Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1836-05-23
CONGREGATIONAL.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,,
| RIpAy, May l3.

necessity of asking permission OF the House t,
make another explanation.
Objection being made, Mr.. GRANGER move,
10 suspend the Rules, for tho purpose Of allowing
I the gentleman from Massachusetts to explain
which motion WAS agreed TO.
/ MIR. ADAMS said il would be rccolloe,ed h,
! the House that, IN the debate on Saturday last an
| insinuaion had been made by one of the mem
hefs oi the House, that in the negotiation Of what
was commonly called the Florida treaty, which
bad been concluded On the 22d Of February, 1910
the boundary line OF the United States had been
placed where II Wis, instead Of being extended
further o., IN consequence ofha,ng been ncgo-
tiated by HIM Mr. ADAMS y and as being u Nor
thern man, that II MIS- his wish 10 eNcuo from the
nitod States \ portion Of territory which would
be inhabited by shareholders, and, it admitted,
would send IA slave representative here ; and that
he had stated III consequence oi that in>lnnaton,
that the negotiation of the treaty made in this
place, under the immediate and direct eye OF
James Monroe, himself u stakeholder thai II was
carried on parl, by personal conferences and
partly by correspondence that Mr.. Monioe had
consulted At every step his cabinet, both with
respect 10 that boundary and with respect 10 eve
~ other claim On the part OF the United States
aud that he (Nlf A. was the last man in that cab
met 10 consent 10 any concession that he cons-
OF the United States, whether of territory or any
thing else, until ordered to rcccde from ii tia, he
further stated, that before the treaty was deGn-
lively concluded and after il had been generally
agreed upon, but before the United States were
under obligation 10 sign it, he was directed by
President Monroe 10 call upon Cen Jackson
and consult with respect TO the treaty, and with
respect 10 that boundary that he took the treaty
to Gen. Jack,ons lodgings, and that he kept ii
some time, perhaps ono OF two days, (hc had spo-
ken from recollection, and viii, that degree of
dldencc which every one must do, 50 speaking,
with regard to mere incidental circumstances, at
the expiration OF sixteen or seventeen ycars) but
that Gen. Jackson had, after retaining il some
time, returned the treaty to him with his approha-
lion oil il. This WAS the substance Of what he
had stated. Tins fact had not been denied by
the President OF the United States; and if
he did deny it. Mr. A. should feel himself
called upon to produce evidence ola different
character than hls own statements AT this time.
Mr. \. said that tins bad not been denied by the
President of the United States, bu indirectly in
II w>paprr OF this CIV edited and published by
the olllcitl printer OF this House, and furthermore
by the official printer of the Executive Govern
mcn'. The re Wis, III the FIRST place, two days al
ter he had made his statement, an editorial article,
stating that several members of Congress, who
were not named, had thought proper to call upon
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