Martinsburgh gazette. [volume] (Martinsburgh, Va. [W. Va.]) 1810-1825, 1824-07-29

compelled to publish elsewhere, by the
acts of the Editors of the National Ia
telligencer themselves.-Withr re gard to
the documents concerning the Florida
Treaty Claims, besides the PEE uliar
fitness of publishing them in file OF
public papers disconnected from any
newspaper, he thought 1t expedient as
a warning, that however the Editors o.
the National Intelligencer might esti-
mate the .faror to the government, OF
publishing its notices in their widely cir
culating Journal, they will do well here
after to consider accuracy in the trust oil
publishing, as not inferior in importance
to extensiveness Of circulstion."
The Editors of the Intelgencer in their
paper of the 9Th inst. in answer TO the charge
Of having 'garbled the publication of the
documents relating to THO convention fo'
the Suppression Of the Slave Trade, publish.
what they call plain tale, in the following
words:-
1.-THE Convention with Great Britain
was ratified on SATURDAY, the 22d May.
On the Monday following, the injunction
of secresy was removed, and on Tues
day following we stated the fact, with a
promise 10 publish 'the particulars" in
our next, if we should be able to obtain
them. We were not able to obtain them
owing to the construction put upon the
order of the senate, that the substance
and not the particulars OF the Proceed
ings were to be published. On the goth
we published the substance of the Trea-
ty, and the fact of its qualified ratihca-
ton, which, seeking the qualification OF
our readers, we took much trouble to
obtain. On that day a different con-
struction was put upon the rule of the
Seuate, and, through the kindness of
Member of the House of Representa-
tives, (no others but Members and off
GERS of Congress being allowed to enter
the Office of the Secretary of the Sc
nate,) we obtained copy Of the Docu-
mems, and an extract from the Journal
Of the Senate.
These papers we published, volumi-
nous as they were, on the asth-29th of
May, as we ieceived them, with the ex-
ceptions, viz. that, being much pressed
for room, we omitted the counter p ojet
of the British Commissioners, which,
not being adopted, was not material,
and it is not now alleged to have been
SO, and the Extracts from two resolu-
tons of the House Of Representatives,
one of the 9Th Of February, 1871. the
other of 18th April, 1884," which, ha-
wing been before published, and only
here introduced as showing the corro-
boration between the views of Congress
and those expressed in the Presidents
Message, we did not suppose to be ma.
terial. 1t is a singular coincidence that
the space which those extracts would
have occupied, was part filled by the
'official" account of the Caucus of the
Connecticut Legislature, nominating
Hon. John Quincy Adams as candi-
date for the Presidency. Tbs, be tire
membered, was Saturday In the in
termediate time between that adjudication
and Monday, we heard that the omis-
sion of these extracts was deemed ma
terial. What did we do then? We did
not, to be sure, fall down upon our knees
and ask pardon for no sin, but we did
promptly, viz. on Monday put in type,
aud on Tuesday publish in the National
Intelligehcer, these identical extracts,
saying at the time that 1--WE thought we
had published every thing material upon
the subject, and should still think so,
had i not been otherwise suggested by
a friend" viz. by that much respected
gentleman who fills, with so great pro-
priety, the situation Of Chef Clerk in
the Department of State. If this was
not ian apology" it certainly was a
prompt attempt to repair an omission,
which, if material, was yet merely IN
advertent These omissions zoe have
never seen represented as intentional
suppressions by the Secretary Of State,"
or we should certainly have contradicted
the statement
"But, it seems, we published sum-
mary of the arguments against the Urea
ty, at the same time that we published
the documents. Now, with great defe-
renee, we supposed it to be our duty to
lay before our readers, the People of
the United states, all the information
which we could obtain. in relation 10
the Proceedings OF their government, of
which the Senate is as much part as
the Department Of State. Nor, be that
as II NAV can I'VE cOncpive how that