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| as appealing solely to their interest, as the
I only solid and proper basis of such an under
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[ ?o ourselves, as tvoilas useful to the public; so.,
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ft abu-mes- transaction as my other) and t!io only
■ :HfS on winch they can ho s iiiny, honestly, pro-
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I Uutep I ml self interest. And, ndying upon thn,
I lithe | resant euterprizo, we shall look closely
■ ft] actiwdy to the interests of our subscribers,
i aLliu bc*st uieaas of piomuling our own —sonsi
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I ft, iliey’ will patronize the paper, if we make i
lO*li if intorest to do so, and that tho more in
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die general and valuable will ho their pa
[ tron.t Vnd. should we at any lime, hecorm
ibrg.-t ■ ' i;a m and our duties, tho best tvs;
m ’ evil, and arousing our energio
2, , c. n-« of the source from whence wi
j yf , , will he to withdraw thm
I joK, . to their interest to re
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plain o! him tor it, would be to attach to others,the
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. should always ho given, or withdrawn, from a
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r to ones-self, without any reference whatever to
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- therefore an editor should never consider lire
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ie the least, or leel the less respect or regard for
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* should ho to prompt him to an examination of
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lie may discover, and to stimulate him to
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, to deserve censure, or loss of patronage, so far as
* Ills honest efforts can avail to prevent it. As to
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1 which should never pain, or move for a moment,
, any iiouest and independent editor, as, amid the
1 endless variety ufimman opinion on those sub
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wo have found it.
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able and intelligent eninmcnls upon them, cal
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I the opinions &. arguments themselves,than to the
I persons who utlei them. However, then, we
I may diller from any of our merchants politically,
while vo shall continue freely to express our po
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party, wo have no doubt they will pationi/.o us,
so long as wo may make i! to their interest to do
so, commercially; and tin; Daily paper will he
j devoted chiefly to their interests. And tliov can
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diller fiom us in some tilings, they will . -ohahiv
agree with us iu others, and the same also with
any paper that boldly and honestly expresses, as
every one ought to do, its own opinions, and not
those of a early, or nf.anv oilier a.-.»»or nr tm-.o—»
Wo believe that njjrst-rute Daily Paper, such
ns we are determined that ours shall he, will ho
highly valuable to the place, and profitable both
to its patrons and to ourselves. Tho groat ob
ject of commercial men, iu patronizing papers, is
to obtain the earliest commercial intelligence
11 urn till quarters; and to effect this, many sub
scribe fur several daily commercial papers, ; üb
lished ill different quarters. Vet still, ns few, it
any, can afford to have one from every sea , ort.
or commei cial town, intelligence will often a; rive
by papers which they do not lake, which will give
those who receive those pa,.CiS, the advantage
of them. And beside tins, many of them have
I scarcely lime to look through all the commer
cial matter of every paper they receive (and of
ten to 110 effect,)to find such as concerns them
selves or the particular business of this city.
Our object will ho to have every commercial
paper that is desirable, llnotighoul the Union—to
get them from the Post-ollicc, each evening, tlic
the moment they are received the! c—mid to se
lect from them, set in type, during the night,
■ and publish by sunrise, next morning, all the im
‘ taut commercial intelligence they contain —al-
so, the important political and other news, so far
as the time will permit—giving the preference,
alwavs to the commercial, and ;di that mostly
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ing before the Merchant, each morning, before
In; leaves ins residence, all that valuable in
formation which is calculated to govern his
transactions throughout tho day. To eficct
all this, tlic paper will be consideruly enlarged,
( die best of woikmcn will be engaged, and the
commercial department placed exclusively un
. dcrlho control of a commercial editor, lly thus
1 concentrating all the valuable commercial intcl
j ligcncc fom all quaiters, tho Me.chants ot tins
r ,'place may ho saved tho great expense in
j (jin r ed in daily* from abroad, and the une-ons
B trouble of searching through a Hubei of com
mereiai ehalf, fur a grain of wheat, and often not
even that—and will receive it also some hours
o earlier than they could obtain tho foreign papers
which contain it, from the Post Office.—lt will
(re (ruth an expensive and laborious onterprize;
but, neither labor or expense are to ho cared fur,
jin any undertaking, so long as can he suo
:lI cosslully and profitably employed; and of this
r i we have not the slightest doubt in tho present
J cntcrpii/.o —at any rate we have determined not
;t ! to Sjiii.e them, in the effort for success; and
[.'some generous friends, who entertain sim
)( ilar opinions of its success, and confi lence
yI in our exertions, have had the kindness U
1 Hto.p forward voluntarily with offers of pecu
rfi.uv assistance, should wo need it.—Wo arc it
, 1 1 eat . with a aoutleman of extensive commorcla
<■! as wed as gene; ’ll intelligence and information
s i for a sale to him of one half of the estahllshrnen
i- * —he to take n; on himself the entire control o
I 'he romiiierci. 1 department of it. Hut, shonfi
it i not tliis arrangement ho made, an able, inlclii
1-1 L , (mtf ;,nd capable commercial editor will he cn
„ ) gaged.—We shall stake every thing upon thi;
i merptize, and we tru-t the community is sulfi
ie j citnlly acquainted with us to believe, that wi
iy are not disposed to do things by hulas. Tie
as question, then, is, Will such a paper he valuable
re to them—worth the price of it 1 Ail we ask, a
sir nice >,s a fair trial, at tin start, and if you nr
e- ’disappointed. iihdrawyour patronage, ntunu
Hi without the least hesitation.
AUGUSTA, (GL WEDYESD iY. rs kimt
0 €O\GieU§SIO\AL.
6 ———— - . I, _
dukati! ia mi; sunate,
On Mr. lain Daren’s \ourination.
c
REMARKS of mb. ciiamrers.
t C-iiamiikhs said, lliere were few oc
casioiis wliicli cotilrl cittist- \x - itii him a
1 I'toro pninftil struggle’ bftivren personal
inclination anti niliciul obligations, than
0 the one in which he was now called to
• not. With the nominee, saitl i>lr. 1,’., I
■ have for years enjoyed personal and so
r cinl relations that have left impressions
ii which it would gratify me to indulge by
, nn expression of their kindest recollec
tion. a ini tliis consideration, with the fiet
ol his frequent elevation to olliees of high
honor and dignity, and his distinguished
1 [ position in relation to the political parties
™ in the country, will connect with the
, subject im interest rarely occasioned by
the nomination of an individual in otliee.
t Ihe otliee itself, to which he is nondna
ted, is one so intimately allceting the pe
culiar duties and responsibilities of (lie
s U.xeentive magistrate, by whom we are
f) invit nl to confirm the appointment, nsto
i ■ •■quire on the part olThe Senate, a pe
.j caliar degree ol indulgence. Regarding
3 t» diplomatic functionary as the conti
' donlial organolThe President, as select
ed with a previous knowledge of the pe
- nlinr duties to he performed hy him.
■ ind with reference to ids special fitness
>r those duties, it is undoubtedly propel
- hat the executive will, in regard to tin
i igent. should not he controlled, lint from
. 'he most unyielding obstacles: to oppose
i d for light cause would lessen the weight
' fids responsibility, and greatly increase
our own. To reject the nomination of a
r minister at home or abroad, can, in my
■ view, be defensible only upon the strong'
. grounds of principle, having direct and
, immediate reference to considerations of
l a public nature.
In the deliberate counsel and advice
wli'ch the constitution requires us to
give to the President, there is no propel
place for the exercise of personal favor
■ or ill will, Cor party prejudice or partiali
ty. tSir. as one of the humblest members
of I Ids bo Iv, [ call fearlessly a ppcal to my
course here, on all former occasions, mid
to the course of those with whom I usu
ally net, with the most entire confidence
that it will evince a liberal charity to
ward the officers nominated, mid a mag
nanimous surrender of personal and poli
tical prejudices, on the altar oflhe public
mod, mid a just regard to the preroga
tives of the President.
With these opinions, iUr President, it
I scarcely necessary to nllirm, that in
die vole which I shall give on this occa
sion. I have obeyed no other ini’iulso than
that ofiny judgment; bat it will be per
ni t (I me to assert, ns I do w ith the most
nnliected sincerity, that my personal in
tiinalions have reluctantly witnessed,
•ml would gladly reverse the sentence 1
empel mo to reimi'oj’lvllh'a deep iUinViiig
conviction of its justness. I am ullage-j 1
• her aware olThe (lunger to which my I
>. etc may expose me, from the imdigiinut
virulence of those who, themselves in- 1
sensible to (be honest and honorable
feeling which subdues the petty passions
ofa contradicted mid factious partisan,
are on nil occasions inclined to attribute
(he conduct of others to the narrow-mind
ed policy which governs themselves.—
Sir, I should he nn unfaithful servant ol
my Stale, treacherous to (ho high trust
which I cm charged to execute, and des
titute oflhe courage necessary to protect
the interests confided to my guardian
ship, if apprehensions like these couftl
i„r a moment divert me from the path to
which duty points. It would have af
lorded me great gratification to have lis
ened to some more aide advocate oflhe
' nations honor, and to have been able to I
1 repose my vote on the causes more sntis
i f.ielorily assigned by another. Hut the
question is about to be taken, and I will
not consent to allow an occasion to pass,
without raising my feeble voice to re
deem the tarnished reputation of my
country. If oilier Senators accord with
1 my opinion, it is essential, sir, that the
, vole of rejection shall go forth associated
I with the reasons which ini! icnce it. Vcs,
sir, the honor nnd dignity of this nntion
J has—(and ! think it demonstrable) —the
heretofore unsullied diplomatic eharnc
'l ter of Iho American Republic hits been |
1 stained, its lofty pride Im- been Inimilin-j
I ted—unnecessarily, wantonly humbled j
, j —by the nun who is now proposed as its j
>' guardian, and protector, and advocate, j
~au'l tts mi American Senator, I nm not!
N I content barely to pul upon him the seal
i of reprobation in a secret session of this'
': body. .No, sir, let the American (Jovcrn ;
s meat— let the American people, proud of]
■ their national honor, know that no mill-:
s less hand shall desecrate it with unpaid- 1
. ty. aml let foreign nations, and siU the
worl ( d know that even nn American >Sc
cretnry of SSfulc dare not pollute its er
mine.
' Air. President, I mean to resist file
" confirmation of Air. Van Huron's appoint
incut excltt'ivcly on the ground, that in
•, Ids instructions to Mr. Alcfitme, on the
snl j ’('t oflhe colonial trade, he has vio
-13 luted the honor oldie nation, lias wound
lt edits high and elevated character, has
evinced a disregard to the interests of
the American people—any, lias insulted
J dint people in the person oflheir govern
i- mimt, has attempted to promote the ob
n jfcts ofa pm ty amongst ns, and Ims dis
-0 closed a total ignorance <d’ the proper
principles mid feeling's which should n
dorn the diplomatist. For prool'of these
II j assertions 1 mean to rely exclusively on
A jfis own words, deliberately embodied in
i, Stale paper, nnd on these to which be
m has himself alluded, and omul amongst
r,! lie archives of the Department of which
1,1 •< was then tlic he d.
fn directing the attention oflhe Senate
1 Ii a particular purl of the Idler ol in
-11 -traction fiom Mr. Van Huron to the A
•f .aerienn Alinister then nl the Hritisb
ii oVmrl. 1 disci dm the inference, that the
:c. residtie ofthal letter, or that other letters
of instructioa contain no exceptionable
natter. There tiro many positions
which, on another occasion, it would b<
IS ' roper to dispute, arid the whole tempei
n and tone ofthe despntches breathe sin ai.
-t, of iinmiiity and concession, and con vie
lien of error, and a suppliant entreaty o!
> ‘fy ol ' an, i notice, which no Amerionn
< itizen, who thinks and feels as 1 think
an American freeman should do, can re
gard ns tho appropriate language of his
government, pledged as it is “ to ask no
thing hut what is right, and to submit to
, nothing that is wrong."
I The portion of Air. Van Huron's work,
i ■ however, to v\ Inch i will more partieu
) ho ly allude, is a part of his letter of in
! stria (ion to Air. Alelmne. dated ’JIUh .In
Iy. He uses (Ids language;
, ‘ Ihe opporlunii i*s which yon have
. dern ed I rum u participation in our pub
lie councils, jis well as other sources of
t hdbrmatioii, will enable yon to speak
i '' ‘ , * l ‘'onlidcnce, (as far as you may deem i
it proper and useful so to do,) of the re- j
. speetiv e parts taken hy those to whom!
, the administration of tins government is
I n<> ' v committed, in relation to the course
1 heretolbru pursued upon the subject of
the colonial trade. Their views upon
that point have been submitted to (he
people of the United (States, and the
■ counsels by which your conduct is now
, directed are the result of the judgment
expressed hy the only earthly tribunal
to w hich the Into administration was a
meltable for its acts. It should be snlli
• icnl (lint liie claims set up by them, nnd
which caused the interruption of the
trade mi qne-tion. have been explicitly
abandoned by those who first asserted
them, and are not revived hy their suc
• cssors. Ii (beat Hritain deems It ad
verse to her interests to allow ns to par
ticipate in the trade with her colonies,
and finds nothing in the extension of it
t > others to induce her to apply the same
rule to as, she will, we hope, he sensible
oflhe propriety of placing her refusal on
those grounds. To set tip the acts <d
the late administration as the cause ol
forleiture of privileges w hich would o
therwiso he extended to the people of
the United Slates, w ould, under existing
circumstances, he unjust in itself and
could not fail to excite their deepest sen
sibility. The tone of feeling which a
course so unwise and untenable is cal
culated to produce, would doubtless be
greatly aggravated by the consciousness
mat (jirent Hritain has. by Order in
I 'onncil, opened her colonial ports to
Russia and France, notwithstanding a
similar omission on their port to accept
the terms olfered hy the act of.lnly, IStio.
“You cannot press this view of the
subject too earnestly upon the considcra
lion ofthe Hritish Alinistry. It hits bear
mgs and relations that reach beyond the
immediate question under discussion.”
Now, when stripped of its verb!
age, nnd reduced to its plain import,
wind does thu ,Secretary of Stale here
press so rtirnestli/.t That Air. AU Uanc, the
Alinister, who has been a member of the
political party of which the then’ I’resi
• Icnt was the nominal head (and the Se
cretary of State a most conspicuous sup
; , r'M’smVM'. 1 : .WWi-V. i\i'f(.C' i ebicVtn.. 1 ,>) i
that the Alinister, who had been a mem- i
her of this Senate, and in that charactci
informed oflhe conflicting views ol’the ■
different political brunches or snbdivi
sions into which the great American
family had been arranged, should sloop
to avail himself of this personal intimacy
with oar family dissensions, to press cur
nesth/ upon a foreign government the!
misconduct of one purl ol this Inmily in
the relations of onr government with
that foreign power,mid the more amiable
and kind feelings of another division ol
it. Hut is /Awnll? No,sir; it is eiirnrslli/
/tressed that the ./Inirricim (Juvci niueiil —the
concent rated willol the whole American
family, the only legitimate source of nc
cess to foreigners, Hie only authorised
organ of communion with other nations
tluit this (iovrnmnd in the person ol
its “Into iidministi t.lioii, - ' should he bow -
ed down, in dishonor and in degradation,
at tho feet of Lord Aberdeen, the delega
ted, hut humble, personation oflhe Hi it
ish Alonarch. A cs, Sir, the unheard of..
unparalleled, and most rex oiling experi ]
meat was to he made, (other snppliea
lions having failed to remove the royal
sympathy,) how fin- sm unsparing con
demnation of ourselves would disarm n
Hritish throne of its haughty, supercilious
disdain of a just nnd an honest demand.
I sav, Sir, it was novel nnd unheard of: |
I repeat it. Let the past history of Ibis
, road Republic be minutely interrogn
i u d—ay, in the many political changes of
: its ngents, w hich, hy the terms of organs
I /.atom, it must witness ; let it he sought :
let the days of Adams, of Jefferson, ol
! .Madison, ,Monroe, ami the Inst Adams,
|he diligently inquired 01. Kir, no voice
’ responds%> countenance this degrading.
; (ids disgraceful operation, hy which the
i government is humbled into u penitential
; confession of its transgressions, to ap
pease a foreign king, or to moderate the
| wnilb. or conciliate the favor,ofa foreign
' power.
"Not only. Air. President, do the fair
nisi unadulterated pages of American
diplomacy refuse connlennnee to such
miserable self-abasement.: hat. Sir. the
i history ofall the eit ilized nations of the
■ earth, stamp upon it Ihe indelible charac
ter of a gratuitous prostitution, unaided
1 by precedent, unwarranted by tiny pur
. 1 nllel. Sir. it adds to the deep condemna
'l lion xvliirit belongs to t subject, Unit it
I i was ns useless,and unproductive ofgnin,
i iis it was disgraceful in itself. Can the
-1 imagination conceive bow benefit could
-1 possibly arise, or be supposed to ari-c,
•{(‘roman abject confession of ‘‘wrong,
' by repudiating the claims of the govern
■ | meat as “American pci tensions "cx-
I I p'iciliy abandoned by those who first :is
i i serted them,” “not revived by their sac
■ I ees.-ors.” \x ho are directed by counsels
;! that “are the result of the judgment < x
i ! pressed by the only earthly tribunal to
I which the lute , lihninisti'iilion xvas iniiciia-
B j ble for its acts!” What possible admit
- j Inge, I a.-k. could be anticipated by tin*
- position of a prostrate suppliant, who.
■ from the depths of degradation and
t- nbn-ement, should thus beseech afo cig'n
s diplomatist, that would not he accorded
e to a civil and highmimlcd application,
s bused upon the suggestion, ibid, hoxvcv
i- cr the American government was con
i vinccd of its claims to higher and other
i terms, it \xus yet xx filing, in a spirit ol
frankness, and in an anxious desire to
i ti-nyimdc old and agitated questions ol
i disagreement, to waive the further pros
t eenfion of those claims, ams thereby to
- evince the sincerity of its desire for an
• amicable adjustment? Hut, Kir. I come
- now to that consideration which stumps
> upon this subject its peculiar diameter,
which sets it oll'in colors ofa still darker
. shade, and which must leave ns to infer,
that no mere xvnnt ofinanly, stern repub
lican feeling of self-respect, not the unob
served prostration, or careless disregard
<>f national dignity and character, not
' alone n cold nnd callous insensibility to
those feelings of cherished pride, ofnice
nnd delicate honor which kindles into
active resistance at cx en the appearance
I °l rebuke; but that some more latent
| motive of proposed eff,c'. Inis eansod lids
deep-dyed stain upon the nation's histo
ry and its fame. Kir, as if it were not,
enough to bow down the knee, amt snp
'( plicate forgiveness, in terms of doleliil
regrets for wrongs, and anxious solici
tude to repair them, as if it were not
enough to open to a foreign power the
history of onr internal disputes and poli
tical divisions, mid to ask them to con
sider one parly here ns morekind in (heir
feelings, more reasonable in their de
mands, more eoneilinling in their lone,
nnd, therefore, more entitled to hope for
the liivornble notice of England. As if
the measure of onr degradation xvns not
to be accomplished by a gratuitous eon
cession ol acknowledged injustice ol "A- i
incrican pretensions'" • nbainloncd," the ’
Secretary has resorted in the absence of J
other provocations, la misstatements of j
fact,to create n condition oi'lhings for the t
purpose of giving eolorlo the fierceness i
and nneovert wrath which be aims at bis 1
political adversaries, ■
Sir, 1 say, and (lie diplomatic history t
ofthe nation xxill prove, that the state' ;
meat made in tliis particular charge ol (
the Secretary is lalse in fact,—yes. Sir. •
doubly false. What is it! "The claims i
set up by them, and which caused the 1
interne lion of the trade in question. .?
have been nplieilh/ iiluiniloned by those x
xvbo first asserted them'' Now, the first I;
branch ofthe position is utterly without Ii
foundation, xve all know. The last ml- n
ministration ei/tlicilli/ abainlimid no claims s
which it. set up, nor did tiny claims u
set up by it cniflx the interruption ol r
• lie trade. The last administration wtr I
xvilling to negotiate on the snbjeel el »
the trade, hut the Hritish (Jovern l
meat refused to meet their pr iposul, I
alllifiiigh made in tho most extended ;
and liberal feeling of compromise. Let |
the correspondence of onr Secretary ol I
Stale, ami the Message of the IVe-ideiil <
(irove tins. Hal unfounded ns is tlnd ■
brnneli of the assertion, how manifestly I
and obviously more so.—hoxv profonml- <
Iy destitute of even the shadow of cor- i
redness is flic other, which declares that i
the misscnlled “American pretensions" x
were,///-.'/ nsreyted by the last inlniinislra i
i lillft, nINiViV rtSjU’eV; U,e* HiWiXiiimiAsn<i- j
lion did but pursue the settled and fixed
purpose ofthendim'iiislnitioii t lint preee- x
deil it, nnd that these “(netensions” did |
even eonimenee then! Sir, nil ndminis- t
(rations had indulged these pretensions r
flic last administration. Ilie./io-tto assert i
(hem! Truly, this must have amused the s
intelligent diplomatist to whom the Mu- t
i vc.y was directed to make the eommnni- I
cation. i
No, I am wrong in this conjecture, for I
I believe, from my rea ling Air. Al'Mime’s ;
letters to liis Lordship, that the cxneri I
meat was not made upon his Ignorance <
of what every pagein the diplomacy of I
his own country xvonld have taught him. I
No, Sir, this notion of their being Jinda.?- i
arted hy the lute administration did not, i
I believe, find place in these letters— I
What “bearings and relations, (but reach <
beyond (be immediate question, were in x
ui'the viexv of the Secretary, it is not for i
nn’to divine. Ilespeaksin another part I
of these instructions of “ the improprie- •
I ty of tmlleringnny feelings that lint! their i
I,,Vigin in the past pretensions of tliis tio- t
veriniient. to have nn adverse inllnenee I
upon the present conduct of (<reat Hri
lniii ” Sir, Ido not mean to follow the i
Secretary in his dark nnd mysterious i
hmgnngo. The plain nnd innloubled im- I
port, of that which, imlorlnmilely for the i
nation’s eliurneler, can admit of hat one (
Lreading, is enough for me. No man, in i
my poor judgment, can ask ns to confide ■
to his cure the dignity of the nntion and (
its honor, xvho bus m rnyed one political i
division ol'onr people against (lie <«o I
verninent. Sir, xvlmt is to be the result ? i
I low mny (his very doctrine recoil on ■
iiiniself > In the same terms may a Hri
list, Secretary for Foreign Affairs now
say to him, “ 1 do not respect your opi
nions ns those of the American people :
Vour Fresidunt is about to xviluess the
I tern,illation of bis period of office; a
new election is to he made ; the people,
die proper Iribnind to pass upon Ids mea
sures, may not sustain him. 1 appeal
from your judgement, mid submit the
matter to theirs, and until their sentence
is recorded, I can only regard i/uur ad
• ministration iu yon Imx e regarded the late
administration." Yes, Sir, these nrelegil-
I imnte consequences of sueli doctrine,
involving a perfect and entire surrender
of nil considerations abroad, and nil
national pride nl home. To an indi
. vidnal xvbo' lias thus outraged the clmr
■ neter properly belonging to a great
I and high minded nntion of freemen.
. I wlio lias prostrated its dignity, mid
brought disgrace and dishonor upon its
diplomatic reputation, I never can ml
x ise the President to confide the prtser
- ration of its respect abroad: and this
• jiret assertion of a course pregnant xvilh
-1 every thing that threatens (lie pride, and
I dignity, nnd honor, of the American IJe
>; public, xvill, i trust, be marked by the
! most decisive reprobation of tin Ameri-j
' can Senate.
t I
.j H MAI AUKS OF AIR. UUAVTON.
I Air. Uj. avion, of Delaware,rose torc-
II ply to some remarks of Air. Smith. He
1 ] said he rose under a deep sense of the
i, responsibility xx Inch he owed to the Sen
- (ate and the"' country on this question,
- j He owed it to himself, to the people
r j whose representative he xvih, and to the
if body of which he xvas a member, to slate
o 1 (a-icily ihe'grnmids upon xx Inch lie should
if | render a xnte, withholding his advice to
VOiiITUB
- the President to ... .ketii * B p; ointment.
' .. * u ff'torn! Mr. (!, wiiii n>v friend
. Vom Maryland, (Mr. Chambers,) in
5 1 1,10 ' IC ' V which he has taken of the in
., sf ructions given by the late Secretary of
~ htute to our Minister at the Court of St
■ James. 1 consider the late negotiation
respecting’ the West Indin trade with
tlie English nation, ns most humiliatin'*-
to our national pride, that has occurred
in the annals of our diplomacy. The
Minister was sent with instructions to
lawn and beg us a boon, at the footstool
ol a foreign power, whntwe were enti
tled to ns a right, and to abandon and de
nounce, ns untenable “pretensions” w hat
had been always before insisted upon ns
ja matter of justice to our country. Uo
jwns positively directed to consider bi*
own (jovciniueut ns justly natailable lor
“ 100 long and too tenaciously resisting
tlie rights of Ureat-Britain,” and parti
cularly for omitting to accept the terms of
'iw 1 .)- m-t °l’ Parliament of July,
'?< "." 8 directed to speak with
roii/iilinrf “of the respective junta taken
by those to whom the administration of
this iiovernmenl is now cominiUcd.” to
luy before Europe the slate ol parties in
this country, and to degrade and disgrace
all the former administrations ol our
Ci .voruinent, during which this right
had been insisted.upon, hy entirely mid
unconditionally withdrawing all our
claims for justice on tjinl country. Mo
was told, in substance, to press upon
England the stale of our domestic and
parly differences at. home, and he was
admonished that this subject bad bear
ings and relations which reached 4 njond
the immediate question under discussion.
Sir, this Minister did as he was ordered
to do. He “ entreated,” and “ appealed,”
and •• begged,” and “prayed,” “ regret -
led.” and “solicited,” and “hoped to ho
excused,” and confused ire ‘had bven/n Ihr
irninp, instead of icpelliiig with dignity
the insolence and sarcasm of the British
Ministry, until the contemptible boon
was “ granted,” and the national cl.aruc
ler cll'cetiiully degraded. Let him take
I.U place in the Treasury for this; but lot
not him who gave these instrueti. ns,
succeed him at the Court of ,Sl James,
again to ‘beg,” and “solicit” and degrade
us in tlie eyes of Europe • 1 y or befnro
the world the state of our domestic dillier
cnces at home. I.et assay to the Bri
tish (Soverunient this tiny by our vote,
that wc never consented to the dis
grace which lias befallen us, and that wo
prefer to recall the Minister who hud dis
honored us, to all tlie pretended benefits
of this miserable negotiation. On this
ground alone 1 will this day condemn
this apoiiitmeiu, so far as my vote will
go to client, it; mill in so doing, us an A
mcriciiu Senator, I say to England that
wo will never consent to crouch for fa
vors; and to all of our Ministers, now
and Ibrevcr, that we will condemn every
uni tmii luiiiM'iiUni."
•Sir, the gentle.nun from Maryland,
who lin addressed ns, (Mr. Smith.) re
plied to similar objections mode hy his
colleague, that the President was alone
responsible for these instructions, and
nut the tSeeretary whose name was
signed lo them, f-hieli has been the pre
tence lor exonerating from all responsi
bility other persons eha ged with nial-i.d
ministration of the tiovermnent. Either
by preventing the disclosure here ot mi
peuel.nhle matter, or by presenting the
President us a shield to the party charg
ed with it. the responsibility ofeverj in
ferior i uhlic ag. n., is melted away t» no
thing. The gentleman, without defend
ing the Secretary or the Minister in this
negotiation about the West India trade,
(eels safe if lie can interpose the Presi
dent ns the parly chargeable with the
whole mailer, flat I will do the Presi
dent the justice to suy, that 1 cannot be
lieve that ho had rend these instructions
when they were given; and I hold the
Secretary answerable to his com.try for
every public act performed by hint while
he remained in ollice.
There is another topic, closely con
nected with the honor and interest of *
this nation, upon which the nominee be
fore as has been strongly charged, and
in relation to which I confess the wish
that an investigation, instituted before I
look my sent this session, had been pro
secuted to ils termination before Ibis
day. I refer to the causes which pro
duced the disruption of the late cabinet.
I \ iew that event ns highly disreputable
In our country; and I find that, accor
ding to the declarations of a gentleman
who formerly edited a paper in the (Stale
of New-York, advocating the President's
administration, Mr. Van Bnren privately
informed him “ that it (the dissolution ol
the lute cabinet) was caused more by the
conduct of the Vice-President and
Ingham, who desired the retirement of
Lien. Jackson from ollice at llie expira
tion of the first four years of Ids term
of service;” thus in effect charging a con
spiracy between these gentlemen to tra
duce the character of a chaste and virtu
ous woman, in order to produce the
destruction of the cabiucnl; and (sla
ting) that he, Mr. Van. Bureii had
thought it belter lo retire in lime, knowing
that if he Ini the lent/, “ the rent, iron hi follow. '
This information is, I believe, now ill
the hands ofa (Senator from .Mississippi
near me, (Mr. Poimw.x'. kh,) and il is said
that the author of it is present, in the city,
I ready to bear testimony to the truth ol it*
However this may be, I must be pennit
led to say, as one whose course hero ban
been plain—having hud nothing to do
. with either of the contending branches
. of the parly in power—that I consider*#
I ,-aeh a charge against the Vice President
I us unjust, and utterly without foundation,
-1 while 1 hold that the declaration contain
ing the charge contains also an uneqniv .
ocal admission us to the true agent, and \
the motive of that agent, in the trunsae
lion to which I have alluded. But, with*
■ out reference to this, and many other
‘ matters which might be fairly pressed
■ into this discussion ns reasons for lh<-
• vole which I am about to render, I cot.
. tent myself by re; ting that vole on Hie
ground of the instructions given by Mr.
• \an Buren to our lute Minister to Eng
s hind, and the consequent dishonor t
I. our diplomatic intercourse with that
j [country.