The Western Register and Terre-Haute advertiser, Volume 4, Number 35, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 24 November 1827 — Page 2

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"Mr. Buchanan, Mr. Isacks -M.iinr Raton, Imve thousht proper brine my n»m« before the public, a that of a person implicated, or ti some way concerns'!, in an attempt to induce «e»- Jarl""" to wre a ce, fain ple.lge,or pledges, a» joteer/'tain appointment It wotiWI he hi dut? to mike in the event of h.. e-

Action as President or the State. •-Oneconsequence of the. publication•of these gentlemen has been, tha (hey have given rise to a torrent of ^huse and calumny, which has been directed against me. It is not however, for the purpose of averting thipolluted stream, or of noticing thoswho have cast into it their mite o? slander, that I sit down. My object is of a higher nature a desire tu nivself justice, and as far as my ties! recollection and judgement shall permit, to spread the truth, ar.d tl whele

before my fellow citi

zens. I do not h-.'p-'"by a«v thing I can say. I owever satisfactory and $ conclusive, to propitiate any of inv 1 enemies, personal or political iror shall I. for that, or any other pur pose, turn frem a full and fair examination of snch parts of the letters c»f ti gentlemen who have imposed upon me this unpleasant dut-j. relates to myself, I could have wished to have.-been spared this appeal, hut it is no longer a matter of choice nii« ht have been persuaded to permit the errors and inaccuracies of

Mr Buchanan and Mr Isaiki, arising from a want of a recollection, to pass unnoticed and, from a de

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to be at peace, I might even have been content to overlook their unkindness but, when Major Eaton, on thpir shewing, presumes to call me "the negotiator7' in what he represents to be a corrupt transaction, 1 am imperatively nound to speak,

and I will speak that which I do know to be true. Let the blame and condemnation fall where it ought vhere it is merited, but not on me.

If these were not motives sufficiently powerful, there is another which would determine me. An effort is m«king by the use, andth a huse, of my name, to wound the cha-

ters of some of our ablest and most exalted citizens, and by accunations which I believe-to bt?'unfounded and in which I am ceitain I bore Ti- part, to sink them in public esti-

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1, .i(rht« which they have honorably a !ained, and in their places to put those whom I regard as having adopt principles and avowing a deterim nation to pursue a course of poli?"cy, which I nave no doubt wou'U '•-h greatly affect tne prosperity ami inprjinesH of the sttte of Pennsylvania "and of t^.e whole Union.

That I was originally friendly to Ihe election of gen. Jackson to the '•"*'1'residency I do not deny. My feel irg* of gratitude towards him for lib lulifary series to his country re'•lnain, a"d ver shall remain '"\i Mchans^ed. 1 voted for bin .in tin Democratic Caucus of T&2-1 '••IJM-A. representative of Pennsylvania

I subycfjuently not only gave hin 7i.y vote, but used mv best exertional,

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fair and honorable means,

ito promote his election to the Presi lirntial ctiiir. he united exer ni!-

his friends having failed to cfF-ci \H, election. I \vas not one of those —felt it a duty, or thought it proimme^icil. !v to unfurl ihe standard of opposition will) ut knowing

W!,e principles and the policy of the jnvM who were to be called to assist in administering the government of -the Union because 1 had been de featcd, bv-£ constitutional majority *if tli" states, in nry desire have g^n. .lack son elected, it did not seem mc that I was called upon to rest, embarrass and overthrew the new administration whether it jdiould b» right or wror.g. I thought it dutv as a representative ol the peo4 plr. and as a citizen, patiently to wait and sen what would be the general character of Mr. Adams' «di!iini «ti ation arid v^hat would be th« -omplexion of his cfbinet. When ascertained that he had taken t" 1ns a»*l tiuch ahle and experienced

T"\ a» visefS as Mr. lay, .V3r. Hush, Mr. Southard, and Mr Barbour,iu*»ri i.lentified with the republican itifti-tuuon-i of

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counti y, in peace aiof

in Kir nien vmio had enjoyed the cMijfader«ec of the republican admits i-.,tMion of Mr- -ft' t'on, Mr. Madv" jj. on and Mr. M'.nroe.j meu who hud

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\.r:t lio sty to doubt what would ae the «i,atftrt«-s ar:•,! policy «»f Mi. Adams'. ft(jii,inistra'«'»n I ronsid.'ied that -j,! \i.es»e .lpjiciintmin-f a pledge was «.iver» t» 'he natiwi f.iat ie polio "y i)i ii had been puisucd under fo. !.„(• administrations wouM be pursw,.:! fiiiid -il. i!it? present- I dctei ni-

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f|.,. Union, I'lid not feel myself ai

Hie efore, th.«t as a repr'senta live ot lilt- pople,-sn'l as one, of th pc..p:c, v,.uul no.' P-11

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fnrejudices, to et the be or inv Midgment and patriotism, out that I vould 4udge the administration by its measures. If it contiuued to sup ,-jort and sustain those that sustained system which promotes national irosperity, American manufactures, titernal improvements and com oerce and to cherish peace and adninis'er the government with a due ega'd tn economy, it should receive my cordial and hearty support

The latter end of December, lfi24. I believe, but cannot with absolu

I believe, but cannot with absolute

certainty sav, it was on the 30th.

mv friend Mr. Buchanan called see me in the evening at my board og house. I happened to be alon io^mv room: he sat with me aeon siderable length of time ur con

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him in opinion. Mr- Buchanan ad rertrd to the rumors which wen ifl .at, lhat the friends of Mr. Adam we*e holding out the id fa that in caS' he should be elected, Mr Clay wou.t prohahiv be ollered the situation Secretary J»f State, and that c»v Ken. Jackson was elected, he wouu appoint or continue Mr. Adams, as Secretary of State I told Mr. Buchanan! thought such a report wa calculated to do the General a great deal of injury, and if it were not well founded it ought to be contradicted. and mentioned further, thathere was great plausabili»y in such reports, and their receiving credit. particularly that which representee! gen Jackson as hvving determined, The should be elected, that he wouh continue Mr. Adams Secretary ol S'ate, inasmuch as Mr Adams bac been one of nis ablest defenders am advocates in bis report sustaining gen. Jackson against the charge, which were preferred against him fm his conduct in relation to the feemi nole -war.

thought by doing so he would confer a particular benefit on his country, ami that he could see nothing wrong in it. Mr. Buchanan urged ine to

iodginga. 1 called to see him again,

poinliijentti, and I did not ascertain which uf the candidates Mr Clay u^uld support. I have no recollection ol any thing being said in the. conversation with Mr. Buchanan, about tlie fn.'nds of Mr. Clay moving in concert at the election iunvever d**ttinc-t-iy recoJIe.ct, that we both t'xpi essed an anxious hope, that the Wtjit, wouil not sepeiate trom Pennsylviin.a. 1 have no recolleclion whatever of kaviog-urged Mr. B. to see gen. Jackson, although I concurred in the propriety of his suggestion th it he shouhl call to see iiiii) nut- Uave 1 the laintest recollection of any thing being feaid a» out liguting Mr. Adams' friends with Uic own weapon*. If an) bttch

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Buchanah stated, that he hac'

written to, or received a letter fron a mutual friend of ours in Pennsyl vania, on the subject of the Presi dential election, and cabinet appoint •nents, and that he had determined to call upon the General himself, to get Major Eaton, to mention ti him the reports that were in circulation, and obtain if he could a contradiction of tlu in Mr. B. also asker!

I 1 had seen Mr. Clay, and whetheI had any cot versation with him. touching the Presidential clccliiiri I replied that 1 had seen him in thHouse, but hail no conversation with iuo on that subject, but said I was* anxious to get an opportunity to haw conversation wi'U him, as I felt a ^reat anxiety that he should vot« villi Pennsylvania. Mr Bucnan.tr rupiied, that no one felt more atixi us, for various reasons, than he dn limself that it was important, not irily as it regarded the, success en. Jackson's election, that Mi lay should go with Pennsylvania. iut oil account of his ulterior poll ical pronp^cts declaring^fhat (Mr. hoped one day to see Mi i'by i'rt'Sidectof the Slates, ami that was another reason, why lu hould like to see him Secretary ot State, incase gen Jackson was elected and that if he was certain tha' Mr. Cla's views were favorable ^o gen. Jackson's election, he would lake an opportunity of talking to the General on the subject, or'get conversation with Mr Bitchanan, 1 Major -Baton to iSo »o that 1,. met with Mr. «ck.,ol lennessce, the Mall ot the House ot Itepres•ntatives. My reco.lection does not nable me to state, whether it was at is seat, or in the lobby, or on the

III II. :»»i wuuuaiiou uiB"i I«IC l« ... use ivn delay in seeing Mr.Clay. 1 ^'fa, at the nghthaud as you goanto told him 1 would, and accordingly

called.upon Mr. Clay at his boarding nouse. I think the evening after thi conversation, but he was not at hit. Montgomery county, (1 a the disl- I __ a .. .1 I rt Ink

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out he had some of his friends with •'ai'ly sought my acquaintance in the him, and I had no opportunity oi session ©t J823 and 1824, and had conversing with him, nor had I ever many conversations with lue of a any conversation with him,4iutil the private character, in re afion to ln:«ov ning of the 10th or 1th of Jan- self, and in which took an interest, and to the best of nry ability-and opportunities faithful#: served him.

uar. prior to my leaving -Washington fur Pennsylvania,- to attend the courts in Montgomery county. The onversat.ou I then hud with him, duced an intimacy and* tnendship was of a very general character no which frequently brought us ^togethucntion was niiide of cabinet ap

•etpresrions were used. am certain it was not by me. i4'"'" ..pcoUectiou lhave of the converarian to which Mr. Buchanan ha* re erenee. in hi* letter td the public, of the 8th of August last, mv'impressions are that the object of hi* vi^it that evening was to urge thpropriety ot my seeing and to give him my Views as to th importance of his identifying h.tn ,clf with Pennsylvania, l«» suppor .,f general Jackson. I entertains no doubt that Mr. Buchanan wa-. honestly determined, that no exer-

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xitieraine leo^m ui i.»»v son, they would press upon versation turned principally on the appointment ot Mr. Clay as .1

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fhe then pending Presidential «e tion. Mr. H. commenced bv stat in-that he felt great solicitude for ,*fi opinion, tfiat Pennsylvania wouli r._- and *1_ Plno'a a mini ntOieflt to the election of gen. Jack-on, and that his friends shou'd use every ho^i or able means to promote it to wliic. orauie oieaii^

I replied, that I heartilv un.itv^d with (j

and that he felt confident, he could .peak with certainty, astothegrea mass of Gen. Jackson's friends, that, in case of the election of gen Jack

Mr Bu ch an all concurred with me

prefer Mr. Clay's appointment to rhatftf any other person as Secretai} uf State, and from the obligations the

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under to Pennsylvania

bathe would go far to gratify her wishes, and that therefore he believed the General, if elected, woul« app .irit Mr. Clay ,1 have thus givthe conversation substantially. as it took place, ^s the one Mr. :ias reierence to, in his letter to tin puhUc.of the 8tb of Augut last. I was a conversation of rather a genial and promiscuous chatacter, 111 vbich we both participated. It i^ ,pw ards of years since that con venation to- place, and considering it of a private and confidential cnaacter, 1 made no minute of it, no.id I ver expect it would have been

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to the public Ii is somewha "cma.kable,

two years and more

houbl have elapsed, Mr. Buchanan tnd myself boarding together at the ame hou-e, during the two last se»ionsof Congress, during j\hich peiod we had many conversations on he subject of the presidentiaJ elec ien, as we'lason public and priw.te matters, yet n-t once, in all that mie, did my friend Mr. Buchanan, ver advert to the conversation which ie U&s recently thought himself ca' upon to give, as haying taken place between us.

I cannot avoid -thinking it somevhat singular, that Mr. should rave been so reserved towards mc* particularly as Duff Green had been

urnished with a utatement in Dcto-

er. 1826, of what had passed be isveen oeu. Jackson and himself, and 'hat a statement had also been fur lished to him by Major Katun, tVu^ust, 1826, as" to the pu port of he*conversatiori between biinsclfand «4r. Buchanan. That these move

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,*rt improperly to dra« me into this uiness, and vet that uuder all these :ircuinstanoe«*, Mr.-B.-should huve een silent towards me, and tdithc nouId think proper to introduce to he public, a detailed conversation in vhich he makes me say alt and him.If little or nothing—a conversation otally unnecessary for the purpose sustaining an individual, acting, is he protests heal ways acted, on bis iwn authority—does to me, anif pro i.tbiy will to the public, seem somewhat unaccountable. it gives me am to think ot these things, espeiallv as having emanated from a oerson, to whom I feel obligations of friendship, for acts of kindness, and whose friendship, reposed the most unlimited confidence. 'I'lie succeeding morning after the

he loor« I way here be permitted to remark —that Mr. Isacks being a native of

ict 1 represented in Congress, he

I'hese^on ver sat ions necessarily pro

er, and even in the habit of tree, riendly and unreserved conversaion. The conversation which he epresents to have taken place beween us is incorrectly reported he assuredly misapprehended or much ierepresents me. From the gener tenor ol his •statement this however does not appear singular. He seems, from his narative, to h&ve paid more regard to our relative positions, at Die several meetings to which he has reference, than to even the substance of what passed between us, relying upon the recollection ot Mr. Buchanan as to dates. ^Thattherc was a conversation between Mr. Isacks and myself, on the subject, of the Presidential election, the morning after Mr. iiuchuuan h«i called to

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uen. Jackson's prospects of tion were fair in lact^-.ve

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,occiw. I (liiti»cl.V recollect .ack, ren„ kin,. that W l?Dewd «n the course Mr. Clay -riends would take, and evpre^M^ ,u belief that they wouW act wi

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wr, p^»y •«,! I hive no doubt that in tne an(J I tiAvr ,-/.! ilia VIr. Bticbauan

anxiousi lor hi

replied that I sincerely hopewould go with Pennsylvania

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election, 1 lell coi.fi.le it not ,-

would be .""re graiilj'iiig Pennsylvania tli«n to a-e Mr. •ipnointe.1 secn-lary ot j!a i. ifaacks replied, lli.t he was Im »econd choice for President,

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would be his first choice it gen.^ackon was elected, to be appointed Secretary of State, and that ic requently expressed himself to tlial effect 1 have no recollection of aving said to Mr Isacks that I wished to see Mr. Katon, nor did i, with more than ordinary interest and earnestness, insist that gen. Jackson if elected, outfit to appoint Mr-

ifmust be apparent, that before I, or any one could have used the strong language imp.uted to me, that was inilinpeiirable that it should bt. uistiucily understood that Air. Isacks wa? autnorised, by gen. Jackson, to receive propositions to piomote his election'. Ol this 1 had no evidence, nor entertained any opinion, nor did I at any tnjiejor to any one,use the strong language imputed to me by lr. IsatKs., .1 well remember, ihat, at that time we Doth believed, and expressed our belief, that if gen Jack aO'i ..\ya* elected, aod tie could not be eiected without the aid ot Mr Clay ami his friends, that lie would be appoiuted Secretary qf State. J?urtuer, Mr. Isacks declared his bc,iel, in which 1 concurred, (hat a iaige portion of the western delegation, irom the unreserved conversation we had on the subject, wished Mr. Clay tone Secretary ot state, in wuich desire hey were joined b) a large portion ot the delegation iroin other states Iriendly to general Jackson's election. It is indeed a kveii known lact, that amongst the inends of all the candwatca there was much speculation on the subject, mucn was said unreservedly and with' much zeal and good humor on the

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ceeded to tne Presidency, the geneai voice was raised in Uvor of, and

the general eye tixed upon, that dis-

liigUisned Statesman and fl ixibi epubiican, Henry Clay, a9 tin fiioi liiegov.i taifieni arrt: rrjv. of

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should havtf taken ace, am |, cauiiidaces htt«l been elected, lu hat there should have been no con-

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would have had liie offer ot the mo^t prominent situation in the cabinet ihat which he now holds under Mr. Adams ii lias repeatedly been stated, tha• was the agent, or as Major Eitou is pleased to say, tne negociator' of Mr Clay, authorized to niakc propositions or ask a pledge of a conditional character, for the vote ol .»ir. Clay and Ins friends I do now solemnly and positively declare, that ihe charge and insinuation are void of trutn. never did, either directly or indirecily, receive from Mr. Clay or his friends, any intimation which could be construed even bw\ political rancour, into icli a commission, orany tiling even remotely approaching to it. Had any such agency, by any one, been tendered, I should have indignantly rejected it. wjll go further and 6tate, tfutt never did I in the course of any conversation with Mr. Clay hear him say, or express a desire, that in the event of the election of gen. Jackson, Mr. Adams, or Mr. Crawford, that he should wish to be-Secretary of State, or hold any station in tincabinet. Further, 1 never have to any one, at any time, or on a-ny occasion represent^L irtyselt, or wished it to be understood], that I was authorised to receive, or made over tures on the part of Mr. Clay, or Iih friends. think proper to 'make this general aod unqualified declar ation that there may hot 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 appointment of Secretary of State and it is a well known fart, that after he had the otfer, he consulted many of his friends whether lie should, or should not, accept it. He told me in a conversation he did me the honor to hold yvitli tne on the subject, that the acceptanco of it would be to him not only a sacrifice of domestic happiness, but a serious pecuniary loss. know also, thit not only his .immediate personal and political-friends, but many of those who voted for other candidates, were desirous that he should accept the station, and urged that his country had claims upon bun paramount to ail other considerations, and would never see him suffer from devotion her best interctU.

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mentioned my opinion to '•ai friends. impresS founded on the, belief that tern interest would

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Jarkson's election, and tfv,t »id of one or two of the vorofMr. Crawford i..1'1^

elected 1 uie.atian opinions of the day, t0 have no reserves,- anil th^e, or did, I am quite willing

known. ...

I left Washington for on the morning of the I lthor'-' January, laid, and did until Tuesday the 30th of foil month, the day after .Mr appeared in the National Im cpr This absence at this juncture, is of itself siillicier.,,i pel the idea that I took anv 1 interest «»s to the appang?ni(v.j pendent on wbo tnight, or be elected President I

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conversation with a particularJ who travelled with meint^J on my return to Fennsvlvaniil] him, in the course of that tion, 1 expressed my regret having had an opportunity oi ..! and general conversation rit.iJ Clay on the subject of thePtE tial election, a«d said that 1 a,, idea of writing to kim as warrit^d at Morri«town expressed an anxiety that Mt.rt should vote with Petnsylvanii

Exception has been takensJ offering the resolution of thaii^l Mr. Clay was about retiringf Sfieakcr's hair in 1815. Sue-.-j solution it had been custonwii end of a Congr^ssv to otfer, a house to adopt, as it did oob: casipn,.almost v\ith per/'ect ty. •Jt was my own. col'MrJ 1 had no consultation frith ar.rj not .the slightest reference: course on the Presidential ekd

I offered the resoluiic^i beca*',] thought he eminenUv deserved.L lie, as Speaker, dii not ricteerj a vote .thanks, who shallpfrinJ to think he has preteaiionsb»r lenor The thauk-tfee^-eyr wiik'h lie presided, for aMte^iiral rid impaitial dischar^-'5 oiibekffl

the station was hardfjeirnsiaii ,iliinq !y awarded 1 thfH^iii'H'. ,ne. even though he had di^-.reit? Pennsylvania lu tu2 c.'iC.'C^I'^ •.itlent, .fche owed him indefatigable exertions in her policy and best interests -j only did these considerations.^ others prompt me to o.h'r luLion of thanks Hr Clay, 1 had been unj'itly urife'1", assailed for an honest Jiifcru opinion audit was pliuiulto man who hid raised own talents and exertions to of the roost ditinguished and orators of the a£e

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war and in peace had never.i ed his country,

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ly by her, defending by of his gigantic mind P" eloquence her rights, and

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claiming her tiue policy^ 'aJ a man should be u.ittiankc: bout to retire from the »\)ri•^ chair of a body of winch1 honor to be a member, uu port with my teeling^

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have considered fhcli a gro-is dereliction ol duty.

Ifeel somewhat at a loss sufficiently measured, in s]eak of the presumptuous^ warranted coneitision at w11' ,i ICaton has arrived and nunceremonijus epithet, vv» k' to ^1 been his pleasure to "l^j

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and laboriously and caieln mm i«uumu". gVI'l^' ed against me, furnish ,,,[.1^1 even of a remote or cir« character, to warrant

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tion that I was a

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cause of gen. JacK^on, .tempted hini, in the face ligeut people, to use the bus used. "Mr Buchanan ly set aside the '""Pn.:JkU.0

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ed to be cast upon hiu ^.v^ ^ioa^l .of having sou prop.xili.'HS. tvifli*.V Mr Cby.or Mr CM)^ declares in expi'C"

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