Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1844-08-06
POLITICAL.

OLD us.
POLITICAL.
(F'oa, tie Washington Telegraph, May, 1929
REPLY
BY tie Jaekson Corresponding Committee Of III
District Of Columbia, to M C2eyslas. Addrtss.
fCoSTlNUED.]
Has Mr.. CLAW ever acknow ,dgcd to Mr Ada ms
AID atne'l for his agency in these transactions
Or has II been conre led until il was DIR ggel
out by his own friends in the Senate Of Ken
tuck,, When was III re- a mutual acknowledge
ment Of error AMI INJURY? When was the gaunt
let, whlc., had been publicly thrown and accept
ed, withdrawn: When did Mr. Clay rctract hi:
charges against Mr.. Adams. Of hostility to the
West, Of curtailihg her territory, depressing hel
people, md >eling her blood, When he say
that MIR. Adams had done hm no more Than JUS
Ii in charging him with sectional course a
Client, with dragging mi hon asans, a cent.
insinuating that he had stimulated Russel's at
tack and filled The Wesle'n country with Sian
ders, When did Mr.. Adams withdraw hes
charges and nsinuaiions against Mr. Clay, and
acknowledge that he had acted with justuess
fairness and honor:
In his speech at Mobiles. Mr. Clay says M
cool or honorable man ,cil do another ecluntyri-
iy any injustice" In his add, ess, he says, tie
ojtg"ti"n to observe the principles othsDor, and
TO speak ,cnh scrupuious rsracuy ofal men, and
especially ej our competitors, IS nef.cteady time
or place "
Has Mr.. Clay practised his own ayowed prin.
cpeef lie publicly declared, that Mr. Adams's
errors were I'm doubt uniafeDiicnni;' he prl.
vatcy caused TO be published, and BY his money
widely circulated, charges. tina: Nj. Adams's
conduc, at Client was not onl, highly censura-
Bile, but his errors doubt sss "iat,nti"na' "
Nor S the situation Of Mr.. Adams mere envia-
BILE. Hi. own publication. p owe that he well
knew of VI CLAWS agency IN the attacks upon
MS conduct and his integrity By receiving him
into h S Cabinet. he virtually rc;rarts all h had
said or irslauaied Of NJ Clay, pleads guilty 10
the charges made against him IN the West, ant
degradcs himself. What! Can 40 honorable
man take TO hi, bosom ono whom he knows to
have treated him most di,honor ,bly, without re-
traction or at nemeut?
Ia what light aus; .'men Of honor" view the
President aud his Secretary; They must look
on tn-m as rank pol ,ca! offender, or mutual
saudercrs II The, told the truth Of each other
they are unworthy of public trust: { they toll
falsehoods, they dvserv- neither public trust nor
private conf,cucc II either event, according
conduct OF men Of honor.'' as laid down in Mr..
Clays code. they could never have mct in the
Cabinet By such men, and according TO such
laws, il was rath 10 be expected, that each
would cnrd the OF er as n 6asr nad infimg,ts
calumniu'Or, a asstard ami air.
Strong must have been tie inducements which
brought these men together.
10 ju,,if, hi, abandonment of principle, Mr..
g
Saw in biz (Mr. Adsms'sj lection, the establish
nent Of no dangerous exsmpl saw in ii, OF
tn contrary. only conformity 10 the safe prece
den which had been establish d in the distances
Of NJ Jefferson, Mr.. Madison and Mr. Mon
roe who had respectively filed The same office,
from which lie was 10 be translated"
Al Mr.. Cla,s fr,end- in thu st, with him
self al her head lad taken The ground that The
Secretary Succession wa, DAP .erous 10 liberty;
;;iat II aprcoSin,,c our q, or N nj 10 that oil
inper; f"n. .:tcr: ;cn emperor appointed
his SUCCESSOR; that il The eXa,np!u were foil we'd
further. II would always be CONS derrd matter
of course to cleo, The Secrc,ar, Of State 10 the
Presidency; and tat The agency Of The peoplc IL
lie election would be hat nominal, While the cal
power If aesgna;in. the neu Chicl Magistrate
wonl he i" The evi>,in. President. Mr. Gays
defence l!iercf as extra rtinary as il was
b'il rrpi,ce ~ it. true Ii hit. let us con
iri>, it " N The o.no Address. adopted IN Jaly.
1871:
oh o .7ddress 1924 .Hr Clay 1925.
we're Mr.. Clay 81 saw in Mr.. Ad
(" Withdrawn IN re- "ams'> election, The e.
&" suit ~ 20 the e,ect,un 'hi,hneut OF no dan-
b. EJECT r., wnrl! be geroaS ezYnpc
IA. >anc; ar il "si. "a il on the con.
=. go. . ,,nt n ~ M tr,ry only conformity
Dl,e in The pr 81 IL tie .oje precsasat
ds nj Ch l. oae If hen had b, en- cs!a-
N .,,.e., fab II. bl,>hrd i The ,u~lan
n.,c IT ,rhich il ms ces nf Mr. J, tferson
n s = ob;ec, of be Mr.. NJ ,d,son AID Mr.
fri'a 8 # Mr.. Civ " Nor G, who had re.
. ere enf. no N re- "srectiveiy filled the
Ter g. 4, the m.n. "s.me uliice from
!. hat In n. , inc;,len "which he was TO be
translated"
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