The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1842-08-25

1t is said by Senators that Mr.. Buchanan and Mr..
Benton made the most statesmanlike and admirable
speeches against this treaty heard in the Senate
We suppose that those gentlemen will prepare them
for the press should the injunction of secresy be re-
moved.
The National Intelligencer makes it matter of
triumph that some Democrats voted for this treaty.
We can assert safely that not one OF them approved
it, and that not one of them would have made it.
Those of them who voted for it, did so as choice
of evils They felt themselves obliged to close our
difficulties with England on bad terms rather than
trust the condition of things, made worse by the
rejection of the treaty. to the management of man
in whom they have no confidence, and who has turn
ed good opportunity to such miserable, dishonora-
BILE ends.-Globe.
We have great desire to see these speeches,
and we hope Messrs. Buchanan and Benton
will procure the removal of the injunction ofse
crecy at the earliest day. And there are some
other speeches that should be published at the
same time-both sides should be heard. 1t is
said by Senators-not the gentleman him.
self--that Mr. Calhoun's speech in favor OF
the treaty was the greatest effort OF his lie; 1t
swept every opposing obstacle away;-and there
were other speeches in its favor unequalled IN
eloquence and argument, by Messrs. King Sc
vier, Cuthbert, &c. &C.; indeed, the whole De-
mocratic side of the Senate, excepting only Sc
ven or eight, advocated, under the circumstan-
ces, and voted for the ratification of the treaty.
1t was also advocated by more than one indie
pendent Whig-men who had not ignomlnl-
ousy submitted to the siron rule"
We trust the latter paragraph in the quota
ton from the Globe is incorrect We hope, for
the sake of our country's fame, for the sake Of
honor and liberty, for the sake of the reputation
of Senators, that no man in the Senate cham
Der, Knowingly and qciyully, sanctioned a
'dishonorable end"
We are frank to admit, with the Globe, that
the agency of the Intelligencer or rather its adj
vocacy of the pending treaty long before any
other journal knew what was going on, was not
prompted by love of country-at least, love
of this country. The editor is an English
man.
We have seen that paper, under the most spe-
cious pretences of patriotism, obtain some eighty
thousand dollars from the United States Bank.
We have seen it, during the present session, II
the current computation is accurate, obtain
more than a hundred thousand dollars from
Congress, under the guise of friendship for the
majority and yet we shall not be surprised to
see it turn against the leaders of that majority,
by the time the majority '(under the false guild
ance of that paperl dwindles into minority
But we would speak, as far as it may be pru-
dent, of the Intelligencer's mysterious connec-
ton with the treaty. That the treaty itself is
honorable and just, we have the guarantee OF
the Americans who approved it. But that the
IntelIigencer had some concern in it, is beyond
the possibility of doubt 1t may have been de-
feated in its designs.
Every one in this city who has read that
journal must have remarked its more than
parental solicitude during the tendency of the
negotiation Neither could it have escaped
the notice of any one, that, when Its
leading editorial sang hozannahs over the
progress of the negotiation, the pery nert drta-
Gle almost inpariably detracted from the ao's-
dom, honesty, and patriotism OF the Pres1-
dent! This was the mystery that attracted US,
and impelled us to speak out boldly and unre-
servedly, Notwithstanding the opposing entrea-
ties of many friends whom we esteemed We
could not look silently on while the Chief Ma
gistrate-the head Of the nation--was abused,
vifed, and denounced by journal edited by
an Engshman, that at the same time took such
a lively and approving interest in the progress
of an important negotiation with England,
without expressing, at least, very natural as
constituent We thought that if that journal
abused the President during the tendency of
the negotiation, and appauded the agents i'm
mediately engaged in tit would likewise ap-
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ficaton. We thought that if that journal en-