Independent Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1842-1844, 1844-08-21
REyERDY JOHNSON ON THE
BARGAIN AND SALE.

lie extract DeloW Is from an duuTeS
to the people of Maryland by Mr.. Rever
dy Johnson, aud published in the Marylan
Gazette of the year 1928. MIR. Johnson
is now a leading Wig and high in thu
confidence Of the wing party. The ad
dress clearly shows what was the gentle
mans opinion of Henry Clay at that time
and of the administration Of Adams ant
Clay. He says that administration came
into power by votes "giyen under the ma
niies or kaown influence of the very in
diyidual whose elevation TO the office o.
Secretary of State could be insured only
by so bcsiowing them;" showing that Al
the time when the facts were all fresh in
his mind, he had no sort of doubt of The
bargain which had been formed between
the two dignitaries to cheat a majority Of
the American people out of their choice
for President, and defeat will which they
had expressed in the most emphatic man
ner. Yet now, the force of party associ.
atoms has driven him, with many Others
into the advocacy of the very man who
he then believed, and must still believe, to
have been one of the chief actors in that
foul transaction.
Johnson, with the whole body of the
republican party, were fully convinced
that this nefarious bargain had been made;
and il is only when for some ambitious
purpose, that some one of them has chang
ed his politics, he finds it necessary 10 af.
feet a want Of belief in the charge -
Willie P. Mangum, John M. Bolts,
Reverdy Johnson, George Il Badger,
John Bell, Ephraim H, Foster and a host
of others who are now prominent in the
country, must either have been convinced
beyond doubt, of the existence OF a cor.
rurt and scandalous intrigue, or have been
set of the most arrant calumniators that
ever lived. We are much more inclined
TO believe the former than the latter. But
we will sec what Mr.. Clay's particular
friend, Reverdy Johnson, then said about
the administration of Adams and Clay:
sit came into power by the votes Of
those who disregarded the will of their
constituents, for the avowed purpose of
advancing to the Office of Secretary of
State the individual who now holds it, and
OF thereby placing him by the rule of safe
precedent in the line of succession to the
Presidency.
"lt came into power by votes thus Civ.
en- in-dvfiunUe Of the known and uoknowi.
edged or expressed will of the constituent;
and given under the manifest or known
influence Of the very individual whose
elevation 10 the office OF Secretary Of
State could be insured only by so bestow-
ing them.
SIT was organised at IFS birth by ad-
vancing to the Office of Secretary of State
the very individual to whom MIR. Adams
is admitted to owe his election, and by
thus effecting an alliance between them in
fortunes and fame, which placed the
present Secretary in subordination to him,
with whom, in former days, he had even
refused to hold seat in the cabinet
which required of him an abandonment Of
all Tue principles on which his own preten-
tons 70 the Presidency has been sustain
ed, and the surre, Ter of hostility found.
ed upon avowed estimates of character,
and allegations of improper acts and de-
signs on the part of Mr.. Adams, which, il
believed, proved him destitute of entegri.
ty and unworthy of all public confidence,
and which has Theoretically sealed the
Secretary's mouth as to his promised in
vesligatioas of the official conduct of Mr.. |
ADKINS at Client.
ST has created secret office for OBJ.
Iects wholly unnecessary, and has be.
slowed the same upon Representative 10
whose vote, against the will Of his con-
it owed its existence, who was
both from the want of health and qualifi-
cation, utterly unable to accomplish even
The avowed object for which this Office
was created, if necessary. And it has
created this secret office and rewarded
his individual with the secret service
money of the Government, after refusing
o him an appointment which would have
'een known to the people OF this country.
SIT has bestowed this secret office in
'uch manner and under such circum-
stances as to render it secret, rather with
eference 10 the people of the United
States, than to the people amongst whom
he objects of the secret mission were TO
Re accomplished, and after refusing any
'ut confidential disclosure of the charac-