The North-Carolina standard., 1844-10-30

| have however, most You then declared that
earnestly entreated them YOU have urged them 10
| to throw out of their be governed by their
consideration, in bring views OF the public good
ing their judgments 10 alone, and aver that you
final conclusion, and to have heen influenced on
look and be guided solely lily by that consideration.
by the public good. Ii
know myself, that alone!
has determined me.
Your representative is In conclusion, you use
! Inclined to concur with nearly the following
US in these sentiments words:
aud views; aud, il they our representative
should meet your aPpro- is inclined TO concur with
baiion as know he has us in these sentiment !;
great respect for@your o. and as know his respect
pinionS, | would be gladIEOr your opinions, re-
if you would, by the re-fquest, il you concur in
turn mail, address let our views, that you will
ter to him, to strengthen write 10 him by return
him in his inclination mail to strengthen him in
Be pleased to show this his lnclInatIonS. Show
letter to Critenden alone This to Critenten alone"
remain faithfully, your
fiend, H. CLAY.
F. P. BLAIR, esq.
Having, in 1928, made out this statement of the
contents of Mr. Cloy's letter of 9Th of January as
extensive and accurate as the means of information
allowed US would permit, we deemed it important
TO cut off all pretence for charging US with inten
tional misrepresentation, and for that purpose ad-
dressed to the chairman of the Adams and Clay
committee the following letter, viz
"FRANKFoRr July q 1923.
"SIR: intend TO certain parts of Mr. Clay's
letter TO Mr.. Blair, dated SIh Of January, 1925 fn
my reply TO The attack made ON me by that gentle
man through your committee; and deem il more
proper, and more Just to him; that il should be pub
shed entire, with all the views which it contains,
than that the public should have only my recollec:
tions of some of its most prominent passages. Pre-
suming that your committee will feel at liberty TO
adopt step which can only tend 10 guard Mr.. Clay
r
have TO request that you will furnish me with CO.
py of that letter. This request is confined TO the
letter Of the 9Th January, 1925, in which do not
perceive any expression not deeoroEs towards the
public. An answer on this day, or early tomorrow
morning, is solicited.
SYours, &C. AMOS KENDALL"
This letter alludes to one of Mr.. Clay's reasons
for not consentng to the publication, which was
that his letters contained expressions not decorous
towards the public Of that character were some
expressions in the letter of the 29th January now
also published with omissions of names and pas
sages.
IT. during term of sixteen years. Mr. Clay has
suffered wrong (which he has not) from our YER
sioE of his letter, he could at any moment have
averted it, by giving the entire communication to
the public. His omission to do SO is conclusive
evidence that he had, 10 his own opinion, nothing
to gain by fall disclosure; and the publication
now is full admission that the reasons heretofore
given for refusing were mere pretences and ex-
cuses. If it was dishonorable to publish this let
ter, he is now guilty Of dishonor; if no deco
rous, he is guilty of indecorum; if improper, he
is guilty of improperly. We attribute it to the
same restless and desperate ambition which has
dictated his four Texas letters and bis public re-
buke of G.. M. Clay, followed by soothing pri-
vate ietter-an ambition whose hopes, once radi-
ant as the rising sun, are now sinking into the
shadows of everlasting night, resting from mo-
ment to moment on the merest vapoTs ere thev
are forever darkened.
On this occasion, conscious of our own integri-
ty, and "calm as a summers morning." we point
to this letter as one of the evidences that we have
never done this man injustice. -,
AMOS KENDALL
WAsH1NeToN, October 9, 1914
p s, When the foregoing was prepared we
had not seen the address to the public of B w.
Leigh, which prefaced Mr.. Cay rs letters in the
Richmond Whig. Mr.. Leigh stands high with
his party as man oftruth and honor but what
sport does he make Of both by charging US with
garbling Mr.. Clay's letter, when we sought with
out success TO obtain the whole for publications