The Arkansas banner., 1844-10-30
From he Richmond Enquirer, THE CAT OUT OF THE BAGt

nav ho eiiio to prepare, HOT even space 10 publish, in this mornings paper, the princ- pal remarks which they are calculated to call foTth. The corresdondence does not mate rlally vary from the version which Mir Ken dall has given of the first letter; nor does 1t very much change the commentaries which it has hitherto produced, nor shake the con vlction which his version and the commen- tators have impressed upon our mind They only strengthen our beliefin the several prop ositions which MT. Kendall recently put forth in the sExpositor."
 ''They show three things, viz:
 "Fsrst. An appeal to 'his future interests by MT Adams's friends, as motive for giv- ing that gentleman his support.
 Secondly. That his friends had determin- ed so to vote, as tue most likely means of ac- comphshing Meir kind acishes toucards him.
 "1hirdly. That Mr. Clay not only con- cured with them in this conclusion, but was secretly engaged in attempting to secure votes for Mir Adams, through Mir. Blair and Crit tenden's influence over their representative"
 MT. Clay has not published Mir. Bair's let ters to himself; but we scarcely want them to show the light in which Mir. B. viewed the first letter of Mr. Clay, at the time he re- ceiUed H. What he told Kendall and Dud- ley, on receiving it, constitutes what the books call a ''contemporaneous expositionn of the letter. He told Mr. Kendall, that ..if Mir. Adams were elected, he would make Mir. Clay Secretary of State and he told Mr. Dudley, ''that if MT. White could be iaduced to vote forsMr. Adams, he GA would obtain the Uote Ot kentucky and aoih a the votes of most of the Western States, which acould elect him in achich case, Mr. Clay would re- ceive the appointment of Secretary of Slate.o Upon this idea, Messrs. Blair, Crittenden, and others acted when they wrote to Mr. White, to induce him to vote for Mr. Adams. Upon this idea, Mir. White did cote when he voted for Adams; because. he says in his letter to the Frankfort Argus, of June, 1928, 'sThat was confirmed in my vote by their suggestions, do freely acknowledge and, therefore, as have heretofore frankly avow- ed, now state that l voted for Mir. Adams with a view to promote Mir. Clay's future prospects for the Presidency That Is to say, to make him Secretary of State, and thus put him in the line of ''saie precedentso for the succession. It wassupon similar idea, that Messrs. Trimble, Francis Johnson, and Metcalf, Gall members from Kentucky,) acted upon their own confessions.
 But whether Mr. Blair will now think proper to publish his portion of the oorres- pondence. Is of course question for his own consideration. Yet certainly we hold him entirely guiltless of the insinualion which the Richmond Whig has thrown upon him, that he has laid by, and suffered suspicion to fasten upon MT. Clay, whilst he had it in his power to contradict the rumors afoat, or to clear him by publishing this correspondence.
 We do not now wonder that Mr. Clay has been so chary in withholding his letters.- Tell not the public that it is because he did not wish to violate the sanctity of private correspondence because he might at any moment have stricken out the names, &c., &c., as he has aow done, and published his own letters whenever he pleased. Tell us not, as Mir. Bolts told the Charlottesville club the other day, when he read them Clay's let ter to F. P. Blair, 'sthat there is no honest man of either party who would not say, af- ter reading that letter, that 1t confers credit upon MT. Clay, instead of convicting him of bargain and coalition with Mir. Adams D. Why, then, has not Mir. Clay published long ago his own letters? And they would have seen the light and passed into the public press in 1928, if MT. Clay had not dreaded their exposure. Can Mir. Bolts be serious Can he believe that no honest man can con- slider it as discreditable in him to take such measures to elect MT. Adams. and then owe to his hands the first office in his gift No; the friends of Mfr. Clay found that the house was becoming too hot for him, and they therefore determined to risk the publication of the letters themselves, with such glossa- ries as their own ingenuity could suggest.
 There was time when we did not believe 1t possible for Mr. Clay to fall into the egre- g.ous blunder of which he was guilty in 1925. We do not mean his voting for MT. Adams-,hat IS one thing The disinterest- edness of his motives might have excused him from the consequences of that act. But that, after having made Mir. Adams President, he should have taken office from him, and the best office in his gift, and the one which he considered to be the stepping-stone to the Presidency, is very different question, and no plea of patriotism could furnish excuse or palliation for the blunder. It is the second act of the drama, indeed, which casts suspi- cion upon the first It would be amusing, if it were not disgusting, to hear MT. Clay talk in his second letter about his conscience telling him, ''that puplic man Is undeserv- ing his station who will not, regardless of aspersions and calumnies, risk himself for his country" Mir. C...might have defed ..as- persions and calumniesn if he had been re- gardful of the position which he ought to have occupied. But it does really appear as if MT. Clay considered himself entitled to some compensation for the risk he was about to encounter; forgetting, in the midst of his confidence in his own fortunes, and in the blindness of his own ambition, that il was the last act, and not the first, by which he risked his own reputation, and the gratifica- ton of his own wishes.
 We feel ourselves bound, by the appeal in yesterdays Whig, to make these declarations at this time. We are not so intolerant as to think, that no honest man can believe Mf C. entirely clear of all spot or suspicious fol