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eism and prejudice. If no doubt remain on this point, the ques-
tion first in order to be examined is decided. Whether there be
room for doubt, a summary review of the testimony will ascer-
tain, Can there be a doubt—when all the witnesses have con-
eurred in establishing this one point—that James Thompson
Callender corrected the proof sheets? Can there be a doubt,
when those who sold the copies of the book have all said that

tempest of malignant passions. As president he has never opened
his lips nor lifted his pen withont threatening or scolding. The
grand object of his administration has been to exasperate the rage
of contending parties, to ealuminate and destroy every man who
differs from his opinions, Mr. Adams has labored, and with melan-
eholy success, to break up the bonds of social affection, and under
the ruins of confidence and friendship, to extingnish the only beam
of happiness, that glimmers through the dark and despicable farce
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2. “The contriver of this piece had been suddenly converted, as
he said, to the presidential system, that is, to a French war, an
American navy, a large standing army, an additional load of taxes
and all other symptoms of debt and despotism.”

3. “The same system of perfection has been extended all over the
continent, every person holding an office must either quit it, or think
and vote exactly with Mr. Adams.”

4. “Adams and Washington have since been shaping a series of
these paper-jobbers into judges and ambassadors, As their whole
eourage lies in want of shame; these poltroons without risking a
manly and intelligible defense of their own messures, raise an
affected yelp against the corruption of the French Directory, as if
any corruption could be more yenal, more notorious, more execral
than their own.”

5. "The object with Mr. Adams was to recommend a French war,
for the sake of supporting American commerce, but in reality for
ths sake of yoking us into an alliance with the British tyrant.”

6. "While such members of the effective agents of the revolution
languish in obscurity, or shiver in want, ask Mr, Adams, whether
it was proper to heap so many myriads of dollars upon William
Smith, upon a paper jobber, who next to Hamilton, and himself, is
perhaps the most detestable character on the continent.”

7. “You will then take your choice between innocence and guilt,
between freedom and slavery, between paradise and perdition. You
will chuse between the man, who has deserted and reversed all his
prineiples, and that man whose own example strengthens all his
laws; that man, whose predictions, like those of Henry, have been
eonverted into history. You will chuse between that man, whose
life ig ungpotted by a crime, and that man whose hands ere recking

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