Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1844-07-26

ed this freely in Kentucky, to others as well az to
Nr. Benton, long before the Congress assembled
which was to make the election TO Cen Lqfty- !
lie, then in this country, Mr.. Clay made the sane
declaration previous to the election, as Gen. La
hyette himself declares. Mr., Clay's course was
therefore fixed before the trial he was not
in the market to be bought by any man.
Ca,terly Beverly of "a is the next witness. lie
had the same ground for making the charcc that
General Jackson had, and in fact had all the infor-
nation which it was pretended that Jackson and
buchanan possessed, and he published letter to
sustain Jackson. lie died a few months ago, and
on his death bed wrote TO Mr.. Clay as toows'
at will he doubt of some establishment TO you 10
apology, becau,r in doing IL ny my " s 10 'ne as
5S'sSrc in et;@i"s Although the ii@c is quite gone
%cS nfi ,Sc sso yGy VEWY ON
character aud virtue genieman and certainly very heavy
ruic uau, fec, eednel DESTROYS to relieve you,
he compunciion that Is within having rea, t"
gSI %S e %f no os S y%S Of a" a
YOU 1s" sy ih ~ nI SGG
TREATED, for never have seen ANY EvlDEN = 10 cub
stantialc at all the charge. CARTER BEVERLY"
Finally, last fall, on his tour to the West, John
@. Adams, publicly refuted the charge as follows
"Tbc charge. to which you refer. hive, AFTER my Of
before the Whole country and bcre oiieras and affirm
denial and ms shortly To appear before God, to an
found their way io throne of Eternal Justice, IwA, in the
presence " omnpotc"ee pronounce them FALSE"
Here then are the witnesses and their testimony.
Suppose the charge now to be made for the first
time, and Mr.. Clay to be arraigned for trials the
accusers bring their first witness, Mr.. Kremer-he
refuses to be either accuser or witness, and
stands dumb Mr., Buchanan is next called, and
swears that he never had any authority TO make a
bargain for Mr.. Clay, and never did do it; and fl
nally Mr.. Beverly takes the stand and testifes
point blank that he never had the least evidence of
the charge, and that it was false unjust and SIAN
derous These are the witnesses brought against
Mr.. Clay, and all OF them ,cere his political enemies
On the other hand he proves by Senator Critten-
den, Thomas II. Benton, and his neighbors II
Kentucky, that early in Dec. 1924, that is, as soor
as it was known that there was no election by the
people-he had made up his mind TO support Mr.
Adams he proves by General Lafayette that he
had informed him of the same fact previous to the
opening of Congress; and finally brings on ]. Q
Adams the man with whom it is said the bargain
was made, and he denies it in the most emphatic
terms. Where can a jury be found, even of loco
focos, who would not instantly render verdict o
NOT GUILTY? And then suppose that aile
such an gaton-when the facts had beer
forgotten--a committee Of Congress, members 0
Congress on the stump, an locofoco newspapers
should reiterate the charge over and over again
in defiance of this proof and without apprizng thu
public of it we ask if every honest would no
burn with Indignation at such an outrage upon thu
character of any CITIZEN and justly delounce tn
perpetrators of it as malicious sanderers = falst
accusers-base 1ecevers Of the people? Such il
TIE crusade against the public and private charac
ter of Henry Clay. 1t would be infamous in th'
lowest blackguards of the locofoco press but whci
such crusade is sanctioned by men high in au
thorty, it is doubly infamous, because doubly inju
rious. If these men do not meet just retrbuo
in the Indignation and contempt ,f the pepolc, thu
goading conscience of the dying Beverly warn
them that there is tribunal before which they can
not pass unscahcd.