Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1823-02-15

son, Russell, Ia=esOe8, Ire, aud Scott.
FELLow CITIZENS; As the time approaches
at which you are to elect member to repre-
sent zou in the Congress of the United States,
it becomes expedient that you should know
whether will be a candidate or not. there
fore inform vo,i, THAT IT, in the new arrange
ment OF districts which the General Assembly
are bout 10 make, the counties OF Washing
ton and Wythc shall remain in the same dis
trict, | will offer my services once more--aRd
for the last time. Should be elected and
serve during the next Congress, shall then
have served during the whole administration
of JAMES monroe; an administration under
which the people Of the United States have
hitherto enjoyed more happiness and safety
than under any other; and which have found
it agreeable to my judgment generally to sup
port.
The election IF the next President is a sub
ject which already attracts public attention,
and winch, indeed ought to be in the minds Of
the people when electng the members Of the
next Congress- for, (wthout adyerting to the
usage of making a nomination. the duty of Sc
lecting President, may ultimately devolve on
The House of Representatives and this seems
not unlikely to happen. No man distinguish
ed IN the Revolution, or having unrivalled
claims to public confidence, is brought for
ward but several men having considerable,
and nearly equal, claims to public favor, have
been proposed to fill The office of President.
Should be a member of the House Of Re-
representatives., and be required IN that capacity
to select President, regardless of MINOR con
sideratons, shall give my vote dispassionate-
ly, and under the direction of my judgment
only, with 4 view to the preservation of the
liberty, peace, safety, and the people, of the
United States
l can, however, now inform you. that shall
not vote for John Q. Adams to be President of
the United States. pass over the circum-
stances of his relation to the man who yolat-
ed the rights of the American people, the IL
berty o. speech and Of the press, bv the ap-
pre- 81 IL 5e..!t.af. Act although there IS
no evidence known to me that Mr.. Adams ever
disapproved of one act of that administration.
i pass over the fact OF his having written
against "the Rights of Man, not only against
the work thus entitled, but against rights them
selves; and attempted 10 ridcule Mr.. Deffer-
son, the chief of the friends of those rights.
I object to Mr.. John @. Adams that he Is no
statesman that me per7acious passions 4pa,,, his
judgment, and do not leaue his mind in b,ober
state TO decide on the interest Of The nation, md
to adopt an enlarged and liberal system of bolicy.
l offer the following proofs:
Mr.. Adams took his seat in the Senate of the
United States on the 21st October, 1903. Mr..
Jefferson had then filed the Presidential chair
more than two years and half; his principles
of government were well understood: were
approved of by great majority of the Ameri-
can people; and he had acquired Louisiana
from the most powerful chief of the most pow
erfuI nation, by fair purchase; an acquisition
the most sdvantageous,* and the most GLORIOUS
because the most just, that ever was made BY
any government. On the 25th of October, a
bill enabling the President to take possession
OF Louisiana passed the Senate and on the
question, Shall this bill pass MIR. Adams, in a
minority of six, voted against it.
On the 10th of January, 1804,t we find Mr..
Adams proposing resolution, and voting for
it in a minority of FoUR,+ declaring that Con-
gress had no right to tax Louisiana On the
18th January, we find him voting in a minority OF
THREE IS against extending the laws of the
United States to Louisiana; and on the 18th
OF February, we find him voting in minority
OF FIVE against the passage of bill for erect
ing Louisiana into two territories.
Am not justified in supposng that the prin-
ciples of faction, and not those that ought 10
govern patriotic statesman directed the DO
ltical course of Mr.. Adams Yes we are ius-
tilted in supposng, that party zeal blinded Mr..
Adams to the interest of his country that Cd.
position to Mr.. Jefferson, and the Republicans.
who had put an end to the dcspotism Of the
preceding administration, led Mr.. Adams to do
every thing in his power to obstruct the ac-
QUESTION of louisiana
On the 26th of January, 1904 we find Mr..
Adams voting into mnority,f against clause
which forbade the importation of slaves in
Louisiana, from places without the United
States BY this vote Mr.. Adams is placed in a
dilemma. He must either acknowledge him
Self arRIEND TO THE SLAVE TRADE,** OF he must
admit that he was DESTROYS to render the ac-
QUESTION of Louisiana injurious by permitting
the unrestrained influx of foreign slaves.
Ever hostile to Louisiana, we find Mr..
Adams, on the 18th March, 1904 voting in a
minority against laying out post roads through
the Indian country to New-Oreans.
Mr.. Adams has given other evidence of hos
tility to the Republicans. On the 31st Octo
Der, 1903, we find him voting in minority
against wearing Grape one month, in memory
of Samuel Adams and Edmund Pendleton, two
OF the most distinguished friends of virtue and
liberty.
Mr.. Adams, as Senator, denied protection
to commerce; and this can no otherwise &C.
count tor but by presuming that he was un-
willing that the Republican administration
should have the credit of affording protection
to commerce. He voted, on the Goth of March, |
1904, for striking out the clause imposing the |
duty called The Mediterranean Fund ;++ and. |
finally, voted in a minority of rIvE,+t against |