Delaware patriot & American watchman., 1828-06-03

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| But this is only the commencement of Mr.
Clay's undermining and disingenuous conduct in
relation to Mr.. Adams. About the time he wrote
the foregoing celebrated letter. to the Editors Of
the National Inteligencer, declining controversy
with Mr. Adams, lest his motives should be mis-.
construed, he called on his friend, the Editor ol
the Argus, published in Frankfort, Kentucky, for
the purpose of correcting an error relative to the
principles assumed at Client, which had brought
upon that Editor and Mr.. Clay, the severe censure
of Mr.. Adams. He gave his friend narrative Of
the proceedings at Client, and convinced HIM OF
(hs error. The Editor then took up the pubca
ton of Mr.. Adams, and reviewed it in series OF
Letters. addressed to John Quincy Adams After
these letters had been published in the Argus, Mr..
CLAW offered the Editor fifty dollars, towards de.
fraying the expense of their republication, in
pamphlet form. Finally, 1000 copies were printed,
in Lexington, by Mr.. Tanner, and Mr.. Clay paid
one hundred doIlars-about one-half OF the expense
- out of his own pocket, as the publisher lately
testified before the Senate of Kentucky. ny this
act, MIR. Clay adopted these Letters, and made
them his own. He made himself responsible Tor
all the statements they c0ntaln--lt ne Oe not III
substance, their author.
From the first of this series of Letters to Mr..
Adams. we take the following extract:
"Aeainst Mr.. Clay you have made charges,
which. if true. must degrade him in the estimation
of his countrymen and, If not. ought to disgrace
you. Tn addition TO numerous nsinuations scat
tered throughout your book you have, in the intro
duction, charged him, directly, with having, At
Client, insisted in principle, upon the sacrifice OF
an Eastern. fol the benefit of Western interest :
at the same time asserting, that the national lne-
rest, which Mr. Clay thus insisted on sacrificing,
was compared with that for which the sacrifice was
intended, as a million against cent?
"This is serious charge. II it be true, Mr..
Clay has compromised the interests of his coun-
try, and does not deserve its confidence: Ii it be
not true, you have borne false witness against
your neighhor.' and deserve universal reprobaton.
That it is not true. we are bold 30 assert; and we
will prove our assertionby your own declarations"
The same letter thus lays down the topics inten-
ded to be discussed in the publication -
"That you and the people may be at once ap-
priced of the points which these letters are inten
ded to embrace, we here state them in explicit
terms:
"In Letter H., we shall show that you have
grossly deprecated the extent and value Of the
British right to the navigation of the Mississippi
before the late war in relation to which, il will be
seen. that your reiterated declarations are contra
dicted by facts; by the conduct Of the American
Government, and by your own conduct.
I" In Letter ILL.,, we shall show that yoa e1agge
rate the extent of the fisheries, which were con
tested at Ghent, in degree extravagant, as you
eprecate the British right to the navigation Of the
Mississippi: in relation to which, it will be seen.
that your assertions and arguments are contradic-
ted by the British Government, the American Gov
ernment, and yourself.
i" In letter w., we shall show that you were
not authorized to offer any equivalent for the fish
cries, or any part Of them and that you were ex
pressly forbid to concede to the British the nav-
CATION of the Mississippi, for any consideration
in proof of which, we shall adduce your
instructions; the article first offered by MIR. Gala
tin; facts proving that the Mississippi is within
the exclusive jurisdiction Of the U. ST. and your
own declarations.
''In Letter ", we shall show that Mr.. Clay's
opposition to Mr.. Gallatn's proposition, was re.
CURED by his instructions, as we'll as by sound
policy that the charge of changing sides, which
you have made against him, is utterly unfounded.
and may be retorted upon you that the paragraph
offered By him, to get rid Of Mr.. Gaatin's pgopo-
sition, not applicable to the British right of
navigating the Mississippi, either in letter or
principle; that, nevertheless, the majority did ap
ply the same principle to the navigation of the
Mississippi; that on this point you glarngly con.
tradict yourself; and that your Efforts to fix tergi-
versation and inconsistency on Mr. Clay, by ad-
ducing his original signatures, as evidence Of his
individual opinions, is not only disingenuous, un.
candid, and unjust, but, if admissible, would in
volve you in repeated contradictions, and prove
that you have sacrificed important interests oe your
country.
SIN Letter VI, we shall show that Mr.. Gala.
tins second propositions which was also strenuous
ly opposed by Mr.. Clay, but finally adopted, and
offered tn the British Commissioners, was not au-
thorized by your additional instructions, as part
of the Status ante belLum was unnecessary to the
conclusion of the peace, impolitic, and unjust.
"Ia Letter vLI we shall show that the princi.
Piles on which you support right to the fishing
Liberties, and the British right to the navigation Of
the Mississippi, are nerfectlY contradctNry the