Martinsburgh gazette. [volume] (Martinsburgh, Va. [W. Va.]) 1810-1825, 1824-09-09
PRESIDENTIAL.
WssimorsIand address. Concluded.

reer as secretary To DIR. Franklin, MIR.
Adams, and Mr. Lee, in their embassy
TO France, To procure the recognition o.
our Independence in l77S. lie aetet
in the same capacity in Holland and in
Prussia; and afterwards as secretary
and interpreterto Mr.. Dana, for the same
, purpose in Russia. He was secretary
also to our minister's in negociaiing the
treaty of peace, which closed tie wa
of the revolutions, and remained with
our commissioners negotiating com
mercial treaties with all the Europeal
powers, until 1896, when he returned &c
prepare himself for the bar Of his native
state, at which he practised from 1890
to 1894, Gen. Washington then appoin-
ted him minister to the iIague--in 1895
special minister To London, and in 100,
minister to Lisbon. Under his fathers
administration, he was continued minis
ter resident at Berlin, and under Mr.
Jefferson he served in the Senate of the
United States with distinguished honour.
and onlresigning his seat, refused TO di-
vide the republican party Of Massachu
sets. (some of whom were for Mr. Lin
coln,) by suffering himself TO be nomi--
mated as governor. Immediately after
Mr.. Madison's Inauguration, he was APP
pointed minister to St Petersburg--af-
forwards by him. a judge to the Supreme
Court of the United Staies--next, chief
minister 10 negotiate treaty with Eng
land, under the mediation Of the empe-
ror of Russia, and afterwards commits
sioner to Client, where he rendered. such
eminent service in concluding the treaty
Of peace in 1914, that Mr.. Madison inn
mediately appointed him our minister to
st. James TO negotiate commercial
treaty with Great Britain. He was MIR.
Monroe's first choice as secretary of
State, and returned home to take charge
of a department, Tor which, his great RI
val, Gen jackson, declared him better
qualified than any other man, and the
duties of which he has now discharged
for near eight years, to the entire salts.
faction OF the government and the ma
ton.
What are the objections offered "a
gainst such superior claims' Why that
Mr.. Adams was once thought to be a
Federalist-that be is man of reserv-
ed manners, and that he is 1.-The son Of
his father" and was born in new Eng
land As to the charge of having been
Federalist, was not the sane charge
brought against Gen. Washington? was
it not brought against Mr. Madison, for
having in CONJUNCTION with Gen. HaniI.
ton and MI. Jay written the FedAralst'
was it not brought against Mr.. Monroe.
for his opinions on the foreign relations
of our government in 1908 and 81 was it
not brought against Gen. jackson. as
he himself informs us about the same
timer and is it not now brought against
Mr. Crawford for approving of the ad.
ministration in 1913, as well as for his
votes against the Embargo, and in favour
of the United States Bank? But let US
examine the grounds OF this futile charge
against MIR. Adams. He was absent
from this country during nearly all of
his fathers admnistf alton and soon af-
ter his return home was appointed a
Senator from Massachusetts. la that sta
ton he voted with great independence
as an American, and not as party
man. he few votes which were ina
gined party votes he proved in his an
swer to Smythe to have been bottomed
on constitutional grounds But in 1907
he gave mortal offence to the Fedear-
lists, and was denounced for votin. for
the Embargo, and hence it was ina gined
he Lad thought entirely with that party
Now let US look at the circumstances
under which this vote was given, and
see whether it was not inspired by that
upright, independent American spirit,
which has cafracterized Mr.. Adams in
every stage of his career. The death
of Mr.. Fox, and the fall of the Wing adj
ministration Of Auckland and Holland
had brought the tories into power 10 the
ministry OF Percival Casllereagh. and
thus destroyed all hope of accommoda-
ton. The orders in council were viola
ting our neutral rights by the daily cap
ture OF our ships--our seamen were i'm
pressed by hundreds, and our flags in
suited as piece of striped buntingn on
every seattle Chesapeake frigate fir
ed into, her men murdered and she her.
self taken possession of, without resis-
lance, in our own waters, and all repa-
ration refused for these insults and in
Jurles when Congress assembled in
Dee. 1907. s'r. Jefferson, who had not
Welded tofha cry of fhS nation FIR xva,.