The Whig standard. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1843-1844, 1844-10-11
W A S HIN G. TON.
FRIDAY EVENING, OCT'R IL. 1874.
Mr.. ADAMs's SPEECH AT BOSTON.

MR.. ADAMSS SPEECH AT BOSTON.
The speech Of Mr.. Adams at Boston will be
regarded as one of the most interesting and i'm
portant which has yet been made in coDnexion
with the question of annexation. The important
facts detailed by him in reference to the nego-
tiaton between this Government and Spain on
the subject Of our Southwestern boundary, will
put to shame the infamous fabrications OF the
Texas party.
Mr.. Adams shows, by reference to the cor
respondence and papers connected with the ne
gotiations, that Spain never dreamed of consent
ing to the Rio Grande, or even the Colorado, as
the boundary,-he shows further, that George w.
Erwin's papers, which he placed in the hands of
General Jackson, warrant no such statement as
that made by him and Aaron " Brown, but the
contrary. Those papers disclose the fact, tina,
Erwin proposed to the Spanish Government to
fix upon the Colorado, between two and three
hundred miles east Of the Rio Grande, as tho
boundary; but that the Spanish Government re-
fused to accede to it, or to any other boundary
west OF the Sabine, the one subsequently adopt
ed. Up to this period, Mr.. Adams had nothing
to do with the negotiation he being at that time
Minister to England. The Spanish Government
at first infested on the Mississippi as the bound.
airy, and at length reluctantly accepted the Sa-
bne. ss
But another important fact stated by Mr. Ad-
ans will expose the hollow ness of General Jack
sons Roman patriotism. Mr.. A. states that
he, in 1919, exhibited the agreement az to the
Sabine boundary to the Old Hero before the
treaty was signed, and that he approved it. In
proof of this fact. Mr.. Adams appeals to his own
diary of the LIST, I'd, and Sd February, 1919. He
says that he had repeatedly made this statement
by the Globe. that paper, with its accustomed
recklessness of truth and decency, charging Mr.
Adams with forging an entry in his diary.
Every day serves to develops some new fea
ture of fraud or falsehood connected with tn,
Texas treaty. 1t was literally conceived il
sin. and brought forth in nquity."
Mr.. Adams directs his sharpest satire at tn.
bombas, which has been put in General Jackson,
mouth about Roman virtues and maxims of /" ex
tending the area of freedom" Mr.. Adams show.
by examples from Roman history that that famed
Republic Republic only in name) extended the
boundaries OF dsspotism by her conquests. Mr.
Adams inquiries, 8" Did the Old Hero ever heal
of such man as Verres, or of such country al
Slcliy!' No, we venture to say. Gen. Jackson
undoubtedly has many great and some good quail
ties, but he is little versed in matters of learning
or science. We charitably believe that il he
really knew what a stupendous system Of fraud
and despotism the Roman Republic was, particu-
larly at that era when it was most successful in
Extending the area of freedom he would not
allow his panders and sycophans to put Roman
maxms in his mouth. Neither would he, as a
Christian, feel fattered by the appellaton of "the
Old Roman" if he knew how much of heartless
pride and injustice compatible with Roman
virtue. The truth is that Gen. Jackson would
have felt equal citation at being called "the Old
Turk" as he is equally ignorant Of the one char.
acter as the other