Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1805-06-08

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second note of thanks, coverlngtity dollars
more. II is to be observed, THAI one O
these notes is without signature. %. effsr-
sons hand writing is too femarkauie 10 DC
mistaken, by those who are 10 the habit 81
seeing it. The letter was deposited with
b MI. Davis, of Richmond, and whist
in his possession, were examined BY ma,
nv pentleme, Of responsibility all OF
whom recognised the hand writing and
farther il has been repeatedly acknowledged
hy Mr.. 6. Jefferson, that he did pay the
money as insrrucss d by his kinsman.
On the remission of Callenders's fine
need GOT dilate /; it being a thing OF 9th
ciat stamp, and of course IL the possession
Of all.
The third subject alluded to in your let
ter is " the affair of Mr.. Walker" an affair
whose monstrocs attrocity, whose dlabo-
lical terpitude, whose extensive, continued,
and deliberate v;llaihy, defy the powers or
the strongest pen, and can oalyb concelv-
ed by those. who have seen and attenlveiy
|perused, the documents unfolding the
whole of this unparalleled transactions -
| This Ihaoe dane. I will as briefly rs | can
give YOU the substaaceof, and dispatch this
hateful subject.
The father Of Col. John Walker wasthe
guardian of Err. Jefferson, and advanced a
part of those funds, which were applied to.
the, education Of the latter an education
affonding those talents. which have been
! so strangely perverted, which have been
| in~sihicusly employed, in the conception OF
schemes, foul, ungrateful, horrible. At an
| eaYlyperied of their lives, col. Walker and
| Mr.. jefferson contracted an attachment,
whi,,h grew up with their years, and ripen-
! ed INTO the closes: intimacy. Their pro-
fessyions were mutual; their confidence
were ~unbounded; whilst things were in
| thissituation Mr.. Jefferson was medltatlng
h eannatural purpose, of seducing the wife
| of lis beet friend, and TO this end (taking
advantage of the confidence of col. Walker
| andavailing himself of the timIdity OF the
| lady. whose affection for her husband for
babe tie disclosure of a transactions, which
might lead to an exposure Of his Ete) de
| poled himself for ten years ~repea'edly and
assiduously making attempts, which were
as repeatedly, and with horror repelled.
For ten years was this purpose pursued,
and at last abandoned Gas he himself ac-
knowledges) from the inRexlble virtue OF
the lady, and followed, as he also acknow-
Lodges, by the deepest and most heart
wounding rcmorse.-All this | HAVE
SEEN NOT in newspapers, not IN ex-
tracts, not in copies of letters.-I have
SEEN 1T in the ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE
BETWEEN Messrs. JEFFERSON & WALKER,
every letter Of which, bears the signature
of the writer, or has been since acknow-
lodged by him. under his own hand. IN
this correspondence, MIR. Jefferson repeat
edly and fervently confesses, shat the guilt
is I'll his own the innocence all Mrs. Wal.
kers- and that he shall never cease to re,
we're, and attest the purity of her character,
andto deprecate his objectionable and un-
successful attempt to destroy her. his con-
triton, his misery, is asserted in the warm
est terms, and his acquital OF Mrs. Walker
pronounced in the str INCEST language OF bis
pen. Amongst other concessions, he owns
that in order to cover the real cause of the
separation between Col. Walker and him
self, he DID FABRICATE a NOTE
respecting az unsettled account which he
said, had produced the schism, and which,
he expressly acknowledge, HAD NO
FOUNDATIONS IN TRUTH. Let it
not BE feirgotten, hat the attempts against
the honor of Mrs. Walker, were carried on
during the life of Hrs. geBe,son, than
whom a better woman, and better wife ne.
yer existed.
I observe you haze omitted one promi-
nent feature in the dark picture of this dis.
tingaished cihzcn's life (; namely, his con-
duct to Mr. Gabriel Jones, As this serves
to constitute AN essential Ink n the extern
sive chain, I will give ityou. When Mr..