Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1844-04-18
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This great question is coming 10 an issue. The
Treaty is by Tins tune probably submitted TO the Sc
nate. Shall II be ratified rejected VIII the Sena.
tors do their duty 10 their country, not The
friends of Mr. Clay in that body have in their power
to carry that important measure. Will they do it,
TIL, signs against it; but never despair OF the
Republic Mr.. Clay buttons up his opinions in his
doubst. The decided Wing presses, generally
speaking, either open-mouthed against it, or damn
ing it by their hesitating equvocnting policy. The
Washington correspondent of the New York Express
writes the 18Th that "The Treaty will not be ra,
fed by the Senate. There twenty Wing Senators,
least firm and fixed in their judgments as The i'm
movable noun. ains and probably eight ten more
making nrty in all, who will resist the usurPation
of the Executive"
lie adds "The time has come now, when il is proper
for The people to speak out upon this subject Lot II
be done, if poss BILE, irres pective OF party But, if
not, let it be done" And say we-and as Mr. Clay
is in Virginia, let him be the first man TO speak
out. decided majority of his friends are Senators,
who have the control OF the matter in their hands
They look TO him for the ''cue' Of nction-and the
country has right to demand of him speak out, and
not to pursue the dark and mysterious policy which he
adopted in the Winter of 90 24-when he was palter
ing about the mode of profling by the election of
President
We are happy to see that the Monday Globe has
come out with of the most powerful articles which
graced the columns of that paperin favor of ere
annexation Of Texas TO the United States Mr..
wilkins, The Secretary of War, has also come out
with great force and exemplary frankness, IN Ad-
dress 10 the People of his old Congressional District
Of Pitisburg, and declares. unequvocoly in favor Of
the "momenous measure, Of ratfying the Treaty Of
e-annex alon. We shall lay these two papers before
our readers on Saturday.
Virginia has not ye moved very extensively on this
question. She is unwilling to make il party ques
ton, or to mix it up much with the Spring election.
But that passed. suspect she will speak out at the
top of her Meantime we shall collect intorma-
lion and spread much of it before our readers as
we can possibly insert in our crowded columns. But
cannot orbear calling the attention Of our readers
to the thrilling letters Of Randolph Of Rounoke-of
which another appears in columns this morning.
He establishes some very startling facts They i'm
peach MIR. J. G Adams of high crimes-and we de.
mand, IN the of an enlightened people, that Con.
gress should at take up the subject, call for in
formation from the Executive Department, and if ne
cessary send for persons and papers from other quar-
ers.
Randolph of Roanoke proves beyond doubt, from
the full copies of MIR. Ervings letters, transmitted TO
Washington by Gen. Jackson that in laying the pa
pers before the Senate, along with the Florida Treaty
Of 1919, the original letters of Mr.. Erving were de-
signedy garbled every thing which calculated
to shaw that we could have got Texas then without
further equivalent, carefully suppressed from the
Senae-hat the copies of the Documents which
published in that magnificent aud expensive collection
of State papers, under the auspices of Congress,
incomplete. He shows further, that Nos OF Err
wings dispatches were entirely lost TO the Senate
and that of those interesting papers have been
actually purloined from the archives of the State De-
par,ment. These are facts, uuquesonably es,a-
blished by able sponden,-and they call upon
the Congress of the United States for the strctest
tiny and the fullest investigation.
And what says Mi Adams to these charges He,
who has always prided himself on his spirit in the
tournament, and his feals in No. word, as far
as we advised escaped from his lips or his pen,
under his name bu, in The National lntell'gcnccr
Of Monday last. there appears long and labored nrt
Gle of four columns, pnrpong in SORT 10 be edl
orial, but which, from the unique gibberish of lis
style, bears upon It's face either the paternity Of Mr.
Adams, or intimate connection with that gentle
man. The writer, whoever he may be, Qhough the
"Mishna and the "Gemara' eound to our ears very
much like the Ebony and the Topaz seems to be
throwing an anchor 10 windward-and tries 10 shift
off from MIR Adamss shoulders upon Mr. Monroe's the
responsibility Of the measure-vz The ac of negotIa.
ting treaty SO far short of rights and far shore
Of the terms which We might with good management,
have obtained from Spain.-But the mns, remarkable
circumstance Of the whole is that if Mr.. Adams had
any hand in this defence, he knew he must have been