Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1823-11-08

rleS OF political essays, IL the last OF
which he proposed john Quincy Adams
as the Federal candidate Tor the Presi-
dency at the next election but that this
number bad been suppressed by the
Editors. He then requests Mr.. Adams
to inform him OF lac true cause oil the
disnission of Col. Pickering from the
office of Secretary of State, In reply
Mr.. Adams enumera;es several reasons
arising from the character and political
opinions of Mr.. Pickering, whom he
describes as devoted idolator of Ia
milton" But am not yet" he adds,
I" 10 reveal the whole mystery. VIVA
have said is to remain in your own
breast"
The answer of Mr.. Cunningham is
too remarkable to be omitted.
81 am deeply sensible to your kind
ness in making NE acquainted with many
of the reasons for the dismission oil Nv
Pickering. Uhat you haze disclosed
shall De inuiola6iy keht. /. by the ex-
preston Z" but | am not yet to reveal
the whole mystery" am to understand
your fixed resolution to make at present
10 farther development, | beg that may
no, be suspected oil attempting to change
II, nor oil even entertaining curiosl-
~ 10 know its reasons. will only iDtreat
TO be initiated into the whole mystery
when you may deem it proper. Bht 1t
the disclosure is too interesting TO be
made but on engagement Of FdeHty
made with more than common '8otemHi-
ty, you may, dear sir, consider such an
engagement as conditional TO a farther
commune alton.
On this engagement, President dams
enters more at large into the character
of Col. Pickering; whom he admits to
be ga good Son, Husband, Father,
Grandfather, Brother, Uncle, aud Cou-
SIM" but not fit 10 be his Secretary OF
State. The subject is renewed IN his
seventeen letter, in which the President
relates an anecdote of retort he made
upon Mr.. Pickering's father, who was
examined as witness in court some
fifty years ago, which he supposcs Mr.
Pickering knew at the time, and has
never forgiven.
The succeeding letters, to the thirty
second, contain observations upon the
state of parties, and upon several lndl
vduals who were then in public lille !;
but nothing that particularly deserves
notice. The thirfy-second ietteris mere
Iy note from Mr.. Adams, enclosing
five sheets, which contained the fuli
disclosure respecting Mr.. Pickering,
and which he requests to have returned
as soon as read The thirty tourth let
ter contains nearly the same account
of the peace made with France in 1900
as the President afterwards published IN
the Boston Patriot. In the thirty eighth
letter Mr.. Adams speaks OF the essays
which he had commenced in the B>sto n
Patriot, and requests his correspondent
to inform him what is thought OF them,
and whether he has in any thing exposed
himself, and wherein. M. Cunning
ham in his answer, bjects 10 the epithet
Hrle which Mr.. Adams had used IN de-
rision, when speaking OF Hamilton; and
requests an explanation OF some appa-
rent Inconsistencies between certain facts
and opinions published in the Pauo',
and his former opinions expressed IN
private letters, or in conversation. For
instance, Mr.. Adams 10 the Patriot be-
slowed unqualified praise on Mr.. JeHer-
son, which he supports by referring to
+" his intimate friendship for FIVE and
twenty years." while III his letter to Mr.
Cunningham he asserts that he kne"
but little about him, and that he never had
much intercourse with him. The sub
iec, is pursued by Mr.. Cunningham in
four subsequent letters in which he
urges with freedom his objections to
the manner in which Hamilton is al
WAYS treated in the essays IN the Patriot.
The answer to these remarks was the
forty -hlth letter in the series, bnt was re-
turned TO Mr.. Adams by his express
direction. From the illusions to 1t In
MIR. Cunningham reply, 1t appears to
have contained certain anecdotes OF Ha-
milton, as vel! as Mr.. Adams opinion
of his character, watch he thought so
bad, that
The panegyrical orations OF Ames
and OTIS, and the funeral made by the
bankers a, Boston for him, exceeded in
atrooily and impie,y the Kings -broIhel
of Belview, and the Adonian temple OF
Madame Du Barry"
The loriy-seven,h letter, which APP
pears also to have been on the character
Of Hamilton, was returned to MIR.
Adams by his express injunctions.
The subsequent letters, TO the htty-
seventh, contain further discussion of
the merits Of Hamilton, whom Mr.. Cum