Bloomington herald. [volume] (Bloomington, I. T. [Iowa]) 1840-1849, 1844-11-29
Letter from Gen. jackson.
HERMITAcs, Oct. %. 1914.

Letter from Gen. Jackson.
HERMITAcs, Oct. %. 1914.
Dear I'll thank you for the copy Of the
Intsllioencer, containing the address of John
q. Adams 10 the Young Mems Club Of Bos-
Ton, delivered on the 7'h inst.
This address is labored attempt. on the
part of Mr. Adams to discredit the testimony
Of Mr.. Irving whose statements were referred
to in my letter to the Hon. A. v. Brown OF
February 18th, 1913; and like most Of the
productions Of diseased mind proves little
else but its own weakness and folly.
| Nv letter TO Mr.. Brown was published on
the ooh Of March 1874, in Washington city.
where Mr.. Adams was at the time. II has
been the subject Of comment 10 the newspaper
presses Of both parties in all portions OF The
Union and the ataiements of Mr.. Ervlng, and
the differences from them, have not been deem.
ed worthy of the notice Of Mr.. Adams until
now, just before the close OF the Presidential
canvass, he preiends 10 have discovered that
great injustice has been done him, and he
makes childish appeal to his own diary TO
screen him from the odium which has fallen
upon his treachery to the best interests OF his
country.
MIR. Adams has been seven months in pre-
pairing this tissue Of deception for the public.
| pledge my countrymen as soon as can OBJ
| tain the papers 40. now in my possession, re-
| ferred 70 in the letter TO Mr.. Brown, to prove
! moi only that Mr.. Adams has no cause OF COM
| paint against me, but that his veracity, like
| lilo sir.~.----y, s"rrnot ue proppto up ~ his
diary.
| say in advance Of the review shall take
| Of this extraordinary production, thus heralted
before the public on the eve Of The Presiden-
[ ,ial election, that the assertion of my having
advised tine Treaty Of 1919 is a barefaced
!! falsehood, without the shadow Of proof 10 sus-
tain il; and that the entire address is full Of
| statements at war with truth, and of senti-
men,s hostile to every dictate Of PATRIOTISM.
! Who but a traitor to his country can appeal
as Mr.. Adams does to the youth Of Boston, IN
the close of his address ?-.' Z our trial Is APP
| preaching. The spirit of freedom and the
spiri. of slavery are drawing together Tor the
! deadly confic, of arms. The annexation Of
Texas TO this Union is the blast Of the trum-
pet for foreign, civil, servle and Indian war,
1 of which the Government Of the United States
| fallen into faiihless hands, has already twice
| given the signal-frs, by shameless treaty
| rejected by vrtuous Senate, and again by
the glove Of defiance hurled by the apostle Of
notification at the avowed policy of the Brit
ish empire, peacefully to promote the extinc-
lion Of slavery throughout the world. Young
men of Boston; burnsh your armor-prepare
for the conflict; and say 70 you in tina Ian
| guage Of Galgacus 10 the ancient Britons-
| think of your orefahers-tilnk OF your pos
teri,y!' What is this but delusion-or wha.
| is worse-a direct appeal to arms 10 oppose
the decision Of the American people should i.
| be favorable 10 the annexation of Texas to the
! United States!
| may be blamed for spelling Mr.. Erving's
name wrong, bot trust l shall never deserve
the shame of mistaking the path of dniy where
| my counlry's rights are Involved. | believed
! from the disclosures made Ia me OF, the trans
actions OF 1919, that Mr.. Adams surrendered
| the interests Of the United States when he
! teok the Sabine river as the boundary between
US and Spain, when he might have gone TO The
Colorado, If not to the Rio del Norie.--Such
was the natural inference from the facts stated
by Mr.. Erving; and there is nothing ia the
account now given OF the negotiation TO alter
this impression. The address, on the contra.
~, does not at all relieve MIR. Adams. 1t
proves that he was then as now an alien to he
true interests of his country; hut he had not
then as now the pre'ext Of cooperation with
Great Britain in her peaceful endeavors 10 ex-
linguish slavery throughout the world.
/
the above extract, aud other similar ones that
may be taken from the address Of this monar-
chist in disguise, without feeling of horror
Grant that the thousands of those who think
with me, that the addition of Texas TO our I'm.
! ion would be a national benefit, are IL error
are we to be deferred from the expression OF
| our opinion by threats Of armed opposition
and is il in this manner that the peaceful pol
icy of Great Britain is TO be carried into exc
cution should the American people decide that
we are not in error? Or does Mr.. Adams
mean TO intimate that the will of Great Britain
should be the law for American statesmen,
and will be enforced at the point of the bayon-
| ct by those who descended from the patriots
of our revolution !!
Instead of going to British history for sen'i-
men,s worthy of the Republican youth of our
country on an occasion so vitality affecting our
national safety and honor, would recommend
those in General Washington's Farewell Adj
dress and particularly his warning to US 10
avoid entangling alliances with foreign nations
and whatever is calculated to create section al
or geographical parties at home.
Your obed:ent servant,
ANDREW JACKSON.
Gen. RoBERT ARMSTRONG.
The FARE OF THE AposTLEs.-The follow