Western Sun & General Advertiser, Volume 19, Number 3, Vincennes, Knox County, 23 February 1828 — Page 1

BY EUHU STOUT.

V1CENNNES, (INU.) SAT lilt DAY, Fr.BHUAUY 23, 1828. Vou 19. Ho. 3.

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From the Frankfort Argus. THE INVESTIGATION.

The Senate uj Kentucky vs. the friends cj Andrew Jackson This proceeding origina

ted horn a resolution introduced by Mr. Beat ty in committee of the whole, and afterwards renewed in the senate, accusing the liiei.ds of Jackson of falsehood and malice in char ging the members of congress Irom this state who vo'ed with Mr. Adams with baigain, Jkc. To tliis the friends ol Jackson rcpiicd, ihai they were not guilty of falsehood and malice, because the charges made by them arc true, and begged the senate, if they would proceed, contrary to right and propriety, to express an opinion upon that subject, that they would hear the evidence upon winch tnc It lends ol -., Jackson rested their vindication. Fur this purpose, the following resolution was offer ed,

recuiui iiiu i wain u nun nuiuuoij um.iK.vi i.i committee by Mr. Hcatty : " Whereas, in a icsolution now before l!u committer of the w hole house, to winch warefeucd the report k resolutions ol the. com mittee on internal improvements, the icilow ing subjects are brought heloio Use c.v.mmutee, upon which they are required to decide, to wit; '4 This Legislature view with deep concern, and feelings ol just indignation, the cffrls which are now making ihnmghout the U-dtcd Stitcs, to blast the reputation ol the divTiiutuhed mcmbci s of congress iio;n tins StUe, who voted for John Q. Adams, to be president of the United State. They have n i hesitation in sayiugthat it is their con fir Hied opinion, from great delihei ation, and u full examination of all the farts and evidence adduced, that the charge of bargain, sale & coiruption in the election ol J.ihn Q Adams arc utterly false and malicious ; thai they are brought forward Sc endeavored tohctusiain cd for party purposes, and to elevate general Jackson to the office of president of the United States." Therefore, to enable the committee to examine into, and investigate the transactions embraced in the foregoint; resolutions. Xetelx'fd, That said committee he authorized and instructed to send for persons and papers.' It was bid on the tabic, whir c it remained until Mr. IU-atty renewed his resolution in the senate, when it was tr.krnup, so amended as to bring the evidence to the bar of the senate, and adopted. On last Thursday, the day vet for the trial, the friends of Jackson sought to avoid so extraordinary a proceeding. Mr. Man pin moved the previous question, w hich would have excluded Mr. Beatty's resolution and put an end to tnc subject. The Adams men opposed it. Mr. Pope moved to lay the whole subject upon t ie table until the last day of July, and declared 'hat incase this motion pre vailed, he wou'd jo'n in expunging from the journals the rcsultionlor the introduction ot evidence. This the Adams men would not permit, but moved to lay the resolution down for the present for the purpose of entering into the cvidence. Thus did the senate, with a majority of three friendly to Adams and Clay, drive into this investigation. Now let us sec what they have got by it. We can only give an epitome of the evidence this week: in our next it shall be given in full. James AfcMillan, Esq. proved that after Ir. F. Johnson returned from congress, in 1825, he said, in many conversations and speeches, at Tompkinsville, in Moiv. cc county, that his reason for voting for Mr. Adams, was to get Mr. Clay made secretary of state, ' which he believed best for the western counO try, and that Mr. Clay might succeed Mr. Adams Henry Grider, of IiowTmggreen, had never heard Mr. Johnson make the statement, that he voted for Mr. Adams to get Mi. Clay made secretary ; but had always heard him say, that lie voted for him because his policy and doctrines relative to Internal Improvements and Domestic Manufactures, suited the western country, better than those of general Jackson. Mr. 'Fanner proved, that Mr. Clay paid htm one hundred dollars for ptintinga pamph-

any otuer cnatacut could exist 1 Mr. John Green observed, that he had not had an) com munication with Mr. liiair, but that gentleman might have mentioned having letters fiom Mi. Clay to others, and must have given into ma ion to somebody, or he would not have been called hcie; and he was ccitainly at liberty to stale to the senate what he had said to othei s. Mr. lilair said, in reply to Mr. Green's remarks, that Mr. Kendall's letters to Mr. Clay had pointed out him to the public as one who knew something in relation to the subject now belote the senate. These letters referred to a conversation which he had with Mr. Kendall in Januarv IS25,in which he stated that

ot which, notoriously known to have been long under Spanish influence, has enacted moie rigorous mcasuies for the expulsion cf those with whom they had, until recently, coalesced than thatol any oilier state. The general congress has taken into consideration the propositions of a similar naluie. In the senate, the pi ojected law nai referred to a committee, their being only eight dissenting voices. In the house of rcpiescntativcs, the law proposed, signed by 31 members (a majority ot the house.) was immediately referi td to the committee ol public safety, the rules of the house being dispensed with.

The fate of the Spaniards, who remain in

let, entitled Letters to John Quincy Jdams, by Amos Kendall. Amos Kendall proved, that the letters included in that pamphlet were written by turn, and first published m the Argus; that pie vious to writing them he had w ritten an article in the Argus relative to the Ghent negotiation, containing what Mr. Clay thought, an enoncous view ol the subject; that Mr. Adams had seized on it, insinuated that it came from Mr Clay, and commented on it in his book ; that Mr. Clay called on witness, convinced him that his view of the subject was erroneous, and gave him a detail of the proceedings at Ghent; that witness then took up Mr. Adams' book, and reviewed it in the letters alluded to ; that Mr. Clay conversed with him about printing them in pamphlet, and ofVcred him $50 towards the expenses,

but he declined it, stating, that if Mr. Clay, j

or his friends, chose to have them piinted elsewhere, he would revise and piepare them for the press, which he did.

He was asked w hat he had heard Mr. Da

vid White say in relation to Ins

voting for Mr- Adams ? The objected to the question, and should not be answered.

vf,iw.T ?L.i,u'Muvillb ' uiiiuiuiM-,.ivu iw Mu muz i ' e cu their inferiors their hatmilv

v-u u.., aia.u,, euai ... uiu ... ..... u.m .uu i.e. ruu imumv: m..;.- spiraClCS tO ChatlPe the eXlSt'lll" form of POClay s room, that gentleman asked him to use mcnt to Mr. Kendall, nor had he she wn the ! vernmcnt, thus abusing the hospitality they hssinhtwi.ee to prevent the i .cgaiut c, Men j leltei s to uhieh the geniu rv.an alluded to any ; cnj Vl tl amj b, cikil ! he con ' ls Vhicn

... , ...-s "j . , v ... v., , ....v. ,v..w..vi.. oermitteu them to remain ii

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I t ' 4 I V OvUM til .1 III IV UU ' .JW v. 4 ' 1 - I tTI I l . u o.j .U!,Vj

dates for tiio preside .ry, il

Mr. Cay would be tccrelaar,-, .1 Mr. Aclanw. Mcsic m le , ,tl, as cerlaill. fc ll'rn rvtir 11 lOf( 1 'it A 1 I t I

T S -v knIk . 1(1 , I 1 I' .v .i .. 1 1 .....

sed that .nto,matu,n was received m letters indignation the Mexicans feel toward them. born Mr. Clay to Mr Cnttenden or myself, , j hVLQ CLMllmies ol h.rsh dominatien, and and as Mr Crittenden had declared lie- recti- : .,.... .a-., ,r. . ,,!..,., ..: r- i , . , ' )iu!sol angry atid sanguinary wa',atioid ica-

rcctly to him. Mr. 15 lair said that Mi. Ken- j

son quite sutlicicnt for the nievalence of such

j a feeling, and this h s bien greatly heighten-

. I rlill Kill miMP lue ii liti-f I ii-ic . illmul -.-k..

... .11 . i . . v ' l'j 'luiiu ums. i re pouucai pai i aeieu motives lor smtat'.on or authouiy from l.-im, and that h:s iMV irT... , . ' T7 .

v , l ,- , , ... .i ,v -'v- unit, uuai, u flic LiUIUUtJIlS, UlUAdams men j inferences vtcic not louiuleo on unv mtormati- ,,Iitr ,ilf.lc1i, i , . . ; .. . UI,g themselves vnh the monarchical party 1 voted that it j r,., or uarranied by any tmumui; Mvm made tllclr j,, concealed chagrin at bung governed - ,im, other man that before mentioned.- by Creoles, whom the have alway consider-

detected con-

he wet e excluded j pell Mr. lilair to rivet;

i

in the Republic :

tnc majonty to com-jali lhc,e fact. ,)avc conspircd todraw upon ti mony ; but the lea- ; lhcm the me. itcd execration of the Mexicans.

from t'ne house, he was wholly uncommitted, deisol 'he Adams men mciarcd thev wouhl n, , frj0 ' , y , - , . , v"1 trans mat e currcfit coelum ; Oliver Aeine proved, that Mv. viay told I use no force and wanted to Uar none hut wit- nrutunt, can apply to no people w him, eight or ten days c: e ho stalled to j witiicxxcs A m joiiiy, however, oted ' trulj, as l0 tiiC Spanish. It is th Washington City, in the f;di of US 2 V, that he j that Mr. BLdr shotnd be swotn. He then per- ; ai;ie tjial they should leave the

nan wniten to gene rai Jacl.son, ir.vmng mm j empt!5i ny retused io be swern, and sain he to come throinrli Li-xinetCMi, and sio en in; would v.ooner r;o to iail. No noiion was company with i im mjle to send iiim to jail, and he uasdischar-

J'tancis McAlfGr proved, that on the mor- ged by a viae ed the senate.

M.cajnh Hui rison w as called, r.nd he also '.cluscdlo be su ot i:. on the ground that what ie knew was common. ca'cd in confidence kc A motnai vr.s made to eon. mil him

which received only seven voles

ning Mr Ci.y started ior Washington, m tt.e lali ol 1824, he stated m nis pieacnce, that ne !iad v r iiten to i-cn J.vclsoii lo come lino' Lexington, and go on Hb him; but had given him oil', and would go en w iihout him U't kiiow tlnee ;iiier gci.iiemen who will state the tame thing. Mr. Sfiakeifji'd stated, tha' he was present when Mr. U.aid i ii;;.lde mad: -.pcch alter h.is icturn bom .iMuuion a td neaul iiim say thai lie h:dvcted aaiiil gen jaei,son and in favoi o! .sir. Adams bceau c im

non animum

ith so mucfi

therefore advi-

tlicy should leave these American

shores, where their restless, domineering spirit makes them dangerous to liberty. From the Constitutional of November 22. The Earthquake in Bogota On Friday iast, at about a quarter past six, P. M. this city was visited by a very severe earthquake. I he shock threw down the towers of the ca

thedral, injured almost all the churches, the

Jjhn Mason, Jr. pioved, that Mr. David ' palace and oilier public buildings, and has reimbte aidl m the fa i ol IcrJl, ihai il he .j duccd to a heapof tuins many private dwel

lings.

'oiic of Mr. Ada us v.s lavew.s!, a r.d that o! gen. J..eks;'U

lr

voud 1 r Joi n Qumcy Adams as piesidvia, he vMnild agixc to brc eauca a ieueia.isi a..

the ba.au'.e A nis .lie, a d loat he said after j nahiiabit. We gret io say that ihe calamities the prvsn.ential eh ciUm, ihrrt ne voted foi Mijhavc been aggiavatcd by the loss of lives;

Auams tiv ct'.u

Scaicely a house has been leftunin-

juied. and a considerable number are not in-

u) ,n,-: ! thai he w

that the people wo t d e pie, Mr Ciay made sec vtv.iy td. J-J:n T. J-s?iio st.-.tt iU tna!

matk mmlc b nis looihci the latter tanl, in allusi .n

m w

V hil lit

am kin:

;e a: it :.iv.

c.'.u e u was cci un,; ascei iamec; , ue precise i nmln r ot pel sons w ho have been ou d n:akc .ii. Clay sec.eaiy ui j ki.ied wc a:e unable to s'atc teough we :!;,.; s'eneial Ja kson v.ouid in,t. ilieaid thai on iho af-p. r,i.-. i,.wihrPn

1 o a e

nave pi o

! i i-.ii li a. iu;n n he v;ouiu .niei led m ihe cemetti v of h:s ci".v.

):c same th:ne,aid more.

') ieto . h -jieai Je.

; i 1 1. !!i;ji

Mr

t!ieaiu thai on the dav af'.ei, fi'ieui lmd been ' . . .

Sever

al otheis have suffntd ii imv aid not a IcvT

a:i sciiwied me dec.aration . wire dug the same t vuii. oui of the inins.

i,. e to ,a v,nc!i i.i evidence, which Aithouiih per haps not so sev 1 1 e a sho U as

vc:c ce lamie a . U;i.issit;je as those ot anv i ihai vvlm h h f. l mU .-.. ti, i im ..i

iee non, l teai wu nave-uoue :oo iiiin.ii m. our . ,-.i nu m ht-.r i. eorm i-ss w ho v.a. . A i

-Adams, it ,a; n have been proved, :hat tiieie

.v;-.s a caucus .,. 'i ,a.i t of the Kentucky dele--v i '.V 1 V' ho scni loi Mi Clay;

I c

iiemiai

,v.r.. ,,nr f o v. i inch's r ela-

tt aUi;

v inch the

fiiend. Several cpaestions

live to Mr. inte'. ;e;

maturity ov cr i uted. Mr. Secrtwi had heard Mr. David Tr imhb: say, j)!'evious to Ins goinrj to congress in IdJ j, that Mr Adams was a 'edeiaht. inimical io the wester n country , ho h..d tr icd io sell the navigation of the Mississippi ; that aller his return fiom com:! ess in UiJj, he heard h;m

j say, if AiLms had not been president Cla

would not luve been secrelaiy ol btte, and that if general Jackson had bci n made pris ident Mr. Adams would have been secielaiv of state. ii06 Kc::da!i was again examined, and stated llftt.he received information, that Mr day was to be secretary of state if Mr. Adams was elected piesidtnt, about three weeks before the presidential election, from FtaneisP Blair, Esq. of this place. He waa asked, whether Mr. Blair was not then the intimate and confidential friend of Mr. Clay? This and the foregoing were voted by the majority to be improper and inadmis ibie. Witness said he felt himself bound to state, because he believed it had a bearing upon the subject ot the investigation, that aher Mr. Ciay was excluded from ll:Lv kouie,:ind previous to the presidential election, he, Mr. Ciay. wrote to wimess, ini'ormini-r him that he had hoped to be in a condition to offer him, witness, a situation more agieeabie to hint than tnc one he occupied in Frankiort : hut now there w a some doubt how affairs mmh! terminate at Washington. " This, he was confident, was in the month of Jan. ISJ5 Witness detailed what passed between him and Mr. Clay on that subject, and said he should net have mentioned it, but lor the belief he had since formed, from vaiious circumstances, that the letter was intended to prepare him for the application which was made to him by Mr. Blair. Ti.is matter will be fully detailed in our next j Fricis P. Bnr was called and appeared, but refused to be sworn, aiieging : I. That t ho senate had no right to require him to sjivc evidence in this investigation, hecause it was not within the scope of their legitimate power. C. That all the information he had on the subject was contained in private communica-

i lions k a confidential correspondence, which

the senate had no right to extort from him. The Adams men immediately took the ground that he was right, and that the senate could not require him to disclose confidential communications, as if any direct evidence of

i a lei ;je'v. -Ik,. no";- l.itii as lo his ledalloii v i'h Mr. Aih-m, and i-encral Jackson, ihev de!ei u.iiii'd :o vole lot i he lui mei , being saiished ti.at lie won id make Mr. Ciay secicia- : v of slate. By t!i!:: inquiry, Into which the friends ol M s.s: s Adams end Ciay have vein u;cd, the oj-jrt-'titi'in z?r:t n to sundry citizen o I rank forts in January ! 826, ti.ai Air. Jdu: it el: e'ed fn t ,snirnt,vjonli rmikc Air Ciay ic crctury j .suite, is tractd d.rtctty to coiji d'jufiutletterslrcmAfr. Ciay to l;r. Blair it i- now asceitained beyond a doubt, that Mi . CUv ?u e this infoi malum himself lor ti.e purpose of procuring letters to Mr. Y hit, and to secure his vote for Mi. Ahains 1 Some of the letters called oui by this pieee o' n a .agemcnt, were written on ihe iyih o. Januaiy, 1825 M r. Clay's citer to Mt . Blaii was, therefore, vvi ittcn early in that month. 1 lie baigain was complete between the two high contracting parties, early in that month or ; ei haps in December, and every t.dng was kept secret k siient, until, by various means, their friends were brought to act in accorel ance w ith their designs. II M I . ( Jay 's letu is to Mr. Blair do not confirm all this, lei him call thein out ! Uklz imoue, Jan. 14 ALxico Strong excitement prevails in

Mexico againsi the European Spaniards.

The Correo" of the 28th November, ob servis. that, as a proof ot the public opinion upon this subject, the states of Gunujudita, and Onjaca, have passed acts for tlreir cx.uision. The legislature of Queretaro lias as semblcd, for ihe purpose of passing a similai iaw ; Sc that of Puebla, it was belie ved would soon he called together lor the same object Tamaulipas, and Coahailany Tejas, besides passing laws of expulsion, hae urged the congress of the Union to adopt measures Jalisco, Mexico, arid Michoacan, liavc enact el the expulsion of Spaniards from their territories

last year, it l:as been in'-mipaiabl) mcue dc-

lUueiive, tiom us doiation, which ws at ieaat thiee quarters cl a v. mure ar-Ul'om the weakcneU s a:eof the buildings in c n equenceefiht f rmei car tJ.qiial.es! "Ihiseity indeed has siiileied sv sev eu iy ihai it will be .ohg before it iecoves what i has losi ; and the a. aim vh".ch this cm rir-nunre of the con.ulsions ol nature has exerted, will not be easily sni mcui.icd. Il i in possible to uess evenrhe amount ol ps.ij-.eiiv destroye d. altho it must b.. iojim me ti.eie are mai y who es:jn.:.ie it at about six m.hi'.r s. Some ieh a m y be formed ol it when we Mn'e, that ihe p oprk lor of the in u e in which we are now vr mi g, -and which is t! e largest and best situated m the capital, would he giad to disposo 1 it tor the boihiing rr.a ciiais The authoiiiies (ksrive ;.he utmost credit or the preservation ot order on this melanholy occasion, i he peace was not disturbed lor a moment, and n. i w iihstandu g the temptations to plunder winch uu e afi'oided by a scene of havoc and corduiion ukr-that vvt itri followed the. earthquake, we have nor he aid of a single attempt at icbbciy. His Excellency ihe Liberator Fiesident. visited tho principal q aruts of the town and atter ded by a f w liirsons rfde about the stieets to take me asuies for the ttaiquiiiiy of the in liabitants until past midnight. CA.VADA At a meeting held in Montreal, on the 9 h January, it was resolved to icquest ot alt the committees formed, or forming throughout the province, to send deputies to meet the committees ot Montreal, on ihe 24th, then and there to appoint agents, forthwith to proceed to England, to obtain a redress of grievances which they complain they labor under, fiom the mt asures adopted tn'Aaifla lliim tr tl.. Iltiticl. ..-.r. n . ...

Inrefeiencc to theae resolntir ns, the Mr ntrca' Gazette, a paper ur eter the mflntmt of the colonial govern men, ol mm vr s, ihm rhf-y aie calculated to cx itf U ii flame he country, and ultimately io piotii.c- j en rcl i on. 1 he obj ct A tl se r e-o'u'ior.s I t - ; s,

is to mtiodure the appearance and re alii i 3 of a Fre nch province. Tf o.umci art the se

So determined is the public opinion tiponj measures, he tails noon 'he E g'ish por

tion of the provi ce, io appoint elt putirs also, to proceed to Eg ar i'.imd. jive a tiue representation theie f the state ot Canada.

this matter, that wherever the lci;:isitup

have, " under the dominion of the Escqceiscs,' resisted the public will, the people hav"e r

risen en masse, and compelled their legislators to pass decrees cxptiling Spaniard from their territory ; and, after having accomplish ed this object, they have quietly dispersed This occurred first in Valladolid next in Onjaca U. lastly in Vera Cruz, the congress

Legal M'dfiure Y:u are an excellent packer, said a b- n want u a waiter tlo'nt undrfstand you sir," it-plied h a nriant. 14 Why. you have cn ttivttlto pack a quart of yux into pint dctantti."