The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-03-08

with Chief Justice Jay aer0ies 20 British institutions and
under the Instructions d Timothy Pickering Secretary u
state notorious for his hostility the repatlrAns o. The
United States who Be surprised that France should
make war upon TIE interests Il meant to suhserve
especially the treaty made manifest the insidious design
Of starving France and Der colonies ~ cutting Of Ame
provisions when ths revolution bad crested deaFt
u al the French d0minions
Jays treaty waz sgued oder up the French rePuhe
IN tire ar Of our republic which she assisted 10 establish
A. The victim 10 the monarchles Of Europe Aer FrAnce
bad been almost crushed under the weight II her enemies
er Der armies bad been deeaieher great General Den
INQUIRER had been drawn u betray her-had aban-
doned his army and 0utawed Rfer the rebellion had
broken out In Yendee in Corsica in tho departments
the Khoue il the city u Lyons ii The departments Of
the Loire after Condt had Surrendered Mayence and Val
nciennes when the Spaniards possession q the
whole Pyreneesthe PrESsus and Austrians IN
possession Of The line. u wiesenburg and Fort vAuban
and had bockadea Landau after the Piedmontese and
HanoysAns had invaded France another side and the
royass Of La Tend6e had conquered and held four de-
partmen when in the South they possession Of
Lyons Marsees and te departments Of the Rhone and
NaDceuse and the British under Lord Hood bad obtained
the surrender q Touonwhen France thus suffering
under ali these successive disasters the United States
made feel the heavy hand q Great Britain The plan q
this hAughty powezSFas support party in the United
States which looked with favorable eve her institutions
and ostered her policy deess that party which wished
well to France IN her struggles for liberty and fe dis
position give her suUco in her disresses FAR eompa
bic with neutrality With this view direct trade
her own ports in the materials Of manufactures and
in provisions during The war encouraged by Great
Britain while cur with other nations was har
assed and iunumerabe prizes made Then, 70 favor Der
own fur composites and the trade Of American
panies the West with the Indians she refused
der the posts stipulated BY the treaty which
closed the revolutionary war and she took advantage or
the position thus retained and insgate the indians
and to make All our frontier States which
for opposition to the principles with which
il her policy infect country She impressed
oar seaen the ships she captured fight her bat
ties against France and finally she made order the
9th Of November 7g3 take and bring adjudication
all neutral vessels bound TO French ports This
interdict Of our commerce had been still in
lonial state and il doubt intended first At
tempt assert her former supremacy inasmuch all the
powers of Europe Joined with her in crusade against
the republican ennse in France II then the last
gasp and she had suppose therefore that her al
lies would not hesitate assist her to extnguish the light
which had originated the feryor that it Europe So
much 10 arrest
supernatural effort On the part Of France during The
next campaign scattered her enemies She hnmhled Prus
sa Spain Holland and compelled them seek peace on
her Austria exhausted and wanted peace
treaf Britain then changed her hostile demonstrations
against the United States into diplomacy She revoked
her order capture vessels bound TO France and
sought to concate the United States 50 as TO secure the
object she aimed hy that order through treaty Of
anceand this she effected by Jays treaty Through the
influence she exerted public OF the federal
party which had IN every commercial State political lead
Of Ihe commanding talsnts all favorable Brit
h institutions and hostile alike the democratic party
Of this country and Of FraRce-through the influence she
maintained over the money-d banking and mercantile class
by their dependence her for credit capital and trade
and BY the promise Of indemnity to that class Of sr
chants whom she had robbed The high seas-through
the influence she derired from those merchants longing to
engage in the lucrative fur trade withheld BY withholding
the western posts and that dreadful influence she COM
nanded in having in them the scalpingne and toma-
hawk at her bidding which made havoc along our from
and in the interior Of Kentucky and Ohio and the
carnage Of such BLOODY battles those foag disastrousy
instrumentades Great Britain obtained Jays treaty
which broke alliance with France provoked her into
hosfes and made the foundation Of these claims which
up against government In another article
viii exhibit some Of the obnoxious features Of this
treaty bearing directly TINS point This treaty
again and again Condemned BY the immediate representa-
ves Of the people and only carried by the force Of the
Interested class who having profied b. al the lucrative
and the ndenntes paid for it By Great Britain
and the reprisa they made France under the rotee
ton Of the British navy to have risen up from their
graves for the part in the persons Of claim agents
and spectators sxtort from the present generation
what the generation coeya with the transactions both In
France and the United States denied to be just sss
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