Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Mass.) 1828-1830, 1829-02-17

~ ~ ie'ter OF twenty-tour printed pages.
lie denies their right to ask any ones
IONS, upon the subject matter of their let
Yer, except whether the interrocator was
himself one of the persons intended BY
me, and informs them that if they or
elmer Of them had thought proper to ask
MN this question, il would have been
more satisfactory to him to receive the
inquiry separately from each individual"
lie objects also that they make their in
curry, not IN their names alone, but as the
representatives of great and powerful
party, IN which character he cannot re-
Ecoghize them, for two reasons, LIST be-
cause they have produced no credentials.
and "a because their introduction of that
party is entirely gratuitous. as he did not
speak OF the federal party, but Of g certain
leaders of that parry"
re objects to naming the persons inn
plicated in his charge, on the ground
that he has " no evidence against them
by which the charge is proveabIe in a
court OF law, and that he as well as them
selves. is : amenable to the laws of the
land" He asks if s'the persons so named
1ifssguil'y, would furnish the evidence
against themselves, which they have been
notified that ! do not possess I" Sand
nave You any guaranty to offer, that
should not be called by summons
more imperative than yours, to produce
IN the temple of justice the proof, which
you say have not, or be branded for a
foul and malignant sanderer of spotless
and prosecuted virtue - For these and
other reasons, which he says appear to
him so forcible that he is surprised that
they escaped their observation, he de-
cllnes naming the persons implicated in his
charge, or producing the egidence which
though perfectly satisfactory to his mind,
=" was adequate in court oflaw neither
to the conviction fthe guilty, nor to the
justification ofthe accuser, and SO explic-
lily pronounced by myself"
He thus declines giving any satisfac-
ton on the points of inquiry addressed to
INN, but he proceeds to recapitulate with
additional circumstances the original
charge, and closes his letter by saying
that it is not improbable that at some fu-
ture day he may Disclose the evidence
which he does possess, but the selection
OF that day must be at his own judgment
and it may not be in his life time. He
declines any further joint correspondence
but says that he will answer either O
them, speaking for himself, upon any ques
ton which he may justly deem necessa
Try, for the vindication of his own reputa
ton.
This letter is followed by an appeal tt
the citizens Of the United States, signed
by all the gentlemen who signed the let
ter to Mr.. Adams. After some remark.
on the reasonableness of requiring spe
cification of the parties aud the opiduIcr
that the innocent might suffer with the
guilty, if any such there were, and tina
/ it might be seen whether the evidence
which Mr.. Adams had pronounced salts
factory to himself, would be alike salts
factory to impartial, upright, and honoura
BILE men, they proceed to remark upon thu
reasons which he assigns for refusing tt
answer. On this head they express thei
conviction, that if these reasons shoulC
f prove unsatisfactory, the publick will joir
them in the belief, that he refuses becaus,
, he has no evidence which will bear TO b,
submitted to an impartial and intelligen
/ community.
They proceed to remark upon the othe
parts of Mr.. Ada7ns's letter, which W
have not room to refer to particularly
upon the project which he says was form
: ed in the winter of 1922 4, 10 form
, Nortbern cor c-4oracy, as a consequence,
oc nc acquisition OF Louisiana, and i
the key to all the great movements o
these leaders of the federal party in New
England, from that time forward, till it
. final catastrophe in the Hartford Conven
! tion." They solemnly disavow al
knowledge OF such project, and all re
membrance of mention of it, or of AM
/ plan analogous to it, at that or any subse
, quent period They argue from com
parison of dates, and circumstances
founded on his own admissions, that what
ever may be the evidence he possesses, i
cannot apply TO any man who acted, or tc
the measures adopted, in Massachusetts
at and posteriour to the time of the EN-
bargo-and that the project, $50 far as it ap-
plies to those men and measures, and prob
ably altogether, existed only in the distem-
pered fancy of Mr.. Adams" They avert
to the circumstances tending to embitter
his feelings, and to warp his judgment at
the time he seeded from the federal par
ty and made his disclosure to Mr.. Jelfer-
son-to the character of the measures OF
the federal party, at the time of the en-
barge and of the war-and to the circum-
stances, character, objects and measures
of the Hartford Convention. They re-
mark on the comparative tone of the
measures of Massachusetts, and those of
other States, in opposition to measures
deemed oppressive of the general govern
ment. and the different standard by which