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AUGUSTA, GEO. MONDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1827.
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months.
FROM TIIE NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER.
No. IX,
No apology was due from Ma jor Eaton.
His voluntary appearance before ihe pub
lic was anticipated. It was known he
w ould be found whenever duty called.
The misconception of the real point in
issue before the country, is not more re-
ma: liable, than he facts suggested, the
principles assumed, and the arguments
predicated on them. It will require
on apology from me, if 1 shew that the
feebleness of the defence cannot be re
ferred to the want of ability in 'he
advocate, but to tho.se intrinsic causes that
uo weight of character or force of talents
■can resist.
The question was. Did General Jack
s' m tell Beverly that propositions had been
made to ban by Mr. Clay’s friends, which
he indignantly rejected ? It is not denied.
Then Major Eaton, with singular
satisfaction, says, “ that, between Mr.
Buchanan’s statement and mv own, and
General Jackson's, 1 can discern unes
sential or material difference.” Does
Major Eaton attempt to say that either of
them justify the declaration that he made
to Beverly ? Mr. Buchanan expressly
denies that anv proposition was made by
him. Now, if there is pesfert accord in
the statements of Mr. Buchanan, Major
Eaton, and General Jackson, what fol
lows? Why, that they must also deny
what he has denied.
11 G.-nernl Jackson had, when applied
to bv Beverly, with becoming frankness,
said, that wlrat he had told him was the
mere cm elusions of his own mind, and in-
ftrends derived from a conversation with
one of i,is own friends, there the difficulty
Would have ended. But lie savs, “ your
•inquiries relative to the proposition of
bargain, ma le through 31 r. Clay's friends
t < so,nr. of mine, concerning the sheri Pie-
■sidmnial election, were answered freely
and frankly at the time.” Did anv one
doubt, w ho read it, that it was intended to
vouch fir the statement of B°verlv, that
propositions had been made? To this,
Mr. Clay gave a derisive and indignant
•denial. VVliat then was the issue? the
Truth of the charge, whether a proposition
of any kind had been made to General'
Jackson hv Mr. Clavorhis friends. Four
months after the dale of Beverly’s Viler
which had been widely circulated in chan
nels where no counter evidence could
pe.tch, and lorty-i wo days from his letter
to Beveriv, General Jackson, with Mr.
Clay’s deni d before him, comes before
♦he public, with these remarkable, expres
sions : “ Still 1 have not said, no- do 1
now say, that the proposal made to me
was with the privily and consent of Mr.
Clay ; nor either have I said that his
friends in Congress made pronositions to
(lie (hat fie idea was derived from con
clusions and inferences ; and concludes,
“ that I may possibly have d ne Mr. Clay
injustice.” What a falling off! And af
ter (his had rankled in the public mind
for lour months, lie leaves Mr. Clay to ac
quit himself. Then comes M 1 . Buchanan
who declares that lie was the friend of
Geneial Jackson, and actuated only bv
an anxious desire to serve his interest;
<h;*t he was not the political friend of Mr.
Clay ; that lie had made no proposal from
him or an v one else. Now Major Eaton
comes, who savs it was the mere impres
sion on the General’s mind, nothing more ?”
and that it was not asserted that VI . Bu
chanan came from Mr. Clay ; and then,
with the greatest composure and address,
says, there is no material difference among
ns ; it is only verbal; we are all agreed.—
How frank 1 and how ingenuous ! So
fir as this goes, I acknowledge the argu
ment. But do they adroit or deny the
Statement of Beveri v, that a corrupt pro
position was made ? Mr. Buchanan says
uo. If you are in accord, you must say no
also, and that is all that was required ; i
and I will not stop to point out the d.s-
crepancies iti the three statements—I have
higher objects.
Major Eaton has involved Mr. Bucha
nan deeper in this intrigue than he was
betore. General Jackson had involved
him in making a corrupt proposi
tion, and of being the chief agent in an in-
^T'gue. Mr. Buchanan could only escape
the sacrifice, by deriving that fact. And
with the most amiable sentiments, which
does not permit him to doubt his truth or
integrity, Major F.aton now accuses him
openly ot saying, that Gen. Jackson should
say who he would make Secretary of
State, and requested him to go to him
with that proposition. Wliat was the ob
ject of this? I hat he might carry this
message back to Mr. Clay or his friends.
That message would have been the most
gross and corrupt offer that could Lave
bep.’i made. That is the very crime they
are laboring to establish on Mr. Adams.—
He repeats distinctly, what the General
had charged, and what he (Buchanani had
denied, to wit: that lie ought to fight Them
with their own weapons.’ 4 ’ Upon tXis
Buchanan, and I leave ihern to reconcile
this, as they have the other points.
But it was thought that this was too
rank a proposition, and Mr. Buchanan said
44 if, then, he will say he will not appoint
Mr. Adams, that will do." Do for what ?
Do for who? Mr. Clay, no doubt. Was
not this holding out hopes, true or false,
to Mr. Clay? Mr. Buchanan goi the an
swer lie expected—availed himself of it,
but it would not do. Major Eaton says,
that he/e?', a that Mr. Burhanan was ac
ting on the ground of anxious solicitude
for the success of the General,” (and who
can doubt it ?) “and, from a desire that
nothing of stratagem and management
should interpose to • prevent the election
of one fur whom he felt more titan com
mon interest (and who can doubt it?)
44 that he considered, in his zeal, he felt it
to he right to defend the citadel against
unlooked for assault, and believed conse
quently, ihat the c-nemv should be met
with their own weapons.” (And who can
doubt it ?
According to this system of morals, ev
ery thing is fair in politics ; the end jus
tifies the means. I saw by anticipation,
vhere this rnus' en 1 ; l knew whore Mr.
Buchanan would be left. He has been,
under a odd and heartless affectation of
virtue and purity, offered up as a sacrifice.
They have attempted to fix this on him,
in order by some remote relation, to con
nect it with Mr. Clay. Spare me from mv
friends; my enemies have put me oil my
guard.
Not only was it said that Mr. Adams
would be Secretary of State, if the Ge
neral was elected, but, it was published in
the newapapers that he would fill the first
office ; and if he, Mr. Adams, did not ac
cept, Mr. Clinton would be made Secre
tary of state ; and yet, if it is suggested
; or hinted that Mr. Clay may pmbal ly be
! offered the same place, it is immediately
magnified into a most corrupt proposition.
Why would they trace one t umor to Mr.
Adams, and not the other to Gen. Jack-
son—or admit both innocent? Was the
appointment of these gentlemen calculated
to have no effect on their friends? Had
Mr. Clinton no friends from New York
or Ohio? And was it not calculated to
reconcile the North and Middle States to
Gen. Jackson’s election ? But it is as im
possible to prevent the circulation of these
rumors, as it is to prevent the friends and
partisans of the candidates from taking,
and arguing, and electioneering with each
other. They must be great novices in
human affairs, who suppose that no argu
ments, no suggestions, no hopes, were
held out to the Western members. Can
they believe that they messed together,
and met every day for two months, and
that everv man was hermetically sealed,
and that Mr. Adams, arid his friends, and
Mr. r 'lay, and l,is friends were all cor
rupt, but not a man in ihe Jackson ranks ?
The desired connecting Mr. Clays
avowal with Gen. Jackson,s repulse of
Mr. Buchanan’s proposition, rendered it
necessary to fix the date of the annunci
ation of his opinion immediately after, and
within two days of, the conversation.—
But that would make the annunciation of
Mr. Clay’s opinion too soon, because it is
now said the meeting did not take plare
until the 22d. In order to reconcile this
ii is attempted to fix the time of the con-
versatio* much later—willing to make Mr
Buchanan wrong, to make the facts square.
But it happens that he has fixed the date
precisely ; and besides, Mr. Marklcv was
so anxious about the consummation of ibis
intrigue, that he was absent from Wash
ington, and attending his courts, during
the greatest part of January—so that Ma
jor Eaton is mistaken about the date as
the General is about the two days after—
so that the medicine did not operate so
soon, owing, no doubt, to Mr. Markley’s
absence. 1 have heretofore shewn and
the fact will be exhibited in the due time
and put beyond the reach of cavil, that
Clay never had a moment’s doubt in the
choice of President; that he was restrain
ed from motives of duty to the House over
which he presided—of delicacy to the ri
val c. udidates—of deference for his colW
gues—of propriety to himself—from mak
ing known his sentiments. Novel and em
barrassing questions might arise in the
House during the election, which it would
he his duty to decide. Extraordinary in-
tluence might, and would, be attributed to
the disclosure of his opinionis, which he
desired to avoid. He would have expo
sed himself so open assault, by both the
offended parties, and to just reproach for
the premature discovery of his sentiments.
! Besides, he would not have escaped the
charges which he he foresaw, of intrigue
and cabal, and of scarifying at the shrine
of his criminal and selfish ambition.
Abovetbe 14th of January, the friends
j of Gen. Jackson obtained the columns of
( the Washington*Gazette and addressed
1 themselves openly to Mr. Clay, under the
signatures of Corbo, Hermies, &c. I beg
leave to cop^ one of the paragraphs touch
ing this point ; the authority will not be
denied :
44 I take occasion to notice some injuri-
44 ous attacks upon Mr. Clay, which ap-
44 peared in distant papers, and very pos-
44 sibly written here, to produce that effect
44 by excitement, which they intended to
“ promulge as premeditation—(by whom
44 written ?) Those people who cwumni-
44 ate Mr. Clay, by imputing to him sin-
44 ister and disingenuous views and private
44 combinations, would be as violent, and
“ with more plausibility, had Mr. Clay
“ been so indiscreet as to put himself into
“ a situation, which would expose him to
“ the charge of using his influerice as
Speaker, in favor of any one candidate
“ brought into conclave, questions may
“ arise in the course of the preleminary
“ transactions, wh : ch would expose him to ,
“the charge • f partiality, if he were to avow j
“ any choice himself. This single point j
“ I think sufficiently satisfactory as to the j
11 course Mr Clay has pursued.” Now j
Major Ea’on inquires, “ Whv the neces- i
sity of a silence so long and so rigidly f
preserved ?”
Letters caluminating Mr. Clay, had al-j
readv (14 h January) appeared in distant
pap-rs ; but it is said the meeting, when
the treason was consummated, did not take
place until the 22d. But when it was ne
cessary to he fair and smooth, and Mr.
Clav behaves with a proper sense of the
decorum due to his station, uow that
reserve has become criminal.
These calnmni >ns letters must have
been written in December. Were his
opinions then known? Then he is inno
cent of this long silence. If his opinions
were not known, why calumniate him. if it
was, not to intimidate and overawe him—
to operate upon his declaration through
his fears ?
The same writer proceeds in a manner ;
most plausible *o present the case. Thus,
“ “ It can only be an illusion, that could
“render it supportable, That Mr. Crawford |
“ could be taken up by the ties in the i
“House; And the very appearance of!
44 supporting a desperate cause, often j
“ leads to suspicion. u Ifch however ,
“ groundless, never fail to injure those who !
“ countenance or admit it.” He then ;
“proceeded with an air of great confi-'
“ dence ; “ There can he no question !
44 now, as to the issue. I h ive no doubt of j
44 Mr Clay’s ultimate determination. I i
“ have never had the least doubt he pre- ?
“ ferred Jackson so anv other candidate.
“ In such circumstances, (he savs) it is
“ very plain ihu the Slates of Illinois, [
“ Indiana, and Missouri, will follow the j
“ same path.” (Tliev were now willing j
these States should follow Mr. Clay if he j
voted for the General.
But, on the 20 b, this same writer ran j
hold no longer. He savs, “ What is niost j
“ remarkable, is the silence the reserve, |
“ the mystery, ihe distance observable be
tween men in public and private. No
“ one speaks, no one argues.” “ How is
“this extraordinary, mysterious stdlene«s
and taciturnity to he accounted for?”
Wilde the question remained in donb',and
'hev believed Mr. Clav would vote, with
them thev addressed him all kinds of ar-
gumen's—but it began through some
channels to loak nut thru ho preferred Mr
Adams. Then he sakd 41 I h >ve he-wd
“ there is an intrigue”— 11 a precnrsei of
a s'orm.” On the 20: h, {'the mnofng is
fixed on the 22d.) if is fiir her “ smid, 14 It
is alleged that under his influence, a ma-
“ lot number of the Representative'- from
“ Ken’ucky have gone ’".m the same
“ views but still the writer doubts. T
shall proceed in mv next *o shew, from
Major Eaton’s statement, that Gen. Jack-
son could, under uo citcumstanes even
with the influence of Mr. Clav, have
been elected. I am astonished, with his
candor and knowledge ofthe farts, that he
should still maintain that there was a pos
sibility. Major Eaton has given up the
question.
I shall expose the speciousness and
falsity ofthe principle with regard to the
effect of pluralities, by which such erro
neous and dangerous doctrinps have been
imposed on the people, and shall exhibit
the errors of fact and argument by which
he has attempted to dispense w th all other
evidence. HAMPDEN.
WE S TERN HO TEL,
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October 15 46
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the 1st November, at 7 o’clock, on business of
importance to their interests.
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Oct. 26 49 3t
We are authorised to
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Representative to Congress, to fill the vacancy
occasioned bv the resignation of the Honorable
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Oct. 25 49 td
0?’ The Miliedgeville and Savannah STAGE OFFICE
kept ai die EAGLE TAVERN.
In addition to tliekJove mentioned improvements, we will have ready by the first day of i
an elegant NEW STABLE, on Bay-street, just above the Bridge, convenient to the river, ai
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find charge.- as reasonable as at anv similar establishment in the city.
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EDMUND BUGG.
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Augusta, September 3, 1827.
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Gentlemen's Beaver, Black and Drab,
Fine and Coarse Casters, do do.
FiiiP and Coarse Roreins do do.
Men’s and Bovs’ fine and coarse Wool Hate,
Youths’ Hats’ Black and Drab,
Children’s Hats. Fur te Hair Seal h Cloth Caps
Morocco Caps, kc. kc.
Also, a large assortment of
Gentlemen’s, Ladies’ and Children’s Shoes,
Gentlemen’s fine Boots, kc. kc.
All of which .-e is disposed to sell on the most
reasonable terms for Cash or City Acceptances.
J. Barry.
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Dismal Swamp Canal Lottery,
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HIGHEST PRIZE $15,000,
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October 2a 49 4t
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NEW GOODS, which they have received this day.
and they are ready to make any article of gen
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Oct. 25 49 tf
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