Literary cadet and Rhode-Island statesman. [volume] (Providence, R.I.) 1827-1829, 1828-11-15

reColecti0n OF Tue aCtuei EXISTENCE " W.T." ie'-
tors, than l had 1T HE moment oi making tile
rou'arks; set, asihey are non asserted. accom-
panied with specialization OF dates, ! mall, for
Tie present. yield an admission 10 their exis-
| lunre; and US Mr.. Ad ms refuses tl.eT publi-
cation. I shall present 10 the public The best
conjectures IN my power, respecting their P,ob-
able contents"
Ssch is the apology Of William b. Giles. Gov
ernor Of Virginia. the slanderrr Of our present
Chef Magistrate, after having roundly asserted
in the public ne Newspapers. that he never had
any correspondence with MI. Adams. II will
be remembered thai most Of the tales which
hav> been published respecting Mr.. Adams, TO
influence line minds OF the people ag,'nst him,
have como under The hand Of this same man
Washington Telegraph, excepting, However,
Mr.. Jonathan Russell, and the letter from Cen
cral Jackson to Carter Beverly, charging Mr..
Adans,and Mr.. Clay with corruption, aud af-
forwards appealing to Mr.. Buchanan as a wit
ness. to prove il.
What must posteri'y think, when il shall be
found on record that one of our fret statesmen.
who for nearly thirty years had served his coun-
Try faithfully. in every capacity aud station to
which he was called and appointed, and that
too, in a manner which elected the thanks AND
encomiunis of his tountrymen for his idelity-
when they shall read that, while officiating in
the highest capacity which the nation could
impose upon him, he was ussailed, abused,
sIandered, vlllifcd aud illuminated, and final
ly rejected by his countrymen, as one unwor-
thy their confidence, while those who have
done all this, are at last compelled TO shelter
themselves from the Indignation of an insul:ed
people, by telling them that their memory had
failed them, and that they were miStaken'-
such was the excuse of Jonathan Russell, when
he published his Janus ia ced' duplicate, abus-
ing Mr.. Adams. Such was the apology Of AN
DREW JACKSON, when by his "fre side" he
drew up and sent TO Carter Beverly his letter,
charging Mr.. Adams aud Mr.. Clay with "Bar-
gain" He was "~mistaken," when he found
that his own v itnesses, Buchanan and Mark
Icy, utterly denied their knowledge of the fact,
and expressed their belief that none such exist
ed. Such was-we were about to say, the de-
fence OF Duff Greene and Russell jarvis, but no!
The endless and innumerable host Of falsehoods
which they have manufa cturcd and vended
throughout the country, respecting Messrs. Ad-
ans and Clay, will never admit, even in their
estimation, an apology Of this kind, IF they
possess the slightest glimmering Of sense and
reason, they will not attempt a palliation, but
set Down by their hard earned acquisitions, Of
being indeliibiy recorded as Infamous libellers.
William b. Giles al last is found on this wretch.
ed catalogue, whose "memory" has failed him
and who finds himself mistaken, now that the
poison Of his shat; has taken effect beyond The
reach Of cure.
Is this all the retribution an injured man and
a still more injured people, are to have from
the hands Of those who have done them wrong!
1t has been sand that "republics arc ungrate-
full but search history and you will not find
an instance OF iugratitude which calls more
loudly upon the justice Of people for redress.
That people will not be silent. they will yet
rise in their sovereign majority and deal out
tho full measure Of just lice that is due to the
oppressor and the oppressed, and we have rea-
son to hope and believe that the day is not dis
tant in which it will be accomplished.