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854 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.

they sold them for his benefit, and that he received the
money? When it has been proved that he received the
money from one purchaser himself, and that he paid for
printing part of it—that part of the manuscript is in his own
handwriting—can there be any doubt? And when, in addi-
tion to this, one witness declares that he knew him to be a

with the blood of the poor, friendless Connecticut sailor. I see the
tear of indignation starting on your cheeks. You anticipate the
name of John Adams.”

8. “Every feature in the conduet of Mr, Adams, forms a distinct
and additional evidence, that he was determined at all events to
embroil this country with Franee.”

9. “Mr. Adams has only completed the seene of ignominy which
Mr. Washington began.”

10. “This last presidential felony will be buried by Congress in
the same criminal silence aa its predecessors.”

11, “Foremost in whatever is detestable, Mr, Adams feels anxiety
to eurb the frontier population.”

12. “He was s professed aristocrat—he had proved faithful and
serviceable to the British interest.”

13. “Thus we see the genuine character of the President, when in
but a secondary station, he censured the funding system; when at
the head of affairs, he reverses all his former principles—he exerts
himself to plunge his country into the most expensive and Tuinous
establishments, In the two first years of his presidency, he has
contrived pretenses to double the annual expense of goverament, by
useless fleets, armies, fineeures and jobs of every possible deserip-
tion.

14, “By sending these ambassadors to Paris, Mr. Adams and his
British faction designed to do nothing but mischief.”

15. “In that paper, with all the cowardly intolerance arising from
his assurance of personal safety, with all the fury, but withont the
propriety of sublimity of Homer’s Achilles, ihis hoary headed in-
eendiary, thia libeller of the governor of Virginia, bawls ont, to
arms! then to arms! It was floating upon the same bladder of
popularity, that Mr. Adams threatened to make this city the cen-
trieal point of a bonfire.”

16, “Reader! dost thou envy that unfortunate old man, with hia
twenty-five thousand dollars a year, with the petty parade of his
birthday, with the importance of his name sticking in every other
page of the statute book. Alas! he is not an object of envy, but
of compassion and horror. With Connectient more than half on-
deceived, with Pennsylvania disgusted, with Virginia alarmed, with
Kentucky holding him in deftance, having renounced all his orig-
inal principles, and affronted all his honest friends, he eannot en-
joy the sweet slumbers of innocence; he cannot hope to feel the

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