Democratic standard. [volume] (Georgetown, Brown County, Ohio) 1837-1850, 1841-07-20

u OCudVOT mat spoke expressed MS npprObi
r ton. No one signifed dissent; and tn
s feeling was then universal that the prop
!, er answer had been given bYMr. Forsyth
: the answer which the law OF. nations, tn
dignity Of the union, and the tights o
D New York required TO be given. IL an
wrong in my recollection ! repea
: the request, let me be corrected
now. -
[Severaf voices cried ont, "right, right
No one said the contrary.
Mr.. B. resumed:a a great point-one
vital and conclusive in This inquiry, is nov
established. II is established, that in the
month of January last, when Mr.. For.
syth's letter was read in this chamber
we were all Of opinion that he had given
the correct and proper answer; and among
the Senators then present 'were the Sec
retary OF State, the present Attorney Gen
eral, all the old Senators now present. In
a word, the Senate was. constituted as il
now is, with the exception ofnne mem
bers who have goee out, aud the same
number who have come in.
In January last, as we now see, it was
the unanimous sense ofihe Senate that
Mcleod should not be givenup-thatthe
course of ustice in New York should not
he Interrupted; and this also, feel justi-
fed in saying, was the sense Of the House
of Representatives. The Mcleod cores
pondence was communicated 10 that body.
Five thousand copies Of it were moved to
be printed. A reference of the whole was
made TO the Committee Of Foreign Rela-
tons; and the judgment Of the House ap.
peared TO be the same Of that of The Sen
ate.
In the month Of January last, il may
then be asserted, that the Two Houses of
Congress approved the decision of Presi-
dent Van Buren; and according to that
decision, Mcleod was neither 10 be given
up, nor the course ofjustce in New York
interEered with by the Federal Govern
ment.
Mr.. Fox Ieceiyed the answer of Mr..
Forsyth-transmiited it to his Govern
ment-and received from that Govern
ment precise instructions to avow and
assume the attack on the Caroline as a
national aCt--to make peremptory de-
mand for the release of McLeOd-tO
threaten US with serious consequences
in the event of relusal--and, as the Brit
ish newspapers said, to demand his pass
ports, and leave the country--if his de-
mand was not Immediately complied with.
It was on the evening of the 4th day of
March--the day of the Inauguration of
the new Presdent--that the news Of
these Instructions arrived in this city, and
along with them the war threats, and the
war speeches of the press and public
men Of England--the threat Of many pa
pers 10 send admiraIs and war steamers
TO batter down our clties--and the dia-
bolical speech of Peer Of the realm, in
the House of Lords, Lord Mountcashel,l
to excite our three millions Of negroes
10 insurrection-to raise all the Indians
against us-and to destroy our finances
| by bursting the paper bubbles upon which
they floated.
o. II was on. the evening of the
4th day of March that these in
struclions, this demand, this
threat, and all these war annuncia-
tions, arrived in this city. The new
President had inst been inaugurated: his
Cabinet had just been indicated: the
men who were to compose the Preslden-
tial council were fully known: and un-
dertook at once TO tell what would be
done. l said to several--some now in
this city, if not in this chamber--McLe-
od ,DiH be gipen up; not directly, but in
directIy. Underhanded springs iriH be
set in motion to release him; and letter
will afterwards be cooked -'up to show to
Congress and the people, aud TO Justify
what had, been done. This is what
said, persons are now in this sciig TO
whom | said iii and now let us resume
the narrative Of eVents--et us followahe
current of facts--and see what was done
by the new Administration which had
Just been inducted into olficeiH the midst
of triumphal PROFESSIONS, under the fire
Of cannon, the beating Of drums, the dis
play Of flags, and with all the glorions
ponIp and circumstance of war. Let us
ses what they did.
On the 18th day Of March, the nav adj
minisiration having had time TO organ.
ize, Mr.. Fox addresses TO Mr.. Webster
a formal demand, inthe name ofhis Gov.
ernmeni, for the release Of Mcleod; and
goes on to say:
"The grounds upon which the British
Government make this demand upon the
Governments Of. the United States are
these that the transactionioh account Of
which Mcleod has been arrested, and is
10 be pntupon his trial, was a transaction
of public character, planned and exc.
cuted BY persons duly empowered by her
Maiesty's colonial authorities TO take any
steps and % do any acts which might be
necessary for the defence Of her Msies
4 ty's territories and for the protection OF
her Maisssy's subisctsi and that eonse'