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AUGUSTA CHRONICLE. ft ics.-: counek or Jackson - & EjLi-is-streets. PI'BI.ISMED £T£IIV ■vVEDNRSnAY .no Saturday morxtby.n’o, A. H. PEAIOFAtTON. TERSSS; ■ SEMI-WEEKLY PAPER. FIVE noLl.Alls ®>'T mmum, payable in advance, or SIX DOLLARS at io *r■ lof ilte year. 1 WEEKLY PAPEH, THREE DOLLARS per Manum, payable in- advance, or FOUR DOLLARS at «.m* snd of ilieyear. 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OjE'iTKKtf (on hnsim»ss) ransl bo post paid, or they not betaken out ofthe oifice. Z Rlie LAWN OF THE UNITED STATES lire published in this paper. .Jr To Executors, Administrators, and Guardians. SALEH °f LAND or NEGROES, by Administrn tar-, .xecutors, or Guardians, are required, by law, to beheld m the first Tuesday in the month, between the Spur* ot e.n in the forenoon, and three in the a dor noon, at lire t ■ourt- rouse of tire county in which the prepeny is situate.—No ice of these sales must he gb.en in a public ga/eiK', SIXTY lays previous to the day of sale. A,Notice of the sale of personal property, man be given Alike manner, FORTY days previous to the day of sale. to the debtors and creditors of an estate, must he published fi»r FORTY days. ..Notice that application will be made to the Court oi Or inary lor leave m sell LAND or NEGROES, must published for FOUR MONTHS, PSSOPOSAIiS For Publishing the lAMOYWV a yauuvxu'a.l. DAILY, jiv a. ii. m:nTo:v. HWINO determined !o issue the A I-OUST A ( /hiHi/, Btinvaighonl tlic hnsincfS portion ofthej ■ year, at least, ami to commence t'ie daily ipu lie.atioa as early nun sufficient <1 .itin.i | tyol'new typo., anil oilier materials can lie I obtained, from the North wo bey leax'e, | I respectfully, to oiler the project to oor| I friends and the public generally, foi their | t patronage. The semi-wet Kly and eeh , : Iy publications will be coalinaed as nsa nl. and, sensible Hint I lie I hills/ paper, now in contemplation, will be supported prin eipnliy by the Alereaalilu portion of the community, we shall endeavor to render I - it valuable to that class cl’our citizens, I ; by calling into action every possible | j means ol’ Commercial intelligence : mid. with the aid ol’an able and iuU liigeni | assistant editor, well shilled in e nunc, r cinl aHairs, whom we design to engage, | and tiie exertion of the almost possible f energy and industry, the latest mid iu si important commercial and other news, will always bo presented, end tae ■ same time the interest- of our Agricultu ral, Political, Literary. ami general rea ders, most ol’ whom are also interested, mure or less, in the commercial intelli genoo of the day. will he duly attended to. And tin' numerous late improve ments in (ho mail arrangements ot this city—giving ii- a daili) muil bom every quarter. Mid. West, North, and South, by the Charleston, New-Orleans, Nort.i eru. and S tvannah stages, present pecu liar lueililios lor a daily paper, and means of remim ing it qpiitinnally valuable and interesting. 'J'he patrons ol this paper may rest assured that it shall not lu* ex celled by any other similar publication. , determined as we are, to spare no means of effecting licit end and sensible, that, in ijiis community, ns iu every other, a liberal «.V iulellig ait pub ie uillevei keep pace, in its patronage, with any useful and valuable euterpri/.a that may be pre sented to it We will leave it to a ma jo rity of the subscribers to this publication, to determine xx hether it shall he publish ed Daily throughout /tic tit Tl.\ rtOfi!i \liS im:1; annum, or JJaihf during IIM husiiass ninth.?, and semi-weekti/ liming thgp-emainder if'tin y ar, at Mltvli 1 DOM liSIIS run annum’. render this paper as valuable as,possible, each .so. will present all the material commereiai and other nexys, from Nexv-York Hostoa, Pnilad.dphia. Untimorc, Washing! m, Alobile, Nexv- Orlcans. and every oilier quarter ol the Union, received by the daily papers ol the preceding ox < nog. And. ns '.ho pa per will he published regularly by tun rise,every morning, subscribers will get the news so much earlier than by the fo reign daily papers they receive from the l*ost otliee. when it opens thereafter, on [! the same nioraiags. IN offwiiug this project to the patronage its tiro public, wo lr.,g leave to lie understood | as appealing solely to their interest, as the I only solid and proper basis of such an under j raking. Our own interest prompts us to the en- F jferpiizc, from a beiiet that it may he [ roibabtes [ ?o ourselves, as tvoilas useful to the public; so., Unless it be uselV, and therefore profitable, to the public, it ought not to he, and wo are sensi ble cannot and will not he, profitable to us; and wo therefore desire no one to patroni/.o it, but an expectation of “value received for i tjiojr money, or to coulhaio their subscriptions I tlioreafter, should they bo disappointed iu tbtu Ii expectation. Tito correct principle ol ah l, usi- L ness t ausaotiins (and this is, of course, as much ft abu-mes- transaction as my other) and t!io only ■ :HfS on winch they can ho s iiiny, honestly, pro- I ii«jJd. ■ or permanently maintained, is mutual 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 t |9 licit whether they like or dislike us person I ft, iliey’ will patronize the paper, if we make i lO*li if intorest to do so, and that tho more in | dp.si ii-ly and ceiseveringly wo labor for them 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 flew to llicpi.mlvcs, an nothing moro than just to us. And, while no editor has tlic iig?it to enquire of a subscriber the cause o! a withdrawal of his subscription,to com plain o! him tor it, would be to attach to others,the hl.une, which, in nine cases out often, is duo on i *) R> ourselves. It a man does not consider it his interest to continue his subscription longer, rij• i 1 r ’ t Wtieliier right or wrong in his o,,inion, ho is just (J ns tree to do so, as to withdraw Ins patronage Horn any More—and to enquire of him the cause, \ Is impertinent, while to blame him for it, is arro- gant and unjust. The patronage of a paper . should always ho given, or withdrawn, from a aensj ol tins value of tile paper to the public, or r to ones-self, without any reference whatever to the editor personally, whom one may like or dis like, without liking or disliking iiis paper—and - therefore an editor should never consider lire ( withdrawal ol subscription, as ,a personal matter, ie the least, or leel the less respect or regard for 1 the individual who withdraws it. Its only effect * should ho to prompt him to an examination of his conduct, and the correction of any errors lie may discover, and to stimulate him to > greater exertions—determined, at least, neither , to deserve censure, or loss of patronage, so far as * Ills honest efforts can avail to prevent it. As to the withdrawal of patronage lor a difference o | political or religions opinion, that is a tiling 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 jects, tlic same expression of opinion which would induce one man townlubaw, would in duce another or more to subscribe—at least, so wo have found it. Commercial patronage, however, has little or nothing to do with personal controversy or con flict of opinion; but is founded.principally, on in dustry, energy, honesty’, and perseve.' aicc, in the quick publication of all important fuels, and able and intelligent eninmcnls upon them, cal culated to develops their tine natuic and conse quences. Ami, commercial men, undivided and by party, will,as all others ought to do, always oaicfully examine both sides of every question, looking more to tlic intrinsic value ol 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 litical opinions, uninfluenced by any man or any 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 j not he unaware, th i no pa; cr can honestly a gvco with diem allogelhei, am 1 that while iliei 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 concerns tho commercial community. Tims lay 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.