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Martinsburg, Berkeley County, West Virginia
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Political commentary speculates that Amos Kendall authored President Andrew Jackson's Veto Message, based on Col. Webb's address and a Kentucky hand-bill using verbatim excerpts before the message's arrival, amid electioneering efforts.
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"We learn, from the Observer, that a hand-bill was recently published at Lexington, Ky., portions of which were taken verbatim from the Veto message, a document that did not arrive until several days afterwards! Mysterious as this fact may at first appear, it still admits of an explanation. The Observer explains it thus: The extracts from the Veto were sent on in advance, in order to prepare, in some measure, the minds of the supporters of Jackson for his act of high-minded tyranny."
Upon this curious disclosure we will make no comment, until we have more direct proof. We will, however, make it the occasion of one or two questions, which any one may answer that chooses.
1. Who is the regular correspondent of the Kentucky Jackson papers?
2. Who but the writer of the Message could have furnished extracts from it before it was sent to Congress?
3. Who wrote the Message?
4. Are the people of the United States willing to have Amos Kendall to rule over them in the name of Andrew Jackson?
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Speculation that Mr. Amos Kendall wrote the Veto Message, supported by Col. Webb's address in the New-York Courier & Enquirer and a hand-bill in Lexington, Ky., using verbatim excerpts before the message arrived, as reported in the Louisville Journal. Poses questions about authorship and election influence.