The Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1822-1829, 1822-08-09

, communicate 30 the House bat after
,ause. A. # recollecting himself, he said he
Wished T. see tue letter, before giving 4 de-
mite answer. To this Immediately as
ented. Mr.. Russell accordingly repaired
Q the Office, and saw his letter; not in my
presence. or in The room occupied by me,
nut in thai Of Mr.. BsiIy, the clerk who has
,harge Of The diplomatic documents. MIR.
Russell then desired to examine the whole
IF the correspondence rels;ing TO the Client
and afterwards twice IN sue
ression reqsa sted to be furnished with CO.
pies OF one paragraph of the instructions to
the commissioners, of the 18th April, 1913.
rItat paragraph il the one which, in the
duplicate, is cited so emphatically, and
with SO many cumulative epithets, in sup
port of the charge against the majority of
the mission, Of having violated both the let
ter and the spirit Of their explicit and impll-
cit instructions. After all these examina-
tons, and after request to be furnished
with a copy of this most pregnant para
graph, in al OF which he was INDUCED TO
the extent Of his wishes, be told me that
he saw no objection TO the communication
tojthe House, of the separate letter OF the
25th December, 1914, with the exception
of a part OF it, not relating TO the negotiation.
lie was informed that the part only indica-
ted by himself would be communicated
and accordingly that part only was commu-
nieated Mr.. Russell then added, that
there was another letter, written Al Paris,
conformably to the indication in that Of 18th
a. 1 I'll 10
sons therein alluded 10 and lehfrh he ariShed
M chi also be communicated, nth the resi- Of
he documents, 10 Tie House. This was thc'
Grsi iutmationl had ever received Of the
existence of the letter ofthe tiih February,
1919: and | told Mr.. Russell that, if ii
could be found upon the files ofths Depart
ment, il should he communicated with the
rest | directed accordingly, that search
should be made, and afterwards that ii
should be- repeated, among all the flies Of
the Department, for this letter II was not
TO be- found. Aitcra delay of several days,
for repeating these Intellectual searches,
deemed it necessary to report, IN answer to
the call Of the house and the documents
were all sent, including thai portion of his
letter of 10Th December, 1911, which he
himself had marked for communication.
II was not alone to me that Mr. Russell
had expressed the wish that his letter of
nth February, 1915, might be cUnmuni-
Gated with the other documents to The
House. He had, as appears by the state
ment Of Mr.. Bailey, repeatedly manifest
ed the same wish to him. He had even
gone so far as TO inform him, that he had
a copy Of il at Mendon, and to inquire of
him whether a copy of it from himself
would be received at the Department, for
to the House. He did not
indeed, make the same inquiry cf me, nor
was then informed that he had made If to
Mr.. Bailey. If had been, should ha, Q i'm
answered that It Wouid be recei-
we'd and communicated. knew not What
were the contents of the letter: hut knew
that whatever they might be, could have
no objection to their being communicated,
At the desire Of Mr.. Russell himself; and
far from suspecting him capable Of beiev-
ing himself permitted to make any atera-
tons in the copy, to suit present purposes,
should have thought the bare suspicion
an outrage upon his honour.
But had no desire of my own fiat the
etter should he communicated. | regret
led even that Mr.. Russell had chosen that
thc part ot his letter Of 9th December,
lPl4, which announced his disagreement
with the majority of the mission, should be
regretted that he had
'Ncr thought proper 20 inform the Sccreta-
y OF State what had been his vote upon
hat occasion and was perfectly assured,
hat there never had existed a moment
yhrn there could have been any necessity
or him to yindicatc his motives for that
'ote. was assured that neither the gov
rnment nor the nation would ever have
inquired Of him how he had voted, if he
lad not been SO over earnest in his So
iclt'lde TO tell them. And was equally
convinced, that after he had told them, il |
would not ultimately rebound TO bis ere
Int. had no feelings of enemy towards Mr. |
russell. Dur private Intercourse had been, |
or more than ten years, that offrieEdship. |
which IN no instance whatever, had heen. |
n word, deed, or thought, violated by me. |
Is an associate in trust great Importance |
ne general result of which had been salts |
actory to the country, he had always had |
aims, sacrcdto me, to my peculiar regard. !
With tho high and honorable duties of that
.rea sss4st, i had ninglcdno little expcdents |
" ACKNOWLEDGMENT by the dcbasement !
II my of my colleagues. had sown no
eed of future accusation against a brother
Commissioner, in the she'll of "a pretended
Indication of myself had laid up no
DOT of rancorous excitement, to be planted
tier the lapse of years, in the soil of see I
lohal prejudice, or party prepossesaion.
lamented To discover that MIR. Russell had
rot so dealt with his colleagues OF the ma
ority; and was mortified to see the ear
estntss with which he appeared deter
lned to blaaon forth this disagreement
# opinion, and the part that he had tax In
q II, TO the world. ! felt that ii neither
teame me TO object TO the comfnunica-
ION of either of his letters to the House, if