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THE SENTINEL.
(tulii, Bla) - , IS II.
Till: IIARUAI AXD SALE.
Proof ns Strong ns Holy Writ.
If any person is still skeptical lu regard to ihe
fowl "bargaiu and sale" between John Q. Adams
and Heury Clay let him road tiio letter of Colo
nel L. Boyd. If hp -ill not believe, after poru
sing the f.icts sot forth in that letter, Hie would
not belicvo though one arose from the dead."
The Glohp introduces Colonel lloyd's letter as
follows:
"We call tho attention of our readers to the
following letter of Col. Linn Boyd, a member of
Congross from the first congressional district of
Kentucky, to Messrs, Coles and Hopkins, mem
bers of Congress from Virginia, and by them cau
sed to be published in the Richmond Enquirer-,
from which paper wo extract if.
Colonel Boyd is a mm unimpeached & of un
impeachablo character, and his word will have
more weight and mfluencc than the word of Mr.'
Clay, whore tUfly arc both known. But tho Col
onel does not permit what ho says to rest alone
on his veracity, ho "speaks from the book," and
proves what ho says as he proceeds.
We have seen it stated in the papers that the
Legislature of Tennessee, (whig) lately resolved
that thcro was no "bargain and corruption" be
tween Mr, Adanis and Mr. Clay, iu 1825, when
Mr. Clay made Mr. Adams President of the Uni
ted States, and Mr. Adams appointed Mr. Clay
(Secretary of State. Legislatures may "resolve
ami re-reslye," and a majority of the people of
United States, who were old enough iu 1S23 to
form, an opinion, will die in the belief that it was
a foul transaction, to say the least of it. If we
could have assurance of a lease oflifo until Mes
srs. Adams and Clay could clear up their char
acters in rpgard to the 'bargain1' of 1825 alone
we would have hopes of living to see the mille
a:ns, so firmly did the people of Kentucky be
lieve that tint gentleman was in truth, Loth iu
practice and iu theory, a genuine federalist, and
an enemy of the West, (and, I flunk, their opin
ion to th:s day remains unchanged in huh res
pects,) that in 12, he was beaten by General
Jackson for tho Presidency, by l do urge majority
of T.'.HIl votes.
In lvif, the Clay electoral ticket, in Kentuc
ky, received 17.')') I. and the Jackson ticket 6,155
voles. o other ticket was ruu; but there wei
one or two volunteer candidates for Adams, who
receive.!, perhaps, a hundred votes. The public
feeling of the Lcg:slatuie,as well as of the coun
try, was overwhelming iu favor of Gen. Jackson
alter Mr., Clav; and wnen, in the month of De
cember, an impression began lo prevail that the
vote ot Kentucky might be given to Mr. Adams
Mr. Henry Crittenden, a brother to our present
cnator, introduced into the llonso of Represen
tatives two resolutions, one requesting our Repre
sentatives iu Congress to vote for Gen. Jackson, &.
the other declaring that he was the ehojco of the
people of Kentucky. They were debated on
the 5! 1st December, l21,and iu that debate one
reason given for adopting the resolution, was that
Mr. Clay m'glit bo made Secretary of State to
tho exclusion of General Jackson for tho Presi
dency
Mr. Benjamin Hardin, then a prominent mem
ber uf the House, and in favor of the resolutions,
and now a candidate on the Clay electoral ticket,
said, uho knew that many ot our members of Con
gross were inclined to vote for Mr. Adams, and
believed lie would'get the vote of Kentucky, un
less this llouso acted." lbo resolution renucs
ting the members of Congress from Kentucky to
for General Jackson you expected mc to do that jscrve entire; and that could not, and would
which I could not, and would not do.'
Signed, " Jacob Frizzle, Jesse llainrick,
Henry Halbcrt, John urirlith,
David C. Heath, Win. Davis,
Wm. C Coffrin, llez. Griffith,
Richard Pell, Win. Hambliii,
Johnllendrick, David Tonkry."
(The above statement was sworn to belore
justices of the pence, was duly certified, and was
published ahout that tunc in me pipeis oi ien-
tuck.y ... . ';r:
We wish to know, seconuiy, wnax was inr.
Clay's courso on the right ol instruction, previ
ous to his disregard ot the wisiics oi me legisla
ture and people of Kentucky in 1621-2J.
Mr. Clav. somo years belore, voted lor the cci-
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euratcu coinpensiuiou uti, mum gjo gna. ,m-
feuce to his constituents. It was on tlnsoecasion
to secure his re-election, ho told his famous sto
ry of the failing rifle, and concluded by asking
the people to "pick their flint and try again!"
lie promised to change his vote, etc., iV-c, and
was re-elected. In the January after, (1817,)
lie delivered a speech, from which tho following
is an extract. See the speech at full length
iu the National Intelligencer, January, 1837:
"Mr. Clav saidho agreed poifvotly in tho sen
timent, that" instructions given by the people are
nl.liirHinrv on the representatives, this was a
"o. - . ,. .1 . ...; ...
or ncm o consecrated uy ino revolution, inserter-
able from all free government, and which he,
therefore, hoped never to sec depaneu irom, in
nractice. under ours. Whilst, theu,ho had a seat
1 . . r r. .-.'I J
on this Moor, Mr. u. saiu u was immaterial now
he arrived at the will of his constituents, or what
were tho evidences of it ; it was sufficient that he
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vow io uon. ..acKson was adopted hy a vole ot , ,d k k n all cases of expediency, he
oOlo 21,and declaring that ho was the ... .,,; ,j,i;.f;nn nn i,;s mrt to
choice of the people of Kentucky, by a vote of Ul0 inatrllcllcuS) Cxp.ess or implied, of
73 to 11. I hey were adopted by the Senate , . ,.....
also, by a large majority, (though I am unablo to
give the precise vote,) and sent to Washington.
Lmring the succeeding month, it was confident
ly asserted m private conversations, that if Mr.
Adams was elected, Mr. Clay would be Secretary
of Slate, placing him in a position which Mr. Clay
afterwards called the lino of "safe precedents,"
and, on that ground, numerous letters were pro
cured lo be written to our members of Congress
advising them to disregard the resolutions of the
Legislature. In the dcvclopcments of 1827 and
1828, this rumor was traced directly to a letter
or
hmself, to some of Ins friends in Kentucky, not, unimilnolls,Vj or, alWt, without a di
xnhaps us "qst. WJ, That in the opin
ilium, pr ofliving a thousand years at least. If of Kentucky was induced to take up and invest!
they wil clear up that, they shall have our con
sent to adjourn the question of veracity between
them as to whether the navigation of tho Mis
sissippi was traded off by Mr. Adams for a mess
of codfish- sine die.
HorSE OF Rl-IPHKSEXTATIVns, U.S.
March 2;), 1811. ,
Qe.ti.kjien : Your letter of the 27th inst. is
at hand. I fear I shall not be able to answer all
your inquiries satisfactorily. Twenty years have
passed awav, and with them tho recollection of
many facta, and circumstances connected with the
memorable presidential contest of 1821,
Mr. Adams never was popular in Kentucky.
There never was a time when, in tho opinion of!
well-informed men, he could have obtainod a ma
jority oftho votes of the people of that State for
tho office of President or the United States,
In 1821, the people of Kentucky vory gener
ally believed that Mr. Adams had offered to sac
rifice tho navigating interest of tho entire West
for the paltry privilege of fishing upon the banks
of tho island ol Aewloiinulaiul; and when Mr.
Adams published a book lo explain away the
cause of this extensive prepossession against him,
Mr. Clay, in reply, published a letter, dalod No
vember 10, 1S22, iu tho National Intelligencer
of the 17th of December, 1822, in which ho said
"ho believed" that the explanation of Mr. Adams
contained "errors both as to ma.tler.iof fact and
matters of opinion? and prom'scd "at somo
tinta more propitious than tha present to calm
and dispassionato consideration, and when there
can bo no mlunlcrprctation of motives, to lay bo
fore the public a narrative- of those transactions,
as I (he) understood them."
Mr. Adams replied, in a letter addressed to the
editors of tho National Intelligencer, dated De
cember IS, 1822, from which I extract the fol
lowing:
"Gentlemen: In your paper of yesterday, I
have observed a note from Mr. Henry Clay, which
requires sonic notice from me. After ndver
jing to the transactions at Glie'nt, referred to by
Mr. CI ay, relative to tho navigation ot the Mis
sissippi and the fisheries, Mr. Adams procoods to
,-"pa "Concurring with Jvlr. Clay in tho regret that
1 the controversy should have arisen, I have only
to find consolation in the reflection that, f orathe
eccd time of 1811 to the harvest of 1822, the
contest was never of my seeking; and that, since
I havo been drawn into it, whatever I have said
written, ordono in it, has been in tho face of day,
and under the responsibility of rny name. Had
Mr, Clay thought it advisiblo now to spocify any
prror or fact, or of imputed opinion, which he
thinks contained in tho appendix to my pamphlet
or in any thor part of my shire in the publica
tion, it would have given me great pleasure to
rectify, by candid acknowledgment, any such er
' ror; of wh'ch, by tho light that ho would have
shed on the subject, I should have been convin
ced. At whatever period hereafter ' ho should
deem the accepted tiine is come, to publi'sh his
. prornised qarrativp, I shall, if yet living, bo rea
' dy, with equal cheerfulness, to acknowledge in
dicated error, and to vindicate contested truth.
"But as, by the adjournment of that publicaiion
to a period 'more propitious than tho present to
, calm and dispassionate consideration, and when
- there can be no misinterpretation of motives,' it
may chance to bo postponed until both of us shall
'Jiave boon summoned to account for all our errors
before a higher tribunal than that of our country,
I feel myself now called upon to say thf,let the
appropriate dispositions, when and how they will,
f if.pose the open day und soerct night oftho trans
actions at Gfeont, the statements both of fuel and
opinion, in the yapcr which I have written and
published in rolatioq to this controversy, will, in
ctpry particular, essential or important to the in-
" tarcst of the nation, or . Ip the character of Mr.
Clay, bo found to abid unshakon the tost of hu
man ecrutinv, ol laiontg, ana ol lime."
; Mr, Clay's assertion, however, and the promise
with which it was uccompuniod, connected with
previous publications, satisfied his friends in- tho
Wost, that the conduct of Mr. Adams at Ghent,
fn the "transactions" relative lo the navigation of
- (lie Mississippi, was reprehensible and apamtt
thd West, I Ience, when Mr. Clay &. his friends
inCon2r93 voted for Mr, Amarus, tho excitetnont
iunong the people, as cart easily be imagined,
waa prodigious. Even after four rears bad pas
god away, and not iihtnnding the L'igjntic efforts
pf Mr. Clay and his friends to sustain lit,' Ad-
his constituents.
So decisively in favor of GennralJackson was
the will of the people of Kentucky in 1821-25,
that only eleven members oftho House of Rep
resentatives, out of eighty-four present, voted a
(rainst the declaratory resolution, to that effect
and of that eleven, notono based hisvoto on tho
allegation that the resolution was not true .
You ask, thirdly, what were the facts in refer
ence to tho instructions of the legislature of Ken
tucky in 1811-12, on tho subject ot the bank
rupt law. The loading fads arc as follows: On
the 5lh January, 1812, the Kentucky House, of
resolutions
ivision, viz
ion of the
rrcncral assembly of tho commonwealth of Ken
tucky, it is the desire of a large majority of Ihe
people of Kentucky, that the bankrupt law, enac
ted at the late extra session of Congress, shall be
repealed.
"2d. Resolved, further, That our senators in
Congress be, and they are hereby instructed, and
our representatives requested to use their uuiu
CHce to have saiu law repealed."
On the 19th of January, tho resolutions came
back to tho House from the Senate, amended, so
as to read as follows
" Resolved by the ecncral Assembly of the Com
monirealth of Kentucky, That it is the desire of
a majority of the people of Kentucky, that the
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first arrived, or man witnass-1 hnt tho
T-t.cnn mni,i , IMCongress, shall be repeaica, or so moamea ns io
' , . , "UV-,' . '" free it from its retrospective operation; and that
no:
veying lite idea.
In 1828, the general excitement on the ac
count oftho votcof Mr. Clay and his friends for
Mr. Adams was sa groat, and the charge of a cor
rupt bargain between Mr. Adams and Mr. Clay
was so pointed and openly made,-that tho Seuate
,'afe the subject; persons and papers were sent
lor, Mc; and ot the testimony given before that
body, the following is a part. (See Kentucky
Argus oi vnai uaie tor mo whole ol the testimo
ny:)
"John S. Hilt, of Bourdon, stated, nmram nlh-
er things, that Gen. Metcalfe told him, in Wash
ington city, about tho 4th or 5th of Janunrv.
1825, that 'ho know little more than when he
laud you arc going to vote for Jackson; and so
of tho friends of Crawford; that we stand uncom
mitted, and we must know something about how
tho cabinet is to bo filled.'"
Hon. John T. Johnson, brother of Col. Rich
ard M. Johnson, and at that time a member of
Congress, staled that "ho was at Washington city
in 1821, and at tho time of the Presidential elec
tion in February, 1425. Aflor tho election, he
and his brother (Col. Johnson) were in company
with Gen. Metcalfe, who told them ho had a let
ter from Kentucky, which slated that tho people
would be dissatished with the result. His broth
er told thegoneral that this voting for Mr. Adams
would bo an uphill business in Kentucky. The
general replied, 'Ifcar we have done too much for
our friend?" He was asked whether he did not
near Mr. While, one oftho members of Con-rress
who voted for Mr. Adams, say, a few days after
uie election, nwi ne considered, when voting for
Mr. Adams, that ho was voting for Mr. Clay.
This quostion was objectod to, and overruled, 11
to I'J. ;
Mr. McMillan, ol tho llouso of Representa
tives, stated, in reply to interrogatories, that Mr,
Francis Johnson was at "Tompkiusvilio, in Mon
roe county, aher his return home, subseouonllv
to tho presidential election, where ho was asked
how he came to vote lor Mr. Adams. Mr. John-
not, be instrumental ia taking from the bankrupt
the relief which lie Lad been promised.
These grounds for disobedience arc found dis
tinctly stated in a spoech delivered by him in
the Senate on the 28th of January, IS 12. Hav
ing adverted to the extra session of 1811, and its
measures the incororatioii of a national bank,
thi! distribution law, the increase of the tariff, the
bankrupt law, and the relief of the banks in the
District or Columbia he said:
These were the fruits of the extra session, so
far as they depended upon Congress. This was
the circle of bencficient measures, intended to
embrace all interests and oil parts of tho Union.
It was A GREAT SYSTEM, parts of which'
wero more or less adapted to all portions of the
Union. W o havo reason to bolievo that it was
looked upon and regarded as a whole; and that
votes trewgieen for somo measures in the series,
not so much because then wire iu consonance
with the riews or t?ie constituents whose members
gave these totes, as because they . were wanted
by oilier parts ot the Union, and Ihe compensa
tion was found in other more respectable measures
of the same scries"
I his practice of buying voles for measures not
'in consonance with tho views of the constituen
cy," by "other more acceptable measures," how-
ever well adapted to the promotion of purposes of
ambition, is totally subvcrsivo ot the right. ot in
struction, if notot all purity in legislation.
Although tho senate oi Kentucky was willing
Mr. Clay should preserve the great whig system,
by the moans ho had used to build it'up, the House
of Representatives repelled the suggestion, by a
vote nearly unanimous. And at the close ot the
eloquent speech delivered by Mr, Clay in opposi
tion to the repeal of the bankrupt law, ho said;
' xVnd I am invited to undo in this work of inhu
manity and cruelty; I have not the heart to do it!
I have not the hand to do it ! I cannot, I will not
do it!"
Stript of its poetry this declaration means, " I
am called upon by my constituents to vote for a
repeal of the bankrupt law: mil not do it I1
Aflcr a few remarks from Mr. Demon tor, and
Mr. Williams against the repeal, tho vote on tho
bill from the House of Representatives repealing
the bankrupt law was taken, and resulted as fol
lows yeas 22, nays 2J :
1 hose who voted in the affirmative, were Messrs.
Allen, Archer, Bayard, Benton, Buchanan
Calhoun, Fulton, Graham, King, Linn, McRob
erls, Morehead, Pierce; Prentiss, Rives, Sovier,
Smith of Connecticut, Slurgeon, Woodbury
Wright, and Young,
Those who voted in the negative, were Messrs.
Barrow, Dates, Berrien, Choatc. CLAY, Clayton,
Evans, Henderson, Huntington, Kerr, Maugum,
Merrick, Miller, Phelps, Porter, Simmons, Smith
of Indiana, Southard, Tallmadgc, Walker, AYhite,
Williams, and Woodbridgc.
Y ou will sec that the fate of tho bill depended
On Mr. Clay's vote ; and had he obeyed the will
of his constituents, lh.it wholesale repudiation of
honest debts, which disgraced the year 1812,
would never have occuned, as the bankrupt law
had not then gone into operation.
Very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
LINN BOYD.
Messrs. W. Coles and G. W. Hopkins.
Great Britain his already made treaties with'
Texas; and we kuow that far-seeing nation nev
er omits a circumstance in her extensive inter
course with tho world, which can be turned lo
account iu increasins; her military resources.
May she not enter into an alliance with Tex
as? and reserving (as she doubtless will) the
western boundary question as a cause of war with
us whenever she chooses to declare it, let us
supixise that, as an ally with lexas, we arc to
fight heil Preparatory to such a movement, she
sends her 20,001) or 30,OiK) men to Texas ; orga
nizes them on tho Sabine, where her supplies and
arms can Ikj concentrated belore we have ever
notice of her intentions; makes a lodgment on
the Mississippi; excites the negroes to insurrec
tion; the lower country falls, and with it New
Orleans ; and a servile war rages through the whole
South aud West. ;-'
In the mean whilo she is also moving an army
along the upper western frontier from Canada,
which, in co-operation with tho army from Texas
spreads ruin and havoc from the Lakes to tho gulf
of Mexico.
Who can cstimato tho national loss we may
sustain, before such a movement could be repel
led with such force as we could organize on
short notice.
''"'"Remember that Texas borders upon us, on our
west, lo 42 deg. of north latitude, and is our
southern boundary to the Pacific. Rcmombor
also that if annexed to the United States, our
westorn boundary would be the Rio Grande, which
is of itself a fortification, on account of its exten
sive, barren, and uninhabitable plains. with
such a barrier on our west, we are invincible
The whole European world could not, in combi
nation against us, make an impression on our
union. Our population on tho Pacific wouul
rapidly increase, and soon be strong enough for
the protection of our eastern whalers, and, m
tho worst event, could always be sustained by
timely a:d from the intermediate country,
From the Rio Grando, over land, a largo army
could not march, or be supplied, unless from the
gulf by water, which, by vigilance, could always
be intercepted; and, to march an army near the
gulf, they could be harrassed by militia, 'and de
tained until an orgnnized forco could bo raised
to meet them.
But I am in danger of running into unnecessary
detail, which my debility will not enable me to
close. Tho question is full of interest, also, as
it all'ecls our domestic relations, and as it may
bear upon those of Mexico lo us. I will not un
dertake to follow it out to its consequences in
those respects; though I must say that, in all its
aspects, the annexat ion of Texas to the United
States promises to enlargo the circle office in
stitutions, and is essential to the Utiitcd States,
particularly as lessening the probabilities ot iu
ture collision with foreign powers, and giving them
greater 'efficiency in spreading tho blessings of
peace.
I roturn you my thanks for your kind letter on
this subject, and subscribe myself, with great
sincerity.
Your friend and obedient servant,
ANDREW JACKSON.
Hon A. V. Buown.
P S. The papers furnished mc by Mr. Erwin,
to which I havo referred in 1his letter, can be pla
ced in your possession if desired. A. J.
l oiii:i; aCws,
Tho Royal Mail Steamer Acadia came up to her
wharf in East Boftoi, on t'uiidtij- morning, from Liver
pool. '
By thii ariival wc have ucti-i from London and Liv- .
erptwl of tho -lili ult., Havre and Paris to tho 2d, Dub
lin Od. '
The following summary it from Wilmor and S-mith's
European Tiuic-g of the 4th ultimo: '
Cottou has declined oue-ciiduh and one-fourth pence
icr lb., and the prospect of tlic marKet wore rattier
sloomy. ' , ' ' , ....
I lie King ol iMvr-den, itornnnuiic, who hih n
been lluctuaiinc but ween life und death, has at last died. ,
Parliament is doing nothing: of importance.
A detachment of four iiiH.lli-'ent non-commisfionid
orticers and privates of the Uoval hoppers and Miners,
are under orders to cmbaik in the next roj ul mail steam
er for Halifax, N. to join and assist a pnrty already'
employed in determining tne tmundary line between
New Orunswick and the United Slates.
Queen Victoria anil Prince Albert will visit Berlin-
about the 15th of May next. -
' An entertainment is to be itiven to Mr. CTCohnell in'
Duhlin, immediately after his arrival from Cor.. Wed
nesday, lOtli of April, ha9 hern named.
Great distress prevails in (ialway, and tlie other west
ern parte of Ireland. The fishermen on those coastsr .
have appealed to tne tiovcrnment to aia mem Willi
menus to pursue their avocations.
The latest new from' Faris contains no news of im--portunce.
The new customs bill which has been intro
duced into the Chamber of Duputics raises the duty on
hog's lard from tho United States.
For pome time past negotiations have been pending
for a commercial treaty between the United blatcs of
America and tho Germanic Union of Customs. We
learn, upon pood outhority, that these negotiations have
been brought to a close, and that a treaty has been ac
tually signed by tho Prussian government and Mr.
Whcaton, the American Minister at this Court. The
effect of tho treaty is understood Jo bo to reduce the
niesent duties on tobneco and rico imported into Ger
man v from tho United States; and ou tho other hand, to
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our senators and representatives in Congress be
requested touso their inllticiice toobtain such re
peal or modi heat ion."
Tho House of Representatives had passed
third resolution against a repeal of the distrihu
lion law, vrhich the Senate amended by addm
another resolution, as follows, viz:
Resolved, further, That the people ot tin
Commonwealth, as well as the general assembly
regard tho continuance in force oi the Una dis
tribution law as of far creator importance than the
repeal of the bankrupt law."
You will perceive that tho benate maclrj two
important amendments one changing tho in-
structwn to the senators lo voto lor a repeal ot
the bankrupt law into a request, and tho other
allowing them, if tlioy could, to trado for a con
tinuance ot the distribution law, by consenting
to preserve the bankrupt law for that considera
tion. ;
Tho House, however, rejected the Senate's a-
mendincntsby a vole of 5 yeas toS2 nays. Each
llouso adhered to its position; and llio resolutions
failed by thoir disagreement. No member, how
ever, waa left in doubt that both the legislature
and tho people of Kentucky wero in favor oftho
unconditional repeal ot tho bankrupt law, by an
overwhelming maioiity; and "the obligation of;
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son answered that he voted for Mr. Adams to net ,i:.., .i...,.: ;.,...,...; ,i .
ll,Ultijl IU t'l UUVII UIO Ul I1IULI HVIIVIIJ IU JVM "
!lr. Ohiy made becretary of Stalo. Ho made
this declaration ropcatcdly in conversation, and
witness believed in a public speech. He said,
Mr. Adams for President, and Mr. Clay his Sec
retary, would conduce more to tho interests of
the est, tnan Gen. Jackson President, with wo
Know not whom tor lis Secretary; and that Mr.
Clay might perhaps succeed him."
oy Mr. Clay in 1817.
If there can bo any doubt on the subject, it is
obvialcd by the remark of Senator - Morehead,
(Mr. Clay's collcaguo from Kentucky,) in Janua
ry, 13-12, on presenting a rcmonstranco against
the repeal of the bankrupt law. Ho said:
"It could not have escaped his notice, and that
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iiT .1 n AT. cat I"1 mo EJeiiuiu, io.li uiu luuiaiaujiu tn xvumuw.v
C 1 . T ' V r ii t i ' WM, bad, by a large majority, passed resolutions upon
lied and stated as follows: Jo in Mason of 3 .i. A..r.' L
ivf, , . . ., . . uie sun eci oi too ouumuui iuw, vxoieaaiuu uu
Mnntfrnmoi-v KtMra Hint ItnCi-a 1Y....V1 !.l-1 . . J . . . r ' . 1
iawu iiiinui: . ,, . , t , f ho rrmn.n ri
A-niil iA ( .rmrrrnca in l.'l on. .... II. . . I .
V VV e V- n " , '"""""J w"" "It was not fur h:m to search for reasons to
1S3J,) he was contending with witness that Mr. vind;cat0 thc ecntiments of the people of that
Rowan ot.gtn to bo elected sonata to Congress gta,c on ,hia or auy 0(her question;but he would
v-."" juueu:sT, ac-j mai mQrcIv poit t0 hcr position, under all circum-
he would bo surprised if witness voted for him.
Witness said that Ihe presidential election was
comiug on, arid, from the number of candidates,
he expected that the election would come before
Congress, and said to Trimble, supposo that you
voto for .Mr. Adams, who is also an apostate fed
eralist.
"Trimble replied, he knew Adains to be an
apostate federalist, and tint if he over voted for
him, witness inight call him a federalist as long
as he lived. Ho also said, that Adams had a-
greed to give up tho navigation of tho Mississip
pi river fur whales and mackerel, and that ho
(Adams) had always been an enemy to tho West,
Uhcu wituess hoard that Trimble had voted for
Adairts, he was surprised; and soon nftor hi re
turn, he had a conversation with him about his
vote, in which be gave as his reasons that 'We
ascertained if Mr. Adams was miido President,
Mr. Clay would bo made Secretary of State : and
that if (Inn. Jackson was made Presidout, Mr.
Clay would not be rnado Secretary; and that it
would bo better for us to have Adams, with Mr
Clay Secretary, than General Jackson without1
him.
Oftho tunas of testimony other than that taken
before flio Senate, the following affidavit is n spe
cimen: . ' -
"We, the subscribers, certify on oath, that wc
were severally present at the Lewis county
court, for October, and hoard David Trim-
bio make a speech, and ho used the following
language ( Whoa wc went on last fall to the
city of Washington, we found Mr. Crawford cut
of the ouostidu; the contest was botween (lenerr
al Jackson and John Quiney Adams. -.. We' as
certained, that under no circumstances would
General Jackson appoint our fiiond. Clay. Sec
retary of State. Knowing this, then, follow-citi-zenfl,
that General Jackson would not, end Mr.
Adams would, appoint Our friend, Henry Clav,
j Secretary of State, if jot -expected mo to vote
stances, and lue manner m which, whether in
times oi prosncnty or distress, in peace or in war
sho has always acquitted herself as a member of
tho Union. Whether the oanKrupt law was a
measure of national injury, was a question about
which tho peopla ot the united blatcs could form
their own conclusions; but whether tho measure
would affect advantageously or injuriously the
interests of the pooplo of Kentucky, they aloue
were competent to judge; and so tar as ho was
concerned, ho thought that from 'their judgment
there was no appeal. At the extra session ot
Congress he voted for the Bankrupt law. If he
had boon disposed to recount reasons why he
should yote for tho ropeal of tho law, ho would
have pointed to the expression of opinion in thc
State from which ho came ; in truth, ho would
havo had occasion to go no furthor than tho other
end of (he Capitol, to satisfy himself of tho pub
lic state of feeling, by observing that tho whole
body oftho delegation from Kentucky, with one
exception, had recorded their votes for tho repeal
ot tho law. JJut he should take no such pains.
Without entering into a discussion oftho measure
at tho present time, and in advanco, lie would
content biroselt (coupling thn sentiments of the
legislature with what ho had seen and heard since
he came to tho city,) with tho remark that the
law ought to be repoalod ; and ho would conform
his conduct to tho roquiroinonts ol tho resolu
tion." . "
Notwithstanding tho decisive action of tbo leg
islature, the unanimity ot the Kentucky mom
hers of the other House, ' and tho declarations of
bis collenicuo and friend in the Senate, all evin
cing, beyond a doubt, tho will of his constitu
ents, Mr. Clav voted against the ropeal
It is but just to Mr. Clay to stato thc reasons
which induce him to disregard the will of his
constituents, o unequivocally mado known to
him.--They were, tint (ha bankrupt law was a
part ot thc mngsyitcm. winch ho wished to pre
Annexation of Texas.
vve copy the following interesting letter of
Gen. Jackson from thc Washington Globe. Thc
Annexation of Texas is a subject at this time
which engrosses tho attention of tho minds of
all, and is assuming an important attitude. The
opinions oftho retired Statesman oftho Hermit
age, ou all subjects, arc always read with avid
ity: IIkbjhtace, Feb. 12, 1813.
MvDjukSir: Yours of the 23d, ult. has been
received, aud with it tho Madisonian, containing
uovurnor uumers's letter on tho subject ot the
annexation of Texas to the United States.
You arc not miatakon in supposing that I have
formed an opinion on this interesting subject.
It occupied much of my attention during my Pres
idency, and I am sure has lost none of its impor
tance by whit has since transpired.
goon after my election in 182'J, it was made
know11 10 ma hy Mr. Erwin, formerly our minis
ter at 1110 Court ot Madrid, that whilst at that
court h laid the foundation of a treaty with Spain
for tho cession ot the l'loridas, and tho settle
ment of the boundary of Louisiana, fixing the wes
tern limit of tho latter at tho Rio Grande, agree-
bly to the understanding of France that ho had
written home to our government for powers to
complete and sign this negotiation ; but that in
stead of receiving such authority, the negotiation
was taken out of his hands and transterred to
Washington, and a new treaty was there conclu
ded, by which the Sabine &, not the Rio Grande,
was recognised and established as the boundary
of Louisana.
Finding thatlhesc statements were true, and
that our government did really give up that im
portant torritory, when it .was at its option to re
tain it, I was filled with astonishment. Tho right
to the territory was obtained from I ranee: Spain
stood ready to acknowledge it to Ihe Rio Grande
and yet thc authority asked by our minister to
insert tho truo boundary was not only w:thlicld,
but in lieu of it, a limit was adopted which strip
ped us oftho whole of tho vast country lying
between tho two rivers. -
On such a subject, I thought with tho ancient
Romans, that it was right never to cedo any land
or boundary oftho republic, but always to add to
it by honorable treaty, thus extending tho area
of fioedom; aud it was in accordance with this
feeling that I cave our minister to -Mexico in
struction to enter upon a negotiation for tho re
trocession oPTexas to the United States.
This negotiation failed, and I shall ever regret
it as a misfortune to both Mexico and tho United
States, Mr. Gilmer's letter presents many cf tho
considerations which in my judgment, rendered
tho step necessary to the peace and harmony of
the two countries; but the point in it at that tunc,
which most strongly impelled me to tho course I
pursued, was the injustice done to us by thc sur
render of tho territory, when it was obvious lhat
it could have been retained without increasing
the consideration afterwards given for tho Flori
das. I could not but feel that the surrender of so
vast and important a territory was attributable to an
erroneous cstimato of tho tendency of our insti
tutions, in which there was minjiled somewhat
of jealousy to the.ris!ng greatness of the South
and West. - ,
But I forbear to dwell on this part of the his
tory of this question, It is past, and cannot now
be undone, Wo can now only look at it as one
of annexation, if Tezas presents it to us; and if
she does, I do not hesitate to say that the welfare
and happiness of our Union require; that it should
be accepted,
. If in a military point of view alono, tho ques
tion be examined, it will be found to be most im
portant to the United States to bo in possession
of that territory. ,
TJtc
Em!:!?i2ts of Viu'ty Jlc Cock
the Coon.
The coon is an animal filthy in its habits, and
no use can be undo ot it until after it is dead
t , .i i..i.ii. . I.., . , .
us Bum, me oniy vamuuic pan oi ine annual, is
sent from the United States lo Russia, and sold to
that government to be used as a clothing for the
Russian standing army.
It is a prowling, cowardly, petty thief, skulking
by day and committing petty larceny by night,
and is thc terror of old women because of mid
night depredations among hen-roosts. Such is
the animal the federal party have chosen as em
blematic of their principles, and they havo chosen
well.
To the democracy, tho whigs have assigned
the chicken-cock, as the emblem of our princi
ples. At the earliest peep of dawn, the clear,
loud notes of Chapman is heard ringing forth
its joy lhat light is about to overspread the earth.
At early eve, being no friend to darkness, it re
tires with thc sun to rest. It skulks from no
danger, and readily does battle in defence of its
privileges. It is no thief, and cortaiuly not
a coward, for it would crow forth a defiance to
tho assembled world. There is nothing moan or
skulking in its nature. '
At the battlo on Lako Champlain, when the
British and American fleets wero enveloped in
the smoke of batlle, a cannon ball knocked to
pieces a chicken coop on one of the American
vessels. An old chicken-cock, who thus owed
his escape from bondage, immediately flew upon
one of tho masts, and at every interval between
tho roaring of the cannon,' tho gallant cock
crowed forth its notes of defiance and of victory.
As soon as this was perceived, tlio sailors greeted
the noble Chapman wkh cheers, and thourh the
bullets flew thick and fast around him, still, in thc
caruago of that dreadful battlo, the gallant bird
kept its post until eur tars triumphed.
Thus it will bo seen that in giving tho chicken-
cock to tho democracy and taking the coon as
an emblem to themselves, the federal party are
i . . . .1 .. . 1 mi i .
more nonosi inan usual. iney nave given us
a noble, an honest, and a patriotic bird, and havo
taken a secrot, prowling, midnight thief, without
a single rodeeniing virtue. Democracy is open
in tho avowal of its principles, and honest in
carrying them out. Whiggery repudiates a doc
trine belore an election, and acts upon it ufler
the contest is decided. 1 ruly tho rooster and
the coon are good emblems of tho two parties
statesman. .
nfliird facilities for the introduction into the Um'eu
States of several branches of German manulactures lor
American consumption.
Tarisr Facts from the Jiook.
Tho Eredericksburgh Recorder, gives the fol
lowing facts, which all ought to be acquainted
with: -
Tho average exports of the Uuilcd States, un
der the Protective tariff, for the nino years prece
ding tho Compromise, were 57,i5,J!t,,J45 dollars
per annum.' While during tho period of redu
ced aud reducing duties, it was 1)8,447,795 ; be
ing a gain of SSyfJ 10,855 per year. Let fanners
who make and sailors who. carry produce, re
member this. !
The thc duties on the calicoes used by tho
rich is 30 per centum.' Let the poor remember
this. . . , ' - - . -.:
Tho duty on flannels for the rich is but 40 per
cent, on flannels for the poor 100 per cent.
The duty on " golden cambrics" is 30 per ct.,
on " stripe shirtings" G5 per cent.
Tho duty on sold chains for dandies is but 7
per cent, on iron chains for farmers 30 percent.
The duty on window glass ranges from 1)4 to
178 per cent with an average of more than 150
percent. Is not light heavily taxed?
Implement of husbandry are taxed from 75
to 150 per cent so of every dollar paid by a farmer
for such articles, nearly 50 cents are extorted "
from him, to enrich tho already rich manufactu
rer. ' '7 . ...:.',,'
Let farmers remember when they spend a dol
lar for farming utensils, that they pay 50 cents
for the article itself 10 cents for tho support of
government, and 40 cents to gloat the rich beg
gars of the north. This is not fiction.
Raw iron hiss a duty of 112 per cent. Who
uses iron? or rather who does not use it? Let
them remember they p;iy double lis worth.
Thc duty on certain descriptions of cotton
goods ranges from 60 to 150 percent making tho
article ilsclt at least twice us natural price. .
Salt (wo wish every ono who uses salt to note .
this fact) is taxed 133 per cent extorting more
tlian double its actual cost from tho consumer
and every person is such) in order to enable our
salt boilers to make their yearly dividend of 80
per cent!
The duty on anvils ;s u per cent. lzx mc-.
chanics remember it.
The duty on iron in small bars 210 per cent!
Ono price for the article itself and 24 for tho
protection ot tne American mauut.icturer..
The duly on irons tor tailors and natters is i iu
per ccut. This is protecting mechanics.
The duty on iron wire is percent.
Tho rise in tho pricy of hardware has been 10
percent since last spring. Win pays il?
Tho rise in the price ot woollens has been
per ct. Who pays it f . ' '
These are a few tacts connected with tho
present tariff. More arc forthcoming. Repeal
is tho word, and repeal is tho remedy.
Whig Cannibalism. Tho voracity of th
whigs is astonishing. , At the late eloction in this
city they gulphed INativcism as greoddy as a bun
gry man would a fine fat oyster. Having their
appetites thus whotted they havo since turned
lo, and actually devoured even their own kind
We understand from (he Rochester Advertiser
that (he whigs of the city closed their celebration
of Clay's birth day by eating a dead Coon. - " If
this bo the tact,1' remarks the Advertiser, "the
parly is without a principle the Coon being the
only cne left for the public eye. The voracity
of these whigs is astonishing so are their polit
ical fandangos. 15ut what can bo expeeted from
a party whose emblem is one of the most thiev-
ng ot tho flight prowlers which prey on tho a-
bois ot tho husbandman? " Vlebeian.
That this boundary could havo been obtained, was
doubtlem the beliof of our niintxtdr in Hpuin; Lmttliek
oner oi ii)enimni8li liornmiutMit wrtfl prolmoiy tlio l olo-
' mdo certainly a line ftir weM of the Ktthiiif!.. ,
Tub Tadlhs Turneo. There was one uni
versal shout among tho whigs all over the coun
try, during (he last session of Congress, when
John Quiney Adams assailed the Hon. Henry A.
Wise, baid tho tierce, malevolent old man
" he is dripping with the blood of Cilley .'"
Why is it that the whigs now cover their faces
when tho Cilley duel is mentioned? 05" They
have learned that Henry Clay was at tho bottom
of that duel; that Henry Clay penned the chal
lenge; and that Henry Clay said, after tho murder
had taken place, when rebuked for his part in it,
" it is only a ntno days' bubble! -Plebeian.
Keop your own secrets, if you ever wish to bo
tiny thing or do any thing in this world,
Mr. CJay antl the Tariff: i
Thcro was quite a piquant debate in the llouso
of Representatives cn Wednesday, between Mr.
Brown of Indiana and Mr. Whilo of Kentucky,
n reference to Mr. Clay's double face on tho
Tariff question, in wh'ch (ho authenticity of tho
subjoined remarks attributed to Mr. Clay as hav-
inr; been 'uttered in January 1812, in reference
to Mr. Woodbury's amendment to the Treasury
Note Bill, camo under discussion. It has been
assorted that Mr. Clay said: ' - -1.1
'Carry out the principles oftho compromise
act, look to revenue alone for tho support of Gov
ernment. . Do not raiso the question of protoc
tion, which I hoped had been put to rest. There
is no necessity tor protection.1 -
Mr. While, however, who was exceedingly in
dignant at this, declared that the quotation was a
forgery, 'but -admitted that Mr. Clay had "spoken .
on the occasion jeferrcd to as follows: ',"'
."Carry out, then, tho spirit of the compro
mise act. Look to revenue alone for the support
of Government. Do not raise tho question of
protection, which I hoped had been put to rest.
There is no necessity of protection for jirotcC'
tion." ,: .-'.-.:''. '--. ',, -
This, then, is what was, said by Mr. Clay, as
admitted by his staunch friend Mr. White; but,
wo must confess lhat we do not seo that any ma-
tcrial difference has boon established, nor that
tho explanation at 'all docs away with the forco
of tho chargo, that whilo Mr. Clay's adherents
are laboring strenuously 011 his behalf in the mid-;
dla and Northern States, as an ultra tariffito and .
protectionist, he himself is endeavoring to gain
support clscwhere,,as thc reducer of Tarifis, as
the trioiid ot " the spirit or me uomprouuso Act,"
and as believing that "there is no necessity of
protection for protection," to give him the bene
fit of what are said to bo his own words. ' Hero
is at least one, and the other and opposite face
may be soon any day 11 the week in the ultra
Clay Journals of this cily, displaying a system
of hypocritical electioneering to deceive the work
ing classes, such as has 'rarely been witnessed.
"Do not raiso the question of protection. There
is no necessity of protection for protection,"
which counlod with Clay's declaration to Merri-
wcthcr, that" it is remarkable that since 1828,
my exertions in Congress havo been directed to
tho reduction and modification or Tariffs," form
a pretty commentary upon the course of coouish
journalism. Halt. Argus.
, A man 65 years of age has been discharged,
cured, from tho Pennsylvania lunatic Bnylum,
who had been crazy 25 yfars. ., '