The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1832-03-06
Political.
From tho Washington Globe.

80 nus oe' P"st "sts"so"' 'sso
tae action Of oar Government among for
eign nations
We have seen letter from gentle
man of Virginia, much conversant with
the politics of the State, to a member OF
Congress, in which the writer says, 81
have not heard man appreciate the re-
"iection of Mr.. Van Buren--EUen Mr..
"--your friend" 1--WE take leave To say
that the indiyiaual named is one of the
greatest ofVirginia's sons and never com
mitted in any way to the>administration)
CONDEMNS STRONGLY THE COURSE OF THE
"sENATE-He said, IL diSc0se,e ed a great
"ioant Of fmagnaiimify on the part of -.
g. and -, ich0 did not perceive that
'THEY WERE ACTING AS PARTY, WHEN
"THEy CONDEMNED WHAT THEY TERM
"PARrY INSTRUCTIONS" &c. &c.
There never was more just animad-
version than is contained in the last re-
mark.-The Senators who pretended to
see in the Presidents Instructions, an in
stance Of party appeal to foreign author
tiles did 50 for the purpose of anticipating
charge to which they knew their own
conduct would most Justly subject them.
hC ICoibNht diu iioe ShoVoS, ~ 'fS
instructions, to base .he negotiation ON
which he meant to enter with q. Britain,
upon his own opinion of the PRETENsIoN,
with regard to which that power had pro-
yiously refused to negotiate, nor upon the
opinion Of any individual, Of any Cabinet,
nor any party. The question had been
fully debated ia Congress, had been dis
cussed in the public Journals. and the
people had SO strongly indicated their
sentiments in relation to it, in the only
mode in which the nation can speak to
its funciionaries, that the President felt
himself authorised to declare to the En-
glish Government, that this country did
not claim arigM to have our commerce
with its West India possessions put upon
the same footing Of indulgence, that was
granted TO the British North American
Colonies. In doing this, the President
expressed what he considered not the
opinion Of n party, but the decisiono of the
sovereign authority in this countryside
judgment pronounced by a vast majority
of the people. In thus making known TO
his Minister abroad, his views of the
sense of the community with regard to n
VI III WHICH, ~ NuS
ested, how can it be pretended that the
President sought to bring political or
party divisions among us to bear in the
negotiation with the English Govern
ment q? So far from arraying the adverse
opinions of his administration against
that which preceded it, or of one party
against another party, he merges all diff
ferences Of this sort, by directing our
Minister to consider that "THE COUNCILS
''Dy snIca [His CONDUCT WAS TO BE pt-
ERECTED ARE TIE RESULT OF THE JUDG-
''MsNT OF THE ONLY EARTHLY TRIBUNAL"
the judgment Of the sovereign power in
TO decide upon the principles, which, us
nation, it shall have determined to as
sert. u is in this way that the President
chose to throw the whble moral weight
of an united people into the scale of the
negotiation. He told his Minister to
urge the demands he should make, as pro-
ceeding not upon instructions from him
self morely--his Cabinct-or his party,
but from COUNCILS" founded on the
JUDGMENT" of his country. And this
embodying Of the influence Of The whole
the great democratic principles which
give momentum to our government at
home and abroad, it is pretended by tho
opposition in the Senate, was, in effect,
10 make party appeal, and to present
broken front III urging our demands a.
broad
Mr.. Clay himself, even before the cx-
plratlon of Mr.. Adams term, became so
conscious that THE PRETENsIoN upon
which he at first insisted, would not be
supported by any party, that he directed
Mr.. Gallatin TO ''ioaipe" il. As the head
of bIs own party he resigned it. The
President therefore, in asserting that the
nation had condemned it, had Mr.. Clay's
own act towarrant the declaration. The
only difference then, between the ground
taken by the last ndmi nistration, and the
present, is, that the one was willing "fo
Daiue" what it considered to be right
while the other "couH ask nothing that
pas not clearly right," and would not be
satisfied with less. President jackson
would iodive nothing-and what he asked,
he insisted upoa as claim sustained 5y
the sense Of the nation-and yet il is pre-
tended that instructions thus expressly
based upon views to which all parties
had assented, and which were pressed
upon Great Britain as sanctioned by the
national 1iH--the sorsreign authority of
The country, pere party instructions m
Hop prepostcrous and absurd
How much more just is the animadver-
sion ofihe distinguished virginian, whose
remark we have quoted from the letter