Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1828-01-03


not select MIR. Adams TO the sat Of Secretary; and
do not believe 4 proposition of any kind was
made, and expect il the friend III the General
s:"ld ever speak oi thcs lject, he Will be second
krcmvr."
MIR. Buckner tcses ''In answer 20 your en-
quries on this subject, will remark that haze no
reason 10 believe that any such proposition was
made Indeed ne proposition of any description re-
isng TO the election of President made, far
as know or believe, by Mr.. Clays friends TO those
OF Cen Jackson, Of any other person"
MIR. Scott, the member from Missouri. states
That "nei,hcr Mr.. Adsms nor his friends ever made
any promises or ovcrturcs 10 me, did they hold
out TO Inc any inducements OF any sort, kind or
character whatever, "a procure me 60 vote for Mr.
Adams. Nor did MIR. Adams or any of his friends
ever say or insinuate who would tc placed at the
head Of the Department of State. or any other de-
fartrnent, IN the event that Mr.. Adams should be
elected. Nor do believe any propositions were
made TO MIR Cay or his friends. by Mr.. Adams or
his friends. lfthere were, know, il not" g. 1
never made TO General Jackson or 10 any of his
friends any proposition, in refcrcuce to the Presi
DENTAL election, either as~regarded the appoint
ment OF MIR. Clay any other person to office, or
the exclusion OF MIR. Adams any other person
from Office. was neither spoken toby Mr.. Clay,
orany of his irends. about making any proposition
TO Gen Jack-+n or his friends of any kind vliaie-
yer. nor did l ever hear il insinuatcd or limited,
mat any proposition was made intended ~ be
made, bysMr. Clay his friends 10 Gen. Jackson
orhis friends or any other candidate or their friends
Tor or relating 10 the Presidency. And I do be-
heve, had any proposition been made or intended
10 nave been made by MIR. CLAW or his friends.
iSon my intimacy and constant intercourse with
them, should have known or heard thereof"
hlessrs Gurley and Brent were the two mem
bers who gave the vote of Louisiana to Mr.. Adams.
MIR. Gurley declares {" that have no knowledge
OF any propositions having been made by the
friends OF Mr. Clay any of them to the friends of
ten. jackson or to any other person, in relation
TO the election of President or the proposition Of
conditions OF any sort, ON compliance with whioh
their vote was made TO depend. believe the
charge wholly destitute of truth"
Col Brent says, Sin all,ision to the Fayetteville
letter cannot express the indignant feelings Il;
excited. Ii is the fabrication of a desperate man
who to obtain his object darcs TO assert what he
knows 10 be false. You ask me 20 saw whether |
know or believe that such proposition was ever
made, or whether conditions of any sort were pro-
posed by the friends of Mr. Clay TO any one on the
compliance with which their vote was made 10 de-
pend NO honorable man believe for mo-
mcnt that such proposition was ever made or
- such condition stipulated. was friend of Mr.
Clays throughout the contest, was in the conf
dencc OF all his friends, and declare to God that
never heard of such thing until il was asserted by
the disappointed adhercDts OF Gen. jackson. | am
not only Ignorant OF any such arrangements but
do not believe they ever existed"
Thus there is now before the Public the united
evidence of the delegation from every,W estern
State, whose vote was conferred upon MIR Adams
except that Of Mr.. Cook, the Representative from
Illinois. a long and lingering illness, terminating
IN the death of that Gentleman prevents the sub
mission OF hi. But ii Is well known that Mr..
Adans was his chocc, throughout the whole Pros
idenal canvass. Although there existed be-
tween him and myself good will and respectful
intercourse, he never was politically personal
ly my friend
Including Mr. White the public has the cyi
dence of twenty diurcnt members of Congress-
embracing all my friends, from the Western States
who voted for MIR. Adams. Their attention was
chiefly directed, i'll the preparation Of their res
pectve statements, 70 the Fayetteville letter and
IT is TO them that their testimony principally an
pies On that point, they all concur, in pronounce
ing the most unqualified negative, and on other
points several OF them are not less explicit Is il
credible, - II consistent with the ordinary opera
tons OF human nature, that these Gentlemen,
without any personal interest motive whatever
should have first bascly given their concurrence
10 dslonorable ovcrtures, for my sole benefit and
Then should unanimously agree in falsi;ying them
8 ivcs'
In the published circular which, in March 1925,
addressed 10 my Constituents, i remarked cat
that early pcriod" (early in November 1920 ssI
stated TO DIR. Drake, of the professors in the
medical school of Transy lvania University and 10
John j. Crittcnden, Esq. of Frankfort, my deter
lnination 20 support Mr.. Adams in preference to
ten Jackson" did not, at that time, recollect,
nor DO probably now, all the occasions on which
Expressed, i'll conversation my opinion of the un
fitness Of Gen jackson for the Presidency, and INV
preference of either of the other candidates /
remembered distinctly the conversation had held
with DIR. Drake and John J. Crittenden ESD and
therefore referred to them. In several instances
similar conversations have been since brought 10
my recollection by Gentlemen with whom or in
whose presence they occurred; and il is from a
voluntary and friendly communication of the pur-
port OF them, that am enabled TO lay before
the Public considerable portion of the mass of
testimony, Gncluding that Of DIR. Drake,) on that
particular topic which is presented (See APP
Pendix b.
This testimony establishes that, on various occa-
sions and times, beginning in Kentucky as early
IS about the LIT of October 1924 and continued in
The City of Washington, down to the period when
my determination TO vote for Mr.. Adams was gem
orally known in this city, l uniformly expressed
my conviction OF Gen. Jackson's want Of quaiitca-
ton, and my fixed resolution not to vote for him
II were called upon to give vote These scnti-
ments, long cherished, deliberately ex-
pressed, TO Gentlemen of the highest responsibility
most OF them my personal and particular friends
In all Of whose estimation must have stood disho-
norcd, il had voted for Cen Jackson conrarily to
my declared purpose. This purpose was avoTycd
immediately preceding my departure from Ken
lucky TO attend Congress, and Immediately on INV
arrival here after the termination of the Journey
David TTinble, Esq states that, about the first of
October 1924 lie held conversation with me at
Frankfort, i'll Kentucky, on the subject and pros
poets of the pending election, which he dctaii- mi
Eutcly, and that liz the course of il said Chat |
could not consistently with my principles vote for
Gen. Jackson, under any possible circuBist0nces.''
urged TO him all the objections which weighed on
my mind, and which have been so often stated
and especially that which is founded upon Cen
Jackscn's possession Of military preicnsion only
And, in reference to ar objection which Mr.. Tim
bic understood nc entertaining against Mr. Ad-
a1is, growing oct OF the negotiations al Client Mr.
Trimbe states that remarked that it had been
greatly magnfed by the friends Of his COMPETE
;ors' tor ectioneering purposes )" "that il ought
20 have no influence in the vote which he might