Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1809-08-04

Among the aproaigate accusations" made
against ne, and Of which, he Justly remarks
there is no end.
Mr.. Everett, affecting some concern for
my reputation, attacked by the proAigate
accusation in the Wing, intimates wish
to see my integrity freed from suspicion
which Che says must rest upon it, while
this charge Cas- he calls that infamous SLAM
der is suffered to circulate without notice.
: Thus under the mask of candor he raises
and gives currency to suspicion that
have committed some c.imrof nature SO
henious that the charge is too serious for.
him to repeat. Yes, the charge is too afro
cious, and at the same time too monstrously
absurd, tor him publicly to repeat. do
not find that one of the democratic ncwspa-
per editors in New England, with all their
proAigacy, has yet had the hardihood to re-
publish the libel. To hint Gas Everett has
done) the suspicion of henious crime, will
better answer their purposes. Still further
to aggravate suspicion, this candid editor
adds, that ga repetition of nv charges a
gainst our rulers will not be received as
proof of my own innoe ence" : as though !
had ever exhibited any charges against our
I rulers which We're unsupported by evidence,
and evidence generally drawn from their
public documents.
| The libel in quesiiea accuses me. through
the agency of my nephew Samuel Williams,
in ]. london, of forming An intrigue with the
British minister, Mr.. Canning, for the pur-
pose of effecting separation Of the United
States. This libel, which is FALSE and
without shadow of foundation, and which
onehe face of it is stamped with imposture,
| Mr.. Everett affects to consider as a seriotls
|charge. Mr.. Wagner, in his remarks,
calls it a Islander and pr2f;gste accusatitn.
4 Those remarks would tend to repel all be-
lief that toe charge had any foundation
But TO Illustrate this tendency, Mr.. Ever
EFT denounces the North American, as 6 a
mouth piece of the British faction" And
| who is Mr.. Wagner, whose newspaper is
thus denounced /! The same person who
was many years chief clerk in the depart
ment of State-whom MIR. Madison found
and gladly, retained in that office as long as
he would hold til think Eve or six years.
Yet Mr.. Madison knew that Mr.. Wagner
was decided, incorruptible, unchange able
feeleralst that very stability of character
was pledge Of his fidelity. Accordingly,
Mr.. Madison, some two or three years
since, speaking to Mr.. Hi!lhouse and me- Of
MIR. Wagner, commended him IN warm
| and very handsome terms summing up his
character in these remarkable words, &, In
short, he Is fit for secretary OF state"
And who is Mr.. Everett, the editor of
the Boston patriot? An APosTATE frderal-
ist. While federalism was IN fashion be
served under its banners, and zealously con-
tributed, federal pieces, which were publish
ed at Walpole, in New Hampshire (where
he then lived) in the distinguished federal
paper, called the Farmers Museum, edited
by Joseph Dennie, esq. And now this tu,,,
coat this absstate Everett,has the inpudence
to Set himself up rs the grave censor st te.
deral men and federal papers.
One word more as to bis concern for my
reputation. BY the gravity of his manner
in noticing the 9 report" which he pretends
to think so seriously affects my character, he
doubtless intended to point its malignity,
that. it might inlict the deeper wound. Yet
that "a report that " proaigate accusations"
is so monstrously absurd in its details, that
itwould be an impeachment OF MIR. Eve"
re..'s understanding to suppose that he be-
lieyed one word ct it to be true.
7. PICKERING.
Wenham, July rs, 1909.