Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1803-08-10
REMARKS
Aif1rbed 10 Mr.. MsYrfy's doeamfxfs, pro-
l6ed ia yxferdey's AdVest.ler.

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From the foregoing dispositions It must
appear, that i could not have considered
that Mr.. Mason intended a confidential
conversation; it passed during the May.
term, 1902, in the presence OF not only
the above witnesses, but occasionally OF
my wife, and others Of my family. but
there is stll another view in which this
subject will be duly weighed BY the pub
lie, when they reflect that this lntormati-
on was given to achicf magistrate, whose
oath and duties laid him under serious
endorsements. 1t respected member
Of his privy council, whom he was 70 meet
daily. Every one must perceive, that
after such conversation, could certain-
" no longer meet Mr.. Hall upon any
terms Of familiar intercourse. The I'M
preston that it made naturally added to
other irritations, and deemed tia duty
to state to Mr.. Hall in the council cham
Der, and in the presence Of, Ibelleve'
four Of the members" that / had re-
" ceived information dishonorable and
disgraceful 10 him, and thar ! had re-
peated it again, and that there was an
I" end to all intercourse, except in the dis
!. charge of official duty."-l'o to best OF
my recollection, soon after. the celebration
of the ensuing fourth of July, major
o. Harwood wasso friendly as to i form
me, that Mr.. Hall had on that day, at
public dinner at Queen Anne, made use
Of the most disgraceful epithets respect,
ing me. On that occasion ! informed both
major aarwood and Mr.. JOHN Watkins.
(of Stephen,) Of the information I had,
thus received from Mr.. Mason. / have
given the same to many others, SO that
could not but expect and believe that
Mr.. Hall had known it for more than four
teen months past. Had Mr.. Hall ever
written to me on the subject. or demand
ed an exp anatioll, / could not have re.
fused it, and his silence or negleeting to
do socould not fail to rivet on my mind
an impression that he acqulesced under the
charge.
However strongly this was fixed in my
belief, still motives of attachment to some
Of his family, (as ] have frequently & long
since expressed) and an undecided view
of my own duty, especially when motives
Of personal resentment might De supposed
to operate, .would have prevented my SUBJ
uniting it to the public, had it not been
extorted from me in the following manner,
! have frequently declared my intention,
in public and in private, from the time
that the law was first introduced into the
legislature, and before my difference with
the counciD that if the law to change the
constitution, as itregards the courts OF Jus.
tice, should pass that session, would
offer myself TO represent Anne Arundel
county, to oppose it in the next Jas to rem
der the whole judiciary department. de-
pendent on the mere will of an executive,
much less of one so circumstance as that
of Maryland. must Nefeaually destroy all
security for life, liberty, and property.
] accordingly offered myfelf to the peo-
pie, ayow;ng any with TO avoid all reaec-
lions on public bodies or individuals and
that nothing but felfdefence, which luper-
coded all other laws, would compel me
to abandon line which was dictated by
the duties of my ftaticn. Some obfcrya-
tions which refpeetedan alledged change
of my political principles, drew on me
perlonal attack, which ended in my re.
lueaantly communicating to the meeting
the information I had received; and |
may truly FAY, that in more than 90 years
in which have been engaged ia cleo.
tions, and in all the violenccs Of former
parties, | have never experienced fuch
rancorous perfonal oppo6tion as on the
preient location.
Mr.. Maion admits in his certificate, that
he knew no other perlon in this tranfataion