The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1844-12-10

, Mr. Monroe's administration 10 yie d, as be says
that too, no should explain. ! am not now arguing
the Twas question, when presenting tins connection
oft. hater myself that more than enough is no"
, apparent 10 show thlt neither Mr. Ewing Was the
tfaducer nor General Jackson the conspirator which
Nh Adams suspects, and then alleges and that Tor
publ shing Mr. Ering's eommunieat atom TO Geneiai
Jact sou precisely a. II was handed To me by MAJOR
Lewis | am neither an adder with iotked tongue
do not poke out lny head from shell aud hiss MS
name in Islander aud that IL would be cruel AID unu-
sua punishment TO lash me as rascal, stark Naked
round the whole world with cat -nine-iails OF NJ e.
Adams's make put by him in every honest man $
hand for merely publishing Mr.. Ersings manuscript
Some what suspicious, too, as am OF the Adams
dlary-dlary Of passions, not facs-yet should mol
like 10 see IT, il produced al once for the entries con-
corning Grahams Journey IN June, 1918 the FLORIDA
treaty in February, 1919, and the Missouri compro-
mise in 1920.
Magnificent regions stretching over sixteen degrees
Of latitude, noble seas lakes and rivers which Burke
Che whom Mr.. Adams calls Edmund Burke) terms
the finest opportunity OF ports, cotton lands, sugar
lands pas lands grain lands, timber lands, more
than the good oil thirteen United States in extent,
were whistled of by Mr.. Adams TO Don Oni', with
marvellous CELEBRITY. Louisiana, as Jefferson bought,
and the old thirteen paid for 1t, wasshorn of nineteen
twenteths of her broad lands and majestic streams
In fact kept little more than the amphlbous part,
and gave up most OF the dry land, either TO Spain OF
Englsnd. Mr.. Adams holds Roman aggrandizement
b.
his Branree admirers that he was poet-the poet
Jusena exposes the Roman lust for acquislion-land
| robbers as they were Jackson and Houston, these
land bbers, with Bowie knives and rifles raised the
Tennessee instruction of Texas; and pimped for is
msret,icious union with poor old Uncle Sam These
chaste troops are his, not mlne.) CAPTAIN Tyler
was still more naughty Like Jacob, he lay down
with Rachel, Rache being Mr.. Adans's figure OF
speech for General Harrison's ndherents, the Cap
tam lay down with them, but wokcrp with the bear-
eyed drab, Leah. II So let it be observed as we 50,
how could the Captain help it,, If he was caught nap
ping
Neither Of ihem however, equals Mr.. Adams. lie
| gaue pay half of the North American continent, lest
Ba,ntree should suffer complain. All our present
troubles in Texas and Oregon bitter fruits OF Mr.
Adams's generosty-an attribute OF which he Is sci
dom accused. w it'll the clear and strong sense OF
| oar right 10 all Texas, which Mr.. Adams had when
he wrote the letter to Graham, the immediate surren-
der Of nearly all of II, the Missouri question then
coming TO head-a fearful mposthume-and Mr..
Adams counting the Presidency, which he got 5000
after, by somewhat of meret,icious union with u
kentucky instruction, must say that 1t almost as
bad as Jackson and Houston, the Tennessee insur-
rection of Texas, and lis merefrcious union, MIR.
| Adams calls it, with old Uncle Sam. Though not 20
suspicious he, begin 10 suspect something wrong
When the Profga'e Hickory hero in his letter TO
| Aaron Vail Brown, rdccinates that gentlemen (ano-
Their Of Mr. 5 fgurcs) with the notion that the
surrender of 70 vast and important territory was at
triboabe To erroneous es iuae the tendency of our
institutions, In which there mingled somewhat OF
Jealousy 10 the rising greatness of the South and
West" The learned nisdom which Mr. Adams SCOTS al
IN that Tennessee barbarian had never dwelt on the
following part of Mr.. Adams's lyrical insight into
| Jefferson S back amours:
| All the paternal duties smother
Give his white girls yellow brother;
| Mid loud hosannas of his kpaves
| From his own loins raise herds of slaves,
| With numbers TO outvole the free,
| And smoAe the Yankees, five to three
To borrow one Of MIR Adams's reconcile quota
tions-'ay, there he rub"-ive to three. 1t IS IN
the bond; but what Of that part OF the contract
yet too bad 10 be borne. Mr. Adams ha. been boni.
fed by IT 10 the amount Of three hundred thousand
dollars; more than he could make by teaching rhet
orlc or practising law Yet five to three is a griey
ance to be resisted. Boston and Braintree have grown
rich upon 1t. Lowell, New Bedford, all the flourish
ing Stale of Massachusetts which Mr. Adams eyre.
giousy mistakes me when to my corrupt and maig.
nant heart he imputes detestatioo OF 1.-THE noble
and hourishing Commonwealth of Massachusetts God
bless her! has grown TO greatness on five to tn zee
God bless her Is my orst wish, and save her from
his love, which would dismember that noble Com
monwealth from the Union, and reduce her again TO
the state from which Sbays rebellion sought relief
>hlr Adams mentions rebellion but not that and
heads band ofrebels against the annexation of Tex
as just as oisey as he did against that of Louisiana
But the old Bay State is not with him and his insur.
gents now, any more than she was then, or with
Shay's rebellion before But Mr. Adams deemed
Louisiana a curse, as he now deems Texas curse
to be cast away at all hazards. Ungrteful John
Quincy Adams! Without five to three-that no I of
| all eyll-what would he have to rail atl lie would
expire OF ennu and inan,tIon Five to three is The
anvil on which he forges all bis renown It was ex-
| crucistng TO him that the 25h rule was rescnded
quietly. Dreadful must have been his disappoin,.
menti cruel the absence of an explosion Ali were
looking for an eruption from his crater; and fear
the seeming serenity Of that crisis will prove but a
weather breeder after all The navigation Of the
Mississippi would not be an American possession #
| MIR. Adams could have snapped 1t for Goldfish HIS
country Is the ycinage Of Brsnlree his love of the
right OF petition, aboriginal hatred OF Jefferson his
patriotism, hostility TO has own and preference Of an
| other country.
Secondly. Having thus, in the first place, paid
! my respects TO Mt Adams, and got him 10 position,
| ] may now be allowed 10 yindcale my humble self
ifom The reptiles, creeping things, foul fountains,
and ct oeteras, which he condemns me TO pass for
show my tongue that 1t IS no, forked. As To rattle
snake malignity let US avoid personality IC it's
ohlld's rattle, instead Of q snakes will not quarrel
with him for IT, II real ratlle-snake's, he shall
have'it.
Not word not a syllable, not thought. /, there
In my view Of Texas which he preitnds excited his
ire-not a word Of censure, not a word to provoke
him. think he il not named. | am sure there is
no censorous allusiou to him. Despite the condem-
nation OF Mr.. Clay, General Jackson, MIR Ewing,
aud prepondeaiing proof, | deliberately acquitted
him Of blame, and, IN generous justice inserted
sentence Of excavation. His whole accusation of
me, his whole case, sort Of forgery. Mr. Erving
IS the strange eriptaoeow reptile in deH that his,,,
| Mr.. Adams's nsme-not l. poked out no head
My tongue was not forked. did not shake my ma
lignani rattle. eas no fountain Of feculence.
was merely silent add forbesring. Mr. Adams is
not IN doiage. Like the mulslio beauty, Of whom
Shakespeare says
age cannot wither her,
bis stalwart thieves are in excellent preservation
Ills faculties OF body and mind are good az ever
they were lie knew perfectly well be could not
blundor so egregiously not 10 read that what he
makes me state not my statement at all but the
argument of MIR. Erving by a sort Of forgery put