860 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document

820 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.

The same aystem of persecution has been extended all over the
continent, every person holding an office must either quit it, or
think and vote exactly with Mr, Adams, Adams and Washington
have since been shaping a series of these paper jobbers into judges
and ambassadors, as their whole courage lies in want of shame;
these poltroons, without risking a manly and intelligible defense of
their own measures, raiso and affected yelp against the corruption
of the French Directory, as if any eorruption would be more venal,
more notorious, more erecrated than their own. The object with
My, Adams was to recommend a French war, professedly for the
sake of supporting Ameriean eonmerce, but in reality for the sake
of yoking us into an alliance with the British tyrant. While sueh
numbers of the effective agents of the revolution languish in ob-
seurity, or shiver in want, ask Mr. Adams whether it was proper to
heap 0 many myriads of dollars upon William Smith, upon a
paper jobber, who, next to Hamilton and himself is, perhaps, the
most detested character on the continent. You will then make your
choice between innocence and guilt, between freedom and slavery,
Between paradise and perdition; you will choose between the man
who has deserted and reversed all his principles, and that man whose
own example strengthens all his laws, that man whose predictions,
lika those of Henry, have been converted into history. You will
choose between that man whose life is unspotted a crime, and
that man whose handa are reeking with the blood of the poor,
friendless Connecticut saik J see the tear of indignation starting
on your ebeeks! you anticipate the name of John Adams. Every
feature in the conduct of Mr. Adama, forms a distinet and addi-
tional evidenee, that he was determined at all events to embroil this
country with France. My, Adama haa only completed the scene of
ignominy which Mr. Washington began.—This last presidential fel-
ony will be buried by Congress in the same criminal silence as its
predecessors. Foremost in whatever is detestable, Mr. Adams fecls
anxiety to enrb the frontier population, He was a professed aris-
tocrat; he had proved faithful and serviceable to the British inter-
est, Thus we see the genuine character of the President, when but
in a secondary station, be 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 ruinons
establishments, In the two first years of his presidency, he has
contrived pretenses to double the annual expense of government by
useless fleets, armies, sineeures and jobs of every possible deserip-
tion. By sending these ambassadors to Paris, Mr. Adams and his
British faetion designed to do nothing but mischief. In that paper
with all the cowardly insolence arising from his assurance of per-
sonal safety, with all the fury, but without the propriety or sub
Iimity of Homer's Achilles, this hoary headed incendiary, this libel-
Jer of the governor of Virginia, bawls out to arms! then to arms!
It was floating upon the same bladder of popularity that Mr. Adams
threatened to make this city the centrical point of a bonfire.
“Reader, dost thou envy that unfortunate old man with his twer-