Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1844-06-05

] 9bec0ming useful in a variety of ways: For:
4 instance yesterday person presented at
4 Eone of our banks a check purporting to-
,lshage been drawn5byssa gentleman IN Bal
|timore. The cashier suspecting fraud, !.
communicated with the gentleman, at
distance. Of AZ miles, through The itele:
graph, aud received an answer that the
check was .'allright.'' Ii will be difficult
for thieves and swindlers to escape now.
They viii. fnd it very hard to escape the
lightning minister of juslice. r5 J.
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REMARKS OF MR.. MCDUFFIE,s OF
SOUTH CAROLINA,
In Senate, Mag. 1s44--On the resolution to
publish Col. Benton's Speech, and all others
made in secret session of the Senate, on the
4 Texas treaty.
Mr.. McDufle said.
IF this were question, Mr.. President,
having exclusive reference 10 the several BRAN
ches OF our own government, and their lea'
tions and responsibilities 10 the people OF ule
United States, should not only vote ior me
proposed resolution, but should myself prep pose
to discuss this great national question with open
doors. Viewing it, however, in its other I'M
pnrtant aspects, as involving our relations moi
only with Texas and Mexico, but Us the honor.
able senator from Missouri Mr.. Benton1 would
make it, with Great Britain also, feel myself
construed, by every consideration ofprudence
and propriety, to vote against the proposition.
see nothing in the peculiar circumstances
of this case to induce the Senate to depart
I from its long established usages, but much IN
the speech Of the honorable senator which it IS
now proposed to publish. to induce a.rigid ad-
herence 10 these usages; for must be permit
ted to say, though all sure the honorable SEN
ator did not intend it, that if it had been his
studied purpose 10 rouse mp in Great Biltaln
a spirit of deep resentment for the supposed
indignity offered to that country, in the person
of the Minister of Foreign Affails, by our Sc.
cretary Of State, he could not have made
speech better adapted TO the accomplishment
OF such purpose.
The honorable senator, who has for several
years made himself conspicuous FOR denouncing
the grasplng ambition Of Great Britain, and her
schemes of territorial acquisition and aggran-
! dizement, now regards the insult offered by
MIR. Calhoun to Lord Aberdeen as so aagfant
as to demand even at his hands a labored vim
dlcation of his lordship. If | have correctly
understood the senator, he alleges that the Sc.
crelary of State has questioned the veracjty OF
The British Minister Of Foreign Affairs in the
letters he has written 10 MIR. Packenham, in
reply TO the formal declaimer made by that
minister of any occult design 10 interfere with
the domestic institutions of Texas or oil the U.
States, by any improper means.
! Now, sir. | venture TO assert, as snail pro-
ceed to demonstrate, that this assumed ndlgnl'
ty, supposed by the senator from MIssocrl 10
have been offered by the American Secretary
of State 10 the British Minister Of Foreign AT
fairs, is not only without the shadow OF found
alton, but is clearly contradcled by the cores.
pondence of the Secretary with MIR. Packen-
ham. So fur from alleging or insinuat'ng the
] slightest imputarion against the yeraclty or
candor of Lord Aberdeen, the Secretary dis
| tinctly claims that his government regards the
declaration, openly and frankly made by his
lordship. as furnishing fnll and ample juslifca-
ton 10 the government of the United States for
adopting the precautionary measure OF annex
atio1-a measure taken in no nnfricndly spirit
towards Great Britain, but for the purpose Of
guarding the domestic institutions o. several ot
the States Of our Union against the dangers 10
which they would be exposed If the result so
much desired by Great Britain be ronsrmated.
| Now, let us see wha! is the declaration OF Lord
Aberdeen as to tile wishes of Great Britain, in
regard not only TO Texas, but 10 The whole
world. Great Britain, says bis lordship, f" de-
sires, and is constantly exerting herself to pro-
cure, the general abolition Of slavery al over
The world.'' And he proceeds to say distinctly,
"with regard 10 Texas, we,avow That we wish
to see slavery abolished there. as elsewhere; +;
and would rejoice if the recognition of that
country, by the Mexican government, should
be accompanied by an engagement upon the
part of Texas to abolish slavery eventually,
and under proper conditions, throughout the
republic" :,
Now, Mr. President, what higher evidence
can the senator from Missouri want, that Great
Britain is constantly exertng her influence to
procure the abolition Of slavery" in Texas and
the United States, (for both of these are inclu-
ded in "the world" ifI remember my geogra-
phy) then the solemn and official declaration Of
her Minister of Foreign Affairs And by what
strange process of reasoning does the senator
ESQ suddenly converted into the eulogist and
defender ofthat minister in the American Sem
ate) draw the conclusion that bis veracity Is
impeached by our Secretary of State, in adj
mittinc the truth and "frankness" of that de-
claralion, and expressing his regret at the views
it discloses Of the policy and purposes OF the
1 British government Sir, if 1t were necessary
10 show the sincere desire OF Secretary of
State to perpetuate the relations Of unity and
good will between this country and Great Bri.
tain, (and the occasion will justify me in ad-
ding, his high respect for the present British
Ministry the proof will be found in his speech
as delivered in this chamber within the last
three years, standing, rs they do, in striking
contrast with those of the senator from Mis-
souri,.
But the senator seems to think that the dis
claimer of faliinten,ion TO use improper means,
on the part of the British government, ought
to be entirely satisfactory to onrs. Now, l
mus, here inform the senator that those very
meaus which Lord Aberdeen frankly avows,
and ofcourse regards as proper, are the means
which are best calcnluted TO produce the evil
we deprecate, and seek to, avert, by The annex
alton of Texas.
We never dreamed that Great Britain would
employ force to procure the eabolition of slavery,
or that she would attempt TO stir UP servile