pr no mv occasion represented myself. or wished il ;
to De understood, tlud 1 was authorised to receive,
or to'make ov ertures on the part of dir. Clay, or his
friends. I think proper to make this general and
qualified declaration that there may not be left a
loop on which to hang a doubt on this subject. I did
■not know until ten days after the election of Mr.
Adams, that Mr. Clay had been offered the appoint
ment of Secretary of State ; and it is a well known
fact, that after he had the offer he consulted many
of his friends whether he should, or should not, ac
cept it. He told urn in conversation he did me the
honour to hold with me ou the subject, that the ac
t p •*. lit . « • / î
ceptaQce of it would be to him not only a-sacrifice
.. , ■ , . J ,
of domestic happiness, but a serious pecuniary loss.
i , , 4 V , . V v . * ,
I know also, that not only his immediate personal
, r -, u p , ,,
and political fr.ends, bnt many of tho-e who voted
for other candidates, were desirous that he should
accept the station, and urged that his country hud
chums upon him paramount to all other considéra
t.ons, and would never see him suffer from devot.on
to her best interes s. , , . , .
I am free to acknowledge that at the time of the
conversation between Mr Buchanan ami .«me f.
mv impression was that Gen. Jackson would be
elected, and it was pretty generally talked of, as
well as understood among: many ot h.s friendsi. that
J? th ä even i2 f h " ele TZ; ; L1 ?VT , (
the office of Secretary of State ; ami I doubt no
but l may, in common with others, have mentioned
my opinion to my political friends. These impres
?I »ns were founded on the belief that he western
interest would Ximte in Gen. Jackson's election, and
, *,1 .1 •» r . k «.
that with the aid of one or two of he states ,n favor
of Mr. Crawford, he would be elected. I mention
those floating opinions of the day, to show that I
have no reserves, and that all I said, or did, 1 am
quite willing should be known.
un
- 1 Pennsylvania on he morn- f
.mg of the U r 12th of January, 182., ami d.d
no te rn ue>( av e o 0 e same j
month, the nav alter Mr. Clay's card had appear
-ml in the National Intelligencer. This abj.ee at
this critical juncture, is of itself sufficient to repel
,t ;i .L tit» irnn î- . . 4 *,
the idea that L took any peculiar interest as to the c
î • . ; ...
arran»ements dependant on who miaht, or might 4
not. be elected President. I recollect a conve.sa
tion with a particular friend, who travelled with me
in the stage, on my return to Pennsylvania. To
him, in the course of that conversation, 1 expressed
my regret at not having had an opportunity of a free
and general conversation with Mr Clay on the sub
ject of the Presidential election, and said that I had
some idea of writing to him as soon as 1 arrived at
Norristown. We both expressed an anxiety that
Mr. Clay should vote with Pennsylvania.
Exception has been taken to mV offermg thereso
lutioii of thanks when Mr. Clay was about retiring
from the speaker's chair in 1825. Such a résolu
tion it had oeen customary at the end of a congress,
tu offer, and the house to adopt, as it aid on this
occasion, almost with perfect unanimity It was
my own voluntary act. I had no consultation with
any one nor the slightest reference to his course on
the presidential election ; I offered the resolution
because I thought he eminently deserved it. If he,
a« speaker, did not richly earn a vote of thanks, who
shull presume to think he has pretensions to such an
honor ? The thanks of the house over which he
presided, for a faithful, firm and impartial discharge
of the duties of the station was hardly earned and
willingly awarded. I thought it his due even though
he had differed from Pennsylvania in the choice of
a President, she owed him much for his indefatigable
exertions in favor of her policy and best interests.—
Not only did these considerations, but utliers prompt
me to offer the resolution of thanks. Mr. Clav, I
«thought had been unjustly and undeservedly ass'ail
ed for an honest difference of opinion ; and it was
painful to see a man who had raised himself by his
own talents and exertions to be one of the most dis
tinguished statesmen and orators of the age :
who in war and in peace had never abandoned his
country, but always stood firmly by her, defending
dv the Ruwers of his gigantic mind and powerlul
eloqueitSe her rights, and boldly proclaiming her
true policy ; that such a man should be unthanked
when about to retire from the speaker's chair of a
body of which I had the honor to be a member, did
not comport with my feelings or sense of right and
wrong ; Isliould indeed have considered such
gleet a gross direliction of duty.
feel
one
a tie
terms, sufficiently
measured, in which to speak of the presumptuous
and unwarranted conclusion at which Major Eaton
has arrived, and the bold and unceremonious epi
thet which it has been his pleasure to apply to
The conversations, reported as they are, by Mr.
Buchanan and Mr. Isacks, and laboriously and care
fully directed against me, furnish no evidence, even
of a remote or circumstantial character, to warrant
the declaration that I was a negociator; and I feel
assured that nothing but the devoted zeal of Major
Eaton, to the cause of General Jackson, could have
tempted him, in the face of an intelligent people to
use the language he has used. Mr. Buchanan indig
•nantly set aside, the imputation, attempted to be
cast upon him by General Jacksun, of having made a
.proposition or propositions, to him, in the name of
Mr. Elay, or Mr. Clay's friends, and declares, in
express terms, that he always acted, and represent
ed himseW as acting, on his own personal responsibi
lity and was solely moved by a zealous and anxious
de-ire to manifest his friendship for General Jack
son, by assisting to elevate him to the presidential
chair. After such a declaration, nothing but infa
•'tuatiim and a determination, so far as in him lav, to
sustain General Jackson could have tempted Major
Eaton so far to have forgotten what was due to his
wn character, as to hazard an assertion in support
«f whicTi trscre was not a tittle of evidence. All
'that apPfs. from the shewing of Mr. Buchanan
and Mr. Isaacks, so far as I was concerned, is, that.
In common with these gentlemen, l expressed my
self-exceedingly anxious fur'he election of General
Jackson, and, on my . own personal responsibility,
said, and din, all I could to promote it. J
I was'Absent from thd seat of
me.
i. 1 MJ f I . government on Sa
turday, the 22d of January, the time at which Mu
jor Eaton says it was reported a meeting of Mr
Clay and his friends took place ; and, at the time of
the conversation which Mr. Buchanan had with M'
jor Eaton, I had left Washington and was absent
for more than two weeks. Il I had been acting as
the authorized friend, or agent, of Mr. Clav it
would have born indispensable that Î s1i(»o*il
remained on the spot where my services might have
been useful. Frequent intercourse would have
been absolutely necessary, to communicate what was
said and done, and contemplated to be done,
If Major Eaton he credited, he would who y -
prove the statement ot i r. Bucharfnu w to a e
that he acted solely on Ins own authority ... theicon
venation held between him and heuend Jackson,
al . ,d tba ' was not me u ns item m • >
nia whose letter e ermine inn o 10 s
()f Majur Eatuu Wl0 | abbre in must things
Wlll ' u,w . . \ J n . .7
to agree wit i Mr. Buchanan. 1 he only conversa
. "e , ,, , » « „ , xn ,\ xn p...,
t on he ever had with General Jackson on the rie
.. .. ... . 4 . r 7) .„. .
sitential Llection was on the ôd ol January, ac
. .. . *> , • m.. u,,.ri >U i> u n
coifing to Major ha ton's shewing : Mr. Buchanan
, * saV s he did nut call on him. bef.re his
with tUe General at a certain day
^ , 8lh or 19th of January!
e BMne strange discrepancy in parts
()f , be sfate ^ tentsuf Mr . Buchanan, Mr. Isaacks and
Major Eaton, which are perfectly irreconcilable with
, he J , ptter of General Jackson. .Mr. Isaacks thinks
that Ki8 conversation with Mr. Buckanan may have
b one ur two weeks later than Mr. Buchanan
9tat es it to have been; but he seems quite willing to
iy h M own recollection for acium.nodation's
Lke,a..d to take the time stated by Mr. Buchanan,
, ' tbat it ahall be fiBed on the 30th of He
f
^Jnnot pretend to say when Mr. Buchanan cal
, d Gen J ra | Jackson / ashe never communicated
. pr, „ u . 1 ,« m >
to me —whom major hftun represents as me- ne
iaU>r „ conversation between him and Ge
* , jllcksol f. i do not recollect that Mr . Buclia
, lf , lad anv C(Jllveraation> froin tbe 3 0th
f uutil att ë r my return to Washington,
on the 30th ' o( j anuary , fr ' m Norristown, that '
f the wllole molUh B f mu8t immediately preceding
the elettion , durin the greater part 0 f Uichtime,
j was ra01 . e tlmn a hundred miles from the scene of
. . A r
aCt i°"' tl ' e "fg"vvnment.
, ^ "ndertake to detail the numerous conversa
turns held, pending the presidential election, by the
c • i f s. ,i ® .•*, * • , • , , J „
friendsof all the candidates, in which 1 was a par
4 , , , . • . ' M , . V.,«
^ ° r ^ 1 hear ^ 18 P T P T' !
C0Mlderll !' un wuuld . . l . em P l . me . ° < lvul « e f P rlvate
cu ?T eH . a,1Hn ' es i )ecla !? lt . the ub J cct " as t0 H ;J Ure
a lr,ea ' U ür eVen f P al ' tl " 1 f nem ^' 1 "l- how '
cve . r be ? T T\ f tate ' tbat "* noae . u ' theconver
satloas .' of wbld \ . l ia . vc . a 7 ltI }. u ' ded f ' was ther f
^ tb,n t » sald J ,ch had tbe sl, R ht « st ter ' de ' lc - Y M to
f, or Tr e,,har T C0 , rru P tl( > n ™ bar S al " *» M [
Ä da ""* t0 °^, er f a , " kaoo > M , r> ^ rawfonl or to
f ^ tllat 1 was able ,°. d,scover mu W
the fnends of the respective candidates, was a fair
a . nd h " r * " ff* t0 pr ° m ° te the deC '
t' 0 ' 1 their favorite candidate,
, \ th ' S c ?" ,n ? u ?. ,cat,on ' vhlch bas been . el '
orted f ™ ln me ? ln vindication o ^myself and tu tus
tlc ? l< ? thosa wh "' . thr ? u S h raa > , hav ( e be . en assa,led '
and cha . r S ed ha y ,n S Participated in a corrupt
transaction. It has been to me a «nos unpleasant
dut ?' '"''f' 1 fffrely wish 1 cou d have been
S P a . red ' but l ( thou S bt . 1 uwed »t to myself, my friends
alld m * C0Untry - 1 ^ ave end f v °rcd to avoid offen
^ wTtf' ^,0 Pcraooa remarks. save only
thu f e . wb ! ch 1 'hsught indispensable to my own
^cation, and as bearing directly on the state
Tf, tbe gf ntlera ? n ; whose over zeal have indue
' be ^ t0 , breakm . t0 the sanctuary of private
lrlendi,hl P> fur pohUcal pumoses.
Mr. Buchanan's dates do not not agree
,s
pumoses.
rmlar b. MAKKL.EÏ.
Philadelphia, Oct. 30, 1827.
From the National Intelligencer.
The Letter of Mr. Makkley, which we copy to
day, will be read with great interest by all who yet
entertain doubt on the score of the pretended nego
tiations betweeu the friends of Mr. Adams and Mr.
Clay preceding the Presidential Election. For
ourselves, we have wanted nothing of the sort to
convince us of the purity of that election ; which
we have always affirmed, and have always believed,
to have been without taint or flaw. We, there
fore, did not, even after Gen. Jackson's Letter to
Mr. Bevehi.v, want either Mr. Buchanan's or Mr.
Mahki.ey's Letter to satisfy us that Gen. Jackson
lmd totally misunderstood the source and object of
Mr, Buchanan's overtures to him. Upon others,
however, who did not, like us, witness the whole
scene, from its beginning, the mysterious outgivings,
followed by the formal.disclosure of Geo. Jackson,
may have created some uneasy or distrustful feeling
in regard to the circumstances of that election,
all such, we say, read Mr. Markley's plain, unvar
nished story, and then answer, ur there was any ne
gotiation, or attempt at negotiation, amongst parties
in the house of representatives on the eve of the
Presidential Election, who were the parties to it ?
We believe there was nothing censurable on either
side ; hut, if there was, it appears that it assuredly
was not on the part of those who subsequently voted
for Mr. Adams.
To
From the New York American.
Mr. Markley represents himself as having been
''originally friendly to the election of General
Jackson to the Presidency" Jand TJL « Toted a
for him in the Democratic Caucus of 1824 " and p
subsequently, as having, in the capacity of a » ren P
reseutalive from Pennsylvania used his best ever ,
turns, by every fair and honorable means to promet"
his election to the Presidential Chair." Thus then I
it is proved, ns we have always maintained hat thé
c.„, (,*„.„ Mr. Buchanan Ltïï
ley was one between two partizans associated in thp
same cause-both being for Jackson Then l to
the conversation, it was one of Mr, Buchan,t"s seek
ing-, that Mr. M trkley was umulby Mr Buchanïn
to see Mr. Clay to ascertain whether he woulrinro
vote with Pennsylvania for Jackson • thaH i M
has no recollection of having U r»ed Mr B to call
on General Jackson ''as to the office of Secret-, rv
Of state-" that he never .7 i becretar y
weapons;" and, finally, Mr. Afarklev savs " JMv
ÄÄS "Sr'S'ï Är*;
Gen. j„cksnT" C thus esftbSnv 3 thVf 7ti P ° f rt ° f
overtu overtures ftievwprn^ nr Pact j bat r tbe
the friends of Gen- Jacksan to Mr! Clay 6 Md^n"!
. J y» and not
of
as
it
from,Ur. Clay's friends to Gan. Jackson. As to
the charge made by Major Eaton that Mr. .Warkley i
was the " negotiator" of Mr. Clay, " authorised to
make propositions or ask a pledge of a conditional j
character for the vote of .'Wr. Clay and his friends,"
ff/r. Afarkley say é " 1 do now solemnly and posi
tively declare that the charge and insinuation are
void of truth. 1 never did, either directly or in
directly, receive from Air. Clay or his friends, any
intimation which could be construed even by politi
cal rancor into such a commission,or any thing even
remotely approaching to it, and further, I never
have to any one, at any time, or on any occasion, re
presented myself, or wished it to be understood,
that »was authorised to receive or to make overtur
es on the part of Mr. Clay, or his friends."
language can be more explicit—so no shame is too
deep for the propagators of the infamous calumnies
which have, been built upon this imputed agency of
.Hr. JMarkley, in a burgain that never had any exis
tence.
!
No
—»o:o®o;o
From the Fillage Record.
SILK..
If hite Italian or Persian Mulberry.
The citizens of Chester County are respectfully
informed, that by the politeness of Dr. Abraham
Stout, I was furnished for planting, with a parcel of
seeds from the Italian Mulberry, introduced by the
late Bishop Etwein, at Bethlehem.—They are of the
most approved kind for the food of the Silk-Worm.
I have now eightor ten thousand sets, which ! wish
to,give away, to persons in different parts of the
county, with a view to encourage the production of
silk. Each person applying shall be welcome to an
hundred plants, until five thousand are gone ; then
if the applications are numerous, the numbertoeach
will be fifty, until eight or ten thousand (the half I
have) are disposed of.—-For an hundred,a bed should
prepared rendering the ground deeply mellow,
1 moderately rich, fifty feet long and three feet
wide, so as to place the routs in two rows a fuot apart.
The next fall or the spring thereafter, they will do to
set out in orchard fashion, or whether there shall be
room for them. Any time in the month of Novem
ber they may be removed. The leaves will be valu
able in two years.
Spring-Grove, Oct. 27, 1827.
It may be proper to say, that the ensuing
winter, the Report on raising the mulberry and pro
ducing silk, will be made by the Secretary of the
Treasury, which will contain and disseminate all the
information that is valuable upon the subject.
be
am
C. MINER.
P. S.
From the JVew England Farmer.
Fatsing Swine, k.-We are informed by
Judge Peters of Pennsylvania, lormerly President
of the Philadelphia Agricultural Society, in a com
munition which appeared in the Philadelphia
American Daily Advertiser, that tv sour food is the
most grateful and alimentary to swine." One gal
Ion of sour wash goes farther than two of sweet. I
mean the wash acidulated to the degree required
for distillation, not acetous.
will take the liberty to mention what 1 think a better;
we have three, blacksmiths in this tow»,and my hogs
eat up all the ushes and cinders they make ; we haul
it into our pens by cart loads, and the hogs will de
vour this at times with more avidity than their ordi
nary food.
Charcoal, it has been said, will answer n similar
if not a more valuable purpose than either cinders
or rotten wood. If swine were supplied with a
small quantity of coal (according to a statement of
an Ohio fanner,) say two pieces a day to each,
about the size ot an hen's egg, they will discontinue
rooting, remain more quiet, and fatten faster than
they will otherwise. Charcoal will operate on the
human frame as a cathartic, and, probably, may
have the same effect on the animal we are treating
of. If so, it may supersedel the necessity of using
brimstone, antimony and other drugs with which
hogs are often dosed. At any rate it will cost but
little to give them a constant access to coals, which
may be sifted or raked from your fire-place,and they
will be induced by instinct to consume such
titios ns
fattening.
When you first commence fattening your swine,
care should be used not to give them more than they
will eat with an appetite, lf they become gorged
or cloyed, their thriving is retarded, and there is
danger from staggers, and other diseases consequent
upon repletion or the high living to which these four
footed epicures are addicted.
quan
will promote their health and expedite their
From the National Intelligencer.
From St. Louis, we learn, that the result of the
late expedition, to quell the rising Indian hostilities,
has been exceedingly fortunate and satisfactory ;
affording proofof great promptitude on the part of
Gen. Atkinson, and of efficiency on the part of the
troops, whose station at Jefferson Barracks
J adnf, jf ab, >' ada P ted for cabling detachments
? b c T * To r° any .P 0,nt of disturbance on
tbe!ront ' /J succeeded in obtaining
a TOrre " der °f the prmcpal offenders of the Wi„e
p th ?. T ent '^nsacUons, both at
P ? ,n • a "t m be attack °?, the k «l-boats
, rR V Snf!l,mK ' a? " e11 09 a
M into*'DtaHct JT * * ° f ^
I t, , nct ' * ? vel ! ['''Z!' - ' and P cace and
Tr 3 i? °" r o' 0 " 11 " »«habitante.
ÄhS""
xr v < .
_ Nothmn; but a prompt and timely movement of
18 ,,T f [" m J efferson Barracks, it is said, pee
hI S*,i ,n - neba F e ? f r0 . m a ' tack,n 6 the mining
P R0 P le ' dostr oying Pra.r.e du Chem, and making
T ' Tl "' ^\ ^ attem P te >
fu •'1 W |wu Pa i' tl! 'L SUCC f 8 e f 00 d have drawn t0
th ®. lrH ! d . id 'dmaffected of the neighboring tribes
which it is believed would not have been very lim
Srt T ,rr l, , ,h ïs ,d t f "»*•*- i—
ur 0t h ** ead .°^ P° r k river some six hundred
-Äsrns *Ä* 'Si
. A& !° the re P ort P ubli $ed in some of the prints
'he whites were the aggressors, it is utterly
dBSt,tute . ol trulh ; The Indians were the aggres
sors. In Council they offered no excuse for 1 h
Beems
It is a sub
offence, except that it was done by uiiguvvin„y
bad men, and not sanctioned by the Chieis. n
Four companies were drawn from Fort Sn,.||
to garrison Fort Crawford, and the
post IMIS
under the command of Major Fowle, prog|sii„,j
for twelve months, and supplied with ordinance
dnnnce stores, and ammunition, amply.
I
*51
DELAWARE JOURNa.
wmwamsti
Tuesday, Koyember 0, 182."!,
VIRGINIA.
The opponents of General Jackson in Virginia
differ in more respects from one another than,
haps,'in any other State. Some are satisfied with
the Administration and its policy generally ;
form a just estimate of the. men, but do not fancy I
all the measures of the National Government; ami |
some do not profess nor feel any great respect lor I
either, but prefer them vastly to the election of I
General Jackson. These facts, and others of a|
similar nature, are manifested by the proceedings |
of'their countji meetings, and the correspondence |
of distinguished individuals, now made public. I
Though they differ in sentiment as to the present I
order of things, there is something in their views,
approaching very nearly to uniformity, in opposi.
tion to the promotion of the General to the Presi
dency; a fact sufficiently explanatory of the grounds
on which it calculated that all is not fixed, sure, and
safe fur the " Combination" in the Ancient Do
minion.
; er
lonte
Many of the Virginians are utterly unable to dis
cover what the Nation, and the State of Virginia lui
particular—is to gain by the proposed change o'
men. They cannot comprehend how Andrew
Jackson is qualified for the post to which he aspires,
even admitting that he never had been guilty of the
various acts which are recorded against him. They
cannot understand what has transpired to place Mr,
Adams last in their esteem, when he held the nextB
place after Mr. Crawford at their last election.®
But, however they maj differ in other respects,®
the J vlew the Nation of the General as a calami®
>n R* various bearings, which ought to be
precated, and which they are resolved, as far as
depends upon them, to avert by the use of all
ourable meHM . These men are not to be
. . . , . . , , .
ercd * m idl r<!3 P f;cts - Administration men, but
Jackson men.
The most distinguished citizens of that State
among this number, though they have, as all
-s»»'-".**»»***«»«— *-*
' ar J r services,
ftirlt should always be remembered, that tber®
are a few very prominent individuals, in differen
parts of the country, whose vutore promotion de®a
, , . , ,
pends sorEi . y on the ruin ot the men now in power.*,
This ruin must be ac ■ mplished, by some meant, orl
these few distinguished aspirants can never expect!
future political advancement. I
B5"Therc is another class of politicians, of a low-1
er grade, whose promotion is deemed, by them*I
selves, to be much more probable by the ndvancrl
meut of these principals than during the continuance!
of the present order of things. Hence their labours!
O^rCertain Editors of Newspapers—for instand!
—in Virginia, Delaware, and New York, who havcl
written and published the severest denunciations!
against General Jackson, such as totally disquuliliwll
him for the Presidency, and referred to the pag e |
and book for the grounds of these denunciation»,
are now, for some cause them thereunto moving,
his most zealous advocates ! j
He who wishes to form any thing like a just esti
mate of the Opposition, must remember, among
other things, these three classes ; as they form the|
mass of the most eminently bad portion of it. They
have been chiefly instrument»! in creating the stab
of things which now exists ; and though many of
their brethren are censurable for suffering them
selves to be influenced by passion, prejudice, and
statements not founded on truth, argument or even
probability, they are still entitled to all the respect
due from one opponent to another, in such circum-J
stances.
Col Marinos Wii.let, the friend and compan
ion of Washington, was called to the chair at a large
and overflowing meeting of the friends of the Ad
ministration in the city of New-York on Wednesday
evening last. He is represented as addressing tb 6
meeting amidst the most enthusiastic plaudits. H 8
spoke of the profanation of the memory of Washing
ton by a comparison of him with the Hero of the
Opposition ; and showed the danger and absurdity
of confiding the destinies of the country to a mern^
soldier, andlelt his impressive warning ngaiustsucfl
madness.
The National Journal has made arrangements t*
report the proceedings in Congress, and to publish®
every day, the entire substance of the debates oflbn J
day preceeding. This system originated with the
Journal ; though it has had some difficulty to
counter, in the dissatisfaction of particular mernbei».
who, having prepared speeches, not to convince tlu
House, but to' exhibit themselves to their consti' 11 '
enls, are more inclined to bejudged by their written
addresses than (he sense or nonsense which they aÇ'-B
en-