Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1832-03-01

Is TO push other preposerous parts of into failures when
uououess WIN Characteristic magnanmiy YOU will tcaire
those too But, Sir, am against YOUR American system
throughout, so Tar as understand ;-hc whole being
ae Oh pesenng pretensions, from the disastrous
qucnces oil WINCH sincerely wish the American people
could escape by denouncing YOU your diplomacy aud do
nestle policy, at home and abroad
Having considered part of vour cons IN ss,bo
instructions you interpret them let us see whether
your Interpretation is more than YOUR incubation
OF them is susanable And here il must be obvious t
the most careless reader that your
has betrayed you into your usual of discrimination
Had you any thing OF the camness and moderation OF the
man you were wanony attacking, you would have per
ceivcd that he did not say, that our side an was
wrong; on the British side all was right but that he inorn
ed his Minister, that sthere were three grounds ON which
most assailabe" Now was this assertion ,r,,c
not and not, wherein was il false? This is The only
question: on whose solution rests the guilt innocence of
That assertion III was true, why should our Minis
ter be impressed with its truth and instructed to inform
himself and make of all the circumstances connected
with this negotiation, which might explain and ,ngofe
aye, Sir' ""tSufe-yomrc errors in conducting it, With
trick of verbal Juggling, which you have doubtless
often pracsed as an Attorney TO the great myscaion
OF Kentucky juries, you have seized a word with
which you hope TO deude the great jury of the Amer-
people But let you, Sir that we clearly
understand both you and late Secretary and
that it imputed offences of this nation but YOUR
conduct in managing its foreign affairs that he wished
explained, palated ntgafed: while YOU would have ms
believe that he instructed Envoy acknowledge our
(he American peopes espasses, and seprecate Great
Britains wrath You cannot deny this without contra
dieting great lion and eagle paragraph. Yet so con-
fused your IDEAS reckless and at random YOUR ac-
cusaons, that, in the column of your speech Won
r..
vored TO attach the late Administration the scrcd of
bringing forward uniounded petcnsons and by disclan-
ing Them propitiate the favor of the British King
In one columns the sin of the Secrearys instructions was
that they lodged This nation to have been assaa
BILE on three grounds and TO be seeking circumstances
which migh mitigate its offences; but in the next coInn
this sin changes its complexion more beinous
by relieving the nation from this disrcpuabe predcament
and making the late administration the the sacr
hce TO propitidte foreign wrath At one time we are
told that the Secrcarys guilt lay sin postratng and de-
grading the American Eagle before the British Lon but
soon comes another count of the Indictment describing
the offence dlitereny-vz: that he throwing Henry
Clay at the feet of George Nv. make no apology for
separating you from the late President our transactions
abroad for it is exactly what you with regard TO your
successor in office.
But, to return TO the Instructions They say we were
assaable in long too tcnaciousiv resisting Tho
right of Great Britain impose protecting duties in her
own colonies After your instructions to Mr. Gallain Of
April 1927 perhaps the most unparalleled audacity
on record is your open denial the floor of the Senate
OF the truth OF that part of those Instructions obnoxious
TO well they may be- because they are forcibe
comment on the weakness OF your diplomacy. III Won
had not too long and too tendcosiy resisted the right
Great Britain TO impose protecting duties her own
colonies why did you instruct Mr. Gallatin to waive
~ question Of right that subject? Will you pretend
that you receded after having resisted TOO long
and too tenacousy, but exactly at the right moment
when the event the contrary and convcs YOU out
OF mouth, of waving rights to no purpose
and of soliciting in vain TO be "sUrFrRED to enoy az
PRIVILEGES" granted boon from our naughty rival
in commerce, t1at which you had insisted insist
belong TO us Under the laws of nations? But your speech
raises this further objection TO that part of the Instructions
ed only temporarily TO waive You Sir the great patron
of the protecting system here deny TO other nations to ex
tend the benefit OF great blessing their own terri
tories. If Great Britain impose protecting duties
in her colonies, who, in the name of common sense
cam You must be familiar enough with the common
places OF our history TO know, that with all noble
jealousy of the authority of The mother country when
we were colonies we always admitted her right to lay
duties on our commerce to regulate trade. have not
heard that Canada the West Indies has denied that
privilege to the parent ream at least if there be any
putc that subject between the different parts of the
vet i'm no rio IN mad
die with it. We recognize laws of trade made
by any Colonial Legislature Who then has the nriv
lege OF extending TO colonial countries the infinite
good of a protective system? You, SURELY would
not have the heart to deny TO those countries other
wise so notwithstanding in a state of pupilape-
the balmy blessing of navigation laws and a tariff
II must have been this humane reflection which
forced you to admit the general rule that every nation
has right to favour its own productions, by protecting
duties other regulations and il was TO save voursef
from papable contradiction that you added but like
all general rules, 1t must have its EXCEPTIONS. This Sir
is characteristic specimen Of your logic and of the con-
fused view you take of every thing You reason thus
he rule you have staedis general rule-all general
rules have Observation-Disclosures Sc But YOUR MAORI 10
wrong. That which you have stated to be but general
is universal rule and universal rules have no
tons. Here fairly at issue-and refer the dec
sion OF the question to the American people, without cit
ing an authority or adding argument. If they have
not knowledge enough such subject decide against
you, they may be Ignorant enough TO place the govern
men of all foreign relations under the auspices of
man, who denies the universally of one of the most oh
yious important and pervading principles OF nterna-
uonal law. But if they not thus ignorant Mr. CLAW
as ondy believe they not, you hope TO be
President
But if TO set up any Limitation to the rule or rather prn
cpc, in question: showed your ignorance Of national law
That which you attempt to place upon ii is so absurd that
with full knowledge Of the vagueness of YOUR concep
uos ana tie entire want OF severity your mental one
rations cannot think you really believe i'm the xccnton
you would establish You think that the RIGHTS NJ
nation overs own territory, all dependant on The
position OF that territory You must know that we have
the same right TO regulate the trade of foreign nations
with Florida that we have to regulate it with the District
which now receives the hebdomada illumination of vour
harangues Cam them seriously think that our xta
position TO Canada impars the rights of Great Britain over
That colony! If that be the rule must work both wavs
and the uXta-potion of New-Yorl to Canada must i'm
pair the authority of the United States in lis action on that
powerful member OF this confederacy; and we must cx
pect That you viii advocate any petition which our north.
eIn borderers may hereafter make TO Congress 10 let
them import free of duty, whatever British goods thev
may buy in Montreal Quebec with the proceeds of The
wheat and they fortunate as 10 find n oooI
Van Buren,, for not thinking that the vicinity of his own
state TO the British possessions, gives that power anv
claim right il whatever least Won should not
call his differing from you in this respect and expressing
ms difference TO his own Minister, oxering his ngcnui.
" 10 put his own country in the wrong"
But you say, that you believe the claim in question
he Fgbt 10 Tie admission into the British West Indies of
the produce OF the u. States upon equal footing with
similar produce # the British Continental Colonies CO.
cVal WIN the existence of present Constitution" and
certainly that II is old Mr.. Madison's Administration
shall not initiate the reckessness with which YOU make
assertions by positively denying This for have not ac-
cess to the documents which would enable me To sneak
with certainty the subject. Yet | NAV saw without
that have the least doubt about H. and
that confidently believe that your assertions in regard 10
1t are ncorrec for will not use the phrase untrue
which you TO prefer such occasions Nor wIff