Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1844-01-13

On Saturday last, Mr. harrington oi on 10y 'n'o
duced resolution III the Senatr, conu hh'''e u"
aos,ns n lie LEGISLATURE Of 1877 winch exposed The
n,r,,,n ;ntrioue and corruption by which, IN Io2",
Adams was made President aud Clay, Secretify o.
State; and declaring That The chafees ihhue ~ Sa
Legislature arc, sin the opinion oil ms Geheral r.
senby, unsupported by proof ana Ho % 0e geeeSe%
Mr. Harrington, in THIS resolution, cuts Gown us
noica frierd; unsparngly. He charges, that Ephlam
il. Foster Judge Green, Richard ohee'han,' anu tne
whole body Of respectable men %ho composed the 1t
,slsu,e of 1897 made serious allegations against ce
TAN persons whou, proof and tina! they are n"t 10 O'
iherfd Notwithstanding they act-o unaef .'e
ties of an oath They charged WIN lou s'n ano
il is proposed TO blast their fair fame, by placing lhe
cbarre upon the legislative records Are ihey gu'ty
Positive proof of the truth of what these gentlemen
altered could not of course be had' because men ie
not D, to confess to the world their own mIsdeed ou
the hest kind of circumsantIa evidence was al manu-
We Will notice few OF the circumstances gong 10
establish The truth of The aIiegat ons maze against LAY
and Adams by The gentlemen VINO a'e NJ" a'i0's"s0
for SANDER and defamation
They, who were before bilter personal eheh'e''
suddenly became bosom friends. BY the vote and IN
snence Of CLAW. Ad,ms was made President, and MI.
Adams. in turn, inside Clay Secretary OF State
9 The name of Adams odlous IN Kentucky, aho
Clay and his friends had made u so. henlncAy pre-
fsrred Gen Jackson, and avowed her preference en-
,ea,;no her REPRESENTATIVES 10 vote for him. ! lie
.oaon,e If Kentucky were for any body but Adams,
and Mr. Cl,y knew it As an honest man ard their
Pepres.ntore he was bound to cast his Vnt- Tor Zen
Jackson What induced him to disregard 'hese n'S"
obligations: Must there not have been e0nstaera-
,;o,2 Why should a man abandon his party, STRIKE
tami, NTH nm enemy, and set al naught the known
,il e ,hose whom he pretended 10 represent, If no
reward was to follow:
g Gen Me,calf, one OF the members from hen'ucny'
yhe, 10 returned home TO indignant constituency
stated as nm excuse for voting for Adams-""e couo
NOT possibly gel NJ. Clay IN the Cabinet, wilhoul
r al. Adams.
a F,ancis johnson, another member, who had made
s,eecbas ogn,nst Mr. Adams, and had been instructed
by his immediate constituents, almost unanimously
to vote for G.n Jlckson gave as his reason Tor vol
inn for Mr.. Admins, that 1t was TO make oiay oe
cretarv oil State a Al
ama nc an "apos,ate Federalist and an enemy OF lhe
Wcst who had offered 10 barter away the navsa.pn ~
HE Mississippi the British for mess OF Cod i'sh -
,,olo,zed for his vote as follows:-"WE DIS I'M :
~ ASCERTAINED that Mr.. Adams would make
Nj, CLAW Secretary of State, and that IN all probability
Gen Jackson would not
G Before the fact stated by Mr.. Trmble was "d's-
netly sscer;ansd" Mr. Clay and all his ifIends pro-
Gessed 10 be "uncommitted" and on one OCCASION
General Mctcalf remarked-'''cc must knon somtthng
cbo,t ho,r The Cabiat is TO Jc Gei" But WHEN II was
s.dls,inc,ly ASCERTAINED that Mr.. Adams would
make Mr. Clay Secretary Of State they dottrd their
neutrality sacrificed their constituent, and consumma
ted The bargain.
Mr. Clay was dolly installed in the Office OF Secre-
tery Of STATE an Office which he termed "the line OF
SAT- precedens" He regarded his succession TO the
Presidency a-r Adams certain but h. was second
time disappointed. He and Adams were driven from
the s.ations which the people never INTENDED 'hey
should occupy The State of Kentucky by whose vote
they had acquired cover, gave large majority against
tlcn,; and ,ht verdict of the nation was-sndty'
Ever since Clays ejectmen from the ''l'ne OF Ta'e
precedsnts,' he has kept the country IN iermen'
drawing PICTURES q distress, and Offering various
schemes for relief. lie is s,rlI bidding appealing
through his projects to the venai,y and self'hnesS oil
voters lis ambition sleepless, and we find nothing
in his career since 1885, to weaken in the slightest
degree this proof of the notorious bargain.
We have given but few items OF the proof IN TINS
case; we have more on hand which we will furnish IN
due seasoa.-I .lashriHe Union.