Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1814-03-26
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DEVELOPMENT!
Enquirer.

treaty OF Commerce aud amity with Swc-
| den"
This assertion having been denied, the
same paper, on the 18th inst. contained the
following staterp ent.
The fact Is, aud col. Monroe will not
. venture to deny it. with all his establish
FEED DO dncss, il bravng ruth, that an offer
9 vas made by The Swedish minister {, treat
/" and to send home forsparticular instruc>
'ticns for such an object. His offer was de-
"clined until the eyent,, to happen across
"the water, we're known here. Such was
"the reason actually assigned"
The reader will perceive a difference be-
tween the assersion Of the s7th and the state
ment OF the 18th of March. The first ayers
that the president had absolutely refused to
lnegociate treaty the second declares that
| the offer was declined until the events to,
Happen across the water were known here.
1t does not say, however. by whom it was
declined. We dis,inc ly wish it to be entirely
relied on, that neither the President. nor the
Secretary of State for him, ever refused or
declined negotiation with Mr.. ID Kantzow,
in relation to treaty Of commerce and am
lily with Sweden, or with respect to any o.
Their subject properly proposed by that min
lister. Whether Mr.. De Kantzow himself,
after any proposition of The kind from him to
the executive of the United States. was con
cious OF the propriety of postponing negoci-
| alton unit! the aff,rs of Europe, and partic.
alarly those of Sweden herself, were estab-
lished upon permanent footing, we are un-
able to determine.
! We shall not stop to remark upon the alb
surdity of accusing the President with want
OF friendship for Sweden, because he decli-
ned negotiating with minister, vino, it Is
admitted, would have" to send home for
4 h.~
The public have not forgotten the case of
Mr.. Daschkoff. II was eliedged that he
had no instructionsto offer the mediation of
his sovereign--and upon that ground the
administration was boldly denounced By the
same Federal Republican "and other pres
ses OF that stamp, for accepting Mr.. Dasch-
kotf S proposal. 1t turned out, neverthe-
| less, that The Russian minister was fully au~
thorised; but the print at Georgetown
which preached, never corrected the false
| hood. ~
| All this, however, does not reach the main
point of this article.
in the case of Mr.. Daschkof, there was
Information given FROM certain quarter
upon which the falsehood leaned. The
quarter alluded to, appears, by paragraph
Itnat was published in the Boston Daily AID
yer.iaer, of The 18Th of last February, 20
have heen a Swedish consul. The stoiy
| that Mr.. Dascisknif WIS autiierized to offer
the mediation Of his Emperor, say. the Bos.
ton paper and a federal print--was pro,
pasated by men who ieHftoo crcduions an
ear TO the it1suthorted declarations ofl1r.
.Soder8tyom."
| 1t is to be observed. that tie Federal
Republican" of the 18th instant, has the fol.
lowing passage 10 its coIumns
:" With Mr.. De KaHtzow we have not the
/ pleasure of an acquaintance nor have we
I''even seen to know him nor received any
/" communication from him orally, or in wri>
sting"
/ But no such animation is made with res
pect to Mr.. Soderstorm. AS he is alledged to
have made 'unsu1tfo,ted deciarafions' which
lEproyed to be falsehoods. in one instance, why
may he not have made other declarations,
equally unsupported, and equally false p
| The thing seems probable, because both the
| untruths first appeared the same paper;
that is, In the % Federal Republican,
But, is there an intimacy between any of
the Editors of that paper and Mr.. Soder-
strom?
Mr.. Hanson, the member of congress. it
/ is universally known, is reputed one of the
| editors of that journal.
We aver, then, that Mr.. Hanson, one of
j the reputed editors of the "Federal Repub-
lican, was, on one of the nights between the
first and the seventh of March, 1--WE think
tile ff,h) abouttwo days before the article
| appeared in that newspaper concerning the
4 presidents having declined TO negotiate
treaty Of Commerce and amity, between
Sweden and the United States. with Mr.. De
4 Kantzow, seen in q chamber at the hotel OF
M'Leod in Washington city, with Richard
Sodertstrom, his Swedish Majesty's Consul
/ Mark this connection.
If we are asked. what motive could in
duce Mr. Sodertrom to SUR up luminosity bea
tween the American and Swedish govern
ments. we answer uneqnivocally, that MIR.
Soderstrom, is the partizan Of Great Britain,
the pimp of British Minister'S
Are we asked Tor the preof of this bold
accusa.iou9 We give it at once in the hand
writing of Mr.. Soderstrom himself Thefol-
loving is the fragment of letter from him
20 the British Minister Foster. The original
is in our possession, signed with the proper
signature OF Richard Soderstrnm. The cus
rious and soubting. ofrespectablc character.
arc i3vitod to view and recognize it at the
Office nf the Wing. The asterisks are in
serted where the manuscript is defective
We publish the Illiterate thing Uar6atim et
lterGfim.
PHtLADEJrHtA, May 81, 1912.
(" NY Ded, Foster Mr.. TayIoe came in from
New York late last evening, and set oil iOl
Washington this morning at 9 o'clock. You
! kbave the New York newspaper TO morrow morn
ing, and you will thare Sc that nothing of any
, great consequence is come by the long expec.
ted Hornet, the news from Spain is good, Ia
{ dajosa is taken by the British, but as stateC
r with great loss. All the people here are Sc
Y stupid that they believe that some message o
J.. the Pre- sidcnt must have come TO Congress, ant
: that same shall be Of great consequence. To