The Arkansas advocate., 1832-03-21

 10 take notice oi acts Of Parliament, Lot speciouy and oDiciatty eonanslaaeoiea io uS. iimaglne VIC arc lot boutsa by I them, communicated to Us or Aot, but We are bound 10 kHoW all tliose tousa- ing our interests, and ans adminislfa- tionis severely reprehensible ior lgno- rance of them, and for failing to attend to those that bear iniurlously upon tho Interests of the people, The act Mas. however, at last known, and when Mir. GalIatin presented himseIlto negoiiates l with instructions to waive all claims lthat were formerly presented, and had Hprevented an arrangement, he was iauntingly told, you have lost Jour day lin court--thc privilege, tic coon, oher- ed, had not been secured by accepting the conditions; we have taken our course, negotiation is not our plan.-- Well, sir, what said the administration, of which the honorable Senator from i Kentucky formed apart? There WAS an act of Congress requiring, on the shutting of the British N est India ports against us, an interdiot by proelan'a- ton. Smarting under the taunting refusal to negotiate, " hat was done 2-- l The execution of an act oi ongress positively directing tke proclamation, was suspended by Executive. authority for two months before the meeting of Congress and during the whole succee- ding session, to see If Congress, who | .sion, from egislatlig--iile stoministras ton preferring the eclat Of q negotia- tion--could not legislate the Executive tout otsthe difficult, issss iieia he ,aei~pia- ced the couutry.by negligence, or, ii the Senator from Kentucky pleases, lgno-
 rapce of the act of Parliament. We Iali know how that effort tefminatcd.- The two Houses disagreed about the mode of ci1ecting the purpose; both, however, willing to take the privilege on the conditions proposed by Great Britain. The Senate passed blll---# the House, under the influence of the the Senator from Massachusetts, anse.s- ded if, and the question was, whether one or the other oi,!iqae path should De
 
 trodden. The session terminated witlr& out legislative enactment, and then, land not till then, the proclamation of Iinterdiction was issued. Thus, sir. smarting under the iauHt of tine British minister, our administration lett the whole trade in the hands Of Great Brit- ain for six or eight months,--soughl 10 cover itself from eensure by invoking Legislative inteGposition, and then, vas compelled 10 act on the suspended statute. The interdict being proelaim- ed, the trade stood upon the very nd. yantageous footing, according to the Senator judgment, whisi Ii ws have lost lost 3. by the negotiation. Notwithstanding we were, eryoying such eminent odvanta~ gcs, the late administration, in spite of the taunt, directed Mir. Galis.ti.. lo try fagain to procure what is now disparag- ted, by opening the doorof negotiation aHerit had been shut in his face. He was again repulscd. But this humiIa- Ttion was not enough; Mr. Barbour was sent to London, and he too had his in- lstructions; and went, cap in hand, knocking at the closed door for negoti- aticn. Sir, he !.aoclad ;;t the door off the British ministry, under circumstan- ces humllating in the extreme. If gentleman should go a second time to a house, the proprietor of which, speak ing from his window, had directed his fporter to deny inn to the visiter, his visit would have been somewhat like Mir. Barbour's. second call. Yes, sir; yet the humiliation was vain--the se- |cand as fraitless as the first.
 Such was the condition of this quess ton when Gen. Jackson was placed at the head of the country. One of the ! first objects of his administration was the recovery of the British West India trade, an arrangement of it upon terms of just reciprocity, satisfactory to both rariies, and therefore promising te be permanent. Mir. MLane was select ed to go to England, and these much abused instructions prepared hy the late Secretary of State. Let it be rcmen,- E.bered, sir, these are instructions from the President of the United States 10 the American Minister, never intended toI for the # eye Of ti1e Briitisi, Government, and which in no other country but ours, would ever have seen the light.
 The opening of this negotiation was ! tho ob;of J.Ho,lt,,s sfs< ..<,.v,oxrc if too