Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1828-01-02

evidence has been collected, establishing some
material circums' ances not before generaliy
known, and confirming others OF which the
public is slready in possession: ana l nave
though, it due to the occasion not 10 wlthnolo
il.
General JAG kson having entirely failed 10 es-
,ablish, by any affirmative evidence, either POI
sitive or presump'ire, the charge when NE
thought proper TO promulgate against NE, ~
occurred to me that itmisht be possible, din
cult as the task generally is 90 su5stan'Ia'e
negative, to adduce proof Of that character,
which would establish the groundless nature OF
his accusation Prior TO the appearance IN the
public prints of the letter from Mr.. Carter Be-
verify to his friend in Fayetteville, dated the 9th
of March last, | had never believed that Cen
Jackson had counteaanctd the truth, or lent
himselrto % circulation Of the charge. bad
indeed, long before, in one of the Nash
willie papers, asser tons injurious TO me, which
created some spspicions that they had cmana'-
ed from him; but dismissed these suspicious
as being altogether incompatible with the lofty
character which | wished to believe that he
possessed When however saw that letter,
and the uncontradicted confederation OF It's con-
tents by the Editor Of the Washington Iele-
graph, was reluctantly compelled to believe
that he had given currency l., the charge a.
ganst me. In that letter, Mr.. Beverly says
I" I have just returned from General Jackson's
found cro,0d Of company with him. Seven
Nirginlans were of The number. He gave me
a most friehhIy reception, and Urged NE 10
stay some days longer with him. He told me
this morning before all his company in reply to
a question which put 10 him concerning the
election Of John Quincy Adams to The Prcsi-
dency that Mr.. Gays friends made PROPOSE
ton to his friends that, if they would promise
for him not 10 put Mr.. Adams into the seat Of
Secretary of State, Clay and his friends would
in ono hour make him (Jackson) the President.
He most Indignantly rejected the proposiuor,
and declared he would not compr"mit him
self; and unless most openly and fairly made
the President, by Congress-, he never would re-
oeive j.. tic declares that he said TO them that
he would see the whole earth sink under him
before he would bargain or intrigue for 1t. -
In the Washington City Telegraph Of the Goth
day of April last, the Editor states: 4" In the
Journal this morning We have another quota
tion from The Democratic Press, purporung TO
b. The official contradiction by Mr.. Clay OF the
statement Of General Jackson relative 10 the o.
verturrs made to him as 10 the formation Of his
Cabinet. previous 10 the late election ni Prrsi-
dent. That General Jackson has spoken Of
such oyertures re personality knor." In the
same paper of the 2sth of April is the follow
Ing, paragraph: "Ihc Journal is GU, thi, morn
ms In reply to our remarks OF Thursday, IN
which they affect to consider it highly impro-
per in General Jackson To speak OF the over
lures made BY MIR. Clay's friends and why?
because, says ne Joarnals he isNtand'da'e a.
gains, Mr.. Adams Ne& IRE stated explicitly
that Gen. Jackson spoke Of these over,urcS IN
March 1925, before he was announced by the
r. JSatN
The charge, if It did mol originate With, haT-
ing been thUs sanctioned and circulated BY &C.
neral Jackson, and duplicating as well my
friends as me. | thought it proper, having my
self repeatedly and positively denied its truth,
10 resort 10 the testimony of those gentlemen
from the Wesr who had voted W tn ne for Mr.
Adams. Accordingly friend of mine, Doctor
Watkins, at nv instance, addressed a circular
to those gentlemen, during the last Spring, IN
wiling their attention 10 the Fayetteville letter,
and inouirug ii there were any truth IN lis aver
ments And he has obtained from all of them
but Two, answers which are now presented TO
the public. These answers will be found in the
Appendix, see A arranged according 10 the
respective delegations from which they pro>
coed. The writers Of them are men OF as high
responsibility as any IN this Union. here
they are known, {and several OF them are well
known IN vaious parts of the counlry,) their
statements VIII command unQua'he belief
The excellence Of their char CT rs rs so well es~
tablishcd that member Of the House oil Re
prescntati,es, whu will not be presumed TO be
disposed 10 bestow on them undcstrNeG enco~
MUM, felt himself constrained to bear his tcS-
umonv to H. Mr.. McD1f fife sad in The House
Of Representative on the debate OF the propo-
siuion 10 refer 10 Cummi tie the apIra| which
made on me occasion Of Mr.. Krrmer's card:
"I.st me- aid one word TO the friends OF Mr.
Clay on this floor (and there are no members
on This iloor FOR whom generally | teel more
respect, have be, n niormtd rhat,some Of his
friends suppose that the am hdment aavc OF
fered contains something which is intended TO
bear harshly upon them Not so; not SO. My
object is merely TO conhnc the charges made
against the honorable Speaker TO the very
words Of the letter Of the gentleman from Penn
syl,ania F." This just bu, voluntary tribute WAS
expressed OH the 4Ih of February, 1926, see
National In,elligencer, 5th Of the same month.
On the Slst March 1926, more than thirteen
months after, when the amendment TO the Coz