Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political — Alexandria [Va.], 1810-01-24 00:00:00, page 2

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_ MR- MADISQN -U'_ÞssiVElLE-D-- ctss,
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- Isr- ya-tm's' Wctks inform-neou
' seqmces—ss-kijmtifice-tim _;:'
'_ --W=E-eme ooIZtOftfisso'sis'sicoosidsrstion-Of
ss'si 'the most mentonssisiqssestionsiw hieh 4hc
United SntessihsssMbsec-eslled upon to
-- decide- since the declsmiouctsos 5!!!)me
* duce-; and it is sssooishiog trith what an
sppsreot spathysithissiquostionkis considered ss
lay—pen ofdl ranks, of ill grsdesos under-'
, - -ltlndin$-nd acquiusnents. ctThey seem to
.- - but it as isit bore some degree of resem
si si blent;: to the questions which have for seve
rsl years post sjitstotl ch public mind, and
. ls'if it tus certsin-shsnlike them, it would
end in noisy sad npid decistnation. it is,
howeyer, no less asi Question than that of :
ruinous "was. a" : disgracesul -pesce. Þ'I'he
,ition in which the late dismissul of Mr.
ﬂhson his pilced the United Stutes, is
one from which .they can never extticste
thetnselt'sies with honor; and they may es
* teem themselves the {nor-its of Heaven if
si they (sup! how it trithout serious calami
- ty. Our sate no longer depends on the
* wavering, nZ'ZY snd supering conneiis of
-' boisteous do so ties,-but upon the poiicy
' and prudence-o another nation, upon
-vhose good will we cousin longer cnlcuinto.
LI.-et us esplsin ourselves.
The right to dismiss n'i'm'eign 'mini'ster
for indecorotu. or oﬀrnsit'e conduct, (hem
vever'it may have been qttestionul. and in
deed denied, ss-we shall shew,hy M r. Ms
fidison's party) csn net-er lie-he dotmtvtl hy
lion manhoquainted with public-law, nor
Ni ] N contested by any person who is :
ct—live to-ti'te-trne interests and hondr of his
**country. 'llsi the oﬀence is palpahle and un
Þquestionsble, no nstinn which regards its
si 'chgpster. end which wishes to preserve
{see, will hesttste to reesl its minister who
t 'bssn guilty of such an oﬂ'snce. The
fat-mony of the two nations is not in such s
sicssesi in say degrse eﬀected.
But if the case be a questionnhle one,-and
siospscisiiy is the time, conduct and circum
- etanecs be such as to render it obvious that
irmsi'either intended as an nisi-one, or as an
axcuse for the rupture ot'negociation, it he
*>cnmesssitltpoosible for the injurcted nation to
zs'eesi its minister, to disgraes him in the
siweyes ofthsii work],- nnd to renew the inter
rutited intercourse.
s such : dismissal be, moreover, accom
psnicd with circumstances of it:-suit and asi
vation, "war may be expected to follow ;
and Mr. Giles, in this case, with a- spirit
-:mtysgplzctic, hu predictcd that such will
'prob ]) be the remit. 'W'hy that gentle.
-* man should have presumed it, is Mr. Jack
man his been rightsuily dismissed for his
mpersona] ntisconduct, we leave to the
_ blic to decide. Should, however, Great
gsiuiu not deem it for her interest, in this
="instance-, to declare war, let us consider
'fhae will be our own prrdicamcnt? 'W'e
pretend that we have sustained great and
unenmpled wrongs. Glfztl Britain will
-not sendus soother minister is, (as it will
upon!) liss. ]:cksou has been guilty of no
breach-of indecorunt. -\Ve shall be com
pdlossdsifrom the imrishle usage of nations,
nel-respect to our-national character, to re
cal Mr. Pinkney. What then will become
of ourlongcoutinued complaints; of those
deepttod premeditsted injuries with which
one present sdministrstion has —so frequently
filled the public car, snd with which they
sihsve sosiosicn and so successfully inﬂamed
the m'tblicjassions! .
ss _ A're we to submitted themnvithont re
Men ? or, if we are, shall we forego, for
ever. she dram-ges asking from a free
commence not only to Gren Britain, but
well the emlieo to which she now inter
dien out entry. War then on our :ide seems
jade cord-ly choice, unless we shall pre
fct go out-it. Great Brinin never can
..odnuhu nililut to this country ; and
* om- government never will make no.
Wine! to her. ]! would be: my.
"death!" were in thectmmg to which
., Wiy ' due the: si'blctl sidicnted'lhe
-: ss ' i WIM—fosalpﬂ'cty ::jia.
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Suck then are the serious consequencea of
dfia meaaure; consequence-act far more im
ss p'rtant than any which have yet shllmvml
' from any measure adopted by any admisspia.
nation in our country. Either us,-of
tub,. Great Britain, war by us ;! w
of; . Miaaion to an he; allcted-zed-avmnsssisi
and'a t'ot'al auape'naidn "as inn:-muste nith
her, and! esiither al): or ounelvu ahall
sat" forget our prick and honor as to 0
. meant.-of deem-ma- ssct _
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" begged me people ssau tuuam "men- rage,
- Let us now proceed to examine the con
cealed insnlt, which is said to lark some
where in his- Jackson's correspuntlence. -
There were several interesting circumstan
ces attending thesi'disclosun of this pre
tended insult,which led many judieous men
l to suspect, that the transaction would not
, hear the closest examination. ssFThe peo
' ple at large are not capable of expending
the time and devoting the attention -* neces
sary to the perusel mad comparison of a
long correspondcnce expressed in : studied
language of diplomatic men. .lt'wss known
to the administration. that is an unequivo
ctcal (leclaratiun should be made to'the pub
lic, thatMr.]acksonhsdinsulted our go
Vcrnfnrnf, this would reach every head,
and inﬂame every heart in the 'U. Statss,
while the slow and laborious vindication or *
disproof of such : charge, received with ,
distrust,' 'mto minds already prejudiced,
n'ould make but : feeble-progress. The
on of pusilishing the statement of Mr.
]ackson's insttlt in the National 'lntelligen
cer was the aet qf the government: That
statcmqt pro'ves to be—a copy of the offi-f
ciel note addressed to Jsr. jection. Th.
government then, ten days only þesore thel
meeting of congress. publieh an account of
the dis-niisszl and of its pretended-causes
and call upon the people to resent this con
'duct before any evidence of -it— was laid be
'fore them. 'The National "flntelligencer
endeavored to excite the" highest degree of
irritution and succeeded in it. sFinding
did! the public mind would become. too
much excited, they changed their tone nud i
u fat-or dl tie-net. 'ss L
? haustcd. Mr. ]e-ﬀersun and Mrss-Madiaon
' Now, prison.-no alarmmg as thin-Poti
tion M'Wonbleman, no mait'whotre- ct
" minish-mad dignity of his country
,uill regrevthc'cosspaeqMccl, if the mea
ctgun Weaued H—byct our honor ; is not;
l let the cenctsure fall'upon thoceperaon's who
mhlsiy' "advind ao- hasty and momentous a
etep. 'The administration have defended
thin meat-fed); tlu: exaitiple of Gen. Waeh
ingsiml'fi He casepsctGcn'et. -The nlluaion
is an orison-aware One, On every account. ss
] had intended to citesi-thiasi-case va 'inst
them, and ! could not have'drea 'that a
Mr. Isadison or his friends'ctwodlshhave'
had the imprudence to induce it! take a red
.trospectivc view of thin "disgmcd'ul me. l'
That these men, who now nﬂsiect to beuo
alive to the national honor, who are so rea
dy to take oﬀence at : look, a word, an in
sinuation, shall remind us of a period in
which not only the honor of the country
was trampled under foot. but in which the
foreign aganta who insulted us were honor
ct ed, fee-ctted and set up in lmstile array by
our own citizens agaitctt their own govern
mentgis among the marvellous events os
, even times on which we have-fallen. Ge
net was not dimn'srra', his recal only was
requ-fated, and his peraonul and political
friends, Thomaa ]"eﬀerson and james Ma
dison, knew it full well. sirGenet was not
reqnt-stud to be recalled merelyt for any in
auhinglnnguage towards our own govern
ment : it was for along continued series of
man! acts, for which he might have been
tried end puniahcd, that -Mr.-(3enet was
auspendecl : lt wan for nuuming the [unc
tiuns of hll ofilce before he was accrcrlitecl _;
for promoting military expeditions in our
territory ; for resitting the execution ofthe
laws ; l'ur openly desying the executivc au
thority, to which wzu only mprraa'Jc-d per
a-mnl insulu, which weressrepcatcd for ac
si vernl mouthe bulme the prttdmee and pn
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-eond circumstance, \- hsiich tended to excite
.. .uspicion os unsairnese, was the attempt
itions pretended to have been made
by 5
can tell. why the president was no forbear
in'v. ct'shey czm tclL'ns how- large, huxﬂ
powerful was the coml-ination of all their
to divert the public attention from the-al
lgdged ineult which was the avow-ed cause
of sithe mpture of the negoeiation, to the
and-notto violate --thc immunities of Mr.
Jaekson's office by an outrage on hie person.
lo the formal notice of the insult was the
act of the government, so also was this : .
and yet this very adminimation make it a ,
subject of complaint against Mr. ]ackaan ?
that be demanded a ease-conduct against the ?
populace whom the patsone of- thectNation- ;
al lnteiligencer endeavour-ed to appene, and
whose fury they appeared to dreed. A ce
friends, against our government, and in
tienue of General Wathington were 'ex
deem This ease tubjert nere .
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firmly- nrsiusin of ss rgctq sibrm} _
Mr ss- .ss ,si TN:" ss— .. —,
he;-14 Among—19 an"
tithal-snrelfig'eiuihﬂgd us to (n' " si "am 3
he had charged sithe govqm-ncisii'c With the" ,
'k ledge of Mr."£n£me'r imtnucctbm, ;
ac li'ich they had declactrcﬂ they had mctj
Me; we lUppOICd the eomradicxion-si—j
was upon some plain. lpccific, And ilhpoi-c- !
an: fact; but as loqn :; Mr. jack-an'; ex- '!
plnationctappearcd, it waoixhoogln neccna- ]
si (o write : lettcrxo MrssPinKUcy, [Lad tossi
ectXplain the; charge. A very diﬀer-Up: view i
is and] or 1! unazr m un,- you,-., ...p... ....
ffirzt ettttehtettt iu tho'-luteliigntm. Thin
sileadq us to : belief that if, "t'. ]ackson'b
sicircular had not r'eadted the ;: tye ehduld
never have seen "Mr. Smith's ve - extraor
lThe smount 01 this parazrapn antt c narge
is simply this, that Mr. jasikson. either by
direct nest-nion, iznplicntion, insert-ner, or
insinuation, did eithe; sey or suggest ** that
our government knew Mr. E-sltine had no
other instructions than those which they at!
mit were marle enow;: to them," and it;-,: in
repeated this insimmtion after eur govern
ment disclaimed such knowledge.-..Had
Mr. ]acltsoo so have contlucted he wouid
have been not only inlelent, but extremely
weak. For it would have been ridiculous in
him to impute to our government the know
ledge of such anegalive which it was almost
impossible they could haVe known, beside;
that such an imputation would have be :n
cuntradictnry to other parts of his own ].cti
ter. in his letter of the llth Octubsir, he
tells Mr. Smith " that although when he
left England it was believed that Mr. IEr
skine had shown his instructions in exleuea,
vet it now appeared he did not." This w as a
candid admission of Mr. Smith's do.-clim
tion on this subject; and in the same ,Ie tter
he adds " that the letter of the 23d ]nnu .try,
from Mr. Canniag to Mr. Erskine, wsiii' the
only des/oak:]: by which the conditions of an
arrangement were prescribed ;" and he add,
no ineinualiou or inserence that our govern.
ment knew this to be the fact. On the con.
trary,the declaration to Mr. Smith, in so
solemn and formal a manner, implied, unst
vcidablyimplied, that our government did
net know that fact before. ls, then, it would
have been absurd and conttadictory in Mr.
Jackson to have insinunted such a knave.
ledge of the restriction of M r. Ersltine, let
nue-e whether in point of fact he was uil
"ty of this folly. The first instance in w ich
any mention is made of the instructions of
Mr. Erskine, is in Mr. ]ackson's firsz let
ter of October But. After stating that it
was believcd t Mr. Erskine had tzom.
municated hie instructions in extenso, when
Mr. ]ackson left England, and admitting
the 'ael unconMonauY and frankly 'ct that
thieztrannetionoppehr beor'ect The public.—
sifit'ussi now proceed to shew, !) on! the do
cutnemo, that there is - not evcsu : shadow
or the charge ac it stands corrected. and
dwindled down to pigmy- sin in the letter
'to Mr. Pinkoey. The charge as it it now
corrected and explained, may- be l't-und in
the following extract from Mr. ant th's let
ter to Mr. Pinkney, of Nov. 23d, 1809:
' " lt was never oly'ec'ted to him that he had
stated it as : fact that the three propusitions
in quettion had been zaubmitted tn me by
Mr. Erskine, nor that he had stated it, as
made known to him by the instructions of
him Canuing, thlt the instructions to Mr.
Enkine containing those three conditions
was the only one from which hie authority
was derived to conclude an arrangement on
the matter to which it related. The assize,-.
tion me that a knowledge of this suffic
tion-"of Mr. Erskine was itnputed to thin
government, and the reprtitiun us the in..
putation after it had been per.-mp'turily dig.
claimetl."
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WpL-x, mo'ss difimh ctsznsi'ss ths; 'lesisisis ss
rp'mpcsi-chcnd. "unde.- rnnrt msi iesisissif
nsiuþterffi which we shall end.-am:- :),
move.- ct third. .dsieonsmncv. mess- '
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Mr. Erskine's lettets it appeared that the
threq conditionswhich formed the basia of
his instructions,'had been 'made known to
our Cabinet, and that all the arguments and
observations upon those conditions by our
minister, had been stated by Mr. Erskine
to his own government, from all which he
insert that the substitution of other artieles
instead of these proposed by 6. 8. was a
roof that the can ditiona were lnewn to use.
gie only adds to this simple and intelligible
ides,one remark," that our government amst
might have known, or might have inferred
that these were Mr. Erskine's only instruc
tions! We confess we eanaot perceive ssa
diﬀers from the condition: prescr' d, and
of course how just were the elamsof G
Britain te refuse her nssent to it." is there
in all this the remotest intitaation. inferenes
or insinuation that our eahinet knew or,
now perceive how .widely the a cement
he' si not," he proceeds to state, that by,
dingry letter tom Pink'nEy. si nder sir
cametances no inaulpidsssino: !:ruth, did '
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_ "limpiesss unleqompanird wuh ."
ess or lursiiuu dimi- thl'chr; and ,"
si * ct, conti.:em!_\'. (me no ozhcr P-Mage
ct- sound in;!)l'n fion letter "had" "'
'- kjecco- la-Mr-Smizh's, reply gous-i
lene we ought to expsicct .w fisi-d nssoz ct -
ups , or noxidc of my oﬂennv . jussh
siss ): besicn any, but : put-ticular. And"
? du: put whuh dal dzellld pit-tin,—
12. Saint does no} upon hlp. on:-piss.
ﬂat Mr.]ackm should lay to much um.
on the wan: "o: 'ccsssiomþhin up she -'pm at our
abide:, and on me .;ssubstiquioj; of dum
terms instead of thousivlich - Mr. Enkin.
- did-amharised to propou g-bm he doe. n..
intimate that Mr. ]ackloy ﬄct-WWI fro,;
those eircumstance'saconctssdsion ssthatm
' mire:;iinent had a knowledpctof the rg.
striete'd'powen of Mr. Saline. -Nmr, ..
Mr. ]siackson had not in ' fact; I: ne hat-.
- phewn,ctdrawn any sueheoneluaioncttndasisMr
Smith did not tell him that he iuyþnd he
had, how could that minister dirilect'it or
give any explanation of it ? - Mr.—lum
adds, " that if the governmenthctul knowe
that the conditione presented by Mr. Er. ss
thine were the only one which he Uctaa au
thorieed to make the arrangement, it never
would have. been ntade." This was the m
ment for him to have told Mr. ctjackton, ss
that he understood him to inemtute in his
sitet letter,, that our governmentbaleuclz e {
knowledge. This sittas omitted. si Why ?... ]
Because Mr. ]ackson had made no rue/t in
:inuatien. Butis he had made it,it would
have been no oﬀence until 'ou'r o'vernmeu ;
These are the only ecntcnoes which affect
the question in this letter. it is impossible
to conceive of expressions more elear—si-it is
difficult to form an idea of expressions more
respectsul or less oﬀcntive. Yet the next
we hear from Mr. Sntith on this subject, is
in the higheet pcmible tone of haughtinm si :
and aﬀront : He assured Mr. ]n
without any qualilication, that hie '
is improper and irrelerant, and thsi Mr. 'ss3
]ackson lidirteifmeled which"? pret- "si
ed lie hainet—thst our sorts-t) her
that Mr. Erelzine's instructimid' itogae
thorize him to conclude-the, " _' nient, -
and that he must-also repent the-i" " si ,.
which he had never made. ' " [unsad "
had ineinttntetl only what out treatment
admitted. that they knew the penance as
Mr. Ersline'e put-ere, and t '
ence made, was, that his m: . );
heid by an agreement "which so essentisliy
departed from them. The Unguagc of Mr.
]ackeen heretofut e was not considered good
cause for dittniesing him: But we are told
that in his latt letter he penistcd in the
same insinuatinna, withsiazjravating circum
ttances. In that letter ye: nfirnt that not
one line can he loued allptBctng to the con
tested'point:1'here ie amiddes—attain accom
panied with fist-nest., which Mr. dmitlt
wouid do well to imitate. .
The only passage which can he pretends,
ed to refer to thy dispmc in_ the in: pan
;rnph, where Mr. ]nkmd weren sit-sill
would be cb-rgcgl m unquljificd um with
inch-vant and Impropcr {ram-m, und
ldds " that he should not. think of myring
m irm'nqtim when he two si' pu'ablcsito unh
mmtiau a lad." Now it i unssid, and said
with justice, ehnif Mr. ]- si knob-al mdd
m improper imiwm'm be me, that "an. in
effect an ldhmm to it, nd-ln oﬀendvc
ne. Thisbe-lum,- but 4 sihc haddpct'
m imimutioo. as we lind proved. but of
'im named by its ed}?! !; And apaid
5!" had in: and: sick-'- MiMcth-p sins-;
after an in, ctiect-ctwn- ' ct (M. . " ?
Icteiiengy it more Mvhe' 1d- and: "40- i sict
nay-anon happened " me si _- ".
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" These instructions" (Mr. Erekine'o.) !
now understand b your letter as well as
the dcdnetiont which I took theliherty of
making in mine, of the ch inet. were at
the time in murd'rer made inown to you."
" You are alread - aequn'uwed with Lint
which was given (al tiding to the 'cdtttmn
nication of Mr. Canning'e letter to Mr.
hit-shine which was shown ' to Mr.
Pinkney) and ! have had the honor of in
forming you that it was the only one by
which the condition: were preseriued."
denied it, which they neversidtd. till thi;
clause was inserted in Mr.,Sntith's letter of
Octoher loth. The olenee if any manie
Sound, therefore, in the snþeequent corm.
penden'ce. The next letter l'rotn Mr. Jack
son in reply to this (mid novjret ned: by
our government of their knowledge of the
reetricted nature of Mr. Erekiness'a' poem,
is deted -Oetober lad. ln thin letter he
most delieetely ahetains from any intiaue
tion of the knowledge of our ove'rntaent e!
Mr Ersltine'e restrictions. he only sca
tmee in relation to this suhjeet are theloh
lowing. and are instriet consortnity to the
(acts admitted by eur cabinet :
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