Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1832-07-03
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" Will bo published as soon as access can DO
had to certain necessary documents and former
publications, and the employment in other necessa
ry matters will admit-A candid and impartial
Review Of the Life and Writings of Thos. Jeffer-
son, dec in special reference to the ..Obscrya
tions of IL. Loe"-By Ono personally well acauaint
ed with all the parties concorned-was witness to-
and participater in, some of the principal scenes
referred to in tho said Observations of Lee"
A small portion of the suppressed part of the
Preface is here published by request.
In like manner, however, / suspect it NAV M ?,
ly be said tho other hand, that MIR. Lee like some
one member in every broken firm in Trade has
| carried his fathers memory and sunken stock and
lost credit in tho great business of fame into mark
ket; and with these (now second Goblet himsclf)
offers ut auction, to the highest bidder, his own
talents as cryer or undert1rifer to any one, or
any desperate cOpartenary in politics who may
| stand in need of such indorser!
1t has been said, on the hand, he had ac
quired a new capital by immense deposits in AL
giers. To this, il is candid to own, there is no
reasonable objection, where tho wealth has not
been reclaimed. 1t is said however. on the other
hand, he is in extreme poverty and distress, and
profound obscurity in the environs of Paris, and
straitened in the means of returning his native
country. In this 1T the case, / sincerely sympa-
thise with his immediate relatives and lament that
his still worse broken fortune in character should
render the want of means of transporting his
splendid talents to that country, more a source of
q a
morality, peace and happiness! And this last des
perate effort to raise the on the ruins of so
popular Revolutionary Patriot, he NAV rest assn
, able! ''P'-
So much then, for Mr.. Les resuseitation of his
fathers dead fame. Having thus raked up his
ashes himself and mixed them with those of Mr.
Jefferson. surely he is the last who has right to
| complain of having them both equally, fairly, and
| candidly sifted, weighed, and compared, without
prejudice tialtv tn tber
Thorn both thoroughly, nearly throughout the
whole OF their lives, ample justice shall be done TO
all their splendid public services and patriotic me-
rits; and all their foibles and errors in PRINCIPLES
! and actions, Us tenderly dealt with and plead for
glyeness for, on the score of the common fralties
oil us ALL as well as on account of the eternal alb
scnce of them both-at least far as the nature of
their casos will admit. But as to Major Lee him.
SELL who has chosen TO take exact an opposite
course, he must pardon me for attempting to in.
crease the caber of his artillery, and turning
1t on his own precious SURVIVING person!
In such war, and in every thing, but the good.
ness 81 has cause, readily admit, the advanta ges
the Major has-particulary in superior skill, as
we'll as IN the great auxiliary aid and munitions
| for combat, already afforded him from Mr. Jeffer
sons own best Body Guards and too abundant H.
terary magazines! And, to drop the figure,-the
letters and and writings that the publisher of "Mr
Jefferson's Works" continues to let out, &c. &c.
| [already published.]
r. >: When the foregoing preface was Commit.
ted to the press, the author had not seen Mr. Madi
sons Letter to Speaker Stevenson, and therefore
could have had no allusion to the producing cir.
eunstdnees OF that case. He can only therefore
now add, with respect to this trumpetted letter it,
self, that if state of second childhood was ever
more completely exempifed. than in the exhaust
ed greatness of this WORKOUT politician and states
man, II his late extraordinary letters to Messrs
Cabeli and Ingerso, that state must be looked for
IN this still more extraordinary elaborate dead let
| ter, Conventional Journal" argument, or rather
webb-wrought thin-spun sophistry of this last
production, against all the plain letter common
even below the two first, in a greater degree than
the lapse of time between them brings him neare,
to his physical, well his mental end! This ex
traordinary dying effort of greatness, however, along
age, in the credit assigned to him of the author
ship of Washngton's Farewell Address, will be
more fully and particularly noticed in the course
| Of the Review.