The Massachusetts spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1821-1823, 1822-07-31

protest, WHO, dtleF llic word uuptlcdle
upon letter written and signed by himself,
10 be communicated as a pub.ick document TO
4 legislative body, tells the public.S that he
gave no farther intmation, much less any as.
surance, that Il ,cas so, and avows that it ,cas
NOT so 2 Ii the name of God, under Mir. Rus
sell's pen, could not deter him from converting
the past into the future, that he might enjoy
the hononrs of prophecy, and couple with his
trust in the Deity his confidence in the valour
of the west, what excuse could have for
considering the declaration of Mir. Russell as
either more or less sincere for being backed
by his protest:
6 To add perfume to the violet
Is wasteiui and ridiculous excess.n
But if Mr.. Russell, after delivering, on the
22d Of April, his duplicate at the Department
OF State, and especially after he knew that
the original had been found, was no longer
solictous that either of them should be COM
inundated to the House, he had neither given
up the inclination, nor the intention OF APP
pearns before the publick, as the accuser of
his colleagues Of the majority at Client
lie lett the city of Washington on the 9th
of May, the day after the House of Repre-
sentativcs had received the Presidents answer
to the call of the 18th of April. With that
answer the President communicated to she
House nay repnrt TO him. which had been ac-
conpanied by copy of the duplicate left bv
Mr.. Russell at the Department for commun;-
cation But the President did not co,amuni-
cate the copy Of the duplicate itself. He in
formed the House that the Original had also
been fouad-that it had been marked as
pirate letter by the writer himself-that il
disclosed differences Of opinion which would
naturally call for answers from those implicat-
ed by 1t; and that !, as one Of them, had al
ready requested that it might be eommunicat-
ed, together with my remarks upon it. Under
those circumstances, the President declined
communicating the letter called -, unless the
House, upon knowledge of them, should
deslre TIN which case he informed them
that IT would be communicated, together with
my report upon it.
All this was known to Mr.. Russell when he
lett the city; and it is presumed that he also
knew that the call for the letter would NOT he
renewed by the mover of the resolution OF the
18th OF April yet Mr.. Russell went to Phila-
delrhIa, and there caused TO be printed in the
National Gazette of the 10th of NAV, another
rarely of his letter of 18th February. 1915.
from Paris. TO Mr.. Monroe-still differing from
the original-difTering also from the DUPLICATE
which he had delivered at the Department
but satisfactorily proving with what ingealii,
he had told me that the two last leaves of his
original draft had not been found AT N;epdon
and that he had been obliged to supply their
contents in the duplicate from memory. The
fnphcdie of the National Gazette was accom-
panied by an editorial article, vouchine for its
authenticity as copy-voaching from good
authority that Mr.. Russell had no share in the
call iof the House of 18th of ApriN for The
private ietter--and commenting in a STYLE
the apoloSetIcal character of which indicates
It's origin, upon the privacy, which it urged
was not secresy, of the letter; upon the pro-
LESSONS of Mr.. Russell's respect for his COL
leagues in the letter, and upon the frequency
OF such personal and separate explanations in
the annals of diplomacy. An this, upon the
lace OF it, came directly or indirectly from Mr..
Russell himself. The letter, as published in
the National Gazette, was not marked prirate.
as the original had been, which was now known
from the Presidents message. 1t had discard.
ed the panegyTick upon the DISTINGUISHED
hshermen-the self eulogium for ENLARGED rat
uotism and subdued predictions and prepos-
sessions-the Prophetick inspirations, and the
trust in God, and in the yalour of the west.
which were in the duplicate and not in the
original. 1t had stripped off all the cumula-
tive epithets added in the duplicate to the
charge OF a wful violation of instructions-t
had even dismissed the charge of having yio-
lated their instructions relating TO the Mssisip-
pi. as construed By HsnlSclrts, and the enpbat
lex citation Of the explicit and imp5ea CAN
cELLED instructions of 18th April, 1913. But
1t had retained the Interpolation, Of sire direct
~ U'otated oar trlst,nctions," and the substitu-
ton OF " we COULD" for 'sl cam in that
luminous exposition of atmospherick humidi-
ties and incessant fogs which had been dis
covered to have so nearly aHnulled the value
Of the Labrador fishery; and although the
cancelled instructions were no longer cited in
the text OF the letter, yet TO support the rem
nant OF nterpolated charge, that they had
oeen violated, they were expressly subloined
as an appendage to the publication, with an
abundance o. italicised words to point out the
Nervousness of this violation and this was
after the interview in which had shewn TO
Mr. Russell at the Department, the record not
only 81 tha letter Of the 4th October. 1914 70
the Commissioners, which had not, but that of
the letter OF the 10Th October, 1914 which had
been received before the proposal. upon with
tue charge OF violation rested, had been made
to the British Plenipotentiaries. The tripl;.
cate of the National Gazette had restored The
postscript of the original, which had been
dismissed from the duplicate, containing the
three hopeful OTHER ways Of proceeding de-
ylsed by Mr.. RusseIrs resources ofnegociation.
two months after the negotiation was over. in
stead OF the course which we did pursue, the
word other only being omitted The tripiicate
OF the National Gazette, in short, proved that
the original draft from Mendon had been com
plete; and that all its own interpretations. as
well as those of the duplicate, and its omis-
sIons had been owing, not to DEFICIENCIES of
! memory, but to superfluities of invention.