The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1844-11-26
BEAUTIES OF J. @. ADAMS.

BEAUTIES OF J. @. ADAMS.
of the charge made by Gen. Jackson, in his
letter published in the Madisonian last spring
against Mr.. Adams, in reference TO the virtual
surrender of the territory of Texas, in 1919
That charge was founded on information fur
nished by Mr.. Erving, our Minister at the Cour'
of Madrid at the time that Mr.. Adams was
Secretary of State, and will be substantated
hereafter. To rebut this charge, or rather 10
discredit the assertions of the accuser, Mr.
Adams brings forward charge against Gen
jackson, viz that when he (Mr Adams) hac
completed the treaty ceding away the territory
Of Texas, and before it was signed, he carried
it, at the request of President Monroe, TO Gen
Jackson for his examination, and that Genera
Jackson approved it. MIR. Adams says thai
Mr.. Monroe and himself were the only ind
viduals who knew that General Jackson was
consulted Mr.. Monroe is dead, and cannot be
called upon TO prove or disprove the charge
But Mr.. Adams kept diary, and finds the
occurrence regularly and minutely recorded in
the volume of the year in questionable day Of
the week, and the month, the time of day Owe
believe) 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 in Washing
ton, but was at great distance from it, (con-
sidering there were no railroads them at the
time referred to. Gen. Jackson is acknow-
lodged, by friend and foe, to be man Of candor,
and was never charged with regeneration by
his most malignant opponents and it is alto
this charge against Mr.. Adams, even on the
authority of our Minister at 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 Mr.. Adams, when be
was himself particeps crinlinis.
With these preliminary remarks. we will re-
turn to the beauties of Mr. Adams. Mr.. Ad-
ans proceeds Tin his recent Bridgewater
speech) in the following chaste and classical
manner TO sketch the rise and progress of the
6 Texas plot:
V" This notable scheme, in another form, had been
racking the brain and feeding the Imagination Of
Andrew Jackson from the time when he became
President of the United States
"Samuel Houston, Ex-Governor of Tennessee,
an officer under Jackson during The preceding war
formed the project Of taking up settlement in Texas,
of breaking it off from Mexico, and of annexng it to
this Union. How many Others were in combination
With him may be known hereafter; but the hero OF
the Hermitage prvy to his project from the be-
emnly acknowledged duty President of the United
States, his community of interest with the slave
holders, his passion southern planter, his sec
tionai prejujices South-Carolnian, and his Ro-
appetite for ACKNOWLEDGEMENT, he has played for
fifteen years game worthy Of Tiberius Caesar, Lou
Is the Eleventh OF France, or Ferdinand the ca
thoic Of Spain"
ale began by making large offers for the purchase
from Mexico Of part of the old Spanish province OF
Texas, not even asking to 30 nearer than within one
hundred niles of the Rio Bravo, and offering fail
equivalent for what might be ceded but as the Mex
leans had, from the first niimation Of a wish our
part, manifested determined aversion TO any chang,
of the boundary fixed by the Florida Treaty the hero
began to cast about him for other modes Of immor.
TALKING his administration, by the acquisition OF Tex
as and the settlement Of the slayeholdng asceDdency
in this confederation on foundations firm the
lasting dis just AZ tnls umc, VIC utst iof
having become epidemic fever in the South, Mr.
Thomas Hart Benton, being some what infected with
IL, published in the newspapers, in the State OF Mis-
souri, two sets Of papers, under the signatures o
Americans and La Sale, severely assailing thu
Florida Treaty. for having fixed the boundary Of tn
Sabine and as had been the official signer of tn
treaty, imputing the conce sion entirely to me"
Now it is universally known that Tiberiu
succeeded augustus, and that Augustus did no
live to reproacb him afterwards. Ii Augusta
had lived, no doubt be would have reproachet
him, and that too in the midst of his iniquities
But as Mr.. Adams was not altogether an Au
guslus Cesar, he did not accuse him, thong
he declared himself to be his enemy. Yet, w
ask, if it had been true that General Jackson ap
proved the treaty relinqushing Texas, woul'
not Mr. Adams, who at such an early day dis
covered his horrible designs upon Texas, ant
who was so "severely" suffering under the lasi
OF Mr.. Benton, for the part he had taken in TIT
surrender, have exposed his Inconsistency p
What opportunity did Mr.. Adams ever neglec
to strike at General Jackson, for tearing thu
purple from his "recreant limbs ?" Would
General Jackson have been likely to max,
Large offers" for territory which had beer
relinquisbed by his advice, when that fact wa,
in the possession of bis bitter enemy2 TIL,
famous "diary" was in existence then, as wei
As now. Why did not Mr.. Adams produce it
while Mr.. Benton was assaulting him so "se
verely 2" The fact is Mr.. Adams has becom,
a maniac on The subject Of slavery and believ
ing that he will live to preside over dark frac
ton of the dismembered Union, he thinks "th'
end will justify the means"
Mr.. Adams next proceeds to reciprocate tn,
compliment contained in the retraction of Colo
mel Benton, which we alluded to last week