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?truction were put into form by the jSweeden was effected by Mr: Comiell, Sacretary; the President read and ap- ;the ag?nt of the claimant, without any proved them, and they were delivered Instruction having been received by to Mr. McLane. How do we know -the Charge des Affairs. The Charge
I but that the paragraph which hasoiTen- acted, he told me, as a private friend of
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tuallv dictated hv the (The Senator from Kentucky, (Mr.
President? I do not think it at all im-jClay,) in a subsequent speech, remarkprobable, and if so, is it not an act ofjed, that he hadh'mself instructed Mrgross injustice tb make Mr. Van Buren Hughes, the Charge des Affaires, to responsible for it? The paragraphs stvjSwecden, to attend to the claims of our
frequently alluucd lo in debate, are sub-; merchants against awceuen, ana that
stantiallv true I admit, thev might as
well have been omitted. Some one has
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eaciicouiHiu.uice-j.j ceius. .vuveriiMMiieins i . j tut i. 4,1:1 UiI: ii,Kir!n
and dob 1 ruitmg must .e accompanied V i . . , . ...
e vrrent j J ackson had ever read the instructions.
I Little does that senator know the Piesi-
th cash; if charged, twenty-five per cent.
ill beadded.
DEBATE IN THE SENATE, OS MR. VAN" DUKEn's NOMINATION.
dent, if he believes so. 1 can assure that senator, that the President read, and carefullv too, the instructions to
the Senator from Maryland , (Mr. Smith.) was either mistaken or misinformed. Air. Smith made no reply, but addressed a note lothc Secretary of state, for information, whether Mr. Clay, when Secre tary of State, had ever given the instructions which he asserted had
been given by him toMr. Hughes. The
Mr. McLane, and approved them. I reply of the Secretary of Mate, contra-
'wish that senator would converse with 'diets th
ic averment of Mr. Clay on this
ir CVTITTT UA Cr, 1 , A.Ait,
t,.. v.. .., the President upon anv ot our iatior.alipoint.JT . .. oa the nonui.aiioii of -.ai tin ai! iu- . ,, 1 ... . , : . . r J r t.,.,i. i . ... , . ., . nli :n,i hn w rfitn v fir i that i hc Senator from Kentuckv TMr.
rcLr:;;; W'evr we!l,and Ight ,ayClay) has charged Mr. McLane with ! tlt -m"d Ulhetter informed than himself, on anv having done injury tothenavigating inI u" . :Z ' :, u.x... Ithinedoneinanv.oralLofthe depart- terest. by the opening of the St. Law-
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the secretary of Mate i, . ot wxMol" "li,8" ,TTLI"a
r, . . . i i i i-.i um lore i ii i i i. ii.ti.-i nt- '". l:)r iiivtriir f inns, in vi'ii hi nri!f-r lit thi " - . .
alters relating to i rence, and the northern ports to our free
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nun couic. ii;us iiai.Mt'rnn", as ne
of the biodacc
and
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said, the earn injr
Canadas, passes into Canada, is there demand which they have heretofore ground, and the llour shipped to British made of the admission of their producporls, as if it were the produce of the tiou3 into British colonies, at tie sr.me wheat of Canada. This has been the and no higher rale of duty, a .-i.nilar spontaneous act of Greatt Britain, ad- articles are chargeable with, when imopted for her own interest, and is most ; p' ted from one into another British certainly highly beneficial to our far-jt olony, witii the exerption ofourpromer8. An immense number of sheep, 'duce descending the St. Lawrcnccand hogs,hcrses and cattle are driven an-; tlie Sorel." Kow, 3ir, whatever diircrnually from Maine to Quebec and New pence there may be between the vords Brunswick- The farmers and grainers 'aW and abawhmmuiC in common of Maine differ in opinion with the Sen-:Parlancc, it is in this case; a amiphte aator frerti Kentucky, (Mr. Clay,) and; buhdonnunt in diplomatic language. are really so simple, as to believe, that what in simple truth, is after all, the their free intercourse with Lower Can-' pre at ground of obje ction? It is this ada, and new Brunswick is highly ben- MLum hns made an arranges nt uncial to them. , Whether the"inict-jr"Lr"'16 lAerrrfe-7my iWrrto.-i. course with the British North Amvri- from JIr. jlddms to Mr. Hallutin. Ilinc can Colonies be beneficial or wiieti cr i''r JacryniG. it le injurious; the present admiaistra-1 The di-olution of the late cabinet lion, nor Mr. McLane had little part in!Ir President, has been charged upon it. It had been effected, in nart. be- Van.b'drcn; nivlvhit is there at h me
fore the arrangement was coiiclude(j,;or abroad thai ice huze not heord churgvd
Phe rider ad.ims changed all
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v-uiiMuuiio: . i ii r.: gia: u, agieeaii to its constitution, the King can do no wrong, and his advisers are held respo.'sihie to parlaimeni. Our constitulioa i dilierent.as I understand it. The Ii which created the stale department ii 17o9. is that under which every secretary has acted ai d muct continue to act. This law savs, "the secretary for foreign affairs shall performandexecute sue ii duties as shall from time to time be tnj lined on, or entrusted to him, by the President of the United States, (agreeably to the constitution) relative to corropoi dences commissions or instructions to or with public ministers or consuls from the United States, or to negotiate with public minis ers from foreign states as princes and furthermore, that -'ic r ilii principal officer, (secretary of
9tn?e) shall conduct the buisinos of the
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e is knewn bv his tnends to oe par
ticularly well informed, in every thing that relates to our foreign relations. A Senator from ilaine Mr. Holmes has said thai "Mr. McLane vas sent to bow and i ii:i;: ;.t the feet of the British Minister."" That Senator knows little of Mr. McLane! What! a native
meri3an,thesonof a distinguished of-
Yermunt and Maine, to British shins.
which would otherwise have been carried by our own ships. I believe the farmers of those states do not complain. They know thai their producesold in Montreal, is received there free
frcm duty, and i carried to England,
o:med,a3 I have previously said, no ;lc.ibiaet, except tiie Secretary of the ari of the arrangement with Great j"')' Tiie. chinge was approved by 3ritain, and this fact must have he en! d':n cratic part) , and disapproved aiownby the Senator (Mr. Clav,) for ; '!)V tiiL aristocracy of the day. A change i then acted .i Sor.nt:irv of "ta'tr.. jof the caliinet is therefore, nothii K new.
luce of We have for nearly halfa century been' e now gneve and Jament over fhe v York, clairninc the free navigation of the Sr.!,iltc change, and yet never was a cab-
Lawrence as a natural light. It ha alj11'" "re irauut eu man me late one, length beengratuitouslv' conceeded tov "liole of the opposition ti.r pgh-
us bv Great Britain, and now the Sena-i'ut r-T"io:. Tiie cabinet certainly . ' i 11.
corn-
tor from Kentuckv, (Mr. Clav)
plains of it as a grievance. The senator, (Mr. Clay, ) al?o complains that the instruction, stale, "that
tiie late administrations h.td'ahan-
Ircland and the West Indies, as if it
were the produce of Canada. It is of idoued certain irretentions." The sei.a- Ud" w bonest and hoi -.cranio rn.-n
was such an one, as aid not meet mo views or approbation of the fi lends of the administration. They regreted in silence the selections which the President had maeie. The gentlemen select-
licer of the Revolution, bow and cringe little importance to the m v ho is the car- tor admits that these pretention- h:id!'ht,7 were my political frier.ds, and I
at the feet of any man? I can assure j i ler, provided they get an additional that Senator that Mr. McLane is not'rnarket, and a better price for their made of such pliant materials. Nojproduce. 1 regret, Mr. President, that
once. He asked for what was ngnt. He set tin no silk pretensions. The
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Sir, Mr. McLane came to the point at ;I cannot give the credit of the
portant act to Mr. 31 Lane. He, however, had nothing to do with it. It
Ministry tried to avoid a negotiation as farmed no part of his arrangement-
thevdid with Mr. Gallatin. But, Sir, jTi.e opening of that intercourse for cer-
his firmness and frankness conquered the reluctance of the Ministry to enter into a negotiation. He convinced them
neen waived, the senator from Ueorgia (Mr. Forcvthe,; has contendeb that there is no difference in substance between these words. I leave this grave question to be settled bv these learned.
may say, some of tern were personal intimates. Their dismissal has done no harm to the nation." The new cabinet is (I believe ) more acceptable to all parties. The membors of it arc known
tain articles' of our produce had been
done gratuitously by the British government in 1326, prior even to the at-
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rv.n .i 4 4 : i ti it nat tnev iad Oenartet irom a ri'MU con-, .euiui ,u l euoiiiuiuu o mi. uaiiauu.
e.viu ui- )u uiiem, iii su' n manner as me : . n , r , . , . iv 4 v'4 .i i i P.c-.i' ,f a. it . ii !stru tion of the Act of Por aiment o .Ju- Now that .act must have been known
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from time to time, 4order or instruct." Such Mr. President, is the law. The secretary can do no act without the direction of the President, arid whatever he directs, (if agreeably to the constitu
tion) the secretary, under the oath he
lv, 102.3, in two caes of France, Russia jit could not fail to have been known to and Spain- they could not, therefore,! the senator (Mr. Clay) then the Secreia justice, he asserted, refuse a similar tary of State. Why, then.dojs he now departure, in the demand of equal jus- jchajge it asa fault committed by Air. tice to the United States. He frankly j McLane. who had no more to do with told them that he had come for thesolejit than the man in the moon? Nor had
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r. ...r..," tri ,i .i. , purpose oi opening me colonial irade,uii . L,.ue, am ininuiono v.imuu:
"Well and faithfully to execute the ?,ul tha , li not liiJ'lld ,n ; "cgotiatron ,act of Great Britain juissed subsequent-
trust committed to him" W hnt is that nc WUUIU ,euuM "-n ,uu iii.sin , u.t,,,,,...,., ...u ,,...,,,
ai d will proceed to slicw what the..- '.IO !h- competent lo the special duties of
learned pretentions were, and which. I can hardly restrain myself from pronouncing, were puerile in the extreme. During the cession of 1 22, Congress
was informed, that an act was pending!'
their several departments, and equally so, as advisers in the great affairs of the nation. What is it to the people w hether A., B., C, or D., beat the head of
affairs? All the peopiC ask, is, that
in parliament, for the opening the colo-l"'"' 'Mi's te utll performed v.i.d nial ports to the commerce of the Uni-!t!lH! l!lcv ct in harmony: Butthej'rcs-
ted States. In consequence an act passed authorising the President in ca the act was satisfactory to him, to open the ports' of the United States to Briiili vessels, iy his proclamation. The net of parliament was deemed satisfactory, and a proclamation was accordingly issued, and the trade commerced. Unfortunately for our commerce, and 1 think
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cm i resiueni nas i.eni l.o ca. irujt t .;:. -cils for two years, aud 31 r. V;: I!u;t a is charged as being the ad'i-er ef :'.c President lo that courso-is tius n d; new ? I believe r ot-l t k (je:t i.:l Washington held no cabinet tu : i i ':uring the first two vcars of r.:s r';ii. -i istration, ai d 1 reine rht-r v t;, C-i o sion in strong trrns, a;:; '-i 1 l't;si-
dent's lioi iii i mem, on t!.t
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..,,-m ni ; u 4- iiowrng and cringing at the lect ot tuc!nicn act omer aruciesoi our produce icontrarv to liisucc, a treasury circufar "-"V 4 , trust.' t'nedienee to the instructions ( . . e . Tti .. i r r i . . . ' i V i n . i liiir u- .i. tlitn i- e; I rr, Pn-..; ; . .ii i a ' British Ministry ? Is there anv cringing.nre adinitteii Ik e of dut v into the north-' issued, directing the collectors to charge ! IK i . u 1 ' n'.-rui . i i. . :k of the t i esident in all cases where the ! . . , . t r- r T- i i ,i " , u , i i ? t . -7i that GVm .' i iI l--ckn, w-,s ;,; cotitti'it n is Mnt 4n vi 1 i 1 ! m the despatches of Mr. 3it Lane ? No ern felonies, atal thence are received ! British vessels entering our ports, with 1,1,11 en'-mi j..ck o(. v.t.s.n fc rhave Mr President Ik thirtv- one will say there is. The truth is,! in England and the West Indies, as if the alien tonagc and discriminating du- yneni')er of co'.gi ( ard pe-i s ? e C? (.. ' ,K.J n i,lf" Mr President, it ought to be known t tb.ev were the produce of the Canadas ties. Tnis order was remonstrated a- men imbilicd l:ie epi ion, :.nt c:-; et fi ' r L,;'! w ,1 to the people, that the front of the of-1 The Senator Mr-Clav complains that gainst, ( I think,)by Mr. Yaughan. The councils were not o; fa'rv,. . , U c tirst occasion I have ever heard any oth- ; , ...... n... i K...,: r..:.i.... ... rL " rj5 coi stitut on. Reas ... ir :iu,s. v ..-t
(rti1 . r t m i , tin., 'in in.: ui u i 1.1 1 c i s. it ut i ' .iiaur. nutcvci. uti u 1 i lciiiiii t i. . -. . - 0 .
er construction seriously urgetl, than
"that the instructions given to ministers abroad are the act of the President."1 All the instructions I remember commence thus "1 am Instructed by the President to give you the following views etc. &c.'' or words to that effect. I well remember a case in point, which transpired while I was in congress more than thirty years past- I was called
from mv seat hv tiie then secretary of
the n aw. lie asked me what the house
of representatives were doing. 1 replied that they were discussing the report of Mr. Pickering. Do the house consider it as the report of the President or secretary of State? It is considered ns the act of the President, who sent it. and how could it. otherwise be considered ? I come, said tiie Secretary, from Mr. Adams, to' request you to say, that he disavows it, and trusts that the house will consider it as the act of Mr. Pickering, and not s his (Mr. Adams') act. I returned into the house of representatives, and in the debate, took occasion to comment upon the report, as severely as the report reflected upon Mr. Gerry for remaining in France. I was called to order three times. I then asked
the Speaker in what reepect I was out
of order. He replied, "you must consider the report as theactofthe President; for the Executive had made it his by sending it to the house. I answer-
ed, that the President disavowed it, and therefore I could not treat the report as the President's. I took my seat. An appeal from the Speaker's decision was had, and the vote of the house sustuined the opinion of the Speaker, by a large majority, thus establishing that the President was responsible, and not the Secretary, for acts done under his authority. In the case before us, the President gave his directions : the in
complete-! me pi
ly succeeded under the instructions giv-jon Canada is received in England on e
en by 3Ir. Van Buren, and as complete- Iqual terms with those of Canada, thus ly failed under those of another a i giv rng a new mar ket to a part of these crime that never can be forgiven by jarlicles, without which Other markets the opponents of gen. Jackson. They: might be overstocked. -The Senator will never pardon him for his succce-, Mr. Clay; has truly said, that the ding in that w hat had completely fail-; wheat of the Stales bordering on the ed. For instance, the late administra-1 xtfrE.) The following letter, and action had attempted and failed, in all, coinpanyiiig extract from another letter, on the following important objects, name-'t'ne same subject, have been received from lv: Inthe claims en France: In the I l,ie Secretary of .State.
opemr.gof the Black Sea to our com- vVST" io I ' T ,. . m - 1 vv amiington, Jan. of) th, merce; -In making a treaty with 31ex-s;amuel Smith, Esq. Senate of the United icO: In obtaining from Colombia a i Slates: reduction of the duties on our produce Sil. I have the honor to state, in answer to and mai:ufactures,andiiiequalizingthe ym,reiutrVjeslerday' llltuthe 1r,ccorils . ,. , , i i -4i containing the instructions ofth e Departduties charged uyon our trade, w ith jment to Mr.-Chnstopher Hughes, when forthose Charged to Eng and. In all tlie&e merly charge d' Affairs of the United States
matters, there w as a complete failure h Sweeden, have been carefully examined
Congress met, and a bill was drafted" in 1823, by Mr. Adams, then secretary of
State, and passed both Houses, with lit
tie if anv debate. I voted for it. hrliev-' rei5
j ' 1,1 it
ino-.lint it J.w ... cmr.tf r;r, ;i Jic-ntiemen has always oee.
fhn nrl Af.virl.nmoi.t This lull rAnUi.i. I resident Il.lS C
illV V W 1 'I4I IMIIII'wIJI.t A lllw 17 111 VUli llllil
ed, In who re
believe, the not a.-v,p ' i:ag
was his uu-nact. ami nut ir. -o. of the representations of Mi. V
I'he ui'purdcnar I f"e
bv the o- e, and complete success by the anU u,al a11 w,llch ls found in them, in relation
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other administration
negotiations were under the instructions of Mr. Van Buren. How then can Mr. Van Buren be pardoned byhose wl.o had failed? It is true, that the Convention with Denmark and Brazils for seizures, had been closed, or nearly so, w hen the present administration came intooffice. Payment by
Since the above speech was delivered, 1 have conversed with the President, and have been authorized to say, "that the objectionable paragraphs alluded in the debate, were dictated by him to Mr. Van l?uren, that thev
! were his act, and not the act of Mr. Van
t.uren;' and lhave been subsequently informed, by a Senator from Tennessee; that prior to his leaving home, to assume hi9 station in the Senate, the President had told him, he
((.i en. '.I ackson) would, on all occasions of
consequence, require the opinion ot his Cabinet in writing, thus (as the Senator understood him) dispensing with Cabinet meetings. The fact, then, of not calling his cabinet together, was the Presidents own act, and not in consequence of the advisement of .Mr. Van Huren, as has beeu so repeatedly affirmed.
government of that country, is given, in the
subjoined extract of a letter from Mr. Adams to him, dated the 17th June, 1819. I am, Sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant. (Signed.) EDWARD LIVINGSTON. Extract of a letter from Mr. Adams' Secretary ot State, to Mr. ttughes, charge d Affaires of the United States at Stockholm: Department of State, i 17th June,lS19 "The President has been absent from the
seat of government, on a tour to the south &
west since tiie 30th March. His return to this place in the course of two or three weeks is expected. Since his departure Mr. Uusell's latest Correspondence w ith the Sweedish government, in withholding the indem
nity, so justly" and indisputably due to our fellow citizens, who suffered hj those seizures, for which not even a plausible prtext is alleged. It is still more painful to find this denial of justice, accompanied by insinuations, neither candid nor friendly, and by al
legations utterly destitute of foundation. I'arnestlv desirous of maintaining, with swee-
den, the most friendly and harmonious relations, I shall reserve, until after the Presid ent's retnrn all further remarks on the subject."
zrreat confident eh: rl ;
ed, however, one little word, ..else-l ei'ls anu amntics, w oici. an .
;," which completely defeated all llv "ei uegue-
our expectations. It was noticed by no j A Mt wjav..i:c.., one. The senator from Ma?gachusetts, (Mr- Webster, ) says that ir,Mruci...-.3 (Mr. Webster,) may have understood j a difierei.ee ot opinion in u e its effect. U he did so understand it he dominant Part.vi w,,h that of thu 'r-b?..l-was silent. The effect of that word !ed party , have never been -iver: h; a y 'elsewhere" was to assume the preten-orvcrniTie,'t ' 1 :isMlr- Piesicin.t, on ...I..... J . J.. . .L.. .. t. :.
wiitii iuuous uoes me senator niai.e that assertion?, Few nations, if any, except our own, rnve ever published 1 V . ir instructions to their Miniafeis vVe, therefore, what has been dcv.e, B 1 . I hardly think it possible that sncn instructions never have been giver, 'j are natural, and from Mr. Me-Lar. lone' and never shewn by him to a;.;person. But, I infer from Mi. IT ley's language to our commissioners a: Paris, when treating for a peace, t'.. t he must have had seme such ii.structio; g as he would not otherwise have tal:-d of a change of ministry1 as holding out a fair prospect of ultimately leadirg to a general peace. iNlr. Van buren, has also been charged,' with what has been improper ly called the tiproscriptive sstem" or in
other' and more appropriate language, the removal from oiTice." Where is
the prof? None can be produced. all' isfcu'rmise and co;;jecture. I act on s ieii
ground. V hen an assertion, such as
this, is made, I want proof of its being well founded. But I absolutely deny the charge, and will offer uaquesticrable proof of the correctness of the deni. al. The charge cannot possibly be f.lstantiattd, unless the senator w ho made
Hons alluded to in the instructions. What were they? "that the produce of the United States should be received in the West Indies, on the payment of the same duties, as were payable on tho
produce of the North American colonies." The British Minister said, "as well might we ask that our sugar should be received free of duty, as is the sugar of Louisiana," The result was, that the British Government shut their colonial ports imme
diately, and thenceforward. The ac of
1822, gave us a monopoly of the West India trade. Itadmitted, freeofdutya variety of articles, such as indian corn, oats, indian meal, peas, beans, &c. &;c. The British government thought, that we entertained a belief, that they couldnot do without our produce, and
by their acts of 27th June, and 5lh oi
July, 1825', they opened their ports to all the world, on terms far less adVantagious to the United States, than those of the act of 1822; and these are the pretentions which the instructions" say
had been abandoned, ty the late administration.' They were abandoned , Mr. President, by the following words in
the instructions to Mr. Gallatin .that
the United States consent to waive the
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