Columbus Whig. (Columbus, Miss.) 1843-18??, 1844-06-27

Mr.. Barbour, distinguished ViFginian, &C "a
head; that this charge had been referred to tina
Icomdnistee; that the individual who had frs
made the charge had been bE0ught before tn
COMMITTEE, and the record that not word O
evidence was produced, and that the commit
tee reported the innocence Of Mr.. Clay:
The proofs that Mr.. Clay had made up h
mind to vote for Mfr. Adams in preference I.
/ General Jackson, long before Congress made
choice, are many and conclusive. Mr.. Ben
ION, in the following extract of l3tter writer
by him, offers proof more strong than any that
| can be advanced at this late day:
WASHINGTON December Z, 1897.
| ssSr:-You: lettes Of the 10Th ultimo, GOV
ering the Lexington Virginia InteIligencer
ofthat date, has been duly received, and in an.
swer to the inquiries you put 10 me, have to
state, that the article to which. you invite my
a0ention is substantially, not verbally correct,
SO far a. 1T represents me as saying that was
| informed by Mr. Clay, in the fore part of De-
comber, 1924, that he intended TO vote for Mr..
Adams. There is no mistake in the date, az a
! visit which l made to your part of Virginia
about that time enables me to fix 1t with GER
tainty." ~
CARTER BEVERLY, it is well known receiv-
ed this charge from Mr.. Buchanan and circu-
lated it most conclusivelv against Mr.. Clay
but Carter Beverly, before his death, denied
and refuted the charge he had made and wrote
thus to Mr.. Clay: So
'lt will be no doubt matter of some aston
ishment to you in receiving from me the pre-
sent address, will not preface it with any
kind of apology, because in doing it justify
my mind in the dis charge of an act of con-
science, and a duty that feel the utmost
pleasure in performing.
Although the time is'far gone since be-
Al as
ting throughout the country very great at
tack on your character and virtue as gentle }.
man, and certainly very heavy ono as pub
lie man, / feel deGirous to relieve you, as far
as can, from the SANDER, and my own feel.
ings from, the severe compunction that is with
in me, on having been though neither directly
nor indirectly, your personal accuser, yet that
I was drawn directly into the representation
of an attack upon you
again say, that am most thoroughly con-
WINGED that you were most untruthfully, and
therefore, uniustly treated; for have never
seen any evidence to substantiate at all the
charge.
CARTER BEVERLY.
Cen. LAFAYETTE, whose testimony cannot
be questioned; who was free from party pre-
JUDGES, who had no motive to vindicate, no in
terest in condemning, thus spoke of his recol
lection of Mr.. Clay's position.
"My remembrance concurs with your own
on this point: that in the latter end of Decem-
Der, either before or after my visit to Annap-
oils, you being out of fhe Presidential candida
ture. and after having expressed my above
mentioned motives of forbearance," Z, by way OF
confidential exception. allowed myselfto put a
simple, unqualified question respecting your
electioneering guess and intended vote. Your
answer was that in your opinion the actual
health of Mr.. Crawford, had limited the con-
test to choice between MIR. Adams and Gen.
Jackson, that a claim founded on military
achievements did not meet your preference,
and that you ha d concluded to vote for Mr. Ad-
ams'' -.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS. the venerable pa tri-
OF and sage, whose purity and veracity have
never been doubted even by the most ribald
partizan, has most distinctly met and denied
this charge! In his letter to New Jersey
committee, after he retired from the Presiden-
tIal chair, he said:
"Upon him (Mr. Claw the foulest SANDERS
have been showered. Long known and ap.
pPeciated, as successfully a member of both
Houses of your National Legislature, as the
unrivalled Speaker, and at the same time most
efficient leader of debates in one of them; as
an able aud successful negotiatnr for your own
interests, in war and in peace, with foreign
highest Of your trusts-the Department Of
State itself was station which, by its hestowr
al could confer neither profit nor honor upon
him, but upon which he has shed unfading
honor by the manner in which he discharged
his duties. Prejudice and passion have char
ged him with obtaining that Office by bargain
and corruption. Before yOm feLloaO cH:zens.i1
the presence of yoatr country and Of HeGUen,
THAT CHARGE TOTALLY UNFoUN-
DED. This tribute of justice is due from me
to him, and seize with pleasure the opportu-
nifty offered me by your letter Of discharging
the obligation
cling through the west he received the spon-
aneous tribute of thousands Of bis country
men, elected by his high moral worth and
statesmanlike services, he again spoke of this
charge, as follows:
81 thank you, sir, for the opportunity you
have given me of speaking of the great states
man who was associated with me in the ad-
uDinistration of the General Government. at my
earnest solicitation-who belongs not 20 Ken
lucky alone, but to the whole Union; and is
not only an honor to this State, and this Ma
ton, but to mankind. The charges to which
you refer, l have, after my term Of service had
expired, and it was proper for me 10 speak. de-
MED before the whole country; and | here
fe1tef0Ee ana fe1UtTDe t1Gt 0ent0E; ana as exc
pect shortly to appear before my God, to an
swer for the conduct of my whole life, should
these charges hGee found their scdy 10 The 1srOne
of Eternal Justice. / WILL, IN THE PRESENCE
OF OMNIPoTENcE, PRONOUNCE THEM FALsE''
We could multiply evidences of this kind
from the lips or pens of distinguished men Of
all political parties, not one OF whom attached
any credence to the charges. brought by ma
lignity, but crushed by The force of TRUTH
Those persons who, 60 GRITTY personal vim
dictiveness-and when, in long 4 fe has Gen.
Jackson. ever been kho wn to omit an oppoF-
tunity, for such gratiicatione Those persons
will find digging up the graves of forgotten
SANDERS to heap upon the head Of Henry Clay.
will recoil with terrible power upon them -
When age and infrnities brought Carter
Beverly 60 Il review ofhisspast life, one Of the
nebIesf evidences Of his christian spirit was
the realization of the false changes which the
warmth of his opposition had induced him to
make. We hope ID all charity. that The VIC
tor Of New Orleans may yet be enabled 10 a
chieve his greatest conquest; to forget his per-;
sonal anim0sities and do justice 60 one, whose
fault, ifyiewed in the calm solitude ofthe clos
ct az the Hermitage. mpst be confessed BY
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