The Arkansas advocate., 1832-03-07

adverse to ferinierests ioallow ustopar- ticipate in the trade with her colonies, and finds nothing in the extension of 1t toothers, ,toinduceher to apply the same rnle to ns, she will, We hope. be sensible of the proprety of placing her refusal OF those grounds. To set up the acts of the late administration as the cause of forfeiture of privileges which would otherwise be extended to the People of the United States, would, under exist
 ing circumstances, be unjust in itself, and could not fail 10 excite their deepest |sensibility. The tone of feeling which a course so ounwise and untcnable is cal culated to produce, would doubtless be greatly aggravated bj' the consciousness thatGreat Britain has. by order in coun- eiiit opened her colona! ports ports te Russia and France, notwithstanding a similar omission, on their part 10 accept the terms offered by the act of Juiys 1895. You cannot press this view of the sub Iiect too earnestly upon Reconsideration of the British Ministry. It has bear ings and relations thatreach beyond the immediate question under discussion. ,
 s'i wifi add nothing as to the ippro- priety of suffering any feelings that find their origin in the past pretensions of this Government 10 have an adverse in- Anenee upon the present conduct of Great Britain
 Sir, submit to you and to the eandor of all just men, if am not right in say ing, that the pervading topic, through the whole, is, not American Rights, not American interests, not American de- fence, but denunciation of past preten- sions of our own country, reflections OH the past Administration, and exultaton, and a loud claim of merit, for the ad- ministration now in power. Sir, l would forgive mistakes; ] would pardon 8lle. want of information; iwould pardon al- most any thing. where ] saw true patri- otism and sound American feeling but cannot forgive the sacrifice of. this feel.
 ing to mere Party. ] cannot concur in sending abroad a public agent who has not conceptions so large and liberal, as to feel, that in the presence of for eign Courts, amidst the monarehies of
 Europe, he is to stand up for his coun- try, and his whole country; that no iot nor title of her honor is to come charm in his hands; Chat lie Is not to suffer others to reproach either his Govern ment or his country, and far less is he himself to reproach either; that he is 10 have no objects in hiseye but American objects, and no heart in his bosom but an American heart; and that he IS 10 forget self, to forget party, to forget ev- cry sinister and narrow feeling, in his proud and lofty attachment to the Re public, whose commission he bears.
 Mir. President, l have discharged an exceedingly unpleasant duty, the most unpleasant of my public life. But l have looked upon it GS c duty, and it was not to be stunned. And, sir, how ever unimportant may be the opinion of so humble an individual as myself now only wish that might be heared by cv- cry Independent .freemenin the United States, by the British Minister. and the British King, and. by every Minister and every crowned head in Europe. while standing here in my place. l pro. nounce my rehnke, as soiemnly and as decisiyely as can, upon this first in- stanee, iu which an American Minister has been sent abroad. as the Represen- tative of his Party, and not as the Rep sentative of his Country.
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