Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1845-01-31
MR.. ADAMS AND GEN. JACKSON.

very acrimonious controversy has been
for some time carried on between John GUM
cy Adams on one side, and Gen. Jackson,
backed by A. V. Brown, G.. j. lngersoll,
F. p. Blair, SC. &C., on the other, turning
on this point: Did Gen. Jackson, in 1919,
advise and approve the adjustment OF our
boundaries with Spain on tie basis of the
Treaty then negotiated by Mr.. Adams,
which secured TO us Florida and whatever
Spain possessed in Oregon, relinqushing the
claim we had SET up to Tcxasl Mr.. Adams
solemnly declares that Gen. jackson did so
advise, and quotes in evidence the following
memorandum from his Diary, written a, the
time:
"3D FEBRUARY, 1919.
General Jackson came to my house this morning
and showed him the boundary line VIII ch has been
offered TO the Spanish Minister, and that which we
propose to offer upon Melsh's map. He said there
were many individuals who would take exception to
our recetng far from the boundary of the Rio del
Norte which we claim rs the Sabine and the enc
mics OF the Administration would certainly make a
handle of it to assa them; but the possession of the
FIordas was OF so great importance TO the Southern
frontier of the United States, and so essential even to
their safety, that the majority of the nation would
be sat,f fled with the We.tern boundary, as we pro-
pose, If we obtain the Flcridas. He showed me on
the map the operations of the British force during III
last war, and remarked, that while the mouths of the
Flo rlda rivers should be accessible to ioreln naval
force, there would be security for the Southern
part Of the United States"
For this assertion, Mr.. Adams has been
grossly assaled by Jackson, lngersoll & Co.
and the impression sought 10 be given that
Mr.. A. fabricated or CARRIED his Diary to
sustain the charge! But at length the Sage
of Quincy is nobly sustained on the main
point by the discovery, among the papers Of
the deceased President Monroe, Of letter
from Gen. Jackson, strikingly corroboratve
of Mr. Adams original statement. The lul
letter of Gen. Jackson, as well as that o
President Monroe, TO which it is an answer
is published in several papers, but we cop,
only so much of Gen. Jackson's letter as re
lates directly to the lIatter now in contro
versy:
"HERMlrAeE, near Nashville June 20, 1920.
~ am clearly of your opinion that
for the present ought to be content with the Flor
li'asfortlty them. concentrate ourpopula'lon comm
our frontier TO proper limits, until our country, I
those limits is filed with dense population; 1t
the denseness of ,ur population HAT gives streng
| to our frontier. With the FlDrldas III our posses
sion, orr ioricntions completed, Orleans, the grca
| emporium Of the West IS secure.
| 1.-THE Forias IN possession of foreign power
| Won can he invaded, your fttiticaons turned, III
Mississ Phi reached, and the lower country reduced
From Itrds an inrading entmy rWncrer ni'emI
such an enterprise; if he does, notwithstanding al
,y has bse, eoin ami uSSfrfsH The FUOT Of lO1
gress on This subject. ,riU couch that the inrdde
,rW pay for his tcmerity.
Your most obedient servant
ANDREW JACKSON.
JAMES MuSKor, PEST Of the United States"
This is rather curious passage to com
pare with the letters which Gen. Jackso
has been signing for the last two or tire
wears Tribune.