The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1838-09-18

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CONDUCT OF THE ADMINISTRATION
| IN RELATION TO OUR DIFFICULTIES
WITH MEXICO.
The following is the concluding portion of the
appendix to J. @. Adatns's famous Texas speech
from which it will appear, that upon this subject,
the conduct of our present Tory administration,
has not been less heterogeneous towards the peo-
pie of the United States than towards the gov
eminent of Mexico.
The retort upon Howard, contained in the fol-
lowing extract and the bold challenge thrown
out to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and to
the South Carolina delegation, are in Mr. Adanis's
happiest style-Indeed, we regard the following
paragraphs as among the most eloquent which
ever came from the authors pen.-Boston Alias.
But the duplicity, which l have charged upon
the late and present administrations of our Gov
erRment, in the conduct of our national inter-
signazed by its bearing upon those foreign States,
but it has been practsed with equal assiduity up
OH the people of this Union themselves. 1t
practised by the legerdeman trickery which
struggled through both Houses of Congress, a.
gainst the repeatedly declared sentiments of a
large majority of the House of Representatives,
in the form of contingent appropriation for
Minister, the recognition Of the Republic of Tex
as. 1t has been practsed by the long-protracted
suppression of all debate in both Houses, most
nll v in he nf Ram nfiyoS
corning our relations with Mexico, and, above
ALL with regard to the annexation of Texas to
this Union. The systematic smothering Of all
petitions against this measure, extended to the
resolutions ofseven State Legislatures, could have
no other intention than TO disarm the resistance
| against it which was manifesng itself through
out all the saveless States of the Union. 1t was
distinctly seen, that ifa full, free, and unshacked
discussion of the question in the House of Rep
resentatives should be permitted, its issue would
show an overwhelming majority against the meas
ure ut this time.
| In no stronger light this double dealing
ever disclosed than in the treatment OF the petit
tons, memorials, and Legislative resolutions relat-
ing to the annexation, referred by the House to
the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and never
looked into by Them The chairman of the COM
mittee actually charged the House with inGdver-
tence IN referring to the committee the petition
from Lubec. He maintained that the subsequent
reference OF all the State resolutions and all the
petitions had been contrary the declared opn-
ions Of large majority of the House, and he la
mented that the molion to lay the table, or the
motion Tor the previous question upon the report
ofthe committee, did not prevail. He represent
ed the answer of the Secretary of State to the
proposals of Mr. Memucan Hunt as prompt,
positive, and irrevocable refusal; yet, what were
the objections alledged by the Secretary against
the acceptance ofthe offer? with Mexi-
CO; and doubt just limited of the constitutional
pot0er OF Congress. But, two Presidents of the
United States had, for the last eighteen months,
been goading Congress iuto war with Mexico,
and the Chairman of the committee himself de-
clared that he thought, with the precedents of
Louisiana and Florida, there was no room for
Unconstitutional doubt; he, too, had been among
the most eager and inveterate stmuants to
Mexican war; and if it true, two Presi-
dents had assured Congress- and as the chairman
himself had responded in choral unison TO the
assertion, that declaration Of war by the United
States against Mexico would have been .j,tStifable
in February, 1887, what objection could that leave
to the acceptance OF the proposal from Texas in
September of the same year? Nothing but the
constitutional DOUBT, and OF that the chairman
of the committee had disposed 10y declaring, with
great equanimity, that, in his opinion, there ,oas
nothing IN 1t.
In his publication of the 2lst of July, Colonel
Howard, replying to my indignant remonstrances
against the thrica-repeated gag, and complaining
that he and his colleagues Of the Committee on
Foreign Affairs had not enjoyed the opportunity
of refuting on the floor of The House the "many
errors" OF my speech, assimilates with extreme
felicity of Illustration, his unhappy condition to
that of the Mexican Emperor Gautimozin, stretch.
ed with OF his favorite courtiers on the rack
of burning Goals, by the ruthless Spaniard, to ex-
tort the dire osure OF his treasure and responding
to the shreking suppcations of his fellow suffer
err by the question, and am on a bed of roses?'
and truly do believe that he is NOT. But if
my lamentations under the torture Of the strangu-
lated freedom of speech, in the common assem-
bly, where he and j, With others, our peers, rep
resent the whole North American People, call for
relief and deliverance upon him, his answer that
he is suffering equal torture himself differs some-
what in its application from that of the Mexican
sovereign.
1t is not by has tyranny and cruelty that his
favore and himself were stretched at once OH
the bed of burning Goals; they were both victims