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

United States, and the publication was
accompanied by these among other OBJ
seryations:
"fhe ratification Of the convention
was decidedly opposed, though strongly
pressed by the President, byeogeat argsi-
D,ents too as will appear from pe,usal
of his Message" Sc.
"Ihc arguments in favor Of the Trea-
~ are fully stated in the Presidents
iessage and the Diplomatic Cores
pondence. The arguments said to have
been urged in the Senate in opposition
TO the Treaty, were substantially as
follows. We state them new, that the
reader who takes an interest in the SUBJ
ject, may at once have risp If the
'ehoie ground"
| After some other observation, the Edi.
tors close this days defence with these re.
marks
"a candid and dispasaonate review
Of this matter leaves us yet in utter as
constituent that the Secretary of State
- this elevated officer; this self poised,
enlightened and experienced Statesman,
should, for a cause thus triv:al--for an
| error, il it were one, rectified as soon
as known, have taken mortal offence,
and deliberately resolved to withdraw
his confidence and countenance from a
print. which has from its foundation
stood BY its country and its Republican
administrations, through evil and thro'
good report, and has enjoyed the unwa-
vering confidence of JEFFERSON,
MADISON, and MoyRoE, for four and
twenty years."
! In reply TO this defence. the Secretary Of
Sta,e. after having modestIy accused the Edi-
tors Of the Inteligencer, by way OF interroga-
ton. of wltul misrepresentation, asks this
/ question
"What were the real facts upon which
this more than improbable offence OF
the Secretary of State against the Edi-
tors of the National Intelligencer origi-
natedI
That upon public negotiation, OF
the deepest interest to the nation. and
to the whole human race, and involving
no less an object than the final and eff
fectual abolition of the Slave Trade, an
extraordinary and most unexpected OPP
position to great and leading mea-
sure of the administration had manifest
ed itself in the Senate of the United
States.
That the friends Of the administration
and Of the measure, were anxiously de-
sirous that all the documents relating
to it should be published together, SO
that the merits of the subject might be
brought before the nation, and that
| correct judgment in relation to il might
! be formed.
/ That the Editors Of the Intelligencer,
in their paper Of the 9Th May, formally
promised that they would publish the
whois of the proceedings in the Senate,
and the documents.
That they did not publish, and have
not yet published, the whole of those
documents, nor scarcely the half ofthem.
That they garbled the part which they
did publish Of them, in such manner as
conspicuously to present the argument
in the Senate ogoinst the Convention,
while they omitted, for want Of room,
the particular refutation Of that argu--
ment.
They noD say, that they received this
summar, of the arguments in senate
against the Convention, from member
OF the Senate. They had not promised
to give the debates IN Senate upon the
Convention; il they had, impartiality
would have required, that they should
give summary of the Speeches in its
favor. as well as those against it.
Friendship for the administration would
have preferred summary favor able to
the Convention. Will they have the
goodness to name the Senator from
whom they received their Summary
If they viii, they win illustrate their
friendship f,r s,r. Monroe's administra-
| ton, and their course relative to the
Slave Trade Convention, more than
fifty columns of astonishment or profess
tations.
In answer to the charge, that they
have not to this day published all the
documents on the subject, they "assert
that they hare seen of them" As Prin-
tiers to the Senate, they had printed,
while the Injunction of secresy existed,
the message of the President OF soth
April, with ali the documents accom-
panying it. As Printers to the House