The Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1822-1829, 1822-08-16

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the House that the originrs had also i@.-
iouhd-ihai II had been marked as a ,,s-
rate letter by the writer himself-tha, !.
disclosed difsrsaees q epiaieu Which ,,,,,l4
naturally call for answers from tbose -.
plicatcd by IL; and that !, as one of .Lc,r
had already requested that il might he r,,,,
| mnnicated, together with my remarks :,
on If. Under those circumstances tn, D.
sdent declined communicating H.. ,a.,l-
called for, miless the House, upon a l,o,i
| edge of them, should desire TN
| case he informed them that il wnr,I :,
| communicated, together with INV rp,,..
upon it. 'e''
All this was known to Mr.. Russell ,b..
he left the city; and il is presumed tba,
| also knew that the cali for the letter wo,,A
not be renewed by the mover of the ,.,oI.
ton Of the 18th of April vet Mr.. Rus',5
went to Philadelphia, and there eans,d
be printed in the National Gazette Of H.
10th OF Way, another rniety of his lctte,
OF 18th February, 1915, from Paris. ia NJ,
Monroe-stil differing from the orrin,,
differing also from the duplicate. which h.
had delivered at the Department, but sats
| factorlly proving with what iagfnu;,v -
had told me that the two last lcayes Gf h.,
| original draft had not been found nj Mo-,
| don, and that he had been obliged 10 SIM
ply their contents in the duplicate from M
mory-the triPhcGte of the National O.,
zette was accompanied by an editorial ~
| ticle, Vouching for lis authenticity as A COW
-ronching from good auHori.g that NJ,
| Russell had had no share in the call fof no
| House Of 10Th of April for the private lrf-
| lrr-and commenting in u style, the gno.
| logehcal character OF which indicates ito
origin, upon the privacy, WITCH il urr.d
was not secrecy, Of the letter, upoD tLe
professions of Mr.. RasselPs ressect for bis
colleagues in the letter, and upon the fro.
| qnency of such personal and separate e,z
plantations IN the annals of diplonacy-an
this, upon the face Of it, ~lne directly ar
indirectly from Mr.. Russell himself. The
letter, as published in the National Gazette.
was not marked pirate, as the original had
been, which was now known from the Pre-
sldents message 1t had discarded the
paneSyrlc upon the DISTINGUISHED fisher
men-the self eulogium for enlarged pa
trotism and subducd predictions and pre-.
possessons-the prophetic inspirations.
and the trust in God and in the yalo,r Of
the west, which wcre'in the duplicate and
not III The original. 1t had stripped of all
| the cumulative epitEets addrd in the du-
| pllcate to the charge of wlful violation of
lnStructlon5--it had even dismissed the
charge OF having violated Their instructions
relating to the Mississippi, as construed bv
Themselves, and the emphatic citation ofthe
erpt,cit and implicit CANCELLED instruc.
tons of 18th April, 1913 But it had re-
tanned the interpolation of" uc diyectlu ro-
fd,ed our instructions" and the substitution
OF eve could for can," in that h,mi-
nous exposition of atmospheric humiditias
and incessant fogs which had been dscoy.
cred to have so nearly annulled the value
OF the Labrador fishery and although the
cancelled instructions were no longcr cited
IN the text of the letter, yet to support the
remnant of interpoiated charge, that they
| mad been violated, they were expressly SUI
lomed. as AN appendagc TO the publication
with an abundance of itaicisea words TO
point out the Nervousness of this s.igilt,r,n:
and this was ritter the interview in With
had shewn to Mr.. Russell at the Drpalt-
ment, the record not only of the letter of
ith OF October, 1914, to the Commission
ers, which had not, bat that Of the letter Of
the 10Th October, 1914, which had been
received before the proposal, upon which
me charge OF violation rested, had bern
made to the British Plenipotentiarios. The
trlphcate OF the National Gazette had res
tored the postscript of the original, Which
had been dismissed from the duplicate.
containing the three hopeful OTHER wa,s
OF proceeding devised by Mr.. Russcll's RI,
4 u. Al
negotiation was over, instead of the course
Which VIC did pursue, the word otber only
nelhS omitted. The trplicate OF the NJ
tonal 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
omissions had been owing, not to deticien-
cles OF memory, but to siperfluitcs of in
lyCntion.
such Is the true history of the tactics of
Mr.. russell, in bringing before the House
OF Representatives and the NATION, his inn
parchment of his colleagues, tie majority
oi the Ghent misslon--taat il was such of
me, is fully admitted by himseIfin the Bos-
tom Statesman, by styling me the aduerSe
PoIfH and IN that publication be sufficiently
indicates las disposition in the progress Of
| MS operations to concentrate his charges
against me alone. BE it so. In my renlayls
upon the original and duplicate of his aecll-
satory letter styled it laGorious tissue of
m'Sffpre$entations. He complains of this
as OF prudence and acaimoay, which lie
boasts otnot having returned. Ifvirulence
ana acrimony had no other vehicle than
marsh language, if they could be disguised
under professions of unttigned respect
however cautiously MIR. Russell had ABB
stained from them in his original letter from
! Paris, he had been much less obseryant Of
/ 'hdt drCOrum in the dlnlrafe nrenarrd