The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1844-11-26
BEAUTIES OF J. @. ADAMS.


letter published in the Madisonlan last spring,
against Mr.. Adams. in reference 10 The virtual
surrender OF the Territory Of Texas, in 1873
That charge was founded on information fur
nished by Mr. Erving our Minister al the Courl
Of Madrid al The time that Mr. Adams was
Secretary Of State, and will be subslantlsted
hereafter. To rebut this charge, or rather 10
discredii the assertions Of the accuser, Mr.
Adams brings fjrward charge against Gen
Jackson, VIZ that when he (Mr Adams) had
completed The treaty ceding away the territory
of Texas, aud before II was signed, he carried
il, al the request Of President Monroe, 10 Gen.
Jacks for his examination, and that General
Jackson approred ii. Mr.. Adams says thai
Mr.. Monroe and himself were the only indi-
viduais who knew that General Jackson was
consulted. Mr.. Monroe is dead, and cannot be
called upon TO prove or disproye The charge
But Mr.. Adams kept diary, and finds the
occurrence regularly and infinitely recorded I'D
the volume Of the year In questionable day OF
the week, and the month, the time of day 1--WE
beeve) and the house in which he met the
General. But unfortunately for Mr.. Adams's
diary, the political and other journals OF the day
prove that Gen. Jackson was not 10 Washing
ton, but was at great distance from 1t, icon
sdeIing there were no railroads then,) at the
tune referred TO. Gen. Jackson is acknow-
lodged, by friend and foe, 10 be man Of candor,
and was never charged with regeneration by
his most malignant opponents and 1t Is alto
gether incredible that he would have brought
this charge against Mr.. Adams, even on the
authority of our Minister al Madrid, If he had
erer sanctioned and approved The surrender
himself We would as soon think him capable
OF catching living viper in his naked hand with
the expectation Of escaping unstung, as TO make
such charge against MIR. Adams, when he
was himself pdrticeps criminis.
With these preliminary remarks will re-
turn 10 the beauties of Mr.. Adams, Mr. Ad-
ans proceeds lin his recent Bridgewater
speech) in The following chaste and classical
manner TO sketch the rise and progress Of the
" TeIas plot":
" This notable scheme in another form, had been
rsckng The brain and feeding the Imagination o.
Andrew Jackson from the time when he became
Pres,den, Of the U niied States
Samuel Houston, Ex-Governor Of Tennessee
an officer under Jackson during the preceding
formed the project Of taking up settlement IN Texas
of breaking it III from Mexico and Of anneIing 1t to
this U MON. How many Others were IN oombInstio
with him may be known hereafter; but the hero Of
the Hermitage pryy to hls project from the be
ginning and between his well known and Oft 30
leunly Acknowledged duty President Of the UnitsI
States, his community Of interest with the slave
boloers bis passion southern planter, bis sec
tonal preju5ioes as South-Csrol.nian aud bis Ro-
appetite for sggrsndireDent, he has played for
fifteen years game worthy Of Iiherus C9sAr, Lou
is the Eleventh Of France, or Ferdinand the Cs-
thOlie Of Spain"
ale began by making large offers for the purchase
from Mexico Of part Of the Old Spanish province of
Texas, not even a,king 10 90 than within
hundred niles Of the Rio Bravo and Offering fair
equivalent for what might be oeded but the Mex
icsns had, from the first ntimation Of a wish our
part manifested determined aversion TO any change
OF the boundary fixed by the Florida Treaty the hero
began to cast about him for other modes Of immor-
talIzng his administration, by the acquisition Of Tex
as. and the settlement Of the slsveboding asceudency
this confederation on foundations firm the eve +
lasting hills. just at tins time, the thirst for Texas
having become epidemic fever IN the South, MIR
Thomas Hart Benton, being somewhat infected with
H. published m the newspapers In the State Of MIS-
sour, two sets Of Pspers, under the signatures Of
Americsnus and La Sale. severely asssiling the
FLORIDA Treaty for having fxed the boundary II the
Sabine and as had been the official signer Of the
treaty, inPuung the eonee sion entirely to me"
Now il is universally known that Tibenus
succeeded augustus, and that Augustus did not
live 10 reprosch him afterwards. Ii Augustus
had lived, no doubt he would have reproached
him, and that too in the midst Of his niquties
But as Mr.. Adams was not altogether an Az
gusius Cesar, he did not accuse him, though
he declared himself to be bis enemy. Yet, we
ask, II ii had been true that General Jackson ap-
proved the treaty relinquishing Texas, would
not Mr.. Adams, who at such an early day dis
covered has horrible designs upon Texas, and
who was so severely" suffering under the lash
of Mr.. Benton, for the part he had taken in the
surrender, have exposed his Inconsistency p
What opportunity did Mr.. Adams ever neglect
10 strike at General Jackson, for tearing the
purple from his "recresnt limbs ~ Would
General Jackson have been likely to make
Large offers" for territory which had been
reliDqulshed by his advice, when that fact was
in the possession Of his bitter enemy The
famous diary" was in existence then, as well
as now. Why did not Mir Adams produce it,
while Mr.. Benton was ssssulting him so Use
verely7 ~ The fact is Mr.. Adams has become
maniac on the subject Of slavery and beliey-
ing that he will live to preside over dark frac-
ton Of the dsmembered Union he thinks "the
end will justify the means
Mr.. Adams next proceeds to reciprocate the
compliment contained in the retraction Of Colo
mel Benton, which we alluded to last week :
and doubtless the fraiernal embrace vouch,afed
by him last summer, has convinced him that.
instead of an sccuser, he will henceforth find
in Mr.. Benton faithful defender. Its done 10
these words: