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ft I . Ourtre the Plans fef ftlrgtitifei iPwiit, i . . :. jll .--!. . Uawu?'d by Party K &rttT'. rmth1te public CdwunUitidhl f Ajhi Geat!emtn'ht excited bjftlspuMt cations, the molr Viotent 5veaiv 0f hU eRemie wha re 4iffemi.nti eg their own Jatwr shave never oeen pubiiihea, ,we deem it a public duty to lay fome of the moil imerefttnf partf ef his commuaicatioas teforeour fellow-Citnen ; nv. - , jFrom un AdiHfi to thc PubUcy Dated Llncafttr, afi r J I kncW triany evidences of a Brittlh influence and party in tHis country. It never drew me from tn earneli, candid and prudent dif- pofitiion . to preferve peace with England, to cultivate commerce, but k alarmed meVj I iknthc hoftility of moft oF heir officer, to.thole wno are Kepuoiicans. tir. Jefferfon and Governor M'Kean were offered up as morning and evening facfifices in the Englifh gazettes which they had efiabiilhed or bought for defending the re Buhllcan pHricipIe of our Confti- tutions, and tne republican men of our country, i noticea a pritun party here, t mentioned the words t)f a report of a committee of the Lords ot the JJritilh rrtyy Council, of which the prcfent Earl of Liver- pool, formerly Lord Hawkmtiry; origin ally i Mr. Charles J enkmfon, va chairmarti It jvvis upon the American conimercii and govern ment, and was,' in the year kyoi. The report flktt-V. arid has been out on eteTnalcSrd. lhat ' a party in idvux fui ,vxrC4i-4Jrn jin was lormca in Amenpa. cQplous aMirafcl of their report I poITelled. j laidjt, according to my duiy, before Pre- , iidentWauimgtQ Vice-Prefi,dent Adams, Secretaries JefFerfori, -Ha ui mun. 4iiu- wen. Randolph, 'Mr. Sedgwick, and a number of the 'Federal Senators and Reprcfentatives of both parties. I alfo laid it "before Governor Mifflin, as the Chief Magill rate of that State, of which I am a native citizen. I was then Affiflant Se cretary of the Treafury of ,the United States ; arid I was engaged in the fixth number of myi reply to Lord Sheffield. My zeal far the intereft of my country, and for its harmony with England, .induced me to write the feventh number, as a covert reply to fome of the con tents of the report See chap. .7, in the pamphlet copy of my reply to Lord bhemeld, and page 24 1, iec tion 7, of the reprinted copy in my 44 View of ike United States'1'. We had then no regular Britim Minuter (here; btit Major Beck- with refided in Philadelphia, and to him I gave copies of each of the feven. numbers for himlelf and his friends in Europe.; He had been hewn the flrft, by Mr. TefFerfon and Mr.:Madifon,;he happening to lodge at the fame houfe with 'he latter. When I publiihedin 1799, in defence oi the republican prin ciples, and oi tne republican can didate for the Government of Penn fylvania, ftated many of the proofs of an Englifh party here, and among other things, mentioned that. Mr. Adams, when Vice Prefident, had been of opinion. that oritiih intluerice had been ex ercifed in an appointment of Gen. Walhington's. This was true, and ought not to-injtive Mr. Adams. This afTcrtion, howei'er, being re peated by Mr. Dnane, he waspro fecutcd for it, as ik unerftood, b) order of Mr. Pickering, and I jvas compelled by the' known and ef tablified law of evidence, arid by duty to defend from the pains and penalties of a jail, and amerce ment of the printer, who had republifhed the ha. Public jatcty required it; for Britim influence beftrode the land like a Coloflus, and was forcing my ppreIed countrymen to feek for themfelvcs difhonorable retire--eats. The principal Minifler denouncing from his place in Parliament, the American inventors-of the fovcreignty of the peo ple, as the enemies of mankind ; and our own Secretary of State, Mr. Pjckerin, and our own Com mander of the army, dc fa8o9 Mr Hamilton, were confidered to be decided friends to clofcr connec tions with the Englifli and Auftnan Caufe.; It Avas but a little before that time, that I had received one intimation that I mould be 'feni away, another that " a September' was menaced for the defence of re publican government, and for the mere j difcuffion of the (queilidn whether Britain orFrance firft be gan to detain and fpoliate neutral trade For this afiertion, arv out rageous and malignant attack was made upon me in: the Gazette of the United States pf the agd.ift. They call on Dr. Rufh to contradicl my dirertion; but! has he not al ready told you, that he himfelf is it this time convinced that he fbdilld be prfactited out of the country' if he" were to reveal the opinions iritl 'f withes' for monarchy, which he has heard ehi(py front private perforis ; that is, trom public cha rafter as we, 11 as private mn? Haves we not.loth agreed in that grand, effential, alarming fift? Has; Dr. Rufli attempted to deny, that Mr. Adams is really, and truly, in principle, a Moriarchiil ? Have not F. A. Muhlenberg, T. Mat !ackt Jacob Carpenter, Samuel Bryan , and myfelf, under an ap pointment from the county of Lan caflr, publilhed fince the 17th of September lafl, that Alexander Hamilton has avowed himfelf a Moriarchifl, and do we not remain uncontradicled by him ? Have 1 hot alfo fiace the beginning ol Oc tober, publifhed the fame thing, with a declaration that it was made to me in art puicial conference? :DoeV riot this pointed charge ro main entirely itnrroticrd, and uri conlradicled by Mr. Hamilton, while he is aflivc to refute the ih finuation of his being of a Britifh party. Jde (hews the fame warmth againft Mr. Adams, for having fuggeflcd BritiOi influence, as he has fhewn againft Mr. Jefferfon. He has hot denied; his monarchifm, which h a deeper infidelity, a more dangerous cfifaffetron to the Con flitmion. . He will not deny his Monarchifm, while he retains any prudence, or any regard for truth ; my allegations- are not to be dif proved,"' ' I believe that truth and reafbn impartially brought before the Le giflatures, the Prcfidential Elec tors, and the People, at this time, will fave us from the miferies ot a revolutionary, flruggle, to change a form and plan of government the belt that rrovidence has ever dif pertfed to man. and to which this nation is cordially attached. I find it hecefTary to meet the dangerous manoeuvres ot a citizen (Alexan der tiamilton) with whom I was years in office, who joins to his monarchifm, avowed to me, the ,mofl acrimonious an unfounded mifreprefentation of my native ftate, which is fecond to none in a faithful and intelligent devotion to the Conftitution of the United States. It was his known difaf feclion to our Conftitutiou in part, that excited me to exeition in 1796, that mod injured Mr. Thomas Pinckney, whom he fupporied ; at that and the former election. It is his known difaffeclion, that now greatly and juftly injures General. Charles Cotefworth Pinckney whom he fo openly fupports by his equal violence againff Mr. Jeffer fon and Mr. Adams. Believing as I do, that the addition of one or more tp the number of Republics, is the mod fure method ot main taining our American Republic fafe and tranquil, I have ever con fidered the fuccefs of the French, Batavian, Swifs, and Italian Re publics, as matters the mofl inte- reflin? to us. I have therefore known with regret and alarm, that Mr. Hamilton, prudently profefling- to have been .well difpofed to the J firft movements of the French Re volution, avoVd that lit Isadiven up all favour to them in Auguft-, 1792, when they fufpehded their royalty, and that from thenceforth ;. he heard of fheir ftcefTe with regret." My counf rymen will re' member, that this wai before the reign of Rohefpierrt the reigd of terror, the trial or death ot hc Kiuff, the opening ofithe Scheldt, the decree of f rater mty, the pro clamation of'encouragqraerit to the oppreffed, or the infurgents o all riations. It wa thjdatejdf the eflablifhment of tr- Republic. From that date, he heard, with fe rret of theifucceffes of thofe become republicans, whom "he profeffed ;to favour under a monarchy .-Our Republic wanted a fecond. - A greit fecond was raifed by the hand of Providentek Their fuccefTes were important to the ftaHility of our Republic; Mr Hamilton heard of thofe fucceffes with regret. This was in 1792. The whole (core and, tenor of General Walh ington's withes Were then for the French Republic. He avowed the fame fentiments and difpofitionson the firft of January, J793, in the houfe of the government, when he received the colours of the French Republic. ; Such was ths fpirit af the government of that Prefideht. Mr; Hamilton, therefore, was com pletely difaffe&ed to the whole tenor of thofe rrieafures of the go vernment. He is perfectly con fiftent anrl flcady, then in his dif affetf ion to the recent meafures to conciliate the French adopted by the prcfent government, though hell neneves Mr. Adams to agree with him in a predilection for monarchy. After I became acquainted with Mr. Adams's declaration about mo narchy, befofc Mr.-Lartgdon and Mr. Taylor, I fpoke to Mr. Ha milton of the impropriety and im poflibility of elccling him Prcfi dent, fince his monarchical prin ciples were known. Mr. Hamil ton evidently admitted them, but fanl, "the clannijh fpirit of his countrymen the people of New England)w0i c&rryhim through" This event was between April, 1794, and February, 1795." , ' 44 Every citizen is bound tomake known whatever he perceives bv which the Conftitution may be in jured. I folemnly believe it was in 1799 in the road to ruin. No citizen has a right to injure or en-, danger the Conftitution, under the veil of fecrecy and confidence, nar have I been treated with attention to my confidential communications. I oppofed Mr. Adams's Iafl election with, malb others folcly upon the fame principles as 1 havt menticm. j?ed in this paper : he was fworn ioto oHicein 1707, and I was removed in the courfe of that year. When I was removed, it was aliened in the Treafury department, that every man in my office, of my political fentiments, would be removed, down to the door-keeper. Mr. Hamilton, in one of themonjents of uiiicnuori, explicitly toiu me, that I vhad been a very ufeful officer, arid a decided Federalift, but' that I had certain fympathies with cer tain people, which would land me where 1 did not perceive; that for that reafon he had oppofed my name, juft before, for an appointment, becaufe he did not chufe to encreafe the political confequence of a man fo circumftanced." Thofe fym pathies I believe were a decided and reflected onpofition to monar chy, and; attachment to republican government; and a folicitude for the fuccefs of the French Revolu tion, becaufe it would enfure the fafety and liability of our own Republic. From a GGwmuniatiion addrejfed the Editor of the Aurora, ated OA. 19. to M I had not expeUd, that my unknown letter, without names or dates, coiald ever in any -way pro dace a publication cf it. This was owing, as learn, to the ardent difpoTition ;'' of Mr. Pickerings in profecuting you.' Tliough 1 will not be induced fo comment up4h Mr Adamf's de jfence of his letter to me, I fhaH rer mark upon fdme other parts of his icomraunicatiott to lVlr. T. Pinck ney. ; Mr. Adams ireprefents, that t was very afliduous! in my attentions to him; made him many rifits at his nou(e, and many invitations to my own, and wrote" him many letters, jwhert he was abfent from the feat of government. There is an air given to our 'intercourfe, that re Iquires explanation- W aen Mr. Adams was our Minifter in London, there was at the Temple, and afterwards in his family, a very intimate acquaintance !oi mine. At the tame time Mr. Jeflerfbn was our Minifter in iFrance. I correfponded with my acquaintance in Mr. Adams?s fa mily, very much at large, and of ten devoted an evening to the moft important cornmunicatiorrs in my power, that might ferve us in Lon don, and even in Paris. I had then no perfonal acquaintance with Mr. Adaas or Mr. Jefferfon. My letters to my friend were particu- laily well received by Mr. Adams and his family, who I found often faw them. They were made the fources even of fome important in formation to Mr. Jefferfon, but I do not know whether it was with his knowledge that it went from me. i he manner m which they were received, and the footing on which they placed me with Mr. Adams, his fecretary, and family, may be feen from the following ex-, tracts, from my friend's letters. No. t. LonJn, ALryt, tf8. The few rel friend of America here, to whom I freeijr communicate the political fail, wlich y have been f gooJ 1 from time to time, at to tranltnit, unite with me i thanking you again and again, for ' the favor you tiis confer upon uj ail, Mr. "-.Adams in particular fays, and has laid ' repeatedly, yod are a belter correfponaenf, aadgite abler .(etche?, a3 they arife in 44 I'cnnfylvanij, than he has feen or known, 44 during his refidence at the court. As to 44 Col. Smith" (the Secretary of Legation) 44 he refts on your communications as if they 44 were official, and demand? a light of your letters, zt Jeaft of parti of them, as regu- larly ag I receive them." jSc. IV. 'x Londcnt April $ ). " After a longjfilence, your very iatelii " jent letter: wit put into my hznds, and " atfordei me uncommon fatisfa&ion. I re- ceivcJ it juft half an hour before Mr. and 4 Mrs. Adams proceeded to Portfmeuth for 44 the purpofc jsf embarking for Bolton. Your addre'fs td was a treat to iis, 44 as many othersjamong your late ufeful and prodwdidns have heretofore been. 44 There was another circumftance whih 44 you illuftratei for ut, concerninj whch 44 we were previoplly in doubt ami darknefs 44 to wit: the rrjal caufe why fo Federal a 44 State as Maflajchufetts; fhould be carried 44infavor of the new national fyttem by 44 fuch a minuU majority. Wc could not 44 till we received your hint, account for fo 44 puny a predominance of voices in that 44 Commonwealth. Fray continue your ob liging, and in! feme inrtances importantly 44 ufeful letters pothers as well as ourfcives 44 havederived bepelit and credit f rem then 44 repeatedly." j " It will he feen from thefe ex trafls, that Mr. Adams muff have arrived in America, with prepof fefifons In favor of my zeal, equal to any thing! I could defire, and with opinions of my capacity to ferve her, beyond any pretentions I have ever made. He knew too, that I had been a member of the Annapolis Convention in 1 786, three years after the peace. - Mr. Adams was appointed to the Con -grefs of 1788, arid fo was I ; and he muff have known my wii'h that he Ihcald be elected Prefident of the old Corigrefs, when Mr. Grif fin's time fhould expire, but he did not attend tht body until the new government I was a Ifcmh led. It is well known to CoL W. S Smith, imd Mr. A.dams,- that I was appli ed to at NeW-Yoffe.-by the friends of Mr. Jay,; to ufe. my inlluence in ?ennfylvania,7whith -1 repre fented, again il Mr.Acfams, and iti favor of Mr. Jay, as the Federal candidate. I conferred unrtferv edly whh Mr. Aidams's fon-in-law, Colanel Smith, and cbtiftarttly '.'"! - ' maintained. thatPennfvlvania would be unanimous for General Walh- ' ington, would prefent no candidate of he own for the Prefidency or Vice-Prefidency, ahd. would, andLj bught to' fupport Mr. Adams as ' Vice-Prcfident, from his ftandiii in our country, a"nd to conciliate, New-England, wherein no 'State Had been unanimous as elfewhere ; where New-Hamplhire and Rhode- ' Ifland had declined to adopt, Ver mont was acting a more alarming part, and Malfachufetts adopted by ; a fmall majoiity. Mr. Adams's; family then were very a IT) duo us irt their attention to me, and gave me; frequent invitations. He knewv himfelf my movements in. his favors I mull, however, do CbU Smiths the frank juflice to fay, that I vxt vcr have perceived the leaflrefent' ment from him towards me; no,' j not even when I told him (in the lame apartmeht in the Treafury where Mr. Langdon informed mfe? of Mr. Adams's monarchical decla" ration) that on account of Mr. Adams's predilccribn for heredKary government, I Ihould no loner fupport himi . t Colonel Smith obferved, as he; ought, a perfect filence. : T returned from New:York at the expiration of rhy appointment as a member ot the old Congrefs on the 4th of March, 1780. TfiF May, 1770; I was appointed afjii tant Secretary of the Treafury, and again went to iNew-Xork. I wait ed, of courfc,-the firfl tlay bnVice- rretident AdamsHe called to fee ' me early the nextday. . He invited me to dinner thexfe." and at Phila- deJ p hia , . with - the , jI eads of Dc- .. partments, Foigtf:Mihifters, cSqc. conirary to the ulual courfe of un new ceremonies, r'lt is Dcrfettlvu . rue. t haL 1-paid Mr reipect of lulk returns t?f attsntiohA a fid invited him to dinner alfo occa- v fionallyi in return. He kept tfn up till he ceafed to entertain. ;frt 1794, 1 became acquainted;pMv us declaration to .Mr Lancnoar and Mr. Taylor and I own 1 wjj entirely weaned thereby from hint,. 1 then read his books, called a De-V fence of the Con flitut ions; and the; compleated my merrtal ;a1ierta tion. Yet I al ways , triaf ed hi m with.refpeft asoilf.-frcfiijt Let Mr; Adamlreme-mber language in whicirhstoppfe" the livirtg and reprobated (ht Se ceafed venerable franklm. tiC him reconfider the language irt; which he and MrMlexarjderifla-' milton have oppofed each other; nay, let him remember the terms in which he has cfyert in Europe and America, fpoken in oppofition to General Wafh ington himfelf; and let him do me j u (lice for having-, oppofed his election, as -Prefident, though with the -utmoft dccifion, yet with a decorum and refpeci that I am proud to fay, do equal honour to free elections; and to the decency of free and principled UI1WU1UUJ1. ' , . . " It has fallen to my lot to take! a gr eat in t ere ft in relieving Penn fy Ivania from the jfeep drfgrate and deeper inj uries of the lateCotfU) nefticut intrufion upon our foil1 and jurifdietion. Mr. Wolcptt ' known to have been a leader in that i -bufinefs, which was ffiice intertdcd to difmember and parthioiroui StatT notwith-ftandinjg the M eenctufivcf, ' fctt lenient m our favour,' by' the! decree, of the Federal Court at Trenton, in 1782." I knew" that even after the iotmatiori ol the pre-; fem Federal- ConiHtutioni - Mr Wolcott had written the letter ffom Connecticu:, which occaflohed h& forcible- carrying off of our thenC Commifftoner and civil o nicer, Col.T. Pickering, from his bed " at midnight, in Wilkefbarre. I, faw f r o m t h e con v cj fat io h w i t h hi m - - . felf and othersj that mv firm and ffeady defence of the goVernment and territorial : rights 6f.;Pemfyt vania, excited Mr. WolcmiVn raity; I believe this: rltf iif&it-'i jlignifieti jcdloufy, to hnve afiiufeir -i hiiperforrally, 'and Jiid txf - t-lj fl V t : it cT rLi Y.jf ?' '- ' ' f i i- - .' i 1 ill n-iT' 111- --- ' - " X "'r w.- - - ' . ' .'i''"'J.,:.i4v 4 ..!( -if-
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