Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1825-03-15

were due at the time which the service which |
they respectively founded, was rendered The :
Withholding the payment thereof injury to
me, in the amount of each ciaim from thar period
The admission of interest is Il necessary consc-
qucnce of the admission of the principal. From
whom did the delay proceed: BY whom was the m
jury done? BY the Government itself Can the
Government, then, render Justice by paying the
principal after withholding it for 50 long time
does not turn on the principle of an unsettled &C
count The account mas been settled by the Co
verument itself except to one item, the 9th, III
my 2d mission, and by which settlement injustice
was done to me, and the question now is, Can JUS
tce he rendered otherwise than by placing me
where should be, had the allowance been made at
the proper time The 9Th item was suspended by
the special order of the Government ITSELF i'll which
state il has remained since. The salary To our
Ministers, under any accommodation which the
law allows, and under the most favorable circun-
stances i'll which any of them can be placed, Is IN
! adequate The reports of all our Ministers con-
firm this fact. With me- therefore, it could not fail,
for the stated, to be emiuently The de-
fcieucy always supplied by the sale of my pro-
perty and often by its sacrifice, aud by loans, most
of which ATE still due, with considerable augnen-
taton, while acting in the other departments of the
Cove ,nment, aud especially i'll the late war. On
these loans have paid an interest, which, by the
length of time, has, in some instances, amounted to
nearly twice tue principal. will mention two in
stances of sales. because they gave me the most
concern; the first on my return from my first
mission to France, of the land which had been
granted ia me iur military services in our RGvolu-
tionary army, of 1888 The second was
made by my agent, while at Madrid, in 1905,
in my second mission, OF the tract of land OF about
900 acres, lying above Charlottesville, on whirh
the University has since been established, by which
occurrence the value of the has been
ed ten fold, and which, though casual. had re-
tanned my land, would have operated in my favor.
claims, have long thought that they could be set
tied only by Congress. Though conscious OF the
| injury which had sustained by the settlements re-
! fcrrcd tC. declined pressing my claims any adj
miniStratIon, ever mentioning them, pTcierring
rather to bear the additional injury, which Sus
tanned by the delay, even the entire loss than 10
subject either to the responsibility of passing, ~
the modification of rejecting them | have looked
| to Congress a the only tribunal which could with
strict puprcty decide them and to the period of
my refinement from this Office, as that beyond which
! there could be no motive for longer delay. Con-
grcsS may then examine each claim. compare il with
precedents, and weigh every circumstance attend
1t with regard to justice only. 1t has been in no
manner compromised to either, and will, there
Tore he nee, let the decision De may, from the
impu'ation of partiallty prejudice. And what Is
equally important, and much desired by me- the in
quiry being public, the sense of Congress will be.
from the nature of our happy governments thar of
gu. constituents. pronounced the same time. H.
on ul Investigations il shall appear nat these Claim
or either oil them, not well founded, let them be
rejected. ask nothing which on the principles of
law aud riot justice, and ofprecedeuts in rcga,d
others, where they apply, not entitled to. In
submitting my claims to Congress. submit them to
the national tribunal, which, should every item be
rejected, shall never hear from in the language
OF complaint.
not entitled to. In submitting my claims to Con
gress' submit them to the national tribunal. which
should every item DE rejected. shall never hear
from me IN the language OF complaint
Inpresentlpg these claims, have Dcem compelled.
very reluctantly, advert 10 some critical con
lunctures OF our Union, and particularly to that
hcnunccted with my recall fom my first mission 10
France III iIG4. Iu doing this, | have been forced
To speak OF thai measure act of injustice to
me. am, howcve.. far from asc !ibing such iuten-
ton TO the distinguished citizen whom the act was
nputable | seize this occasion. therefore, 10 de-
clare, that never ceased to view him and to speak
of him, after the moments OF excitement Ina passed.
in the light III which have done in late comnu-
nication 10 Congress. | satisfied that, on the
view which he then formed of INV conduct on the
representations which We're made to him by those
in whom he coniiled, and who were unfriendly to
m, that he acted on pure motives, as am that ne
wat utterly incapable of yielding to any other
make this declaration with the greater satisfaction
and interest, from the magnauimity which have
understood that he displayed on reading The book
which then published in my defence, and which.
with ordinary minds, would have excited d diffe-
rent feeling, when, on view of the authentic docu-
memts which presented, anJ on full consitcta
OF the whole subject, ne expressed himself in my
iayo', IN terms corresponding with the opinion wch
he enter tdincd when uusought. he conferred on me
the appointment.
Having presented, above, view ofmy clam
on the Government, in my several missions to
Europe, ! have now TO invite like view of any