Lincoln telegraph. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1836-1846, 1838-07-12
From the Kennebec Journal
JOHN FAIRFIELDsAND THE BOUN-
DAIRY.

JOHN FAIRFIELD AND THE BOUN
DAIRY.
We notice that all the Tory presses ant
Tory meetings are attempting to magnify
the services of John Fairfield upon thu
Boundary question. Let us look a littl'
into this matter, and see how the case
really stands. He has been in Congress
three wears, and what has he done! Whilt
the British were keeping possession oil o.'
territory, and our just rights we're greatly
impaired BY the wretched diplomacy OF oui
own Government, Mr.. Fairfield never
opened his head. To be sure when Mr
Evans moved TO insert an item in the ap-
propriation bill last year of SIC, 900 to run
the line, Mr. Fairfield we suppose voted for
il. And when Mr.. Evans this year intro
duced his bill to require the President TO
run the line as he was before authorized
10 do. Mr. Fairfield made speech, the
principal part of which was occupied IN
an effort, to urge the General Government
10 sustain our claim, butsto defend TIE neg
lect and bad management Of oar JNatsonal
Erecutive. And this is all the service Mr..
Fairfield has performed on the Boundary
question. For this we are called upon to
award him great praise!
No man ever had better opportunity
10 distinguish himself and at the same time
do the State great service. MI FAR
fold was promoted over the heads OF
great number of order and far ADLER men
by Mr. Speaker Polk, to be member Of
the committee Of Foreign Affairs. Here il
would have been exactly in the line OF his
duty to make a report upon the Boundary
question. if he had the requisite talents and
industry, which would have placed the
true state Of the case in strong light be-
fore the People of the whole Union. Such
a report, thus made under the sanction OF
the committee Of Foreign Affairs, would as a
matter Of course have been printed in large
numbers and distributed in every State
The whole people the Union would have
been made to understand the Importance
of our demand, and to feel that the ques-
lion at issue was National one. Why
did not Mr. Fairfield do this? Did he lack
the talents, or the industry, or the DISPOSE
ton? Did he fear to "embarrass' the lit
tie Magician, his master? Had Mr. Evans
been placed on that committee, as he ought |
to have been, we will guaranty that the
work would have been thoroughly and
faithfully done. But Nj Fairfield sat
regularly On the committee and did moth
ing. And now we are called on to give
him great praise for his services on the
Boundary question! Heaven save the
mark! This practice Of prescribing all the
talented Wings in Congress, and placing
little housing subservient partizans on the
most important committees, has character
ICED the policy Of the present and late adj
ninistratlons, ever since sio E~".iis~.s,
MacDufies and WickIiffes. who brought
Jackson into power, abandoned him, nm
ding he was falsfying all the pledges they
were authorised to make for him. 1t is
fact worthy of particular notice, that no
committee of Congress during Gen. jack
sons or Mr.. Van Buren's administration,
has ever made an elaborate report on the
Boundary, which can only be accounted
for by the peculiar organization of all the
Congress committees, on which all the
leading and able Wings have been exclu-
ded or overruled.
If John Fairfield has ever done any
thing, in Congress or out Of it, evincing the
integrity, Independent spirit, talents and
patriotism. which should qualify Chief
Magistrate OF IMaine, we beg to know
what it is, aud when he did it. The strong
est qualification we have yet heard is that
urged by. Albert Smith in his speech in the
State convention, in which he said that Mr.
Fairfield was particularly qualified 10 con-
duct the helm Of State, because in his youth
he commanded small coasting vessel
which he run ashore and lost.