The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 184?-1851, 1844-05-02
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,, U. S.
March %, 1914.

GENTLEMEN: Your letter of the 9th inst is
your inquiries satisfactorily. Twenty years have
passed away, and with them tho recollection Of
many facts and circumstances connected with the
memorable presidential contest Of 1924,
Mr.. Adams never was popular in Kentucky
There never was time when, in tho opinion OF
well-informed men, he could have obtained ma
lority ofthe votes of the people Of that State fol
The office of President of the United States,
In 1924, the people of Kentucky very gencr-
ally believed that Mr.. Adams had offered to sac
rifce the navigating interest Of the entire West
for the paltry privilege of fishing upon the banks
cf the island of Newfoundland; and whom Mr..
Adlms published a book to explain away the
cause Of this extensive prepossosson against him,
Mr. Clay, in reply, published letter, dated No
yember l6, 1872, in the National Inteligencel
of the 18th ofDecember, 1922, in which he sld
"he believed that the explanation of Mr. Adams
contained ''err0rs both as 10 matters of tilct ana
matters of opiaion'-and promised sat sons
time more propitious than the present to calm
and dispassonato consideration, and when there
can be no qtisinerprctation Of motires, to lay be
fore the public narrative Of those transactions
as (he) understood them"
Mr.. Adams replied, in letter addressed to thc
editors of the National Inteligencer, dated De
cember Is, 1892, from which extract the fol
lowing:
"Gentlcmen: In your paper of yesterday,
have observed a note from Mr. Henry Clay, whicl
requires some notice from me-" After adveI
ling TO the transactions at Ghent, referred to b
Mr., Clay, relative to the navigation of the Mis-
gssippi and the fisheries, Mr.. Adams proceeds t
say, "Concurring with Mr.. Clay in the regretthc
the controversy should have arisen, have onE
to find consolation in the reflection that, from th
seed time of 1914 TO the harvest of 1922, th
contest was never ofny seeking; and tllat, sine
hagO been drawn into it, whatever have sal
written, or done in it. has been in the face of da
and under the responsibility of my name. Fla
Mr. Clay thought it advisable now to specify al
error Of fact, or Of imputed opinion, which
thinks contained in tho appendix tony plmphl
or in any other part Of my share in the public
ton, it would have given me great pleasure
rectify, by candid acknowledgment, any such C
ror; Of which, by the light that he would hay
shed on the subject should have been convil
cod. AT whatever period hereafter he shou
deem the accepted time is come, to publish
promised narrative, shall, if yet living, be re
dy, with equal cheerfulness, to acknowledge j
dicated error, and 10 vindicate contested trut
aBut as, by the adjournment fthat publicat
to period 'mOre propitious than the present
calm and dispassionate consideration, and VIII
there can be no misinterpretation Of motiyes,'
may chance tobc postponed until both ofus sh
have been summoned toaccount for all our egrC
before higher tribunal than that ofour count
feel myself now called upon to say that, let {
appropriate dispositions, when and how they "
expose the openday and secret night ofthe tral
actions at Ghont, the statements both Of fact a
opinion, in the paper which have written a
published IN relation to this controversy, will,
cyory particular, essential or important 70 the
forest Of the nation, of p tue character Of \
Clay, be found 70 abide unshaken the tost Of
gnaia scrutiny, oftalonts, and oftime."
Mr.. CIaY's assertion, however,, and the prom
with whichit was accompanied, connected "
previous publications, satisfied his friends in
West, that the conduct Of Mr.. Adams at Ghe
IN the "transactions'' relative 10 tho navigation
the Mississippi, was feprehensible and dgai
tho West Hence, when Mr. Clay " bis friel
III Congress voted iOf Mr. Adams, tile excltem
among the people, as can easily be ifnagin
was prodigioas Even after four years had :
sod away, and notwithstanding The gigantic ofIi
DfMr Clay and his friends 70 sustain Ny, .