Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1844-10-21
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JOHN QUINCY ADAMs'S GREAT SPEECH AT
BOSTON.
0S TIE .a.N.NEA.a7 OF TEA4S


Representatives, from the State oil Tennessee addesse,
'he eduis oi tho Globe newspaper at Washnpton th,
following ietief wal the Secretary be good as 1,
read ~
| II his letter is well remembered. of course. Il i,
mai IN Which Mr. Brown introduces 10 the public tn,
loIer OF General Jackson repeating the old story tia
Spain, at The cession OF the uas was re- DIV 10 e,d,
Texas, 10 the RIO Gnndr had that territory not beer
trfachetouslY yielded by the then administration oil tie
American government.
! tpen this letter from Mr. Aaron Nnil Rrovn nr,
pose, hellfe we part, follow ezens 10 make few re
marks. but llrst have siaelier quarry before me
ana must pay my respects Ia him. Let us see what
the lletoo the Hermitage has say that Mr. IA.
ron AL lfuwn deems important 10 spread before the
public 81 lmPosugly NiII The Secretary have the eoal
ness 70 read that letter
II Was read. Ii will be remembered that il was full
OF The nest panpous declarations n the .'old ,mans,
on lis author, with regard to the principle of never eednr
aulal"afs acquiring territory that it contained aver
ments based upon the assertions Of Mr. George Irvine
minister u the L. y 10 Spain. IN ISL 10 that Spain
was Wiling (bui for Mr. Adamss treacherv to give us
TIA the I'm 6mnde. as our Western boundary This lei
lyf OF General 1aehsun was written 10 A. V. Brnwn in
euoafy lsl3, and was published by him, last March,
In The GIohe
Tho letter being read, together with its Postscript.
aud an explanatory note hy Mr. Brown, (supresnp
mat 1t was the toiorddo Which could have easily
Obtained By Mr. Adams. had be chosen a, the time J
Aif a proceeded osay; Friends and flw>cilizen |
''' 'luSHu ~ HiNta l l1ilA read, iuT 1t
"u 10 pto9ue lis existence, r the benefit of pus,erily;
Laughter aud may give permanent interest To our
mieTVe" o To n2hi, ns amber Is materially increased in
value bN the Worthless insects that chance has mheded
IN IT, boats al merrmcnI. The lcltor Of General
Jackson, tsi rtad "a dated IN February 1873 and Is in
answer to one from Aaron Vail Brown who had oncla
sea 10 The Wriier copy Of the "Aladsonan" newspa.
per, containing letter from Hon. Mr. Gilncr, tpeace
TO hs ss.a. ~ HE subject ol the Annexation OF lex
Us ia ihe United slales.-Nou see that 6r, Grown was
not mistaken. when he imagined bfhttiand that ''the
hcio' had formed an opinion this subject and that be
ha1 d II good deal ul his attention. and that it had
by To mrans LOST its impurialce in his estimation =
bu' Ia Tie pub and the marrow OF this letter Here Mr.
A. recaplulnted The avcfmons that treaty had al first
Oeen projected with SPAIN laying down the RIO Grando
as The " es!ern boundary of the L. Shat while this
was Ia progress, hsofge Ervng, the United States MIN.
sier at The Conr Of Spain, (Gen. j : informant had
had The negotiations removed from his catc ut Madrid
To W asiingion, where treaty was formed fxino the
'3oe as me iml between this country and the Span
ish territory, thc ccssion Of Flolda;-thn he a. j
found these statements tue, and that our government
did, IN reality, give up that important crory when il
heru') WAS "iillod Vtu asdtns,as, a,1 'h",
ding discovery ! AN repeating 10 you (said Mr. Al
he words Il man. eight years President Of the /.
States. deliberately written, aud published year aer
they were eonmllod IL paper,-deserbing his own
dgc. and npearhiug Jane Monroe, Of his prede
r,ssors in the gh office, Of heason and through him
(uut daring Ia name him, however, IN this connection,
ne then StcftdfN 81 Cluc-ahd Tue resi- u hdillh
,'mtilu Ia which lac was aud Is under the deepest obi
cation Of gratitude. And now fellow. citizens. IN what
language ri cnnposure aud Of deeeney say 10 YOU
ihut there is. IN This malicious aud vcnomous charge.
ult one siaale word Of uhl Ihatu is, from begm.
ming 10 end. gtussly, GlarnglY, wllGully asc False,
tie name OF the man from whom the writer pie
tends II have obtained the grounds on which he made
it, There never any such man minister II Spain
from this country, as was named III that letter. The
who weni to he hero on This GRAND was George
done. d. not charge TINS distortion Oh The name ot The
person alluded wiully d1ne but it shows how
~ loosely these revelations made or present purpnse)
hang upon The memory Of Andrew jackson, and how
ule yalne H. then placed upon them, and upon their
thor Th fact IS, Erying never did make all these rev
Citations IL Cen. Jackson. however. lie never did. he
never could pretend, will he dare aver what tins
letter iiem the Hermitage asserts. The charge TINT
this government did rrlmquish advantage they might
have secured. in the negotiations alluded to, is purely
aud unluallifedly untrue; and | now charge that 1t
was known be by Mr. Brown. of Tennessee, when
he published 1t last March For, IN the r. S. 10 Gen.
: Is letter 10 him, 1t SAID that the papers given by
Mr. Fwing In General j.. ms the basis Of this charge,
would BIZ put IN Mr.. BIS POSSESSION and they were:
and IN his .noie To this part o the letter. Mr.. b
folly says. "doubess it the belief" &c. that The
Rio GGnde meant, but 1t was probably the Coo~
rldon Now, fellow citizens, let remark In the
first place, that this admission of Mr. Aaron Vail Brown
blows to the whole statement Of General jackson
I
to iuplpabe powder the assertion made by him thai
this Government made the concessions charged
And this .'n0eo ui Mr.. Is 5 was written upon peru
sal Of the pa pers" Of Mr.. Eryng, sent him by Gen
Jacksonl Now. here Is II map of Texas, executed II
The department o Typographical Eagineers,--the best
authufiiy,-npon which have word to say. by this
map II appears tha the mouth Of the Colorado Is 21i
miles n. aud +. of the RIO Grande. IT, then, Mr.. Er
wing had laid the Colorado as the foundation Of blun
Diary between the Spanish territory and the United
States our Government wonld thereby have proposed
to relinqdsh four fiths Of the whole territory dis
puG Bur, in the next place. observe that This mole
Of MIA. V. Brown contains another error great as
that 10 nth il suggests CORRECTION. IorHe Coiofad,
,cas mol eBtrcd Gi cny time, by Spain as the boundary
This offer was made to her IN 1868, by Mr.. Monroe
aud Charles pnckney Mr.. Madison being Secretary Of
/ State ut the Tine under Thomas Jefferson Blu, Tho
/ Spanish Government never did Offer line incl
west Of the Sabue And all this must have been know
To Mr.. Aaron Vail Brown, from documents Of The time
and from the letters Of Ervng. put into his possession
by his heroco correspondent at she ilermItage!" II
neither Of hem is there any assertion that the SPansl
government ever offered 10 give this government eithe
the Rn Grande or the Colorado, boundary line
I When Erying insisted something better Than the IA
/ hnp Two other rivers were named-tO the cast Of IN
Slbiac--aud were refused. The Sabine eventual
~ proposed by Don Onis alterl took charge OF Tn
State Department, and II eventually decided upon a
the boundary. Now all this must have been very wei
known 10 this Mr.. Aaron Val Brown, when he WROTE
his nule 10 'the heros" let en- and the swelling intro
ducliun thereto in which he expressed his patriotic IN
willingness that ga gem" Of such .'pures ray Serene
the dark uralhomed recesses Of the west Should lon
Ger bear" And added that he did hope that that cor
resplndenco would ''npver be adyeed 10" for the pur
passes of .tparty!" Generous, impartial, dIsinleresed
chr1ncieI What motive, then, had you Tor publishing