The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-06-11
co M UNI,C ATIONS.
Communicated.
ENGLAND AND THE UNITED STATES.

Communicated.
ENGLAND AND THE UNITED STATES.
England gave SlOO, 900, 900 to the West India
propretors; she paid nearly SOS, OOO per annum
in the shape of a bonus on colonial sugars, ana
larger in expenditures on the coast OF Aiilea
and elsewhere, for the avowed purpose OF ABOLISH
ing slavery and the slave trade. For long time
this expenditure was made under the pretence OF
dsinterested philanthropy! But Mr.. Calhouns let
ter to Mr.. King raised the mask; and the LONDON
Herald--one of the ministerial organs--ln reply,
frankly admits that the object is to abolish slavery,
because they have now ascertaned that the English
colonies cannot compete with the cheaper labor OF
the United States and that, so long as slavery exists
England must be dependent upon us for supply
of the raw material. The question is thus reduced
to mere financial issue-between the measures OF
relief proposed by Sir Robert Peel on the one side,
and the anti corn law league on the other Sir Rob
ert's panacea for British pauperism is perpetuation
of British monopoly. The panacea of the league is
an abolition of unnecessary taxation.
As the argument of the monopollsts is, persevere
in our present system, for "It is impossible TO look
at the discussions in the United States of America,
and especially the conflicts between the northern
and southern States without seeing that slavery m
that nation stands on precarlous footing" II be-
comes duty to inquire into the basis on which
this argument rests Among the delegates TO the
"World's Anti-savery Convention" held in Lon
don, was Lewis Tappan. He was one of a COM
mittee who waited upon Lord Aberdeen, and en-
deavored enlist the active interference OF the Brit
ish government in opposition to the annexation OF
Texas. In speech which he delivered before that
convention, Mr.. Tappan said
| "In a conversation which had with John @ Adams
upon that subject he said: deem 1t the duty Of Great Brit
must he aboshedtbst il shall not be planted there after
all the efforts and sacrifices that have been made to abolish
said leading topic next session; but will oppose it with
all the vgor and talent that God has given me- asrey
d,pb.
Chrisiendom'"
We have seen that the motive which stimulates
the extraordinary efforts of England is desire, by
abolishDg slavery, TO deprive us of the cheaper
labor which enables us underse her colonies and
thus prevents her monopoly of the tropical products
of the world. What is the motive which stimulates
the extraordinary zeal of Mr.. J. @. Adams? Let
Mr.. Adams himself speak In the National Intel
lgencer of the 2lst October, 1925 is an article pur
porting to be written by Mr.. Adams explanatory OF
| a communication made to Mr. Jefferson, in which
he says that in 1908 he wrote TO Mr.. Giles and other
members of Congress-, and that, commenting upon
the measures and purposes OF the leaders OF the
federal party of Massachusetts, of that day, ne said
! rive use Mr.. Adams own words speaking Of him
self and his old political associates:l
.He (sdr Adams) urged that continuance Of the EN-.
barge longer would certainly be met by iorcb resist
anee supporedhy the legislature and probably BY the
should be resorted to by the government It would
produce civil war; and that, that eren he had no doubt
he leaders of party ,rod the cooperation tcifh
them Of Great B,ian hat object and had teenJor
years. the dissolution Of the Union and he establish
ent of separate ederacy He knew this from unequiyo
evidence although not proveabe in court Of laws and
that in civil the aid Of Great Britain to effect
purpose would be surely resoed to, as would be
indispensably necessary to the design
Mr.. Adams, in subsequent letter, reiterates the
charge, and says
"This design (ofdssoying the Union and forming new
B1itsn had BEEN formed in the winter Of 1903 and 1904
immediately after and as consequence OIL the acquisition
of Louisiana"
And adds:
rhat project repeat had gone the length Of fixing
upon military leader for its executo; and although the
nor even Of its full development had yet doubt in
and 1909 and have doubt at this time 3oth Decem.
these Of the party New from that
time forward till its final catastrophe in the Hartford con-
yentonn
We have here before us the extraordinary spec
tacle Of an appeal by representative in the Amer-
can Congress to the British government, imploring
its interference to defeat upon which that
representative knew he would be called upon to act
in his official capacity, and on which he pledged
himself to take part with England against his own
government. We have the further proof, that when
he made this appeal, Mr.. Adams knew that the
leaders of the dominant party in his own State had
entertained deliberate purpose of dlssolving the
federal Union, and had in 1903, gone SO far as to
fix upon a military leader, and make arrangements
to call in the aid of England to accomplish it. Mr.
Adams himself traces the same leaders and purposes
into the Hartford convention. MIR. Monroe, then
President Of the United States in letter to Mr.. JEFF
ferson, dated Washington, May, 1920, brings down
this conspiracy later date. Mr.. Monroe, writing
on the subject Of the Florida treaty, says:
Eut,acf from letter tron, Nv, Monroe 10 Mr. Jefferson
dated Washington May 1920
"DrAR .iR have received your letter of the l4t con-
tanning very interesting view Of the late treaty with Spain
involved nothing more than question between the
United States and SPAIN or between them and the colonies
satisfied that might regulate In every circumstance
thought just and without that might take Flor
lent Spain must soon be expelled from this continent and
with any which may be formed in Mexico
would be easy arrange the boundary in the wilderness
include much territory our side might
desire. No European power could prevent this dis
sources altogether internal and Of the distress
ing and dangerous tendency You apprsed b,
the negotiation which took place In ls5 and 1856 with the
minister Of Spain for shutting the mouth Of the Misss
part from the journal Of Congress which then
into your hands That not question with Spain in
brought forward in aid of the policy Of the party
the head Of that project u was effort TO give such
to ts eastern section was expected that dismember
ment by the Allegheny mountains would follow the
clusion of the river If II not desired though the
latter was then and still is, my opinion The union
consisted Of eight navigating and commercial
been shut up, and dsmemberment ensued the division
would always have been the Al that time Boston
Faneu Hall ruled Boston. Jays object make New
York New England State which he avowed his return
Europe to the dissatisfaction OF many in that State
whose had excited the revolutionary
by between New York and those States respect
ing interfering grants in Vermont II foreseen by those
persons that II the Mississippi should be opened and
States should be established It's waters the population
would thither the number of productive States
proporionatcy increased and their hope OF dominion
that contracted sectional scale be destroyed to
vent this that that project was formed Happily II failed
and since then opposite direction has been
rapid and wonderful The river has been opened and all
the territory dependent on acquired Eight States have
already been admitted into the Union in that quarter ninth
s the point Of entering and tenth provided for exclu
sve OF Florida This march to has been with
profound regret by those in the policy suggested but has
been mpelled by causes which they have control
Several attempts have been made to impede among which
the Hartford convention the late var and the proposition
to restrict Missouri the most distinguished The latter
measure contemplated an arrangement the dtnc ton
solely between slayehoding and States
presumng that that basis only such division light
founded would destroy by perpetual excitement the
usual effects eedng from difference in climate
ihn