The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 184?-1851, 1844-05-29
NUMBER 10.

Adams.-These articles charged Mr.. Adams
with an unfeeling policy" with "giuing our
tOiUes and children for fish, and barterng The
blood Of our citizens for money" with policy
which " ,0Ould crimson oar fresh fields Nth the
blood of our border brethren, and light The mid
night forest Nth The flames of their dtoelliags." :"
" JoHN Q. ADAMS, said one of these articles,
" can neuer receive the vote Of Ohio. He is too
ignorant of our interests, or he dsregards them"
Such was the language sanctioned by Mr.. Clay
in 1922. In the ensuing year, pamphlet was
written in kentucky, at his instigation, by Mr.
Kendall, on the subject of the fisheries, in which
MIR. Adams was charged with hostility to the
west, with violation of instructions, and with du-
pllcity, falsehood, and almost every thing dishon
orable and base in public man. Mr.. Adams
was denounced in it as an artfaI sophist, cIum-
l&ynegotiator," and as possessing " uiers too err
roaeows, feelings too sectional, and temper too
plndictioe for the chief magistrate Of a free peo-
pIe!n
| For printing this pamphlet, Mr.. Clay paid to
Mr.. Tanner, of Lexington, Kentucky, the sum
of one hundred dollars, as was proven by Mr..
Tanners own testimony before the Legislature
Of KY, in 1928. He was also personally active
in the circulation of ii, as is proven by the follow
ing letter to its author, part Of which we have
before quoted:
DEAR SIR Several inquiries have been made about
your pamphlet the fisheries, by members of Congress,
and have promised request copy be sent to Mr.
David Sloane, of the Ohio Senate ct Columbus; anoh-
grto the Hou Henry Storrs and another to the Hon
them forwarded?
There is an effort making to get up a caucus
doubt it's success Mr.. Adams is weaker to the north
he hears in this place My prospects very good.
Yours with great esteem,
Washington, 17th Dec.'
The course Of Mr.. Clay's friends.
The subordinates took their cue from the
chief Every where Clay's friends attacked
Albums as unfit for the Presidency.
Darid Trimble, one of Mr.. Clay's most effec-
tive supporters in the Congressional delegation
from Kentucky, in September 1924, denounced
Mr. Adams as an "apostate federalist, and an
enemy to the west, who had offered to barter
away the navigation Of the Mississippi for whales
and mackerel. See evidence before the Ken
tucky Legislature, 1928.
| John Sloane, a member Of Congress from the
State of Ohio the same for whom Mr.. Clay re-
quested from Kendall copy of the pamphlet on
the fisheres-and the same man who was lately
our Secretary of State, and who is now one of
the editors of the Ohio State Journal was then,
as now, warm friend of Mr.. Clay. He also de-
nounced the Adams party, and, in letter dated
December, 1923, addressed TO Mr.. Naylor, Of
Columbiana county, Ohio, declared that g the
old federalists and men of no political party
were generally for Mr.. Adams"
The Address of the Clay convention, in Ohio,
in July, 1924, avowed that the chief object Of
supporting MIR, Clay, was to defeat Mr.. Adams.
We give the words of the address:
"Were Mr.. Clay Withdrawn, the result as to the
election by the electors would most probably be the
same or if it were not it would place in the Presiden-
tal chair one of the present Cabinet which ii
was the first object of the friends Of Mr. Clay pre-.
vent. ="
The address containing this language was writ
ten by Charles Hammond, of the Cincinnati Ga
zotte, and signed by Joseph Vance, as chairman
of the convention.
CIay'sSel6sh and SinisterDesigns.
As the election approached, Mr.. Clay's chan
ces greatly diminished The rapid progress OF
Gen. Jackson's popularity swept away his last
hope of being elected by the people, and rem
dered it extremely doubtful whether he could be
one of the three candidates returned to the House
of Representatives Had he been an honest,
ItAdll, Tree IOl dll SlIlIbtSl uCSiSlioJ iC NOuu
have withdrawn his pretentons, and left the peo-
pie to choose their own President. But his ca
ger thilst for self aggrandizement did not permit
him 10 pursue a course so honorable and patriot
| ic His friends at Washington city, in May,
1914, put forth CIRCULAR which, there is good
reason to believe, was written by Mr.. Clay him
self, advising his friends to adhere to him
steadily, sand assuring them
| 1 ,l,
his friends having done their duty, will be able, by
concentration, control the event They will hold in
their hands the balance"
In the Month of October, 1924, Mr. Clay him
self declared TO the Hon. Charles A. Wickliffe,
of Kentucky, the probability of his being exclu
ded from the House, and said that,
To meet such a contingency, my friends must be pre-
pared and think it best that they should hastily
commi, themselves in their second choice"
AT the same time, he recommended the same
non committalsm to the Hon. L. r Moore, of
Kentucky. These facts clearly show thlt he
kept up separate party with the express design
of being enabled TO control the event by ma
king the very bargain which he afterwards did.
The result before the people.
Mr. Clay was the lowest of the four candidates
Jackson having 90 electoral votes, and being
the highest, Adams S4 Crawford IL, and Clay
81. Jackson had the votes of ii States Adams,
off; Crawford, of 3; and Clay, of 3. The three
States which voted for Mr. Clay, were Kentuc-
ky, Ohio, and Missouri. Had Mr. Clay declined
the canvass, and left them 10 have made their
own choice between Jackson and Adams, it is
undeniable that Jackson would have received
an almost unanimous vote in each Of them; and
thereby been elected by the people.
The Popular Expectation