Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1830-06-08
MONDAY MORNING., JUNE :, 1870.

The Colonial Frade-The New York CONNER
cal comments with severity on the Presidents mes
sage demanding the power necessary to enable him
to meet and enforce the expected satisfactory ad-
Justment of thu West India Trade, describes it as
solemn farce enacted for political effect at the mo-
ment Congress was about to dispense, alleges that
the Executive bad no sufficient grounds for the ex-
pectations 1t protested to entertain Of Mr. NcLanes
success, and concludes with the following declaration:
"As these dispatches Chose received by the Can
ada, gter the President S nessage) were read in Sc
cret session, we of course do not know their con-
tents; bu: tce do knop, that distinguished member
OF Congress received at the same time letter from
DIR Mcane, stating that oil his Efforts and eXertions
upon the subject of the Colonial prade had been
fTuitcss, and that the question apparently, no
nearer close now than it was two years ago."
Phe Commercial further says that Mr.. McI.ane
could get no answer whatever from Lord Aberdeen,
and that when the House of Representatives cd-
Journed, after the two hours secret session the
confidential message, the members of both parties
left the Capitol joking at the humbug."
The Commercial speaks with such confidence, and
its conclusion is strongly corroborated by the lit
tie the English papers vouchsafe to say the subject
Of this trade, that Until better evidence than
any yet before the public must OF necessity con-
cur IN its opinion that there no ground for the
confident expectations held by the President and
that the whole was political stratagem for popular
effect, concerted by him whose brain is an nexhaus-
tible storehouse of cunning and management We
shall be glad to find ourselves mistaken in this mat
ter, and the West India Trade direct, restored; not
from any belief of its value, but that being restored
the public may its wortblessness experimentaly
demonstrated, and estimate at what it is WORTH the
clamor occasioned by its loss under the late adj
ministraton, clamor the loudcst at the greatest
distance from those parts interested and which
we have always looked upon as merely one OF the
means used to bring Mr.. Adams into discrcdit.
In addition to the above from the New York Com.
merclal, the Daily Advertiser of tina. city ssys Mr.
McLane, our Minister to London, has written pri
vate letters to his friends stating that no advances
had been made IN the negotiation respecting the Co
onia irade but that the mattnr stood as did two
years ago There is very little probability of any
thing being done that will be- important to the inter.
csts Of this country"
E6ect Of and thoughts on he Teto.-Tbe New
York Commercial Advertiser of the Sd inst contains
the following paragraph:
As we remarked last evening, the last acts of the
President created great excitement and strong feel
ings or Indignation among many of those who had
been his warmest friends. Our assurances arc of
the most positive character, that bad not the Presi
dent kept back his Message against Internal I'M
provemens, until after the passage of his Eavorite
Indian BILL that bill would have been rejected bv n
decided majority. And as it Is. we have yerv
strong that weak does the admin,s ra-
ton feel itself, the President will not venture upon