Jenks's Portland gazette., 1802-03-15
Wm ]. HoBsY, Elq.
Agyea, u Fssysay, 1907.

<1AyYs9t " FeeFEayJ, 1907
SIR,
Ithis day received yours Of the 10Th u and as foon
The oaths taken and the Bond properly executed
by the = lon appointed my uccefor, lhali proeee
20 cor. ply with your inltruefons-n the mean lime
take ihe liberty OF making ihort reply 10 your OBJ.
iging favor.
II the anxiety and foicitude" with which YOU
" mind was impreiIed' on entering your prelent Office
produced or confirmed a determination Impartally 70
dhcharge is duties, you have my beR wiihe, for the
unIfoTm m iuccef oi your exerrons AS you alert fTom
your kzo7Usg hat "n1o Of the officers under you
lad been Ia the habEs Of aiTocisng and correpUndng
with thoie lately in authority, might pc ptoPer
to queon the accuracy OF your IstsiRent, even tho
The Attalnment OF this kqeqUsag prruppoies lntima
cy OF communication between you and b3s stcsrf hard
ly 70 have been expected, between pCriODs, Who as
you feen 70 intimate, had confidence each other
But admitting the fact be Gated your letter gave
me the irf ntmsJo ever received, that IN
try boating Of freedom, it crime, merng either
puniihment cenlure, ahociate coreipond with
the public lervanrs' of the people. For myfef, tho
have uniformly held the characters Of the late admin
illratpon in the highef stmaton, yet having per-
lonai acquaintance with them, never had the honor
Of corresponding or afociating with thsR--and my
Cerrelpondenee with the Polt- Mater Genera beheve
wholly related TO the bulnels OF the the Polt Ohee
dePartment-I it did my letters are proba-
by IN your Office and fha have Objection TO your
making The whole, or any aytof them public,
,
70 me-to whom, by making the obfervaion, you no
doubt intended to Apply tat the fame time, although
tn nnuation of your letter its prefent app Icaton
is altogether unfounded yet by no means alient 70
the opinion you ieem 10 have adopted, that in our
so4atry II improper for any free citzeRs correpond
with the officers Of their government on political fob
jeet.--and If it the determination Of the preen; ad
mniltrAtion to deprive Them Of this right, have
heh a,ion in afurins you. one among the number
Of thole, not dIlpoied 10 reinqnh t. have hard
indeed the late adminiitration prolcrbed political
feet unworthy Of public elteeml now hear it intima-
ted, that to have afociated correfponded with
them was improper-and hereafter perhaps we may
be sod that it unjult live in the fame country
with them fufer them 10 live in the iame eOunry
with hole who claim the merit of enjoying exclunvely
the public confidence. II il unwArrantable to ar
foci4te correfpond with the officers Of the late adj
minaraton, NUT be equally unwarrantabe 70 aiIo
cale OF correpond with ihos of the then
the heads of departments in the yle Of eatern
efoot fm fecluded from intercourle with the peo
pie over whom they preGde, may conlider thcir owu
opinions the Andard of perfection, may require FER
vile fubmsfIion their will, and may finally proceed
to aaers with high officer of the United States thAs
any difrefpett towards thea, any deviation from
the principles they enabih colaitutes "uealon ana
1 rshc hon agAinlf the government
| have mott afTaredy been ia the habit OF approba-
ting the policy OF the Iurious characters who have
! heretofore admnilered the American government,
becsuie believed II calculated to produce, what law
il did produce, the profperity and happines Of the
American people. II TO landcr thofe characters by
reprefen,ing tAem uufriendy the coSarution, IS
your de- isht, have no inclination 70 interrupt your
enjoyment, or to ihare your pelnreif you relolve
10 conhder yonr t0e who venerats thc cha
raSfers of uch men as Warrington and Adams, hope
never 10 be included IN the rlinhtr ofyour friends
TO relieve you even sTom fcnfations unpleaf2nS or
dilrstng," p1rInit aiuTe you, thar The c1crci
! of your powers rsfprcng rayfeE. aether produces