The Litchfield County post., 1828-01-10


 N. B. The only possible excuse we can think of for Mir. Wells in forcing Mir. Pickering into the Adams ranks, that he night not have been old enough four years ago know that Mir. P. bent the whole mighty powers of his mind to the task of writing down Mir. Adams, declaring that if he "coud be the instrument ofdeieatng his eectIon,he should tt uA r" had not v- cd iu vain." and that the Salem Gazette Has thCn lis mouthpece" to declare these principles
 Mr. SMITH l have perused with exceeding great pleasure Pamphlet, which has just appeared, entitled '' An Address of Henry Clay to the Public," containing certain testimony in reutation of the charges against him. made by Gen. Andrew Jackson, touching the last Presidential Election, and which is in truth a plain, unvarnished statement made by Mir. Clay in defence of himself against charges which have direct ly and indirectly, verbally and written, been promu- gated through these United States by tie adherents of Gen. Jackson, manitesty by and with his consent, for the express purpose of destroying the hitherto fair fame of Mr. Clay, the devoted servant of his country and of civil liberty.
 The history of this country affords example of such persevering, untiring, malicious hunting down of character, has been presented constantly and un- ceasingy since the winter of 1894, by the po cal enemies of the Administration in their end;sh at empts 10 exat Gen. Jackson the Presidential Chair the ruin and total destruction of the political and private character of Mir. Clay. Every mans memory has been put to the rack. every sentence and every word that Mr. Clay has ever uttered that could by possibility be misconstrued msnerpreted, trans formed iuto any thing suspicious suit their purpose could be made the substance of newspaper para graph, has been reported and written, told in the bar room and on board steamboats, by every man of the Jackson party, from Gen. Eaton down to Duff Green. But they have had their day, and now reduced to the necessity of appearing defendants before the tribunal of public oplnIon and proving by something more than bare assertion, their foul and infamous im putations against whose only crime is i"depem- dence--whose only fault is his strict regard to duty and his counry's welfare.
 Mr. Clay has proved by the testimony ofcycry mem- ber of the then Kentucky delegation, savc Mir White, whose letter had arrived when the pamphlet went to press,) by Mir. GurIey and Mr. Brent, the bers from Louisiana who gave the of that Mr. Adams, by Mr. Scott, who held the of Ms souri, by Gov Kent of Marya then member of the House of Representatives, by the ten members from Ohio who voted for Mr. Adams, by Senators Johnston and Bouiigny of Louisiana, by the Hon. Robert Trinbe, now one of the Judges of the Su- preme Court of the U S., by Gen. Lafayette, and Mr. Barbour, Secretary of War; and by several other wit nesses, the whole composing mass of character per fectly unexceptionable, that it was publicly known previous to the returns from the states, and til the day of the election, all those gentlemen what his vote would be, and which that it would ba given to Mir. Adams, the health of Mir. Crawford being insuperabe objection to him. and the trast between the Statesman and the Military Chef ;an being striking not to leave doubt uponthe mnd of Alr. Clay to whom he ought to give hs vote.
 Now sr, facts are stubborn things" and the pro- duction of this smony is like the entering into the recesses of mans heart and probing it inch by inch to find the rotten part, if any there be- Hear what Mr. Brent says, (with regard to the manner in which these scurriIous tales, black He were trea ted by the Crawford mcn) "I we'll remember that the high minded and honorable friends of Mr. Craw- ford, amongst whom name the Hon. Mr. Forsyth of Geo., the Hon Mir. Stevenson fVa., the Hon. Messrs Williams, Saunders, and Edwards of North Carolina and others whom could name, and among them the Hon. Sam. Smith of Md. in frequent conversations with me- rcpelled such charges the efusions ofdis appointed men, and approved of the choice made by
 
 son..
 Once more, what says Gen. Cal the then delegate from Florida, the ardent and intimate friend of Gen. Jackson, and who had been his aid.-Mr John Brad dock, merchant of great respectabity residing at Rockville, in the state of Maryland, says that in the fall of the year 1894, he saw Gen. Call and several other gentlemen, members of Congress- on their way to Washington, at a tavern in Rockville. They were conversing the subject ofthe Presidential Election aod when the vote which Mir. Clay would probably give was spoken of Gen. Cadeclared thatthc friends of Gen. Jackeon did not expect Mir. Clay for him. and if he did it would be of fdupcity on his part. But, sir, what boots it for me to comment more upon this testimony; itspeaks for self-t goes directly to the heart and conscience of every candid just, and honorable man, and tells him that however he might before have been iuduced to believe those truly improbable stories, he must now be convinced