The Arkansas banner., 1844-08-21

stration. Mir. Adams desired the office of President; he went into the combination with out it, and came out with it. Mir. Clay de sired the office of Secretary ol State; he went into the combination without 1t, and came out with it. Of this transaction the simplest his tory is the best analysis
 ttThe members of this General Assembly, therefore, in protesting against the election ot MT. Adams as impure and anti-republlcan, are sensible of no precipitancy oi judgment, or too great license of language. Unwilling to assert what is doubtful, they are determin- ed 10 speak what is true; nor do theydee It necessary to fortify their protest by the nu- merous collateral proofs to be derlyed, either from the contradictions contained in the stu died vindication of the Secretary Of State; from inc confessions of his friend, his colleague, and his champion, or from the pertinent and concurring "reminiscences of respectable wit l nesses.7
 Among those who voted in the affirmative, find them of F. Il. Foster, present Sena- tor. R. Cheatham, E. Hurst, andJ 4. Rogers.
 find, also, that the Hon. John Bell, late Secretary of War, in letter dated Sept. l7th, 1927, expressed the following opinions, viz: 1:
 q have seen the highest and mostimportant office in the Government filled by means and under circumstances afording all the evidence of a coalition formed upon the basis of mutual benefits to be received and conferred, inde- pendently of any cont1overted point i'll the details, that the public can never expect the 1 light of, in any combination that has been or may be entered into, to defeat the will ot the people Ambitious and aspiring politicians, who have great characters 10 sustain, and sense enough to guard against the common blunderS of the less practised adepts III the arts of intrigue and managementaa aan forming coalitions, will but seldom expose themselves to the danger of detection from positive proof. It is not, therefore, inmy view, of so much importance to consider, whether possibility of innocence can be admitted i'll favor of the parties implicated, as to determine whether l the presumption to the contrary IS not so great Il the present instance, that their continuance Il office would be incompatible with the safe ty and well-beng of our political institu- tionsn
 These exceptions, Ibelieye without excep- tons, were formed and expressed before the disclosure of Mir. Clay's letter to Mir. Blair, showing by what machinery, putin operation by Mir. Clay himself, the votes of members of Congress were controlled. After thateyent the people expressed dteir opinion at the polls. Of the electoral votes, there were given For General Jackson, 209
 For GIr Adams, 62.
 Of the popular votes, there were given
 For Gen. Jackson, about 643,096.
 For Mr. Adams, about 507,4l2.
 Thus was the coalition of Adams and Clay condemned by the country, chiefly on the ground that it was impure its origin. Nor do think their judgment will be reversed, unless 1t be by new generation, who, like my colleague, have never seen the testimony
 Mr. B. then adverted to Mr. Clay's course on the bankrupt law. There never was, said he, more glaring outrage on the will of con 7 stituents than Mr. Clay's refusal to vote for ( the repeal of that law at the session of l841-2 ! Through the members of the House of Repre- sentatives, through the Legislature, through { every practicable channel, the will of the peo- pie of Kentucky had come up to their Sena- tors demanding their votes in favor of repeal { Mr. Clay not only refused to vote for the re- peal, but denounced the act he was required f to do as cruel and inhuman in the last degree
 thus casting the severest censure on those who made the call on him and his colleague:
 in both Houses of Congress, who had yielded ' a ready obedience. Prior to 1921 Mr. Clay :: held the doctrine that a representative wa. Q bound to carry out the will of his continents [ no matter how he came to knowledge O . that will but ill the Presidential election O i, that year, he violated his former principles l and turned his back upon Democracy tha he might be, as he ever since has been, lock
 ed in the embraces of Federalism.
 Q Here the Speakers maIlet fell, indicating t the termination of Mr. Boyd's hour. D NOTES.
 1. The opponents of Mir. Adams Adminis
 tratin, in Kentucky, or at least that portion e of them who had acquiesced in or promoted
 his election, did not at first charge as corrup
 the understanding by which he was mad Q President, and Mr. Clay Secretary of State The character of the controversy was changed l however, by MT. Clay's declarations in hi : Address to the Public, commenting on Gen :. Jackson's letter to Carter Beverly, dated
 Lexington, 26th June, 1927. To appreciate :, the grounds of that change, the following extracts from that Address should be read il l connection with the foregoing evidence, par ticularl the quotations from Mir. Clay's let r ter to Mr. Blair:
 l "l neither made, nor authorised, nor knew { of, any proposition whatever to either of the { three candidates who were returned to the House of Representatives at the last Pfesi- dential election, or to the friends of either ol them, for the purpose of influencing tHere- suit of the election, or for any other purpose And all allegations, intimations, and inuen- does, that my vote, on that occasion, was offered to be given, or was in fact given, III consideration of any stipulation or under standing, expressed or implied, direct or in- direct, written or verbal, that was, or that any other person was not, to be appointed Secretary of State, or that was in any other manner, to be personally benefited, are de- void of all truth, and destitute of any founda- lion whateyer.n