Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1830-02-19

TOIIvCttuIuGS6
by withdrawing from the musty files of this debate,
tao testimony of the Senators from MARYLAND and
Maine (Gcn Smith and Mr. Holiness, respecting the
authorship of our Southwestern boundary between
the United States and Mexico, running along the
Sabine river, and zig gag line to the Pacific Coast
in latitude 40 Dig, established in the Florida trea-
ty. THIS fact would seem to be wholly imma,eral.
So it would have been but for that description of dem
agogucs to which have been audlng
The Ex-Presidcnt, Mr.. Adams, has been charged,
i'll series of numbers lately published in the West,
in the assumed name of "Americnnus,' and repub.
iished in this Metropolis, and rendered public ss
the party gazeites of the day make them, with
being the author of that line.
Had that been all, those numbers would probably
have produced no mischief in the unhaowed work
OF seciIonal prejudice, local luminosity aud civil dis
cord in the Western Country; but long catalogue
of,he darkest and most mpatrioiic motives were
imputed to him in those numbers. 1t represen
ted as having been done from that aboriginal, never
dying hostility to the West. which has been imputed
TO New England in this debate.
no have been done in concert with certain menu
bers IT the Hartford Convention, then supposed to
have been lurking about the city of Washington, to
prevent the increase of slave-holdrg States in the
Southwest 10 counterboance the non-slavc holding
States about to arise in the Northwest. To have
been done to dismembor the valley OF the Missssip.
ri. To have been done frum motives of hostility TO
the principles OF republcani-m and tho rights Of man,
and 20 prevent repubicanSm from migrating from
the United States to the interior of Mexico by the
OF vast desert spread between Missouri aud
the Mexican settlements on the Rio del Norte and
the Colorado OF the East
The publication of those infammatory and section.
al at civil discord, stabbng Mr. A. aft err it was
boosted that he down and helpless, and stabbing
at the standing and character of his friends through
him, placed in 4 somewhat awkward dilemma
mad supported Mr. Adams's election and adminstra-
ton. II was uncommon thing 10 be accos,ed with
language such as tiis "Lool at your Yankee presi-
dent, whom you have joined in preference to- Old
Hickory The enemy of RepubIcan principles and
the rights of mani The old and systematic enemy Of
the West The dsmemberer of the valley of the Mis-.
sssippi! The snake coied around the infant West TO
strangic her in her cradle, and prevent her deveope
ment and growth" Sir, was suspected OF the petty
treason of Yankeesm and of niidelty to my Country;
West" "
In conversation, attempted defence OF Mr. AS
motives, suggesting that it impossible auy man in
his elevated station could have been actuated by such
notivessuggestng his peerless defence of the title
OF the United States to Texas in his negotiations with
the Spanish Minister, Don Ons; and even the imposSi-
biiy ofhis having been able to control the President,
Monroe, and all his cabinet and the Senate of the II
States, If he had been the first 70 sugrcat that line
but TO the fact Of his being the author of the sa
gestion ofthat line, was "dumb lamb before his
shearers." for the truth is did not know how tina,
fact was, until the disclosure of it in this nninue de-
bate
Every good MAN and lover of the harmony of his
country must rejoice at the disclosure; that the Yves,
has been thus disahused that Mr.. A. hunted even in
his retirement, and the spirit of New England have
been thus rescued from the impuatons of their cau
natoT and that this fruitful of sectional prei
dice and jealousy has been thus eflcctualIy closed
The falsehood of the charge has thus been nlaccd
on high conspicuous object of the contempt OF ho
nora5le men, by the concurring testimony of the SEN
ator from Maryland the star of whose revolutionary
fame shone high i'll the armament before sAmericangs'
was born; and from the Senator from Maine who in
the darkest period of the late war; was considered no
enemy of tie Union of the West: and who ~ the
darkest period of the unhappy Missouri question. was
not considered enemy to Missouri, when taking e
official life in his hand he stood against the array of
public opinion IN New England and voted for the ad.
mission OF Missouri; and was forgiven by his consii,u
ens for the honesty and patriotism of his motives AL
though they did believe and doubt sincerely too.
that his vote was wroDgfor the whole mass of those
States Is opposed 10 the slavery OF man.
1t has been the fate Of this Senator toreceve an I'M
grateful thrust in the relentless rage of party spirit
from the same hand thas thrust the patriotic of
Kentucky, in this unhaowed debate of sectional pre-
judice. And when such spirit rules the debate LET
him rejoice with me that he has ESCAPED praise For
who can doubt the party reason for assailng the mo-
tyes OF the ustrlous dead-the venerable Fathers Of
New EnGland-In charging them with settled hostil-
y TO the West, account of their votes of antanitv
and visiting their imputed sins upon their children,
when we have witnessed the awkward atempt to po
down to posterity, the defender of Jeerson' fame
at the expense of Bayards, when the fact is now noto
rInus that Mr. Jefferson, in 1S03 contemplated deli
Tcring mp all the Louisiana purchase except the mouth
Of the Mississippi, to the dominion of the sayares and
wild beasts for Fifty years.
who cen doubt the party reason, which shouId ne.
yer find place in this once elevated body for embra.
votes would have prevented tie settlement of the
West, or its admission into the Union; and damninp
New England man, in his person, his posterity and his
ancestry, upon suspicion Of like opinion?
do not arE;Iign the motives Of Jefferson IN his phi
anihropca views IN favor of tue remnants of the once
powerful owners Of this continents nor those Of any
whose opinions do not admit Of their voting for the an
neXailon OF the Yves, TO the Union only arrairn the
garinGy inconsistent and sectional spirit of this de-
bate, at the bar of the Farewell Address of Wash.
ingtCn.
II The acquisition Of Florida must be tortured into
sectional measure, if individuals be entitled 10 the
praise or the ceusure Of the measures of govern
men, the treaty establishing the line between the u
States and Mexico would seem TO be rather Southern
measure hnd what good and tar-minded man cen.
sufc8 the motives acts of the South in acquiring
Florida when 1t could be had, and riskinE the future
extension Of our Southwestern line, when the increase
OF OR population shall require III
IS sufficient TO know, for the present tranquility
and harmony of the western country, that Mr.. Adams
was the last to abandon his justly renowned defence
ct our Former title TO Texas and the last 20 recede
from The line OF the Colorado Of The Gulf Of MEXICO
Bnt II the fact had been otherwise am AZ a loss To
know how The long list of sn-repubican and diabol.