* * * * * * * * * I owe it to my character to make another observation.

Had I ever known, or even suspected, that General Jackson believed I had been sent to him by Mr.Clay or his friends, I should immediately have corrected his erroneous impression, and thus prevented the necessity for this most unpleasant explanation.

* * * * * * * I had no authority from Mr.Clay, or his friends, to propose any terms to General Jackson in relation to their votes, nor did I ever make any such proposition." This statement fully and triumphantly exonerated Mr.Clay, Mr.Adams, and their friends, from the charge of "bargain" and "corruption," which had been so boldly made and widely disseminated.

The only witness ever brought upon the stand to support such an allegation, asserted, in a manner the most positive and decisive, the entire innocence of the parties implicated.
That Mr.Clay, in throwing his influence in behalf of Mr.Adams, was but following out a resolution formed long before he had any opportunity of communication with Mr.Adams or his friends, on the subject, is proved by the following extract of a letter from a gentleman in Lexington, Ky., to the editors of the National Intelligencer, dated March 21, 1825:-- "At different times, before Mr.Clay left this place for Washington, last fall, I had conversations with him on the subject of the choice of a President by the House of Representatives.

In all of them, he expressed himself as having long before decided in favor of Mr.Adams, in case the contest should lie between that gentleman and General Jackson.