The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1856-09-17
LETTER FROM GEN. DUFF GREEN
TO COMMODORE STOCKTON.

John RandOLpA's Charge Of Treasona-
tile Conduct Of the old Federal Par
ty-John Q. adams 6etrays his Fa-
theirs FFiends-Takes Office undeT
Mr.. Jefferson and Mr.. Monroe
Minister to England-Makes the
Anti- Slavery ITeaty-DanieI P.
Cook, Author ofthe Missouri Restric-
tion, Promoted By Mr.. AdamS-Fi-
nanciaL-Bamk Of the United States
Mr.. clay resigns his Speokership
Larger Of the Bank--Adjusts the
Difficulty Betaceen the Bank and
Ohjo---CharleS Hammond--Mr.
C7ay's Comprom1ise--THe Anti- Sla-
pery Party mever did Agree to the
Line of SO deg. 80 min.--1he Com
promise nat q Compromise.
To COMMODORE STOCKTON
In my last I referred to the speeches
of Mr.. Randolph, for proof that the old
Federal party, after the defeat of the
elder Adams, entered into a reasonable
correspondence with the agents of the
British Government, and that John 0
Adams by the betrayal of his fathers
friends, who had been his own political
associates, obtained Office from Mr.. JEFF
ferson. He was ufterward appointed by
Nj. Madison, one of the commissioners
to negotiate the treaty of peace at Client,
and then the resident Minister at Lon
don, where he became identified with
Wilberforce, and made the treaty with
England, which, as he said in one of his
speeches in Congress, pledged the Uni
ted States to cooperate with England
for the abolition of the slave trade, and
for the abolition of slavery itself. (See
his speeches,) In 1914 he was appoint
ed Secretary Of State, and Daniel Pope
Cook Was sent a as messenger to notify
him of his appointment. Mr.. Cook had
studied law with a relative, who gave
him q letter of introduction to me, and
I saw him when IN his way to Washing
ton. He then told me he was going to
sea for the benefit of his health, intend
ing to locate himself permanently in the
Sonth. In October, 1917, 1 saw him
in Washington, when he told me that he
had relinGgished tia idea of sennov:--
South, because Mr.. Adams had ~convin-
.ced him that the emigration to the States
Northwest of the Ohio would be SO great
that the non-slaveholding States would
soon control the political parties of the
country, and that, under the advice of
Mr.. Adams, he was going back to Hi
nois with a view to come into Congress
to agitate the slavery question. He
said that he had already commenced the
agitation by q series of letters addressed
to Mr.. Monroe, then President, which
he had published in o paper, (Mead's
Register then printed in Washington,
and gave me a pamphlet containing
them. By comparing those letters with
the proceedings of the snti-slavery par.
ty and their purpose as avowed, they will
be found identical. Mr.. Cook did 20
back to Illinois-be was elected to Con
gress and was the author of the Missouri
Restriction. Titus identify Mr.. Adams
with the anti-slavery agitation, and
prove that the purpose was to organize
the Joni laveholdipg States as a section
al party as o means of obtaining the po-
litical control of the United States.
Mr.. Cook..afterwards married the daugh-
ter o fGov. Edwards, who was then a Sen
ator in Congress, and took a very active
part, as a Senator i~nIfavor ofthe admission
OF Missouri. He was my intimate pei son
al friend and relative, and I asked him
to explain to me why it was that Mr..
Cook, his son-in-law, took so active a
part In opposition, when he, the father.
in-law, took SO active a part in favor of
admission of Missouri? He said that
Mr.. Cook was a young man of fine talents
and very ambitious-that he had be-
come very much attached to. and
much under the influence of M
Adams-that Mr.. A. had satisfied
him that the effect of the anti.sia-
very agitation would be to restore the
old federal party to power, aud to Sc
cure the election of Mr.. Adams to the
Presidency-that he had frequently con-
versed with Mr.. Cook upon the subject.
but would not control him-that Mr..
Cook had his own views, and having
identified himself and his future asnira.
lions with Mr.. Adams, his opposition to
the admission of Missouri was part of
the system Of measures upon which he