* * * * * * * He said he had been informed by the friends of Mr.Clay, that the friends of Mr.Adams had made overtures to them, saying, if Mr.Clay and his friends would unite in aid of Mr.Adams's election, Mr.Clay should be Secretary of State; that the friends of Mr.Adams were urging, as a reason to induce the friends of Mr.Clay to accede to their proposition, that if I were elected President, Mr.Adams would be continued Secretary of State; that the friends of Mr.Clay stated the West did not wish to separate from the West, and if I would say, or permit any of my confidential friends to say, that in case I were elected President Mr.Adams should not be continued Secretary of State, by a complete union of Mr.Clay and his friends, they would put an end to the presidential contest in one hour.
And he was of opinion it was right to fight such intriguers with their own weapons." On a subsequent statement, Gen.

Jackson asserted that the gentleman who called upon him with these propositions was James Buchanan, of Pennsylvania.
This was the Kremer charge made definite in circumstances and application; and if well grounded, was susceptible of plain proof.

On the appearance of this statement by Gen.

Jackson, Mr.Clay came out with a positive denial.

He said:-- "I neither made, nor authorized, nor knew of any proposition whatever, to either of the three candidates who were returned to the House of Representatives, at the last presidential election, or to the friends of either of them, for the purpose of influencing the result of the election, or for any other purpose.