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836 X, AMERICAN STATE TRIALS:

President of the United States) with his (meaning the said Presi
dent) twenty-five thousand dollars a year, with the petty parade of
his (meaning the said President) birthday, with the importance of
his (meaning the said President) name sticking in every other page
of the statute book. Alas! be (meaning the said President of the
United States) is not an object of envy, but of compassion and of
horror. With Connectieut more than half undeceived, with Penn-
sylvania disgusted, with Virginia alarmed, with Kentucky holding
him (meaning the said President) in deflanes, having renounced all
his original prineiplee [meaning the said President of the United
States] and affronied all hia [meaning the said President] honest
friends, he [meaning the said President of the United States} cannot
enjoy the sweet slumbers of innocence, be [meaning the said Presi-
dent of the United States] cannot hope to feel the most exquisitely
delightfal sensation that ever warmed a human breast, the conscien-
tioumesa of being universally and deservedly beloved.*———And
also the false, scandalous, and malicious words, of the tenor and
effect following, that is to say, “It is happy for Mr. Adams himself
[meaning the said President] as well as for his [meaning the said
President] country, that he {meaning the said President of the
United States] asserted an untrath.” And also the false, scandalous,
and malicious words, of the tenor and effect following, that is to say,
“In the midst of eneh a seene of profligaey, and of usury the Prea-
dent [meaning the said President of the United States] has per
sisted as long aa he durst [meaning the said President} in making his
[meaning the said President] utmost efforts for provoking a French
war.” And also the false, seandalous, and malicious words, of the
tenor and effect following, that is to say, “For although Mr. Adams
{meaning the said President of the United States] were to make
treaty with France, yet such is the grosmess of bis [meaning the said
President] prejudice, and so great is the violence of his [meaning
tho said President] passions, that under his [meaning the said Presi-
dent's) administration, America, [meaning the United States of
America] would be in constant danger of a second quarrel.” And
also the false, scandalous, and malicious words of the tenor and
effect following, that is to say—“When a ebief magistrate [mean-
ing the said President of the United States] is, both in his [meaning
the said President] speeches, and [meaning the said President] news-
papers, constantly reviling France, he [meaning the said President]
san neither expect or desire to live long in peace with her. Take
your choice then between Adams [meaning the said President], war
and beggary, and Jefferson, pease and competency.” To the great
seandal of the President of the United States, to the evil and per-
nicious examples of all others, in the like ease offending, against
the form of the act of Congresa of the United States, in such ease
made and provided, and against the pence and diguity of the said
United States of America.

‘And the grand inquest aforesaid, upon their respective oaths do
further present, that the said James Thompson Callender, on the
said 1st dey of February, in the same year of our Lord 1800, and of

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