Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1808-06-30


Is adopted torb:ddipg any member g ho,a
5 private conversation with me on the SUD
isc, VIVA, Blu, prejudice could have o. o.
l,reted their arawer 10 my subsequens de-
4 n,spd ,oi an hearing, when 4 ana told that
! ,h1 committee $ have nc authority 10 hear
me 10 my defence.'' When constituted tor
/ The purpose Of enquiring toto the truth OF
= charge, could reason tell them to coIflnc
their snqui,y 70 the proofs ags'nss me. apd
! 10 listen 10 noevidence 10 my iasors What
1 bu, 4 partial and prejudced report could be.
I exprcsed from an enquiry thus cosducted
! And when this repors is examined, what
! car excose the extraordinary principles aed
33ake gross mistakes 20 speak most .ender'y
Of i.9 which arc contained 10 50 lsbored
| producsion? Passing over many circums-,
.snces ot irssmperate zeal aGd precipitation
which attended the whole proceeding, what
j bus the biindnsss Of prejudice can secount
for the vote given by most OF these Dine
teen geu.lemrn TO decide Immediately nrop
the accusation Wi.hou. allowing me any
opportunity Of procnrirg .eviden1e TO dis
credit or explain what was offered ageins,
me-? And that TOO sfFer ! had stated uPun
sG;dasis tie na,erialiiy Of the testimony
could produce. Surely men, who were
Iimpar,ially and dispassidna.ely elqn'fipS
after truth, could asver have wished 10 dc
clare man sril,y Of Cline, and lta'cs
upon him ahe seversss puuishnaen: without
permitting any other testimony 70 be cher.
ed 10 them excep, tha, which was intended
10 cslminase hiea -yr, this mode OF ''sun.
mary proceediag,D as il was termed, 0as
warmly reconm ended in lie 'eq2rs and
| found many advocases iu,hesen e. There
is sne Circumstance which go plainly shtws
be spiri. Ut injustice and persecution ma
nifssled towards me by most Of skesr gea-
iiemtn he weigato Of whose oplaions /. ia
surely fair tha. sh5g.d thus b. sAswtd 10
depteciatej thar cannot fosbes, % state !,
WHEN j, YES determined by the senate
that ! should be permitted 10 procure ev'
| dence IL my behalf, and the 6Fss doy ct
March appointed fer me to produce II. !
was directed TO give "Teasorsb'e notice"
20 al tie Witnesses agains, oe shota !
meant TO discrsdt, Of the t,me and place
of t1king r:y deposi,iops. This was On
dc 20 b Of January The principal wit.
aess sgs'us. me, Elias Glover, was in
Cjncaana.i, he witnesses 10 discfrd't him
I. =re 10 = s'.sant par, ct New go:k aud
Connections. where be had formerly lived.
@nd DOE or ,wosn New Cheaes. 4; will,
hertfore. be obvious that il was iarcssi.
Die for 70 give Inn any such notIce OF
which he coss.d 10 any R:sooer avall him-
self, pyovaced nv deposi,ioes wrIe taker
10 iine X, reach Washington by The 6rst oil
March. Yet all hat could bs expected,
did, l proceeded Immediately fosGiucjc.
oati, asd shinking that perhaps ,he mail
eight ont-taysi zoe, 4 did send him a no.
lice BY tne a,s'i from Bsfryyi,!e, Virginia,
on the 25.a Of January, (which cn my ar.
sivai was also repeaed) and 10 which 10
formed HIM that Il shao,d take testimony
10 discredii hisn on she IS h ard 20 h OF
February, ia New York and Connecticut,
that the time limised bv the senate would
permit him to sp2elut any substqaens day
60 csoss-egamine the wi,eesses | should
produce, and wou.j direct them TO a:,erd,
# he though: he eould do SO. before the
senate would decide npoa The sub;scf.
No,wiihstsndiag his. wsnen Iegsret he
depositions thus sahen oil besweeo thirty
and forty witnesses 10 prove fhe i.i.ny Of
this aceoser, il was to my amsz ment Org
ed that they. ought. not TO be read because
the witness discrsditcd did no:sscei.s h
reasonable police which the order of
1.-The senate hsl sendeted impossible, aud
most Of these nineteen gentlemen acsusiIy
voted to rejecs them.
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