The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1844-12-10
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ffom various sources information oil the proJece ho)
had never acquired maturity upon when " appear
ed probable that the attempt ~ouic DC nsue 70 carr
them into execution Their osiensole Objects con
stanty varied but they were all marked oy feature
of absurdty and of desperation. In me nrst ihe
name of Joseph Bonaparte was implicated, though
without positiye proof that he had personally lent
himself 10 IL; and afterwards although two notes Of
emonsrance against them have been received AZ 'n''
dspartment from the Spanish minister, oni'' ye'
more than one indication has reaehea US .ha' "e ca
addition was ultimately concerted WIN him ana was
executed by his consent, # not with his SANCTION
/ This concert in which II scarcely be douo'eo
that the object of each party VAS TO dupo the ouer
has, however, according TO all probability been Inc
immediate occasion of the occupation by these per-
| sons of Galveston.
The President wishes you to proceed with all con-
venient speed TO that Place unless as Is not mProoa
| bic you should in the progress of the journey learn
| that they have abandoned or been driven from"
Should they have removed 10 -Mafagorda or any lhs'
piaes north Of The Rio Braro, and oifhin The tertiory
claimed By The United States you VIII repair 'hnof
without however exposing yourself TO be capuf,o ny
any Spanish military force when arrived you VIII
| in suitable manner make known TO tie chiei OF
leader of the expedition your authority from 'ne gov
eminent of the United States, and express inc surprise
with which the 7 esident has seen POSSESSION thus
| taken without authority from the u ned States, OF
place within their territorial limits, and upon nhich no
iart,ii settlement can be made Without their sanction
You will call upon him explicitly To avow ohuef "na'
national authority they profess 10 act, and take care
that due warning be given TO the whole bow 'hat "e
place /, ichin the United States, nhO rH suffer no per-
naneni settlement 10 be made there under any authority
other than their oirn.
Al the same time you will endeavor 10 ascertain the
precls, and real object of the expedition the nun
bers of the persons already there the sources IRON
which they have derived the means OF deiTaying me
expenses of their undertaking and those from which
ih.v finn md
especially anything which may tend decisivsy to as
certain whether any part of their funds are suppltd
by Joseph Bonapaie, or by Mr. Ons, or ny oo'h !
and whether they have any intercourse win 'he vice.
roy of Mexico. Your own judgment may Suggest
other objects of inquiry upon which information may
be desirable, and which you will report to this depart
ment you may find convenient occasion. IL Is
supposed your may be expected IN the course
Of three four months. Your reasonable expenses
together with compensation of hsc dollars DAY,
will be allowed, from the day of your departure 10
that Of your return.
Thus it appears that in June 1918, at the very
time when he Florida treaty in full negotiation
The United States the words OF Mr. Adams
letter, written as Secretary of State at the Pres
dents direc,on-exteDded not TO the SABINE only
where he put stop to them not onlyt the Colorado
where MI. Erving thinks II would have been easy TO
have settled their limits yet merely 10 the Bravo
the utermos claim of modern Texas, but even north
Of it, which must have carried Louisiana lar beyond
those ancient Santa FEE settlements of which Col
Benton has spoken emphatically IN his recent
spseches--Ihonas Hart BeHton. as MIR. Adams, with
precision, deBominates that gentlemen somephdt IN
fecied, saith Mr. Adams with the thirst for Texas
which has become epidemic fever raging TO great
extent Now the argument OF all MIR. Adams's de-
nunclaon Of General Jackson, OF Mr.. Tyler, OF Mr.
Polk, OF MIR. Calhoun, of Governor McDuihe, oil
Mr. Brown, Of Mr. Erving, and of me, the whole ar
gument Of ao less than volume Of PRINT, the result
OF all his midsummer's night dreams, is that The
United States had no right to Texas beyond the Sa-
bine that they made no claim TO Texas 10 the Colo
RADIO that they dreamed Of Texas as far as the
Bravo; and that as TO the Santa Fe settlements on
the north of that river it would have been the gross
est injustice and absurdy TO make any pretenson TO
thep. Mr.. Adams has been in the habit, have un-
derstood, of terming General Jackson Tennessee
barbarian. In his Brainne phppics the Gene rails
double dealing, imposture, folly, ignorance, profga-
cy, mendacity-ln one word, his ylllany-in this
Texas affair painted in the blacklist colors. He
ia called T,berous Caesar, Louis ri of France,
Ferdinand the Catholic of Spain; robber, thief,
hickory hero, and the like Medusa with gorgons
head Ate hot from hell Aaric, the pest of nations;
Atla, the scourge Of d, conured into Adams's
argon the whole strain of elaborated sllegat with
what be pronounces overwhelming proofs, that as
| Texas never did belong TO the United States, and
never was ella med by them IT was monstrous injus-
tcc TO Mexico for General Jackson, by what Mr..
| Adams calls his God-deying riHdiny, TO ROB that
country from Mckee, and 1t is munstrous trsducton
| OF Mr. Adams for General Jackson TO express his
astonshmeni that our gortrnmenf gave it up by the
/ Fl rIda treaty General Jackson Is expressly COM
pared by MIR. Adams to horse-thief for doing 20;
and setting forth the defence Of tins horse.thIef
Mr.. Adams says he heard him make II in Boston, he
pronounces il a much better justification for stealing
/ the horse, than General Jackson has for what Mr.
Adams calls stealing Texas Fl, IN Mexico What
are to think, then, OF the statesman, or honest
man. or any man, who, sf.er spending a whole sum-
mer with his unguestionably superior advantages,
and the best opportunities OF making good his case,
is thus easily convicted, BY the records Of his
Department, by letter under his signature, ev-
cry line Of which bears intrinsic evidence Of Mr.
Monroes wary patriotism, and Of Mr.. Adams's pc.
oular diplomacy And what shall we say OF that
sting at a beDefaotor who warmed him in his bosom,
when Mr. Adams writes Of Mr.. Monroe that he was
more than Indifferent as TO Texss-Nr. Monroe whom
| Mr.. Adams hides behind to cover him from the
CHARGE "Wri,e letter Of Instructions" said Pre-.
sident Monroe 10 Secretary Adams, " to George
Graham, TO hasten forthwith TO Texas. Let him
make his first stoppngplace at Galveston, far beyond
The Sobine-thence let him follow the ntruders to
Matsgords, tohioh IS al The moutho Of the Coiorado II he
does not find them there let him 20 10 the Braro and
II there, or at any other place to the north Of with
IN the territory claimed hy the United States, make
known that no settlement be made there without
their sanction, for the place is riihin The United
] STATES who will suffer no settlement other than
their oion." Is this the language Of a Presl-
dent who more than Indifferent as to
Texas' Is this the memory MIR Adams should
suly for want OF pstriotism' Far beyond San An
tonic reaching almost TO Matamoras and Monterey
| in the south, TO Albuquerque and Santa Re in the
| north, MIR. Monroe insisted that neither French.
man. nor Spaniare, nor Don Onis the representative
Of the King Of Spain, nor the Vioeroy Of Mexico,
Joseph Bonapartc, should be suffered TO put foot
nor any other, without authority from our govern
ment Yet does Mr. Adams not only take high um
bragg at any expression Of astonishmen that he
should, six months after have surrendered all those
magnificent regions bnthe denounces as worse than
a horse thief the President who reclaimed them and
lsshes a rascal round the world the individual who
ventures TO publish Mr.. Erving's argument that at
least as far as the Colorado, might by the Flor.
ida treaty have established title TO Texas II not
/ 10 the Bravo