The Massachusetts spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1821-1823, 1822-07-24

Gated IN the answer to the eall Of the House
of Representatives, or not. Ills first reply
was, that he thou,ht it was pnrafe letter,
which it would be improper TO communicate
to the House but, after pause, as il rec
collecting himself, he said he wished to see
the letter before giving dessnitive answer
To this immediately sssented. Mr.. Rus
sell accordingly repaired to the Office, and
saw his letter; not in my presence, or in the
room occupied by me, but in that of Mr.. Bar
ley, the Clerk who has charge OF the diplo-
matick documents. Mr.. Russell then desired
to examine the whole of the correspondence
relating to the Client negotiation, and after
wards twice in succession requested to be fur
nshed with copies of one paragraph of the
| instructions TO the commissioners, of 18th
of April, 1873. That paragraph is the one
which, in the duplicate, is cited so emphat-
| ically, and with so many cumulative epithets,
| in support of the charge against the majority
of The mission, Of having violated both the
letter and the spirit Of their explicit and
| Implicit instructions. After all these exami-
| nations, and after a request to be furnished
with copy Of this most pregnant paragraph,
| in all Of which he was INDUCED to the ex-
| tent of his wishes, ne told me that hs saw no
| objection to the communication to the House
| of his separate letter of the 25th of Deem
| her, 1914, with the exception of part of
it not relating TO the negotiation. lie was
informed that the part only indicated by him
| self would be communicated-an accordingly
! that part only was communicated. MIR. Rus
sell then added, that there was 0aother letter,
| written al Paris, Comfortably TO the Indication
| in that of the 25th of December, 1914, and
containing his reasons therein alluded to !;
and sAe h tsss stsf o. iE s documents, 10 The
House. This was the first intimatiou had
ever received of the existence of the letter
of the 18th February. 1916 and told Mr..
Russell that if it could be found upon the
files of tire department, it should be commu-
nicated with the rest. ! directed accordingly
that search should be made, and afterwards
that II should be repeated, among all the files
oil the department, for this letter. 1t was not
10 be found. After delay of several DAYS
tor repeating these Intellectual searches,
deemed 1t necessary to report, in answer to the
CAL OF the House; and the documents were
all sent, including that portion of his letter OF
the soth OF December, 1914, which he himself
| had marked for communication.
1t was not alone to me that Mr.. Russell had
expressed the wish that his letter of the In
OF February, 1915, might be communicated
with the other documents to the House. He
had. as appears by the statement of Mr.. Bal
ley, repeatedly manifested the same wish 10
him. lie had even gone so far as to inform
him that he had copy of it at Mendon, and
TO inquire of him whether copy of it from
himself would be received at the department.
Tor communication TO the House. He die net
indeed, make the same inquiry of me, nor
was then informed that he had made it ia
Air. Bailey; if had been. | should have
immediately answered that it would be re-
ceived 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 communicate
ed at the desire of Mr.. Russell himself: and
lar from suspecting him capable of believing
himself permitted to make any alterations in
The copy, to suit present purposes, should
have thought the bare suspicion an outrage
uron his honour.
But had no desire of nv own that the LET.
ter should be communicated. regretted even
that Mr.. Russell had chosen that the mart Of
his letter of 25th December. 1914, which an
nounced hIs disagreement with the majority
oil the mission, should he communicated. /
regretted that he had ever thought proper to
INFORM the Secretary of State what had been
iils vote upon that occasion and was per
iectly assured that there never had existed a
moment when there could have been any me-
cessity for him TO vindicate his motives for
that vote. ! was assured that neither the gov
eminent nor the nation would ever have inouir
ed OF him how he had voted, if he had not
been so over-earnest in his solicitude TO tell
them; and was equally convinced that after
he had told them, it would not ultimately re.
dound to his credit. had no fef linos of on.
NIFTY towards Mr. Russell. Our private in.
tercourse had been, for more than ten wears
that of friendship, which, in no instance what,
ever, had been, in word. deed. or thouoht
violated by me. As an associate in a trust Of
great importance. the general result of which
had been satisfactory to the country. he had
Always mad CLAIMS, sacred to me, to my pecu-
ilar regard. With the high and honourable
oaies OF that great trust, had mingled no
little expedients of self-aggrandizement by the
deDasement OF any of my colleagues. had
sown no seed of future accusation against a
brother commissioner, in the shell of pre-
tended vindlcation of myself. had laid UP
no root.o rancorous excitement, TO be plant
ed after the lapse Of years in the soil of sec
,ionai prejudice, or party prepossession. i
lamented TO discover that Mr.. Russell had not
so dealt with his colleagues of the majority
and was mortified TO see the earnestness with
which ne appeared determined to blazen forth
tins disagreement of opinion, and the part that
he had taken in it to the world. felt that it
Heitfer became me to object to the COMMUNE
cation OF either of his letters to the House, if
desired by him, nor oficiously to offer him ia
cilites for the communication which he had
not suggested to me himself. I, therefore, did
not ask him to furnish, himself, copy Of his
letter from Paris to be communicated to tl,e