Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1828-09-02
RrCHngoMD, SEPT 2.
tnE THREE pLEDGES.

born IN iniquiiy-r.it has since attempted 10 sup
port Itself by unworthy aud disgrscefu expe tients
II Is the duty OF the People TO seal It's destruction,
.hey are equally bound to vind;cate the purity oi
'he ruoiic morals, ii strong suspicious OF improper
PRACTICES should prevail against their public agents
ana these agents should refuse to produce the
evidenc OF their innocence and d;ssipate the
suspicious OF their guilt Virtue" is proverbally
" the basis OF repubi So and especially if the
purify oil elections b. violated, the stream is faint.
eu al the very Source.-By what means, then. let
lis ask, was Mr.. Adams orr finally elected: And
oy what means is his election 10 be secured!
ne srst question brings directly into view the
huch asita'ec controversy respecting the arrange
inent between Mess. AdaiGs and CIay-and
me equally curious dispute concerning the Pledge
TO Mr.. Webster.-Ihe one was intended 10 secure
me estern vote; the other, the vote OF the fe,ic-
raj members OF the House OF Representatives
We shall give rapid sketch of the merits of both
'hrse questions.
-Hessrs. adams s. Cgay
MI Clay has made various attempts 20 purge
himself OF all guilt He has published three Adj
dresses 10 the Public, and delivered three Ia.
bic speeches at Mobiles, at Lewisburg, and al
pittSburg We wish his defence had been more
conclusive than tits.
we agree with him in the rule which he lays
| uo"ii al Mobiles: 4" No one has ever contended,
that the proof should be exclusively of eye-wi :
nesses, testyng Tor their senses positively and d.
rectly TO the tact'-'' Political aud other offences
may be established by circumstances, as well as
| f"''i'c eFiutHce. - But contend that
evidence, be itwhatit may, ought to he exhibited
Since this rule was marked out circun ,t,ntial
evidence has been developed OF much .reater
| lorce and application, than was originally pioduc
eu'- his evidence has been partly elected from
| MT Clay's own contradictory declarations partly
rom the investigations carried OH in the Senate OF
hehlucky, parity from the vouchers collected by
the central Committee at Washington, and finally
from Mr. kendalPs developments OF Mr. Claws
letters TO himself and 10 Mr. Blair.
The situation in which the parties stood towards
each other, was the first circumstance which at
| tTacted the public attention. They had EXPRESSED
very little kind feeling or good opinion for each
| o'ner.-mr. Clay, indeed, has very adrotly at
, emptcd, in his Lewisburg Speech, to soften down
the prejudices which they had respectively enter
aimed: . II has been said exclaimed Mr. Claw
| mai mad some difference with the present Chief
! Magistrate at Client. IL IS true we did not agree
On one Of the "'d"y important questions which
arose curing the n quotations in that City" But
MS allegation is more ingenious than correct Ii
was no secret a, the time, that MIR. Clay had been
| III The practice oil ridiculing Mr.. Adans's want
oo.n Oh temper and oil Judgment. He scorned his
abilities as a Statesman He spoke of his benp
an Apostate Federast; ana Of his names beinS
! Ike ratSbane in his mouth II was understood
uid' ne had been IN the habit of denouncng Mr.
| Adams az the commissioner, who had especially
ought 1t Client sacrifice the interests. of the.
west 70 the Fisheries OF the EaSt.-i}u the
| tng'liS 10 which both these gentlemen had pro-
ceedeh In attack aud recrimnaiion were not gene
raiiy known, until the more recent developments
at Frankfort and Washington had brought them
before the public = Ii now app" ars, that MIR. Clay
had drawn down upon himself the suspicious OF
Mr. a. by insinuaiions 1 al were set af;oa oi his
10 lilly TO western i'tcrests-he employs stronger
pen tiai his own TO attack mis- adversary-he fur
nishes MIR. A. Kendall with certain materials for
wiring The nos. OF 80 Notwithstanding hich
he addresses his letter of June I'D 1922 10 Mr.
hen'iai!: p" i received your 0bging favor of the
zo'h INST and thank you most sincerely for the
anienaiy sentiments II contains towards nc. Mr
/. Crittenden (of CincunatD has retained the
| productions (Wsync,) which accompanied IL
and which he has undertaken TO divide and TO dis
pose c! IN his place of residence dccOrs!ing fo
o"r U,shes They accordingly circulated
III Cincinnati paper-'.ln those leterseverv wea
pom that ability or ingenuity could WELD, vas en-
pioyed 10 PROSTATE MIR. A. 50 TO eYa!t Mr. C.: every
thing was said, that could ALLEVIATE the minds OF
| the Western people against MIR. Adans-every
ihlnS was done TO attach them TO lis Iival lie
| gam furnishes Mr. Kendall with materials for
finishing of the able and severe letters 10 J. O
Adams, reviewing his publication upon the Fishe
| fles ana thr Mississippi which letters of Mr. .
were subsequently collected and published in a
painphiei. MIR. Clay promised and paid the sum
| oil SiOo towards the printing. Mr. A,ia,ns re-
Pciled the attack in indignant strain; spoke of the
" subsidiary sidnder" (subsididry TO J. RusseIrs
iett"f) which g had performed its cart in Inc
reSf; and by strong inuenioes, points his ai.i-
sons to Mr.. Clay, and represents bis secret 60
g.
| me c"iS and publish"s card, in which affectino
not TO take 10 himself the charges winch Mr.. =
haa ieyeled against him, regrets the variance
which existed between lis cciieagues-aos ssprc-
inises al a more propitious moment 10 correct Mr.
AdaInSs errors. Mr.. Adams replies on the NEXT
gay; and, III very cutting manncr rrruarEs In,
lat ne HAD SAID OF done had been in the face IF
my, ani under his name and deIies Mr. ca
% shake The truth Of any thing which he had nj
tered Mr. Clay evades the chaIlenge--and both
parties rctire from the field, evidently more dis
SATISFIED than ever with each other-i'o ,h,s dav
Mr.. Clay has meyer yet seen the {" propiliou. RIO.
'hent Tor meeting MIR. Adams openly in lie
arena OF argumentf--ffe fakes Inv,cvct
another way 20 crafty his resenfrrnt4 Woe
THIS The soi1 difference which he had had ",,;,l,
'be present Chief Magistrate at Ghcnt." Instead
OF So"e small difference, then, the quirrcl seems
10 ndse reai,y assumed very angry and threaten
ing characler--insesd Of its being confined 10
Ghen' II extended with increased aspcritv 10
w asAington aud TO Frankfort l. this the man
on whom MIR. Clay ha- not only essentially con
ihuied TO bestow tic first ofce ~ The nation. l,,,,
rom whose hands Immediately afterwards. Mr.
. condescended 10 accept the first, aud most con
hdeniIii office within bis gn-The Secretary Of
state (Iccofding to very favOrite expression of
Nj. Jeitcr~on) being, as il were the bosom friend
aud the rife OF the President? BY VIVA, sfr0ne
motive could be have been induced not onlV 10
vote tor hin, but to unite the West in his favor?
" rs 1t necessity, or was IL corruption?
Eut MIR Clay pleads justification for his SUMMIT
90 MIR. Adams. On three several occa sions Iyiz
H lis address TO his Constituents of 26tb March
1928, IN hi table speech At Mobiles and in his sd
dress Of December las',) he l1bors to screen him
eit trou al inputations, the grOud Of his OH
cUons 70 General Jackson-buti it IS remarkable.
hat every successive defence assumes a more
offensive oPpoihon TO General Jactson.-Tn his
h'- defence, he asserts that /" early IN Novcu,bcr
iasi" (lS2) when II hirhlv probable fb,f