The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1842-03-10
n cLAY-cnARGE OF CORRUPTION
CoNTRADIcTED.

now and recollect the charge preferred
uainst Mr.. Clay in 1926, that he haC
ZEN bribed by the offer Of an Office to vote
r. Dir. Adams in preference to Genera
nckson, this charge was nude by Carter
eyerly, Esq. Of Virginia. This gentle
an, after sixteen years has expired conc.
II and acknowledges that there is no eYi.
encc to support the charge. We never
[leyed tho charge ourselves but We know
any that did believe il and we rejoice
a, ittaiice although tardy has been done
is much injured Statesman.
roa arHE fxbrrsxpRsl'.n FEBRUARY o. ie41.
N ANCIENT WRONG REDREssED.
4 remarkable and certainly decisive
tement rs to n very memorable polti-
accusation has been placed in our
nds. Its publication seems clearly due
only 10 tho eminen; man whom it
FATTY injured, bat 10 the country at large,
possessed in many quarters with be-
tia, the charge IN question was well
Daaded, and had been subslaniiatcd.-
e letter which We subloin must for ever
abuse oil men Of any such impression,
indicate the injured beyond all further
ablIity Of derb,.
|rhe lapse Of fifteen or sixteen years has
course left upon mos. mems minds The
suey unfayorablc conclusions, of which
have just spoken, rather than any cor
memory Of the facts exceedingly
Ai in lhemseIves) which were alleged,
never proved. To revive them 10 our
i mind we have REQUIRED to the follow.
summary, which was ,.iyen at the time
Mr. Niles, in his Register. scc vol.
p. lG2. II is brief history Of The
E, and presents the main facts and
ols.
raos mts's REGlsrra.
'olaics.--As Il IS probable that interest.
political events will grow out Of the
tiers stated below, We give them TN IN.
ion al this time, aud without comment
o tho facts set forth.
he Fayetteville IN. CO. Observer pub
cd the following letter, said to be writ.
by a highly respectable Nirginian,
n Tennessee
NASHVILLE. MARcn {, 1921
bayo just returned from Gen. Jack
I. | found a crowd Of company with
seven Virgiuians were Of the num-
lie gave inc most friendly reeep-
and urged me to stay como days
er with him. lie told me this morn.
bfforc all his company, in reply to
ton put him concerning the election
q O. Adams To the Presidency, thai
CLAWS friends made a proposition 10
iaer&s that If they would promise fur
not to put Mr.. Adams into the seat Of
feiary Of State, Clay and bis friends
= ID, in one hour, make him, Jackson,
Il President. lie most indignantly re.
I'd the proposition, and declared he
q mol compromit himself; and unless
openly and furry made the President,
u ongress, no would never receive il
y declared that be said TO them he would !
Il TIC whole earth sink under him before
n ould bargaia or Intrigue for il.
correspondent OF the Democratic !
y under date Of Washington, 18Th |
- ls@7, having quoted the preceding
saws;
81 itter reading this extraordinary dc. |
q ton Of Gen. Jackson, before all has
FaHg, | called en- Mr.. Clay aud IN.
I'd i he knew any thing about t. lie I
81 ~, without hesitation, aud with his
81 stoned frankncss, tia; the statement |
bis friends had made such a PROPOSE.
as The letter describes to the friends /
zen, Jackson, was, MS far as he knew
eheTed, utterly destitute of foundation;
he was unwilling to believe that Gen.
sou had made any such statement
ihat no matter With whom II had orig
u 9, he was fully persuaded il was a
fabrication, OF the same calumnious
Facter with the kremer story, pull forth
he double purpose of iniuriug his pub.
Faaraeter and propplng the cause off
era' Jackson and that, for himself |
ais friends, he prrIEp the substantial.
q the charge before any fair tribunal
eyer.n
be writer goes on and offers argu.
Why the declaration ascribed 10
raj jackson could not be true but VIC
not copy thom JUS, now.l
ee " Washington Telegraph of tho
alt' asserts that tho editor, Mr.. Green, |
afeh, 1925, heard General jackson
Inc same statement as il contained
: letter published IN the Fayetteville {
Rryor.
National Journal OF the 2sth, /
lAs OF the " Fayetteville leitor" and
u 'foFns endorsement Of its yeracity,
y l6enerai Jaokson) now stands be. q
~ nation as the direct public accusor I
NJ llay and his friends and, by in q
'e'o Of Mr.. Adams also. The accuse.
as boon deliberately denied. AID if {
a Jackson should not sustain it by t
s'eat and credible proof, the Ameri- |
rup'ic will not be restrained by the {
VI respect which they have hitherto s
sued for him from, ~. H. ,