The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1844-12-05
BEAUTIES OF JOHN QUINCY ADAMS.

Address OF The 30th day oil October lo44' ~
all of the productions OF the politicians oPposeu
90 rho ";mmediate" annexation of Texas, the
Hon. A. v. Brown seems 10 be supJee'eu "
particular assault. He is the burden Of no ''sS
Than three songs from Mr.. Adams. ana Oh se'-
eral speeches from certain hai'uc'na'e' ~"
,,or that we wo, OF. Mr.. Brown had inc au-
dscity to send General Jackson me Maaiso"'""
containing Gov. Gilmer's luminous exposition
of the merits of The measure o'
which elected the celebrated letter from Tue
hero and sage, whose head was s'iVered over
with the experience Of many years, po'a ~ ''e
6sld and a, the council board. For publishing
I'm, letter which at once reused the pubiic
mind TO the i'm portance of the question, the aSi-
tation of which had just commenced IN inc
newspapers, Mr.. Brown is never TO be LOT
given.
Rut Mr. Adams has found another subject 10
beautify, and another victim 10 vent MS ma'leniis
unon. Mr.. Adams was superseded as CHAR
man or the Committee of Foreign Affairs, and
that was an audacious act, which was altogether
inexcu.abe in the gentleman appointed bu'
the beautie. Of Mr.. Adams are best displayed
in hi. own dignifed manner, and we VIII lei
him speak Tor himself
g In nv recent address to the Young Men oil Bos-
ton deemed it my duty to expose two imPostures'
Sounded on these revelations of Mr. George w. FL
wing. The imposture of Andrew Jsckson's ieI'er W
Aaron Vail Brown, and the lmposture OF bro"hs
note upon Jacksons letter But there IS third per,
sop to this triumvirate, equally deserving 10 oe neid
lro.xa
these mystical revelations. This third person Is
Charles Jared lnge,oll, the politician OF the hve
nopts whose rattesnake malignity against me had
nm origin congenial to that of the Hero OF the Her
mitage."
Mr.. Ipgersoll lives in Philadelphia, and the
..6ye points" are in New York, as Mr. Adams
very well knows and being wide of the mark
in this instance, it is easy to conceive how the
'band-box incident Of a certain report may
have poisoned him against the whole Democratic
creation, and exasperated him TO such degree
that he strikes wildly in every direction. he
calls facts "impostures"!
The following assertion, in reference to this
paper is quite as incorrect as the rest oil the
items in the address:
ain the interval between the publications OF Aaron
Vail Brown and Charles j. Ingersoll, the Tyler an.
pexation treaty was submitted 10 the Senate IL had
already been made public, and was iaoorins haIu
under the searching scrutinies OF that body. Inc
Nadisonan teemed with the most impudent ialse-
hoods to bear with all possible force upon me sen
atorial votes, and among the rest, WIN oay al
formations that more than iwo-thirds OF the "hoie
Senate were pledged to vote for the rathcation oil
the Treaty.
Will Mr.. Adams produce some Of these "daily
affirmations" he speaks oi2 We deny having
made them, and challenge the proof. We be-
leyed the treaty would be rauhed-we believed,
90 we had been taught TO believe, that mo
pa,rIUI anu Iuend Oh MS COUNTY wouru woe
against il"-and We thought that more
than two-lhrds Of the Senators were pairi.
OTIS. If Mr.. Adams means to say our as
sertons. that the British Government was do
ing all il could, clandestiney, TO prevent annex
alton, and to establish a controlling influence
over the destiny of Texas were ''the most i'm
pudent fasehoods," we reply that nothing was
published which we did not believe 10 be true,
aud which will yet, in our opinion, prove 10 be
substantially correct. The Ministerial organ in
London teemed with solemn declarations that
il was the duty of the British Government TO
prerent the annexation Of Texas to the United
States, on the ground that the vast possessions
Of that Government on thi, continent, rendered
it as much of an "Americon power as the
United States; the Earl of Aberdeen, Minister
of Foreign Affairs, had declared in Parliament,
that instructions had been given to the British
Ministers in Mexico and Texas, to effect by ne
oTl L., al.
ties Between the belgerent nations and that
a treaty with Texas was in progress, by which
the hope was entertained, the abolition Of slave
ny wosld be stipulated and thus, las il was viz
tually avowed On the occasion alluded to) the
"grand problem would be solved" whether
the institution Of slavery, guaranteed by the
Constitution of the United States, could not be
abolished, by means Of erecting free States on
our borders, and adjacent to the slave State,--
thus inviting the slaves to escape from their
masters-and "by all other means in their pow
err" These facts, taken in connection with the
movements Of sundry hypocritical, selfstyled
philsnthropists," and the daily intelligence
from Texas that British agents and "Brilish
gold" were employed to defeat the design Of
our Government, were altogether sufficient to
induce the Madison,an to enlist under the ban
ner Of Immediate annexation" What we
have suffered, what We have lost. we count as
nothing-our only Apprehension is the loss of
Texas to the country, which we know would
be an irrcparabIe loss, and the greatest Of ma
tional osamties.
The next in the list OF the beauties of this
Address of Mr.. Adams, is the following rera-
cious history
"The annexation treaty was before the Senate. It's
ratification was war. II had been in the language
Of Mr.. George M'Duhe, surreptit,ously published
in a newspaper. A loathine Of disgust was alrc adv