Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1828-08-09
From the Richmond Wing.
JUDGE PARKER.

We comply with the request OF Judge Far'
ker in publishing the subJoined explanatory lei
ter with unaffected pleasure. He has, III our
opinion, very correctly decided, that the lan>
guage ascybed TO him, was of such nature as
10 require his personal appearance in the news
papers: for we have greatly misunderstood the
former feelings, and The more recent indications
of public opinion in Virginia, il any man can
saw wha, was ascrbed TO Judge Parker at Nor
folk, and politically live.
Whether sour correspondent is mistaken" IN
what he communicated, il is not Tor US 10 de-
termine-for with absolute respect for Judge
Parker. and the truth Of whatever Judge Par
ker NAV say, il is yet more easy 10 believe that
he has forgotten wha, he did say, than that the
individuals upon whose responsibility that
communication rests-as respectable names as
any in this commonwealth-should either in.
vent declaration for him, or misrepresenl
wilfully, what he did say. i, is impossible for
us TO bslieve either Of the two alternatives, or
10 question the asseveratiOn OF Judge Parker,
that the opinion ascribed TO him was "foreign
10 his feelings, and condemned by his iudg-
ment" Whatever he may have said, his pre-
sent disclaimer of the sentiment cannot but re-
pain any injury that may have been done by
the ascription OF the sentiment to him.
LEEsBURG, July 2sth, 1928.
To Tie Editors offhe Whig.
Gentlemen: A friend has put into my hands
your paper of the Esd inst and drawn my at
tention to paragraph in which my name Is
mentioned. l had previously seen in the Ma
,ional Ineligencer of the 10Th, the charge re-
pea,ed from the Wing, that ga Judge of the
General Court had declared al Norfolk that If
Mr.. Adams was elected by the voice of the
people he would be willing 10 assist in putting
him gu. by force," and believing from the To-
cation of the story tina, was the person meant
addressed sosl iD lbs E 81
place where was then holding special court,
requesting that either they OF you, would sla'e
the name Of the Judge, and the time when, the
place where thu persons before whom, and cir
cumstances under which that declaration was
made.
Your paragraph having in part furnished
the facts l wished TO ascertain, by giving my
name as ,ha, OF the Judge who Gin public
company" uttered the obnoxious sentiment,
and Mr. Lamb Of Norfolk as the person who
heard, and repeated it, think il proper, with
on, waiting longer, to take the only notice OF
the Story which it is now in my power to take,
by addressing to you this communication.
The charge rests a, present upon the asser-
ton Of some correspondent, whose name Is not
to be communicated, that "Mr. Lamb heard
the observations ascribed to me, "or in SUBJ
stance the same" and Communicated them 10
the Reverend Richard l.. Green, who on the
Same day related them 10 your correspondent
Of high respectabihty." OF course neither
Mr.. Green nor your correspondent heard these
dec lar ations themselves, but the latter says,
that Mr. Grecn said, that Mr.. Lamb did hear
! the m, cor in substance the same" and commu>
nica,ed them TO him
With Mr. Green's responsibility and your
correspondents, have nothing TO do, but
take pleasure in stating, that both Mr.. Green
and NJ. Lamb are as respectable as any gen
,lemen in Norfolk am persuaded that Mr.
Lamb would say nothing of me, or any one
else, that he did not believe to be true, nor do
k low what be has said. But if be,4 or any
other person, seriously ascribes such declara
ton TO me as 1t contained in your correspond
ent's letter, confidently affirm tina. he is miss
tsken. The statement is so abhorren' 10 my
judgmen, and feelings, that without pretending
| to recnllect every thing may have said upon
the subject of the presidential ees ton, jesting>
ly or in the heat Of argumen,, am certain that
could no, have uttered the one attributed 10
me. have taxed my memory, to endeavor to
ascertain, what might have said at any time
or place, which could BE- tortured into such
declaration; and solemnly re-afirm that
can remember nothing which bears any resem
blance TO it. The only conversation can cal!
to mind, OF an exv i,ing C aracter, where Mr.
Lamb was present, occurred in the Bank Of
Va. several moaths before the date Of your cor
responder S letter, on the subject Of the Geor.
gia contro, ers', s the conduct Of the ,Acmin-
islra,ion in relation toit. l have pretty dis
tinct recoleo ton OF what said IN that occa-
siou, and am perfectly willing il should be pub
lished to the world; but il is so unlike the re-
marks contained in the letter, that i am at
loss 10 conjecture whether il forms the founda-
ton of The present story or not, am sure it hue
nothing stronger to support it.
Your correspondents letter is dated the An
of April, 1928 and he says that my observa.
lions were made "not long since" II he had
said, how loug since, | nigh, be able to prove
that he has reference TO SOM thing which had
taken place many months before not well IN.
derstood, or accurately reported. take this
occasion however to protest against the prac-