The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1828-11-12
WORCESTER:
WEDNESDAY,, NOV. 1a, 1875.


Pecially those who have the talent to make
themselves useful, and who have enjoyed con-
siderable portion of public confidence. Yet.
the relation in which the person, whose name
Is at the heac of this paragraph. has stood to
the people of this Congressional District, rem
ders his acts peculiarly interesting to them.
since the overwhelming discontinue brought
upon him by the publication of his celebrated
duplicate, 1T seems as if an evil star had rul-
ed his destiny. He has recently published
Prtcdte correspondence which took place sew
eral years since, which, it was announced in
the jackson papers, before the publication, with
great flourish of trumpets, was to annIhilate
Clay politically, and disclose such facts as
would render it impossible for the President aav
longer, consistently with his own character and
dignity, to retain him in office. The publica
ton has been made, and so far from iustfyng
any such assertions, it is honorable both to the
head and heart of Henry Clay, and it can pro-
duce no injurious effect on any one. unless it
be on him, who has thus, basely and treacher-
ously, and without any proper or justifable
cause, betrayed the trust reposed in him, ty
making public a private and confidential cor
respondence. The first letter in the series is
from Russell to Clay, and is violent and la
bored philippe against Gallatin and Adams,
two of his colleagues in the negotiations at
Client, in which his mortified feelings at their
prominence in those transactions, are strongly
displayed Some of the Jackson papers have
published that letter, only, and have wisely con-
cuded to omit the rest. On this correspond
ence the Boston Advertiser makes the following
remarks:
"The United States Telegraph announced
more than week ago, that it had in posses
sion for publication, an important cores
pondence between Mr.. Russell and Mr..
Clay, which the public were led to believe
contained most important secrets, the dis
closure of which would bear most heavily
upon the reputation of Mr.. Clay and Mr..
Adams. We have been anxionsly looking,
day after day, for these momentous revela-
tons, but each succeeding number of the
Telegraph brought US lutte else than long
and tedious communications from Mr.. Rus
sell himself, diversified with long extracts
from letters of MI. James Lloyd to Mr.. Adj
ans. Al length ii is announced that the
AtlpOI 10 " Il NOtlClu-
sion, and the private letters of Mr.. Clay to
Mr.. Russell are produced, hearing very
insignificant proportion in length, to their
voiuminous preamble. They prove what
was very we'll known before, that there was
a difference of opinion between Mr.. Clay
and Mr.. Adams, on one of the questions dis
cussed at Ghent hut they show at the same
time, that Mr.. Clay maintained his own
uyithonf onv oonar;fy of raal;pn oY1d
although solicited by Mr.. Russell to take
part with him in the controversy with Mr..
Adams, in letter "not written for the pub
lie eye," but only for that Of Mr.. Russell, he
does not indulge in any expressions which
betray feeling Of personal hostility. He
is indeed more severe upon Mr. Russell
himself and Mr.. Lloyd, than upon Mr.. Adj
ans, and we should really have supposed,
from the tone of Mr.. Clay's letters, under
the circumstances of the case, that the " i'm
portant disrlosure" had been made by some
enemy Of Mr.. Russell, if we had not his own
word for it, that this breach of the conf
dence implied in private correspondence,
was committed by himself"
1t will be borne in mind that, in 1924, Rus
sell procured a CALL to be made by Congress,
for letter written by him to President Monroe,
while Secretary of State, relative to the nego-
Citations at Client. The letter was not TO be
found in the Office of the Secretary of State,
and was supposed to be lost, in consequence of
which, Russell furnished a pretended "dupli-
cate" of the letter. On its publication, Presi-
dent Monroe instituted a search among his own
papers, and, after three days, it was found. 1t
was marked private" and evidently was new
er intended as an official letter On compare
son with the pretended duplicate, essential al.
terations were discovered in the latter calculat-
ed njuriously to affect the political standing of
John Q. Adams. His structures upon the al
terations must be fresh in the recollection of
our readers. The following extract from let
ter written by Clay to Russell, in reply to one
from the latter, Immediately after this transac-
ton, will shew the opinion which he fel. and
expressed, both of the propriety of first calling
for private letter, and of the forgery after
wards committed in the /" dupiica,e."
must frankly say to you, that the varia-
tions between your two letters have given,
in the public judgment, great advantage to
Mr.. Adams, at least for the present, and
that unless satisfactorily explained. it will
do you a lasting prejudice. | saw it with
very deep regret, and shall anxiously look
for an explanation.
Nothing could be more painful to me,
than to be drawn, even remotely, into the
unhappy controversy between Mr.. Adams
and yoursef-a controversy in which the
party most successful, will be loser in the
public estimation. certainly thought that
the public ought to have been put in possess
sion of the whole of the official transactions
of the mission Of Client, not knowing N.Y.
self of any sufficient reason for withholding