Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1824-07-16
GEN. La FAYETTE.

We publish this morning, notice from the Mayor
OF tins City, to the citizens, requesting meeting
adopt suitable for the reception of the il
lustrous Fayette. This great man may be expect
ed in the United States by the first of August and
II 1t were practicable, we have no doubt bit he
would compliment the shores Of Virginia, the scene
of his Revolutionary Actions and the residence of
his most ardent and earliest friends, with his first
landing. AT any rate, me sures cannot be too soon
taken to grace his arrival among us, and demon-
strate the grateful attachment Of Virginia to the
best, most patriotic, aud Republican of men.
"ln an article which appears in the Richmond
y institutional Wing, il is stated that MIR. Cook
consulted the Secretary of Stare the charges
tanned in the Address of Mr.. Ninian Edwards to the
House OF Representatives, and that Mr.. Adams pro-
nounced them futile and absurd. The hole state
mcnt is groundless fabrication. Mr.. Adams had
no knowledge whatever Of the address, or of the
charges, of Mr.. Edwards intention to present
them, until the Address was made public, by order
of the House OF Representatives. "-.Nat. Journal.
In the above paragraph the Editor of the Natl
onal Journal has evidently mistaken the nature of
the article alluded to by him, which was published
In the Wing. The facts stated did not refer in the
slightest degree the charges of Ninian Edwards
| dressed to Mr.. Adams, hy another gentleman, AT
date artcrior to the time when MIR. Edwards pre-
ferred his allegations; and the nature of the charg-
es, it is believed, specified Or designated in
| the article in the Wing. II is true that, pcnpiuc
the article in haste did write with the pre-
cision that was requisite, and i'll communicating
circumstance which we deemed honorable to Mr..
Adams, expressed the general impressions that had
| been lett on our mind, by conversation neither
full nor explicit We shall again advert to this de-
nial in the Nat. Journal, which has misconceivcd
the nature aud object Of the remarks in the Wing,
and has made use OF terms of asperiy not justified
by the design or intention Of the Editors of the
Wing.
| ssThe Washington Gazette has quoted an article
which appeared i'll the Wing for the loudaJie pur-
pose OF deriving from il, for hostility to
Mr.. Adams. II has misrcprcsented the nature and
time of the transaction to which the article refers
Does not Mr.. Colvn kno,o that we did not allutle
to Edwards Address, when we said that MIR. Adams
had be aprrised that charges would be preferred
against MIR. Crawford, and that nc bad discounte-
nanced their prefermeni We have particular rea
sons for believing that he did know, that we alluded
to a transaction altogether different. We new Ell
said that Mr.. Adams had been apprsed of Ed,card,
chargcs--for we know, that he was not before Their
exhibition to ongress-but Of another affair." which
happened some years ago. whilst Mr.. Colrin was q
Clerk in the Department Of Statc.---Whethcr the
misconstruction of the Gazette WIS honest or will
| full, is matter of indference---we hope that it,
Editors, whoever they are, will correct the mistak,
land say from us, that did not alludc 40 Ed
wards Address, but, TO another transaction of Z
much older date.
| The only fact from which Mr.. Adams friendship
to Edwards is inferred, is that he invited him init
his Pew at the Unitarian Church. This ciTcum
stance may have been the result Of accidental cir
cumstances.-E Edwards may have invited HIMSELF
the Secretary of State may have beea placed in
situation, ne probably was, from which he cou
not decline this civi,y, without absolute rudenes'
Having possibly former OCCASIONS invited him to
scat in his peY, Edwards in expectation of receiVin
the same attention, aud probably anxious to receiv
even this show of countenance, logged os be was y
the world from man OF standing, may have thru:
himself into the company OF Mr. Adams, at a NC
ment when retreat impossible. What III
:, Secretary OF S.a:e 70 90 in such dilemma W.