New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1848-04-08
NETWORK TRIBUNE.
GOVERNOR snwARu,s GRAFTON.



DubIics. Rome was no longer &. for freedom, aud
needed Dictator and Sovereign, when PomPey
md Cesar divided the citizens. What though the
of ADAMS was not appreciated and
biz CONTEMPORARIES preferred bis military compeh
lor in the subsequent election7 The sword gathers
none bat ripe fruits, and the masses OF any people
will sometimes prefer them to the long maturing
harvest. which the Statesmen ofthe living genera
tion sow, to b, reaped by their succession. For all
this ADAMS cared not. He had extnguished the
Factions which for forty years had endangered tne
State. He had left on the records Of History IN
ssructions and an example teaching how faction
could be overthrown and his country might resort
70 them when danger should recur For himseiihe
knew we'll none knew better, that
"He who ascends TO mountsin-sops snail ana
The Hottest peaks most wrspt In clouds and snow.
lie who ssrpasses subcues mankind,
Must look down on the hate Of those below
Though high a1ove the sun OF glory glow,
And far beneath the earth and ocean spread
Round him are rocks, asd loudly blow
ContendEDg tempess on his naked head go,
And tbus award the tolls which 10 their submitted.
The Federal authority had so long been iactious-
ly opposed, that the popular respect Tor us iA"s
needed TO be renewed. The State Of Georgia pre-
scented the fit occasion. She insisted on expenins
forcibly remnants Of Indian Tribes within her nm
i.s, In virtue Of treaty which was impeacheo 'o'
fraud, and came for revision before the supreme
Court and the Senate. The Presldent mel the
emergency with boldnes and decision Inc oo'
monstration thus given that good faith snouio DC
practced, and the law have is way no matter
how unequal the litgatipg parties, operated favor
ably toward restoring the moral influence oil the
Government That influence, although sometimes
checked, has recently increased in strength until
the Federal authority 10 universally regarded az
nnal, and Liberty again walks confidently hand In
hand with Law.
JoHr QUINCY ADAMS A" loved peace and insured
H." He loved Peace % Christian, because w ar
was q. enmity with the spirit and precepts OF
Religion which he held to be Divine. Asa States
man and Magistrate he loved Peace, because War
was not merely injurious to national prosperity, but
because whether successful or adverse, It was sub
vsrsive OF Liberty Democracies are prone 70
War, and War consumes them. Hefsvored there
fore all the philanthropic efforts of the age to Guilt
vate the spirit Of peace, and looked forward with
benevolent hope to the ultimate institution oil
General Congress Of Nations for the adjustment OF
their controversies. But he was no visionary and
no enthusiast He knew that asyet war was often
insvitsble-that puslanimity provoked it, andthat
National Honor was National Property oil the high
est value because it was the best National De-
fence He admitted only defensive war-but he
did not narrowly define it. He held that to be
defensive war which was waged to sustain what
could not be surrendered or relinqushed without
compromising the independence, the justinauence
or even the proper dignity of the State. Thus he
had supported the War with Great Britain-thus
In later years he sustained President Jackson in
his bold demonstration against France, when that
Power wantony refused to perform the stipulatlon'
It had made in treaty of indemnity and thus he
yielded his support to what was thought warike
measure Of the present Administration in the d.
plomatic controversy with Great Britain concern
ing the Territory OF Oregon. The living and the
dead have mutual rights, and therefore 1t must he
added that he considered the present war with
Mexico a. unnecessary, unjust and criminal hi'
opinion on this exciting question Is among those Oh
which he referred himself to that future age whic
he 90 often constituted the umpire between himse
and his contemporaries.
With such principles on the subject Of War, b
regarded the establishment Of system Of Nation'
Defence a. a necessary policy for consolidating tn
N Republic He prosecuted, therefore, on iarg
scale the work Of fertilization, anddefended agan'
popular oppositon the Institution for the cutivato
of Military Science, which has 80 recently Wind
GATED that early favor through the learning, valo
patriotism and humanity exhibited by its pupils o
the fields Of Mexico But with that jealousy of tn
military spirit which never forsakes the wise III
publican Statesman, he cooperated In reducing tn
Army to the lowest scale commensurate with II
necessary efficiency;
Hw vain and dangerous asluson (he sad) to belle,
that in the present or any probable condition OF II
world commerce extensive 40 ours could exist witt
out the continuel support OF military marpe-the on
arm BY which the power Of the Confederacy could be
timated felt by foreign nations and the only stan
Ing force which could never DO dangerous to our ov
liberties.
The enlargement of our Navy. under the inf
encs Of these opinions, 10 among the measures
National consolidate we owe to him and the
stituton for Naval Education We enjoy 10 recel
result Of his early suggestions.
But JOHN QUINCY ADAMS, relied for national S
curity and Peace, mainly on an enlightened al
broad system of Civil Policy He looked throut
the future cOmOlnetlOns OF ptates anu stuuieu INC
eidents to which they were exposed, that he mig
seasonably remove causes OF future conflict. II
genius, when exercised in this lofty duty, played
IL h9tive element. He had cordially approved Il
means by which WAsHISsroS had secured Il
free navigation Of the Mississippi. He reprove
the acquisition Of Louisiana, although with JE
SERsoS he insisted on preliminary amendmei
Of the Constitution for that purpose. He had I
narrow bigotry, concerning the soil to which II
Institutions of our fathers should be confined, an
no local prejudice against their extension in an
direction, required by the public security, If tn
extension should be made with Justice, Honor an
Humanity.
The question of Louisiana had only given Us a.
ditional territory fruitful in new commerce, to
exposed to dangers which remained to be owe
come Spain still possessed, beside tho island
uuba, the Peninsula Of the Floridss, and thus bel
the keys Of the Mississippi The real IndePen'
snoe, the Commercial and the Moral Independent
Of the United States, remained to be effected, at tn
close Of the European wars, aud Of our own WI
wv. England. Our political Independence hs
been confirmed, and that was all JOHN QuISc
ApAas addressed himself a. Secretary OF Stat
% the srbversion of what remained of the Coloni