The Arkansas banner., 1844-08-14


 tory; against dividing it into two territories, for the greater convenience of both the Gov ernment and the people; against the power of Congress to tax 1t, for purposes ot Gov ernment; and even against opening post roads to New Orleans, through the Indian country, within our former territories p2
 These are but specimens of the eloquence and power with which MT. Adams was de- nounced intheseletters Although they were certainly not Mir. CIay's productions, they probably derived portion of their force from his suggestions, and certainly his money and influence gave them circulation. As testified before the Senate of Kentucky, he offered the author fifty dollars to aid him in printing pamphlet edition, and afterwards paid one hundred for that object to another printer. These facts were proved before the Senate of Kentucky in January, 1928:
 William Tanner was called and sworn. A pamphlet was shown to him, entitled "Let- ters to John Quincy Adams, relative to the Fisheries and the Mississippi, first published in the Argus of Western America, revised and enlarged, by Amos Kendall" and he was ask ed whether he printed it. He replied that he did He was asked whether Mir. Clay paid any part of the expense. He replied that he did pay $100; that he, Tanner, undertook to print the pamphlet by subscription; that Mir. Kendall told him Ar. Clay had proposed to him to print 1t and offered to pay part of the expenses; that he had taken a letter from MT. Kendall to Mr. Clay; that Mir. Clay conversed with him as to the expense of printing the pamphlet, and the subscription for 1t; that he told him to go to Mir. Thomas Smith, who would hand him $$S75, and that if he should not be remunerated by the subscriptions, to call on him and he would pay him the balance of the expense; that he called on Mr. Smith who paid him the money, that the sabscrip- lions falling short, he again called on MT, Clay, who sent him to Mir. Smith for $25 more. The pamphlet was printed in the lat ter part of 1823.7
 Mir White Mr. B. yielding the foor) re- marked that Mr. Tanner was now a thorough going Democrat. and an editor of one of the most full-blooded Democratic papers in that State.
 Mr. Boyd said that was true, but he had never known of his testimony having been contradicted then or since.
 Mr. Clay's direct agency in giving the pamphlet circulation was proved in 1928, by the publication of letter from him to the au- thor, of which thefollowing is an extract, viz:
 ''DEAR SIR-Several inquiries have been made about your pamphlet on the fisheries by members of Congress, and have promised to request copy to be sent to Mir. David Sloane, of the Ohio Senate, at Columbus; another 10 the Hon. Henry R. Storrs, and another to the Hon. John Sloane, here. Will you be good enough to have them forwarded p
 These facts show the hostility existing be- tween Mr. Adams and Mr. Clay. They show that AIr. Clay was himself active in destroy ing Mir. Adams character and popularity in the West, not only as politician, but as a truthful, honest, and patriotic man; and that MT. Adams knew 1t. They show that, well understanding each other, Mir. Clay was under promise to expose Mr. Adams conduct at Ghent, and that Mir. Adams held him at dei- ance. This was their personal attitude to. wards each other when the popular vote was given for President in 1924,
 l THE CABINET SUCCESSION.
 But there was general principle on which Mir. Clay and his friends were opposed to Mir. Adams, totally incompatible with giving him their support in that election. It grew l out of the position Mir. Adams held as meni- Der of NIT. Monroe's Cabinet. Soquietly had the Secretary of State succeeded to the Presi- l dency in the cases of Mir. Madison and Mr Monroe, that many Republicans began to be alarmed at the idea that this might become the regular order of succession, and that each President would virtually appoint his success sor, the whole power and patronage of the Administration being steadily devo,ed to the object of making the head of the Cabinet the next President.
 We have seen that, as early as July, ISIS the Reporter, Mr. Clay's organ at Lexington said, "M Mr. Adams is designated by the Pres. ident and his presses as the heir apparent the next successor to the Presidency Since the principle was introduced there has beer a rapid degeneracy in the Chief Magistrate and the prospect of still greater degeneracy IS strong and alarming,o Sc.
 The Presidential campaign of 1824 may be said to have been opened by Mr. Clay's friends in 1891 or 1922. In the first part ol the latter year, a series of essays ascrbed, know not how justly, to Mr. Clay's own pen, appeared in the Frankfort Argus, advocating his pretensons.' In his introductory number the writer held the following language, viz
 "The National Intelligencer is not, pre- cisely, the most fitting paper to issue this edict commanding silence. It might, indeed, suit the taste of their official patrons and employ CTS, that as little as possible should be pub lished on this subject They may prefer, that the prescribed line of legitimacy, according to which the heir apparent should be trans lated from the Department of State to the Palace, be preserved unbroken and entire- But they ought to remember the practice of Rome, by which the Caesars themselves, to secure that tranquility which the editors of the lntelllgencer so much desire, provided beforehand for the imperial succession, has not yet been engrafted on our Constitution.'' D
 In July, 1921, the friends of Mir. Clay in Ohio, published an address signed by the Hon. Joseph Vance, as chairman, in which eat ,.tl J.z .l