The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 184?-1851, 1844-05-29

establishment of a feanfai precedent and am
mistaken in all the warnings of instructive histo-
Iry, if erred inmy Judgment"
But how did he regard the elevation of Mr..
Adams2 In the same address last quoted, he
says: 81 saw, in his election, the establishment
of no dangerous example, | saw in il, on the
contrary, only conformity to the safe precedents
which had been established in the instances OF
Mr.. Jefferson, Mr.. Madison, and Mr.. Monroe,
who had respectively filled the same Office from
which he was 10 be translated"
Connect with this declaration, the fact that
! Clay became Adams Secretary of State, and
what does il mean? Simply this; that as Jefier-
son, Madison, and Monroe were successfully ele-
vated from the office fSecreary of State TO that
| of President, and as John Quincy Adams was
about TO be, by his vote, so he himself could
likewise be elevated tothe same office, after the
expiration Of Adams term. This it was that
made the election of Adams ga safe precedent
and that of Jacksona dangerous" and ''fearful"
one. Mr.. Adams would appoint Clay his Secre-
tary of State General Jackson would not. If
Jackson would have agreed to have appointed Clay
his Secretary, as Crittenden desired, his election
without doubt, Sin the twinkling of an eye,"
would have been converted into one of the most
beautiful and acceptable of "precedents."
Clay's self-contradiction.
In his address to his Constituents, of March
I26th, 1925, Mr.. Clay asserted that before he had
left Kentucky in the preceding fall, he had sta
tied to two individuals, the one Dr. Drake, and
the other John ]. Crittenden, his determination
to support Mr. Adams, IN preference TO General
: Jackson.
/ On the 18th of July, 1927, nearly two years
and half after the election, in speech made at
public dinner, at Lexington, Ky, Mr. Clay de-
: clared-
SIT has been established and can be further proved
that before left this State the preceding fall commu-
nicated to several gentlemen ofthe highest respectable
J ity, my fixed determination not to vote for General
Jackson"See Nalorys edition Of Ciay's Speeches, rol
: Up. $40.
s In an address to the public, dated December,
: 1927, Mr.. Clay reiterates this assertion, and
e dwells upon it at great length. He also makes
n a witness of John J. Crittenden, and gets him 10
u testify, in aleter, dated Sept. 1927, that he,
e TCay,1 previous TO going to Washington in the
c fall of 1924, had said to him that was impossi-
+, Dle for him to vote for Jackson SIN any eoent'
II 1t happens, however, that this is the same John
l, j. Crittenden who wrote to David White, on the
e 10Th of January, 1925, that he desired that "Jack
son should be President & Clay his Secretary ot
o State" and this, loo, in letter which manifested
c, the most devoted subservence 10 Mr., Clay.
"a But, unfortunately for Mr.. Clay, he has him
ot self furnished ample contradictions of the utf
II of these statements. His own address of MarcE
r 26th, 1925, abounds with declarations for The
is purpose of showing that he made up his mind a
e to his vote for Adams, after he arrived at Wash
II ington.-We will give few extracts from tha
d address, as we find them in Mallory's addition.
ST "Up to near Christmas; says Mr.. Clay Kit re
of NAMED uncertain whether Mr.. Crawford or my
e self would be returned to the House of Represen
d tatives." That matter having been determines
y against Mr. Clay he adds
m IL found myself transformed from candidate beor
the people, into eecor for the people deliberate
y examined the duties incident to this ne,o ate, an
weighed all the facts before me, upon which nly JUDI
70 n1ent acas to be formed or reviewed"
II Mr.. Clay here speaks of examining the dute
IS incident to "new attitude" and of a iudgmer
oi which Es1cdS to be formed "--Will any candidm
- pretend that such language agrees with the stor
III that he had previously determined his vote?
Is le gain, he says:
1.-THE first inquiry which it behooves me to make wa
. as to the influence which ought be exerted m
te judgment, by which the relative state of the eeco
lis votes which the three returned candidates brought n
lie the House from the Colleges"
It; Here, the first inquiry in the process of form
y, ing his judgment, is stated TO have been in rel
Id ton to fact which was entirely unknown TO hil
ry until the last of December. After disposing
h. this subject, he says
n 81 proceeded to examine the other considerations whic
On belonged to tho question"
a After the statement of the chief of these ''otl
If er considerations we find the following word
er "a collateral consideration of much weight was
rived from the wishes of the Ohio delegation. maio
o ity oft during the progress fine session. made up the
~ opinions to support Mr. Adams and they were comm
Vi nicated to me-"
Is not this plain declaration that his decsiC
~ was strongly influenced by opinions of Other
al communicated to him "during the progress of Il
ng sesson?'' Yet Mr. Clay would be glad to ha'
ay it believed that his mind had been made up lol
ng before the commencement Of the session, viii
he was vet in Kentucky Surely no ndictt
e,h criminal was ever found to have involved himst
nc in more palpable contradiction.
&C. Mr. Clay's letter to Judge Brooke, which '
have before given, may also be referred to in Il
ef' connection That letter bears date the 2Sth
el- January, only twelve days before the electio
la,y and was evidently written by man who had b
!, recently decided on his course.
.T ne- Further testimony upon this SUBJECTS given
Ar Governor Floyd, Of Virginia, man whose
:, racity Mr.. Clay never dared TO dispute. G.
IN Floyd testifes that, in the month of Janua
a. a. 1926, or in the latter part of the preceding NOR
y of December, he called upon Mr.. Clay to asc
tain his determination as TO the Presidential ele
'n ton, and that Mr.. Clay then stated his positi
>, to him sin nearly the following Words"
frst "When take up the pretensions of Mr.. Adams, a
tied weigh them and lay them down-then take up the p
the tensions of Cen Jackson, weigh them and lay til
ent down by the sideo those Of Mr. Adams-l never
eve as much puzzled in all my life, as am to decide
be- tween them.n