Lincoln telegraph. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1836-1846, 1840-04-16
OUR BOUNDARY TROUBLES.
N u NJ d f r w O.

NUMBER TWO.
WAR! WAR says the Tory. Yes; 'war in
disguise war against the prospect of REFORM
war against the Wings and the prosperity of
the country Citizens of Maine suffer moi your
selves to be cheated any more about this BounGa-
ry question. Ifyou could look behind the cur
tain and see what your o,on rulers have done and
what they have omitted TO do for eleven years
past, you would not wonder that we have been so
often insulted by the naughty supercllious and ty
rannical British. Look but for Il moment, to the
debates of the memorable SECRET SESSION of
out our citizens and territory, and who those were
that saved US from the execution of that base
proposition. Among those secretly intrusted
with this proposition by Mr. Van Buren,, were
some of his plant tools who, even in debate de-
cared (as we have before sadly that the ''terrtory
was not worth fighting fort Remember here
that do not cfiminate the whole Jackson party
for the acts of some Of those who protested to be
their leaders-far from it. | believe General
Jackson himself would have settled this question.
had it not been for the interference of Martin Van
Buren, and the perpetual perplcNitles he caused
the old Gen, by constantly exciting his jealous
les toward Mr.. Calhoun and other members of
his Cabinet. And here we would claim the in
dulgc ofthe reader, while we digress a little to
convince him that Van Buren, was secretly pledged
to the British authorities to favor their pfetensions,
or unfounded claims to certain part of this ter
ritory."
Let us follow the footsteps of this willy Secre-
tary of State, and see how admirably he has
managed to gain, LIST, the influence of Gen Jack
son, to secure his right of successon,-and 2ndly,
to secure the appreciation of his party, by per-
forming some one act that might excite the huz-
zas of blind partizans, stratagem, or 'blaze Of
glory
IsWith which, (no strange or recent case,)
Fools in, deceive fools out of place
The first act had been played by Mr. Van Buren,
most successfully. He had destroyed the influence
of Mr. Calhoun, and had now so inanuated him
self into the affections of Gen. Jackson, that he
had acquired an invisible and unfit control O.
yer most of his acts, public as well as private
But MIR. Van Buren, had never yet effected any
public measure to make him known as a public
man. What conld he do lie had not scope OF
mind enough to originate any great measure. He
therefore caught at the "Colonial Trade" SO call
ed. The right to admission of the produce ofthe
United States into the British West Indies, on
an equal footing with similar produce of then
colonies in this country, right that had been
urged and insisted on by this country ever since
| the administration of Gen. Washington. The
British ever as notorious the Greeks, for trick
cry and horse jockeying in their negotiations
with other nations, had, through their talented
but sarcastic Minister Mr. Canning, held tii.
! right up to the view of government, as
kind of bait, by calling it BOON to use the very
word of Mr. Canning; in order to get an offset
which was the carrying trade for their vessels, or
an equal footing with our own. Our government
of course, spurned their supercillious doctrine o
asking granting any thing like "boon." Blu
here was the very occasion for MIR Van Buren,
He knew they wanted slice Of Maine. He caret
not for the honor Of his country, much less 70
its interests; and as for Maine to use his owl
language che could buy of that State, as easy a
the English could, their Irish emisrants." If HI
could obtain their iiboon" it would be a public
act on which to found his future claim to tn
Presidency. He therefore commenced the ne
gotaton, by instructing Mr. McLane our the
Minister to St. James, TO bow and kneel at tn
footstool of the British throne and thus disgrac
r his country, in order to secure this 'boon BIZ
mark the cunning of the fox After he had thu
disgraced our country, and he was to resign q
Secretary and be appointed to Mr. McLane's place
as Minister to England, in order to complete tn
negotiation and accept the "boon !' How did h
contrive this changer Why, he made a quarr'
f in the cabinet about Mrs Eaton and then to sho'
, his devotion to General Jackson, resigned, frs
in order TO set example for the others, and tn
cabinet was soon reduced TO all Unit" Yot