Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1831-02-28

shall now take notice OF your attacks upon /
me, which, with the exception of Mr. McDuflies let
ter, are all argumentatIve, and principally founded
upon that letter.
For the present shall say nothing about that let
ter or the reasoning founded upon it. You express |
much tIrbra rance towards me, because YOU say |
have been unfortunate w DO you mean by un-
fortunate 1t you mean that have suffered much
bodily aicti0n you right; but, thank God those
Affections are past, and now and have been for
more than three years tie erjuymcul of vroI GUS
uninterrupted health. But # BY unortunatc YOU
mean that was not elected President in 1915,
must beg leave to sseut from the truth of that as
ser'lon am conscious OF being less unfortunate
than you We're You, after ubrudng your name up
OH the nation candidate Tor the presidency, in
manner until then unknown, aud trust will never
be repeated and conducted yourself in the same u,,-
precedented manner while your name was permitted
to be up, were put down by she State of Pennsylva
MIA, upon which you affected To rely for success. MY
name was put up by my friends for the same office.
and Ivy them was kept up. Notwithstanding my bodily
aiictions. till the election consumma;cd in the
House OF Representatives in February 1925. No
man IN the nation be ter pleased at my exclusion
than vast for then verify believed and do now
believe, that had been elected, my remains would
now be reposng in the national burylng ground near
the EASTERN branch of the Potomac. was therefore
tar from considering myself unfortunate in the result
of the election i'll the House of Representatives
Your forbearance towards me has been affected,
because you believed you could more efecually i'll
Jure me- request, that hereafter, if you should
nave occasion to write or speak of me, you will not
again feign forbearance you do not feel
You affect TO lament that my friends did not inter
fere and prevent my nleddling with this matter
make no doubt that you would have been very glad
{" have been spared the trouble Of making so Ella
oorate Il comment upon letter Of three pages
make no doubt that you dis ke the idea of beInu ex-
posed and stripped of the covert YOU have been en-
Toying under the Presidents wings BY means of false
hood q; Misrepresentation. You that my suspi
/! clon that you wrote caused to be written, the let
II Ter winch was Published ma Nashville Gazette, is
h without lounda,ion \ man who knows as well as
do the small weight to which any assertion of yours
s emitted, III mat ter where your interest leads yur
70 disregard the truth must have other evidence thar
Il your assertion, to remove even Suspicion. Yot
= ask why not charge Mr. Adams with Iayinr writ
ten or caused that letter to be written The answer
d Is easy and conclusive. That letter contained two
i tasehoods-one intended Ia njure me; he other IN
d tended to benefit you; and that which was for vou
benefit taking from MIR Adams half the credit of de-
d tending Gen. Jackson, and giving It TO YOU Adj
m'ting, for the sake of argument, that M Adams
: was disposed to lIure ME, no will, think sun
pose that he would voluntarily ascr1be half the
It's oil MS own actions to the who was tbs mas
strenuous opposcr of his wishes Ifthe intrinsic ev
dcnce or the letter fixes it upon you and not upon M
tAdaIs subsequent events strongly corroborate the
e inference deducble from the contents of the M.
oshed letter: During the whole of the presiden
tia canvass OF %, %, have recollection of an
'i act OF M Adams, tending to yfy me- bul mon E7or
], that you set up the Washington Republicaa II
ashlngoD. for the express purpose of yifvino m,
reputation, and had the efron'ery and shamelessneS
10 cause IL TO be published by clerk the denart
?, ment, whose tenure of Office your will Z; TN,
: tact which have stated will eXoncrate Mr. Adam
;, from the charge of having any concern with the
Nashville letter, and fix shat charge upon vou in IN,
t estimation of Reasonable men yo1r denial IN II o go
n TRACY notwi hstanding.
you place great stress upon the conduct Of pen,la
u men III Congress whom you assent tn be nv friends
Il This is what might be expec ed from man IF wan
n loose principles or rather principles NJ friend
G n Congress who would ha ye been ,nsuI ed
l. nan any man, however elevated, approached ther, IN
II the language OF entreaty and persuasion T naveI
y did, and never would if were to live a tbons,p,
years interfere with man who was acDr Dndcr ~,
Obligations ot oath, to persuade or sntrea. him r.
act contrary to the convictions of his own i,Ido,en,
ana II we're such member, and any man I,owevc
elevated he might be- to interfere with mo b,
way OF entreaty or persuasion, should feel nvsri
, Insmed, aud should certainly insult the uergnn rr
g lntereringN The only conversation recol,c.t eve
t TO have participated in with nasmber of Congress-
IN reference to the foregoing subject, was with Mr.
CoDo at my own house, II the presence of Mr. Mscnr
Is OF N. =. In that conversation, | supported Ge,
IS JacHsons right to put Ambristcr to death. Nr Ma
;, con, believe, was convinced; but am moi certair
d that MI Cobb was. That gentleman acted in CON
T. cert With Mr. Clay, in the part he acted in fba J
!, cusslon upon the Seminole war Mr. Fersv"b M,
y 8lr Lacock were men of high character and 900
cDce, and lcant upon no person. Mr. Epnes nIot .
speech in favor Of the report which was nteniIo :,
=, Dr. made and was in consequence pncedon The com
m'ttee IN place of Mr. Forsyth / wonder Won bs,
not discovered, that nc TOO particular friend
: mine. 'N
C Ito BE CONCLUDED on s!oNDAY7
pom tbs subject see the upon Us letter 10 M