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HiJ MACON
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Volume 3t.
SATVUDAY EVEWI.VG, MARCH 1, \»29.
XuvwbuV IQ,
Z\Z p.pF.H IS PUIU.ISBF.D ANIi EDITED BY
IHYHON BARTLETT.
„ is j s ,„ e ,l weekly from Ins Printing Office on
lulkmi street, a few rods above the Post Office.
three DOLLARS a year, if paid in advance—
hollars, if not paid before the end of the
Lr Subscribers living at a distance are requir-
d in all cases to pay in advance.
merchant TA11.0us,
a nr now opening at the Mitron Clothing Store, a
A large assortment of GOODS and CLOTHING,
0 Suner blue, black, brown, olive, clnret. drab and
",, on a„n Cloths', super blue, black, brown, claret,
\t drab, bulf and while London C'nlimeres; super
Hue' black. brown,olive, drab and green silk Velvets;
5 (leuclul assortment of Velvet Vesting and Valencia
i bulf and white Merseilles do; Boudard’s super
i'i'i'k Gloves; Castor do; white do; Buckskin do;
L ied duJ German, bandanna and (lag Handkerchiefs;
talisiiIndiaaud plaid Cravats; white do; Battistedo;
(,.•.11110 mid Freucli Stocks; .Stiffeners; Vest and
1. ,ta|.nins -prings; white and black silk Hose;
, .irri and cotton half hose do; silk Umbrellas;
.jib's patent silk and common Suspenders; Bergen-
thirts; white and brown shirting; Paddings; cot-
on Flannel; Sattinett; Buttons; sewing Silk and all
limb ol Tailor’s Triminings; Military Trimmings;
„,l(i and silver Epaulettes; Stars; Tassels; Cord;
Plates; lace; eagle and ball Bullons; worsted
sings: red top Plumes. &c. iVc. The above goods
ire o! the best quality and w ill he sold low.
READY made clothing.
oprr blue, brown, olive, mist, claret Frock COATS
,1 « “ “ “ Ure>-s do
<• <• •• COATTKES
PANTALOONS
do
JAMES A. REAJVYOdY,
OH THE CORNER BELOW THE DRUO STOLE OK ELLIS, SHOT-
WELL & CO. MULBERRT STREET. MACON, OEOROU,
C 1A8II 1)E AI.ER in the following descriptions of
/ GOODS' via:
GROCERIES, HATS,
STAPLE DRY GOODS, BONNETS,
SHOES, CROCKERY,
BOOTS, HARDWARE,
SADDLERY, . CUTLERY.
Thankful for past favors, begs' leave to inform his
friends and the public, that he has just received and
now ofTere for sale, at the lowest market prices, a gen
eral assortment of the above articles, together with a
few FANCY DRY GOODS, which with those previ-
onsly on hand, makes his stock large and the assort
ment very complete.
Feeling the utmost confidence inbeingable to supply
his customers with Goods at ns low prices asthey can be
bought in the market, and to make it to the interest
of planters and merchants in this section of the coun
try, who buy for cash, to make their purchases here,
instead of going farther. He respectfully solicits their
calls as well as those of the citizens of Macon, and
confidently expects a liberal share of business.
On hand a large supply of Liverpool ground and St.
dies SALT. October 6-42
THS RECESS.
Lord, Hangup. Beverctt.nnd Satinett
A.a, striped and figured silk velvet VESTS
end Casimerc do
Plain. Florentine and striped do
Fancy silk do Valencia nnd Merseilles d.
Pine Linen and Cotton Shi.-ls
Bleached and unbleached Shirts
Short Jackets and Trousers
Pea Jackets and Monkey do
liver Coals and Great Coals
Fine Flannel and Colton Drawers
Cotton riaunel and Swansdonn do
[DO Gentlemen and l adies' Camblet and Plaid
CLOAKS, &c. &c.
TAILORING,
Carried on as usual in ull its various branches, Hnv-
ngtlie latest New York Fnshiohs.ancl the bestofwoik-
ni>n, our work shall not he inferior to any. We soli-
lit the patronage of our former fvieuds and the public
rcnemlly.
N. II. On hand nn elegant one horse BABOUCH
AKiil.VGE and one horse‘WAGGON, which will
Vsuld low for Cash—also, a SIDE BOARD.
Macon, Oclober 23,1828. *
JVEW GOOES.
HU.yGEIIFORDS (f STODDARD,
H AVE received their Fall and Winter supply and
now offer for sale a general assortment of sen-
~ tumble DRY GOODS, &c. Hie following in part:
llaffle, rose and point Blankets; fine blue, black
Isml olive Cloths; blue and steel mist Satinets; white,
■green and red Flaupels; Salisbury Flannel; Bomba-
lames and Bombnzeties. Also, n very gene’ll assort-
|anont of fashionable FANCY GOODS) Silks; Mus-
llias; iaujes; Ribbons. Leghorn Bonnets; sheHCombs;
lit Are. Gentlemen’s Plaid and camlet Cloaks, La-
|4its’ Plaid and camlet Cloaks.
Fine blue and olive Frock Conts
“ M •• Dress Coats
•* slcel mist and olive Coattecs
*• cloth aud satinet Pantaloons
Rilk velvet und Valentin Vests; 200 conrse wool-
Ilea Jackets and Pantalooiis; 6 cases Beaver ami cus-
I tor Hats; teases boys’ Beaver and castor Hats; 6
I asses men’s and boys’ wool Hats; L r > cases and trunks
I times, ail qiiulities; 2 cases fine Boots; 4 cases cotton
I »nd wool Cards: I •)*) side* sole andblack upper I math-
1 er; I dozen calf Skins; Morocco nnd lining Skins,ns-
|K,u”d colors; 3cases men’s and women’s Saddles;
|6li"M .'tpnnisii Sugars; 10casks Goshen Cheese. Al-
■So an assortment of Hardware and Crockery; 500 lbs.
I urn Feathers; Almanacs for 1829, by the gross.
November 24 47
NI!W GOODS.
P. JVDSON (f CO.
H AVE just received and are now opening at the
New Clothing Store and Hat Ware Home, on
Mulberry street, Macon, a superb assortment of CLO
THING and HATS, consisting in part of
Super blue, black, brown, olive, claret, green and
mist Dress Coats, Trock Coats and Coatees
Steel mist and drab OverCoats
“ “ Great Coats s
Short Jackets and Pea Jackets
Super blue, black, drab, blue and black mitt double
milled Cossimere and Cloth Pantaloons
Sattinett nnd Beaverctt Pantaloons
Drab, brown and narrow curd do
Green nnd olive narrow cord do
Super blue, black, drab and mist Cloth and Cassimere
Vests
Plain, striped and cut bine nnd black silk velvet Vests
Black and fancy silk Vests
A variety of Florentine, Valentin and MerseillesVests
Plain and ruffle fine Linen Shirts
“ “ “ Cotton do
Blenched nnd unbleached do do
Fine Flannel and Cotton Drawers
15D Geiitlemen'sand Ladies’ Camblet and Ptnid Cloaks
A variety Hoseiry.Handkercbiefs.Cravats.siispenders
gloves, stockc, stiffeners, springs for vests, &c. Ate.
J MATS.
An estensive asortment of fashionable
Black and Drab Beaver Hats
Fine and coarse Castor Hats
Fine and common Koram Hats
A general assortment of Youths' and
Children’s Hats, Wool Hats
Men's fur and hair Seal Caps; Men’s Cloth Caps
Children’s Chinchello, Cloth and hair Seal Cans, &c.
&c. All of which are offered at redbeed prices
for Cash.
By A liberal price in Cash will be paid for Beaver,
Otter and Mink Furs. Nov 17
J. VUttttMAK & CO.
|TrT> \ V; just received by Boat Velocity, her entire
14T_i caign, consisting ol the following articles, viz t
, G blids. Moiasscs 2') bills. Flour
lb do sugar 1200b lbs. Swede’s Iron
3u bags Coffee 4000 do Grindstones
I V-', bbls. Whiskey, Gin 8 half bbls. first qual-
«ud Rum ity Beef
80 bbls Irish Potatoes 3 tubs Goshen Butter
Aud in store a general assortment of
D Y GOODS, HARD WARE, HATS
liU-IKS, SADDLERY, castings, crockery, &c.
I■which they ullVr to their friends and customers at re
Muted prices. tf 5 Macon, Jan. 30,1829.
'i fjN Ubds and 251ihls. St Croix Sugar, lump and
J ® Mr loaf Sugar, 40 hbls Coffee, 30 bbls Whiskey,
IV* d,>. Morgan's Gin, 10 do. new Rum, 4th prool'Jamal-
lea Hum, doCognac Brandy,Holland Gin—Port,Tene-
li. iV““ Br y. * n d malnga Wines—Lamps,and lampOil,
I* bbls apple Vinegar, 100 ps. cotton Bagging—5 tons
l!!''* l c “ , *lron, one bundle German steel, 60 kegs cut
IRails, ]lOdo. Brads, 5kegs wrought Nails,SO kegi Du-
IPont Powder, Shot and Lead, Quotes bar 8oap, 3 do.
■ sperm Candlts—Ginger, Pepper, Spice, Nutmegs, *
I j S' 1 , English Mustard, 40,000Spanish Segars, 10,1
I do ’” - ‘ kegsand Shotas Tobacco.
I l he above goods, together with our former stock,
■•emprises a general assortment, and will ba sold
|Weap for cash or approved paper. '
lIUNGERFOltDH & STODDARD.
GARDEN SEEDS.
received at the store of ELLIS, SHOT*
V "ELL & Co. a large assortment of Shaker Gar
“ * **•*» °f a superior quality. Among tlicm are
Early June Peas
. jyiiite Marrowfat do
tarty Charlton do
1 S tr *wberry dwarf do
I i:' v ? rf Marrowfat do
I ,, H . : f le d cy’d Beans
tV ‘''I* L'ranberry pole do
[ Jwd Union
'vhi| e do
Blood Beet
I * allow do
Early Turnip d»
11arsHip
I Orange Carrot
1 Early Migur Com
{«' s
|«i”.rtet Radish
|I u 1 rn ‘[‘ do
*»'tnon do
Itur.y Cucumber
Long Cucumber
Prickly do
Dutch summer Squash
Crookneck do
Winter do
Icebead Lettuce
Imperial do
Cabbage bead do
8olid Celery
Curled Parsley
Sage
Asparagus
Leek
Flat Turnip
Squash Pepper
Vegetable Oyster
English Sorrel
Git ASS SEEDS.
White Clover
Herds Grass
Lucerne .
Millet
4 - jan 17
Dvugs, Medicines, &.c.
^ General Assortment of well selected
| and Genuine DRUGS and MEDICINES,
EbwT yitli Instruments of various kinds, suitable
I° r Physicians, Families or Retailers—
I '“I received and for sale al Savannah or
Augusta prices, by
., ELLIS. SHOTWELL A Co.
Ur «® * ,oe . k ol PaibH. Dlls, Glass, Dye
^ - « Dye-.toffs. Nails, ’fitht, h'aiUuas,,X<
twtfcvv* Jtlyd
The following stanzas originally appeared in the
Columbian Ceutinet in 1793, end were tent “to a beau
tiful young lady, upon hearing her etpressa wish to
Ascend in Blanchard’s Balloon,”
Forbear sweet girl; your scheme forego,
And thus our ansious (roubles end;
That you can mount full well we know,
But greatly fear you’ll no! dttctndl
When angels tee a mortal rise,
So beautiful, divine and fair.
They'll not dismiss you from the skies,
But keep their sister angel there.
These lines were attributed to Mrs. Morton, the wife
of the present Attorney General of Massachusetts.
RohertTreat Paine, jr. culled her the American Saphn,
and wrote In reply the following, which was publish'
edio the same paper.
True, geutle bard, should lovely Grace-
On teronaulie pinions rise,
Angei’s would own their “sister's” face
Thrice welcome to her native skies.
But conscious, should the nymph remain
Knrth’a loud laments would rend their ears,
They’d send the heroine down again.
To soothe and bless a world inteare.
WEARIE’S WELL.
»V WILMA. MOTHERWELL,
Author % “ Minstrelsy Am tint and Modern.
In a salt simmer glnnmin, in you donriedell,
It was there we twa first met by Wearie’s canid well,
We sat on tlie brume bank and looked in the bum,
But sidelung we luoked on ilk ither in turn.
The coru-craik was chirping his sad eerie cry,
And the wee stars were dreaming their path through
the sky,
The burn babbled freely its luve to each Sower,
Butweheard and we saw nought in that blessed hour.
We beard ami we saw nought above or around;
We tell that our luve lived, and loathed idle sound.
1 gazed on your sweet face till tears filled mine u’e,
And they drapt on your wee loof—a world’s wealth to
me !
Now the winter snaw’if.i’ing on bare holm and lea;
And the cnuld wind is strippin' ilk Ieafaff the tree,
But’thu suaw fa’s not faster, the leaf disna pa t
Sae suae tree the bough, as noth fades in your heart.
Ye’ve waled out anitber your bridegroom to be;
But canbis heart lave sae asinine luvitthee!
Ye’ll gel biggiugs ao I manias, and monie braw claes;
But they a’ wiuiia buy back the peace o’ past days.
Farewell, and for ever; my first love and last;
May thy joys lie to come, mine live iu the past.
In sorrow aud saduees. this hour fa’s on me;
But light, as thy love, nipy it fleet over tine.
intercourse for the embargo arose fioni the im
minent duuger, that the coutiauiuce nnd en
forcement of tins Inner measure would promote
die views of those leaders, by goading a major*
ity of the people and of the legislature to the
pitch of physical resistance, by State authority,
against the execu.ion of the laws of the Union,
the only efl’ecm.tl means by which the Union
could be dissolved.—Your modesty has promp
ted you te disclaim the character of leaders of
the lederal party at that lime. If I am to con
sider this as more than a mere disavowal of
form, I must say ibal the charge, which I la
ment to see has excited so much of your sens
ibility; had no reference to any of you.
Y»ur avowed object is controversy; You
FK’’ H!' subscribers having formed a connexion in
business will continue tbe
SADDLE 4* HARNESS MAKING
in nil its viiriout branches, at the old stand of O. Sage,
Mulberry street. They h^ve just received an addi
tional supply of
GOODS,
which makes their assortment complete
Conch Makers and Saddlers can be supplied with
all kinds of HARDWARE and SADDLERY at the
lowest wholesale prices for Cash. All orders thank
fully received and promptly attended to. Gigs and
Carriages lined on the must reasonable terms.
OLIVER SAGE.
WILLIS T. SAGE.
February 14,1829 3t 7 .
GivlETlM & WELCH.
’ ON CHERRY STREET,
Have just received, per boats Monroe and Ariel,
6 Hhds St Croix Sugar
. 6 do Orleans da
2ft bags Coffee
10(1 bbls Whiskey 1
50 bbls N Gin
10 do Portland Ituet
So do Potatoes
5 hhds Molasses
6 bbls old Peach Brandy
5 do old Apple Brandy
40 kegs Nails
75 pieces Cotton Bagging
10,000 lbs Swede’s IRON, from 11-4 to 8 Inches wide
150 bbls FLOUR, direct from Baltimore, of a su|
CORRESPONDENCE.
^Continued.]
. a. i lisp ...:• M.i,.i.-.i . ., cs -‘.ill
tending to the same result, there is an
evidence against which mere denial, however
solemn, can scarcely claim the credence nvoii
of the charity tint beliovetli all things.
Let me add that the sta-emeut auihor-zed bf
me, as published ill the National Intelligencer;
was made, not only without the intontion. hut
without the most dismut imagination of ofietid*
ing yon, or of injuring any and of j ou. Rut;
on the contrary, forilte purpose of expressly
disavowing a charge, which was before the pub*
lie, sanctioned with the name of the late Mr.
Jefferson, imputing to certain citizens of Mass-tA.
ebusetts treasonable negotiations with the Brit*
ish Government during the w tr, nnd expressly
call fdr a precise state of facts and evidence; stating that he had received information of this
not affecting go far as you know any ouo of from mo. On the publication of this letter, I
fai ‘
rlor quality, which they will sell low for
i-UN HAND—
isupe-
cash.
300 bushels Liverpool SALT
100 bbls Monongaheta Whiskey, 8th and
0th proof
e Holli
1 pipe Holland GIN.
jan 17
JUST RECEIVED,
Per Red Rover, Emetine and other late arrival*
2 Hhds. New Orleans Moluiea
2 * prime Sugar
20 bbls. Whiskey
30 •• N. Gin
20 bags Coffee
10 boxes Spermacetti Candles,
warranted pure
8 boxes mould Candles
a For sale by JAMES M. MILNER.
* —IN STORE—
Cnnal Flour, Potatoes, Mess Pork
No. 1,2, and 3, Mackerel, Jamaica Rum
Macon, 5/A February. 1829. tf 6
VRfcStt F\aOVR.
Just Iter eieed per I lagan,
te FLO
OUR
m gm BBLS. sweet Tennessee t
J A For sale by JAMES M. MILNER.
February 6,1829.tf 6
MERCER'S CLUSTERS
AND
METHODIST HYMNS,
J UST received and for sale b;
HUNGERFORDS J
December 1
STODDARD.
1
ON CONSIGNMENT.
J UST received and for sale at uuusual low prices
for Cash,
60 barrels Whiskey
20 •• Gin
for Cash,
49 barrels St Croix Sucnr
2 hhds “ •• “Y
2 “ New Orleans V.
6 barrets “ 11 “
19 hhds Whiskey
Macon, DecemberZllh, lt*28
Molasses
» bags
17 hhds
A. GILLI8 & CO.
62
Beaver aiu\ Otler Furs Wauled.
tf t'tHf highest market prides will begivea in Cash
for the above FUR.-. Applylo
JA' - 8 J*. HUsNkk, dadiM Start.
* mm
MR. ADAMS’ REPLY i'O PRECEDING
LE 1 I’EK.
Washington, JOai Dec. 1823.
Messrs. II. G. O la. iul i uuiadike, T. tl
tiikins, Wiu. Prescott, tiabiel Suigem
Jouu Lowell, Win. SutiiVun, Gh'as. Jackson,
W.iiieil Duiion, Bt-tij. Aickuian, Henry Ca
bot, C. ParsJiis, atm Jfraukiiu Duxiei—
Gentlemen, •
1 have received your letter of the 261I1 ult,
aim recogu.z.ug among he sigudtures to it
Uaiiius ot po sous for whom a long and ou tuy
part umnterrupteu fneudsinp, has survived all
the billet ness ut political dissension, it wouiu
have affurdod me pleasure to answer will; ex
plicitness aud candor uot only those persuus,
but each aud every one ot'you, upon (lie only
questions m roUtiuu o the subject ju-nter of
your teller, winch us men or us citiz- ns 1 cun
acknowledge your rtglu to ask; namely wlteifc-
er Uju interrogator Was limiself one ol ihepe
sous, imendud by mu in the ex raci which you
have given, from a statement authorized by mu
uuii'ptiblislied iu the NaUuual luiulligeucur of
21st ui October last.
Had you or miner of you thought proper to
ask me tins question, it would have been mure
sdiislaciory to me to receive the inquiry >epa*
rately fiurn . ach individual, than arrayed in
solid phalanx, each responsible uot only foi
himself bu. lor all the others. The reasons lor
this must be so ohvtuUs to persuus of your in
telligence, tli.it i trust you will spare me (ho
pum of detailing them.
But, (semiutnen, this is not all. You under*
lake your uiquisiuuu; not in your own names
alune; but as the representatives of a great und
powerful party dispersed throughout (ho States
of Massachusetts uuu Maine i A party com
manding, ut the (into to winch your iiiqun.ea
re let, u devoted majority in the Legislature
of the theu Uuiti-d Commonwealth; and even,
now, if judged of by (he character of it* volun
teer delegation, of great influence aud respect
ability.
i cannot recognize you, oil this occasion, as
the representative of ihat party, for two rea-
8.m»—fiist, because you have neither produc
ed your credentials for present mg yourselves us
their champions, nor assigned satisfactory rea
sons for presenting yourselves without them.
But secondly, und chiefly, because your intro
duction of that party into this questiuu is en
tirely gratui ous, Yoursoleran declaration that
you do not kuuw that the federal or tiny other
party, at the time to which my statement refers,
intended te produce the dissolution of the Un
ion, and the formation of a new confederacy,
does nut take the issuo, which your own state
ment of my charge (us you are pleased to con
sider it) had tended. The statement authoriz
ed by me, spoke, not of tho federal party, but
of certain uOilert of that party. In my own
letters to the Mcmbors of Congress, who did
me the honor nt that agonizing crisis to our
National Union, of soliciting my confidential it*
pinions upon measures tinder deliberation, 1
expressly acquitted the great body of the feder
al party, not only of participating to the secret
designs of those leaders, but even of being pri
vy to of believing in their existence. I now
cheerfully repeat that declaration.—I well know
that the party were not prepared for that con
vulsion, to which the measures and designs of
their leaders .veto inv.co i'me (hem ; and mv *-x- I
you, but to nimble you fairly to meet and to an
swer it.
And you demand,
1. Who are the persons designated as lead
ers of tho parry prevailing iu Massachusetts in
the yeai 1808, whose object l assert wc.», and
had been for severtilyears, a dissolution of (he
Uiiiiui, and the establishment of a scp.iritecoli-
fmlerucyt aud
2-i. The wlinlo evidence, on which that
. barge is founded.
You observe that it is admitted in the state-
mem of tfte charge, that it is not provonblo m a
court of law, and your inference is, that I mn of
course not in possession of any legal evidence,
by which to m imtiiin it. Ym you call upon
me to name the persons affected by the charge:
a charge hi your estimae deeply stigmatizing
upon i hose p rsoas ; and you permit yourselves
to remind me, that my sense of justice and nlf.
retpu t oblige me to disclose all that 1 do pos
sess. My sense ofjustire to you, gentlemen,
induces me to remark, that I leave your self-
res pec. io the moral influences of your own
niiud, without prosntmng to measure it by the
dictation of mine.
Suppose, then, <hat in compliance with your
calls, I should name one, two, or three persons
as intended to be included in the charge. Sup
pose neither of diose permits to be one of yon.
You, however, have given them notice that I
have uo evidt uce against them, by which the
charge .s proveable in a court of law—md you
know dial I, as well yourself am amenable >o
the lawsofihe tail . Does your self-respeci
convince you that the persons so named,ifguil-
y would furnish the evidence against them
selves which th. v have been notified that I do
uot possess ? Are you sure mat the correspon
dence winch would prove their guilt, may not
iu .ho lapse ot 25 years have been committed to
tho flumes I In these days of failing and of
treacherous memories, may they not have for
got en -hat utiy such correspondence ever exist
ed ? And have you any guarantee to offer, that
I should uot be called, by a sibniuoiis mure im
perative ill.m yours, to produce in the temple
of justice the proof, winch you say I have not,
or bo branded for a foul ami malignant slander
er of spotless mid persecuted virtue t Is it not
besides - m tginable that persons may exist, who
hough 25 years since driveu to the despera
tion ol disappointment, to the meditation and
preparation • measures tending to the dissolu
tion of the Udioii, perceived afterwards tho er
rorof their ways, and would now gladly wash
oet from their own inemurius their participa
tion iu pi ejects, upou winch -lie sunup of in
delible reprobation has past 1 It is not possible
that seine of the conspirators base been called
to account before u higher than an earthly tri
bunal for ull the g jod and evil of their lives;
and whose reputation mighl now suffer need
lessly oy the disclosure of ilieir names 1 I put
.IiL-se - uses iu you, gentlemen, ns possible, to
show you that neither qty sense of justice not
my self-respect does require of me- to produce
liiu evidence for which you call, or to disclose
-he u.nuns of peisuns, foi whom you have and
can have no right io speak.
These considerations appear 'imlned to me
so liircible, that d is mn without surprise that I
am compelled to believe i hey had escaped your
observation. I ctiunoi believe of any of you
that which I am sure never entered the hearts
of some of you, that you should have selected
the presold inomeo- for die purpose of drawing
mo into a coiidoversy not only With yourselves
hut with Oihers, you know 'no whom—of dar
ing me to Hie denouncement of the names,
winch iweuty yens since 1 declined commu
ting (o <he ear of confidential friendship; mid
in the producnon of evidence which, 'hough
peilecilv satisfactory to my own m ini, and per
fectly competent for foumiat toil of honest mid
patriotic public conduct, was adequate in a court
of law neither to the cuhvictiuu of the guilty,
nor to ihu justification of the accusor, and so
explicitly pronounced by myself.
You say that you had no design nor wish to
produce an effect on any political party or ques
tion udKitevoi—nor o uuu r into a vindication
of the measures publicly adopted und avowed
by the persons against whom the above charge
has been made. But can you believe that this
subject could be discussed between you and
uie, us you propose, when culling upou me for
u statement, with the avowed iuieuiion of re
futing u t and nut produce uti effect on any po
litical pm ty or question t With regard to the
public measures of those times und the succbed-
iug, which you declare to have hud your sanc
tion and approbation it needs-no disclosure
now, that a radical aud irrecouceivahle differ
ence of opiutuB between most of yourselves
and mu existed.—-Aud can yuu suppose that iu
disclosiug names and stating facts, known per
haps only to' myself, I could consent to sopa-
rate (Item from these public measures which
you so cordially approved mid which I soduep-
lv lamented 1 Must your own defonco against
these charges forever rest exclusively upon u
solemn protestation against tho natural infer
ence from the irresistible tendency of action
io the secret intent of the actor! That a suites
man who believes in human virtue should be
slow to draw this inference sgainst such solemn
iissevtsrations, I readily admit t but for ihe reg
ulation ol the conduct ofhuman life, the rules
ofevi-teare are widely d.flureot from those
winch receive or exclude testimony iu a court
of laW.—Even
her,-, you know, that violeo
rqu.v .leu , in cases affect.ng life undertakes ilrt res ,nce, -wtr consti'Utiut ,
>lieme kiMtety for Dm) sbImuurwu at Um imu* mum, >o yomuve ymof; bur to a suscasawm el 1 both or tun Uuitml foam, aad w wxj>
leemed it indispensably duo te myself, nnd to
all the citizens of Mossnchusotts, not only to
deny having ever given such information 'hut
-ill knowledge of such a fact. And the more so
because that letter had been published) thftUgh
widioui mv knowledge, yet, I was well assur
ed, from motives of justice and khidue-s to i qe»
I. contained a declaration by Mr, Jefferson
hun-a-lf, frank,' explicit, and true, ef the ch-rac*
ter of die motives of my conduct, hi all die trans
actions of my imei course w-th him, during dirt
period of iha embargo. This was a pbmt
upon which his mcimuy could nut deceive Irm,
a piimi upon which ho iv is the best of Witness*
es; und ins testimony was. the more derisi ve
because given at a moment, as it would seem of
great excitement against me upon different views
of public policy even then in' conflict and pro
ducing groat exacerbation in his mind. The
letter contained also a narrative of a personal
interview between himself and nio in March,
J803, aud staled lh.it I had then given him m*
formation uf facts, which induced him to con
sent to the substitution of die noii-inteicou-sa
for the embargo;-md that l had npprizifd ban
of this treasonable negotiation by citizens of
Mtssuchus'Hs, -ii secede from me Union dnr-
.ng li. war, and peihaps -ejft n ’aftei ’be peace.
Now .die substitution of tho ii'in-jftierconrse for
the embargo took place twelve months 'ifmr
ibis interview, ind ,it a succeed ill a »* ssmuof
Congress, when 1 was not (*v<m a member of
that body. Tlie'neaoliaiion for seced'ug f-dn»
tiiu Union w.m i view io rejoin it iferw-ods,
if a ever <'X.s.ed, mini h ive been du -og dirt
war. I -tad no kQ >w!edgc of such negorihtiort,
or ove.i of such a design. I could therefore
have given ou such mfo mition.
Bu, in giving mi unqo dified. denial to this
statement of Mr. Jefferson, utidift showing »li.;t
upon the face of the letter itself it could, h'd •><'
correct, it was due to hint to show, that -he
miss-statement on his part was-not intent ’•'m-d j
that it arose from an infirmity of mommy, vvii all
ilie letter itself candidly acknowledge-', 'i it
founded together iu one iudistinr ini“. ■•»>' ’•*
formation which 1 had given lion in M Ch
1808, wuh the purport of confidon I'll
which I hud written to his and ray f- - <• *
Congress n year after, and wldi events,, r jeefo*
und perhaps mere suspicions, natural i.ijqm’h;
as consequences of the preceding tim-'-'v bW
which occurred, if at all, from three m *ii
years, later, and of which he could not h jve
hud information from me. Tho simple IV-ct
of Which I apprised Mr, Jefferson was, dial,
in the summer of 1807, about tho time ot
what was sometimes called the affair of tho
Leopard aud Chesapeake, I had seen u lottef
from the Govornor of Nova Scotia to a person
in Massachusetts, affirming that the British Gov
ernment had certuin information of a plan by
that of France, to conquer tho British posses*
sions and affect a revolution in tho United
Suites, by means of a war between them and
Great Britain. As the United States and
Groat Britain wore . in l8t)7 at peace, a cor*
respondence with tho Governor of Nova Sm-
da, held by any citizen of 'lie United Stains,
imported no violation ol law; nur could tint
correspondent be responsiblo for any tiling
winch the governor might .writo. But my in*
furcuces from this fact Wore, that there existed
between the British government und the party
opposed in M euachusolts to Mr. Jefferson, a
channel of communication tluougii the Govern
or of .Nova Scotia, which he was exercising to
inti une their hatred against Franco anil their
jealotisiiflxs against their own government.—<
The leitei was not to any leader of the Federal
party; Ifoi I had no doubt it hud been shown
to some of .iicm, ash hud lireii to me, wi’hout
injunction io sreresv; und »s I supposed, with
a view io convince me th -t this conspiracy be
tween N pohnln and Mr. Jefiersmt really exist*
eil. ' How that channel olV.inlmunicntion m : ehi
be lunlier used, was nkiip-r,.f conjecture; fu
tile mission of Mr.-Johu H“ncy w is nine men lis
alter my interview w. lt M . J< ffi ;Min, .jnd.p-v-
ciseety at the limit when I wis wii'ing in mv.
f. ieudsin Congress the letter urging the sul>«:-i
tntion of the nonimercoiirsq for - lie erttbdrgo.—
Of Mr. Heuray’s itiission I knew nothing -H it
was disclosed by himself in 1812.
It was in theso letters of 1803 and 1809, tlr-t
I mentioned the design of certain leodert of tini
federal party tocficcta dissolution of'jie Uni.'..,
and tho establishment of a Noriherti Coufedo-
oracy. This design had been fo.iued iu tho
winter of 1803 and 4, immediately alter, and -s
a cousequt'tice of the ncquiiiiinn of Lnni'i-iin.
Iisjustilymg causes to those who entertained it
were that ilto aunexation of LdUisinti ■ to tin
Union transcended the constitutional powers ,.f
the government of the United Stales. Tlia'
formed in.Iact a new confederacy to which the
States, united by the former compact, were not
hound to adhere. That it was oppressive to
the interests and destrnctiVo to the influence nt
the Northern section of the confederacy, whore
right and duty it therefore was to secede from
‘the new Dody.politic, and tp constitute one i-f
their own. This plan was so furnlatureH, th >.
tho proposal had been made to an iridividu >1 c
permit himself, al tho proper liiuc, to he pluci
ut the head oftlie military movemt-nis, wli-cl- t
Was forseen would be necessary for currying t
into execution. In all ibis there was on m-’-t
act of (reason, iu the abstract tlieoiy of -.r
government ihe obedience of ihe cn.zen is nut
doe to .ni uncoustiluiional law. Hem 'yl -u-
I'ully resisi ns execution. Ifas-ugle umI-yULi i
kes ili a res-s; mce.
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