Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1856-07-17
(From the Louisville Journsi.)
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Clay and Northumberland jack
sons Testimony-Look at This.

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nomination for the Presidency, we said with
out moments hesitation. that full reve
laton of the conduct during the pendency
Of the Presidential election in the House o.
Representative in 1926, would kill him with
the American people. We have already
developed upon him, in connection with
that affair, enough to kill half dozen men
of more vitality than he ever possessed.
And now we have another document to lay
before the public, document that will
attract and rivet the country's attention,
letter written by Gen. Jackson near the
close of his eventful life. Important lead
| ing facts connected with MIR. Buchanan'S
extraordinary movements in the Presidential
election of 1925 are already before the
world. He went to Mr.. Clay, and, to induce
that distinguished statesman TO support
General Jackson, assured him, as ifby au-
thori'y that Gen. Jackson, il elected, would
make him Secretary Of State.
Without receiving the slightest encour-
agement he went to Gen. Jackson, told him
that Mr. Clay if promised the SecretaryshiP
would support him, and earnestly solicited
permission to say from Gen. Jackson that,
if elected, he woald appoint Mr.. Clay
secretary. Gen. Jackson treated MIR. Buch.
anan's proposal as contemp,uously as Mr.
Clay had previously treated Mr. b IS pro-
posul to himself. Both Gen. Jackson aud
Mr.. Clay scorned all thought of bargain and
sale, and both alike repulsed their self-con-
sttued 90 between in his attempts to get
I'D a corrupt bargain between them. And
vet the 90 between, on being summoned BY
Gen. Jackson as a witness, lyingly express
sed belief that Mr.. Clay had been guilty
of bargain and corruption, and from that
time, for more than twenty years, humbly
supplicated Mr.. Clay to spare him by not
vindicating himself-by continuing to sub
mit unresistingly to the most cruel and
bitter of calumnies.
| We have said that we have another docu-
ment in connection with this matter to lay
before the public, letter written by Gen.
Jackson shortly before his death. The let
ter wos furnished three or tour days ago by
the Hon. Allen A. Hall, editor of the Nash
vile Banner, who says that the original
manuscript is in his possession. Here
| it is:
HERMITAGE, Feb. %, 1915.
"Your observations with regard to Mr..
Buchanan are correct. He showed want
of moral courage in the affuir of the intrigue
of CLAW and Adums-did not do me justice
in the expose he then made, and am sure
about that time did believe there was per-
feet understanding between Adams and Clay
| about the Presidency and the Secretary OF
State. This am aure of. But whether
he viewed that there was any corruption in
the case or not, | knew not; bus one thing
| do know, that he wisted me to combat them
aoith their oUn ,Oeapons--that was to let my
| friends say if was elected | would make
MIR. Clay Secretary of State. This to me
appeared gross corruption, and | repelled 1t
with honest Indignation which | thought 1t
deserved"
Let the public mark that Gen. jackson
saws that he knows that MIR. Buchanan,
when he came to him, wished to get him to
say that he would give the SecreiaryshiP o..
State to Mr.. Clay for his vote, and he adds
that Mr.. Buchanan's proposition appeared to
Kim gross corruption, and, that he repelled
with indignation. Here We have 1t under
Gen Jack ,on's own hand that Mr. Buchan-
| an made to him what he considered grois-
ly corrupt proposition, one which ne ieit
called on 10 repel with scorn and lndlgna-
,ion, and he charges beside that DIR. Buch-
anan was guilty of moral cowardice in not
daring, when called on by him, to confirm
what he had privately stated to him.
As the Nashville Banner remarks, strong
! point to be pressed is, that MIR. Buchanan
it is now conclusively proved by Gen
Jackson-himself, did want the General to
practice the very corruption which MIR Buch-
anan's political friends charged upon Mr.
Adams and MIR. Clay-that MIR. Buchanan
did, of his own accord and on his own indl-
vidual responsibility, go to Gen. Jackson
and urge him, with the view of buying the
support of Mr.. Clay's friends, to let his (Gen.
:, Jackson's) friends say, if he was elected'he
would make Mr.. Clay Secretary OF State-a
proceeding that Gen. Jackson thought in
volved 'deep corruption" That proceed
ing, on the part OF Mr.. Buchanan, ought
certainly to deprive him of the support OF
eyery man, of whatever party, that ever
made, the charge of "bargain, intrigue, and
corruption" against Mr.. Clay ground OF
objection to him.
This strikes the scafoldng from under
the feet of those organs that have been at
tempting to excuse The proposition of Mr.
Buchanan in his interview with Mr.. Clay
: upon the miserable pretext that it was only
lest. The language that Mr.. B. used to
4 Mr.. Clay at the time, and his ab]ect en-
treaties afterwards to be spared the morti-
fication and the infamy of an exposure, rem
der the very idea that his corrupt PROPOSE
! non was but Jest perfectly ridiculous; and
if these considerations were not enough, II
certainly would be enough to refer to Gen.
, Jackson's written testimony in the last days
of his life that Mr. Buchanan excited his
scorn and Indignation by endeavoring to
prevail. upon him to makes corrupt bar
gain with Mr.. Clay. Of course all ihe..Sag'
Nicht talk about 1.-THE Jest" is now annihi'
lated, and We are curious to see what Will be
the next Sag.Nicht device for relieving the
Sag-Nicht candidate for the Presidency
from the avalanche OF infamy that has fallen
f upon his head.
: All, fellow-co countrymen, you rejected the
u immortal Clay thrice as candidate for tht
Presidency because on the authority o
: lanes Buchanan, the charge ofbargain ant
corrnption was made against him in 1925
:. Your repeated rejections of him almos
: broke his great heart, and yet, Throughout vi
: : his vain and mighty struggles for the high
9 est honor in your gift, he in his mercy heed
= ed the prayers of the author OF the caumn.
q that crushed him and forebore to hurl
= back as he could at any moment have done
upon the head of the guilty calumnlator'-
But Justice terrible justice, at length over
takes that calumniatOr.
O. The world now knows from Mr.. Clay
~ own hand that Mr.. Buchanan proposed bar