The pilot and transcript. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1840-1841, 1840-06-05
AMOS KENDALL.
CHAPTER 3.

TO THE ORIGINAL JACKSON MEN.
did not enter on the duties before me, withou
counting the cost, nor without careful survc,
of the coast. had navigated these seas before
and it was because had examined the shoals
and knew some of the dangers, that l ship
ped for the voyage. As l anticipated, my
second number has created some alarm. l learI
that some think that wasting my strength
on Mr.. Kendall, when | should drive home the
war on Mr.. Van Buren-others afraid that
will offend Mr. Clay's friends, and thus divide
the party. To the first, 1 reply, that the promi-
nence given to Mr.. Kendall by his party, makes
VI indispensable that he shall be impcached-t
he shall be unmasked, and held up to the public
migrate, and corrupt political pretender, SO
much identified with Mr.. Van Buren,, that the
success of Mr.. Van Buren, is but the prelude to
the elevation of the other, and this propose to do
IN such manner, that Mr. Clay's friends will
owe me debt of gratitude, not only for the SER
vice rendered to the country, but to Mr.. Clay
himself. BY the generous surrender of his own
pretension, and the cordial support of the nomi-
nation of Gen. Harrison, he has done all in his
power to reconcile his personal friends to tl Sc
lection made by the Harrisburg Convention. If
there be any who do not go with him for the sup
port of Gen. Harrison, if his influence and ex-
ample fail to convince his friends, nothing that
could do say would do it.
1t is therefore apparent, that the field of my
usefulness is in another quarter;-that if render
any service, it must be by convincing the honest
and patriotic opponents Of Mr.. Clay, that they
cannot consistently bestow their votes MIR.
Van Buren,, and that by doing so, they will not
only reward men who, whatever may have been
Mr.. Clay's conduct, are themselves guilty of
that for which we condemned Mr. Clay. Mr..
Clay is no longer before the public-what may
have been his motives, in the vote which he gave
for Mr.. Adams, and in subsequently receiving
office from MIR. Adams, is not now in issue be-
fore the country. But MIR. Kendall, who was
prominent actor in controlling that vote-whose
representations of public sentiment at home, con-
tributed greatly to govern Mr.. Ciay's course, has
undertaken, not only to condemn Mr. Clay for
the part he took on that occasion, but to condemn
General Harrison and all who support him, be-
cause MIR. Clay, and those friends who adhered
TO him, are in favor Of General Harrison. Now
L propose to show you, that Amos Kendall and
F. P. Blair, are responsible for the election of
MIR. Adams-that they approved of it before his
election, and urged the Kentucky members to
vote for Mr.. Adams, upon the ground that the
people of the state desired MIR. Clay to be APP
pointed secretary Of state; and that Kendalfs
purpose in doing so, was to obtain, through Mr.
Clay, an Office for himself-that under the ex
pectation that he could thus obtain an Office, he
pledged his pen and his press TO defend MIR
CIay's vote before and after it was given-and
that he never did condemn that vote until after
he had failed to obtain the Office, and had stipu
lated for pay from the other party.
1 sincerely believe that MIR. Van Buen, if elect.
ed, will exert the whole power and patronage Of
the Globe to elect Kendall his successor, and,
therefore, to defeat Mr.. Van Buren, now, is to
defeat Kendall in 1914. But this is not the only
point of view in which it is important to expose
Mr.. Kendall. He is the organ of the federal
destructive party. He has been prominent in all
the great measures which have brought the coun-
try to its present alarming condition, and his
history, therefore, is history of those meas
ures Indeed, it is impossible in any other way
TO reach the secret motives in which they origi-
mated, or to expose their fatal tendency so fully
as by reviewing Mr.. Kendalps agency in them.
With these remarks proceed to examine the
charge of bargain, operating on the election Of
1924, and Mr. Kendalps agency in it; and for
this purpose will publish extracts from KendalPs
examination, under oath, before the Senate of
Kentucky, and, from letter addressed by MIR.
Clay to MIR. Harvie, one OF his friends in Ken
lucky, as well as an extract from letter to MIR.
White, by +. P. Blair, and several letters be-
Tween Mr. Kendall and Mr.. Clay.
As a further introduction to these documents,
and as explanatory of the motives which govern
ed Messrs. Blair & Kendall, it may be proper
here to state, that Gen. Jackson, Mr.. Crawford,
Mr.. Clay and Mr.. Adams, were the candidates;
khat the friends of Mr.. Clay and those Of Mr.
Crawford, were supposed to be more in unison,
and that the public sentiment was SO much divi-
aed that, long before the meeting of the electors
all parties became satisfied that the election would
deyolye on the House of Representatives That
Mr.. Clay's friends were confident that if he should
- one of the three returned to the House, he
.wenId be elected, and with view to inspire hi.
eazty with confidence, they resolved to issue az