229 

 CONCLUSION. 



T»r interests of the West are the interests of the whole Union-- 

 1 HE interests oi uie statesmen who 



proposal, and rejected ; thatthe ''■^^fJ^fo'J^^^Z^A 'expe- 

 nd upon a gratoitous assumpt.on, ^""V^^^J '"^^^^'^J^o "„d of inter- 

 Fience, that it would have given a r.ght ol acces, ». " , ^^ 



course with, o.v Indians ,'; '^othe UeatJ cknovledged to be 

 possessed by - h^-rUde of another treaty ,^^ ^^^^ ^J^ 



extinguished by «« "ar »ut jii.si^sippi, than by a right to 



having voted against it, as he did at *« "T.°' leal to vindicate his 

 his colleagues. But, n th^ehe-n-^e of h-^_^j^l ^o^^v^^^ ^^.^^^^^ 



motives for one "°f°■■'""»'^ 1°*\' „„„ "o the world, he has beea 

 would probably never have been known to the ^^^^ 



necessitated to assert P"""? f »/ '°f "f.e „„Vubstantial than the 

 and to put fo^* f ^"^ite^^^e 'u^ed tothe melancholy office 

 pageant of avision. He has "^en i conduct and 



^f misrepresenting he subject »/ ""^'f J; *^'„^ j,„,t ^nd his own. 



sentiments of his <:°f »g";^. '^,„^,^^lfo"v?rgnatores, to contradict 

 He has been compelled o^'savow h so g ^^^^ interpola- 



his own assertions, o"-! ^^"/.'^^^^^.^X ,Lt^ »s the champion of his 

 tions. He has been forced to enter ine specially entrust- 



luntry's enemy.upon a causey h^b he ha^^^^^^^^^ 



ed to defend and ■".^^Vff j"" °,7d'not to surrender-to magnify by 

 he bad been ^P^-^'^'^ 'f '™ • jeV and to depreciate in equal pro- 

 boundless exaggerations J ;°f''^^"_to profess profound re- 



,he absent, and the n>emory of the dead ^^^^^^^^^ ^^^ 



It has been my duty, ""^ only m ju^-ce ^o y ^^^ ^^^^^^^ 

 to that of the colleagues wi h whom acted ^^^ ^,^J ^„, „f 



rs""l/:rl'X''ra:fs,t'pf? the conduct thus denounced in 



