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LAWRMCEBUSOH, (IA.) SATURDAY, MARCH 34, 183

Correspondence.

From the Albany Argus. Letter of the Republican Members of the New- York Legislature, to the President. Albany, Feb. 9, 1S32. To his- Excellency, Andrew Lckson, President of the United Siarcs: Sir: The undersigned in the performance of the duty with which they have been charged by the republican members of the Legislature of the State of N. Y., have the honor to transmit herewith, the proceedings

of a meeting held by them in the capitol of

this State, on the 3d instant, in doing so, they cannot restrain the expression of the strong feelings of indignation with which they view the act to which those proceedings refer. A great majority of the citizens of this State have mven repeated evidences of the

hidi estimation in which they have held

your administration of the affairs of the na-

tion The mllexible integrity which iws

marked every act of your public hie the more than military courage, with which the responsibilities of your high station have

been assumed, and the constant regard mani

fested by vou to the purity ot the Oonstitu

tion, have strengthened their attachment to

your person ana your government, an they have not been regardless of the manner in which the splendid career of a military life, has been followed by the many signal blessings -which your civil administration,

has bestowed upon our country. This State witnessed with pride, the selection of Mr. Van Buren by your Excellency as your Secretary of State : Our citizens had given repeated evidences of their confidence in him.- With the watchfulness becoming a free people, they had regarded his conduct in the various stations to which he had been called, by the constituted authorities of the State. They had witnessed his attachment under all circumstances, to the principles of the democracy of the country, and they had then recently evinced the extent of their confidence, by elevating him to the highest office within their gift. They felt thatyour Excellency's removal of him to a wider sphere was an act of justice due to his capacity, honesty and fidelity to the constitution, and to the character of tiiis Stntp. and the feelings of its people. They

cheerfully acquiesced in that removal and

freely surrendered their most uistinguiaiicu fellojv-citizen to your call, because they recognised in it additional confirmation of the hhm hopes they had imbibed of the character of your administration. They saw with unassembled pleasure, his efforts to aid your Excellency in your successful attempt to restore the government to ils purity; and when his withdrawal from the high station to which vour partiality had exalted him.

for ihe preservation of

uv;o i jh.v.j-'j i i your peace against the attacks of those who were alike enemies to your person and principles, they beheld in your continued confidence in him, irrefragable proof, that no combination could close the eyes of your Excellency to the cause of your country, and no personal considerations, arrest, your

efforts for the common welfare. They saw,

tint amid the assaults made upon your pnn

ciples by unfaithful servants, the honor of .nnnirw ms not lost to vour view, and

VJ 1 1 1 J mil X J .1. J ' they felt, that the same ardent patriotism, which had been manifested on the walls of New Orleans, had been brought into the administration of the government. They saw and felt this, in the effort made by your TTvr-ollnncv. toacnuirc bv frank and honest

remain

try you have loved so well. Yet be assured, Sir, that there is a redeeming spirit in the people, and that those whom we have the honor to represent, ardently desire an opportunity of expressing their undiminished

confidence m an administration, which ius

exalted the character of our country, winch has restored the purity of the government, and has shed abroad upon the whole nation the continued blessings of peace and

prosperity. In the "fervent hope, that your Excellency may yet be spared many years to bless and

adorn the only tree nation upon cartn, we

Your sincere friends, and Very humble servants, N. P. TALLMADGE, THOMAS ARMSTRONG, LEVI BEARDS LEY, JOHN IV HUBBARD, J. Vv . EDMONDS. CIIAS. L. LIVINGSTON, G. OSTRANDER, J. W. WILLIAMSON, PETER WOOD, ED. 1 10 WELL, E. LITCHFIELD, WM. SEYMOUR, AARON REMER, JAS. IIUGHSTON, WM. II. ANGEL.

I can never be led to doubt, that, in the instructions under which that negotiation,

THE PRESIDENT'S REPLY. Washington, Feb. 23, 1832. Gentlemen: I have had the honor to re

ccive your letter of the Dth inst. inclosing the resolutions passed uat a meeting of the republican members of the Legislature of New York" on the rejection by the Senate of the United States of the nomination of Martin Van Buren, as Minister to England.

I am profoundly grateful for the approbation which that distinguished body of my republican fellow citizens of New York have, on that occasion, been pleased to express of the past administration of the affairs placed in my charge by the people of the United States, and for their generous off rs of continued confidence and support. Conscious of the rectitude of my intentions, my

reliance in all the vicissitudes of my public life has been upon the virtue and patriotism of an enlightened people. Their generous support has been my shield and my stay, when, in times past: the zealous performance of the arduous military duties allotted to me, thouuh crowned with success, was

sought to be made a ground oi reproach;

and this manifestation on the part ot my iel-

low citizens of the great State ot New-ion;,

assures me that services not less faithful in the civil administration will not be less successfully defended.

When such reliance iaiis the public ser

vant, public liberty vf$l be in danger; for if i

the people become msensiule to indignities offered to those, who, with pure intentions,

devote themselves to the advancement oi the safety and happiness of the country, public virtue will cease to be respected, and public trusts will be sought for other rewards than those of patriotism. I cannot withhold my entire concurrence with the republican members of the legislature in their high estimation of their eminent fellow citizen, whom they have so generously come forward to sustain. To this I will add the assurance of my undimin

ished respect for his great public and private worth, and my full confidence in the integ

rity of his character

and reasonable, it was proper according to mv sense of duty, franklv to avow it, if the

relative to the trade with the British West Jterests ot the people ot the United btatcs

Indies was conducted and successfully concluded, the people of the United States will find nothing cither derogatory to the national dignity and honor, or improper for such

an occasion.

Those parts of the instructions which have

been used to justify the rejection of Mr. Van

Buren's nomination by the fcenate ot the

United States, proceeded from my own sug

gestion: were the result ot my own deliber

ate investigation and reflection; and now,

as when they were dictated, appear to me

to be entirely jiroper and consonant to my

public duty. I feel, gentlemen, that I am incapable of tarnishing the pride or dignity of that country, whose glory, both in the field and in the civil administration, it has been my object to elevate : and I feel assured that the exalted attitude which the American people maintain abroad, and the prosperity witli which they are blessed at home, fully attest that their" honor and happiness have been

unsullied in my hands. A participation in the trade with the British West India Islands, upon terms mutually satisfactory to the United States and Great Britain, had been an object of constant solicitude with our government from its origin. Daring the long and vexatious history of this subject, various propositions had been made with but. nnrtial success: and in the admin

istration of my immediate predecessor, more than one attempt to adjust it had ended in a total interruption of the trade. The acknowledged importance of this branch of trade, the influence it was believed to have had in the elections which terminated in the change of the administration, and the general expectation on the part of the people, that renewed efforts, on frank and decisive grounds, might be sinjtcssfuliy made to recover it, imposed upon mc the dut y of undertaking the task. Recently, however, Great Britain had more than once declined renewing the ncffotialion, and placed her refusal upon ob

jections which she thought proper to take to

the maimer ot our previous negotiation,

should so require.

Such was the motive, and such and nothing more, is the true import of the instructions, taken as a whole, which I directed to be given to our minister at London, and which neither expressed nor implied condemnation of the government of the United States, nor of the late administration, further

than had been implied by their own acts and admissions.

I could not reconcile it to my sense of

public duty, or of national dignity, that the

hUnitcd States should suffer continued injury

or injustice, because, a former administration had insisted upon terms which it had subsequently waived, or had failed seasona

bly to accept an offer which it had afterwards

been willing to embrace. The conduct of

previous administrations was not to be dis

cussed cither for censure or defence; and only in case "the omission of this govern-

"ment to accept of the terms proposed when

'heretofore ohered, should ubo urged as an

Country was willing to accept; upon tcrm.3

as favorable as those which regulate the trade

under our conventions with Great Britain,

and which have been sought without success

from the earliest periods of our history.

1 prav you gentlemen to present to the

republican members of the legislature of

New iork, and to accept tor yourselves in

dividually the assurance of my highest re

gard and consideration.

ANDREW JACKSON. "Messrs. A". P. Tall mad ge, Thomas - Armstrong, Levi Beardsley, John P. Hubbard, J. W. Edmonds, Chas. L. Livingston, Gideon Ostrandtr, John M. Williamson, Pc ter Wood, E. Howell, Flisha Litchft ld, W:u. Seymour, Aaron He mar, James llughston, Win. II. Angel.

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to claims which had at various times been

made upon the part ot our government. The American Government, notwithstanding,, continued its efforts to obtain a participation in the trade. It waived the claims at first insisted upon, as well as the objection to the imposition by Cheat Britain of higher duties upon the produce of the United States, when imported into the West Indies, than upon the produce of her own possessions, which objection had been ta

ken in 1819 in a despatenof the then fcecretarv of State.

A participation in the trade with the British West India Islands could not have been, at any time, demanded as a right; any more than in that to the British European ports. In the posture of affairs already adverted to, therefore, the Executive could ask nothing more than to be permitted to engage in it upon the terms assented to by his predecessor, and which were the same as tiiose previously offered by Great Britain herself. Even "these had been denied to the late ad-

j ministration, and for reasons arising from the

views entertained by the British Government of our conduct in the past negotiations. It was foreseen that this refusal might be

rfnontrid. and on the same grounds. When

it became the duty oi the Executive, rather

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In calling him to the department ot state j di int th'c expectations of thepeofrom the exalted station he then occupied a,1 wholly abandon the trade, to con-

bv the suitrages ot the people oi n;s name ' , - .c lw,nr 1o mort

State, I was not influenced more by Ins j . ,v,Qf e u a,,;.

'hir-rtion now. it was m.Klo 1 r ihitv oi

the minister "to make the British govern"ment sensible of the injustice and inexpediency of such a course.'" Both the right and the propriety of setting up the past acts of previous administrations to justify the exclusion of the United States from a trade allowed to allothernations, was

distinctly denied; and the instructions au

thorized the minister to state that such a course towards the United States "under "existing circumstances, would be unjust "in itself, and could not fail to excite the "deepest sensibility the tone of feeling "which a course so unwise and untenable is "calculated to produce, would doubtless be "greatly aggravated by the consciousness "that Great Britain has, by orders in council, "opened her colonial ports to Russia and "France, notwithstanding a similar oimsslon "on their part to accept the termc offered by

"the net ot the oth July, loJi;7 lie was told that "he could not press this view of the "subject too earnestly ' upon the considera

tion of the British ministry;" and the prejudicial influence of a course on the part of the British government so unwise and unjust

upon the future relations of the two conn

tries, was clearly announced in the declaration that "it has bearings and relations that "reach beyond the immediate question un-

If the British government should decline an arrangement "on the ground of a change of opinion, or in order to promote her own interests,' a prompt avowal of that purpose

was demanded; but if they should not be

prepared to take that ground, "but sutler

themselves to ucsire that the United states should, in expiation of supposed pt en

croachments, be driven to the necessity ot

retracting their legislative step? without

knowledge of its effect, and w holly depend

ent upon the indulgence of Great Britain,

t t v were to ue maue scnsioie oi mc im

practicability of that course, and to bo taught to expect such measures on our part as would vindicate our national interest and honor. To announce distinctly to Great Britain that we would not submit to a continued injustice, on the ground of any objection to the pst conduct of the American government, whether it were right or wrong; was the obvious V-Viport of the whole instructions. Ifthtf incentive hud caused it to be stated to cLjt Britain, that finding his prede-

ic services.

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negotiation, that for which we had warred acknowledged talents and public with Great Britain; which had been aban- tJ1Iin )V the general wisli and exp

doncd if not surrendered by subtle diploma- t)G Republican Party throughout the Union, j cy; and upon which your Excellency, at 'p10 signal ability and succes which dis-j lcat, had not been silent. tinuished his administration of the duties:

V)

Mr. ADAMS. The frank and patriotic stand taken by this gentleman on the agitating tarififquestion, has elicited from many of the administration papers) .

expressions ol warm commmendution. The Journal of yesterday, alluding to this circumstance, says Mr. Adams' career is an instructive one, displaying the fickleness of the public mind, its liability to be controlled by the worst of passions, Sec, Not so. The people have no changed, nor rrpented but the

venerable Lx President, by the severe chastisement received at their hands,

has done both. He was, in other years,

when the lash was so liberally plied,

a healed partisan, although at the head

of the government; he is now represen

ted as a calm patriotic statesman, who seems disposed to consult and advance the interest of the nation, instead of yielding to'the narrow prejudices, and subserving the licentious and unprincipled purposes of a faction. He was then an kkultra American systemite" he is now friendly to a modification of the tarilV, and a prompt and permanent alleviation of the burdens of the South which will silence the angry clamors so ominous of a convulsion in the republic.

His deportment in the national couccils has been marked by dignity Sz. urbanity he has not acted the bravado; he has wounded no members feelings indulged in no billingsgate slander: but his course, mild, courteous and gentlemanly, has drawn round him much of the respectful feeling which the profligacy of Ids administration has alienated. With these evidences of repentance and refoimatiou, the people have measurablyforgiven him; and hence the favorable

terms in which he is spoiien oi by tnose whose duly to their country once compelled them to censure him with unsparing severity. Air. Clay, on the other hand, is still the same "vindictive demagogue." His career is marked by all the reck-

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foreign policy, unless upon a conviction that it is erroneous. A thoro'h change in the

ccssors to have been in error, as wasuupiUM

by subsequently waiving the terms they had advocated, and had hi expiation of those er-

rnre :ihrnnlonf d ll tmdo to the Vlcasure of

the Brhidi government, the interests of the

United States would have sullerrd, aim tlioir honor been renronched: but in exclu-

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ding

and unjust, and incleailv avowing

such considerations, as inappropriate

lis pur-

;o im: to mi unit 10 sue i vi1 cm. in--

How Lf nit V

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icction to tne

r.nii nmr.mistration. which obiection, as had

' 7 O ' been foreseen, was actually made, and for

some time insisted upon. It is undoubtedly the duty of all to sus-

mi l.. r .mmtrr. fr t n- k., rw,vtrt l, ,vn f,,llv hist f or the tarn, uv an uiiuivhilu ami Mu.uuouum,

X 11 ; IIUOI HU Ul 1111.-5 hvji ..vv..i. T , U1U1.IL ic 'niuuvui. uuiv J " 1 . ' . i , t ,i 1 , rr.

: i;viin- , .... action 01 tne constituted autnoritics luwams in

deed mat tneirconnuence m juui xn selection. . c. :. mfl,,i tW

cy was not misplaced, for they saw and knew I owe it to the late Secretary ot State, rt'ru"3 7; l l; Z tL. no considerations of a private nature mvsclf; and to the American people, on this during t h; continuance of an admuu.tr.-

could for a moment affect your ardent desire OCcasion to state, that as far as it is known i ion m oince, notnmg snoum ue uonu lutu

10 prOUl HO UK" ooii'iiiuii wiii. io Illo, HO nun iivj jKii i iwi jjainjn " - It is true they were aware that there were tic occurrences relative to myself and the ir 4l,:- TT.-n-. srkiilil lliatiAr rmil -UU-- -F rpiirnnimnnt or 111 tllO

Clir.OilS 111 Ulia UlU Jil. nuu vuiim ujiuj " til'lUUVl VJlllv--1 uil. i;uiuuiun-i..) . . . - .

inrticipate in this surrender of "free trade dissolution of the late Cabinet; and that!"" and sailor's rights," who could "calculate there is no ground for imputing to him the j thonties of equal dignity, aiuloonallyentit ed the value of "the Union," and who could Iiaving advised those removals from office to respect : and an open adoption ot a du-

laucrli at our calamities in a period of war and which n the discharge of my constitutional i Vul col,rbU "4 1 UL& I,u

general distress. But they could not be- functions, it was deemed proper to make, i r 18 , . . l

lieve that such leelmgs could sway any i)Urin' his conlinuance in the L;aDmet, 111s ; i j ....r--branch of our hitherto unsullied government, cxcrtions were directed to produce harmony j ticabihty of previous demands imply any and least of all, that they would ever dare among its members; and he uniformly en- j nt oi respect for those who may have combine to impede the attempt of yourEx- dcavored to sustain his colleagues. His j maintained them. cellency, to secure that for our country for finai rCsignatm was a sacrifice of official j To defend the claims or pretensions, as o hil ovnondpd millions of our of f n"u-lnt hn doomrd ilir best, interests thev had been indiscriminately called, on

money, and for which thousands of our citi- of the COuntrv. either side, in the previous correspondence, witnout , ictiact on, modu.cal m or c,uu gr . hnd bid down their lives. Air MrLa no. our then minister at Lon- which had been for a time urged by the late I H the na .onal honor had not been thoun

Your Excellency has ever appreciated the tnil havin previously asked permission to , administration, would have been to defend

feelin-TS of the people of this country, and return , it was mv own anxious desire to ; what that administration, by waiving them,

commit the important points remaining open , had admitted to be untenable; and it that in our relations with Great Britain, to a j which had been by them conceded to be

I successor in whose peculiar iuness ana ihl-aocvu. ni, ii.iuu noi ne susiumt-u u pio-

pacity I had equal confidence: and to my j per, 1 peiceive nothing derogatory, and sureselection, Mr. Van liuren yielded a roluc- ly noihing wrong, in conducting the nego-

In urging upon him that sacri-j ticmon upon the common and established

hoped to promote the interest of lush citizens, and sustain the iumorand di

of his country. In rll this, gentlemen, I have the approbation of mv judgment and conscience. Act-

inn- niKiii the urinctinle cavlv anuoi.ncf d. ol

asking r.othing but what is liolit and submit

tinstonuthmi that is vronu, lakthit only

which the justice could not be denied. 1 ask

a participation in the trade upon terms just to

the united States, and mutually advanta

geous to both counties. I directed a simple

and distinct proposition in conformity will

these principles, to be submitted to the Bri

tish government: and re solving to be con

tent with nothing less, I ultimately arranged

the trade upon the basis of that proposition,

it will not now be difficult for you to judge of those which pervade this whole communi

ty, against an act unprecedented in the annals of ou r country ; which has impaired the hitherto exalted character of our National Sfinato wh-ch has insulted a State that

yields to nono in attaclrment to the Union; and which has directly attacked an administration that is founded deep in the affections of the people. The State of New-York, Sir, is capable in itself, of avenging the indignity thus offered to its character, in the person of its favorite son. But we should be unmindful of our

duty, if we failed in the expression of our

sympathy with your Excellency's feelings of

inartincation, at this degradation of the coun-

tant assent.

lice, I did not doubt that I was doing the

best for the country, and acting in coincidence with the public wish ; and it certainly

could not have been anticipated that, in the

manner of successfully coaducttng and terminating an important andcomplex negotiation, which had previously received the sanction of both Houses of Congress, there would have been found motives for embarrassing the executive action and for interrupting an important foreign negotiation.

principle, that in a change of administration

there may be a corresponding change in the policy and counsels of the government. This principle exists, and is acted upon, in the diplomatic and public transactions of all nations. The fact of its existence in the recent change of the administration of the American government, was as notorious as the circulation of the American press could

make it; and while its lnllucnco upon the policy of foreign nations was both natural

tMrtiishrd hv letnictinf our steps, by claim-

In more and ultimately consenting to take

less, and intact obtaining nothing; I feel as

sured, that in requiring that which my pri de

cessors had conceded

taining all that was d

men will see no stain upon their dignity, their pride or their honor. If Trenuired greater satisfaction than Idc-

of this snhiect. I should

lessncss, He acrimony, the factiousness of feeling and purpose, which he infused into the late administration, and which overthrew it amid the curses of the people. The same dark vein of selfishness still prevades the current of his ambition the same contempt for public opinionthe same taunting disregard of the nation's wishes and interests the Mime neglect of all the decencies and charities of life, in his bearing to

wards his opponents, is still sullenly ex-

ecrations of our country are upon his

while the sunshine of its blessing

is apparently settling on that of Mr. Adams.

All that has yet been said in praise

of Mr. Adams, has flowed from the opin-

ion now prevalent, that he has determined to make an honest, a manly and liberal effort, to etTect a modification of

the tarill on just principles by making

fair concessions to Ihe bouth, and, at the same time, preserving the manufacturing intcics-vpf the east and north. He is understood to be equally opposed to the ultra demands of the NulliGers,and the md projects of Mr. Clay It id because he seems to prefer the advancement of his country's interest and the preservation of the Union, to the promotion of the ambitious projects of Clay and Calhoun, that he is now viewed in a more favorable light than heretofore by a large portion of his fellowcitizens. Louisville Public Adv

I llivll UI'A1I v i I d to be enough, and ob- j lemanded, mv country -

rive irom a review. oi uus Minjei,

find it in the gratitude I feel for the success which has crowned 'my c-flbrts. I shall always possess the gratifying recollection, that I have not disappointed the expectations of my countrymen, who, under an arrangement depending for its p rformance upon our own wisdom, are participating in a valuuble trade iqon terms more advaiitageOUS than those which the illustrious Fathci of his

Remains of Washington. A lengthy and interesting debate has transpired in Congress on the propriety of removing the remains of Gen. Washington, from the vault at Mount Vernon, to the Capitol at Washington. xV resolution to this effect finally passed; but on application to the proprietor of Mount Veinon, John A. Washington, a prompt refusal to disturb those remains was given. We cannot but approve of the decision of Mr. Washington, believing that Mount Vernon is a more appropriate place for the ashes of this great and good man linn such a factious arena as the ten miles

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