The Alexandria herald. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1811-1826, 1824-08-09

aud desired me to assure you OF its re.
eePtion, and begs you TO believe the high
consideration he bears you, and the plea,
sure he would receive on seeing you
again III this republic.
am DESTROYS Of informing you, thu,
The president of Hay,i, with The view OF
offering to the descendants OF Africans
who grosn in the u. s. in misery and
humiliation, an asylum where they will
have the means of enjoying the invalua.
bic right Of equal Law and citizenship,
has just sent to New York col. iona than
Granville, 10 cooperate with the society
IN that city for the promotion Of emigra.
ton TO Hayti, to all the descendants OF
Africans Who wish to comes, and will
engage themselves in agriculture, the
mechanic arts, or in aoy honest industry,
and the government of Hayti will advance
the charges of ths passages ofthoso who
Cannot pay it themselves, and provide for
them, on their arrival, the means OF
subsistence until they can procure it
themselves by their labor.
write 10 day to the said citizen Gran.
viile'inviiing him TO correspond with you
exhort you TO continue your efforts
to send us the descendants of Africans
who arc with you in Boston.
p. 8. l have read with much plea.
sure, the pamphlets you have had the
goodness to send me.
Wereceivcd, yesterday afternoon. the
following communication, which is in,en-
dea' we presume, as contradiction of a
statement in our last paper, but which we
understand as full confirmation Oft
What We then said, we now repeat, upon
the authority of personal friend of MIR
Gales who was present, and whose vera
city hr q. himself, we think, would no,
impeach. ifMr Gales errs in his facts,
1t IS not probable that his differences
are equally erroneous
With regard to the concluding para
graph of Mr.. G.'s communication, we
leave the readers of the Intelligencer for
the last month, to judge Of its truth.
National Journal
For the National Journal.
1t is with great reluctance feel my
self under the necessity OF appearing
personally before the public to contradict
the following statement, copied from the
National Journal of the 5th inst
'Mf. Edwar Is, few Sundays after his
arrival in. this city in obedience to the
summons o, the house, visited, for the
first time In his life, We believe, the Uni.
tartan church. A stranger, of course, TO
the situation Of the pews, and to most of
their occupants, he proceeded down the
middle aisle ofthe church, as most straD-
gers do' expecting. no doubt, that some
body or other, seeing that lac was stran-
ger, would invite him to a seat. Mr..
Joseph Gales, u onU uf the culture Of the
Natiocal intelligencer,whose pew adiuns
that of Mr.. Adams, upon seeing Mr. Ed
wards apparently looking for a seat with
his characteristic politeness, got up, open.
ed the door-nat ofhis os,n fiew, hope-
yer, bur that Of Mr.. adams invited
Mr. Edwards 10 SEAL Mr Adams, at
the moment, had nor arrived at church,
but came in soon afterwards, and found
his pew occupied by MIR. Edwards. If
Mr. K uas really been the siiar' and 'ca,
lumniator,' which the Enquirer calls him
and it Mr.. Adams had known it by the
most conclusive proofs, we ask the edi.
tors 70 say, if, in their consciences, they
believe II would have been MIR. Adrms's
duty TO have turned Edwards out of his
pew: Mr.. GALES best knows why he,
who has been the csuse, perhaps limo.
Gently, OF all this calumDy against Mr..
Adams, has permitted the circumstance
10 remain so long unexplained
shall not permit myself to advert to
the motives of the writer, or of his iDfor
.uant, for this misrepresentation, but con.
tent myself with stating the facts as they
occurred.
The first time I ever saw Mr.. Ed
wards IN church he was seated In tho pew
Of Mr.. Adams.
On the Sabbath morning following, eD>
teriDg the church before the bell had
ceased ringing and when there were
very few persons in church, and walking
up the aisle; found Mr. Edwards had
just preceded me, and stopped in the
aisle, apparently hesitating between the
door OF my pew anu that of Mr. Adams,as
&c at lose 10 determine which was the
right one. Having seen him, on the pre-
ceding Sunday, with Mr.. Adams in his
pew, and not supposing he would par.
ticularly prefer seat in mine, endea-
being the only person within
speaking distance Of him, to remove his
perplexity by indicating to him tho pew
which | supposed him to be in search Of;
which piece of service, on entering the
pew he civiIIy acknowledged. Out of
these simple facts is the above story fab.
ricateds
1t is not true that have been innocent>
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