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jwal LawsEqual Rights, and Equal Burdens The Constitution and its Currency.
VOL. V NO. 18..
KALIDA, PUTNAM COUNTY, OHIO, FRIDAY, JUNE 20, 1815.
WHOLE NO. 226.
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BUSINESS NOTICES.
' " j. j: ackerman,
Attorney JiMd Counsel!!' at JLhw.
KAUPA, TUTNAM COUNTY, OHIO.
' Office on Mnin stroct, opposite T. R. McCluro's
Hotel. Kalida, June 20, 184f.
BEN. METCALF,
Attorney and Counsellor at Law,
'np-mr A VINO onenod an offiee in Kalidn, wilh
XX give hiB attention to the ordinary buisness
of his profession, and particularly to settlement
of claims, payment of taxes, &e., for non-resi-
rlanti. Jan. lUtr. IMO.
V JAMES G. ITALY,
Attorney ami Counsellor at Lnw
Napoleon, Henry County, O.
Mny3, 1845. 222 ;
RICHARD C. SPEARS,
Attorney at Law, Van Wert, Van Wort county,
Ohio. , Feb., '44
JAMES MACKENZIE,
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW
Kalida, Putnam County, Ohio.
May 23, 1845. 222
DOCTOR P. L. COLE, '
. Physician Sf Surgeon,
Kl! tii, Putnam co., Ohio. Office in the building
formerly occupied by Mr. Thatcher, ajs the
American Hotel. April 18, 1845.
DOCTOR SOLOMON M. SHAFFER,
Physician Surgeon,
LATE of Pennsylvania, but moro recently from
Rochester, Ohio, has located himself at Rooh
port, Putnam county, Ohio, and tcnilcrB to the
publie his professional services. Feb., '44.
GEORGE SKINNER,
SADDLE &, HARNESS MAKER, Kulido,
Putnam county, Ohio. Orders promptly oxe
te sd. Saddles, &.C., constantly on hand.
KALIDA HOTEL Kalida, Ohio.
. fTpjHE undersigned, having token the
M above establishment, is now pre
pared to furnish the traveling communi
ty with accojnmodattioiis not exceeded
by any other hotel in this portion of Ohio.
' ITU M.. TIPS'
Kalida February JO, If 45. ' ' 157lf
. RIS LEYS' EXCHANGE.
fTIHE subscribers continue at the old
. JL stand, in the brick building direct-
Lly opposite the Court House, in the town
of Kalida, Putnam county, Ohio. They
respectfully solicit a continuance and in
crease of patronago of the public promising, In
return, to spare no pains On their part, in provi
ding every necessary comfort for their guents.
W. RISLEY,
Kalida, May, 1845. G. L. HIGGINS. ,
WESTERN HOTEL, (Gilboa.)
CHRISTIAN HESJt
L TTAS purchased the well known
jl XjL tavern stand in Gilboa, Put-
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iiuiu county, unto, lately occupieu
by John E. Creighton,and has fitted
the same up for the accommodation
of the public. He hones, b v a strict
it mil
sttcntion to the wants and convenience of those
who may favor him with their patronage, to merit
continuance ot the same. Gilboa, Feb., '44.
LANDS FOR SALE
IN PUTNAM COUNTY.
XTTEST half o Nortli Enrt half of Section 28, Town 1
v T Boutli, Kantre ix Bust, bu acres.
Weit half of South west half of Section 39, Town 1 South,
Rtraje Eight East, 80 tieroi.
North west Quarter, and west half of South East quarter.
and North East quarter of Smith Enst qnnrter, find west
linlfor Foiith west quarter ol section 7, Town 1 North
Ilanie Six East. 3SSJ acres.
North East quarter of Section?, Town I North, Range
BIX Kasi, mo acres. -
These lands will be sold low for ensh : or for one quarter
cash and the hnlancc in one, two, and three years, witli in
terest, and those having no money, enn pny by clearing
land in this township. A. r. JiuUKUTON,
Hieksville, Deflanre co. O.J Agent.
June 1,1845. ' SSSebw
LAND AGENCY, n
1HE subscriber has established a Land Aeen-
cy at nauaa, unto, lor me purcnase ana sine
of Real Estate, payment of Taxas, etc.. in tht
Counties ot rutnam, rnulding and Van Wert.
Being connected with the American Associated
Agency, which extends throughout the United
States and the principal States of Europe, he
expects to be of essential benefit to all who may
engage his sorvicos. GEO. SKINNER..'
Kalida, Ohio, Feb. 24, 1844. 209,tf
ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE.
"VTOTICE Is hereby given that the subscriber, has been
j. i apooimea Aoministrstor, witn tile will anneiea, on
the estate of Joseph Logan, senior, Inte of Putnam county,
deceased, and hns qualified as such Administrator. All
persons having claims Bgainst said estate will present the
same, legally authenticated, for settlement. Dated at
rieasant, tills Sd day of June, A. I). lfHS.
84cw WlLIAM TURNER. Adm'r.
ESTRAY NOTICE. "
BY virtue of an order to us directed by Christian Huber,
a Justice of the Peace of Ottawa township, in Putnam
county, we the undersigned do certify that we have view
er) and appraised a eertaia stray Mare, taken up by C. T.
Pomeroy of said township and find the same to be a light
bay mare, black mane and tail, with a star in her face, and
the near hind foot white about two inches above the past
ern Joint, except thres black spots above the hoof, one
white spot on the inside of the right hind foot about fif
teen hands high supposed to be throe years old ; a natural
trotter ; and we do appraise nid mnre at 930.
-....' - M,CHAE,'ROW'l Annralser.
. , . . . y - john COX, j Appraisers.
Sworn to add subscribed before. me this 31st May, 1B-I5. '
.!,-, 1 ' i . Christian Huber, J. P.
I certify the above to be a true copy from my estraybook
224cw Christian Huber, J. P.
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From the Savannah Georgian.
ANDREW JACKSON.
I cannot consent Hint my mortal body shall he laid In a
repository prepared lor an emperor or a king. My repub
lican feelings and principles forbid it; the simplicity ol our
system of government forbids It. Every monument erect
ed to perpetuate the memory of our heroes and statesman
ought to bear evidence of the economy and simplicity of
our rcpumican people who are tut sovereigns or our
glorious Union, and whose virtue is to perpetunto It.
True virtue cannot exist where pomp and parade are the
governing passions; it can only dwell with the people the
great laboring and nroiluclnir classes that form the bone
and sinew of our confederacy. Extract from (As utter of
jinarex jaei to to taw. t tliau. v. 8. XT, dated Hermit
age. March 27, 18-15.
Glorious on the battle-field,
Glorious in the chair of state,
, When thy country fyund a shield
. In thy arm, to guard her falo;
Still more glorious nrt thou now,
Gasping feebly far thy breath, '
While upon thy mortal brow, v J
Fost.distil the dows of death. Tf
Though disease has sapped thy form,
And the lightning IVuiii thine eye .
Fades, which through the battle's storm
Gleamed so bright and valiantly
Though thy voice, whose clarion tono
' Sent to gallant hoatts a thrill,
As the linnmnvrfl hmvplv fin.
Fainter grows and faintor still.
. Yet thy spirit, bright as erst,
Through the gathering clouds of night,
O'er thy country's sky it burst
Like a glorious beacon light; '
Pure as whon it raj was given,
Though hastens to its sct..
. 'Till it pass away to heaven,
It is all to Jackson yet! '
Set it must but thy great name,
Lingering here beneath the say, .
Cherished for thy country's fame,
Will not, rmy, it tan not die!
. Living through each future age,
Living in her gallant sons
Living on her history's pago' "
Side by side with Washinbton's!
When the storfkof battle pours,
And the invader's ruthless band,
Fiercely, on these 'western shores.
Seek to conquer fijcedoni's land.
Sternly grappling wjth the foe,
In the battle's reddest flame.
Where's the brave heart will not glow
When we breathe ld Jackson's name!
In no tomb for monarchs mado,
With no pagearitrybf woe,
Shall thy glorious dust bo laid,
In the enrth when thou art low;
Like thy life, thou dauntless man,
Wc will dig a grave for thee,
Simple and republican,
In the soil of Liberty ! .
With a stern and lofty pride,
Patriots, in all coming time, V
From the hills to th' ocean's side,
Shall recount thy life sublime; ,
Ceasing not to hope that men ',
With great souls may rise to guide
Rightly this free nation when
Such as thou have lived and died!
II. R. J
SKETCH OF JOHN CALDWELL CALHOUN.
We take the following from a work entitled
"The sons of the Emerald Isle, including me
moirs of noted characters of Irish parentage or
descent," by Wm. L. Mackenzie. The writer is a
warm admirer of the great statesman, and not
unjustly. m The clamors lately raised ngaiiiBt him
as a statesmen for the manner in which he con
ducted the negotiations with England and France
in relation to Texas, making it a southern ques
tion, &c, are rccoiving a fitting reply in tho in
trigues of the British Commissioner, Elliott, to
prevent annexation, noticed in our last number,
aided by the French Charge, M. de Saligny, under
tho pretence of hostility to the institution of
slavery, Mr. Calhoun anticipated that this would
be made tho pretence of insolent interference in
our affairs, and he met the whole question frankly
and boldly, in the spiiit of Jcfftrson who declared
that "the whole art of government" and of
course of diplomacy " consists in the- art of being
honest." J
Mr. Calhoun was born in Abbeville Dis
trict, South Carolina, on the 18th of March.
1762, and is now in in his sixty-first year.
His family is Irish on both sides. His
father, Patrick Calhoun, was a native of
Donegal in Irclaud, whence his family mi
grated to rcnnsylvama, and finally settled
in S. C. His mother's name was Caldwell,
a native of Virginia. His family is Irish n
both sides, and its members being Whigs in
tho Revolution, suffered from Indian incur
sions and Tory outrages. Mr. C. was sent
to the nearest Academy, (50 miles from his
home!) to be educated by ins brother-in-law,
a Presbyterian minister, thence to Yale Col
lege, where Dr. Dwight declared that he
had talent enough to be -President of (he
United States, and predicted that he would
be president. Mr. u. served two sessions
in the state legislature took his seat in
Congress in 1810 voted against the renewal
of the United States Bank Charter in 1811
nobly supported the war of 1812, but is
evidently no friend to war and bloodshed
where, by prudence, they may be honorably
avoided was friendly to a charter for a Bink
of the United States during the last war
(1814.) but desired a measure infinitely less
exceptionable titan that ot his mends Mr.
Dallas, tor the adoption ot which Mr. For
syth, 8i'noe Secretary of State so warmly con
tended. Mr. Webster ot Mass., was also in
Congress, and warmly in favor of a twenty
million united status Jiank tho old Bank
was a ten million one.' On Mr. Clay's
return from burone lie also was for a Bank
and, in 1816, they yielded to aNstipposed
necessity, and a Bank was incorporated as
a means ot relieving the government from
great pecuniary embarrasmenls. I have read
attentively the debates, reports, and procead-
ngs during, 1811, 1814, 1815, and 1818, in
and out of Congress, and agree with the
younger and elder Duane, that a Teal neces
sity did not then exist for the creation of
such a formidable anti-republican institution. I
Both ef the great parties of that day desired
it, however, and the chief difference seems
to have been how it could be put in opera
tion so as to afl'erd a prospect of advantage
o either. That Mr. Calhoun and Mr. Clay,
who contended against the Bank in 1811,
apprehended bad results from it, I do not
say. They were young men. Mr. Clay
still however clings to it; MrjCalhoun pursues
a iar wiser cuuiuu.
In 1818, he supported a higher tariff than
he would approve of now, with a view to the
gradual payment of the war debt of the
United States was called by Mr. Monroe
into his cabinet, in 1817, as Secretary of
War, in, which important trust he was a very
popular, prudent, and economical officer, at
tentive and. systematic m his movements,
and prompt and clear-sighted in his deci
sions, fu 1825 h v wus elected vice presi
dent oi me Un:ted States, and might, per
Imps, have succeeded to the presidency
almost as a thing ot course, had he chosen
to sucrifice a high senso of duty and tht
public welfare to an unbounded popularity.
Backed by South Carolina, he denounced
the high tariff of 1828 as unconstitutional
because it was laid on not to protect do
mestic manufactures lor that can be best
done, where found necessary, by prohibiting
foreign manufactures of the same kind, if
within the federal powers, but to raise
nearly double the revenue required to pay
the expenses of tho United States govern
ment, through increased taxation on articles
which it was known would be imported whe
ther or not that the surplus millions might be
divided among the scheming politicians, whe
pull the wires in the slate legislatures, and
used lor political purposes, as the monies
borrowed by Pennsylauia, Michigan. Illinois,
Indiana, Alabama, Mississippi, and Maryland
have been, to corrupt the bodv politic, if that
were touna possible, at its core, He de
nounced the tarirfof 1888, also, because the
monies so raised would chiefly come out of
the pockets of the poor, to be put into the
coffers of tho rich John Jacob Astor, worth
0 millions, used in Ids family in a year,
imported articles paying a tax of perhaps
100 or 150 dollars a mechanic's boarding
house keeper, or master mechanic, not
worm mzuuu in tno world, used about as
much. Was it fair that Aslor should pay
no more for the protection of 20 millions,
and all the (rouble and litigation to the
Union thence arising, than tho poor man
worth not one-thousin.ll!i part of that sum?
1 his is the operation ot tho taritt opposed by
Mr. Calhoun as unconstitutional and unjust,
and the higher tho duties are raised for
revenue purposes, nnd not prohibition, the
moro cash is extracted from tho poor man's'
pocket, m like proportion, to encourage
extravagance and profligacy in state go
vernments, bribe pet banks by deposites,
and expend millions in one section to increase
the influence of the majority. South Caro
lina decided, tint as ihs unconstitutional tea
tax Was resisted Dobly at Boston in '76, the
unconstitutional tea tax of Congress should
be resisted at Charleston, on like principles
in 1832 they did resist with wonderful
unanimity Congress had to yield and we
may thank Mr. Calhoun and his gallant little
stato for lower duties, and for tea and many
other foreign articles at no duly at all no
little help this to mechanics who,' before
nullification day, had to pay 28 to 30 cents
of tax on evary pound of tea used in their
liiinilies. Uufoitunately, General Jackson
a great and good man, had, in financial mat
ters, got under tho guidance of artful and
speculating politicians, who warred against
the United States B. ink to erect pet banks on
i's ruins, who urged him on to stand by this
unjust, unequal, and injurious system of taxa
tion, to threaten South Carolina with coer
cion by (he bayonet, to denounce nullication
as intended to destroy the Union, and to re
commend a division of the spoils among the
slates, altering the constitution which our
fathers framed, if it should be found to stand
in the way. General Jackson was deservedly
popular, and his opposition to Mr. Calhoun,
and proclaiming his measures treasonable,
deeply injured the latter with the people
But iu South Carolina, where he was best,
known, the farmers stood by him, tho mer
chants and tradesmen cheered him on, every
i I, i i j i . , j
uoay oiessea nun ana ne inumpnea,
through a steady adherence to the solemn
advice of Jefferson, the author of the cele
brated Kentucky resolutions, who, speaking
of infractions ef the United States constitu
tion, and the powers of the states, declares,
" that a NULLIFICATION by thesn sove
reignties of all unauthorized acts, done
under colour of that instrument, is the right
ful remedy." With the exception of his
votes on the embargo question, and, in 1816,
on the bank charter, where expediency must
have been, his guide, (even admitting that
one bad bank controlled by Congress was
then, in his opinion, better than many bad
banks and a deranged currency beyond their
power,) Mr. Calhoun has. seldom been
patriotic at the expense of principle, but
made it the cardinal point of his creed to be
right. When he perceived the dangerous
tendencies ot this vast machine, he would
have allowed a few years to wind up its con
cerns, as a lesser evil than pet diiiiks se
lected by the executive to perform . the
office of treasurer ofSthe- Union and as a
remedy he went heart and soul for a treasury
of the Union independent of banks and all
their vile machinery for lending the public
greedy usurers ana speculators upon the
public. Several leading Democrats voted
for the high tariff of 1828; Mr. Calhoun
resisted it. Mr. C. is no friend to banks of
issue which allow, one sot of men to m&Jce
the money and issue it to coin it of value
less materials and then lend it much, or.lit
tle to whom they please, with no efficient
check. Even the aristocratic- governments
of France and England have begun to spurn
at this demoralizing system, and to scorn its
infamous gains. . When it was proposed to
place the?" thousand Banks, of the Union in
tho hands of the lawyers, to make fortunes
out of their rottenness, through tho bankrupt
law, Mr. Calhoun resisted the attempt to in
crease executive and judicial patronage, and
impair the obligation of contracts, as a mea
sure which would not remedy the evil com
plained of, but add greatly to the public dis
tress. What have a million of creditors
gained by the bankrupt law. What would
not a million of them have lost had lawyers
had the gutting of the rotten Bmks whole
sale? Mr. Calhoun was not'slow in perceiving
tho necessity of an efficient check on the
selfishness of interested, avaricious, orambi;
tious men; or bodii s corporate the United
States Bank might have shown that and,
unlike Henry Clay, he wisely, clings to the
veto of an upright and intelligent chief
magistrate, the people's choice, and respou
sib'o to them for his every act.
I haye often regretted that artful, design
ing men, were successful in sowing dissens
ion betweerT Messrs. Jackson, Calhoun, and
Duane, three of the noblest scions of an Irish
liberty-loving stock whom fate seemed to
have ordained to act together in the ' land of
the free, for the purpose of 'shftming, if it
were possible, the titled and mititd oppres
sors of the country of their sires, by a wise
and prosperous administration of American
affairs. V
Duane and Calhoun W3re tho first to
uage a divorce of the government from that
rotten and corrupt connexion with the banks
which has proved the ruin of many thousands
of the people. The Congress were for emp
tying the people's pockets into their grand
reservoir of official robbery, the big bank in
Philadelphia others were for doing ditto
into their 400 reservoirs of favourite political
parlizan leagued banks Mr. Calhoun and
the Jeffersonian state rights men went for
economical governments, moderate taxation,
payable in gold and silver into the treasury,
and from thence to be applied to public pur
poses, receiving no bank notes and trusting
no bankers fo; Treasurers of this Union.
When the State and United Slates' Banks
s'.opt payment, Mr. Wright proposed a sub
treasury scheme, by which bank notes and
not money could have been paid in for du
ties and lands Mr. Calhoun exposed, and
the Senate abandoned it. His efforts in
1839 and 40, to cut off the executive pa
tronage derived through the public lands
within the limits of the several states, dimi
nish the business of Congress, shorten its
sessions, enlist the governments of the new
stales on the side ot that of the Union, and
withdraw unsold lands from tho pres'den'.ial
game, was wise and politic, and will, it is
liopnd, be yet successful. And the bold
stand he took against Mr. Mnngum's propo
sal on the 4th of January, 1841, to exclude
all aliens from the right of preemption as set
tlers in the western world, showed that he
did not forget the old times. It was plea
sant to see Irishmen defended ou the floor
of the Senate against all the eloquence of
Henry Clay, who went for exclusion, by two
Irish farmer's sons, (Jalhoun and Buchanan
Mr. Calhoun is blameless in private life
trank and cordial in ins manners has no
cautious reserve, no mystery, no dissimula-
tion about him. What he thinks he says,
sincerity is the first of virtues, and who
more truthful and straight-forward than Mr,
Calhoun? When did he seek to shun re
sponsibility when was he found sailing with
tho popular current, unless it went with his
principles and feelings? He has never
sought office for its emoluments never
striven to enrich himself or his political
friends with the public spoil.
There is one point on which
I have not yet touched Southern Slavery.
The northern states have gradually abolished
avery, but it was of their own free will, and
not by dictation. They came into the
Union, reserving the question of slavery to
the people of the several states, who are, of
course, the most interested and what are
tne several states lo do with it f it is easy
for us. here in the north to say " abolish
slavery," The Southener asks" What
shall we do with our negroes? If we give
them education, and refuse them the rights,'
social and civil,, which wo ourselves possess,
we will increase their power to imure us,
and aid the common enemy from without, in
any future difficulty even in the north they
are nowhere placed on a social equality with
the intelligent whites- rarely on a political
equality. If it is difficult in the north for
the intelligence even of white men to with
stand the interested monopolies that threaten
to upset republican institutions, what would
be the results in the South were three mil
lions of negroes, placed in power, led by
artful, civil and religious leaders? Who can
wish it? Or if we free tho negroes and set
apart a state tor their use, beyond the Mis
sissippi, would they not, like the Indians
become instruments in the hands of our
crafty enemies, next war? Who can doubt
itf . .--.'; ,",- " :
Slavery is indeed a great evil, but it seems
difficult to suggest a real remedy. , Victoria
and Albert starve their intelligent white
slaves the bank interest and other mono-'
polists of these states are trying to move,
heaven and earth, as it were, for the im
poverishment and utter subjugation to the
owners of money ond bank notes, of the
white freemen of America, the same in-,
fluences prevail elsewhore and what is to
be done for the negro race the most igno
rant and degraded of all? The philanthro
pist may answer " be right" Mr. O'Con
ncll may chide the slave-owner butjt does
soom to mo, that, as " charity, begins' at homei
we oi uie norm snouia oegin uy remedying
tho evils which threaten to make slaves of
our whites in America, and which have mado
them slaves elsewhere, before we quarrel
with the generous, gallant south, because
our remedies for their afflictions are not by
them considered likely to bo very efficacious.
Time does much it may yet surrirest a
means of bettering the negro's condition,
which British iulrigue, acting on American
generosity and kind feeling, has made a bone
of contention in Congress and out of it.
without benefitting the cause of liberty hero
or anywhere else. , . , ,
The, speak boldly and to the purpose on
Southorn Slavery one must fully understand
the question in all its bearings. If it be
asked, whether, where the two races exist
in such proportionate nutnbors as they do in
the south, it is best for both that the blacks
should be kept in subordination to the whites?
Mr. Calhoun replies, " it is" ,
I propose at the fitting season to give
gome sketches of the lives of Messrs. Cass,
Buchanan, and R. M. Johnson, a brief notice
of Mr. Calhoun appears appropriately among
tho sketches of descendants of Irish emi
grants and tho remembranc that it is to
Ireland we owe our Fultous, Calhouns, Jack
sons, and Duanes, should induce a feelinc of
graliiude and kindness.jnsteatl of that spirit
of proscription for tvhicjh some ; men are
remarkable.'' .'
' i . i. .
From the ChadeJon Mercrv. '
NORTHERN VS. SOUT HERNIA TRIOTISM.
The Boston Courier, copies the statemeD
of the N. N. HeraWs correspondent, hat
the Mission to iMigland had been offered to
Mr. Pickens, and that if he declined, it
would again be pressed on Mr. CiitiiouN."
The Courier adds: "If a South Carolina
man is sent to England, thttre will be very
little trouble about Oregoa. ' The sovereignty
of that almighty Slate care very little about
adding any more free territory to the Ameri
can Union." .'.
The Boston Courier, though it could con
dense into a look theaccrbity of half a cen
tury of New England JFederalisiTij. js not
likely to trouble the conscience of the South, "
or even the "almighty State" it holds in
such horror. Tho acquisitions which tho
Courier's party have made to the "free ter
ritory" of the Union whore are they? Wo
never heard of them. It is the acquisition
of territory -that has always troubled that body
of patriot. , 4 They went into spaS.ns about
Louisiana, , pnd the fit ..wis repeated in the
case of Texas. But these had an odor of
slavery -' Well, , what have thay done for
their own pscujiar province of free territory?
Mr. Webster was thought by many to havo
given away a good slico even of the sacred
soil of New England, and Mr. Bentox
charged him on voluminous evidence, with
yielding not a few Bwajnps, &c., beyond
Lake Superior. However that may be, it is
certain that ho never crossed the Rocky
Mountains. He had perhaps tho best op
portunity that was ever presented of settling
the Oregon question advantageously for the
whole country, and he shrunk from touching
it. And what has Mr, Everett done for
the acquisition of "free territory?" We
havo not heard that our rights to the Oregon
havo received either new light or increased
strength from him. We have reason to be- -lieve
that his mission in" England has been
one of marked and especial imbecility. a few
years of elegant idling, deserving rather to bo
chronicled as the travels of a Cambrido-e
professor, than the labors of an American
Statesman.
But passing this, 1st us bo to the root of
the Oregon dispute. The two insuperable ,'
obstacles that lie in-the way of the plausible
assertion of our right to tho whole territory x
between California and the. Russian posse.; '
sions, are the treaty of joint occupancy, aud
the offer of our government .to accept the
line of the 49th degree of latitude as a com
promise boundary. Each of these was an
undeniable concession that the claims of
England -had to some extent a just founda
tion' unless we affirm that each was a cow
ardly and traitorous abandonment of the rights
of our country. And"who. more than all
otherSj is responsible Tor these concessions?
1 ruiy, .Mr. John 4. Adams. '
We blame not Mr. Adams then for the
proposed compromise j bui let- tho New Eng
Isnders show that any Southern "statesman
has conceded more for the sake of settle
ment, or hes wenkened tho claims of the
United States, before they venture to repeat '
the sneers of the" Boston Courier. '. -'
An American war, by throwins out of em
ployment great masses of our population,
who are already in a state of savage political.
discontent, and organized for mischief, would
most likely produce civil war in England.
And what a War thai would be. London
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