Portland gazette and Maine advertiser. (Portland, Me.) 1805-1818, 1810-08-27

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- This is an extract from the treaty. IN
der the circumstances, the question saId TO
have been asked by general armstrong was
(if asktd) supeTfuOus one but, having
been asked, 10 other answer could have
been returned by Tsllyrand consistently
wirh truth, but that if we went to wa: with
Spain, France (sgreeably 10 her treaty.
g could neither doubt nor hesitate" She
could not but have taken part with SPAN,
or have violated most solemn treaty"
What does administration mean BY THE
WHOLE WORLD VIII it say that five hun
dred persons in the United States knew
that such an article existed, as il has here
Undoubtedly extracted from copy which
has long been locked up in one OF is own
secret bmeaux ? The writer OF these let
tiers certainly knew Of this treaty, and con-
templated it as proper subject OF remark
inihe colf Sc of his laborrs And be IS by
no means sorry that Administration has
drawn his attention to il thus early.
Administration must have learned from
VATTEL, whose work, in reference 10 the
profound learning of our present Secretary
OF State, as displayed in his correspondence
with Mr.. Jackson, a representative from
Connecticut (Mr. Pitkin) sarcasticslly cal
led g a sort OF text book for our govern
ment, that it is one thing for nation to be
obliged by treaty to furnish certain auxilia-
ries TO another nation, and quite differ
ent thing for a nation to make common
cause" with another, and enter into socI-
ETY. OF WAR, especially with nation
which " the whole world knows" 10 have
no will OF its own, and 10 be in fact though
not in name province of that power that
" neither doubts nor hesitates" to "take
part" In lis quarrels. Had war taken place
between the United States and Spain, and
had France furnished to Spain the auxiliary
force stipulated BY treaty, this would not,
by the principles ofthe law of nations, have
produced war between the United States
and France. Besides, tn troops were "to
be employed solely in Europe, or in defence
Of the colonies which the contracting pow
ers possess in the Gulf Of Mexico" To a
war defensive on the part of the United
States, or offensive elsewhere than in Eu-
rope or the Gulf of Mexico, the stipulation
would not be applicable. Knowing, as Adj
mlnistratIon did, that this article of alliance
no more than one construction, why did
1t ASK the French Government what would
be its course in case Of a war between us
and Spain Because it wished to ascertain
whether France would stop at the point in
dIcated by the treaty, or would in fact, act
log upon the principle that there was no
SPAIN" make the war her own. Having
ascertained-if indeed It can be said to have
ascertaned what it well kne w already-that
France would make war upon us if we
made war upon Spain, and having Ascertain
cd also that France wanted money. Admin
istratlon determined to by of, as one would
say in common life, by paying eight millions
OF dollars for a boundary to that country for
which it had paid fifteen millions without a
boundary. This is the long and short of
the whole business. The statement. there
tore, that this threat on the part Of France,
accompanied with genteel hint that mon
ey would be acceptable, Influenced Admins.
tratlon 10 abandon the idea of honourably
maintaining our rights against that power,
remember there IS no Spain J Influenced it
10 succumb TO that power in most mean
and base manner, and infuencedit to conceal
the state OF our foreign relations from The
PeooIe, remains uncontradicted. Had
France said, If you 20 to war with Spain
we shall do no more than furnish her. q.
greeably TO treaty, with $4,000 infantry.
oOO0 cavalry, and a proportionable train Of
artillery" as little OF soldier as the Com
msnder IN Chief OF our Armies and Navies
was, IT IS perhaps but common Charity TO
believe that he would have contented him
self with giving up all our claims for Span
lsh and French spoiiations, and with reIin.
gushing West Florida and the immense re-
glon between the Colorado and the Rio
Bravo, which countries he claimed as a part
OF Louisiana, IN order 10 obtain boundary
tor the string Of laRd" that would then be
lett 10 US VIII any man now doubt that
Administration acted under the Influence of
fear OF France
Administration has tactly admitted (it
could not possibly have denied) the whole
OF the iac.s stated in No. VII. Il has sd.
mtted that It had known for wears that
France managed ali the concerns Of Spain
that Thomas Jefferson had been informed
by his agents abroad that K was the Dolicv
OF France TO reserve Spain for events that
be faiSly stated 10 Congress that il was the
Polcy OF SPAN 10 reserve herselffor events
that our Ministers had offered ~ reIino,ieh
All Que CLAIMS tor Spanish and French spo-
iations that, in asserting that France was
dispoSed to effect a settlement between us
and SPAN, he was either guilty of asserting
another gross talshood, or of intimat,np 60
Congress IN most aFtfuIl but most mean
manner that money must be paid TO France.
as her terms were $ analogous" TO those
(Pecuniary) terms which our Minister had
slresdy proposed and that he resorted 70
means, suPerlativeIy base and wicked. 20
procure an appropriation, which was to he
concealed from the people, Of the money
thus 70 be paid TO France. Not a Irtle yra.
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