Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1811-03-21
From the Frderai Rchuslican,
Nh. PICKhRING's ADDRESS
To The Peohie Of the United Ssa'es'
No. VI.

To the Peohfe Of the uh8eo ''N'eS'
Fellow Citizens,
Mr.. Adams having never assigned any spe-
ci6c reasons for removing me from Office,
and the conectures hitherto formed being
insufficient to account for it, the question once
more recurs--For what reason was l remov-
ed The answer is not to be expected from
Mr. Adams | am myself constrained to give
it. ~, 3,
IN the wear 1900 Gen. Hamilton published
6 letter concerning the public conduct
and character of John Adams, esq. president
of the United States" 1t had relation to the
approaching election of president. Mr.. A.
dams and Mr.. Jefferson were the rival candl-
dates. In that letter Gen. Hamilton thus no.
t;ced the removal of Mr.. M'Henry, secretary
at war, and of myself from office +" 1t hap
pened, (sa;d he) at particular juncture, i'm
,nediatelv after the unfayorable turn, unta-
yorabie to Mr.. Adams of the state election
of New York, and had much tic air OF an cX-
nlosion of combustible materials which had
been long prepared, but which had been kept
down iy prudential calculations, respecting the
effect of an explosion upon the trends OF those
ministers in the state Of New York. Per
haps when it was supposed that nothing could
be lost in this quarter, and that something
NAV be gained elsewhere, by an atonins sacri.
fce of fEese ministers, especially 4Mr. Pickering
who had been for some time particularly O..
dious to the opposition party, 1t Was deter
mined to proceed to cxtreInitles. Compare
this conjecture Of Gen. Hannlton's with the
following details.
The excessive vanity and inordinale znll-
ton of Mr.. Adams arc well known. Hc"lsEed
also to enjoy the emolumcnts as well as the
honor of the presidency. For at least ano-
Their term of four years. But by this time he
had made such developenrit OF his ch;rac-
ter, SO inauspicious to correct administration
of the rovernmC mt, as to have excited the dis
gust of many influential iederalists. Hence
Mr.. Adams's fears that their support alone
would not secure his election. What course
then should he propose to himself! " flectere
81 negueo Suferos, .fcheronta moue6o.' Some
of the leaders of democracy were sounded.--
They were, or affected to be, willing to lend
their aid, on condnions--of which one vas,
that should be removed from Office. This
was assentcd to and / was removed, but not
without some delay which furnished at least
a pretcnce to those leaders to disregard the a
preement Not that under existing circum-
stances they would have favored Mr. Ada,ns's
election--hs was the dupe OF their iitrigues.
By nv removal they expected at once to dctSch
from Mr. Adams my particular federal friends,
who both for number and respectability were
not to be overlooked. And even in the event
of Mr. Adams's reelection by Il federal ma
iority, the resentments Of the democrats would
be gratihed il their future interests should not
be materially promoted by my dismission.
Such, fellow citizens, was the base, the COR
rupt motive for my removal from ot1ice.-
Without recurring to other proofs, the simple
fact that the leading democrats knew, some
time before the event that was to be dismiss
ed, while the fedcralists were ignorant of it,
furnishes the strongest presumptive evidence
of the aforementioned intrigue and Cause
of my removal. Another corroborative fact
may be stated: that but the week before MIR.
Adams told me, that he considered the cleo
ton of MIR. Jefferson to the presidency as Ger
tain. To detach therefore some of his psrti-
zans was essential to his own success.
The first intimation / received Of this in
trigue was from the person who gave me the
following certificate. MIR. Kimball had been
clerk in the department of state. After
quitting the office he went to Savannah, where
he now resides In 1905, being in Massachu-
sets, he came to see me, and gave me the
information. On his way back to Savannah in
the autumn of that year he found Inc at Wash
ington. The fact he had stated to me occur
ring, desired him to make out a certificate of
it, and to show it to the gentleman from whom
he received the information and who lived in
the District of Columbia. For the present
omit his name: contenting myself with say.
ing, that he is a gentleman respectable for his
standing in society, and Of unblemished re-
putation. 1t will be seen too that Mr.. Bowie,
whose name will presently appear, csr6rms
the statement i'll the certificate.
Mr.. Kim6aHs Certificate.
aAta public table, M'taughlin's tavern in
Georgetown, July 1900, heard --, say,
that some time in May preceding, he was pre-:
sent in public room at Annapolis, when Mr..
Smith, the present secretary of the navy, made