The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1844-05-06

you tnnhAs wi ysNA ANU iesSi VI -"
subject, snd subscribe my.ef with great sincerity
You. friend and sbed.sst servsni,
ANDREW JACKSON.
Hon. A. v. BRows.
PS The papers furnished me by Mr.. Erwin, To
which have referred N this letter, be placed 10
your possession, II desired A.
THAT this boundary could have been obtained,
was doubtless the belief Of our Minister in Spain but
the offer of the Spanish Government was probably
the Colorado certainly line far west Of the ga
| bine.
As late as the / lth of March 1874, he wrote even
more strongly, thus
| "The present golden moment 10 obtain Texas
must not be lost or TEXAS must fIom necessity be
thrown into the of England and be forever losl
| to the Unlted States. 1 say again let ho'
this opportunity slip to regain Texas or II may elud"
our grasp forever cosl Dreams OF blood and mil
lions of money free from the evils that may be
brought upon US. | hope and trust there VIII be as
patriots IN the Senate as VIII ratIiy the treaty,
which l have no doubt VIII be promptly ehiefso
into
The Pres dent convinced OF the truth and JUS
tice Of this almost dying declaration of patriot no
less worn in civil than in military life, and one who
| had every reason TO believe that Mr.. Van Buren,
| would never have repealed an overture Of Annexas
ton, or he never would have promoted his success
| sion to the Presidency His views were adopted
Little did he know when he wrote his last letter. Of
the 18th March, that Mr.. Packenham had disclosed
both the anxiety and policy of England on our rela-
| tons with Mexico and Texas He could hardly
have been informed tina, England had acknowledged,
officially;
| Ist That she "put herself Jor,oard in pressing the
Government of Mreo 10 Acknowledge TtTas inde-
P.ndsnt."
ri. ii. 1sf he rene ral
| extension of her commercial dealings with other
| countries.
end. That she desired see sIarery abolished in
| Ieras"
3D. That Great Britain "desires and is constantly
exerting herself to procure the general abolition Of
slavery throughout the world
| 4th That the means which she has adopted and
will continue to adopt, for this humane and vrtuou
purpose, are open and ,ndisguised"
5h That "with regard TO Texas she avows that
she ,ciSes see slavery abolished there, elsechee, and
she ,roud rejoice il the recognition Of that country by the
.M,rioan Government should be accompanied by an en-
gngenent the part Of Teras TO abolish siarery erent
ally, and under proper condition, throughout The Re
pubic"
9th. She earnestly desires and feels II 10 be her duty
~ promote such a summation. She pH counsel IT,
She onlu desires her share Of influence in Teras"
| It'll She will not secretly interfere with the rela
tons Of the slave States of this Union, but she uH
not des from those open and honest Efforts pheh she has
constantly made for procuring the sbolition Of SLAVERY
throughout the rorid. Her objects are only "ptueiy
| commercial"
Such is the letter Of Aberdeen, addressed through
Packenham TO Upshur. MIR. Calhoun, on the 18th
| al hop Le AM He has
told the Englishman-"We knew, SIR, what you were
at in self-defence, we have concluded treaty for
anne ton to eectualy repel English interference
with American Institutions" That treaty was con-
cluded the 10Th day of April, 1884, ard on the 18th
MIR Clay, and the Goth Mr.. Van Buren,, the two
Prominent candidates for the Presidency, have open
| ly, Immediately, and without waiting to see the
correspondence, proclaimed unqualified opposition to
the Treaty, and virtually issued orders to their part
sans TO obstruct and defeat its ratification. They
have openly SIDED with England What are the
| friends Of America to do' There is but one course
! Th. question ought never TO have been forced into
struggle Of domestic parties 1t did not mingle IN
party politics until it pressed into the canvass by
these candidates They have both assumed that the
measure would be unpopular with majority OF the
People, North and South, and they have both de-
serted their country, and avowedly yielded to Eng
ish influence and English lnteI difference Never were
two men mistaken
! The one, Mr.. Clay, arragns the Executive for
making the Treaty without decided expression Of
| popular opinion Will he please tell US whether
he, when Minister Plenipotentiary or Secretary Of
State ever submitted a negotiation TO popular vote
We heard HIM once before talk of leaving the Bank
question to the 4" arbitramen. of enlightened public
opinion" when il was but a mere question of domcs-
tic policy and when il mattered not whether foreign
powers apprised of our movements on it or not
and when he too, in Congress openly account
able to- and representing popular opinion and we all
know how he sub lifted that question TO the voice IF
nation when, too, he knew the " strong and de-
cded expression of public disopprobation He does
not even avow that he would favor annexation IL it
| could be attained without the loss Of national cha
racter without the hazard OF foreign war, with
the general concurrence OF the nation, without any
danger to the integrity Of the Union, and withou,
! giving an unreasonable price for Texas" He says
1t would then only appear in quite different
| light" lie admits that when he was Secretary
| Of State he instructed Mr.. Poinseu TO propose
| TO re-purchase Texas OF whom OF Mexico
Had Mexico then been recognised by SPAIN She
had not been. Did Mr.. Clay then not propose to take
cession of territory from A mere de facto Govern
meptl Did he then think OF with Spain He
says that annexation and war with Mexico arc den-
teal Were not cesson and war with Spain dcnti
cal when he issued orders 10 Mr.. Poinsett' But
whence derives he the information of crtan with
Mexico : is he certain that Mexico, too, is not
alive TO British influence and interference, and that
she would no, gladly avail herself Of the opporlu-
nifty now afforded Of freeing herself from the OBJ ga-