Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1827-04-07

6erceness ITO use the DESCRIPTIVE
nm. Of the marty prin,s) but the mort ah e. IF
ed for the interval Of rest when inc
the war oil 1872 had given to i's 1891 IT, NO m.
With is resuscita,ion, we find those WV, 49,. .;de
posed 10 the Administration again o Govern.
Of foreign Power, against iheir w. al
ment, on the very FIRST question % a H. two ma
,;ons-an amicable one, indeed, but stili cues
ton materially involving important 9. '~h;ch
teres,s. This is, at all events, la. .',r -
forces itself upon our notice. we Ie.u' ~.
times that have gone by, in conneAio" ~, ~.
Colonial question, not in any mars" spn ,rd
wards nation with which we are al Pe'.e 49,; a
,cifh trhich ,ue ought ever 10 desire - % r. :;
of friendship We do so hlstorica'y' .,r;fs a.
m1ltaneous reappearance OF party S'r'se
mone MS. with the ready championship Vi
fish commercial liberality, by one OF Tue pa
ties, is certainly among the remarKaoie ~
Of the Times. 1t is not the less reua ar -,
that the very British Minister oil ota'e "no' a,
the former epoch, was upheld III Ms on,ia
Jokes upon our restrictive system, shouiu W wv
same Minister who now renews MS W., ~
though somewha, more disguisea Una" ~, 81 " ~.
| ", for repudia,ing The proftred boon o. No
West India Trade, at the happy no'''e". W."
his humor was 70 have lei us had IL. ~
| at his ana Nlr. i1CSklSSOS
The official dispatches that have oeeh air.a-
DIV circulated through the country on the Loo
NAL Question, particularly the one IRON, pu'
Goverr,nep, Of the nth of November last, nave
!, is true. shed much light uponit. But IL can
mn, he thorouphlv understood without gcing
farther back. Among the documents io'' ''o
D.n,rtm.nl of Stale which accompanied the
Presidents opening Message 10 Congress III
! December. is Letter, or rather extracts IRON
one (par, l., IA. 39) from Mr. ADAMS 10 W.T.
RUSH. dated the Esd Of June, 1928, III winch lne
| whole question is deliberately exhioiled, as II
stood at that peria. is aletter that deserves
10 be caref.Ry read 4 far as we know IL mas
not vet appeared in any pubic P'int-ce'aih'y
no, in this Enyeoped IN large mass OF oocu-
ments, which We had uttiie to rrad p" men COM
munc atei, it is only Iately hat we nave oeen a
BILE to possess ourselves O. lis Contents. we
lose no time in giving il a pace IN our columns
where i, will be found 10 day. ms Letter states
facts, analyses laws traces negotiations
and pulsues a course Of reasoning upon the SUD-
ice, of this controversy. "ith force and pow
pr. both as TO minuenrs, VI detail and enlarge
men, of general principles, leading, we think
r irresIstbly 10 the conclusion that the Ch'''o
States have been'the agg rieved and patient, and
Britain the grasping Power throughout the
whole Of it, In no other manner can the con
duct Of the latter, in our opinion, be htly cha
racterized.
The true principle Of reciprocity we believe
, TO be- as shown in this Letter, that our proanc
tons, going 10 the British islands, ought no
to have been burdencd with higher duties tha'
i, similar productions going to the sar1e lsiahns
from Canada, New Brunswick, or Nova oco
was Tor ihis pr.neipic tEai oat
tended in Mr.. MoNRoEs time; ard, if it ha
been given up by the existing Administration
what docs this prove but an extraordinary de
sire for Cancellation: d determination to pro
mote harmony, even by abating something o.
our strict and full claims 10 an entire and per.
feet reciprocity?
But the British act Of Parliament Of july
1925, opened the Colonial Trade to US, it seems
on terms that we were at last willing 10 take
when able TO secure no better, however desira-
bic II might h '" been 10 have had better, and
howe'er The corresponding duty attached ofcn-
deavoring 10 pc, better; and, for not catching
at these terms with Legislative eagerness, the
+ Administration is assailed with the heaves,
batteries OF its Opponents. British asts OF Par
lament concerning rIade NAV, TO some persons,
be always OF he most unequivoca import, and
easiest comprehension. They are not SO u
! others. hey were not so 10 the faculties Of
Burke, when he described them as dragging
throughout entire sections their ''tortuous and
may iavolutions; where parenthesis was suffo
Gated by parenlhess." Bat, admitting that
their ACT of Parliament, Of July, 1925, had been
satisfactory in lis main points, and as clear
ne beams OF the sun in its meaning, who will
say that the Executive did not act at least dis
creetly in desiring to see its provisions placed
upon the sanction of Treaty? Look at the
whole course of the legislation Of Grea, Britain
respecting these Sery islands; reflect how she
changes, modi6es, revckes, a5rogates it, to sui,
her momentary purposes. One season her ports
are open; the next, shut: Now we have the
proclamation OF Provincial Governor, fraught
with one set of rules; one specification Of arli-
cies-neat-eatte, slaves, heading, shingles, corn
meal masts, turpentine, bowsprits, with a
motley catalogue in continuation; then some
!h'ng from the Treasury Chambers or His Ma
!estys Commissioners of the Customs, varying
IL Next again, an Order in Council, founded
upon some new scheme of policy; and lastly,
/, may be, a fresh act Of Parliament riding over
all that has gone before. So it has ever been, &
SO II Will continue to be, with Nation that
steadily seeks her commercial and maritime
aggrandzement, through her Colonial estab