please to observe,--

"First, That it blows to atoms the whole statement of Andrew Jackson
that Erving had laid the foundation of a treaty by which our western
bounds upon the Spanish possessions should be at the Rio Grande;
and, of course, grinds to impalpable powder his charge that our
government did give up that important territory when it was at its
option to retain it.

"Secondly, That this note of Aaron Vail Brown, while it so
effectually demolishes Jackson's fable of Erving's treaty with Spain
for the boundary of the Rio del Norte, and his libellous charge
against our government for surrendering the territory which they had
the option to retain, is, with this exception, as wide and as wilful
a departure from the truth as the calumny of Jackson itself, which
it indirectly contradicts."

Mr. Adams then enters into a lucid and elaborate statement of Erving's
connection with this negotiation with the Spanish government, with
minute and important illustrations, highly interesting and conclusive;
severely animadverting upon the conduct of General Jackson and Mr.
Brown. He says:

"The object of the publication of that letter of Andrew Jackson was
to trump up a shadow of argument for a pretended reaennexation of
Texas to the United States, by a fabulous pretension that it had
been treacherously surrendered to Spain, in the Florida treaty of
1819, by our government,--meaning thereby the Secretary of State of
that day, John Quincy Adams,--in return for greater obligations than
any one public servant of this nation was ever indebted for to
another. The argument for the annexation, or reaennexation, of Texas
is as gross an imposture as ever was palmed upon the credulity of an
honest people."

In conclusion Mr. Adams addresses in a serious and exciting strain of
eloquence the young men of Boston; and, after recapitulating part of an
oration which he delivered on the 4th of July, 1793, before their
fathers and forefathers, in that city, he closes thus:

"Young men of Boston, the generations of men to whom fifty-one years
bygone I gave this solemn pledge have passed entirely away. They in
whose name I gave it are, like him who addresses you, dropping into
the grave. But they have redeemed their and my pledge. They were
your fathers, and they have maintained the freedom transmitted to
them by their sire