Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1844-04-16

will Judge whether the business will not be spec
Oily settled, by transmitting the ultimatum of our
government to me Psreeire thut fr Pt-arro aoouid
Be glad 10 terminate II (ths negotiationl here"
Such 10 the first part of the private despatch Of Mr.
Ervinp 10 Mr.. Adams, Of that date, and most mpor
,ant one it is and yet but single line OF all
have quoted from it, was sent to The Senate with the
treaty; and that line is the last one, and the least i'm
, ,rtant of any,
When a treaty is laid before the Senate for ratifcu
tion the President Transmits Herewith the correspon
dence parts Of the correspondence which led to the
making of -and the Secretary OF State prepares and
furnishes the same. Well, The occasion OF transmit
ting this treaty. Mr.. Adams furnished the President
with an extract from ih.s pf'r@e ee'el. nna' ,"a
extract contains will be found by reference 10 vol
of Lowre & Frankhn's "American State Papers,
published under the authority Of Congress, at page
Sill, and here it is
dot,d "MApRip, April &c, 1918.
sI PERCEIVE THAT Mr.. PIzARRo WOULD VERY
GLAD TO TERMINATE 1T (THE sEcoTiArIoN) HERE =
In the mean time &c, &c, aud long extract fol-
lows but relating wholly 10 other matters, and not
touching at all the question of the WESTERN Bous'
DARY-and there ia not another wofd touching the
prior part Of the despatch, as set forth by Mr. +
save that which have quoted and underscored
here submit this most dsreputabe TACT TO the nation
for it's commentary, with these very orel nterrogao
ries Can i, be doubted for one moment, that 1t was
the imperative duty of Mr.. Adams TO have furnished
part Of this despatch that was essential to its right
Judgment and might have materially influenced the
RESULT Did Mr.. Adams ever doubt il: Does he doubt
it now. Yet SO it is! Nor is this all From the same
summary of Mr.. +, quote again as follows:
"No TITO the Secretary Of State. July Is, ISIS
uThis letter gives account OF three conferences
with Mr. Pizsrro, &c.-Mr. Ewing having observed
as he thought that the principal objection OF the Spa
nish Government Mt to the Colorado, as boundary gre"
out Of its apprehension from our vicinity to Mexico
made an offer Pizarro, with view to overcome ua'
difficulty He states the matter to Mr.. Adams thus
1As ia The interview of the Sd, we'll in that OF
the 5h it appeared 10 that the Colorado might oe
finally agreed to, as limit, if this Government could
feel security for the future that side: suggested
the plan Of leaving 80 leagues desert on the left bank oil
the river.
Not one ,oord of this despatch was furnished to the
President by Mr. Adams to be laid before the Senate
quote once more from the summary Of Mr.. F., as
follows
"No s6-August 10, lsls-To the same"
"Ths encloses note from Pi=arro, dated Madrid
August 6, the state of the negotiation, again press
ing Mr. Ewing to make formal and precise proposal
as to the desert 1t appears by Mr. Ervngs reply, Of
the 9th Of August that he finally complied with r,zar'
ros DESIRE and he proposed that the desert should be
fifteen leagues on either side ofthe Colorado &c.
Not one uora Of this despatch furnished 10 The
President bu Nh adams, to be laid 6efo1e the Senate
But, these letters certainly received at the De-
"
record with their Numbers of a and Stand that we
NAV be treasured of the fact, let return 10 Louvre
and Franklins American State Papers, and al P. 539
we find letter from Mr. Adams TO Mr. Ewing, dated
Department of State, Washington, Nov 2s, lS2s -
the first sentence whereof makes full acknowledge
ment Of the fact, in these terms
"Sir: Your dispatches No 90 INCLUSIVE. with
their enclosures, HAVE BEEN RECEIVED AT THIS DE
PARTMENT, DC.
when these brief notices of these three dispatches
sh.u ho pohl will he n
tertained of their marked Importance, and OF Mr..
Adamss official duty in laying them before both the "a
binet aud the Senate That they were not laid before
the latter take 10 be irefu,aby proven, and II IS
fairly to be inferred that the which
Auenced Mr. A. in Withholding ,hem from the Senate,
must have Influenced him also ~ within oldng them
from the Cabinet Why withhold :aem from ether
Mr. Adams and his God knows best but, for my part,
can imagine other reason than 10 save the treaty
from tae rejection which awaited il inevitably upon
those proofs To doubt such rejection under such cir
cumstanc raises mputatons most dishono'ng 10 the
American Senate To doubtit, is TO suppose, tha ko,c
ing rights, kRoing their Importance, knoniag they
acknowledged, and were secure they would base
" ABANDON or treacherousy surrender them. Let The
country decide.
Fnally-we have seen that, in 1920, Mr.. Clay de-
MED the capacity Of the Government to ceoe Texas
By Treaty-avowed his Incorporating opposition to
it-that ne wrote letter, implying his credence in
impuations which furnished deeply he negotiations
which gave it away-tbat he must have been con-
f,med in these impressions BY the direct acknowledg-
ment Of MIR. Adams in his letter to MIR Forsyththa,
he kner that The settlement of limits far within
the ultimatum OF The Spanish Minister'S instructions
Who can doubt, but that entering the Cabinet Of
Mr.. Adams, in 1895, he stipulated as an honorable
statesman should have done, for the restitution Of
Texas to the National Conederacy as soon as ii could
be done By peaceabe means, and on reasonable Terms
Who doobt, that the two offers OF purchase BY thai
administration was the result Of that oregone sipuia
tion the more readily fulfilled, from the dazzling pro
mise it gave, u allure and win the dsmemoered
and complaining South TO the frail and lettering for
tunes of the President Both objects failed, and the
same doom that drove him from the Presidency yin
gioriousy con spcuous "tte graf condemned
ed and festered him into The Soulh's immortal foe
RANDOLPH OF ROANOKE