The Alexandria herald. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1811-1826, 1823-02-12

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ports in circulation respecting what pass
ed between Mr.. Adams and myseifin his
Office on Saturday last, | will request you
TO make statement, con6ning yourself
to what passed between us.
Very respectfully, your obi.
ALEXANDER SMYTH.
Doctor G b. jackson.
Memorandum OF an occurrence that
transpired between John Q. Adams,
secretary ofsrate, and Alexander Smyth,
representative in congress from the
state Of Virginia, on the 1Sths day OF
Jan. 1898, in the department OF state.
General Smyth called on me abou, IL
O'Clock of the day above mentioned, and
inquired if | would take walk having
answered afiimatively, he stated TO me
whilst ascending the Pennsylvania avenue.
that he was going to the Office of state to
examine paper agreeable to an aD-
pointment with MIR. Adams. On our ar
rival at the Office, Mr.. Brent informed US
that Mr.. Adams was not in, but that MIR.
A. had directed him (Mr. b. to show
general Smyth the paper that he had de-
sired 10 see, which was accordingly done.
for the first time sscertained It's charac
ter; IT was Mr.. Breenly's printed copy of
the revised draft of the constitution OF the
,. Gen. Smyth proceeded TO copy
the three tirst paragraphs of the 9th sec
ton OF the LIST article, which he Carefully
did, by an attempted fac simHe transcript
OF not only the printed part. but OF the c.
rasures thereof and manuscript amend
ments and interlineations, observing the
same relative position of the paragraphs
with their punctuations. The general
asked me to examine it carefully, and to
attest It's accuracy which | did. Mr..
Brent at that time proffered to give his
certificate. General s. accepted the ten.
der and commenced writing it; whilst
thus engaged MIR. A. came into the Office.
General s. and arose from our seats,
the usual eivilities were interchaneed be-
tween MIR. A. and myself but none took
place between Mr.. A. and general S.
Alter the general resumed his seat and
finished the certificate he handed it 10
MIR. B.who showed il TO Mr.. A. stating
It's object and what he had proposed to
do, and said he supposed there was no
lmproPriety in giving his attestation
Mr.. AZ alter examining the certificate
said 1t was not correct,t and that the copv
should not have embraced the amendments
that were made to the section, but should
have exclusively been confined to the
printed part as had been observed By him
IN publishing the journal of the conven.
uon, see page $50. General S. replied
that the copy was precisely in the form he
wished Ii; that 1t was correct copy of not
only the printed part of that portion of
the section, but OF lis amendments and all
Teratlons, all of which were discriminate
ly designated He further stated that the
certificate of MIR. B. was unimpor,ant and
unsoiicited by him. Mr. A. said he had
no objection to correct certificate being
given, tut tina, "that certificate was not
correct" General S very peremptorily
replied, "that is not true, sir" | interpo-
sed heres by suggesting my regret at the
excitement and evaporation that had
been produced, and of my beliefthat the
point IN controversy was certainly one
that could be adjusted without any heart
burning, or expressions ofharshRess.
Mr.: A. proceeded to fold up the pa
pers that had been examined, and gen.
S. to tear off the certificate, which he
cast towards the fire place, remarkinp
that Mr.. Is. might write any certificate he
pleased, that he was moi tenacious about
the form. MIR. A. walked towards the
hearth and picked up the torn off cert6-
cate, and said "l will keep this paper if
you have no objection" Gen. s. replied
he had none. Mr.. A pointing to the CO.
ply gen 5. held, said ON take that paper
SIR" The general replied, mo sir, YOU
will not. Alter moments interval. Mr..
A. sailed on me to take notice that he
''was willing and ready to give gen. S.
any copies of papers or explanations of
them in his Office Mr.. b. said if gen.
,. would wait he would make out a COW
and certify 1t to this the general indica-
ted willingness, and they retired into am
adjacent room for that purpose,
Whilst this copy was preparing, Mr.. A.
stated to me that the printer in Boston
who had printed the journal of the con-
veDlon, had ToifhoRt his authorization or
kuo70Eedge.f printed the journal different
ly from the copy of Mr.. BreenIy's COW
which had been sent on to him as he rem
resented VIZ: in Dividing The first TIARA.
grain in:o f7Oo distinct and indeheude,,
ones making tie 7vordS ro hay debts, 10
commence a0ith a cahitak letters and adj
ding the word "article" six times errsne-
DUSTY as will be seen in pages $50, s63.
500, SOS, SCI of the printed journal . in
veritication Of this fact the COPY had been
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