The pilot and transcript. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1840-1841, 1840-06-06


lation to the administration generally, trust
shall not be the means or the occasion OF casting
any imputation upon your integrity or honor
After dreadful attack Of the fux, which to-
tally disabled me for six weeks, am barely able
to move about and write letter.
Your friend, &C.,
AMOS KENDALL"
cannot better dispose of these letters, than by
quoting Mr. Clay's remarks on them, in his let
ter to General Harvey, in 1928. He says:
OF the three letters of Amos Kendall, here
with transmitted, the first bears date the 2lst OF
January, 1926 In the letter he states that Cen
eral jackson was his second cholce' out a99s,
esif our interest in the west can be promoted by
any other arrangement, l shall be content AT
any rate let us have a President. would soon
er vote for any of the three, than have VICE
gerent for four years. do what you thlnk pest
the Argus will not complain because u mas
FAITH that you viii do nothing to comPromlt
the interests Of the western country, or the ma
ton" What Mr.. Kendall meant by promoting
our interests of the west, by any arrangement
other than the election of General Jackson, he
does not explain; and never did explain to me
That at the date of that letter he had not heard
from Mr.. Blair, or from any other person, that
l had made a corrupt agreement to obtain the
appointment of Secretary of State, is manifest.
from his explicit avowal of FAITH IN me, and
that l would do nothing t , compromit the inter-
ests of the western country, or the nation.
The committee will bear in mind that MIR.
Kendall states, in his testimony before the SEN
ate, and has repeatedly otherwise asserted, that
he obtained information from MIR. Blair; in jan
uary 1925, of the existence of corrupt bargain,
| by which was to be made Secretary OF state,
in the contingency of MIR. Adams'S election, i
have shown, from his own letter, that he could
not possibly have received any such information
up to the 21st January, 1925 The next letter
! from him. herewith transmitted, bears date Tie
10th Feb, 1925. In this letter he says, .iThere
is much inquiry" lat Frankfort, where both
he and MIR, Blair resided ana W. he pretends
ne received th he alleged information, eswhether
wa will be offered, or will accept the Secreta-
ryship of State, and much diversity oil opinion
as to what you ought to do, If 1T is offered IL
seems to me, that no man here can tell what you
uyht to do; because it is impossible for US to
know all the circumstances" That which is
known, is not ordinarily matter of speculation.
If il were known at Frankfort, to Mr.. Kendall
and Others. on the goth February, 1925, that
was to be appointed Secretary of State, there
could have been no doubts, no uncertainty no
speculative inquiries about it. This inference
appears to me to be fair and irresistible from the
context of his letter
But if any one can hesitate yet to believe that
Mr.. Kendall never entertained any opinion I'M
favorable to the purity Of my public conduct,
and that his charge is gross fabrication, in
vite the attention of such sceptic to the re-
naming letter from him, which is now transmit
ted. Before it is introduced, one word of ex-
PLANTATION is necessary. / have heard, in the
summer, or September, 1926, that report had
been put in circulation in Scott county, that
had sought to bride Mr.. Kendall, and to buy him
off by clerkship in the Department Of State.
addressed him letter in consequence of it, in
September of that year, communicating the ex-
istence of the report, expressing my surprise,
and enduring of him about it. kept no copy
of my letter, and therefore speak of its purport
from me DRY. His reply bears date the 18th OF
October, 1896, more than twenty months alter
the period when he a,,.."ges that ne had received
from Mr.. Blair the information OF ny having
made corrupt bargain. In this answer, he states
that he had not heard of the report; that it had
never received the slightest color from any dec
Iaration Of his, and that he will take prompt
measures to put stop to it. And he adds,
eeWhateve,, course may feel constrained to
take in relation to he administration generally,
trust shall not be the means, or the 9ccaslon'
of casting any imputation upon your NV re'
RIT'Y OF HONOR"
The election was in 1925. In the summer OF
that year, Mr.. Kendall had borrowed $500 Of
MIR. Clay, in one year it fell due, and he again
renewed the tender of his services to Mr.. Clay.
(See his deposition, and this letter,) offering to
go to Washington and defend Mr.. Clay against
these Islanders" for a salary of $500, which
Mr.. Clay not only declined, but insisted on the
payment of the debt due. This letter contains
pregnant paragraph. 1t not only renews the
application for the office, at Washington, of
course, coupled with proposition to defend Mr..
Clay against the SANDER, but it contains the first
intimation to Mr.. Clay, he might assail the ad
ministration. The election was in 1925. MIR.
Clay was appointed secretary of state, in March,
1925. The opposition organized instanter, but
it was not until February of 1926, that they es.
tablished the United States Telegraph, and ar
ranged the political campaign. went to Wash
,yton, in March, and for the first time brought
n,,..r written by Mr. Kendall, and sup
nresssd H. ~. Clay, charging home upon Mr..
Cav ss;nt.;ors bargain and management
], Tune, and went west for
my family, and on my return, w., D.
early in September called on Mr. r.
in Louisville, He told me that he =
MIR. Kendall, and from hints which fell
him, he was induced to think that the Argus !,
could be induced to take ground for Gen. jack
son. Instead OF going up the river to Cincinnati,
sprang into the stage and went to Frankfort.
found Mr.. Kendall so i'll with the fux that it
was deemed best for me not to speak to him.
Indeed. in conversation with Judge Bib, he
old me that the best way of operating on Mr.
Kendall was, to see Mr.. Barry and Col John
ION; and that if / could prevail on Barry to take
ground for jackson, he could carry Kendall. i
proceeded to Lexington, and there met with the
Hon John Pope. He and Mr.. Barry had been
he prominent men on the opposition sides of the
-elief question, and distrusted each other l in
gited them both to dine with mes prevailed on
hem to compare notes. and to sink the local ques-
lion in the Presidential election,
1t was arranged that Mr. Pope and Mr.. Barry