The Arkansas advocate., 1832-03-07

tration was brought about by public dis appreciation of Mir. Adams conduct, respecting the subject of tue colonial trade ossi'ia5 so much is tt!e.ss:s.ia on subject which so few understood, some degree of impression may have been produced by 1t. But be assured, sir, another cause will be found, by fu- ture historians, for this change and that cause will be the popularity ofa success iul soldier, united with feeling, made to be considerably extensive. that the preferences of tine People in lis behalf had not been iustlyregardcd, ,on preyi- ous occasion. There, is, sir, very little ground to say thatEthe only tribunal to which the late administration was anc- fafbie iiaas pronounced aiiy judgment against it for it's conduct on the whole subject, of the colonial trade.
 But, however tiiis may be. the oslHseY assertion in the paragraphs manifestly quite wide of the facts. Mr. Adams administration did not bring forward this claim. have stated, already, that i 1t had been subject, bothof negotia- ltion and dlegIslatioii, through the whole eight years of Mir. gMonroe's adn1inis- tration. This the Secretary knew, or was bound to know. Why then does he speak of it as set up by the late ad- ministration, and afterwards abandoned l by them. and not now revived?
 But the most humiliating part of the 1 whole follows:
 ssIo>set atp the atts oft the lote adoti5eis- tration,' 'os the cause of foyteit,ue of pri- giiegcs, ahaeh 7rould ofherzOise De cnteaded so the People of the Uaited ssates, mould, atoader eaisting eircaunstonces, De aWjust ID itseIf, and mould not fail to eucite then. deepest se,ssibiFy.n
 So then, Mir. President, we are re- duced, are we, to the poor condition, that we see a minister of this great Re public instructed to argue, or to inter- cede, with the British minister, lest he should find us to hare foJeited our pla9a- feges; and Jest ftese priuileges should ao ] ionges be entended 10 usi And we have 1 1forfeited those privileges by our nisbeha- viour, chusing rulers, seho thought bet- fer of our o1srs claio., ata,, of the Brlash! 1 Why, sir, this is patiently submitting 10 tbe domineering tore of the British Minister. believe Mr. Huskisson-
 Mir. Clay said mo, Mir. Canning. ]- Mir. Canning, then sir, who told us that ali our trade with the West Indies was q boon, granted to us by the indulgence of England. The British Minister calls it boon, and our Minister admits ii is q privilege, and hopes that his Roy al Majesty will be too gracious to de- eide that we have forfeited this privi- leee, by misbehaviour, in the choice of our rulers! Sir, for one, l reject all idea of holding any right of trade, or any other rights, as a privilege ora boon. from the British Government, or any other Government.
 At the conclusion of the paragraph, the Secretary says, "You cannot press this vieze of tue subject too earnestly upon the consideration of the British Ministry t has bearings and relations hdt reach beyond the immediate question under dis 'cussio1e.
 And adyelting, again, to the same subject towards the close ofsthe des- patch, he says, q aviH odd nothing os to the lmpropriety of sa6ering arsy Jecliggs that find their origin ise the past preten- tons of this Gorernnaent, to have a1s ad- perse iafuence upo,athe present conduct of Greot .Britaiin.''
 1 ask.again, Nr. President, if this be Statesmanship? if this be dignity? if this be elevated regard for country ?-- Can any manread this whole despatch, with candor? and not admit, that 1t is l'plainly and .manifestly the writer's.- l Here the copy is defective.
 l Lest Ishould do the Secretary inlus- tice, J will read all that find, in this letter, upon this obnoxious point. These arc the paragraphs:
 t.Sach is the present slate zor CUT 1 commercial relations with the British "colonies; and such the steps by which sswc have arrived at it. ln reviewing "the events which have preceded, and "more or less contributed to, result so .smuch to be regretted, there will be sslound three grounds upon which We "are most assailable, lst, in our too long E"ant too tenaciously resisting the right s.of Great Britain 10 impose protecting 'sduties in her colonies; End, Ssc.
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