The Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1834-184?, 1844-09-12

deed, these be your opinions, then have | h
most grie Fiously disappointed the hopes in /
which you INDUCED in connection with my a
election and my Administration. | must, |
nevertheless most solemnlyaver that had I
been aware that such would nave been ex-
pected and required ofme-if Icould have
believed that YOU, whose candidate | was Pc
~cullarly considered d, and to conciliate whom
[ was nominated for the Vice Presidency,
would have required of me in the contingent
CIV which unhappily occurred, that | should
commence my Administration with an act
of perjury. and sanctioned measures abhor-
rent 10 every principle of my past lite and
at war with the prosperity Of the country
and the continuance Of liberty, would not
have suffered my name, humble as it was,
to have been breathed in the canvass
No, / claim the proud privilege of an A
merican citizen to think for myself on all
subjects, and to act in pursuance of my
own convictions-and it would require a to-
tai change of my nature in order TO convert
me into a mere instrument o party, or OF par-
ty dictation.
| would appeal not only 10 yourselves but
to all my couutrymen TO say, whether IN the
matters appertaining 10 our foreign affairs,
thew anticipated more success in the adjust
ment OF difficulties and in the formation OF
| highly important Treaties thau it has been
nv province to cause TO be negotiated Long
J standing difficulties have been adjusted
/ difficulties which threatened most seriously
the peace of the country. Nor has any OPP
|, portunity been lost for enlarging the COM
MERGE of the country and giving new markets
10 our agricultural and manufactured pro-
|, ducts. 1.-THE country has not reaped full
~Ifruition of beneft~from all the treaties thus
) negotiated, it surely has not been the fault OF
] The administration The loss of two of those
Treaties through the action of the Senate,
3 cannot but be deplored by me as great pub
lie calamities. BY the Treaty with the Ger
man States, we had opened the way TO a
$ more extended with twenty-seven
It million of people in our cotton, tobacco,
: rice and lard generally reduced, and with a
: stipulation for the free admission OF cotton;
d while we had agreed to receive al somewhat
i reduced duties articles from those States
It which entered into the most limited compe-
tition, if at all, with a few similar articles oil
II American product. The Treaty was partic-
is ularly interesting from the fact that for the
d first time, after repeated struggles on the
part Of my predecessors, TO accomplish a re-
is duction Of duty on tobacco, the Government
Of had succeeded in doing SO. 1t was negotiat.
ed under resolutions originating with the TO
bacco States, and with the presumed sane
u lion of Congress, who had raised, as it is be
n lieyed, the mission 10 Vienna, from a sec
,e ond to first rate mission, with direct refer
re ence to the tobacco interest, and had als'
r appropriated a sum of money, some year,
ic AGO. TO enable the Executive to employ al
le AGENT in Germany TO acquire information a
n 10 the tobacco trade, the services of which
re agent had only ceased a short time prior +
IL the negotiation of the Treaty. My hops
fy sill however is,that the benefits ofthe Trea
~ and the Treaty itself may not be lost I
slr1A. 1t proper to add tia
all there was no design TO deprive the House G
as Representatives Of any rightful and ~constitu
as tional action over the subject, which it mig
= properly exercise. Ii was on the contrar
&C. my intention to have submitted the Treaty
We and all papers calculated to elucidate it, t
the House of Representatives, il il had bee
at ratified by the Senate, for such action a
al they might have deemed it proper TO adop
nd "a course pursued in all cases in which tn,
at action of the House isrequired TO vote sup
n plies ofmoney, or fulfil any other object fall
A. ing within the scope of their power.
10 In negotiating the Treaty for the annexa
nd ton of Texas, which was rejected by tn
ce Senate, motives have been ascribed TO til
he Administration which had no place in ii
il. mind or heart. One gentleman, occupying
Id a prominent place in the Democratic parry
DIS whether for good or evil it does not becom
iy me to say, has assigned in an address recent
| ly delivered in Missouri, two prominent nc
lives for its negotiation list, Personal am
en- bition, and 2dly, a purpose to Dissolve th
= Union. MIR. Clay also ia a recent letter t
Id the editor of newspaper in Alabama, ha
rs, called the treaty INFAMOUS, and ascrihed t
ii it, in its origin, sinister objects.n i repe
ng both their assaults upon the Treaty and il
SIS negotiators, What object of mere persona
th ambition in any way connected with ofic
IF could influence the Administration in negc
IT. tlating the treaty? The publ, archive
esl furnish the strongest reasons TO believe tina
ID. The Treaty would have mel the unquaIife
all APPROVAL of both MI. Clay and Mr.. Van Burer
Ii While the one was Secretary ofState TO Nj
ct Adams, and the other to Gen. Jackson, eac
on in his turn attempted to obtain the annexs
" alton of Texas. Mr.. Clay's negotiable
ed was carried on with Mexico in the third yea
IS of her revolutionary struggle while Spain re
-garded her as a revolted province, and he
er armies were in POSSESSION of many of th
by ~strongholds of the country. What reason
ng then, could | have had for supposing for a
Of instant that a Treaty with Texas, after eiel