New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-09-04


e fa ss y VIII
s as sSsh ers no psSishsss XII would Inc
ka ought e ta n
Of the american public is ehseriny ~ Y
sf.ExiNeToNs sssiii Iune 1877, Il n. .s 4
III reply to this General ckson denied thas ne Was
an accnser bnt simply the narrator Of facts ~ refer
ence to the disposition Of Mr. Clay and MS frlsnds az
to the Presidential election coming from source on
which he had reliance he repeated the in.ofmatlen
thus derived and then the proof Of 1t demanded
by Mr.. Clay In the paragra +5&
This disclosure was made ome by M James buchanan,
member o Congress from gentleman q ~
pss Major Eaton
colleague IN the Senate with Ta @
ts IL on ,hs sSse declined
aS sih sessa ss NJ opinion
knawledge 81 thought he could conjecture my answe
No saes ssE
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and where The conversation haze s.a,ea tpok ee hSe
81 ss bssBsssa ss ms
the cautiously submitted Of some
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the was made MI Clay and hs friends Know
Il s tns Ss SseS @
a pase Ohis lis and his friends opinions
Forthwith mater certainty and general knowledge Still.
hase G HE anS Of r uy neither
saa that his s na SSress made
Mr.. Buchanan, thus called out, replied in the Ian.
caster Journal and after stating that he was prompted
in his movements by a rumor " that General jackson
had determined should he be elected President, to
continue Mr.. Adams Secretary of State' he comes
to the point put issue, and thus relates the crcum-
stances which brought him with his proposals to
| General Jackson: "a s=3s
the month of December 1924 short time after the COM
enceent the session of Congress- heard among other
be to In A. AdnIs
such d ii Intention sensible g better
@ eonsaes s5df &c Is Ind
ee ee@ps,itor for ~ highest ONCE within his Eff
Hs is pe n n to eoaes
report and declare lie would that Office the
paf RS 1Ss
aa iii os ssaed II
wh9 had ever been the decided advocate Of General
FL s
1874 the @ is b enno me-
either that would ask General dickson myself 81
e. I
Hoped contradiction Of the report might he obtained
e appoint h# M Ne %s declare
time previous the receipt of the letter to which
versato very often did both before and after the
would probably selected ~ Cen Jackson III the
ep ii e his bt o So with
reluctance because has already without agency Of mne
adysrtsa the which have mentioned
that Mr. Claws friends warmly attached to him and tha
hs ee a did they would either oee Mr.
Adams Gen. Jackson at but that many Of them
Hs u eay I oes +
M d % hs il
BE- offered hs snson
would appoint Nj Adams Secretary Of State %
fha
a g n s bean to hnnns s shs a
call upon The General myself bis other &
do and thus endeayor to get from him contradiction of the
report although doubted whether he would hold converse
ton upon The subject
had not determined whom he would appoint
of State and should say that would not be Adams might
ae @ oos
Adams na o5 W sg
for Western man. if there was probability that The claims
stmated that they thought for General
Jackson hey could decide e contest s his axo5
abls s M tine no. only iron s lee
q ssh 9'
Jackson After the company had left him by which found
ra il oeer pom " Street
s lie sa 5 E5saea IL nT &c %ss
upon the subject that therefore if he deemed he
IL for @
he would exes Me fa Introducing subject about which
reply s9mpR;sntary myself and &C PM?
report circulation that he had determined he would
point MI ADAMS ADJ Secretary Of State in case he
had n'maed such intention that he must at once per
no f abe and the
try, among whom thought Mr. Clay might be included VIII
TstS as et appoint s u.s. chief n
aRn n e n ssf hoS 9js his
port should be promptly conadced under his own authority
ed relate him the substance the conversation HAD he'll
ms
had finished the General declared he had not the least objection
had never sad minated that would apPon
him Secretary of State tat these he would keel
a he lis hsn E knew
a Of and rs Ct 5 eTsn it sa he
President it would be without solicitation and without intrgn
Rnt s s sfS tie
f e be I'll fn In ~ the % ne
Told him that lis question such one IS
not sos to obtain my Satisfaction then asked hil
at ibsrtyto report his He said was at pei
scarcely snark that Afterwards ayaed myself Of the priv
intercourse since whether personally the Of
correspondence Gen adreed to the sui
Do not recoect that Cen Jackson told me might ropes
M o I & fR o s bs
, public street i might haye'escaped my observation
= LANCASTER Aug. s, 1927. JAMES BUCHANAN,
Mr. Markley, the party referred to by Mr.. Buehana
as the friend of Mr.. Clay states that Mr.. Buchana
came to his ROOM he believes but cannot say with
tainty on the 30th December 1924. He was alone an
repeats what Mr. Buchanan says about his solicituC
for General Jackson and the rnmors about his maxim
# Mr. Adams his Secretary, and then continued his
0 count Of Mr.. Buchanans conversation, thus: NJ
Mr. Buchanan stated that he had written to- received lie
ter from, mutual friend of in Pennsylvania the
iec of the Presidential election and Cabinet appointments
that he had determined to call the General himself
get Major Eaton to mention to him the reports that in CT
culation and obtain, If he could contradiction of them
> Buchanan also asked If had Mr. Clay, and whether hi
conversation with him touching the Presidential cecto
70 replied that had him in the House, but had had
# conversation with him that subject but said anXo
TO get opportunity to have conversation with Him. II
u great anxiety that he should vote with Pennsylvania
is Buchanan replied that felt anxious, for vario
N reasons than he did himself that important not only
the of General acksons election that Mr. Clay shog
go with Pennsylvania, bnt account of his Interior polite
er prospects-decariDg that he r Buchana hopes seq
Clay President Of the United States and that another
General Jackson elected and that il he certf
that Mr. Cays views favorable TO General Jacksons ell
the subject get Major Eaton do that he thong
by doing he would confer particular benefit his
and that he could nothing wrong in it. Mr.. Buchan
G. urged to no delay in seeing Mr. Clay told hin
house. think the evening after this conversation but he
- not Mt his lodgings called TO see him again. but he had
- Of his friends with him, and had opportunity of
with him, nor had ever any conversation with him. until
evening of the 10Th i!h January prior my leaving Wa
e. ington for PennsyVani to attend the courts in Motgom
In county. The conversation then had with him of "
AS general character mention was made of Cabinet
menls and did not ascertain which of the candidates Mr.
10. would support.
saon with Mr.. Buchanan about The friends of Mr. Clay
er ing in concert The election however distinctly recoll
that both expressed anxious hope that the West would
nv separate from Pennsylvania. have recollection wae
of having urged Mr.. b. Gen. jackson, although
M Cured in the proprey Of his suggestion that he should cal
ID sec him. Nor have the fnncsI recollection Of anything be
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