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J :'Vf;YoiU did .eVjfe)4 at thlr LvmWc al, '
y ''I,tlirice pre .chtefriifii a kingly -fiwrf,V'V . K' i
y VfVfctl'h did thric'iTelu wa tt is amhitui--'v
' , .- Amb'tiun'shoutd t.Riiu!e.bir:o)arui, ?
v; Prefident of' tb-United 'Stares, 5
r phyf aod facKtcfo your, political morali
vij thjioli can read any iiiveftigatipn pt
..joyr condudtwith perfed compofure
Jie!yingrupon that innocenee s( heart,
Vhicji an'cternal fmile of ' complacency
prefages,' 1 no crutiny candraw a figh
pnTthe orie,'vor difturb the (ecurityof
. the - otheiv Give mc; leave v then, my
Lord toJaddrefs you in thefpiritof; that
Jitedora vnicn repuDiicanum ernpnan
' rally (falls her own, and of" thai -candor
:itch:is"ihreroat
' v5 X havejbut this moment received the
mforniation, ihat;you have refolved by
'acid-vitlr-the.' tumnimom rconfentT
the. dtpprats in Coxigrefs, to be the
Prefident. or America for four years
r This fhamelefs inconfiflcncy which has
"iforhiiy marked - your political life,
ought to exclude fhe poflibility of fur.
prile at any thinu; you do 1'eeing, as we
.ail have, your fatyr f'ett in every mea
fure.of ycur miiiiftry, no calculation of
indecency oould be too extravagant.
I confeis indeed, tny Lord that. I had
indulged the fallacy, that all yourvan
tori trict s Avere pla)"ed, and ihat you
were preparing'to retire at a diilance to
review 'h3.t Tcenp ofjJefolatioii you had
caufqd, . with Yeno vat ed ' pleafure. It
feiffts howpver, t liat the Appetite, of your
ambition is hot yet 'fated. rije-w.oc-"
dy aren' 6f federai execution notto
bcclofed 38 yet, ior.you are to pld rne
I IN TlIK PRKSTnFX'rv
I caanot-feil to brirhem inro- vrewT hadcndcred ilre
uciuic uuwever, i tenaer you my hy-
-i' .1 . O'
r or aaieu,- lufter nre to afk7 my
Jbordj nave you any recollection of cer-
thern, . andplaced .thej pufc firings'
pfthe nation m theirhands-'Where-fbr:
tliele; oppofire opfnfpns h!Are they
to be- found in t he, JjohenV feeIinjsof
virtuous recantation, or in'thofe oa
vde and Cnifter apcif acy ? To acknow-".
ledge; and retract 'our errors, an d-morc,
efpecially political, requires, .marrnanimi
ty. Magnanimity, my Lord, is a great
nefs of J'oullt deals not, in low and fe
crct flratagem- Lerrrrcat.youf Lordffiip
(o thinkot Wafningtort-and Mazzei, of
Callender and Adams, and then to de"
duce the inference. . . .
'X o foi,v you through all thcwind-"
jngs of your condud, to array before
the public each opinion von hav n,,
lifhed tv ith its prefent contrail, would bp
iT.T
an uiiucr.iaK.ing as unnecenary as it is in- :tno-ur was confnn;f
'V"',uy iiic wujiu was icen tne moll j puiar oetuiron was e
of them already, and the thinkinrr ni. .ronye thoat;rr' I-al
l i - - - " w
rf I I 'ffrt'Vt- trio U . i r i
ilui cu uiciu in inuetiaDie
record I fhall feavc you then, to von r
own arrangement of- the l'ubjec, and to
that felf-operation of the mind, which
fain letters which you wfcl'erom-ParisJjnxjcus were
in the yp'ars 1 788 and 'S'ubon th fnh.
jet of the Conditution ; 'anci 'that'a
irjciwoijajarj leis torrunare than zca-loui.-publifhpar
rial ext rafts from
them in '92,-to Vindicate, your fpderal
ifm, 1 fpall not ftoj hfre to enquire of
your L,0'rdlhip, whether it was the oi
ousatt of frienJmip which proved you
v.Kat you never were, or av bethel you J
na ve lmce. d 1 : cer n ed , t hat t o be a f ed ei al -lit
is to te a tory WheHier you ever
were a fedei alift & have abjured the ap
pellation, -or whether you were -thtiv
what now I think you, both a'rify)''
The extracts to which .1 allude are
now before me, and give nie leave to
lolkit ypur attention to the following
y.uuiauon-.oneaKing or tne : uoiilu u
ictOTr. fafces for fouf years more.!
' Whatever of hialevplencei eorijatried ;
with ' byppcriiVi haraiftejfe
zei letter ; - whatever of ambition, and,
the lp weft pcrad?oT ; it, ; my l-oro, tou Id
bribe and flatter- Callender j'- whateyf-r
of dtpHciy pervades ".eacii fentence pt
the inaugural efTay -y in fhorti- nry Lord,
wbateve'ef 11 :thefe, coujp! penthe an
rWer to New-Haten your prjeipht relc
' lurion 'gives :'a; rnagnitude, to" all you
feem indeed to.havc refined upon your-
- felf Nothing -can furpafs the flagtanee-
or your pretent itnpontio.rji diu Tfjeini
Iencih which itjs incHrTed--No-i
,..thing"f:ttah I fpal the deception of your
jenti ment Sv but that credulity of the na-
tion which could believe in' their fecu-
rity.:V k y -
When was Ik my. Lord h"gh Adnnral
bthe;Na.vyt-that you firfi: aV;aiA.do'ned
tri pclhiCAi article of belief, t.hat .there
- fhoutd be ' rbiritivn in Tffire in cverv iiilai
.AND OS V PAR riCTJ LA RLY IN
rm C ASEDf 'Tiif(B) PRl-AlDKN J ?"
Is it, that you havea memory a treache
rous as ymjr heart, Avh iclv buries in ob
lirion yonr ppin6ri.;(in former feafons,
cr is It, that)Our h.eart aloneis treache
rrus to. 'every vhonefb feritiitient which
Tnightnben pwade , it ? Is it, iHat you
lia:.I,ij;-tht:-Tarc"bbHqjty.-rf head,
never to have conceived a truth on go-
"yernment, or .is it, that you have had that
rarer turpitude, of heart, never to have
prs'ciifcd cue. - , ' ' ": "' J.
Review you J - my. "Lord; f rom irTefe
limes which ft.amped America a ' Na
tion pi the ' Earth,' to. thefc'thlne own
imTvTbfoerous 'arsl and "you preleht a
L that Jcind oLprtitean,.f 7 d(ju f
?Lrcgtorm:nicnc- v cri) pi" is m-
ni had conceived, until yoii'exernpli'
l .cd': it Ygu fecln to have liad the fin-
liular fatality of PmetimeS thinking jult.
i 10 exnsiiitjayouxconayjcxue.-.'Cw
:verfe
Y'cieS Acting wifely to'inculcate an oppq-
;Vtt
tion, yQU fay, the'ad (h) feature -whrch
I dijlile and i';-?a?? -v.y7; is the abandort-
Lrnc'ntin every influiice of thcr.ecellity
bi-rpinoflice, AND MOS I PAR.
1 1CDLAR LY IN 'LI IK CASK OF"
1 HL PKES1DF.NT ?" Here, my lord,
let. u pau'e tcgethar In tl.at day of
danger and uncertainty- u ht n th peo
ple of Ameiica were to'Jcd upon the.
utnhtjt-mts fea if kbti'ty without an anchor
without a rudder to their bark, you
railed your voice or diflentfto the enlv
4Bea're whichttiHneeaidd-
both their liberties and fafety I fay , my
lordjVycu objected, to the conliitution,
becjtufe there was . iio - pro viiinn4n the
irilir ument eilabh'fliing nud'wn in the pre1
fidential oftice; It is not my o"?jecl,to"
examine the propriety'of fuch a princi
ple :It tiiight be however but common
charity ' to . think," that your cijeclion
flowed from the pureff principle of Hhe
iove of countty 1 he chains of Ameri-"
ca's political thraldcm had jult been
rent afunder, aod in there-eligibility of
the prcfident you fa w too much of pt.efi
dential pdvyer, and" in ; that ppver,lhe
ripening gerj" of dangct to her liberties
or was it perad venture, that your op-1
poHtiori emanated from - a;. diner ent
fource? . Did you not fprefec,. niy lord,
thar rhc -vit rious ; general of our ar-,
rnies Voidd become the prefident of pur
counciJi ? 1 hat'that man who had bar
ed his breaif. to every danger, who knew,
not the fiumbffs of forgefu1nefs, nor.
! the fafcty of a nicsntain cave in the day
of his country s peril, niult ftand pre
eminent" H'rft; in battle, firll in his
country's 1cve. ' Who could compare
I with him in the times of. pence ? " Ieh
treatTour lordfhip ' to examine well tne
lecfetTceliiigs of:' yourbofom, attthaT
time, lift ' the liDilter atnbi'ton pt your
foul and fay," hat haper-ypif had from
might cry, thefe thing? yoir havejdene
but then.ericrealing years have brought
ericie?-fjng wifdem with them, : and yOu
have Iten the errors of your icritiertla'ys,
r-l-am f:o ftrancpr tn "vmw tttlpvi ftsr-.
,q.uiyocation, nor to that impudence with
which ,ryou can decei eT hey have
proved the fuccetsful mflruments by
which you have reached the prefidenxy,;
and by which you are Tikelyta hold
b,Ht.rny . lord, vlnt new fthftrv'will
tou cow advance to deny vculrmi.
mcnsin88? Vr hat new hardihood of
lronr to glols the impofition ? In '83'
you ctaruouf ed for rotation. In evm-
prpgrefhve lttp: of fubfeqitepTadniini
Urations, until, you my lord became the
primum mobile of government, thecla-
u- no chord jo$ no-.
tt untourlTed to
oufv I'was fa
that the,. republic of America was fail
verginc to a Monarchy-the conftitU-
ponal fmtunr HE WANT OK 1 O-
1 A i ION
tb the Preildency I 'Yu, who hacl ana
lyfe4 the fublle ppiforf "who -had feen
irsangers-preperty: injernbryoi and
wnp had purfupd it with unabating -clamour
fron0hat time to'the prelent
Could Mhaye rjtbeved, r Ifayi:tbat7puy
ray lord, would feixe upon that prind.
pie-to rivet and effablifn .'your perfonal
aggrandizement and; promotion l-fp ,
Let .it he, remembered, that I ave pro t
into this .eritriry, the .opinions 0 your
fon-in-law", but tor the pur pofe of evinc
ing, that he your friend, your kinfman;
your advocate in politics, clamouredYdfc
!7i, aS you had denermeo torrfotatioa
in the Prefidem:yrwe: all nave, neara
the fame cry e-ecnped; fromthe pefli- f;
lential lun; s of ;everyv democrat, until c
vou. mv lord, became the Prefident ! It
now is loft in the cannon's roar for Loui-
fiana fubi lee - Under t he cover of UUS
fort, you modefllyi prefent. yottirfelf a-
gamior. prcluiential ppwe) ana in ail
duty, docs ypur foi in-law pbfervc;obei-
lance to you, and prays as IreTorcver
iiw.'i'nrM'Tir xvhrh f.r,:' v - mv remarks lou fhall heaT trornrnea-
out land all vellise of its fre-tiom. Sn ' Kansas lo-.nas I have leifurc, xipph'tbis
you for the feami'e of
R 0 1 Al ION,' and jealous5 ;:t the
.. . . r . 1
waur or n, tnat you. aimed to infrodurf
it in the Senate, and all the offices ofj
government. So jealous v. ere your par
ty for the .introduction .of this princi
ple, thr.t I know if to have been, with
many, the higlicft expeded blefiing f ronv
youT.mmiflry. Nay, my lord, you can
not have loot!e:i how prettily 'that fa
VQitrite?7 childhof yours tnlaiged up
on this piiiicip'e, when be folicited the
fuffrages of Gik-diflri. Uasjr for
gotten too the fentiin'erits he uttered ?
My lord I hepe not. TK cream colour
ed prhrfer to your Icrdlhip has inforined
uHiat you were:fe'leced to be the Pre
fident again bjf sri umuimout approba
tion. "TTri "'- unanimous aDorobatiou ?" -' I
TeaTrmax"ymrn3veritolcTrTo
us A ount?
. -1 .11 . n . v
iirau- & ccucii, ana nave poured tne Ic
J heal potion into the porches of Ins ear.
That you, whp h,ive ftduced the nation
jrobeligve in your fupei for vinpe, pi eat'
nels and ilfumination, ihould find mr
difjiciilryin carving what you plca(-np-on
the feelings of your kindred, IsVafily
fuppofeable 'I here are among us; all,"
ecrtam kindred prepofMions, vhich
dance around .our her.rrs in fiich lantaf
tib rnazeS a$ to impede thtfe-f -the'
mind They can find Helen's berutv
m a rrcw-'ot J.npt and ',rc the vu py.
lion of . a role in t he putn fcer.cr of a car
buricle'l he iccbleif g!inmcring .of a
4iejihjjs-v hccomesTijlihemr the briphtcft
iuriiinary. bf Tcience, and but an cnLina
ly ihlh'.nce of benevolence receives the
hoihnvt of ' every virtue. I am told incited.'
my lord, that fydur acquirements inthe"
mind's eye oi your relations, 'to others
pf this world, are in the ratio -of your
dwelling tp.tlie .furropndihg country
Open buryour eye, shd our-vifion is
oMtrucled only by the Iwundlefs extent
of the fcene Touch but a feience. and
your ken compares .with f pace .Yon.
., . 1 1 . 1. . .
are inuceu uie very mountain-ot a man,
and the4 inhabitants rof. every .'village
round you,- are but thcXilliputiahsYo' a
Gulliver In fliorr, my lord, y; were
made for yournxmptain, and our ww..
iain was made for ycu. T he owner,
! iamefMbiccL
MyLord, your Lord tin p s,
. aritltob't'andmofl humble ferv'f
.if'.. iyld&JZ 8 AL U 1 A i IONS I'l
, "(aj See the National Intetiigtncer of
the th February, whichtlaysJtfco--''
iiias'jclfcrfon was AinanimouftylhpmN
riated lor the npxt Prefidentv '; '
, ff j See cer tain letters of Miv J effcr-'
fon, writtc n in 1 7S8 and '89 fromPari
upon the (ubjca of the conflitution.
1 jicfe letters Aycre publiflied by a friend of
Mr J. to prove himafcderaliflin i792:
Extracts ol thefe lettets may be feen in
ar pamphlet laid to: be writterb; VV'
Smith, of S. C entitled X'hc"pfeien
ftons- of..llerron, and,the charges a
gairsfl Ada ms examined. Hi?
7 Smith himlert own in rus itupid '
in his paper -
'.. ?ov:rr.menr ; but lmce that. time you
;li vt friokcn lofrer7 touches to the
..';v.; :o invkc thenr fd us'iprofits-T-flnce
. t . fi'p'e u haveinhia'cdyfOreigners
- IfccHtl-pjEjQur cabinet ppened
ycui arriis of eihbrac towards
'' '' '- . '- . -.. ..'4 -r,'-
the . principle of r'5' . what feai
from theJ; abanionrntnt1 1 pf i. .1 '.; ..-.-?.'
; . I will not however torture ycu with
L l ' T. . -. . .. . I
r detsonrn?nt-Yoti-iJubhlhed -oiiee4-wcltionslt is ummporjanr, 10 my pre- j
mdredj'rav-Iiorvnii aid:-pnd vour fd) fent expbfition;-whether: m .the;firft m-
Hotrs orvVirginia wievince'it1 forhe . fiance, vou; advocated the principle of i.
ii.it and .rtowinajentences (o prove tPC l fir trom vinuous or uiinoncu miy j
ri l i lit it i in 1 1 i i nwr aicnn in i ti i iili i am w ----- - - - r i
hive
ofthe cd inlL' that JefTerfon S lile ha
been 'chequered.
(d) See Notes on. ;yirg,ia--ijajftdi-" " '
tionY pages .oovp iiffiS0dT0ft
eJ See t hFMeflageio; ; Congrprs in- .
December. 1 8c t. .' 'y- T
(') AlUrt Gallatin, a Genevefe, is
rite Set?ret;uy of theTreafury the. lame
Albeit ub'o was TecreraryatUraddock's
o3d fields, to the meeting yhieH occaion
eti the w.ftctn iriiurfeclimidnd on that
account, no doubt; the dearer to Mr 1.
(t) I he mrlcreant'I otrv Paine- ap
pneu intte fpnneis io mii vv airjingroa ,.
fee rtis letter to t'hdt'iHufL'Ious tnan'j 4'
Mr. ,tlwiU n
indecency. Tom is ,tfie appla oLIris "
eje, the dulling bf his foult.thc inanfor
whprp he prays mayvovj "live' long to
continue" -your ulefut ia)to$f1l3 his
very lclicriwa' one of Tii? ttir8 ."-i ' ; :
OraciouQod 'h '" When wilftfepectpte r
fee thefroUennef -of . this marnolh
henrt? 'W'-. -, v. - i"''. ' :'--'' sv.
(h) JIah, thou gentle, purling, mur-
muring ftcrm, the hntnirt y xxdijlikeh the
no feature '? M r. J effer fon k nows about aa ''
much of the proprieties of fpeech as he. "
doespf government He is amereinfi- . '
nuatjng fwmdler in both His ftyle js
very gentle and captiyaiing-fbi iare hi$ 'A.
rhatine'r; and fp indeed .are hi? political,
doftrines but, v e always find either i
natural or an artificial W wamnw about - -
I aui content to know that 'you
abandoned principles --which you'wrH
profeued to love, and that you have a
bahdoned tliem too', in your perfonal
Dromotion of fortune, - and reterition of
I pocr The " gentle voice of . charity
fcuf years more
"J feci then no excitmcnt pf furprize.
ihat in yrur clatige, your fon-in-law fliouJd
fol low your example- Will not.' my
lordj the fatelhte re volveTarcund its pla
net? WilFnot the parafitc purfue the
Inljifify orthTs wfM fIlut in fdberTeri
oufnefs Dvbu not believe that your
kinfiiaft4tjsjheA' he prpclairaed thi.
fetojbcfprlr:ecitedi fuppofedihm.
grateful fo your heart, "and accordant to
tne cnoicett jecungsot democracy r Or.
o:4l:atel.tjheirit
could he have fuppoled, that you, fo f ar
from feeling a concorduig fentiment,
vcre ready in tour individuaf oerfon. to
damn his theories, to prPve him- ignoi
rant in fiis fchpol of politics to. be the
Prefident again ? ;You,- my, lord, you
who harTtaught in Mm, the young idea
hpwto t fhoot, had fhewn him the la
bcratories of federal ra fchief, in the fe
deral principle of fucce6 re.el6tioa
but as'mournful fong at laft, and has iuft '
about as much fenfe cr fmccrityimcas ;
th ttar of a hif 54 rpourher or Crocodiles '
( i) Mr; FppesV who married; the ?
daughter, and who is the nephewoF
the pfendenf. 1 his gentleman when he
off rtd to re prefent die Uttti ict iom hich '
Glr" had
coaic,1 uatea three, lundamrntal- .
g rou rw? .n jfvtfc bK t be wlftcd fo be efefled,
one wsjihc fujeQ ion of th jiTfjiciiry to tic J
lepifljiiwr Irancli of the Q"crorotpi -anothef
I the iticratioti of tte lcgtflrqrr in iLi i i&tr, '.
way, aJ forh..fjne time the h6"uf"of re ;
'prcfeput ea..' ibir 4 ' ww-tbat,: tio 'niri,j. J
(heulrj 'he, re.eligible H tbe Prefiden"cyor trai,s:,
fucceHtte? ieriaca; " ' ep: 'v - t - v..:;r- -. -v .. v '-.
"Tlt gent1err)aa JioWef r',' wa one of'tt . -bundrrd
ard ttk inembri of .CongicU. bd ti.1 "
a ait i hoc Of nominitei Jeffcfon again.'
dooit be w?I! have fonie hole .to ireA oot U "
t See-Mr. Eipc&'HiftU to' lie otl of bit '
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