The Massachusetts spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1821-1823, 1822-07-31
From he National LascHigeneer.l
Mr. Adams's Rejoinder to Mr. Russell
(C0ncluatd ffO1, car IoetN

4 Ia.
(COneludtd from, car laa.)
'on receiving the paper, therefore. mr. ONLY
auty was to report copy of it 10 the President
lof communication to the House. h answer e.
tueF CAL: On perusal of If, found that i
! was marked duplicate, but not prirfe. and
mat 1t bore date . Paris, lth February 1899 ),
NY hfst impression certainly was. that the
+! effour OF this date, was in the time. ard not
! III the place. supposed it an inadvertencv
such as not untrequeutly happens in cow.
| ing papers ef date other Than tha l,,rre,.
year, which IN tie hurry of writiag is substi-
| tuied unconsciously for the date of the orjein
al | did not then perceive that The word
| copy had been written close at the side Of the
| word GepttcGfe, and scraped out. The eraspre
mad been made with cautious and delicate
| i'and ITS attenuation of the texture of the
| paper, was not perceptble to an unsuspecting
! eye; and IN the freshness Of tie ink when per
;o:med, must have appeared to be complete.
IN tne progress OF blackcn;ne, incidental to
ink, after it has been some days written upon
paper, the traces of the, word soon became
pesceptlble, and are now apparent upon lis
| lace. Both the words, the date. aud the
Whole letter, are in the handwriting of Mr..
| Russell.
On reading the letter through. / found il had
! been composed with view to be received and
understood, as j. all written at Paris. in Feb
ruary, 1915. Yet was confident it had NOT
| all been so written. | was particularly STRUCK,
vita the following passages. 6 will frankly
, aVow, however, that my impressions were.
ana SitttGre, that Great-Britan, CALCULATING on
| the SUCCESS of the powerful expedition. which
she EAs SENT against New Orleans. confident
" expected that she would have become the
mistress OF Louisiana, and all lis waters. and
that she did not, in this event, intend to aban-
Con her conquest under the terms of the Trea-
ty of Client"
sac be disappointed in her views on
! Louisiana, and trust in God and the valor
OF the west that she rM be; / shah not Be S,,r
pf'sca # Hereafter she grants US the fishing priv
ilege, which costs her absolutely, with
sout any eIttayagant equivalent whatever,
At any rate, we are still al LIBERTY 10 nego-
cate Tor that privilege, aud 10 offer for it an
equivalent, fair il its comparative value. and
just in its relative Effects y
trust IN Con she WILL BE',-in a letter
dated IaIis, llth February, l322-signe6 JON
| Altman Russeli-addfessed to the Hon. jane
Monroe, secretary OF State-and delivered nv
WI. husseu 20 be communicated to the House
ol representatives, IN answer TO a call sug-
Sesled oy himself Tor letter written by hia
n 1913: And Mr.. Russell charges me with
| "fS1tstft3o1SneSS Tor communicating this paper
TO me tIonse And Mr.. Russell talks of respfct
lor tae representatives. 81 Tire people ofihe that
lea 't"feS am IN the judgment of lay coun-
try' upon TINS state OF facts. But as for mir.
Fussell, when he wrote that trust in God
she VIII he"-and came to the name of Con
did not the pen drop from his hand
took the letter 10 the President. and ex-
pressing 10 him my suspicion that the above
passage particularly had never been written at
farls' requested him to cause search to be
mace among his private papers for the original
ietter, II there ever had been one. The search
was accordingly made, and the letter was
iinnad. On comparing them together, imme-
uiately pecePed that the original was marked
Prtt0e which the duplicate was not turn
ed Immediately to The prophecies OF the dupli-
cate IN the original they were not. looked
10 The passag= IN the duplicate, which repre-
srnts the fishing privilege, not only as utterly
insignificant, and trIfing in value, but as hay,
ing been proved to be so by the best inIorma-
ton s are (tae Plenipotentiaries at GhenD
could obtain on the subiect.n There was =
whole system OF misrepresentation in these
words, ace codld Obtain, for they represented
the incorrect estimate Of the raltte of the fish
ing privilege which they introduced, as the re-
suit Of information obtained by the whole mis-
sion At Ghent, as having been there discussed.
and as asgravating the wrong of tn, majority
IN Offering so eXtravagant an equivalent. for
what they knew, upon their own inquiries. 70
be oi'so little value. Knowing. as lid, that
the information was all instrumentation TIM
no information concerning the value of the
privilege had been, or could have been obtain
ed by the JOINT mission: and that, excepting
some doubts rs TO its value, expressed, not by
Mr. Russell, 1t bad never been even 4 subject
Of conversation IN The missioa-l turned to the
real letter from Paris, to see how the writer
had expressed himself there, and found he had
written, according to the best information that
lean obtain on the snbject.n saw immediate
~ that all that tale about the obscurity and
humidity Of the atmosphere, the high north
em ATTITUDES, TO degrade the value of the
Labrador fishery, was not in the original even
pretended 10 have been information sought or
obtained by the joint mission; that the disco,'-
cry which it disclosed, was not pretended TO
have been ever made known to the mission .
that the fogs so pernicious TO the curing of the
fish, were in the original letter, if not merely
the vspours of Mr.. Russell's Imagination. at
least no more than the result of the best infor-
nation that he could obtain. And INSTANTLY
saw, too, the motives for the substitution of the
words 'oe could in the duplicate, for the words
can, in the original AS the original had
been written, the bill of indictment which it
virtually contained against the majority of
the mission, left them at liberty to say, in their
defence, that if they bad overrated the value
OF the fishing liberty, Il had been at least AN
honest errour. Ii left them at liberty to in