Western Sun & General Advertiser, Volume 16, Number 13, Vincennes, Knox County, 14 May 1825 — Page 1

WESTERN SUN & SNERAL ABYEBTISEIL

BY ELIIIU STOUT. VINCENNES, (IND.) SATURDAY, MAY 14, 1825. Vol. 10. No. 13

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Mil CLAY'S LK fl VAX To the set file of :hc CvitfrrcssioJial District cotnin.sctl cj fht C'jtt'i'irs of Fnjettv, Wuotffjril and itarkt, in Kentucky. (Concluded from last week ) Viewed as a mere icqucst, as it purported t-) be, the general assembly doubt less had the powi to make it. Hut then, with g: cut deference, 1 think it w.sw-o-thv ot s'lom comsmI' . a i mi, whellu r the digtn'v the geocial ascmbl) oouhf not to owe mduecd it to futbear addtessing itself, not to another legislative body, but to a s'ti, Si pott of it, and requesting the members win) cimiposcd that pat t, in a ense which the constitution had cor. Ikied to them, to vote according to the wishes of the geneial assembly, whether those wi-ji.es did or did ivit conform to their sciho v- dmy,l emit! not icgatil I lie re- ? ' it ; i-ii as a i instruction ; lor, Irotn t ho "-n of our state, its legislature has tie .ct as. timed nor exerc scd the rght t instruct the re pre sentati cs in corg-cv,. 1 did not i e.v gti c the -iht, therefore, of the 'cgis'a'uic to insli net me. I recognised that right only v. hen exerted by you That the portion of pub'ic servants who made up llu; general assembly liavc no right to instruct tb tt portion of them who c instituted the Kentucky delegation in the house of rep' cscntativc-s is a proposition too clear to he argiud. The membets of the generd a'-embly would have been the liisA t" behold as a ptesumptu tins interp osuhui, any instt uction, if the K-Mituckv delegation could have commit ted the absordiy to isiiic, from this place anv insiruc'ion to them to vote in a pirticu'ar m inner on any of the intei eting suhp c ts which lately merged their attentioti at Frankfott. And altitough nothing is further from my intention than to impute either absuidity or ptCMimption to the geneial assembly, in the adoption ol j . the revolution referred to, 1 tnu t say that ' th'j ditVetence between an inti uction etn- . analing from them to the delegation, and from the delegation to them, is not in principle, but is to be found only in t' e degree of superior ioiportance which belongs to the genet al a 'Scmbly. Lnlet -tabling these views ol the clceti titi on which it was made my duty I vote, 1 felt nivse If bound, in the exercise of my best judgment, to prefer Mr. Adams eI accordingly voted for him. I should Juve be n highly gratified if it had tot been my duty to vote on the occasion but that was not mv situation, an l did lint choose to shtiuk I tout any tisponsi- ( bility which appeitained to our repre sentative. Shortly after the election, it ( was utmo'cd tha Mr. Kocmer was pic"paiing a ub'.icalion antl the preparations tor it who h were making, excited much expectaoon. Accoulmglv, on the tsih of Fcbt nary, the addt ess, untie r his name, to the 11 electors ol the 9th corgi cssioual district of the s'ate of Peon I vani i,M made its appearance in the Washington City Ci azette. N metnber of the house I am persuaded, believed thr.t Mr Kiemrr wrote otic paragtaph of that address vi of the plea, which was presented to the ( committee, to the jurisdiction of the house. Those who counselled him, and ' composed both papers, and their pu posts, were just as w ell know it as the author tf any report fiom a committee to ihc husc. The first observation which is called for bv the address is tlic p'acc of

its publication That plarc was in this city, tetnotf fiom the centre cf PcnnvlN vnii, near which M r. Krrmi t 's district tssuviAtMbk in a paper having but a vei ry litniicd, if any, circulation in it. The

time is also remarkable. The fact that the president intended to nominate mc to the senate for the office which I now hold, in the course of a few days, was then well known ; and the publication of the addtcss was, no doubt, made less with an intention to communicate information to the electors of the 9th congressional district of Pennsylvania, than to affect the decision of the senate on the intended nomina-

datc of the 1 6th of Nov. 1822, is made were renewed to us He was not one of the occasion for ascribing to mc the pro- . that majority. He would not trouble the mise and the pledge to make- those tica- committee v iih his i cus s for bvT.g .psonablc disclosures on Mr. Adams. Let posed to t:.c ffcr. A n ajoiitj of ins 1that letter speak for itself, and it will be leagues4 actuated lu believed by the In. st seen how little justification there is lor 1 motives, marie, however, the ofT. i, and it such an assertion. It advens to the comro was refused by the Hritish coo.mi-bon-vcrsy which had arisen between Messrs. ( cis " Adams and Russell, and then proceeds to , Sec Daily National lntelliget.ee r, of state that, in the course of the sevcial Match 21, '816 And what I tl.out'ot of

nun. ui .iiaitieecr uno eonienis ui j piiuueuiiuus, oi wimiii u luis uiin o-y eom.ague. oi uie n.ijoiliy, appeal that address of Messrs. George Kitie! , J casion, and particularly in the appendix : fro-o the s.onc extract. 1 he spring af8c Co. made up, as it is, of assertion pii- j to a pamphlet which had been recently ' ter the tei mination of tlic negotia ions at out proof, of inferences without prcnVc published by the bun. John Q. Adams, I Ghent, I went to London, and there ent-

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anu oi caieicss, jocose, and quizzing con

versations ol some ot my friends to which I was no party, and of which I had never heard, it is not my intention to say much. It carried its own refutation, and the parties concerned saw its abortive nature the

ciationai Ghent, on those two subje. ts. is not, perhaps, neeessaiyto the piesent or future sccuiity of any of ihc rights ot the nation, and is only intei eating as appertaining toils past history With these impicssions, and being extiemely unwilling to present myself, at any lime, before the public, I had almost resolved :o remain silent, Cc thus expose m sell to the inference of an acquiescence in the correctness of all the statements made bv both my colleagues ; but 1 have, on more

reflection, thought it may be expected of J ,m:a;.in;..:. Is it because

me, and be considered as a du:y on my

part, to eontilhuie ?di in my power towaids a full and faithful understanding cf the transactions relet red to. Under this conviction. I w ill, at some future period, more propi . ions than the present to cairn and dispassionate conoid, ration, Ec when there can be no misintei p: etalion ol motives, lay before the pubbe a mutative of those transactions as I understood Hiem." Fiom tven a careless pctiisalof that letter it is apparent tnal the only two subjects ol the. negoeiatioiis at Ghent, to w hich it. refers were the navigation of the Mississippi anil certain fishing liberties;

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think there arc some errors (no doubt un

intentional) both as to malteis of fact, Ec matters of opinion, in t cgai d to the ti ansactionsat Client, relating to the navigation of the ?'.:-sissippi, and ccitain lihei -ties claimed , the U Stales in the fi he-

next day in the. indignant countenance of ties, and to ti c part which I bore in those every unprejudiced and Inmoiable mem- i transactions. These important interests her. In his card, Mr. Kremer had been I are now w ell secuicd M '-An account,

made to siy, that he held himself ready 1 tberefoie, of what oc tirrcd in the nego-

u to procure, to the satisfaction of unprejudiced minds, enough to satisfy them of the at curacy of the statements w hich arc contained in that letter, to the extent that they concern the course of conduct of II. Clav " The object ot excluding my frien'ls fiom the pledge has been noticed. Hut now the election was decided, and there no longer existed a motive for discrimin tting between them Sc me. Hence the only statements that arc made, In the address, having the semblance of proof, i elate rather to them than to me ; tinthe d igo was, by establishing something like facts upon them, to make those facts ie-art upon mc. Of the f w topics of the nddrcsstipon which I shall remark, the first is, the ac cusation hi ought forward against mr, of violating instt uelions. If the accusation were true, who was the party ofiendeiJB-t to whom was I amenable ? If I violate any instructions, they must have been yours, since you only had toe rig'u to give them, and to you alone was I respind'de. Without allow ing hardly time for ou to hear of my vote, without wodt ing io know what your judgment was of my conduct, G. Kremer k Co. chose to arraign me be'.'oi e ihv Ann man public as the violatcr of instructions w hich I was houn.l to obey. If. instead of being, as von are, and T hope ' always will be, viirilant oberveis fd' the conduct of your public agents, j-dous of your lights, and competent to protect and defend them, you ;,ad been ignorant and culpably confiding, the gratuitous interposition, as .v omadvocate, of the lion. George K'nnw? d the 9ih congressional district in Penn sjlvania, wru'd have meritctl vnur most eoateful acknowledgements. Lvenupon t' a suprosition, his arraignment of me would have rcquiicri for its support nun small circumstance, which hapjicus not to exist, anil that is, the fact of your havingoctti ally instructed me to vote according to his pleasure. The relations in which I stood to Mr. Adam, conslitut-" the next themtfof the address which I shall notice. I am des ci ibed as h ning assumed la positioiof peculi-u and decided hostility to the clc tioiiof.Mr Adims,"and expressions sA wards hint are attributed to me, which I never used I am made also responsible for ' pimoh'ctsand essays of great ability," published hv mv friends in Kentucky, in t!ie coutse of the canvass. The injus'ire of the principle of holding me thus answerable, may be tested by applying it to the case of gen. Jackson, in u -feiencc to publications issued, forexam-

i pie, hour the Columbian Observer.j That I w.ts tint in favor of the election of Mr. Adams, when the tomtit t was bv foi e 1 the people, is most certain. Neither was I I in favor of that of Mr. Crawford, or gen. Jad;son. Tha' I ever did anv thing against Mr. tA dams, or either of the other gentlemen, inconsistent with a fair honorable competition, 1 utterly deny. -My relations to Mr. Atlnns have been the subject of much misconception, if not

misrepresentation 1 have ueen stated to be utv'er a public pledge to expose some ncfaiious conduct of that gentleman, dr.. riog the negotiation at Ghent ; which would prove him to be entirely unworthy

creel upon a new and highly important ne

gotiation with two of then. (Messrs. Adams and GalLtin) which resulted, on the Jd Jul), 1815, in the commercial convention which has been since made the basis of most of the commcicial ai rangements with foreign powers Now, if 1 h.d discovered a; Ghent, as has be, n assorted, that either of them was laisc i.mi faithless to his country, would I have voluntarily commenced with them another nego'iad'iii ? Ftirthei : there never Ins hi n ; petiod, dining our whole acquaintance t'-jt Mr. Adams and I h.ve nor exe tnged when vvc met, lucndly salutatieits at J the courtesies a-d hospitalilito. c sodal intercourse. '1 headdrrss piocccds to chara. rizo the suppoit which I gave to Mr. Adams as unnatural. I he authoi s of the ad i ess

; liavc nt seated why it is un'-ati t, und

I we are titeietore left to coi.'iet uie ti eir

Mr. Ad nis is

fiom New Kngland, and I am a ci izMi of the. West? If it be unnatural inti.e western states to suppoit a citizen of New England, it must be equally unnatural in the New Kngku d states to support a citizen of the west. And, on the same principle, the New England slates ought to be restrained fiom concurring in the clection of a citizen of the southern states, or the southern states from eo-op, rating in the election of a citizen of New England. And consequently, the support which the last th-ec presidents have derived from New England, and that widch the vice president recently rcccivnl. im

t the erroi?, which 1 had supposed l)Ccn IMOSl m)liulural, ivcn Tll; lcn(l.

c commitico app teu to ootn mv. kus- cncv of slich rcaao Wf. . . . f. fifl-

sell and Mr Aelam,, ihough more parti- j tionajjz,. u an(j to COIIlPact cvt.)V p:iIt(jf cula-ly to the appendix ot tnc latter ; that ; thr un,oll within the narrow, self,, limtliey were immuntionai ; lhatthe) ailec Us of s oun sccic) It wru,(, ; m5

ltd mysell jnincipally ; that I deemed thcyt of no public importance, as conncc ted with the then, or futuie security of any of the lights of the nation, but only interesting to its past histoiy ; thai I doubted the necessity of i fleiing to the public

any account of those ti ansaclions ; and

worse : it would lead to thr disti ue'irm of the union iiteif For if it be unnl.tu nl in one scr'ion to suppoi t a citize o in another, tlic union itself must be unnatural; all our ties; all our gloiics ; all Mm i-. ni. mating in the past ; all th st is li ":ghi and

ci eciiig in the future, must be nnnaiu-

that the narrative which 1 promised was ra, narimi.. snr ,i. i;,.!

to be presented at a season of more calm , tUre of our union, that the interest of all and when there coim be no miMnlerp, c- ! its ar! arc fosc intcnvovcn ,( !u. tation of motives Although Mr. Adams I ...,,,.. ,.r oir...:... i..

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believes otherwise, I yet think, there arc swine unintentional en ors, in the controversial papers between him ami Mr. litis sell Hut I have reserved to myself an exclusive right of judging when I shall execute the piomise which I have made, and I shall be neither quickened nor ie tardd! in its performance, by the fiiend.y anxieties of any of my opponents.

If injury accrue to any one by the delay

south and the west, there are inu iest , of

not less, if not greater, stienglh ano gour, binding the west, and the noith. U the east. Helbrc I close this address, it is my duty, which I proceed to perform wiiii great regret, on account of the occasion which calls lor it, to invite your atti ntion to a letter addressed by gen Jackson to Mr.

awanwout, on the 53d Teh. last. The

in publishing the narrative, the publick i names of both the general and myscl had will not sufler by it. It is already known ; been before the American public, for it3 by the publication of the Hiitish and A- j highest office. We had both b' en umucmcrican projects, the protocols, and the j cessful. The unfortunate have usually coi respondetKC between the respective some sympathy for each other. For myplcnipotentiarirs, that the Hiitish govern- j self I claim nomeiit for the cheerful acnu nt mode at Ghent a demand of the na- ! quiescence which I have given in a result

of public conli 'ence ; and that, with a knowledge of his perfidy, I neve ; thcler s voted for him If these imputations awell founded I should, indeed. bera fit

ohje-t lor pnhlic cisrc ; but ifvOilt"

viga ion ,1 the Mississippi, by an article in their project neatly in the same words w hich were employed in the treaty of '03

th it a majoi ity ot the American coinmissio: es w-as in favor of accedru;u that demand, upon the condition that tie

Iiiitish government would concede to us

the same fishing liberties, within their ju

lisdiction, as were, securcil to ur, !)y the f.amc treaty of '8.5 k that both demands were finally abandoned The fact of these mutual propositions was communicated by mc to the American public in a speech which I delivered in the house of representatives, on the 29th day of Jan. 1816. Mr Ilopkinson had arraigned the terms of the treaty of peace, and charged upon the war and the administration, the loss of the fishing liberties, within the Hiitish

i jurisdicti.'P, which wc enjoyed prior to

the w ar. In vindicating, in my reply

contra v. ir vMll h? f-mnd tfat otheTsTin

iodc d hoth ( hint and mc, have substituted their own mt oersted wishes for my o blic p'o.oises. I trust that the indignation, which they would excite, will be tu ned from me. Mv letter, adelrcssed to the editors of the Intelligencer, under

him, the course of the government & tirHjpriscd or disappointed, that he did not on

rniiililmns nl the nenrr. I s'nlrfl ; '

" When the Hritish commissioners demanded in their project, a renewal to G. Hritain of the right to the navigation of the Mississippi, secured by the treaty of 1783, a bare majority of the American commissioners offered to renew it, upon the condition of the liberties in riuestion

by which I was excluded from the house. I have believed that the decision by the constitutional authorities, in favor of others, has been founded upon a conviction of the superiority of their pretensions It has been my habit, when an election is

ncc decided, to forget, as soon as nossi-

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wiv, 1 1 5 uaiing circumstances vvnicii attended the preceding canvass. If ono be successful, he should be contented with his success If he have lost it. railing will do no good I never gave gen. Jackson nor his frier ds any reason to believe that I would in any contingency support him. He li -d. as I thought, no public claim, and I will now add, no personal claims, if these ought to be ever considered, to my support. No one, thcrelore, ougH to have been disappointed ot chagrined that I did not vote for him. No more than I wis neither sur-

a more recent occasion, feci it to be his

duty to vote for mc. After commenting upon a particular phrase used in my letter to Judge Hrooke, a calm reconsideration of which will, I think, satisfy any person that it was not empluyed in an otTensive sense, if indeed it have an offensive sense th