The Arkansas banner., 1844-08-21

and Mir. Adams had hurled at fIIm all Indlg- itfiant defiance. &
 Ir.Clay's personal relations with General Jackson were those of friendly intercourse.
 Of Gen. Jackson's devotion to the interests of the West there could be no shadow of doubt.
 He had received more electoral votes than any other candidate
 lie had received large plurality of the popular votes
 He was the only candidate, except Mir
 Clay who had received any votes in Ken
 lucky.
 He was, without question, the second
 choice of vast majority of the American
 people
 Nil. Adams was, and Gen Jackson was not, a member of the Cabinet
 Mr. Clay and his colleagues were request ed by all overwhelming majority of the Ken lucky Legislature to vote for Gen. Jackson as the undoubted second choice of the peo- pie of that State
 Nevertheless, Mr. Clay voted for MT. Adams, and gaTe him the vote of Kentucky.
 He carried with him the votes of Ohio, where Mr. Adams received but 12,280 popu lar votes out of 50,000, of Illinois, where he received but ,542 out of 4, 700, and of
 Missouri, where he received but 3l1 votes out of 2,700.
 Under these circumstances, 1t was but na-
 tural that the people of the entire West, and
 particularly of Kentucky, should have been
 shocked and astounded on learning that the
 vote of that State had been cast for Mir.
 Adams, and especially, as 1t was followed
 by that other remarkable circumstance of the
 offer by AIr. Adams and the acceptance by :. Mir. Clay ef the office of Secretary of State. I They felt mortified and indignantat at the man.
 ner in which their feelings and their will had
 been trampled under foot and their dearest
 interests betrayed into the hands of him
 whom they had been taught to regard as , their worst enemy; and they awaited the re- I turn of their Representatives to call them to
 a strict account.
 c THE MOTIVE. f few days prior to the election, rumors of , all attempt of the friends of Mir. Adams to
 buy the Presidency, by offering the office of Secretary of State to MT. Clay, were rife ut
 Washington These rtmors were brought before the public by a letter from Washing ton tothe Editor of the Columbian Observer,
 a newspaper then printed in Philadelphia.
 That letter was as follows:
 sWAsuINeToN, Jan. 25th, 1925. sDEAR SIR: take up my pen to inform you of one of tine most disgracelu transac- tions that ever covered with infamy the Re- publican ranks. Would you believe that men proIessing Democracy could be found : base enough to lay the axe at the root of the tree of Liberty' Yet strange as it IS, 1t is , not less true To give you full history of this transaction would far exceed the limits of a letter. I shall, therefore, at once pro-
 ceed to give you brief account of such a j bareanas can only be equalled by the famous Burr conspiracy of 1901. For some time past the friends of Clay have hinted that they, like the Swiss, would fight for those who l. would pay best. Opertures accre said to haue been made by tte friends of .4dams 10 { uc friends Ctay, o6eriag him lie appoint- :, , n,ent of Secretary of State for his aid 10 2 elect .4dams. And the friends of Clay gave u this information to the friends of Jackson, . and hinted, d,@tliat if the friends of Jackson ' would offer the same price they would close l. with them. But none of the friends of Jack son would descend to such barter aud sale. ! It was not believed by any of the friends of !, ! Jackson that this contract would be ratified 'f by the members from the States who had ' voted for Mr. Clay was of opinion, when I first heard of this transaction, that men pro- ! lessing any honorable principle could aot,
 and would not, be transferred, ike the planter T does his negroes, or the iarner''his team and ' horses. No alarm was excited; we believed l. the Republic was safe. The nation having 5 delivered Jackson into the hands of Congress,
 backed by large majority of their votes,
 there was, on my mind, no doubt that Con- T gross would respond to the will of the nation, ' by electng the individual they had declared to ', be their choice. Contrary to his expectation, U Hisnose ascertained 10 q certainty, that Henry !, r Clay has transferred his interest 10 John Il Quiacg .9dams. As consideration of this u abandonment of duty 10 his constituents, 1t y is said and believed, should this unhappy CO., u alion prevail, Clayis 10 Dc appointed Secrc- tary of Statc. l have no fears on my mind :;
 am clearly of opinion we shall defeat every 'e combination The force of public opfniolt y must prevail, or there is an end to LIBERTY " To this letter Mir. Clay respondedsas fol- + lows:
 T. "A CARD I have seen, without any $ other emotion than that of ineflable contempt,
 the abuse which has been poured out upon le me by a scurrilous paper printed in this city, ss and by other kindred prints and persons, in Ut regard to the Presidential election. The Ed re itor of one of those prints, ushered forth T. in Philadelphia, called the Columbian Ob- server, for which do not subscribe, and IS which have not ordered, has had the impu- y dence to transmit to me his vile paper of the I'll 18th inst. In that number Is inserted letter, E purporting to have been written in this city, le on the 25th inst, by member of the House p' of Representatives belonging to the Pennsyl- le vania delegation. l believe 1t to be forgery ; ss but if it be genuine, pronounce the member, z. whoever. he may be, base and infamous :, calumniator-a dastard and lidr; and if "a he dare unveil himself, and avow his name, 10 WILL HOLD HIM RESPONSIBLE, ds Ihere Id admit myself to De, TO ALL THE. LAWS III WHICH GOVERN AND REGULATE