The Arkansas banner., 1844-08-14

[ an alteration. which, he said, was desired, Anot by him, but by Mr. Clay.to say, instead of "we onered,n Ia majority of Us determin- ed to oflern
 On the same day, AIr Russell wrote sepa- rate letter to the Secretary of State. stating that he should thereafter communicate the views which led the minority 10 differ with ' the majority on that question. Accordingly, oa the 18th February 1915, while Mir Clay and himself were together Ill Paris, he wrote 3 long lel1er 10 Mir Monroe, then Secretary efstaie. setting forth the grounds ofdiherence, ] and aninlaGlyeriing upon ihe position assumed l hx the nlaioriiy. In q publication made in Boston on the 27th June, 1929, Mir. Russell said, To the only member of the Mission , who had direct interest in the case, mean iag Mr. Clay.l did show at the time the letter written at Parisn When it is consid- cred. that the alteration of the joint letter of the Commissioners at Ghent, was not desired by Mr. Russell, but by MT. Clay, it appears singular that the former should have taken so much pains to explain the grounds of diff ference between the majority and the minority. But the true reason what 1t may be, there Is abundant evidence, that Mr. Adams consider cd 1t joint contrivance of Messrs. Russell and Clay to effect his political ruin.
 Mr. Rpssell's Letter was marked ssPrvate," !" as if intended 10 be seen only by Mir. Monroe, who was expected to succeed Mir Madison as President and might select Mir. Adams as his Secretary of Slate, thereby placing him in the line of .ssafe precedentsn for the Presi- dency. It appears to have been mislaid and forgotten. AIr Monroe was elected President and appointed Mr Adams Secretary of State. AIr. Claws friends were not at all pleased with this arrangement. The Kentucky Re- porter, Mir. Clay's peculiar organ in kentuc- ky, then edited by Mir. Smith, who was con neeted by marriage with his family, on the 14th July, ISIS, used the following lan- gnage; viz.
 ..Ntr. Adams is designated by the President and his presses as the heir apparent, the next successor to the Presidency Since the prin- ciple was introduced, there has been rapid degeneraey in the Chief Magistrate; and the prospect of still greater degeneracy, is strong and alarming. Admit the people should ac- quiesce in the Presidential appointment of Mr Adams to that high office; who again will he choose as his successor? WilFitbe Josiah Quincy, Il. G. Otis, orsRufus King An aristoerat, tt least, if not q TRAITOR, will be ou portion.o
 From all the politicians who were nearly allied 10 Mr. Clay, were heard expressions exhibiting their dissatisfaction and distrust of Mir Adams When in 1919, the treaty was concluded by MT. Adams as Secretary of State, which secured Florida to the United States and ceded Texas to Spain, MT. Clay came out iii open opposition. h March 1920, he offered resolutions against the treaty in the House of Representatives, and made a speech against t. He did more. By private letters he created distrust of Mr. Adams in- tegrity and patriotism as a negotiator. One of those letters dated 10th April, 1920, ad- dressed to the Editor of the Western Argus, found its way to the public ill 1928, and con tains the following paragraph, viz:
 ss'Ihere is a rumor in the City which will astonish you, in regard to the conclusion of that treaty. IL has been asserted by a mem- Der of Congress, as coming from high au- thorlty, that, prior to the conclusion of the treaty, 1t was known to AIr. Adams that we could have obtained more than was conveyed to us; that is, that the Spanish negotiator was allowed by his instructions, to grant us more, but that less was taken, because the Spanish minister declared, if he went up to his instructions, he should be afraid of some personal injury, upon his return home L. What will you in the west think of the wis dom of that policy which consents to sur- render an important part of our territory from such a motive f'1
 What followed in the West, Mr. Adams himself describes in his book on inc Fisheries and the Mississippi, first page of the lutro- ducton, viz
 s,ln the course of last summer, (of l92i) I was apprized by friend, that rumors very uniavorabe to my reputation, even for mteg- rity, were industriously circulated in the western country. That it was said had made a proposition at Ghent to grant to the British the right to navigate the Mississippi, in return for the Newfoundland fisheries, and this was represented as, at least, high mis- demeanor,o 'site said, the proposal was to be represented (as an oflence) so that it was charged exclusively upon me; and that l should hear more about it ere Iong.n
 In January, 1929, the documents relative to tlle Onent negotiation were called for, and ia February laid before the House of Repre- sentaGves. Mr. Adams says, that while these documents were lying on the table, '.the cor experimentation Washington, and the news papers indoctrinated by it, had not been equal ly inactive. Through these channels, the public was assured, that the proposal of of Iering the navigation of the Mississippi for the fisheries had been made by me; that AIr Clay had uniformly declared thai he would not sign the treaty with such an article in it; and that the proposal had been finally set aside by Atr Bayard's having changed sides and come over to the opinion of the minori- typ
 In April 1922, through some mysterious influence never yet explained, Mir Russell's private letter, written in 1915, was called for by the House of Representatives but it was said To have been lost or mislaid Mir. Rus sell, however, furnished duplicate, and in June the call was renewed. On that ocea- sion, Mir. B. Hardin, member of the House from K enfurky iS rnnnrtol ,,1 bay.,1 tb,t