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JAMES THOMPSON CALLENDER, 821

ty-five thousand dollars a year, with the petty parade of his birth-
day, with the importance of his name sticking in every other page
of the statute‘book. Alas! he ia not an object of envy, bat of com-
passion and of horror, With Connecticut more than half unde-
ceived, with Pennsylvania disgusted, with Virginia alarmed, with
Kentucky holding him in defiance, having renouneed all his orig-
ina] principles, and affronted all his honest frienda, he cannot enjoy
the sweet slumbers of innocence, he cannot hope to feel the most
exquisitely delightfnl sensation that ever warmed a human breast,
the consciousness of being universally and deservedly beloved.—It
is happy for Mr. Adams himself, as well aa for his country, that
he asserted an untruth. In the midst of such a scene of profligacy
and of usury the President has persisted as long as he durst, in
making his wimost efforts for provoking a French war. For al-
thongh Mr. Adams were to make a treaty with France, yet such is
the grossness of his prejudice, and so great is the violence of his
passions, that under his administration America would be in con-
stant danger of a second quarrel. When a chief magistrate, both
in his speeches and newspapers, ia constantly reviling France he
ean neither expect or desire to live long in peace with her. Take
your choice then between Adams, war and beggury, and Jefferson,
peaes and competency.”

The prisoner pleaded not guilty.

Hugh Nelson,t United States District Attorney, for the
United States.

Philip N. Nicholas? George Hay® and William Wirt," for
the prisoner.

+Nutson, Hues. 1768-1836.) Born in Virginia; Speaker
House of Delegates; Judgo General Court; Presidential elector;
Representative in Congress, 1811-1823; Minister to Spain. Died
Albermarle County, Virginia,

*Nicnotas, Putt Nowsomwze, (1773-1849.) Bom in Wil-
liamsburg; was admitted to the Bar at an early age and at 21 was
‘Attorney General of Virginia; President Farmers Bank for many
years; Judge of Virginia General Court, 1923-1849,

“Hay, Grorcs. Member Virginia Legislature; United States
Distriet ‘Attorney; United States Distriet Judge; married a daugh-
ter of President Munroe and was the author of “Treatise on the
Usury Laws,” “Life of John Thompson,” “Treatise on Expatria~
tion,” Died Richmond, Va., 1830.

TWinr, Waasait, (1772-1834.) Born Bladensburg, Md. Chan-
cellor Eastern District of Virginia, 1802; United States District
Attorney, 1816; Attorney General of the United States, 1817-1829,
Removed to Baltimore and engaged in literature; author of “The
British Spy,” “The Old Bachelor,” “Life of Patrick Henry.” Died
in Washington.

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