Iowa territorial gazette and advertiser. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa Territory [Iowa]) 1840-1846, 1845-01-04

whether any part Of their funds are sup
piled BY Joseph Bonaparte, or BY Mr..
Onis, or BY both; and whether they have
any intercourse with the Vioeroy Of Mex
leo. Your own Judgment may suggest
other objects Of iniquity upon which infor-
nation may be desirable, and which YOU
will report to this department a. you may
lind convienentoccasion. Il 10 supposed
your return may be expected in the course
Of three Or four months. Your reasonable
expensea, together with compensation Of
five dollars day, will be allowed, from
the day Of your departure to that Of your
return.
J. @. A.
"Thus," says Mr.. Ingersoll, cit APP
pears that in June, 1918, at the very time
when the Florida treaty was in full ncgo-
tiation, Tie United Nates-these are the
words Of Mr.. Adams letter, written as
Secretary Of State, at the Presidents d.
rection-extended not to the Sabine only,
where he put stop to them; not only to
the Colorado, where Mr.. Erving thinks it
would have been easy to have settled
their limits: nor yet merely to the Bravo,
the uttermost claim Of modern Texas, but
even north Of it, which must have carried
Louisiana far beyond those ancient Santa
Fe settlements Of which Col. Benton has
spoken go emphatically in his recent
speeches-Thomas Hart Benton, as Mr..
Adams, with precision, denominates that
gentleman, somesrhat infected saith Mr..
Adams, with the thirst for Tex-ass, which
has become an epidemic fever raging to a
great extent. Now The argument Of all
Mr.. Adams denunciation Of General Jack
son, Of President Tyler, Of Governor Polk,
Of Mr.. Calhoun, Of Governor McDufiie, Of
Mr.. Brown, Of Mr.. Erving, md Of me,
the whole argument Of not less than vol
ume Of print, the result Of all his midsun-
mer's night dreams, is that the United
States had no right to Texas beyond the
Sabine; that they made no claim to Texas
to the Colorado; that they never dreamed
of Texas a. far as the Bravo; and that as
to the Santa Fe settlement on the north Of
that river, it would have been the grossest
injustice and absurdity to make any pre-
tension TO-"
The following extract from Mr.. In1eG
soll's letter is too true to be omitted:
The explanation Of his mfr. Adams
seemingly inconsistent character, is the
childish vanity of miss in her teens,
united with the selfishness Of man who
has lived nearly eighty years without q
single friendship. His head is a volcano.
Volcanic eruptions Of causcless anger and
hatred perpetually break forth from its
crater. On their lava he lives, moves,
and has his being. He falls asleep when
ever not in rage, and only wakes up to
some tempest Of futile phrenzy. With
great bodily capacity for labor. he has
been nearly seventy years cramming for
information; and there is good deal Of
learning Numbered away in his mental
cockleft. But, BY means Of what he calls
a diary. he has entirely destroyed what
ever natural memory he had. "A clandes-
tine journal, not offacts and circumstances,
but his own perversions, prejudices, and
passions, is like crammed learning, his re-
lance for what in Just men are the in
stincts Of right, in kind men the charities
Of humanity, in wise men the dictates Of
common sense.
age has not wlthered him.
And it may be added,
sNor custom stalled his infinite Variety
Alexander Hamilton and Fisher Ames,
Jefferson, Jackson, all men, all parties,
have been by turns--and BY very sharp
turns, too--his deities or his devils. He
lives and thrives on abuse. His anger,
like that described in the Fairy Queen,
sWaxeth wood and yond.'
That is, mad, and worse than mad. Yet
there is method in his madness. He knows
how to butter his bread. He has receive
ed not less than three hundred thousand
dollars in pay for services to that country
which his whole labo, Of loue is to destroy.
He i worth more at this moment to Eng
land, than all the emissaries she could
send to distract us. Not very long ago,
in the capitol which he now daily desc
crates by his bloody strife, he acclaimed,
when candidate for the Presidency, in .
black gown, denouncing the insanity Of
George the Third as punishment for his
enmity to the nation which Mr.. Adams is
now struggling, with more deadly hate
than ever George the Third did, to dis
member, degrade, ard ruin. Then, Amer
leans abroad hung their heads for shame
Of such Secretary Of State. Now, Amer
leans everywhere deplore the descent Of q
quondam Chief Magistrate transfer
nation into common scold, who can be
sentenced at common law only to repeated
ducking, and who comes out OF the mire
more Of termigant than ever. Rejected
BY the good sefise and good feeling Of
Massachusetts, when of.en latterly intrigu-
ing to represent her as mule Of party
cross-breed, where nearly forty years ago
he represented her a. the thoroughbred
charger Of genuine Federalism, in the
Senate Of the United States, he comes 70
the House Of Representatives the tormen-
ter Of its deliberations, end by far tho
greatest debaser Of ito character.
During the fourteen years that the peo-
pie Of . part of Massachusetts have inilict-
ed Mr.. Adams on Congress, who has ever
heard or read speech Of his on any Of
the great constitutional, economical, fiscal,
industrial, Or national topics efthose an
malls? On the contrary, via Iule vexa.