all things. There certainly has been a time for every evil that human
nature admits of to be vaticinated of President Jackson's
administration; equally certain the time has now come for all rational
and well-disposed people to compare the predictions with the facts,
and to ask themselves if these calamitous prognostications have been
verified by events? Have we peace, or war, with foreign nations?
Certainly, we have peace with all the world! peace with all its benign,
and felicitous, and beneficent influences! Are we respected, or
despised abroad? Certainly the American name never
was more honored throughout the four quarters of the globe than in
this very moment. Do we hear of indignity or outrage in any quarter?
of merchants robbed in foreign ports? of vessels searched on the high
seas? of American citizens impressed into foreign service? of the
national flag insulted anywhere? On the contrary, we see former
wrongs repaired; no new ones inflicted. France pays twenty-five
millions of francs for spoliations committed thirty years ago; Naples
pays two millions one hundred thousand ducats for wrongs of the
same date; Denmark pays six hundred and fifty thousand rix-dollars
for wrongs done a quarter of a century ago; Spain engages to pay
twelve millions of reals vellon for injuries of fifteen years' date; and
Portugal, the last in the list of former aggressors, admits her liability
and only waits the adjustment of details to close her account by
adequate indemnity. So far from war, insult, contempt, and spoliation
from abroad, this denounced administration has been the season of
peace and goodwill and the auspicious era of universal reparation. So
far from suffering injury at the hands of foreign powers, our merchants
have received indemnities for all former injuries. It has been the day
of accounting, of settlement, and of retribution. The total list of
arrearages, extending through four successive previous
administrations, has been closed and settled up. The wrongs done to