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T ms is MX KL;>KS'l'l)A l <i>* * U, Slit,
'i ni- is my eldest Daughter, .-fir.
Her rrioihtr’s only tra ;
Yen praise her face —Oh! fc'ir, she is
As good s siic is fair ! .
*{y .1 a:a is clever too,
Accomplishments I’ve taught her !
I'll introduce y.n to her, Sir,
—Tiiis is my eldest Daughter.
Fvo sought the aid of ornament,
lioj" welling her curls,
I’ve tried her beauty unadorned,
Simplicity and pearls
I’ve set her cif, to get her off,
’ Till fallen off i’vo thought her.
Yet I’ve softly breathed to all the beax —
••This is my eldest Daughter.”
I’ve tried all styles of hair dressing,
Madonnas, friezes, crops ;
Her waist I’ve laced,iter bach I.vc braced
Till circulation stops!
I’ve up tided her until 1 have
Into a Venus wrought her,
I’i:t puffing her has no effect!
—-This is my eldest Daughter.
Her gowns are ala Aekcrmnnn,
Her corsets ala Bell ;
Yet when the season ends, each beau
Still leaves I isT. T. L.
I jmtronils earii dejune,
Kach pr.Hy on the water.
Yet still she hangs upon my arm !
'This ismy eldest daughter.
She did refuse a Gentleman—
—l own it was absurd—
She thought she ought to answer “No !”
I-Ie tool; her at her word !
•But she’d say -‘ Yes,” if any one
That’s eligible sought her;
She rca ly is a charming girl,
’•Though she’s my eldest Daughter.
From the Cu.d:et.
Onheakixg of the fall of ,
YV v its i tv.
Awake tiic mournful lyre,
For Poland’s fate lament !
While o’er the globe the tidings dire
Of her defeat is sent.
3,ct those high feelings tiso
Which first our patriots knew,
When Brittain durMto tyrannize
And povv’r uncheck’d pursue.
Shall Poland never more
ller birthright freedom gain,
But still her fields be drench’d with gore
ller choicest champions slain .’
While knowledge spreads around,
And Freedom’s friends increase,
Shall slaves of tyrants base abound,
And discord never cease 1
No! let ambition meet
The meed of bloodstained crimes, ;
And warning leave in her deleat,
To profit future times.
Your day-star Ims not set,
Brave Poland, why despair!
Some Washington or Tell may yet
Plant Freedom’s banner there.
But e’en though vanquished, thou
Hast prov’d thy courage high,
And Fame that honour shall bestow
Which tyrants now deny.
While freemen’s prayers for thee.
Throughout the world ascend,
With hopes that soon tiny tyranny
Its domination end.
And haughty despots find.
Thought)’ mighty their career,
They cannot bow the lofty mind,
Where freedoms rays appear.
Though liberty overpower'd
Awhile inactive lie.
fshe l’hatnix-like' shall he restored,
Her spirit cannot die.
And Poland yet, though she endure
For years a galling chain,
That lndepeudor.ee may secure
Mu long pursued in tain. Harold.
35.NUVY BE DDF AND PATH ON AG K.
The only patronage that cart develop . 1
the latent powers of art, and he worth
one farthing t<> it—to artists is another,
thing—-must be found on knowledge.;
The best therefore fm arts is, to inform!
the public mind, awaken public feeling, j
make men sensible ot what is great, in
art, and of the nrcatnessof art itself; and i
then public judgment shall nourish ant!
excite genius, and direct patronage ; for;
patrons of art are not necessarily judges;
of art, they purchase a picture or a sta- j
tuo as they buy a watch or a buhl e thi
ne t and the preference is dependant on
the opinion of others. Hence it was
that art rose and grew great in the free;
states of Greece, the free cities of Italy,
and the half free states of the Nether
lands. Art dependent on patronage is de
pendent on favor,mid fluctuates withthc
opinions of the patrons ; art rise!) is ,i
- on principles which are inimu
table —the one seeks lo have, the other
to merit; the one desires present profit,
the other permanent tame. 1 atronago
j s moie consequent on the temper and
the pliancy than on the genius ofthear
tist it confers favors, and the less merit
the greater favor ; it is ostentation in the
one7 and servility in the other, there is
no community of feclitgs. Genius
would rarely benefit by patronage, for ii
demands homage, if is borne up by self
respect, not lifted up by another. Who
patronized Wilkie in “ the minority of
gor.iuc,” when he ate bis hasty meal in
liie back Settlements of Slaughter’s Cof
fee house! Who “fostered the ft cble
ness” of Martin ?—two of the most ori
giual men of tiic age. In what patron’s
lip was Cliantrey nursed and dry-nur-ed.
is it not notorious that these and others,
Turner, Stance Id, Alttlready, fought
their way single-handed and self-depen
dant into fame nml reputation? l'atrori
r.-ju of art ! Why not patronize po. try ?
]i has, indeed, been the fashion more
than once, and what w-m the result ? A
Stmkspeatoor a Milton? JYo ; Ht plica
Hack and 'ft-#. Wasiy. And who were
t! Vi Vd; Queen Ann and H.nmt'i
idjre : they were patronized them, and
not vvt-. But was not Hums patronized ? Ay j
tr ily ; but it was .Nature made him a poet ;
Patronage made him an exciseman.
Westminster Renew.'
T W E-VU Y-SK U O N DC OK GHES S.
Fifts r Nil a ION.
debate! \ i ilk i:na”riT
OX.Me. F.iX m AA’-Y’o Mt MIX.I i\)X.
SKETCH OF MR. FMiT Y I ii’hi SI'KKCII
On the nomination of Mr. Van Huron.
[Mr. b’oßsvxii makes no apeiogy for the
rotigii sketch lie presents of the remarks!
made by him in the Secret Sessions of the !
Senate, ou’tbc nomination of Mr. Yurt Bu- !
r :i. The speeches against a nomination I
having been, for Use first time in the history j
of this Govciun ui thrown upon the people,;
it is due to tile person as.-tiled, ’ that whilst j
was suggested on tlie other si e should l> !
known. Air. Fo; ; th is u 11 avr: rc tint, in j
executing his par! of lids duty, lie has don*
justice neither to flic subject nor to himself.]
I regret, Mr. Preside it, that the .Senator
from .V- is■i.usippi, [ r. Poindexter. J has been
so long absent from his seat, not only because
he has been suffering pain, but because had
iie been here, lie could have oscaju and the com
mission of iiutneroits errors into which he
has lies'll led. The friends of Mr. '• rm Bu- •
reri have not obstructed inquiry into his eon- j
duct; (hey have chalking and investigation,
offi red it iu every and any form consistent;
with the obliga' ons of the Senate to its own 1
character. The Senator front Maine, [Mr.
Holmes,] shrunk trom Ins own resolution. It j
was laid aside by the votes of tliesr. opposed,!
contrary to the votes and wishes of (lie friends
of those friendly to the nomination. Tout
Senator was distinctly invited by one of the
.Senatorsof Now-YorL, [Mr. Marry.] to spe
cify any act dishonorable to the character of
Mr. Van Huron, and a pledge given that, the j
inquiry into it should ho made in the amplest ;
manner by a Committee having all the povv- j
ms necessary to the establishment of truth, i
The Senator trom Maine was distinctly told
by the Senator from South Carolina, [Mr. j
liaync,] on what terms he could command j
his vote. lie was told to cover the ground i
indicated, by proof, and lie would join in the j
condemnation of the choice of the President. ;
The Senator from Maine deliberated on this ,
offer,an Rafter deliberation,abandon; and his r< s- 1
olution, leaving all to grdpe their way to a
conclusion, as accident or prejudice might i
direct them. A promise was made, that he J
should have a Committee if he would ven
ture upon it, an.l the offer was deliberately
and most unequivocally declined. Yet, after
all this, at this eleventh hour, the Senator
from Mississippi says, if the friends of Mr.;
Van Buren will solicit a Committee, lie will i
give us what he has collected, while confined !
to his sick.ehombcr, and on which his own
opinion is formed, and if the Committee is
not raised, he will, with this matter in his
pocket, vote against the nomination, in order j
to preserve the morality of the nation endan-!
gered by the bestowal of anew office on a I
gamhli ng jml i tie ian.
As the friend, personal and political, of j
Mr. 'S an Buren, I reject the liberral offer of
the Senator, in defiance of his threatened j
negative upon the nomination. Let him unite !
with those who, like him, are so anxious to j
preserve the morality ol the country by re-'
jectinga man whose most odious crime is his |
rising popularity and transcendent ability.— ;
Friends of Mr. Van Buren will not degrade!
him by askings Committee, to free him from
the suspicious eng n i: red i.i the Senator’s j
mind, in his search after correct information, j
from sources within his roach. Ills, churac-!
ter wants no such justification. Does the i
gentleman wish to justify his vote? Let him j
propose a Committee ; he shall have our con-!
curreuce. Does he desire to convince the;
Senate? Let him produce the private j
sourc • Information which, 1 venture to say,
like the only one he speaks of openly, is!
worthless in tbo eve of any man who is not;
so embittered by prejudice that lie can not
see truth. This letter, by a former partizan,
a paltry editor of a paltry newspaper, and toj
prove, what ? that Mr. Van Buren said that;
the late Cabinet was dissolved by the con
spiracy of the Vice President, to drive Maj.!
Eaton from the Cabinet, and that he witlidr. w
to escape the consequences of the dissolu
tion. Sir, Mr. Van Buren holds no such con
versations with persons who were once his
partisans, ami now his enemies.
But supposing ko had declared, or does en
tertain, the opinion imputed to him. Is if a
crime which-disqualifics him for a high office,
that he believes the charge made and sought
to be established by the late Secretary of
War? If such be the Ficnator’s opinion,
can lie tell us how far the exclusion extends!;
The Senator's but. r story is contradicted by
his previously expressed opinion. What,
Sir, the most artful mm in the world, proclaim
to a paltry Editor that he acted m the man
ner indie i?e<!, lo esc rye the storm consequent
on the dissolution iff the Cabinet ! If it had
b tii true —if such had he. n his motive, he
would have sought to conceal it from himself.
No degree of confidential intimacy could
have tempted an artful intriguer to such dis
closure. The story if true, proves a man,
whose cxtraoidiuary prudence, ttriih r all cir-j
curnstances, through a long life in the stormy ;
politics of a vexed and turbulent State, Ink
gained him the confidence of his friends,i
and called down upon him the charge of con*
stimulate artifice from his cneuii s, to he aj
silly- driveller, —simpl. ton, opening his bud
get of petty motives to one whose trade was,:
to thrive by making him*: if important by
confidential and oracular disclosures in hi#!
unknown journal.
Mr. Van Huron stands in a strange condi
tion before tis , from the beginning of this
Administr‘lion, before he cant': to the post
assigned to him, until the present hour, he is
; held accountable by a certain description of
political :i:c;i in this country for all the evil
that Iris been done and all the good that lias
j boe’ii omitted.
Now, Sir, —if lie is accountable for every
thing, if iiia hand is to lie traced every where,
j let him have credit for the good that has, and
! the evil that has ict, been don- . Bal.uic
! the aooouut of iW admitted jjood and evil
imputed, and the result will fill the hearts of 1
his enemies with the bitterest disappoint-j
moot. But, sir, this is not the justice intend-;
ed for him. He is responsible for all that is
onipiainvd of. Let us see the Senator from j
Mississippi (Mr. l’pmd. ..Jer’u) catalogue.—
There were no Cabinet Councils—Did the
country sutler from this failure to follow the
(sample cif late administrations, from this;
adherence to the example of General Wash-:
inifton. But there was one Cabinet Council
cull cl lo set on a Lady’s r pu'ation. Indued! j
ad this Mr. Van Buren is also answerable
for; ami is it true, Sir,that the honorable mem-j
burs of the late (-ahinet, who remained so :
tranquilly at tiieir post enjoying all their;
( mohnnents--and honors with becoming grati
fication, stiff’, red th rmselvcs to ho deprived !
of their accustomed rights of a seat am! j
voice at the Council Board of deliberations on
great matters of vital interest to the public,!
and yet obeyed the heck and call of Mr.
Fun Buren, to set upon a Lady’s reputation ! i
Of what stuff'were they math’, that th- v did .
ot distinctly ascertain if this restriction ot
claimed right, and this insulting caii upon J
th in to step out of their appropriate spheres,!
was the work of Air. Van Buren or the act
of the President. If the first, why did they
not demand his dismission, and, if refused,
indignantly throw their commissions in the
teeth of tlie Chief Magistrate. The omitted (
Cabinet Councils,and the single call, wert
no such dreadful offences until obliged to l’oh
low' Mr. Van Buren’s example and r®
sign The history of the last year establish
es the wisdom of the President in culling no
Cabinet Council to deliberate, as there Could
lave been no harmony in their consultation#, j
and on the single question said to have been
submitted the Ex-Cabinet have shown them
selves incompetent to decide. He is not
competent to decide on a Lady’s reputation,
who throws out of view, on the question of
how she should be treated, her guilt or inno
cence. I will not condescend further to ref. r
lo the trash with which the public press has
been loaded and polluted for months, and un
loss the Senator from Mississippi has better
evidence than the public has yet seen, the
hope of implicating Mr. Van Baton in the
disturbances that preceded the dissolution of
the Cabinet, is forlorn. Let us see the vex!
crime in the catalogue of the Senator from'
Mississippi (Mr. Poindexter,) Mr. Van Bur; A
intrigued the dissolution of tho iate Cabinet,
taking care previously to secure a suo- am?:
prominent rotr ut in the Mission to England. |
It is known to every well informed man in.
this District that Mr. Van Buren, by iris ad-J
mirable temper, his conciliating manners and ;
unwearied exertions, kept the Cabinet, to
gether long after its discordant materials uxre‘
so well ascertained that its dissolution soon-i
er or later was a matter of common specula-!
tiom Sir, nobody doubted that the parties!
could not get on together, and the only sur-j
prize was, that the President did not proceed j
to restore harmony by ;he removal of those
whose disagreements produced the discord.;
But Mr. Van Buren had the unpaialieled
effrontery to resign on motives of delicacy
nml disinterestedness, and as tins mode of
conduct was so unusual, it hag excited a vast i
deal of surmise and wonder. The Senator
from Mississippi (Mr. P.) li3 however satis
factorily to himself solved the mystery. Mr.
Van Buren a ranged himself into a prominent
place before he resigned, and anew Cabinet
to suit his ambitions views. Now, Sir, as to
the proof of this pre-concerted arrangement
for his accairimodation and elevation. The
Pro: id- nt told somebody who was a late Sec
retary, that Mr. Van Buren was to go to
England, and named to him the Secretaries,
who were to come in ; hut this w;i3 after
Mr. Van Buren had resigned. In the inter
view, it is acknowledged that Mr. Van Bu
reu’s letter of resignation was handed to this
volunteer repeater of confidential conversa
tion with the Chief Magistrate. But the
Senator says it was before the letfeT was pub
lished—thence he concludes Mr. V. B. had
made a cat’s paw of the President, for the
promotion of his own views: a most logical
inference, truly. And this new Cabinet ar
ranged to further Mr. V. B’s unholy ambi
tion. Is there man, woman, or child in tin
country, who does not know and feel that the
| change h is been beneficial to the public, that
! there is now more strength,more virtue, and
more harmony than there was before ? 1#
there any man will hazard his reputation, .by
asserting that the present Secretaries are ca
pable of being made the instruments, of any
mans ambition, or so subject to the undue
; bias of individual influence, as the late?—
Partizans are not substituted for pure, disin
terested patriots; and lit ino say, Fir, that
more partizans have gone out than have come
in. But this mission to England was not
| sought by Mr. Van Buren : his friends know
that if was pressed on him by the President,
j and that it was reluctantly accepted at the
[ earnest solicitations of friends who were sat
| isfied it would promote his own reputation,
1 and redound to the honor and welfare of tin
I nation. 1 will not follow, further, the Sena
: tor’s lead. Long known to me as a politician
| and as a man, acting together in the hour ol
; pulitical adversity, when we had lost all but
| our nonor—a witness of bis movements when
elevated to power, and in the possession of
I the confidence of the Chief Magistrate, and
lof the great majority of the people, I have
[ never witnessed aught in Mr. Van Buren
| which requires Concealment, palliation or
coloring—m.v< rimy thing to lessen his char
j acter t:s a put riot and as a man-*-nolhing
which he might not desire to sec exposed to
j the scrutiny of every member of this body,
with the calm confidence of unsullied integ
rity. lie is called an artful man—a giant of
artifice-—a wily magician. From whom does
he rtevive these opprobrious names? From
open enemies ami pretended friends. In tin
midst of all the charges that have been
brought against him, in shapes mote varying
than those of Proteons, and thick as the au
tumnal leaves that stew the vale of Val iin
bross, wlter, is the false friend or malignant
ha fixed upon him one dishonor- \
able or degrading net? If innocent of nrti-j
bee, if governed by a high sense of honor, I
•I'M ’-'a' img conduct by < kvnKd prim [
ciph t flitscpl wonderful j but, if tjjo re-'
| suit of skill, of the are ctlarc artem, he must I
j’ be more cunning than the Devil liiinselt, tot
! have thus avoided the snares of enemies and ;
' the treachery of pretended fi o-r.ds.
It is not po--ibie, sir, that he should have j
escaped, had lie been otherwise than pure. — ;
I'hose, ignorant of iris unrivalled knowledge j
of human character, his power of penetrating ,
into the designs, and defeating the purposes
of his adversaries, seeing iris rapid advance
to public honors, and popular confidence, im-!
pute to art what is a natural result of those i
simple causes. Extraordinary talent, untir- j
tug industry, incessant-vigilance, the happi
est temper which success cannot corrupt nor
disappointment sour; these are the sources
of ins unexampled succes, —the magic arts —
the artifices of intrigue, to which only lie lies;
resorted in his eventful life. Those who envy
| his success,may learn wisdom by his example.
Having disposed of the catalogue of the
Senator from Mississippi, let me advert to the
i grounds occupied by a little army of objec
tions on the other side of this Chamber: —
I How many sacrifices of feeling to duty, are
!we not about to witness it all; the honorable
' Senators, of Maryland, Connecticut, l)ila
j ware, Massachusetts, Ohio, and Kentucky,
j are constrained by duly to vote against Ins
| nomination—and all, on public grounds—no
private feelings; Oil no! nothing like it:
! piililic. duty against private feeling, is the
| order of the day. And what is the dreadful
j public crime he, Mr. Van Buren, has com-
I milted ? Hear —Sir, hear. He has degraded
t Use country by giving instructions to the late
1 Minister to Great Britain, Mr. Me Lane, about
! the West India trade. What instructions ?
! Can it be those or. which the act of 1830
passed—those which Jiavc been among our
printed documents for these twelve months,
forming part of the the Presdcfit’s -comtnuni
cation to Congress of January 1831 ? Have
those honorable gentlemen who arc now so
shocked at the public degradation, so eager
to punish the author of this national disgrace
been Sleeping at their posts —no orte to cry
to ring the alarm at the dangers to which the
public honor was exposed—no one to inter
j fere to prevent the United States'from being
! placed at the foot-stool ot' the British throne ?
. Quietly witnessing the consummation of the
crime, passing an act with the knowledge of
1 these instructions, to secure the boon, whicii
: they note see was begge I in the name of party
| from thr British crown ; we are now ciectri
j fieri by bursts of indignation at this first act
| ot degradation in the history of American Di
plomacy. M iiat a spectacle is here.—llow
long is it since he who was the instrument to
bow us down before Great Britain, was unan
imously confirmed fo a post of honorable im
portant trust ! But the instrument by whom
lie was ordered to act, is to bear the punish
ment. The author of the instructions, ho by
vi hour they were given, is too high to he reach
ed at present : the author of the crime, he
who ordered it, escapes—he who commits it,
by order, goes free ; he who conveys the or
;!( r answers for both, and upon his head falls
! all the indignation of these incensed Senators,
; acting upon public grounds, and reluctant
; ly performing a Painful— -Painful duty ! ! !
1 Well, sir, to this degradation. It. is found
I in the instructions of Mr. McLane; and to
1 u'.fißii out their ease, the Honorable Senators
limit Mnssacnusctts ami iveiituuki liavomvcii
|us a .sketch of the history of the West
i India negotiation. Both brough; dawn
j their narratives to the taunting reply of
! Mr. Canning to Mr. Gallatin, given du
| ring the late administration. From this
! point, both these honorable Senators found it
j convenient to slide—no, sir, to leap, over all
| intervening events to the instructions to Mr.
Me Lane. With permission, 1 wiilfiil up this
* 'ittle unimportant chasm. The terms of the
British act of Parliament not having been ac
cepted by the United States, American ves
sels were excluded, by an. order of council,
| from the British West India ports. Why this
j important interest was neglected, we have
| been just told bv the Senator from Kentucky,
| “ the late administration wore ignorant of the
! act of Parliament until it was casually seen
jby them.” “It was not officially commimica
! tod by the English Government to our Gov
: eminent.” “ Even when wo were colonies,
i we were not bound by British acts of Parlia
| merit, unless specially named in them.” In
; dec : is it possible that the late admuiistra
| bon did not know an act of Parliament affect
ing important interests. Where were all our
accordited Ministers and commercial agents
in (treat Britain, that this government was
not informed of this measure, known to all
Europe, and taken advantage of by most of
the powers interested in it. But it was not
officially communicated to us. Well, Sir,
was it officially communicated to any other
Government, interested in its contents as we
! were.
i The British Government, I apprehend,
I would have considered such a communication
J a gross reflection upon our accredited agents.
; it. would have compelled them to say, in eff
j feet, we communicate to you an act, suppos
j ing vour agents are too negligent of their du
jty to send it to you. What were our Minis
j tors and agents about; how were they cm
! ployed, that the y did not send to their Govern
j merit this important information ?
But the last excuse is worse than nil; even
I when Colonies, we were trot bound by actsj
j of Parliament in which wc were not named ;
(specially.—What a discovery ; and it is con-!
eluded from this wise r<collection, than we'
j are not new bound to take notice of acts of!
Parliament not specially and officially com- j
[ muni ceded to us. I imagine we are not hound
j by them, communicated to us or not, hut we
I are hound to know all those touching our in
terests, and any administration is severely
reprehensible for ignorance of them, and for
failing to attend to those that bear injurious
ly upon the interests of the people. The act
was, however, at last known, and when Mr.
Gallatin presenter! himself to negotiate, with
i instructions to waive ail claims that were for
! nierlv ptesented, and had prevented an ar- i
ringement, lie was tnuntintriy told, you have- j
| ost your day in court—tiro privilege, the boon, j
J offered, had not 1.-ceti secured by accepting:
| the renditions; wo have taken our course,!
negotiation is not our plan. Well, Sir, what:
! said the administration, of which the hcmorq-l
hie Senator, from’Kentucky, formed a part.]
There was an .’•••t of Congress, requiring, on j
theshuttingof the.of tire British West India i
ports against us, an interdict by Prochima-'
tier:. Smarting under this taunting refusal j
to negotiate, what was done ? the execution ol j
an act ot" Congress positively directing the ;
proclamation, was suspended by Executive ;
authority for two mouths before the meeting
ot'Congress and during tire whole succeeding
session, to see if Congress, who had bepn
prevented tire preceding session from legisla
ting—the administration prefering the eclat
of a negotiation—could not legislate the Exe
cutive out of tiro difficulty into which he had
t placed the country by negligence, or, if the
Senator from Kentucky pleases, ignorance of
■ the act of Parliament. We all know how
that effort terminated. The two Houses dis
j agreed about ihe mode of effecting the pur
pose ; both, however, willing to take the
privilege on the conditions proposed by Great
| Britain. The Senate passed a bill—the House,
under the influence of the Senator from Mas*
! saeiiusetts, amended it, and question was,
i whether one or the other oblique path should
jle trodden. The session terminated without
! legislative enactment, and then, and not till
then,the proclamation of interdiction was issu
ed. Tnus, -Sir, smarting under the taunt of
the British Minister, our administration left
the whole trade in the hands of Great Britain
) for six or eight months—sought to cover itself
from censure by invoking legislative inter
position, and then, was compelled to act on
tire suspended statute. The interdict being
; proclaimed, the trade stood upon the very ad
j vantageous footing, according to the Senators
i judgment, winch we have lost by the negotia
j tion. Notwithstanding we were enjoying
' swell eminent advantages, the late administra
j tion. in spite of the taunt, directed Mr. Galla
! tin to fry again lo procure what is now dispar
-1 aged, by opening the door of negotiation after
; it had been shut in Iris face.. He was again
! repulsed. But this humiliation was not enough;
! Mr. Barbour was sent (qLoudon, and lie too
I had his instructions, and went, cap in hand,
1 knocking at the closed door for negotiation,
j Sir, he knocked at the door of the British Min
j istrv, under circumstances humiliating in the
j extreme. If a genriernan should go a second
j time to a house, the proprioh rof which, speak
ing Irorn Iris window, had directed his porter
to deny him to the v isiter, Iris visit would
have been somewhat like Mr. Barbour’s'se
cond call. Yes, Sir; yet the humiliation was
; vain —the second as fruitless as the first.
) Fucli was the condition of this question
j when Gen. Jackson was placed at the head of
j ihe country. One of the first objects of Iris
‘ administration was the recovery of the British
j West India T 'rade, an arrangement of it upon I
j terms of just reciprocity, satisfactory to both
(parties, and, therefore, promising to be per
manent. Air. McLane was selected to go to
j England, and these much abused instructions
: prepared by the late Secretary of State. Let
! it ho remembered, Sir, these arc instructions
I from the President of the United States, to
Die American Minister, never intended for
| the eye of the British Government, and which
! in no other country butours, would ever have
| seen the light.
Thi opening of this negotiation was the
! chiet difficulty. To remove it, two grounds
; are taken. !t v.i!! he remembered that our
refill to accede to the terms of the act of
r.irhument, was made the ground of refusing
ito treat with Mr. Gallatin and i\sr. Barbour,
[both of whom went prepared to offer an ar
' range merit bv reciprocal legislation; taking
\ the act of parliament as the British Legisla*
; tion. To obviate the difficulty, after a fair
and full history of the transaction, these sng
gestions ara presented to Mr. Me Lane to be
pressed solar as he might deem it useful find
: proper so to ilo. If the British persist in re
| fusing to hear you, on this subject, remind
' them of the circumstances that have occnr
red; o< the difference of opinion among ouf
j st Ives on it; of the abandonment by tho ad.
i ministration of those pretences that had pre
j vented an adjustment of it; that they are not
j to be again brought forward; that the past ad-
I ministration was not amenable to the British
| Government, nor to any other ; that the pro-.
' pie ot the 1 luted States, who had passed up.
jon all their acts. Say to the British, if it
; makes pretensions formerly advanced the
j pretext tor still declining to negotiate, the
sensibility of the American people will bo
deeply awakened.—M hat the lone of public
feeling, by a course so unwise and untenable,
| will be aggravated by the known-fact (bat
) Great Britain had opened her colonial ports
to Russia and France, notwithstanding a sim
ilar omission their parts to accede in time, to
the terms offered by the act of Parliament.
And thus, .Sir, us represented as the language
of entreaty, as the begging of a boon. This
menace of the public indignation; this decla
ration that the late administration was nei
ther to he "ensured or praised by foreign na
tions; was amenable for their conduct to no
earthly tribunal but the people of the United
States, is tortured into a claim of privileges,
on party grounds for party purposes, and as a'
disgraceful attempt to throw upon a previous
administration unmerited disgrace, for the
sake of currying favor with a foreign power,
ami that power of all others, (.'rout Britain.’ l
Great Britain could not resist this frank ami
open and manly nppr al. Committed bv their 1
concession in favor of France and Russia, and ■
the Ministry distinctly told Mr. McLain', 1
that he would not remain if they declined nc-i
gotiulio", or placed their refusal upon any o-!
ther ground than an open declaration, that I
their interests could riot permit them to enter!
into a reciprocal engagement with the United !
States, tne English Cabinet reluctantly yield
od; arid then came the most odious feature in
this transaction, that which has sharpened the
inn licet of the opposition, to d.'-cover dn
honor, in truth, and a want of dignity, in a
fi-ank exposition of facts, its crowning sue
-.w i .r. i cLanc and Mr. Van Btircn,
! H " ( ' r I!(l Jacksoj,, succeeded in tilled
mg an object of public solicitude, that Mr.
Adams and Mr. Clay and Mr. Gallatin and
could not obtain. The country
• a . humiliated by the precedingodminislru
|f.o without success; hence the charge a
tMiu.d Mr, Van Burcn; hence the overwhelm
anxiety to prove, that the success of the
into negotiation has f, ,-n
nuhation. Tim BritV o ' ’ '’*i bv a
lo k. .lie .mSiNhf"'' N
great local interests, </,..|
without a manifest and mriust ,nV Co 'J
< Prejudice, they
nutting the United States to ,V a ' f ' 1
granted to the other maritime . pr:v ' ; -;
" ilh * -SSiTI-
Buren s instructions, the Scnat. r r ' ‘ r '}
lucky attempts to show us hy rct - ro ® &
emi r letter of instructions, hew i"** 1
s.-ou.i. have been conducted consist^:' 8
in.- ideas of national honor and di rt,;, '■*!
letter from which he has read tori ’c 1
extracts, is, 1 think, signed If Cb'^ 5
the Senator tell us who i"s resnoniiiif 'r
if he is, then he exhibits lriinst- f ftf*
gular position of a man triun-,L hc ‘
ting the work of his own hand witl.'tKnf"
nval author The Senator know ft
were two other instructions, writtenft
self, of a subsequent date, one t 0 Mr r
; tin after Congress fa ed to lecrisU.
! trier to Governor Barbour
| is ~e^or^- , M-S mid therefore,’not nn
| tl ' <! Wl| ii Air. Varr Buren’s work r C0!ll!
j fcl,; iil,l<lc -‘ iiy the result of a '
| ...structions he has condemned, Sj
ire has quoted. Let us see ) lmv tj
man’# letter will stand the test o f P vi • gei ’
Air. Gallatin, ho wasltS
abandon a right; v.o were to beatlfi
more convenient season to resume Yt ’
(yuriatm was to give a strong proof o'™
sire to conciliate l>v a temporary r U
“''“i 1 ; 31 "; *“•
out the whole negotiation. \y as xr r
tin instructed to say to the British r ”
men. this is a temporary
Ni, he was autiior.zed to waive the ek
and iiiake .m arrangement on the B r ip sl|
si=. lut this into plain language, ami t
was if; strip it of its diplomatic drapm
verbiage, ami it is neither more nor W?,
un ajaii.ionmentof a pretension which
we had supported by argument, we w erp
solved not to enforce by powe r c
covering up of a plain truth is the ‘ C I
trick of diplomacy ;it deceives i !0 11
had Ajr. Gailation presented these concili
ry concessions, they must have been n
ed as a virtual and total abandonment of
pretensions. The honeyed words of 1
vvaived from a conciliatory spirit and.
the hope of corresponding fiicmllv L
tom, would have been received withaem
lurking in the official—artificial sm ile!
tnoioug.i-hred diplomatist The
pretension, ff u was a right, why wa ,
waived r surrendered? y or co „ ciiiat
sake. \\ hy, sir, we were the offended
—England had taunted us. England had
foseil once, twice, thrice to negotiate, and
to conciliate England, wc vrere vvaivin
well grounded right. For what purposett
we thus conciliating ? To place the ft
on its present footin<r, to the *jroat in*ur
the navigation and commerce of the Ini
States.—Such is the view now taken bvs
ral honorable Senators who have favored
with their opinion on tins subject. Thep
sent Administration waived no right orri
subject. The present Administration was
no right for conciliation sake; sacrificed
principle, it stood upon the truth, ami
truth only; and whatever may be the cust
of others, and the ordinary usuages of dj
macy, tlie Administration was right,
tions fold themselves in the robes of falseli
and swell and strut in vain—:o present
air of dignity and decorum. No natione
was just to its own character, or present!
dignity, that did not stand at all tunes bd
the world, in the sober and simple pari
■x r 3
truth. Sir, the character of our diplori
j has undergone a marked change; we sit
longer pretenders to skill and artifice; a|
w iles are tacts, and reasons all our artil
truth and justice. The Honorable Sen
tells us that this instruction is false, or<
it proves Mr. A . B. to have been crimia
ignorant ot what it was his duty to know.’
How does he make this appear? liealle
that Mr. \ . B. charged the late adminis
lion with being thej!r::f to advance the|
tension it subsequently abandoned—arid
he declares is untrue, the pretension was
up before t fie late administration came
power. Now, Kir, as l read this paragf
Mr. V. B. does not charge the late adm
(ration with being the first to advance
i pretension. The Senator will recollect!
is a letter to Mr. McLane, whose perse
knowledge is appealed to;, and 'whoroust*
understood the writer as alluding ioa
general notoriety, the words are “t hod
first advanced, &<•.” have subsequent
bnndoncd. Can any man mistake then#
ing—tho meaning perfectly in accord!
with the fact 1 The pretension was novae
i by the use of the famous elsewhere in out
of Congress. Ari act known to have h
penned by Mr. Adams, who hadpreviod
occupied the ground covered by it, in i ,is
structions to Mr. Hush. It was 3/r.Ada
who first advanced arid abandoned this grow
The credit ortho odium, which ever term
! longs in justice to (lie act, attaches to Mr.
f dams, and so Mr. McL. could only have 1
derstood it, and so must the Senator frooiK*
lucky, if lie examines with a desire to nut
stand it. in the spirit of the i,E
arc considerations connected with .Mr* ",
iff deemed it consistent with his honor, t
I could picsent to those that hear roc,*
would not fail to make a deep impression l
on their minds. But I ask no rerncrnhM
of /.is forbearance,no recollection o! lost*
nanhnity, i appeal to no one to
mildness and courtesy andhindness in “isj
pertinent here, nor to judge him , as he y
ed his rivals for fame and power. 1 dcj.
for him, nothing but justice—liarsi'.—
justice.
Fate of Newspapers. —Travelling <*' *
road from this ]i!acc to Fail River a 6
time since, wo engaged in convfrsa!K ,n *
a person whom we supposed, froitiuiC r
ft am he was accompanying, to be a ' u ’
ti ;:1 farmer. lie complained Lit:,-.. ''
being able to find out what was tiV ,; •-
the world, and on enquiry we £r.wJ •
’’g new snaper. o;*r c>-ptv'gin?