Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1828-11-01

call tastidious, declined furnishing eoies of the cor.
ffeSSponaence Tor publication. He seems disposed to
ioo"' IN TINS instance, IS he has evidently endoavor-
cd to do throughout .his Administration IN the fnot
steps OF thes ilkstrious WAsIIuNGroS. That grcnt
man was, IN his day, calnuniated auos, as mach as
MI. ADAMS and What is not little singular (consd-
cfhg the length OF the intervening period of time) b
some OF the same individuals, and by Mr. Gurs for
one OF Them Then, now, by the lneaner agents of
dctio iorgeries and otl?r species of deception were
resorted to- These Gespcable frauds w ,sr.,S,;rov
tissed ny with silent though indignant contempt I'M
Ill as ms last act before yielding the Presidency on
the I'D day OF March, 1897, he to the Department
OF State TO be there recorded and preserved an expo
surcot the fOrgerics by which various letters had bae
passed upon the Public as being his We do not
know that, his last public act on the third dav of
hlarch, In the year of our Lord One Thousand HI bt
hundred ana ihiriy-ihrec, Mr. ADAMS, ON retiring
from ONCE, may net also condcsceiid to r.ce u,.9n
record the proofs of the attempts which have been
made to defraud him OF his wel-carue fame
BE THAI as 1t may, Mr.. ADAws will not consent to
TIE present publication OF these Letters from motives
OF dehcacy, to which he too often sacrifices his person.
az interest. He permits to say, however that he
las read to from his Letter Book the comics Of his
Letters to Mr. GrEs, during the winter OF 1909 in
reply to the Letters of Mr.. GtEs, the ORIGINALS of
which latter amongst his papers at his seat: and
we take leave to say 'odhout his permission that they
ere vi character To exa!t hun i'll the estimation of
every patriot, every Republican, every honest man.
They are OF character, too such as To prevent tho
possibility OF any mans forgetting them who had ev
er read them, unless he had first forgotten himself
INC ihSt vi tfi'Se IIeLterS oil i1r ADAMS dated
november the 18TH 1905, and is in acknowledgment
ana reply to Letter of Mr.. GILES of the 7th-3t of
Tth) va ~
The second of them is of the date of December 10
isoS Ill reply to a Letter from Mr. GILES enclosing u
copy of his Speech upon Mr. II LHousE's motion for
repeal of the Embargo.
The third letter is from Mr.. ADAMS to Mr. GIys
oi the Goth December, in the same wear.
The fourth letter, from Mr. ADAMS to SIR GuFs
Is dated on the 10th of January, 1905 acknowledging
the receipt OF the two letters from Mr.. GUS the
one of the 18th OF December 1905 and the other of
January 5th, 1909.
Soon after this last, Mr.. ADAMS came here to at
tend on professional business the Supreme Court of
the United States, and the correspondence of course
lntcrmitted Not long after this, Mr.. ADAMS went
abroad IN public employ and the correspondence of
course ceased.
When one recollects the period of this corrcspon-
dcnce, and the relation Of Mr. ADAMS to the Senate
IN which he had resigned his seat because. his own
state had elected Successor over his head the inter
est OF tins correspondence between Mr. A. and his
late coad1utor IN the Senate may he conceived with
out our stating 1t. Suf it TO say that the whole
question of the Embargo, and of the eypedency of
suspentilng repeating substituting it, is fully dis
cusscd III tn m, and that it Is obvious, to any one
VINO remembers the history of the times, has read
Err. GiLEs's own account OF tlenl that the whole
course OF Mr. GILES regulated by these letters of
MIR. ADAMS, of which Mr. GILES can find no trace in
ms memory, nor, still more surprising, in his bureau
81 distant correspondent has requested US to re-
publish the following from the Martinsburg Gazette;
and we do it with pleasure which we think will be
shared by the reader.
coaMuNIcAT!oN
Look out OF your doorake notice OF that VIA,
uiquetns mfgun and shifting, he is content 80 through,
merely to be thought of PLATO dealing. Three grains of
honesty wold save him all this troubcAas! he has
IN the last Enquirer, its Editors, in long and labor
ed article, under the head of a REVIEW OF THE
PASI, have attempted to explain, at least to pal
late the tcrglversatlons and Inconsistencies of their
course III relation the candidates for the Presidency
with the hope of shielding themselves from the con-
tempt and Indignation, which beginning to mani
fest themselves IL the most uncguivOcal and alarming
manner from one end of the Old Dominion to the
other.
They have been pleased to refer particularly 10 the
'rnknd cuts they have received from King George
from King and Queen from Louisa and from Jcftt.r-
Let them not tatter themselves that the same
sentiments have not been felt aud expressed in the
other counties of the state. What is known to be
false and counterfeit will be equally despised and re-
jected every where.
The Editors, III trcpiiaton at these omnous "sirrls
OF the tines labor strenuously TO show, that they are
not r@;y, Te7'y incOnsistent-so utterly base as
trcir own printed s. scements show them to be.
The particular attention OF the public is invited to
this Review Of the Past in the Enquirer of the
29th Nov. 1t is carefully written article and worth
Che patient study of those who wish form correct
estimate of that widely circulated influential and ce-
Icbratcd print.
their conduct 'enould i'll charity have rccOected that
Gen Jackson is not responsible for the acts of his sup
portCrsthat cause may be very excellent, tilortrh
Supported by very miserable ad:ocates' &C. Now
there is hnmciy proverb, whey "a man is known
by the company lie keeps, and although Gen. Jack
certainly is not responsible for ali the bascness and
tlschood enlisted, IN his support, yet the supposed
fact TINT such qualities arrayed to sustain his
goes lar TO show that the itself none Of the
best.
The Editors say, 'Wo would respectfully ask these
gentlemen, whether they expect to convict us OF in
consistency III prcferring Jackson to Adams no,o Ivy
showing that we formcry preferred another to both Of
them And yet this is exactly the state of the qucs-
Gpn. Whotevcr terms Of disqualification were APP
Piled TO Gen. Jackson to Mr.. Adams in the last
election were predcated of them in conspctjoe with
Dir. Crawford, who fret, our last our ONLY
choice
Then It seeIns. that what WIS thcn assnrted h thn