its averments. And he has obtained from all of them but two, an- swers which are now presented to the pub- lie. These answers will be found in the appendix, (see A. arranged according to the respective delegations from which they proceed. The writers of them are men of as high responsibility as any in the Union. Where they are known, (and several of them are we'll known in vari- ous parts of the country their statements will command unqualified belief. The excellence of their characters is so we'll established that member of the House of Representatives, who will not be presumed to be disposed to bestow on them unde- served enconium, felt constrained to bear his testimony to it. Mr. McDutt1e said in the H. of Representatives, on the de- bate to refer to a committee the appeal I made on the occasion of MT. Kremer's card "Let me add one word to the friends of MT. Clay on this floor (and there are no members of this floor for whom generally I feel more respect 1 have been informed that some of his friends suppose that the amendment which I offered contains something which is in- tended to bear harshlyu upon them. Not so; not so. My object is merely to con- fine the charges made against the honora- ble Speaker to the very words of the let ter from the gentleman of Pennsylvania This just but voluntary tribute was ex- pressed on the 4th of Feb. 1895. (see Ma tional Intelligencer of the 5th of the same monthly On the 31st March 1926, more than thirteen months after, when the a. mendment of the Constitution vas under discussion, proposing new mode of elect ing President, the same gentleman is re- ported to have said "Now I have the greatest respect for those gentleman who were the personal and political friends of MT. Clay in the late election of President. Next to my own personal friends there are none whom estimate more highly" (see Nat. Intelligencer 2d of May, 1826.) These answers are not only entitled to the fullest credit, from the hig responsibility of tie characters of those gentlemen, but deserve great confidence from the fact that they have been respectively prepared by themselves, without any concert what ever. SO far as know or believe, and when they were at their several residen- ces, widely separated from each other.
 The members from Ohio, who voted for Mr. Adams were General McArthur, General Vance, Gen. Beecher, Messrs. Sloane, Wright, Vinton, Mclean, (broth- CT of the Post Master General) Whittle- sey, Bartley, and Patterson. From each of these gentlemen it will be seen that an explicit unqualified negative is given to the statements of the Fayetteville letter. Gen. McArthur declares them to be "to- tally destitute of foundation" He alleges
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