The Arkansas advocate., 1831-01-12

towers to retain ninetecftwentietiis e Ill tic offices ofihc nation. The pertinacity with which they cling to the Treasury, IS pot only character istic of many Of the party to which they belong, i,ut, 1t s believed forms character of their leader himself.
 1 I2. Resotped, That VIC cannot ascrbc to the doctrine contended ,or by some of the politicians of the United States, that single state hasa
 right to give a construction to the constitution of the United States, which shall be obligatory on the other states of the Union.
 i3. Rcsolved, That the charge made by the Clay Convention held in this place few days since, that General Jackson is the head and lea der of the .'aulifersn of the South, is false and
 anfounded, and those who made it, ought to have known 1t to be so.
 ] ii Resofued, That VIC regard tihc Union of Alr. Adams and hIr Clay in 1895, by which they aseended to political power and office, as among the most remarkable coalitions eyernade b} violent Politicaloppoaents and fer office and fame.
 i5. Resolped, Thatwe cannot hold Mr. Clay exensed for voting for Mr. Adams in violation l Of the instructions of the State ot Kentucky, by l his lame apology that Sit was a choice of evils between Mir. Adams and General Jackson" The apology might have some weight init, if Air. Adams afterwards, in his appointment of Seeretary of State, had been confined to similar choice of evils, which compelled him to apPoint Mr. Clay, a rival candidate, and violent political enemy. He was free and unlettered in h5s choice, having the whole unien, from which to make a selection, and passing over host of distinguished names, lie appoints Mr. Clay to the first office within his gift, having few days before received the office of President at the hands of Mir. Clay; thus verifying to the very letter, the charge made prevoas to the election, that Mr. Clay would make Mfr. Adams Presi- dent, and Mir. Adams make Mir. Clay Secreta- " of State.
 l6 R1Sol5ed, That we regret the union of Mr. l Clay with the Federal party throughout the 1 United States, assuming to siimsel the charae- ter of their leader, in unhoiy crusade against the present epuiics administration, ..s for ] Ieiture on his part. o ali claims Oil the gratitude ] of his country for former services. l1ls own ] speeches during thelate war, and his professed principles u3 to the PresidentialeiectioHitl isiJ 1 have all been forgotten, and abandoned, or II remembered, scarcely command from him q ] blush of shame for the gross and selfish aban- donment of the principles, that, Tor more than twenty years, seemed to influence his political l life.
 
 Mr. Clay, as originating ill selfish and uBehas- tened ambition, which for many years he con cealed under the cloak of patriotism. But im- patient of ali restraint, and when he supposed the object of his secret aspiration within his reach, he threw away the compass and chart that so long had directed his efforts in behalf of his country with so much yehcmence, and .ash- el into the arms Of those very opponents, whom 1 he had tod and for i thantwenty ears, 50 eioquently opposed. ! IS. Resotsed, That VIC deeply depIore the course pursued by Mr. Clay, in abandoning his
 former political friends, and uniting himself with ! his most bitter enemies; and VIC have beheld
 with regret and modification. '.the moral de- 1 pravty and political degrcdatons of those, who shift and change their own professed opinrrs
 to sustain Mir. Clay, and enable him, and many of his friends, to find their way to the national Treasury, there to banquet, as many of them had
 been accustomed to de, Contrary to both hon-
 esty and law9 on the fruits and labor ot others
 and to riot iii the means which should have been
 employed in the improvement of the country.n
 About which his friends and himself have made
 so many professions, yet have accomplished so 1 little. I9. Pesoloed, That Mir. Clay stands publicly l l pledged, to the American people to expose the course pursued by John ituincy Adams, late 1 President oi the United States, in the negotia- tions preceding the treaty of Gbent. That pledge made more than six years since, is still
 unredeemed. The inference from that fact is 1 Irresistible, that he either knew nothing to Mir.
 Adams prejudice, and made this publication d. gainst rival candidate, containing unfounded imPutatlons to injure him just previous to the e-
 lection, or, fl he was aware of facts injurious to
 MT. Adams, his subsequent silence can only be laecounted for, by the unnatural union of these political enemies at the election in 1895. The latter seems most probable; and We suppose that
 Mr. Adan,s friends appealed "witt tears in their eyes, andthus purchased his silence oathe
 phent transactions, in the same way that those