Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1844-04-23

true boundary was the Rio Braro under the treaty OF
Louisana-he suddenly recedes from all lie had oeeh
cone ending for upon the question oil western m''s,
AND PROPOSES rHE SABINE As n'uSpARf les, ~ "a
letter to Don On,s of the 3lst October lolo lsee "
vol Lowrie and Frnnklin's State papers, 59U)-he
prop, uses, as fDllows:-
.Bssnn,ug Ar the MOUTH OF THE SABINE, on the
Gnf Of Mexico following the course OF the SAID iVeF
10 the 2d degree of laude the Eastern hank aud all
The islands in ead TO belong to the United States
and the Western bank to Spain-thence due NORM,
&c &c. Is any more evidence needed to show, that
Mr. Adams would not have had Texas as gracious
g,"-and that while the negotiation continued IN 'ne
ha nds Of this perverse and oruous Toe OF oou'herh
interest all the efforts Of the Onses the DE Neuvilies
ave, of Old Spain herself, could not have thrust the
loathed and detes,ed ownership on the nea states
True, he afterwards, is seem wtihdre" the PROPOSE
tion but not on account Of the Sabine No. no; u was
because Don Oniss couatmprojet did not SUIT nun IN
;ts NORTHERN boundary Well, the long-@lshed-for
instructions came al last and on the TN OF January
1919 (see Nv VOL of Lowfie and Franklin state fa-
ne,s page 6l5 Don Ons, in letter to Mr. A. OF that
date announced their arrival, IN these very cheering
and agreeable expressions:
uSir-I have just received Courier extraordinary
of my Government, and by the dispatches he mas
brought me- authorized by has Majesty TO give
greater eren TO the proposals which maze 10 you LOT
adjusting and terminating amicaby, all the subjects IN
dispute between the two powers
Not word is there, implying that these instructions
were not all that had been asked for, and all mat was
needed: YEA all that had been expected or desired oy MT
Onis NJ De Melville, and MIR. Adams, to enable the Tor
n occede to the proposal Of the latter for the Coora
do boundary. Aye Of verify, these were the iden-
cal "wELL KNOWN" instructions, which have shown
in my letter of the 9th ins were afterwards described
BY Mr.. Adams in letter TO Mr. Forsyth, oil 'he ioth
August 1919 as authorizing Mr.. Ons to concede much
more than he did," &C. and sthat both in relation to
the grant Of lands in Florida, and to tie WEsTERN
RouSDARY, the terms which he obtained were FAR
1oitin the limits of his Instructions; and, when iac's
- ,anf .IIT
deny" implying assuredly, that II dio, ne was PFC
pared to proos what he asserted
OF course, all straight now-and he had no'h','g
more to do than insist the Colorado or even tue
Rio Bravo, and il was 10 be had tor Inc ASKING
no doubt of that,-but MIR. Adams would not intruue
so far upon the chivalrous Spanord courtesy. Not
he So, to spare MIR. Ons the trouble OF resorng 10
those very instructions he had been nine months IN pro
curing, he very civiy exhonera'es HIM from MS 'i'
piled Obligations to agree the Colorado, by renewal
of his propositions Of the 3lst Of Octoberand, accord
inply on the goth Of January, 1919, announces he
claim Of the SABINE as a boundary. On the Isl Of re-
ruarv Don Ons accepts his offer as to the SABINE as ne
ofnseds must do-that being the most Eastward oonnoa-
~ in the whole National ownershp-but ooJecls 10
other lines of boundary the NorthwardaDd OF course
left Mr.. Adams-and most luckily it did-at liberty =
for behold the Erving despatch of the ga OF octone
lettering its way it did, nevertheless reached MN
on that day. he has chroncled the circumstance q"
hi, o,cn hand ,cring. How timely the warning. How
happy assured he is that the utmost Western bounda
~ he claimed-and what golden opportunity pre-,
scented ITSELF Of riumphantly serving his country, ana
carving niche in good mems memories and stamping
his achievements indelibly there! Ay, and so he
would but the detested South would come in for a
share Of those unmsasured bessngs-n which the na-
ton would rejoice and prosper and be safe and happy
blessings always ours by tne-always ours IN exPsc-
tancy and under the ninstrations of honorable nego-
citation, and PLAIN honest dealng,-soon to be ours IN
boundless and endless fruition. But, no. tie casts
the Ervng letter from him. and enews the proposal Of
the Sabine on the 9th February and Decorating one of
the nobes and hottest days in the national calender,
consummaed his corrupt and perhdious purposes BY
signing the Treaty of Florida on the 22nd February,
1919.
The mail hour has come and the season for further
commentary has passed can only add, therefore, that
this most important letter, like many others before
it. was frauduleny and wckedly suppressed and with
held from the Senae--and thus saved he treaty from
rejection, and author from execralion II there be
one honest in the nation, who will say, that lie
production of this letter alone to the Senate with the
circumstances connected with it, would not have pro-
duced the indignant and instantaneous rejection OF the
Treaty, will give up the case! Adieu
RANDOLPH OF ROANOKE.