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guard/^ Complaints were likewise voiced against the tem- 
porary advantage which had been given to British shipping 
over that of the United States. British ships might freely 
come and go between the United States and the British colo- 
nies, but American vessels were still excluded from the British 
colonial ports, and would be excluded until the President's 
proclamation could be transmitted to London and the British 
revocation of the order in council forwarded to the colonial 
ports. Suppose Great Britain should change her mind after 
all ! Why could not an arrangement have been made to open 
the American ports on and after January 1, 1831, provided 
the British West India ports were also open at that time?^^ 
Gradually, however, “heavier guns" were brought to bear 
upon the arrangement. The opening of the colonial ports 
had been accomplished, it was declared, by Jackson's submis- 
sion to terms which Adams had rejected “as inconsistent 
with the dignity and interests" of the United States, terms of 
such “inequality" as “to give British ships undue advantages 
over those of the United States".^® McLane, it was argued, 
had “been woefully taken in — outwitted in the art diplo- 
matique, by the crafty managers in the British ministry".'^^ 
This attack was repelled, however, by the convincing proof 
that the terms upon which Jackson's arrangement had been 
concluded were no others than those twice unsuccessfully pro- 
posed by Adams'' administration itself.^® 
In other quarters the value of the trade itself was attacked. 
Opposition editors maintained that its importance had been 
“overrated", that Americans would find themselves mistaken 
as to the benefits expected to result from it, that in fact it 
was a case of ''Great cry and little Doubt was ex- 
pressed whether any man in Massachusetts or Maine would 
Daily National Journal, Oct. 5, 1830. Neto York Commercial Advertiser in National 
Intelligencer, Oct. 6, 1830. 
Daily National Journal, Oct. 9, 1830, National Intelligencer, Nov. 17, 1830. 
Eastport Sentinel, Nov. 10, 1830, in Portland Advertiser, Nov. 16, 1830. Hallowell (Me.) 
Advocate in Daily National Journal, Dec. 11, 1830. 
Daily National Journal, Oct. 5, 1830. National Intelligencer, Oct. 6, 1830. Steuben- 
ville (Ohio)' Herald in Daily National Journal, Dec. 10, 1830. N'ew York Commercial 
Advertiser in Niles’ Register, XXXIX, 109. Massachusetts Spy, Oct. 6, 1830. Lynch- 
burg Virginian in Richmond Enquirer, Oct. 15, 1830. 
Portland Advertiser, Oct. 29, 1830. 
'‘^Richmond Enquirer, Oct. 26, 1830. United States Telegraph, Oct. 7, 1830, in Niles’ 
Register, XXXIX, 121. Baltimore Republican in Richmond Enquirer, Oct. 22, 1830, 
Pherdx Gazette, Oct. 5, 1830, Essex Register, Oct. 11, 1830, M>assachusetts Spy, 
Oct. 6, 1830. New York American, Baltimore Chronicle, Commercial Chronicle, quoted 
in Richmond Enquirer, Oct. 12, 1830. 
