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POLITICAL HISTORY.
From "The independent" Feb. %, l84a,
AN ANCIENT WRONG REDRES-
SED.

icaI accusation has been placed in ou
hands. It's publication seems clearly
due not only to the eminent man whom
it greatly injured, but 20 the country a
large, still possessed in many quarter:
with beIiefthai the charge in Oesllor
was we'll grounded, and had been sub
stantIaled. The letter which we sub
join must forever disAbase all men o
any such impression, and vndicate the
injured beyond all further possibility o.
doubt
The lapse Of fifteen or sixteen years
has Of course left upon most mems
minds The vaguely un(avorabIe concIu
sions, Of which we have just spoken,
rather than any certain memory Of the
facts Exceedingly slight in tbemse ves)
which were alleged, and never proved
To revive them in our mind we have
REQUIRED to the following summary,
which was given at the time by Mr..
Niles, in his Register. [Sae vol. 80, p.
l62 lr-is briet history OF the case,
and presents the main facts and proofs
From M!cs' Register.
PoLITlCs.-As it is probable that in
Tteresling political events wi grow out
Of the matters stated below, we give
them ar insertion at this time, and with.
out comment as to the facts set forth.
The Fayetteville IN C) Observer
published The following letter. said TO be
written BY highly respectable Virgin.
ian, then in Tennessee:
NASHVILLE, March 8, 1927,
have just returned from Gen. Jack
sons. found a crowd of company
with him; seven Vlrginians were OF
tho number lie gave mo most friend
ly reception, and urged me to stay some
days longer with MIN. He told me this
morning, before all his company, in re-
ply TO question put him concerning
the election OF John @ Adams 10 the
Presidency, that Mr. Cay's friends
made proposition to his friends that if
they would promise, for him, not 10 POI
Mr. Adams into the seat Of Secretary Of
State, Clay and his friends wou'd, in one
hour, make him, jackson The President,
He most Indignantly rejected The propo'
silion, and declared he would not com.
promit himself; and unless most openly
and fdiTly made tho President, by Con
gress, he would never receive it. He
declared that he said to them he would
see the whole earth sink under him
before he would bargain or intrigue for
H."
A correspondent Of the-Drmocratic
Press, under date Of Washington, 18th
April, 1927, having quoted the precod.
ing letter says:
"Aller reading this extraordinary de.
clararion Of General Jackson, 'befo,e all
his compang,' | called on Mr.. Clay and
inquired il he knew any thing about it
lie replied, without hesitation, and with
his accustomed rrankness, 'lhat the
statement that his friends had made
auch q proposition Ns tho letter des
cribes TO the friends Of General Jackson,
% was, as far as ho knew or believed, nj
ierIy destitute Of foundation that he was
unwilling 10 believe that General Jack
son had made any such statement: but
that no matter with whom it had orig,
mated, he was fully persuaded It was
gross fabrication, Of the samo Calumni
Gus character. with tho K,cmer story, put
forth for the double purpose Of njurlng
his public character and proppng the
cause Of General Jackson and that, for
himself and his frieads, he deiod the
substantiaton Of The charge before any
fair tribunal whatever"
The writer goes on and offers argu.
ments why the declaration ascribed to
General }jackson could not he true; but
we shall notcopy them just now,
The "Washingron Telegraph" Of the
26th ut. asserts that the editor. Mr.,
Green, in March, 1895, heard General
Jackson make The same statement as is
contained n the letter published in the
Fayetteville Observer
The National Journal" OF the 28lh,
speaking Of tho Fayetteville letter and
M,. Green's endorsem ment Of its veracily
save:
"lIo, General Jackson, now stonds
before tho nation as The direct public
accusor Of Mr.. Clay and his friends,
and, by inference, Of Mr.. Adams also
The accusation has been deliberately
denied And il General Jackson should
not sustain it by competent and credj'
BILE proof, the American public will no,
be restrained by the grateful respect
which they have hihorlo cherished for
him, from chAraclerizing the charge as,
in that event, it will deserve to be con.
siJered.
So things stand at present; and their
condition has been rendered such that
we suppose, they canno, well stop where
they are. If these declarations have
been made BY Gen Jackson, no will no
suffer them to remain ,mpenchcd, bu
come forward and sustain them; If, OF
h,,J hn. k.on