Kentucky Gazette

The following certificate has been sent to us from Clarke county, confirming the statement of Captain Carr in relation to the opinion of John Breckinridge, with respect to a new election. It further shows that the question which now agitates the state, was made even at the next session of the legislature after the adoption of the constitution, and seems to have been determined by reference to the man who best understood it. As it was a subject of doubt then even by the lieutenant governor himself, how can it now be said, that the constitution is so plain that "human language could not make it plainer?" We know, that more members of the convention than one, have the same impressions; but we have not, as seems to have been done by the enemies of a new election, first ascertained their opinion and then written to them on the subject; because we do not consider their impressions of any more importance than those of other citizens.—What judge ever called a member of the assembly into court to tell what was meant by him when he passed a law? The written law is the guide for the judges, and the written constitution is the guide for the people.

Mr. Campbell, who gives the following certificate, has been blind for eight or nine years, and is remarkable among those who know him for an extraordinary memory.

CLARK COUNTY, JULY, 1817.

Since the election of governor appears to be a matter of doubt with many when it shall be, whether at the next annual election after the death or resignation of the governor, or that the lieutenant governor should act as governor the residue of the time for which the governor was elected, I, in conversation with some persons, mentioned, that I had heard John Breckinridge give his opinion on that subject and now being called upon, to give a statement, do certify that in Frankfort the next session of the legislature after the formation of our present constitution, I heard a conversation between Col. Alexander Bullitt, then speaker of the senate (lieutenant governor,) Mr. John Breckinridge and others, in which it was asked, whether the lieutenant governor in case of the death of the governor, could serve out the time for which the governor was elected, Mr. Breckinridge smilingly asked Mr. Bullitt, are you alarmed at the thought of becoming governor?—Mr. Bullitt said no; that he alluded to the new constitution. Mr. Breckinridge said, his impression was, he could not, and that his impression was, that it was sufficiently clear by the constitution, that a new election could take place at the succeeding annual elections, after the death of the governor.—Much more was said on the subject which I do not remember now; and as I am a person at present and have been for several years, deprived of sight, my fellow-citizens cannot suppose, that I could have any private views in relating now the conversation that then took place.

JOHN CAMPBELL.

Attest. A. FRAME.

Mr. Pope said in his handbill that Mr. Allen had in his letter "given the lie direct" to our insinuations concerning his letter.—We were not fortunate enough to discover any such statement in Mr. Allen's letter; but we distinctly see by his publication of this day that he understood the letter just as we did. He says, "Mr. Pope knew that he had not acted the part of an honorable man in sending private letters to candidates, and in attempting to influence the county elections, and holding out inducements to them to desert their republican principles and patronize newspapers supporting anti-republican doctrines." Thus we see that Mr. Allen himself understood it as "the language of corruption."

Argus.