The Western Register and Terre-Haute advertiser, Volume 4, Number 48, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 23 February 1828 — Page 1

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Messrs. Gurley and Brent were the two members who gave the vote of Louisiana to Mr. Adams. Mr. Gurley declares that I have no knowledge of any proposition having -^en made by the friends of Mr. Clav or any of them to the friends of general Jackson or to any other person, in relation to the election of president, or the proposition of con-

IV destitute of truth Col. Brent says,

ditions of any sort were proposed by the friends ol Clay to any one, on the compliance with which their vote wa? made to depend. No honorable man can believe for a moment that such a proposition was ever made, or such acondition stipulated. I was a friend of Mr. Clay's throughout the contest. I was in the confidence af all his friends, and I declare to God that I never heard of such a thing until it was asserted by the disappointed adherents of Gen. Jackson lam not only ignorant ofany Huch arrangements, Kut do not believo they ever existed."

Thus there is now before the pubic the united evidence of the delega lion from every western state whose vote was conferred upon Mr. Adams, except that of Mr Cook, the repre sentative from Illinois. A long and lingering illness, terminated in tin death of that gentleman, prevent* rhe submission of his—But it is wei! known that Mr. Adama was his choice, throughout the whole presi dential canvass. Although there ex isted between him ajid myself goot will and respectful intercourse, hr never was politically nor personally ryy friend. Including Mr White, t'se public has the evidence of twenty ditl'erent members of congress, mbracing all my friends from tin* vt-stern states who voted for MiAdams. Their attention was chiefly lu t'ctcd, in the preparation of their respective statements, to ibe Fayetteville letter, and it is to them tha» heir teatin-.ony pr:iicipally applies On that point', they all concur in pi unouncing the moat ut qualified, negative, and on other points, several of them are not less explicit Is it credible, is it consistent with he ordinary operations of human nature, that the«e gentlemen, without •iay personal interest or motive whatever, should have fust buicly given their concurrence to dishonorable overtures, for my sole benefit, and t'-ien should unanimously agree to falsify themselves?

In the published circular which, in March 1S-3. I addressed to my constituents, 1 remarked,."at that early period." pearly in November 18:24) "I stati-d

Dr. Drake, one of the

prufessors in the medical school of Transylvania Universy, and to John J. t'rittendfn, K-.(j. of l' rankfort, my deteimination to support Mr. Adams in preference to Gen. Jackson di{l nut at that recollect, nor do I probb ly now, all the occasions on which I expressed, in conversation, my opinion of the unfitness of Gen. Jackson for the Presidency, and my preference of either of the other candidate®. I remember distinctly the conversation I b®'1'

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ami IVientlly communication ot til purport uf them, that

Drake and John Crittenden, bsq and therefore refened to them. In several instances, similar

conv^r®a'

tic lis have been since broug recollection ^gentlemen wit whom, or in whose presence, rurtfcd and it is from

fl,n.'

able^lo lay belore the public a c»n siderabte porlim. of the timonv (including that ot Or. on that particular topic picsenteil. (Sec Appewlu B.)

Tlux testimony establishes

tinued in the City of

thjt'

various occasions and times, ning in keniucky as early as abo the first of October,

ister and Terre-Haute

No "dupe to party tool of power"—Nor slave to Minions of an hour."

formly expressed my conviction o' Gen. Jackson's want of qualification, and my fixed resolution not to vote for him, if I were called upon to give a vote. These sentiments, long cherished were deliberately expressed to gentlemen ©fth^ highest respectability, most of them my personal and particular friends, in all of whose estimation I must have stood dishonored, if I had voted for Gen. Jackson cantrarily to my declared purpose This purpose was avowed immediately preceding my departure from Kentucky to attend Congress, and immediately on my arrival here after the termination of the journey. David Trimble, Esq states that, about the 1st of October 182-1, he held a conversation with me at Frankfort, in Kentucky, on the subject and prospect of the pending election, which he details minutely, and that in the course of it I said "that I could not, consistently with my principles,-vote for Gen. Jackson, under

any

possible circumstances

I urged to him all the objections which weighed on my m:nd, and which have been so often stated, and especially that which is founded upon Gen Jackson's possession of military pretensions only, And in reference to an objection which Mr. Trimble understood me as entertainius a gainst Mr Adams, j»rowin^ out of the negociations at Ghent, Mr. Trimble states that I remarked that it had been "greatly magnified by the friends of big competitors for elec lioneering purposes "that it ou^ht to have no influence in the vote which he mig' be called upon to ^ive that if he was weak enough to allow his personal feelings to influence hi* public conduct, there would be no change in his mind on that account, bccause he was then on much worse terms with Gen. Jackson about the Seminole War, than he couid ever be with Adams about the Treaty of Ghent that in the selection of a Chief Magistrate for the Union, he would ei.deavor to disregard all private feelings, and look entirely to the interests of the country and the safety of its institutions."

It appears from -he letter of Mr, Robert Trimble, (one of the Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of he United States) which accompanies that of Mr. 1). Trimble, that the 'atter had avowed to the former, a« early as in February or March, 1824, his preference of Mr Ailatns to either of the three candidates who were actually retuined to the house of representatives.

Robinson, Kpq- the Speaker of the House of Representatives of K*. who concurred with him, that I could not consistently, under

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mination to ?ote lor Mr Ada jrenerallv known in that Cit

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be my duty, and that he knew I could not concur with

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of the Legislathreonthat tubject. .^ John J. Crittenden, Esq., (who is referred to in the circular to my constituents, but whose statement has

never before bi'en exhibited to tlr public,) testifies that, "some time in /.he fall of 1824, conversing npon the subject of the then pending Presidential election, and speaking in reference to your exclusion from the contest, and to your being called upon to decide and vote between the other candidates who might be returned to the H. of Representatives, you declared that you could not, or that it was impossible for you to vote for Gen. Jackson in any event." My improssion is, that this conversation took place in Caj»t. VVeisiger's tavern, in this town, [Frankfort, Ky ,] not very long before you went on to Congress in the fall preceding the last Presidential election and that the declaration made by you as above stated, was elicited by some intimation that fell from me of my preference for Gen. Jackson over all the other candidates except yourself."

So unalterably fixed was iny resolution prior to my departure from Ky. I have no doubt, that in my promiscuous and unreserved intercourse among my acquaintances in that State, others not recollected by me could bear testimony to the undevi atingand settled determination ot my niind. It will be now seen that after, and immediately on my arrival in the City of Washington, I adhered to this purpose, and persevered in it until it was executed by the actual deposit of my vote in the ballot box.

In a day oi two after I reached the City, and on several other occasions. I had long and unreserved conversations with Mr Johnston, a Senator from Louisiana, to an account ot which as given in his letter in the Appendix, 1 invite particular atten tion. The first was on Saturday or Sunday before the commencement of Congress, in 1824, and after I had seen Mr. Crawford. I stated 'o Mr. Johnston, that, notwithstanding all I nad heard I had no idea of his actual condition, and it was out of the q-jestion to think of making hiui Presideut We conversed fully on the respective pretensions of Mr. Adams and Gen Jackson, and, after drawing a parallel between them, concluded by expressing a prefer ence for Mr Adacns, which "turned principally on his talents ami experience in civil affairs." After the return of the votes of Louisiana, and

after

the resolutions of the General Assembly of Kentucky were received,

Mr.

Colonel Davidson (»he I reasurer of the State of Kentucky, and a man of unblemished honor and unqucs tionable veracity) states, that during a visit which I made in rankfort in the fall of 1824, and he thinks only few davs prior to my departure from Kentucky to attend Congress, (it must therefore have been early in November, as I left home on or about the tenth of that month) he had a conversation with me about the then pending Presidential election, in the course of which he remarked, that I would have some difficulty to encounter in making a selection amongst the candidates, it I should be excluded from the House. lo which 1 re|ilie«l—''I suppose not much: in that event I will endeavor to do my duty faithfully He adds that I stated in the course ot the conversa-tion—-"I cannot conceive of any event that can possibly happen which could induce me to support the eIcction of Gen. Jackson to the I lesidencr. For if I bad no other objection his want of the necessary qualifications would be sufficient. The?e remark* made a strong and lasting impression on Col. Davidson's mind and when the resolutions were before the Legislature, requeatine the delegation to vote for Gen. Jackson, Col. Davidson informed several of his friends ot the conversation with me, and that he was convicted that I would not support Gen. Jackson. He communicated the substance of this conversation to Geo.

Johnston states my adher

ence to that preference. He concludes by observing, "that no fact ever came to my knowledge that could in the slightest degree justify the charge which has been exhibited On the contrary, I know that *your opinion did not undergo any change from the time I first saw you on your return to Washington," that is, prior to the meeting ol Congress. During the present summer, two gentlemen, in the State of Mississippi, voluntarily told Mr. Johnston, that they heard me express a decided preference of Mr. Adams, at Lexington, before I left home Jor Washington.

Although not immediately connected with the main object ot this address, I think it proper to refer to a part of Mr. Johnston's letter, as sustaining two several statements made by me on former occasions. I stat d, in my address to niy constit uents, that, if I had received the vote of Louisiana, and been one ot the three candidates returned, I had resolved, at a time when there was every probability of my receiving it, that I would not allow my name, in consequence of the small number of votes by which it would be carried into the House, if I were returned, to constitute an obstacle to an election. Mr. Johnston says: "You replied that you would not permit tie

prompt decision of 'he question TsJed at Noble's I»". inn-ton, last summer, that 1 naa re uested a Senator, when my numin-

circ"™-

stances, vote for Gen. Jacksoo. When the same resolutions weieblore the Senate, (of whieh Col. Davidson was then a member,) in hU place and opposed them,, among the views which he F68.®", to that body, he stated, that all resolutions which they could ring the whole session would n\ dace me to abandou what 1

Secretary of State was ac-

ation as iecrtia nf inted upon to move a Committee ot in nuirv if it should appear to hun neLsiry. Mr. Johnston »£"A'ter vour nomination was confirmed, you informed me that you had requested Gen. Harrison to move tor a committee in the Senate, if any thing occurred to make it necessary. I replied, that 1 did not think any thing had occurred to reqmre a Cominitteee on your part." J2

Mr. Bouligny, the other Senator from Louisiana, between whom and myself a friendly Intimacy ha® existed throughout our acquaintance, makes a atatement which ia worthy of peculiar notice. He bore to'me the first authentic information Jwhicl. ii received of the vote of l*ouiaiana,

and, consequently, ot iri) 'exc.:u oM from the House —And yet, in our first interview, in answer to ari inquiry which he made, I told him, without hesitation, "that should vote for i\Ir Adams in preference to Gen Jackson."

With the present Secretary of War I had a conversation in the early u-fc of the session of 1824-5, on returning from a dinner, at the Columbian College, at whieh we both were, in company with Gen Lafayette and others The day oi the dinner war, the lotU of December, which may be verified by a resort to the National Intelligencer. In the course of that conversation, Mr Barbour states, that he expressed himself, in the contest being "narrowed down to Mr Adams and Gen. Jackson, in favor of Mr. Adams, and Mr Clay expressed a coincidence of opinion

It will be recollected that Gen Lafayette was in Washington during the greater part of the session of the Presidential election. 116 mentioned the subject to me with his characteristic delicacy Without seeking to influence my vote, or manifesting the least disposition to interfere in the election, he made a single inquiry of me, which I am quite sure was prompted by the deep interest which he felt in every thing that concerns the welfare of this country I am happy to be able now to submit the statement of the General, of what passed between us ou that occasion. He says: "Biesse4 as I. have lately been tvitli the welcome, ar:d conscious as it is my happy lot to be of the affection and confidence of all parties and all men in every party within the United States, feelings which I must cordially reciprocate, I ever have thought myself bound to avoid taking any part in local or personal divisions Indeed, if I thought that in these matters my influence could be of any avail, it should be solely pxerted to deprecate, not b/ far, the free, Republican, and full discussion of principles and candidates, but those iuvidious sla-iders, which, although they are happily repelled by the good sense, the caodor, and in domestic instances, by the delicacy of the American people, tend to give abroad incorrect and disparaging impressions. Yet, that line of conduct from which I inu-.t notdfuate except in imminent cases now out of the question, does not imply a forgetfulncss of facts, nor a refusal to state them occasonally. My remembrance concurs with your own on this point, that in the latter end of December, either before or afier my visit to Annapolis, you being out of the Presidential candidature, and after having expressed my abova mentioned motives of forbearance, I, by way of a confidential exception, allowed myself to put a simple unqualified question, respecting your electioneering guess, and your in-

tended vote Your Answer was that in your opinion, the actual state of health of Mr Crawford had limited the contest to a choice between Mr. Adams and Gen. Jackson, that a claim founded on military achievements did not meet your preference, and that you had concluded to vote^ for Mr. Adams. "Such has been, ilf.4 not the literal wording, at l?ast the* precise sense of a conversation which it would have been inconsistent lor me to carry farther and not to keep a secret, while a recollection of it, to assist your memory, I should not now deny, not only to you as my friend, but to any man in a similar situation.

Gen. Lafayette was not able to state, with absolute precision, the date of the conversation between us,, nor can I uudertak^|o specify theday, although I retajlra perfect recollection of the conversation It* was, he says,

4,in

cHy

the latter- end of

December, either before or after my visit to Annopolis, you being out of $ the Presidential candidature He left Washington on the 16th for An-? nopolis, and returned on the [See National Intelligencer If Jhe^ conversation took place before that excursion, it must have been on ortprior to the 16tb of December But* be says I was out of

the

President

tial candidature. Whether I should ber returned to the House or not was not*? ascertained until the vote Lou.s.a-?, na was known. Rumours had reach-. ed this

of the issue of it, previous

to the 20th of the month but the* first certain intelligence was brought* here by Mr Senator Bouligny on the 20th, according to his recollection.^ On Gen Lafayett's return from Annapolis, the probability that the subject of the

Presidential

election

was a common topic of conversation,as information had then just reached the city from ^ouisiaria^ Ijailed** immediately w-