The North-Carolina standard., 1844-10-23
THE BLAIR LETTER.
74p The points IN Gay's bargain auth
adams IN 1924. ~

ronoress "that Jackson had shed great glory
,ron his country, and that he entertained for him
,be birhest respect and esteem" Adams he had
charged with a conspiracy when our Minister at
Gbent, in 1914, in proposing to give the British |
the free navigation of the Mississippi in consid-
orot;on of getting from the British the privilege
:, the Yankee States of fishing on the banks of
Newfoundland.
Adams had become so odious, on account
of this cbarne-nade and circulated against him
l., cI,v-that in the Presidential election of 1924
when he was competing candidate with Clay
and Jackson, he did not get single vote in the
whole State of kentucky. And so inveterate was
the hate oftLat State against Adams & so profound
It's admiration for Gen. Jackson, that the Lngis-
lalure of Kentucky in the winter of '24-25 in
structed their Representatives the floor of Con-
gross (Clay being one of thcm) to vote for jack
son in preference to Adams
g. So bitterly had Adams been attacked and
prosecuted by Mr.. Clay and his presses in Ken
tucky on this charge that he compelled in
defence of his private and public character, to
come out with published vindication of his con-
vindicalion Mr.. Clay published card in the Ma
tona IntelIigcncer, in which he charged that the
said vindcation false in fact and false in opin
ions, and promised that he would expose these
false facts and opinions to the public at some more
convenient season. But maIk he never has.)
%. Mr. Clay states in his letter to Blair these
very pungent facts: That the friends ofthe three
competing candidates before tho House jackson,
Adlms, and Crawfurd,) all believed that the vote
of the Kentucky Delegation would decide the cleo
ton, and that he could influence them Therefore,
he statcs the friends of these three candidates.
orally, were warmly imporuning him to go for
their favoIitr and that of them but the friends
of Mr.. Adams urged upon him that " Ills Oacn Ju-
ture interests pointed out to him certain course
He next states to Blair that he had made up his
mind TO go for Adams, for fear the election of
Jackson ight encourage the military spirit (which
would, (he thinlsS) wound the character of our
institutions and lead 10 most pernicious results
Reader! stick pin here. In order to hide his
guilt he had 10 give some excuse for preferrng
Mr. Adams The Legislature and people of Ken
lucky had no doubt considered the question wheth-
er Gen. Jackson, having been a military man.,
would prove in his elevation dangerous to the
country, and they were competent 10 decide for
themselves as Mr.. Clay, and he, as their servant,
was bound to respect and obey their instructions.
Why, then, did he set up his own opinion against
the achOle State, especially before that time he
had avowcd himself on the floor of Congress,
the strongest sort of an inst7uctiOMiSt? He next
states 10 Mr.. Blair that his o,on friends ncln
cd TO go for Adams, believing it will 'in the end"
be more likely to accomplish their kind wishes
for him (Mr. Clay) Reader! how often over
wcening friends push us into temptation He
next very modestly tells Blair that he had told
these very kind friends, however, not to consider
him in the matter, but only the public good.
Reader! If it was proper that Clay should make
this modest disclaimer of not wishing his friends
to consider his opn interests, how happens it that
after Clay had made Adams President he did not
bethink himself how wong it would look TO the
world that sin The emd" he should accept the of
fee of Secretary of State under Adams. Mr..
Clay lastly tells MIR. Blair, that as one of the
Kentucky delegates in Congress- MIR. White, has
not exactly made up his mind TO go for Adams,
and as White had great respect for BIairs opin-
ions, he, Blair, must write on to White and
strengthen him TO go for Adams Reader why
this active interference the part of Mr.. Clay ?
These being the main facts, we must next draw
the conclusions
l. The charge Clay made against Adams of a
conspiracy against the West, was either true or
false. If fal<e then Mr. Clay was a base and
black hearted slanderer, from no other motive than
to njure Mr.. Adams, who was running against
him for the Presidency. If true, then Mr. Clay
never should have used his influence to elect a
man who had shown himself an enemy to the
West and indeed to the whole country, and who
was especially hateful 10 Kentuckians. Either
horn Of this dilemma must ruin Tie character of
Clay
g. Why has no! Mr.. Clay performed his pub
lie pledge, made in his card in the National In
telligencer, to expose the false facts and opinions
contained in Mr.. Adams vndcation of himself2
Did the bargain with Adams, and the office under
Adams, seal his lips?
3. How could he reconcile it to his sense of
duty to desert his friend, Gen. jackson, whom
ne esteemed and respected, and who had shed
great glory on his country" and whom the peo-
pie of kentucky so ardently loved, and go O0er
10 Mr. AdGms-his personal enemy, and the ene-
nv of Kenfuckv and tho Woet1