Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1832-02-16


less contributed to, a result so much TO be
regretted, there will be found three
ground, upon which we are most assail-
able, ,st, in our too long and too tena-
ciously resisting the right Of Great Brit
ain 70 impose protecting duties in her col
oniss;" end, &c.
eThe opportunities which you have
derived from participation in our public
councils, as well as other sources of in
formation, will enable you to speak with
confidence (as fur as you may deem it
proper and useful so to do ofthe respec-
tive parts taken by those to whom the ad-
minis,rs,,on of this Government is now
committed, in relation to the course here
tofore pursued upon the subject ofth CO.
loniai trade. Their views upon that
point have been submitted to the people
Of The United States; aud the counsels by
which your conduct is now directed are
the result Of the judgment expressed by
the only earthly tribunal to which the
late administration was amenable for its
acls. Ii should be sufficient that the
claims set up by them, and which caused
the interruption of the trade in question,
have been explicitly abandoned by those
who first asserted them, and are not re-
vived by their successors. IL Great
Britain deems il adverse to her interests
to allow US to participate in the tade
with her colonies, and finds nothing in
the extension Of it to others to induce her
to apply the same rule to us, she will, we
hope, be sensible ofthe propiety fplac-
ing her refusal on 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 existing circumstances, be unjust
in itself, and could not fail to excite their
deepest sensibility. The tone of feeling
which course 30 unwise and untenable
is calculated to produce, would doubtless
be greatly aggravated BY the conscious.
ness that Great Britain has, by order in
council, opened her colonial ports to Rus
sia and France, Notwithstanding a similar
omission on their part 10 accept the terms
offered by the act Of July, 1925. You
cannot press this view Of the subject too
earnestly upon the consideration of the
British ministry. II has bearings and
relations that reach beyond the immedi-
ate question under DISCUSSION"
81 will add nothing as to the impropri-
ETY. of suffering any feelings that find
their origin in the Yast pretensions Of this
to have an adverse influence
upon the present conduct Of Great Brit
ain"
Sir, l submit 10 you, and to the candor
Of all just men, f l am not right in say
ing that the perading topic, through the
whole, is, not American Rights, not A
nerican interests, not American defence,
'ut denuncIation Of past pretensions Of our
'wn country, reflections on the past Ad-
and exultation, and loud
liam Of merit, for the Administration
'ow in power. Sir, l would forgive
Mistakes; | would pardon the want Of in
ormation; ! would pardon almost any
hing, where saw true patriotism and
ound American feeling: but l cannot
orgive the sacrifice Of this feeling to
,ere Party. l cannot concur in sending
broad public agent who has not con-
options so large and liberal, as to fee,
lat IN the presence of foreign Courts a.
'ldst the monarchies of Europe, he is to
and up for his country, and his whole
ountry; that no jot nor title of her hon
r is to come to harm in his hands; that
e is not to suffer others to reproach Ell
Ter his Government or his Country, and
lr less is he himself to reproach either;
lat he is to have no objects in his eve
ut American objects, and no heart in
is bosom but an American heart; and
,at he is to forget self, to forget party,
forget every sinister and narrow feel
g, IN his proud and lofty attachment to
e Republic, whose commission he bears.
Mr.. President, | have discharged an
sceedingfy unpleasant duty, the most
pheasant ofmy public life. But have
oked upon it as duty, and it was not
be Stunned. And, sir, however un- I
'portant may be the opinion of so hum
e an Individual as myself, | now only '
18Th that might be heard by every In c
pendent Freeman in the United States, v
the British Minister, and the British
ing, and by every Minister and every il
o*ned head in Europe, while standing d
re in my place, l pronounce my re- y
Ike, a. solemnIy and as decisively as / q
n, upon this first instance, in which an n
nerican Minister has been sent abroad d
the Representative Of his Party, and o
as the Representative of his Country. ii