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WESTERN SUN & GENERAL- ABTE11TISETR.

BY KI.IHU STOUT.

VICKiNKNKS, ISD.) ftAi L!UIA, FbBliUAu U, tfeSs.

LVol. 19 Io.' 1

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Address of IL Clay, to the Public. I hope no apolo ;y to the public is necessary for presenting to it these pages I am deceived if an ample justification of the act will not be Found in the breast of every just ur.d honorable man. If an officer of government should not be too sensitive, neither should he be too callous, to assaults up tn his character. When they relate to the wisdom or expediency of measures which he may Ikivj originated or supported, he should silently icpose in the candor and g'od snise of the community, and patiently await the dev lopemcnts ot lime Iz experience. Hut if his integrity be vitally assailed ; if the basest Sc mot dishonorable motives tor his public conduct be ascribed to him ; he owes it to the country, his friends, his family, and himself, to vidicate his calumniated reputation Tew men are so elevated that the shafts ol calumny cannot reach them. These may securely f ust to the invulneta ble position which they have attained. The United States have perhaps hitheito produced but one man who could look down from

his lofty height, without emotion, upon the!

ttiissiles and the malice of his enemies; for even he had hi enemies. If the malignant character cF charges, the acrimony with which they have been inserted And repeated or he perseverance which has maiked their propagation, cou'd ever authorize an appeal to the public, I think I may truly say. thut I have this authority For three years' I have been the object oF incessant abuse ; every art, every species of misrepre sentation, has b :"n employed against me The most inno-' cent acts acts oF ordinary social intercourse, and of common civility offices of hospitality, even a passing salutation, have been misrepresented and perverted, to my prejudice, with an unfairness unprecedented. Cii cunt stances have been assumed, which had no ex istencc, and inferences have been drawn from them which, if they had been real, they would not have warranted. Besides, my enemies have themselves appealed to 'he public, ex hibited their ch rges, and summoned their witnesses to il bar. R' ady now, and anxious as I am, and aftvays have been, to submit any act of my pirklic life to full examination be Fore any impartial and respectable tribunal whatever, I surely may expect, at least, that 1 shall be patiently heard by that w hich my accusers have themselves selected. I as sure them that I will present no pica to the jurisdiction. H it desirous as I naturally am to repel the columnics which have been directed against me, the public would have been spared the trouble of perusing this address, if gen jackson had not, in the com sc o the last spring and summer, given to them the open sanction

fVofhis name. In his letter to Mr. Beverly oti

Athc 6th of June last, he admits that, in inferring my priviiy to the proposition which he describes as borne by Mr. Buchanan, In may have done me injustice ; and, in his address to the public of the ISthof July last, giving Up the name of this gentleman, as his only witness, he repeats that he possibly may have done me injus'icein assumi ng my authority for that proposition. He even designs to honor me with a declaration of the pleasure which he will expe iencc, if I should be able to acquit myself 1 Mr. Buchanan has been heard by the public ; and I feel justified in asserting that the first impression of the whole nation was, and it is yet that of every intelligent mind unbiassed by party prejudice that his testimony fully exonerated me, and demonstrated that pen. Jackson, to say no tnore, had greatly misconceived the purport of the interview between the n. And further ; "that, so far as any thing improper was disclo acd by Mr B touching the late presidential election, it affected gen. Jackson and his Friends exclusively He having manifestly injured mc, speculation was busy, when Mr. Buchanan'i statement appeared, as to the I course which the general would pursue, af ter his gratuitous expression of sympathy with mc. There were not wanting many persons, who believed that his magnanimity Would immediately prompt hiut publicly to

retract his ch:igc, anil to it pair tbe wiong which he had done me. 1 did not participate in that just expectation, and therefore telt no disappointment thai it w?s not realiz d VV hatever other incuts he may possess, 1 have not found among them, in the course ot my tela'ions with him, that ol torbcaring to mduige vindictive passions His silent con ttmp.atun fit, it not his positive acquiescence in, the most extraordinary interpi elation of Mr Buchanan's statement, that ever was given to human language, has not surprised mc. II it had been possible for him to render me an act of spontaneous justice, by a trank and manly avowal ot his error, the testimony now submitted to the public, might have been Unnecessaiy. Although I feel tuiiy persuaded that the community, under my peculiar citcumstan ces, will see, without clissatistaciion, it not with cordial approbation, this tuither elTort to rescue my character from unmerited imputation., I should nevertheless have remained silent, and c.hcei fui.y abided its decision, on the disclosures and explanations hereto fore made, if I had no additional facts in ofler to its consideiation But a body of highly important evidence has been collected, esta blishing some material cii cumstances not belore generally known, ur.d continuing others of which the public is already in possession ; and I have thought it dui to the occasion, not to withhold it. Gen Jackson having entiicly failed to establish, by any nuirmative evidence, either positive or presumptive, the chaige which bethought proper to piomulgate agmsl me, it occuned to me that it mig it be possible, difficult as the task generally is to subvamii ate a negative, to adduce proof o' that that acter, w hich would establish the groundless nature of his accusation. Ptiorto the appear ance in the public points of the letter horn Mr. Carter Beverly to his friend i" Tavette villc, dated the G h ol Match last, 1 had never believed that gen. J ickson had couuie nanccd the truth, or lent himself to the cite ulaiicn of the charge. I had indeed, long be. tore, 3ecn in oncot -.he Nasnviite papers, assertions injurious to mo, hich created some suspicions that they had emanated horn him ; but I dismissed these suspicious as being altogether incompatible with the io'iy chamc ter w hich I wished to believe that lie pos&esid. When how, ver 1 saw that letter, and the uncontradicted corroboration ol it;, CMiliii's by the editor of the Washing"' 'I i 'i graph, I was re mutant I v compelled to heiiev e that he had given cuirency to the chaigf against mc. In that Liter, Mr. l. -.verly s.'vs; 4 I have just returned horn e,ei:. J.ic krsno's I found a crowd of ccmparv w lib him. Scu.u Virginians w ere of the number, lie gave me a most Iriend y reception, and urgid. me tf stay some days longei unit him. lietohi mc this morning b Fn e ail his compani, in reply to a question I pu.lo him co.cen im; the election id John Q Adams u the Pi cbioVnc;-, that Mr. Clay's blends made a piopositioti to his ft iends, that, il they would ptomibe for him not to pull Mr. Adams inn the scat oi secretary oi state, Clay and histrienda wt.uid in one hour make him (.Lckson) the picsidcntHe most indignantly rejected tot piupo.i ion, and declared he would not eompi our.se himself; and unlets most openly and Ian i) made the president by congress, he never vould receive it lie deciaic lhat he said to them, that he would seethe w huc eat ih sink under him before he wu d bargain or mtiigue lor it." In the Washington City Telegraph of the 26th day of April last, the editor s.aUs. " In the Journal this motning we have another quotation from the Democratic l'ies, purporting to be the official contradiction bv Mr. Clay of the statement of gen JaaUsoti relative to the overtures maile to him as to the formation of his cabinet, previous lo the late election oi piesident. That gen. Jackson has spoken of such overtures we peisonabv know." In the same paper of the i!8,li el April is the following parigt aph : " The Journal is o-tt this mormt g in reply to our rcmatks of l hui sday, in which they all et to consider it highly improper in gen Jackson to speak of the ovettuies made by Mr Clay's friends and why ? Because, says the Journal, he is a candidate against Mr. Adams Xow we stated explicit!) that gen. Jaekson spoke of these overtures m March 185, before he was announced by the legislature ot Tennessee as a cat didule " The charge, if it did not originate with, having been sanctioned and em ulated by gen. Jackson, and implicating as well my tiitnds as me, I thought it proper, having myself iepcatcdly and positively denied its truth, to iesort to the testimony ot those gentlemen irom the west who had oled with mc for Mr. A dams. Accordingly a triend of mine, Dr Watkins, at mv instance, addressed a circular to those gentlemen, during the last spring, inviting their attention to the Fuyettcv illc letter and inquiiing if there were any ttutl. in its averments. And he has obtained Irom all of them but two, answers which aic now ptesented to the public. These answeis will be found in the appendix, arranged according to the respective delegations fiont which they proceed. The writers of them arc men of as high respectability as any in the Union Where they arc kuorrn, (aud several of them

arc known in vaiious pan ol the cuunuv,) their statements will command ui.quaiiticu belief 1 he excellence ot their cnaiacieis is to well jVstablished that a member of the house ol I'ey escntatives, w ho will not be piesumed to be disposed to bestow on them on deserved encomium, tell himself coustiained to bear his testimoi y to it Mr. McDuliie said in the house of reprcsenta'ives, on the de bate ot the proposition to relcr to a committee the appeal which I made on the occasien ot Mi Kicmei 's card : " Let me add one word to the ti tends of Mr. Clay on this tloor, (aod there arc no members on this floor, tor whom generally I feel more respect.) I have been inlormed that some of hh friends suppose that the amendment I have offered contains some thing which is intended to bear harshly upon thtm. Notgo; not ho. My object is tnei e ly to confine tne changes made ;ginst the honorable speaker to ihe veiy wolds of tht letter ol the gentleman hem Pennsylvania" This just but voluntary ttibute was c; piessed on the 4h ol February 13J5, (sec-

Nat. tn;e lligenec , 5th et the same month.)

On !!-: ;'lst March I -Jv), tr.oi e then thirteen ttu::,'!i ; tu r, v hen the amendment to the Ce-nsiiie n was under discussion p'.oposing a new m .; ;ol eleetirga piesident, the same gtntleman is reported to have sail! : k Now I hae tiie greatest icspi. it lor these gtntleim n who wvag tlio peisonal ai d political f' iends ol Air. Clay i 'the late election of pr esir'ent. Ytx! to ;;v viv t ji r.sonut' riemls there arc none 7:': rT 1 en itnutr worr highly ' (cv N;oon?l In elligenccr, id May, 86.) The.se answ-fM s i.tc not t ulv entitled to -he lu! lest et edit, from the hiuh rcsp. Liability ot the chata:leis d those gentlemen, but deseivc great coni'i -cu'. c ht.ni the f iet th.at the) have been r spcc.iv e;y pKpaied by theu YcUcs. wiihotlt anv conic t u;.atev e r, ai.d when they were a', thei- seveial r.-s:deiii.ei. uideiy scp ai ated from ni l. r i bt r. Tin: iiiCiii;i) !.i horn () n '?!.() voted lor Mr. Adam- we.; uncial M1- Aa-thtn , g I Valu e, geoe- j tKec et, 'Mr. Si.ar,e, .Mr. light, Mr ri tin, M. i' Lean (hi ther to tiie pos nuis er gii' in!.) Mr. v t.it1 lest v . Mr Bartley, and M 1 Pa'.ter-n I'-onejCi of ;hes grntleu f n it wvi c s n that an ere plicit at d unqnalili (1 ucgatlve is ;'ucn to the st.ir.cmrnts ol the t'avem illc letter. ( n Me At thur declares them !; " t-lady tn s ti'utc e.l hiimdotion " lie at g' s b Fae t to futve 'oeen tb.t the C)!;.o Jeiegati n ( ) at liaM I 'k r ol tt.en ) weie the titst ol Mr i'. :, 't, teuds AiiOCatne to the dcU r ?rvin tii -is i 'vn'i ; i.,r Air Adams; and i hit too A , fx't: u.ct rti .ticd T L(ay'& villi's on ili? sui-jiQi " II stale that s mic tti ih.e liiei.d.-j '.t rei eu.l Jucksoii Usui the language oi menace, u hiibt otht r ol tiiern emplov ,A that o! pe I svu-fiion to pi evaii on rov fii"nds to m:. fdi the -vneral '; and ihai ti e) ap:)eaied io I o nilijt;g :o mala: any pi(;mi whb-.n th. v tiio'i -k v. r.uid induce the fiivin 1.3 oi Mr. Ch'V to vote lor gtueral Jt'.kson" fict etai Vance state l I viv ith'!it lies iiati-Mr that I never hea't. of tl.o-e, or anv , lh;rtcro siting ihoughl of, us an equiVtJicnl I'm the vote we weie about lo gsvt ; nor do 1 I ' iieve that the liieoisd S Ci .y or Mi Ci iv himseit. ever thwUght d Uiak.i g or 3Uggesting '.my terms to ai y otie ,l tht pattiis. as 'be g muii is et rur arcej t o ce or u jet tior. of cithtrol tin ttuee candidates 'fiunitdto tin: luiiiH- id representatives." He con:innes : a" o.ic ol the oiiginal ti iends ot Mr Clay, I w s in the habit ol ee and itmesi r ved e m et s.tion hot w it 0 him a tl his, other b iettds. 1 e 1 a i v e to that 1 In tioo. and I am bold io say that 1 i.evir heatd a whi.ptrof atty thinir like a cotidilien on which rur votewas to b-i'iveti, mentioned ii het by Mr. Clay him sell: ov any ef his fiunds, at any time or un de r ait y eircumtatn. i s (i. oeral Be. i hi r testifies lhat lie did not k )w that a liiend or the hinds ot Mr t lav ever made any proposition to the f i ie 1 el s ol general Jackson, respecting the election id Mr Adams as piesidtM in any way, r t as respecting v; neral J u ksc-n nt ptHtine Mr Adaios in the seat ol ,ec eta? y id state in ca e he (J ie kson) -hould he e!t etetl v -nUnt Nuihet am I u tpiaiined wiih a Ii ierid of Mi Clay that wouid consent to.be r.n ag-tit in such a degr ading trat. section Not can I ad rr.it that the ti iends ot Mr CI, y had so con temptible an opinion ot each oiho or of Mr Clay, a to suppose that t c appo'mtrw rtt ot r-.on-nppoimntent ot any m m io ,o y offict would it tlurncc then; in the , isehaige ot uny important public duty " Mr Sloanc declaims. 4 I have always sup

posed myself in the entire tot fid nee ol ail!

Mr Clay's supporters and trir nos, w ho w ci v members of congress at the lime of the pre sidential election; and that I havi no In sua tion in saying that 1 never heard the most ids tant insinuation front any of tht m that tiny would vote for general Jaekson, it there w;.& any prospect of choosing either of the other candidates That any of the friends ot Mr. Clay in congress ever made any proposition of conditions, on which their vole ouhl,dt pend, to the friends of general Jackson or a ny other person, I do not believe." And a, to Mr. Clay's accepting an appointment im tier him, thev would to a man most certainly have opposed it. 1 judge of this fiom the opiniou vhich 1 know they cnleiuincd of jjen

Jackson's want ol capacity, and the Uct tht it nas noi until some time afier tlc etioice of Mr. Adams that thiy agited to advise Mr. lay to accept the otlice he now holds la short 1 tcel confident that the whole is a vilO k i:dao .us lalsehoo', sui ti as honorable ncQ wou;d not resoit to. more especially alter hating upon lull consultation and deliberate Con sidciation declined an investigation ot tho whole mitier beloie a committee ot the houuO oi" repicsentativt s. Mr. Wright states, " 1 can only y sincerely and unequivocally, lhat I do not kr.ov? or believe any proposition ot the kind men Honed as fiom genera Jackson, was ever made to the friends ot general Jackson by the tiienus ol Mr Clay or any ol ttiem; and that 1 am wholly ignorant ol any conditions ol an sort being ptoposed to any one by tho inends of Mr. Clay, on a compliance with which their vote was made to dt prt tl M Mr Vinton is equally explicit He sayS having been one ot the friends 01 Mr Clay who voied for Mr Adams 1 cheertuliy avail myaeil e t this oppor; unity to sav, tha' 1 havo 1.0 knowledge whatever ol the above mentioned pioposition or any other proposition having been made to gene al Jjekson or anv of hio h iends, by Mr. Clay or any of hit friends as a condition upon which his or their vote was to be given to gtnetal Jackson tot tho piesidcm y." lie subjoins, that "It war well known a, nty constituents for many months previous to the late presidential election that, alter Mr. Clay, Mr Adams was my next ehoice among the distinguished individuals, who were then before the pci pie of the United States as candidates for that exalted station." Mr. McLean declares, " that no such proposi ie.n was ever made within ny know.edge, nor hae 1 any cause to believe that eooi iiiohs ol any soi t were made, at any time, by the ti iendsot Mr Clay to any pt rson, on compbai ce wi h which their vote was niado to depend." Mr Whiit'esey avers that, ' I do not know r I e i c !iat ny proposition was ct-tr mado ..i.v ol Mi Ci )' Ir lends to those ol Ktr Jackson, on ihe- nion.in ot the presidential eoe U;o, 01 at any other ime, having ai y n a ing on rhe i andulate t be s. lecttd 1-oti . he e 1 e ut m d r,, 1 hi i oi,--, t-o? do kn vy or be ie vi- tha .my eruditions ' I ry sort were 0 ade b) II. 1 F iends of Mr. Clay lo any son. on a to ..p.at cc with which thtii vote as nude tod j e d ; but I do believe that tho a-seitii no an, by ge,n . al J ckn 'is reported by a ! tgh.y . si eitab Vo miai., and all o, the; ciare.es of a like c. ac e . itnr uing t i hci to Mt Ad ov, r t .r. ) ;-,y. or .0 lh.11 triii d.ai v imp; op. i , i.u -isi .;, corup' ot ltaiid,ierit ciii' u on l.at intt ctng lit id nomviuous crasio- , ae baf slar det s, k. w , to ht iuch by those ho put llicra in cii . L.atmn " Mi Ba th y expr hvcs tht beef in justice lo k; til. J.i ks"o. lb:.: he oev u a'. hO . uljta n n ailuded to t)y M .B ver y V ?r vne ge a v., ice v lu n the hctton : .it piaii, t r 1 1 n u-t meMt.bv have ki"v.n toat sa h stau 11 err ot-'d ra iv b sel ool on i;e vet j la.e ot it " :.(!cl-, I was lit r o 1 ou e . 1 b. .0 v t , v t .lav t ;l,ai 5tsoi at winch il.c j. c idtrni was ciecttd; ar d mhvo 1.0 Ik s tat. 00 in s. v 11 , iha' so tar ti otr n.iking any p opositt'-t, r,r ovetM-re. wett . 0 it lends i t Mi . t av. in Favor ot itie gem t.l, lhat lu.d the t iet els of the erctal n td- mi ri .1 pioj osliioi'. Hi: wou'd hav C ( Ol Sd-t tl o as o indigni.y ciTvied to our inlir iy k uodetsu.uuing." Mt Patterson is hiief, but pomud. Ho ays, 1 ttat k v srati oyc u il a il a' v mo fl pi p- siiiou a )ou stale wi nunh- bv toe lih misot ' lav to those ol gcital Jck-t nt I hud no ki owicttge of it, t-d 1 ausom of he fiivii. ol Cla. 1 therefore heiire ho rtpotl to be wiiimi't 00 In nest foundation M In p.is ing Irom tlr: 'tstimony of rhe delega ion bom Ohio to lhat of K-nttnky, wo shah fit d it robe not less i:rsisiib'c and decisive in t cgaming the deeiaration of genl. J-t ks n, et 11, tnui ic atcd to the public through M. Be veil) Ihe K-ntucky delegation consisted il twelve ininrbcrs; eight r f whom, M. Tun b e. Mt F Johnson, general Metea f Mr. L icl t r, Mr. Buckncr, Mr. Thomp-

n, Mi. one, ar.d ni)slct voted for Mr.

r:om six of them, statements havo

bun received. That from Mr. White h.ts not re; ched this city ; but I am justified in Matn-g h.v he hai repeatedly, w ittiin hi di'ticr a!ur his ttutt. u Kentucky, born t nqua.tfied u siimonv to tl e lalseh od of nil ch .1, cerrupricn in the e:ccr ion, a t'. esptcia'l) to the pr p-ietv ot my n : lioct ; uncj 1 h.i ro doub lha' te vill, o tncvci Called up'-n repeat the- arne tosimonv. Mt 1' in tie ay , I d tn r kno of rvf owt kt.rw n di;r. not Unw ber. int med by .th r. fa . rT r s, ptopciuoi . .r o e inrrs suchasa'c fpik n tf bv i-r.ciat Javkson in his le'te- to Be vt j ly, ot in iHf th' re to, re i,f atiy kind uhjttwr. wnf rradt bv Mr. ,dan s or his I ier.d-, to Mr ot I n rrro" ; or bv Mt.Ci i is triend. to gt n Jrkn or t is fit tn 1 do rM known, nor do 1 belirc ! M: Ad tn orhiv frier made oertutes or tit r-. di crrlv or ir dtrrc'U-. to Mr. 1 lav or lo. t u ds o u r.r'.c I i.o s ci nry of state, ii he aud his uicud would uuuo

Adams