The Nevada journal., 1856-09-19
Gen. jackson for the executive chair.

MI. crawford himself put forward as a
southern candidate wrote to Mr.. Clay
after slanderus accusations had been
made, saying The truth is, approved
OF your vote when it was given, and
should have voted as you did between
jackson and Adams"
The decision of Mr.. Clay in favor of
Adams, as had been foreseen, drew
upon his head the severest censure of
Jackson's supporters. Motives of the
deepest political corruption were attrib-
uted to him. They accused him of max
ing a deliberate stipulation or "bargain"
with Mr.. Adams, to give his influence,
on the understanding that he was to re-
ceive in payment the appointment to
the State department. The object was
to ruin Clay's prospects, and make cap
ital for jackson, in the next Presidential
campaign. Not shadow of proof was
furnished, and the story was never be-
lieved by those at Washington, who had
an opportunity to know the facts.
The first charge appeared in tangi-
bic form shortly previous to the election
by the House of representatives, in an
sercer, at Philadelph. 1t was soon as
certained to have been written by Mr.
Kremer, a member of the House from
Pennsylvania, and a tool of Buchanan.
Mr.. Clay at once published card in
the National htelligencer, denying, in
unequivocal terms, the allegation, and
pronouncing the author "an infamous
calumniator, bastard, and a liar -
MIR. Clay Immediately demanded that
the House raise committee to investi-
gate the case. The committee was ap-
pointed; but Kremer, on grounds of
most frivolous description, refused to
appear before the committee, though
acknowledging the authorship of the
letter, or to furnish a particle of proof of
the truth of the grave assertions he had
uttered-thus virtually acknowledging
their slanderous character. Mr.. CLAW
being thus deprived of the opportunity
of vindicating his innocence, the matter
remained unsettled until the next Pres
idential campaign, when it was revived
for effect against Mr.. Adams reelection.
Gen. jackson then wrote his famous
letter to Carter Beverly, in 1927 which
soon appeared in public print, in which
he said that member of Congress of
high respectability visited him one morn
ing, and informed him that an intrigue
was going on-that he had been inform
ed by the friends of Mr. Clay that the
friends of Mr.. Adams had made over
lures to them-saying, if Mr.. Clay and
his friends would unite in aid of Mr..
Adams election, Mr.. Clay should be Sec
retary of State; and if Jackson would
permit his confidential friends to say Mr..
Clay should be the Secretary, Clay's
friends would put an end to the contest
in one hour. Subsequently, Jackson
asserted that the person who called upon
him with these propositions was James
Buchanan.
On the appearance of this statement
of Gen. jackson, Mr.. Clay came out
with an explicit, full denial Here was
a direct collision between Jackson and
Clay, and all now rested with Buchanan.
Buchanan soon made his statement, in
which he denied saying to Jackson that
he was authorized by Mr.. Clay or his
friends, but made the statement on his
own individual responsibility" That
is, changing the issue of veracity be-
tween Clay and jackson to one between
himself and Jackson, apparently reliev-
ing Mr.. Clay and his friends, yet saying
in the same letter that "Mr Clay and
his particular friends made Mr.. Adams
President, and Clay Secretary of State.
The people will draw their own infer
ences from such conduct and the circum-
stancs connected with it. They will
Judge of the cause from the effect."-
This sentence occurs in the letter in
which he says "Had | ever known, or
even suspected that Gen. jackson be-
lieved l had been sent to him by Mr..
Clay or his friends, | should have i'm
mediately corrected his erroneous i'm
preston" Thus shielding himself from
the consequences of falsehood to
jackson, (for who believes jackson
descended to lie, and their statements
are at utter variance and at the same
time insinuating against Clay all the