Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 182?-183?, 1832-02-24

Quebec and New Brunswick The farmers
and graziers of Maine differ in opinion with
The Senator from kentucky, ,(Mr. Clay, }
and are really So simple as 10 believe that
their tree intercourse with Lower Canada
and New Brunswick, is highly beneficial to
mem. whether the intercourse with the
Brush North American Colonies be ben
ehcIal or whether il be injurious the pres
ent administration nor Mr.. McIaue had lit
Tie part in It. 1t had been effected, in part,
before the arrangement was concluded, ; and
and soon after for another part 1t formed,
as have previously said, no part of the ar
rangement with Great Britain, s. this fact
must have been known by the Senator, { Mr.
Clay,) for he then acted as Secretary OF
State. We have nearly halfa century been
claiming the free navigation of the St Law
renee as natural right. 1t has at length
| been gratuitously conceded to us by Great
Britain, and now the Senator from kentuc-
Ky, (Mr. Clay complains OF it as griey-
anCe
The Senator, (Mr. Clay ) also complains
that the instructions state, chat the late Ad-
minlStraton had abandoned certain preten-
| sIons." The Senator admits that these pre-
tensions had been tcdiued. The Senator from
Georgia, Mr.. Forsyth, y has commended there
is no difference in substance between these
words: leave this grave question TO be
settled by those learned Senators, and will
proceed TO show whatthose pretensions were,
and which, | can hardly restrain myself
from prenouncing, were puerile in the ex-
IRENE.
During the Session of 1920, Congress was
informed, that an actwas pending in Parli
ament, for the opening ofthe Colonial ports
TO the commerce of the United States. In
consequence, an act passed, authorizing
the President, in case the act Of Parliament
was satisfactory 10 him, to open the ports of
the U. States TO British vessels, by his proc
!amation. The Act Of Parliament was
deemed satisfactory, and proclamation was
accordingly issued and the trade commenced.
Unfortunately forour commerce, and | think
contrary to justice, a Treasury circular issu-
ed directing the Collectors to charge British
vessels entering our ports, with the alien
tonnage and discriminating duties. This
order was demonstrated against, q think)
by Mr. Vaughan. The trade, however,
welt on uninterrupted. Congress met, and
bill was drafted in 1923, by Mr.. Adams,
then Secretary of State, and passed both
Houses, with little, if any debate. voted
iorit, believing that it might meet, in spir-
IT OF reciprocity, the act of Parliament
This bill, contained, however, one little
word, 'elSewhere,, which completely de-
feated all our expectations. 1t was noticed
by no one. The Senator from Massachu-
sets, (Mr. Webster, ) may have understood
its effect. If he did not understand ii, he
was silent. The effect of that word ''else-
where was 10 assume the pretensions allud-
ed 10 in the Instructions What were they?
"That the produce of the United States
should be received in the West Indies, on
payment of the same duties as were payable
on the produce of the American Colonies "
The British Minister said, Gas well might
we ask that our sugar should be received
Tree OF duty as is the sugar of Louisiana.
The result was, that the British govern
ment shut their colonial ports Immediately,
and thenceiorward. The act of 1922 gave
US monopoly ofthc w est India Trade 1t
admitted free of duty, variety Of articles,
such as Indian corn, oats, Indian, meal, pease,
beans, &c. sc. sc.
The British government thought that we
entertained The belief that they could not do
without our produce, and by their acts of
9th June, and 9Th July, 1925, they open
ed their ports TO all The world, on terms far
less advantageous 10 the United States than
those OF the act Of 1922, and these are the
pretensions which the instructions say, had
been abandoned by the late administration.
They were abandoned, Mr.. President, by
the following words in the instructions to
Mr. Gallatin That the United States con-
sent to 1UaiUe the demand which they have
heretofore made of the admission of their
productions into British colonies, at the
same and no higher rate of duty as similar
articles are chaFgeable with, when imported
from one into another British colony, with
the exception OF our produce descending the
St Lawrence and the Sorel. Now, sir,
what difference there may be between the
words waiver" and abandonment" in
common parance, i is in this case a COM
plete abandonment in diplomatic language.
w hat in simple truth, is after ALL the great
ground Of rejection? Ii is this-Mr. Nc
Lane has madean arrangement conformabIy
TO the preceding instructions from MIR. Adj
ans to Mr.. GaIlatn. Hinc iH2 lGchryme.
The dissolution Of the late Cabinet, MIR.
President, has heen charged upon Mr.. Van
Buren, and tUhat is there athome or dbroad
that zoe hare not heard charged to him p
The elder Adams changed all his Cabinet,
except the Secretary of the Navy The
change was approved by che Democratic
party, and diSapprOved by the Aristocracy
OF the day. A changeof Cabinet is, there
fore nothing new. we now grieve and Ia
ment over the late change, and yet never
was Cabinet more traduced than the late
one, by the whole body ofopposition through
out the Union. The Cabinet certainly was
such an one as did not meet the views or APP
probation of the friends of the Administra-
tion. They regretted in silence the selec
tons which the President had made. The
gentlemen selected were honest and bonora-
BILE men. They were my political friends,