Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1831-01-27

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for the purpose ola friendly explanation and
a renewal of former intercourse. The re-
port goes further and states, that on Dir. Adj
ans being asked whether. under existing
circumstances, such a visit would he agFeea-
bic, he replied thata visit FROM the President
of the United States would at any time bs
perfectly agreeable, and receive his most res
pectful consideration. This is just what
might be- expected from that great and good
but much In jured Statesman. We give the
report as We have heard it,, but must doubt
its correctness, as we are not acquainted
with such ah act of magnanImity and Jus
ice In the course OF Gen. Jackson's life.
Should it, however, turn out to be trne, We
sbUnld not only be gratified but would pro-
claim it seven upon the house tops"
Baltimore Patriot.
TIE Colonial Trade, Sc.-The New York
American has given some strictares upon the
Correspondence, lately published. between
the diplomatic functonaries of the United
States and Great Britain II we had insert
ed it IN extetso, we also should have some
thing to say upon it, and especially upon the
apologize mot to say begglng) tone, oil AIR.
McLlNE in addressing Lord ABERDEEN,
humbly asking, as it were, to be forgiven for
past errors, and again admitted INTO the
doors of our ancient mistress. In dsing this
DIR. McLANE no doubt acted IN what ne con-
sidered to be the spirit of bis instructions,
though he certainly exceeded the letter OF
them. Perhaps we may yet publish some
extracts from this Correspondence, which It
has been pretended has thrown all other Dip
omatic talent in the shade! Meanwhile the
following passages of Communication which
we find in the New York American concern
ing this same commercial arrangement, are
sufficiently Ineligible without the aid oil that
Correspondence.
Extract from Communication published IN
the New York .ams1ican
Bot most grave question grows out oftha
| Presidents Message OF Sd instant, comuluRi-
c.,ting the correspondence to Congress At
ter stating the points 10 whish the law OF the
last session was not satisfactory to Great Bfi-
tain, and that Mr.. Mcisspe had removed all
difficulties by asserting to the construction
which Lord Aberdeen had said would be &C
ccptable, the President thus proceeds:
ITO the interpretations given by them
Lord Aberdeen and Mr. McLane) to that
act, did not hesitate to agree. 1t was quite
clear that, in adopting the amendment re-
ierred to, Congress could not have intended
to preclude future alterations in the existing
Intercourse between the United States and o.
tber parts of the British Denlinions; and the
suppositon that the omission TO restrict, in
terms, the importations to the productions OF
the country to which the vessels belong. WAS
Intentional, was precluded by the propositions
previously made by this Government to that
Of Great Britain, and which were before
Congsess at the time Of the passage of the
act; ley the principles which govern the mari
time legislation Of the two countries, and by
the provisions Of the existing commercial
treaty between them
Now, humbly apprehend, that CONNER
cIa arrangements can be entered into, with
iert ign nations, in only one or two ways
lst, by treaty; ID, by law. In the first ease,
the treaty mast be ratified by the President
and two thirds Of the Senators; in the second,
the act must pass bo,h Houses and be appro-
we'd by the President What is the natue of
the recent arrangement? II is not pretended
that ii is a treaty, or that the Senate will 10
invited TO decide on 1t; nor can the trade TO
considered As opened by the late law enacted
proigssedly for that object The President
admits that lac has deviated, for the reasons
assigned by hin., from rule of construction,
which universally governs in the iateipreta-
ton Of statutes But Mr. Van Buren, is a
lawyer; and however ignorant he may be of
International affairs, he is well aware that,
when the language of statute is clear, we
| cannot look elsewhere for its meaning. lie
must also know, that the President has 90
right to alter an act Of Congress, and that ~
ny arrangement not warranted by law or
concluded as treaty, though assented TO by
the President, would be wholly void, and
| fraud on the government with which it is
! mace.
There is another circumstance connected
with this message, to which it is proper I'D
advert; the President speaks Of an ''amend-
taent engralted on the act in the House OF
Representatives" This aiIusion to inehoate
proceedings of Congress is as objectionable
IN prlnciplea as it is unprecedented in practice.
The Executive has not the initiative il Con-
gressional measures, and is understood TO
know nothing of an act of the Legislature
uatL it is presented to him for signature. In
England, indeed, such course as that re-
centiy adopted by the President, would, il
do not greatly err, be deemed breach Of
the privileges Of Parliament
AAIERICANUS.
The Albany Evening Journal asserts that
the Albany Regency, ''have determined 10
return MIR Sandlord to the Senate nj ths IT