Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1808-05-10

FROM COZ. PIC xERIse TO GOV. SULLIVAN
Gig IF Vasdtnggtoa.
Aprt5 70, 1903.

SO much time has elapsed since ycui
exceIisnc, sens me your letter OF the 18Th
N4cn, yDu may i'm glue shas have for.
goggso you; ba ter macy reasons that let
tet demauds mv uoticc. Ii vas cv ldentiy
iutepded for tic psess, 20 promote your
rrsppe.us IN ct, 1t me approaching eiecuen-
Bas review of the copy, rrpieie with
unwarraos able recrinninations * rudeness,
pt obaoly satisfied yoO. or your trends ad :
vised You, thai publicssioo Ct the whole
M Oh, sa,her PREJUDICE shan promote your
inserss,; aud therefore you suppressed the
eater part. Busfrariog 20 charges which
yoor eacel,ency has bsonght or can bring
agsias, me add ,hinking it proper that
the who'll letter should be known, shall
pabs st, i, rn,ire. Those who vii! De at the
tfcu5sc 10 compare lhs paragraphs you nave
chosen 30 rubnsh as extracts, Rish me iss'
Ter isss.f, viii see that they are 50 com
pouoded, and With SUCH alserauons and
additions, as TO be, 10 !aci, sfaasea t@po
sition on ihe public.
10 examioiog year letter, observe ma
ny extraordinary passages cahl1g Tor All !. I
madysrs,on bug to notiee all of srefa,
would zoo severely task my own, as we'll
as the readers pa'ieace. In my recaatks,
/. nay sosnrsimes be a.Eicals 80 adspt my
laegpage to the subject, without wounoing
ths pnDsic scnse OF he decor !. 10 proper 20
be observed 10 w,,,,ng intehdsd Tor sns
pab:ic eve. But u saAI DC my eodeasof
not TO ,tsnsgress ,hsi bcend.
Your excsllepey pe,ce'vlpg shat doosF OF
d;sbenef had ARISEN, relative 10 your assef'
tion, shat You returned ny hTss lsstsi
ssonssad," seems resolved, II your last,
TO remove all d1uas, aod 80 eaios &C os''rt,
By repeating, dirsc y or indirectly. ave
or SIX tinss .ha. YOU did sSndie BACK 10
read. Now. a plain, mao. conscious 81
having told the uuh, woald have rested
CO angle assert,oG.
You sugges, tnas tee governos's com.
man,ca.ion 90 the egsia,utc must be al
ways of s1mesh.nG which be Believes 20
deserve their attention, and 20 De Witnin
their authority as a lrg's!stasess but thai
"vou do no, coacesve tnst my ieiser was
within this descrIp,,sn," Tais opinion OF
my letter voa aeptst II hsve formed since
you acknowledge hal you havers il. Aud
how coula yeu undertake 10 decide that
po,os, a, by your Owe sts,emsat you did,
wgth9ut reading a.? Was it 90. possible,
vas il 0oi probable, thai 10 the actual s,a,e
Of things, the Information it contsined
might siF nd mater proper fer HE copsi
Iteration OF the legils:nte Of Massachu.
scus. relative 10 the embargo, which was
pecul Larry Injurious to thai state? Will
yops exceliency mainiain the serviis doc.
yriue. ,hat as iseemen they nigh not even
,alseapfo consideration their gr,evsnces, re-
saIaas from the measures OF THAR nation.
al sutees! way not the legislative BODY OF
stare make suown TO the nasionsl leEisia.
lure the suE-rings of he whcle people eff a
state, az individuals exhibit shsir private
wrong! Isl. law fal for legislative bodies
only SO far 20 interfere as TO express appso-
baton, add never, however forcible the
cali. their disapprobasion of naslousl nsa-
sares, by N king application for chsoge !?
Has youYexcSsisnty tofg2,ten, that during
this very session ct congress, as governor
of Massachuset,s, (and 90 you stats "wish
The unanimous quest of iss legls!a.ur.,' y
YOU presented to congress a ssroog me no,
rial 10 behalf Of some If she c,asens OF
thai stale WIN had baeu purchasers of lands
under granrs from Georgia? And did the
essential Interests OF all nrr citjzens, deep
" affected by ihe en.ba.go, less merit the
attention of your eScelleacy and the ifgis
lssure than the claims 1t a smell aumber OF
those citizense Perhaps you wiilsay, that
she leg stature had already adopted reso'
lu,iars approving of the embargo. True,
aud accounted for /, oo the superstition,
very IA uraly to br eniersaiced BY the le'
srisia,nre thai lhs asss mbled zeisdom Of The