Cheraw gazette. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1835-1838, 1836-02-09

tanned in his note of the Goth of January
have received, as he informs us by his note
of the 25th Of April, the entire appreciation
of the President.
Mr.. Livingston was not astonished that
those explanations as long as they were pre-.
sented only upon his personal responsibility,
did not produce upon us the eDscshe intend
ed; but he supposes that being now clo-
thed with the appreciation Of the Presi-
dent, they must satisfy all that the nj.
cest sense Of national honor could desire.
He therefore maks it point in his note
Of the 25tk, to report and to develope them
in the hope that the French government by
examining them anew, under the impress
sion that they had become the expression Of
the sentiments ofthe President, would deem
them sufficient. He is so much the more
anxious to impart to US his own conviction
on this subject, as he deems it impossible
for the government Of the United States TO
60 any further. He even seems to be ap-
prehensive that future events which he need
not specify, designating thereby, no doubt,
the adoption of the amendment Of the Cham.
Der of Deputies by the other two branches
of the government may hereafter render
improper any allusion to explanations pre-.
sented under the influence of different cir
cumstances.
We sincerely wish, sir, not to add to the
difficulties of the situation in which the two
countries are respectively placed. The
question Of date, to which Mr.. Livingston
seems, in this case, to attach an importance
which it belongs not to us to appreciate,
does not in any way alter either the nature
or extent of the duties which are prescribed
to us. If satisfaction had really been Civ.
en- to thejust susceptibility Of the French ma
ton as early as the goth Of January, (the
date Of Mr.. Livtngston's first note, } and
therfore previous to the adoption of the a.
mendment under consideration by the Cham
Der of Deputies, or as early as the 9th of
April, (the date of Mr.. Evingston's 2nd
note) that is to say, before the adoption Of
this same amendment by the other two
branches Of the l. yislature, we would be
sincerely gratifed. The more the gorern-
ment of the United States atouu haze shoDn
a Willingness to explain itself, the more noe
should be ourselves disposed to find the er-
pzanatious satisfactory, and to view the SOIL
citude of that government as testimony
in favor of the intentions which had dicta-
ted the message Of the President.
We will simply observe before we pro.
coed:
First, That even supposing the explana-
I tions, given by the note Of the 29th January,
to have been such rs we light have wished
them, they were on the 18th Of April, the
day of the passage of the amendment in the
Chamber Of Deputies, nothing more than the
simple expression ofthe personal sentiments
of Mr.. Livingston. This is an observation
that did not escape his notice.
We viii also observe that by the publica.
ton of Mr.. Livingston's correspondence, the
the Government of the q. S. had excited
against him such feeling of irritation that
it would have been out Of our power, even
supposing that we had considered that cor
respondence as containing nothing but what
was right and proper, to avail ourselves of
document bearing his signature, to repel
in one or the other of the Chambers the
amendment under consideration.
will now proceed to the examination Of
the explanations which have been offered to
U.s.
Mr.. Livingston is right in thinking that
our objections to the message of the Presi-
dent are confined to these two points,
1st, The message impeaches the good
faith of his Majesty's Government.
| I'd, 1t contains threat to secure the exc.
cution Of the treaty by the fear of reprisals.
1t is indeed under this point of view that
the message Of President Jackson excited in
France the greatest indignation. The Cab.
met Of Washington will readily admi. that
if the allegation were true, the indignation
would be just. No government, no people,
would for one moment bear itself either to
the direct or indirect imputation of want
of good faith, to the idea Of another Gov.
ernment or another people endeavoring to
obtain from it through menace, what would
only be granted by it to justice. 1t must
equally be admitted that when the impress.
sion produced by the appearance of any
document is general; when the impression
is felt, not only by the whole nation whom
the document concerns, but even by foreign
ers, by uninterested people, by persons the
least disposed to take part in the contest,
the very universally of that impression is a
sufficient evidence against the general tenor
of the document.
five examine in detail the message of
the President Of the United States, { mean
that part of it which relates to the relations
between the United States and France,) it
will possibly be found that passing success