Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1830-02-19

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the testimony Of the Senators from Maryland and
Maine (Gcn. Smith and Mr. Holmes, respecting the
authorship of our Southwestern boundary between
the United States and Mexico, running along the
Sabine river, and ri gag line to the Pacific Coast
i'll latitude 40 dg as established in the Florida trea
ty. This fact would to be wholly imrnaterial.
Sc it would have been but for that description of dem
agogues to which have been alluding
The Ey-Presdent Mr. Adams, has been charged, .
in series of numbers lutey published in the W est
in the assumed name Of "Amercnnus," and repub-
lished in this Metropolis and rendered as public as
the purity gaze:tes OF the day can make them, with
being the author OF that line.
Had that been all, those numbers would probably
have produced no mischief in the uni,allowed work
Of SECTIONAL prejudice, local anilnosity ard civil dis
cord in the Western Country; but long catalogue
ofthc darkest and most unpatrotc motives were
imputed to him in those numbers. 1t was represen-
ted having been done from that aboriginal, never
dying hostility to the West, which has been imputed
to New England in this debate.
To have been done in concert with certain menu
bers of the Hartford Conventions then supposed to
have been lurking about the city of Washington to
prevent the increase of holding States in the
Southwest to counterbalance the non-save holding
States about to arise in the Northwest To have
been done to disrnember the valley of the Mssiss
pi. To have been done from motives of hostility to
the principles ofrepublicanisn and the rights OF man
aad to prevent republicanism from migrating from
the United States to the interior of Mexico, by the
means OF vast desert spread between Missouri and
the Mexican settlements the Rio del Norte and
the Colorado of the East.
The publication of those infiamu1atory and section
al essays civil dscord, sabbing Mr. 4. aft er it was
boosted that lie down and helpless, and sabbng
at the standing and character of his friends through
him, placed me in somewhat awkward dilemma. I
mad supported Mr.. Adams's election and adninistra
ton- II was uncommon thing to be accosted with
language such as this: "Look at your Yankee rrcsi-
dent, whom you have joined in preference to Old
Hickory! The enemy of Republican PRINCIPLES and
the rights of man! The old and 81 stenia,c enemy of
the West The dismemberer of the valley of the Ms
sissippi! The snake cooled around the infant West TO
stranse her in her cradle, and prevent her deveope
rDent and growth" Sir, I suspected of the pety
treason of Yankeesm, and OF niielity to my counry
aye ar being "unlineal and bastard SON of the
West"
In conversation, attempted a defence OF Mr. As
motives suggesting that it impossible any man in
his elevated station could have been actus,ei y such
mo,'ves-suggestng his peerless defence Of the title
OF the United States to Texas in his negotiations with
tue Spanish Minister, Don ons and even the npossi-
bity OF his having BIZ able to control the Pr.sie,,
Monroe and all his cabinet and the Senate of the IT
States, il he had been the first to sRgeat that line.
but as 10 the fact Of his being the author OF the sur
geston Of that line, was "dumb as lamb before h?s
shearers. for the truth is, did not know how that
fact was, until The disclosure of in this unique de-
bate.
Every good man and lover of the harmony Of hi;
country must reoice at the disclosure; that the West
has been titus dIsabused; that Mr.. A. hunted even in
ms retirement and the spirit Of New England have
been thus rescued from the imputations of their ca,nm-
n!ator; and that this fruitful source of sectional pre
dice and Jealousy has been thus effectuay closed
the faisehood OF the charge has thus been placed
on high conspicuous object of the contempt of ho
noratie men, by the coRclrrn testimony of the SEN
ator from Maryland, the star of whose
fame shone high in the armament before "a meyicsnus
was born; and from the Senator from Maine, Who in
the darkest period of the late wax was considered
enemy of the Union, of the West; and who AT The
darkest peSiod of the unhappy Missouri question was
not considered an enemy to Missouri, when taking is
official life in his hand, he stood against the array f
paoc opinion in New England, and voted for the ad
MISSION OF Mssouri and was forgiven by his consti,,
ens Tor the honesty and patriotism of his motives al
though they did believe, and doubt sincerely
that his vote was wrongfor the whole mass of those
States is opposed to the slavery of man.
IL has been the fate of this Senator receive an UNI
grefui thrust the relentless rage Darty shirt
from the same hand tat thrust the patriotic SON nj
kentucky, in this unhalowet debate of sectional pre
JUDGE AND when such spirit rules the debate let
him rejoice with that he has escaped praise For
who can doubt the party for assailne the mo-
tives of the llustroas deadbe venerable Fathers of
New Engand-in charging them with settled hostil-
ity TO the west on account of their votes of antiquity
and visiting :heir imputed sins upon their children
when we have witnessed the awkward ATTEMPT to 90
down to posterity, the defender Of Jeersons fame
at the expense of Bayards when the fact is nov oo
rious that Mr. Jefferson in 1908 contemplated del;
verlng up all the Louisiana Purchase except the mvu,h
OF the Mississippi to the dominion OF the saraces and
wild beasts, for fifty years!
WHO oan doubt the party reason which should no.
yer IND place in this once elevated body for embra
eng the Roanoke, whose well known opniops and
votes would have prevented the settlement Of the
a
New England in his person, his posterity and his
ancestry, upon suspicion of like opinion?
DO not arr'sn the motives of Je ferson in his pbi
ianihTopca views in favor of, the remnants of the once
powerful owners Of this continents nor those of anvt
whose opinions do not admit of their voting for te an
ne%aton OF the West to the Union only arr,iru the
gaFnsly Inconsistent and sectional spirit of this de-
ington. - ''Sh-
1t the acquisition of Florida must be Tortured into =
sectional measure, or If individuals be entitled o ,he
oc
ment, the treaty establishing the line between the T.
States and Mexico would to be rather sou,he
measure And what good and fair-n,nded man cen
cures the motives or acts of the South, in ACQUIRING
FLORIDA when could be had, and tisking the f;,,nr
extension OF our Southwestern line when The ;prrsas
OF our population shall require IL?
n Is sufficient to know, for the present tranquility
was The last to abandon his justly renowned d.G.nce
OF our former title to Texas and the last to recgd
rom tne me OF The Colorado Of the Gulf Of Mexico
know how the long last Of an-republican and diabo
cal motives ascTibed to bim which now stand like Ma
i'm he ir t..iFl,