Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1828-11-29

the reasons which Influenced HIM IN giving
me his VOTE My letter, did not reach him
until the 25lh, and on the 2sth OF Oct. re,
ceived BY the mail the following letter:
Georgetown, Distr,et of Columbia, Oct. IS, 1923.
Dear Sir: Mr.. Carr has this moment handed
me your letter Of the 9TH inst and as am al
the minute Of leaving here for my Plantation
in Maryland, must postpone answering II IN
Ill reach there. / will endeasor to refresh
my memory, and to answer it as fully as can.
The mail will not leave the nearest Post Ofhce
before Wednesday next, (29,h) so that my an
swer will be DELAYED from that circumstance a
lone.
Yours, mos, respectfully, w. L. BRENT.
A few DAYS after the receipt Of this letter,
received The following
Pomonky, Maryland, Oct. u, 1928
Dear Sir: Since ! received your letter.
(Which was only upon the 2sth ins'.) nave re
flec,ed much upon the conversation you aiud-
ed 10, and have an imperfect recollection OF II.
Such as il is will state TO you. i remember
our meeting upon the morning OF the session
Of Congress, in 1926, previous to the election o:
Speaker OF the House Of Representatives, and
that in your usual frank manner, win me, you
asked who the friends OF the Administration
intended to vote for as Speaker! replied thai
| should vote for you, but feared you would mol
be elected, a. your course hac not oeeh SO ae.
cded as 10 insure the confidence OF Mr.. Adams
friends. You then said, have determined to
Judge the Administration by It's measures, and
if | approve Of .hem, will support il, if not.
shall oppose it. To this remark ct yours,
reminded YOU Of your prefe' ence Of Mr.. Adams
TO Gen. Jackson, when we parted al he close
Of the Session Of Is24-'5, and your frequent
declarations, that Mr.. Adams was your second
choice, after Mr.. Crawford, Of the three candi-
dates returned 10 the House Of Representatives.
You said 10 me that such were your then opi-
MONS, and that you had always approved Of the
vote Of Mr.. Clay and his friends, and similarly
situated, you would have done the same, but
you thong that Mr.. Clay had injured himself
by accepting the office Of Secretary Of State;
that if you opposed the Administration, i,
would he for its measures, which you feared
you should be compelled 10 do,as 1t vas thought
the President would pursue the policy OF Mr..
EClay, in favor Of domestic manufactures and
internal Improvements, and il so, as Virsini-
an, you would not support the Administration,
but would oppose il. replied 10 you, in Jo-
cose and familiar manner, that those old no.
tions would soon be tx ploded; and much at
tached as you were to Virginia, and her .hen
doctrines. upon these subjects, you would be-
fore long, change your opinions. VOW then, in
a vehement manner, so peculiar 10 yourself,
said to me, you would be pleased, as friend,
to receive my vote, but not that /, or any OF the
friends of the Administration, should calculate
upon your supporting it. left you BY saying
care not what your sentiments may hereafter
be as TO the Administration, you are my choice
in preference to either Of the othsr candidates,
I shall vote for you, which did to the last.
SOUS election, a, the time of the Speakers e.
lection in 1925, my impression, a, I have stat
ed, and SO far as my recollection serves me,
am rather inclined to think, that your course
could no, be considered as decided, until i'm.
mediatey after The Prssidsnt's Message, which
was the day after The elecifsa. Of Speaker, but
in this may be Mistaken. hsr.eoIlec,, that
immediately after he rading oil TIA, Message,
you came across he Ifatfto where was, and
remarked to ME, that You sever could or would
support an Administrators; adv coating such
prihci pies and doctrines, and from that time,
and lha, cause alone, have always viewed you
as very decided in your ppposition-an oppo-
siton which, | believe, Grom the intimacy
that has ever existed beIwse n-us, and the free
and unguarded manner in which you have all
ways spoken 10 me y arises from as pure and
correct motives, as those which actua,e any in
dvidual in our country. Sir, you do me but
justice when YOU say III your letter, that how>
ever we may differ politically, you feel assured
tina, will chcerfu.iy ye!Asr you any act OF Jus.
,ce in my power; would do it to my creates,
enemy to your conduct towards me owe it.
In the statement have made, do not pretend
10 give the precise words of our conversation: |
| think have embodied the substance.
Respectfully, Sir, your WI servant,
WILL. l.. BRENT, Of Louisiana.
Is there any candid and impartial man, that |
can read this letter, and no be satisfied, that it
was morally impossible csuId ever have made |
the declaration imputed me by Mr.. Sloane!
That having openly aveved TO Mr.. Brent,
that wished neither him. ,r any friend of the
Administration to vote fo' met the ground
that l would supper, it, I could, in the next
moment, have gone to MI. Sloane and pledged
myself to sustain it, right oTwrong!
If disposed to intrigue fol the chair, and to
sacrifice my principles for ofce, then was the
time, and that the fairest opportunity to effec,
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