Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1824-08-24

legal use of the Public nurse Mr.. Craw-
ford should obtain popularity among
Individuals so deefly interested in con-
tinuation Of the illegal practice which
MIR. Edwards has exposed.
With knowledge of these facts and
of the interests and character OF the par
ty whose vengeance he was about TO
provoke, it was not surprising that Mr..
Edwards should hesit,te before he en-
deavored 10 repel theatack made upon
him by Mr.. Crawiors; who made des-
perate in The defeat OF his abortive at
tempt TO control publlcopinion BY means
oil his minority caucls, knowing that
Mr.. Edwards had DOM much to defeat
his plans of ambition, seized upon the
opportunity offered by his timely report
to Congress to assall The character OF
Mr.. Edwards, which, if lnnoliced, would
leave INN Liable to The imputallon OF per-
jury, and certainty of malignity; and, ii
answered., was no doubt relied on as the
sure means TO produce covering tor
the cry OF pcrsecutlon-tle only remain
ing hope whereby to enlist the sympa-
thles of masnsnimous and generous
people.--But tie party lave over-acted
themselyes-the interest OF the actors
exposes their motives To suspicion, and
produces an inquiry on he part OF the
people, who was the aggressor Mr..
Crawford first charged MIR. Edwards
with swearing falsely, and II was IN at
tempting TO repel his charge that Mr..
Edwards argun entauvely Introduced his
charges against Mr.. Crawford
Have the Commitee sustained the
charge of Mr. Crawford $50 tar from
doing it, even the preludiced Mr.. Floyd
was bound 10 admit that Mr.. Edwards
swore The truth.
charges of MIR. Edwards They admit
that he has proved more tnan he had
chars ed--but excuse Mr.. Crawferd's
motives To meet the force OF lac,s il
was attempted TO crush Mr.. Edwards by
mere deaanciakion and prescription -
and what havs the party iound in the
scru,inIz.ng inqulsillon they have insti-
tuted They charge that Mr. Edwards
at one time denied and at another aUozu-
ed the authorship oil the A. 3. publca-
lions. FMS ne denies, and notwhhs, and
ing the testimony OF Senator Noble, has The
strongest possible testimony IN adailon
to the zvant of motive, to disprove; bu'
for the argument sake, admit the charge
wha, dces it prove only, that he one
time admrted what ne at another
thought proper to deny. Is that hail
81 bad as TO remain s7Vorn counsel
Tor and adviser of the President, yet
10 oppose and by his countenance and
support endeavor TO injgre The admins
traiion. L, it bali So bad as TO hrofeSs
friendship for the President, yet lend ms
whole influence 10 support his enemies
and who SO blind as 10 doubt that VIM.
II. Crawford is guilty of these charges |!
Is it half SO bad as to live uhon the
administration and to hrotess TO be
friendly to its members, yet to be con-
yicted Of +" prevarlcation and misstate-
nents" 10 inJure it !! OF this Mr.. Gales
stands convicteA-(see the case in the
National Journal 10 relation to the late
conyen,ion.) And what are the vorthy
motives relied on to cover the conduct
OF Mr.. Crawford and Mr.. Gales one
wants to be President, and the other the
patronage of the adm inisration ! And
yet these men pretend to say they are
90 pure to be contaminated by the pre-
,ence OF Mr.. Edwards at an anniversary
dinner
Extract from the correspondence communi-
Gated to the House of Representatives, res
pecting the African Slave Trade, March 49,
1924.
Mr.. adams TO Mr.. Canning.
Department of State,
Washington, gath June, 1928.
In the treaties of Great Britain, with
Spain, Portugal, and the Netherlands, for
he suppression of the slave trade, here
,ofore communicated, with the invitation
to the United States to enter into similar
engagements, three principles were in
volved, to neither of which the govern
ment of the United States felt itself at
liberty to accede. The first was the mu-
tual concession ofthe right of search and
capture, in time ovtl peace, Of merchant
vessels, On the coast of Africa. The Sc
cond was, tho exercise of that right even
over vessels under convoy of the public
officers oftheir own nation and the third
was the trial Of the captured vessels by
mixed commissions in colonial settle
ments, under no subordinaton to the or
binary judicial tribunals of the country
to which the party brought before them