Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1844-08-09
POLITICAL.

But inlluneSS rclgnS supreme III Dlue
POLITICAL.
(Eton the Washington Telegraph, May, 1929
REPLY
Bin Mc .Ja1L0n Corresponding Committcc Of III
District Of C0iWMbi0 10 Mr.. Ci0yS last AdircsS.
IcON1TNrED.
But if Mr. Clay had made nj his mind unalte
rably to vote against General Jackson, rs earl,
as October, 1924 and was PLAYING the hypocrit,
with the Generals friends in the Legislature ant
in Congress, what will that avail hin! VIII hi;
Acknowledgement that he was guilty of prevar
cation and hypocrisy, acquit him OF bargain and
corrup,ion? Not at all Whatever may have
been the secre, purposes OF his mind, ne main
tained the same mysterious bearing towards Mr.
Adams and his friends that he did towards the
other candidates All had hopes, but none un-
dersood him. In his address 10 his constituents,
he saws. During the month of December, and
the greater part OF January, strong professions OF
high consideration and of Gnbounded admiration
of me- were made to my friends, in the greatest
profusion, BY some If tie setire hicnds Of ALL tic
1ctuy,,ed candidates None were SO reserved as
those of Mr.. Adams, &c. Hence, according 10
his own showing the friends OF Mr.. Adams were
not apprized of his unalleIable resolution, formed
in October until near the end OF January.
WHY did Mr. Clay so long conceal his unwa-
yerins determination from Mr. Adams and his
friendsl WHY did he remain SO long uncommil-
ted as TO them! We have sill the same answer.
in the language OF General Mfecalfe, il was ''to
know something about how the Cabinet was TO be
filled" As soon as that point was settled as
soon as. in the language of Mr.. Trimble, he ''as-
certained that Mr.. Adams would make him Sc
cretary OF State and the Western States had
been brought into the arrangement, then, and moi
till then was the disguise thrown oil, and his I'M
allerable decision made known 10 The friends OF
Mr. Adams and 10 the public Even, therefore,
il he had made up his mind il was Just as much
Il bargain as if he had not. Nay. it was worse
than bargain it was bargain founded upon Il
corrupt consideration, ey,oted by false prcienceS
Mr. CLAW acknowledges thu; he considered il his
duty TO girc his vote to Mr.. Adams; and YET, he
took advantage Of the necessities of Mr.. Adams
and compelled him 10 pau far II. He would nol
agree 10 give il, until he "diSlinc,lv asccrtaincd'
show the Cabne, was To b. flied" He cxacted
for il the Office of Secretary OF State with re-
yersionary interest in the Presidency. He insist
ed ON being designated by the President as his
successor, the heir apparent hy safe precedent
II cannot be necessary 10 examine, III dcloii
the evidence which Mr.. Clay has adduced 10
prove his innocence. II chiefly consists OF letters
Of expursatlon from those members Of Congress
iniltcd on The rights OF the people. If these men
are admitted to be competent witnesses in favor Of
each other, then may any combination Of cuipriis
swear themselves innocent, one by one. II Mr.
Me,calle and Mr. Tri,blc are competent wit
nesses Tor Mr.. CLAY. then Mr. Clay i, = compe-
tent witness for them; and each of the delinquent
members of Congress may. in lis tuTn. bring in
all the rest 10 prove his purity. These letters are
the tales OF well drilled Witnesses, who have all
been trained 10 tell the same story. They testify
in their own case without oath or croSS-eyamina-
ton. Proof that one has testified falsely discrc-
dts the whole. Hence, in the ample rcftltation
we have given OF The ground assumed Ivy Mr..
Clay, We have shown the tallacv of all the cvi-
dencc lie has embodied in his defence.
However, we feel inclined 10 examine The prin-
cipal positions assumed By one OF his icstifying
accompliccs, not because he has told less truth
Than the rest, but merely as a specimen OF the
whole. For this purpose, We have selected Mr..
David Trimble In his letter, published in Mr..
Clsy's lale Address, speaking of his own prcvi-
ous intentions, he says:
at IS enough 10 say, without dwelling upon
matters concerning myself, that concluded as
early IS February, 1921, 10 vote ior Mr. Adams
s.e second choice in the event of Mr.. Claws eX-
illusions from the House" &c. Lest. Is he had
good re.son 10 apprehend. the world should doubt
his word on this point he introduces letter lion
Judge rrimhc, stating that his ''in,ention had
been expressed to him a, Ina, tine
Remember, that this was AT the CITY of Wash
iugton, in the month Of February, 1921 Mr..
Irimblc returned home, and became a candidate
Tor reelection 10 Congress. Now let US hear
what language he held 10 his constituents about
Mr.. Adams, after, as he says, he had made m
his mind to vote for him as second choice:
s.Jos:ph ScereSi, a member of the House OF Re-
personalities stated that he heard Mr. David
Trimble say, in a speech or speeches, made in
1921, that John Quincy Adams was noted Fe-
deralist that he was inmical 10 the West, and
wanted TO sell TO the British the navigation of the
Mississippi"
JESSE S3mn,cyS, Esq, formerly member of Ia,
Kentucky House OF Representatives, states that
Trimble represented John O. Adams 10 he a
dangerous man, and an enemy 10 the Western
country. He said, that Adams had voted al the
treaty Of Client, TO give up The navigation OF The
Mississippi 10 the British Tor mess of goldfish
Richard r. Lee, Tarpcy Taylor. ChaS. Spcn-
Ger, Mordecai Williams, T. w. Jones, l.. L. Ear
~, William Shockley, Aquila Thompson, Jesse
Summers, John Taylor and James Alexander,
ali OF them respectable citizens Of Fleming coun
", Kentucky, and several of them at different
times members OF the Kentucky Legislature state,
that ':,hey heard David Trimble say, in a speech
on the Courthouse steps in F'e,ninesburg thatthe
Elder John Adams was the most dangerous man
in Government. in his day and that young John
O. Adams was chip Of the old block if any
odds, worse; that, in the Treaty at Client, he
wanted to barter away the navigation OF the Mis-
sissippi the keystone of the Western country for
a mess of codfish;rhat he was always considered
an apostatc Federalist that he always had been
hostile to the West and that we never will have
an equal chance with the Eastern people, until
we get a Western President; that we now have
chance in the West, for We hare two candidates
for the Presidency; and that he thought Henry
Clay was the strongest and if We could not get
him, we have another chance in the West, 10 wit,
General Jackson"
John Mason, .Jr., Esq, formerly member OF
the Kentucky Legislature, testiies that "Yrimble
told him, in September 1924, that he knew Adams
10 be an Apostate Federalist; and that if he ever
voted for him witness might call him Federal
isl as long as he lived. He also said, that Adams
had agreed 10 give up the navigation of the Mis-
Sissippi river, for whales and mackcrel and thai
he, Adams, had always been an enemy to the
West"
IL II possible, that as early as February. 1921,
Mr.. Trimble had determined 10 vote, as second
choice for this dnostotc Fedcralisi," this scncmy
of the JPca" this lrorsc' politician than old John
Adams. HEae most dangerous man Ia the Gorcfn-
aae,t TN las das," this man who proposed at Client
80 eirs ap tie navigation Of Lhc Mississippi for a
mes Of coa6A9' Isitpossible that while he was
holding this language 10 his constituents he che
rished in his breast secret resolution 10 vote, as
his second choice, for the very man he was de.
nouncingl Is itpossiblc, that he could have told
them, awe have another choice in the West, viz;
Gen Jackson" and, at The same time, have made
up his mind to prefer Mr.. Adamse This beats
Mr. Clay. He abused Mr.. Adams first, and made
up his mind TO vote for him ni!trw0rds; but Mr.
Trimble frs. makes up his mind 10 vote for him,
AMI afterwards abuses him through a whole cleo
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