Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1811-03-20

Eppes, will i. Be believed That Mr.. Ad,,
would never have mentioned it to me j! ans:
not this single ciccumst ice sufficient to s,ams
the story with ialsehood Let it also be n,r;
cularly noticed that the charge against ns !.
for keeping back dispatches in 1898, and ;,
was not removed from office till Mav lsn
i'll committed the alledsedoffence villa, ev,,,,
canbe oferedby Mr. Adams nt.y friend, o,l'
himself for keeping me iii Office year and ,h':
or more, after the decd was don /! Vlvd;IIh
not remove ne without delay, and give =.
as the reason Mr. Adams well knew tL.4
was held in estimation by many uistippp;sl
citizens of the United States and tb,t Da
friends In Massachusetts, in particulsr ".
which state both of US are nativ,.a) wers ~
merous and of great influence, whom h. .o "s,
not fail to offend by dismissing ME, uDIe>,I
could assign an adequate CAUSE. Know, wb'H
he did remove me, that this ccIsider;tin ~. ~
not escape his reflection. Whereas. b,S
been guilty of the offence at this late day ~,
jured up against me, while it morti6.d !.
would have silenced my friends and ccr,'
never have held up my face in their prcsrrr"
Among those friends, were many whom y II
not personally known. To Man beGevc
they lid once been the friends, of MIR. Adm,
They continue nine to this day. and with !,
creased regard.--That they are not ROW b,
we have his own testimony. Indeed tia; /.
had few very few trien,,s III the ypi,S
States, Of fang SORT is necessarily to be inferred
from his own declaration Two obscure O,
mocrats in the interior CT Massachusetts,. D.,
the eve Of an aWhortcW eitcsioa in 1909, srh.
scribed (forI understood tLev were i..caDab.
of writins) letter to Mr.. -ao;.:s, l.py &c
with the most iulsolnc BATTERY, the w,it.r
seems to know what would best please Ii,
taste) in which they &sk COUNSEL Of tie "v,.
nerablc father of New Englant." His ansve,
marked throughout with his usual a.roga.c;,
egotism and vanity, thus concludes So d.
ways consider the a;hcie nation as ny cAHlrrai
but they have almost Ill been urdptifW TO NE
You two gentlemen are almost the only one,
out OF my own house, WHO haye icr a long tire,
and thank you for it, expressed f!i4l aztec.
ton for Johu .iScm&
4. My innocence is to be inferred, not o.
iy from what is already staten, but from, Mr.
Adams own publlcatioas. have read his let.
tiers, printed III Boston IL 1909, on the subject
ofthe embassy torrance III 1899, towhichI must
suppose the dispatches IL question are under
stood to relate. These letters, M. 4 has W.T.
ten for the purpose OF Justtyms that embassy
He therein states at great length the grou!Gs
on which he took that step; referring 70 mvy
private letters, and Introducing one from N.
Tro ~ q.
all mentioning the desire of the French 20
vernrnent to settle their differences with tie
u. States But these, he says, " would na|
have influenced him u nominate minister, ii
he had not received abundant assurances TO TIE
same effect ,tram regular ditiomatic sources" u
Of these he has published two letters from
Mr.. TaIleyrand, French minister OF foreign
relations, which (Mr. Adams remarks wer
communicated to MIR Murray, American mia-
lister in Holland. and BY him to the execulir,
Of the United States. One of these two lel'
tcrs Mr.. Adams sent to the Serate, with h1s|
nomination of Mr.. Murray, the sth Of febri'|
airy, 1899. Now in all his tedious details CT
this subject, spread over near hundred octa'
vo pages, in which arc exhibited marks t.
nough of his resentn,cnts against his secret
ries Sentiments that appear to have SUFFERED
10 dinninution Of force in the lapse OF ten
ycars) I have not found one solitary ntllnstNH
that any dispatches had been kept back.
S. In the last place, say, that in 1898, VS.
in fact consulted q do lot nica!l by sir. AZ
ams) on the question Of declaring war aga'ia
France and gave my opinion explicitly
the negative. Not that ! now claim any IN
rit for that opinion perhaps it was an errcI.'
GUS one, which some may ccnsure relIs
the simple fact.
TIMOTHY PICKERING