The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1848-09-16
VOL 70. No. 9. Whole No, 5Sl


| tally OH this very question of slavery; if on
| this question he and should be found unit
ed; think the scene would border OH the lu-
dicrous, IF not upon tile contemplate. lnev-
er proposed any thing in my life, Of II general
and public nature, that Mr. Van Buren, has not
opposed; nor has it happened to me to sup
port any lending measure that helad propos-
ed: and if he and were To find ourselves to-
gether under the Free Soil flag, ] AIN sure
tint with his accustomed good nature, he
would laugh: and if nobody were present we
should both laugh nj the strange occurrences
and jumbles Of political liie,1tlat should have
brought him and me to sttto@n cozily and
snugly together, side by side on the same
| platform. CHEERS and laughter)
Gentlemen, my first acquaintance in pub
lie life with MIR Van Buren,, was when lie
was pressing with grent power the election
of Mr. Crawford to The Presidency, against
John Quincy Adams. Mr. Crawford was not
elected, and Mr. Adams was Mr. Van Blu
rem was in the Senate nearly the whole of
that administration, aud for the rest Of it he
was Governor of the State OF New York.
And il is notorious 10 every body that lie was
the soul and centre, throughout the whole of
| MIR Adams administration, of the opposition
To that administrations aud he did moro than
any other man or any other ten men in the
and to bring in Gen. Jackson. These are
| facts which short memories may rclain.-
Gen. Jackson was chosen. Mr. Van Buren,
! was placed at tue head ofhis administration,
as Secretary of State.
1t so happened, that in July, 1929, Mr. Nc
Lane went Minister to England, under in
structons from the department of State, to
arrange in England the controvcrted aud
disputed subject Of the colonel trade. Mr.
Adams had held n very high and austere tone
towards England, and demanded, OH the
grounds of reciprocity and right, the intro
duction of our products into the West Indies,
as well as our ships, since Great Britain was
allowed to bring her products as well rs her
ships, into all the ports Of the United States,
upon the same foundation MS American YES
sells could bring them. Mr. Adams placed
this upon the ground of right. upon priuci-
pies ofrccipociiv. The British Government
would not yield. Mr. Van Buren,, in hls i'll
structions to Mr. MrLane, told him 10 yield
that question Of right, to Iisclaim the rrctcn-
Sions, as lie calls them, Of Slr Adams AG-
ministrutiun aud lie then went on to say
that the Administration in which lie was
Secretary OF State, that is, Gen. Jackson,
Administration, ought not to bG rcpulsed il
England, by the English Government, from
the enjoyment ofthat which he was willing
to CALL not right, but boon or privilege
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