The Litchfield County post., 1828-01-17
MIR. CLAY,S ADDRESS.

We are unable to insert the whole of this long doc- ument. The following extracts and remarks we CO., py from the Boston Gazette, a paper decidedly oppo- sed to Mir. Adams but the only candid opposition pa. per we are acquaited with. The editor, Col Brad- ford, is man of sense and knows that candor can not hurt any cause. Hot.heads and demagogues know nothing about this principle, and it is not strange therefore that they never manifest any thing of it,
 MT. Secretary Clay has published. in a pamphlet of sixty pages, an Address to the Public, containing certain testimony in refutation of the charges against him made by Gen. Jackson touching the late Presi- dential contest" Of the nature of the testimony some account is given in the OK. tracts below from the pamphlet before us, which, we are free to say, furnishes, as far as human evidence can have indu- ence, full and complete vindication of the writer's conduct on the above occasion. Among others who have written to Mir. Clay on the subject is General La Fayette, to whom Mr.. c. made known his inten- ton of voting for Mr. Adams in prefer ence of Gen. Jackson, in conversation held with him in the latter end of Dec. 1924. The General says" Your an- swer was that, in your opinion, the actual state of health of Mr. Crawford. had lim- ited the contest to choice between Mir. Adams and Gen. Jackson that claim, founded on military achievements, did not meet your preference, and that you had concluded to vote for Mir. Adams" The extracts which follow are all that we can find room for in this Gazette.
 hope no apology to the public is ne- cessary for presenting to it these pages. l am deceived if an ample justification of the act will not be found in the breast oi every just and honorable man. If an of- fcer of Government should not be too sensitive, either should he be too callous, to assaults upon his character. When they relate to the wisdom or expediency oi measures which he may have oringinated or supported, he should silently repose in the candor and good sense of the commu. nity, and patiently await the developments of time and experience. But if his in- tegrity be virtually assaulted; if the ba- sest and most dishonorable motives foI his public conduct be ascribed to him ; he owes it the country his friends, his fam. fly, and himself, to vindicate his calumni- ated reputation. Few men are so eleva' ted that the shafts of calumny cannot reach them. These may securely trust to the invulnerable position which they have at' taincd. The United States have perhaps hitherto produced but one man who could look down from his lofty height, withou emotion, upon the missiles and the malice of his enemies. If the malignant charac. ter of charges, the acrimony with whict they have been asserted and repeated, ol the perseverance which had marked theil propagation, could ever authorize any ap' peal to the public, think l may truly say, that have this authority. For three years I have been the object of incessan abuse every art, every species of misrep' resentation, has been employed against me. The most innocent acts-acts of or. dinary social intercourse, and of common civility-Ofiees of hospitality, even pas