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JAMES THOMPSON CALLENDER. 851

Mr. Nelson, Although the paper is long and complicated,
the testimony is not so. The testimony, as I stated to you be-
tore, is concise, plain, and correct. If there be a man who,
now that he has heard that testimony, entertains a doubt

almost any which the old confederation ever endured. The tardi-
meas and timidity of Mr. Washington were succeeded by the
and ingolence of Adams.” :

Idem. “Under the old confederation, matters never were, nor
could ave been conducted so wretchedly aa they actually are, and
thave been under the successive monarchs of Braintree and Mount
Vernon.”

Page 19. “Tt has heen frequently asserted, and never denied,”
eays Mr, Findley, “that the power of granting charters of ineor-
poration, was repeatedly moved for in the federal convention, and
especially the power of incorporating banks, but always rejected
‘by a great majority.” Mr, Washington was president of this fed-
eral convention, Of course he could not plead ignorance of its in~
tention against the erection of a national bank, He swore to sup-
port the constitution. Directly after, he ratified the bank law,
nwbich drove the plough-share of paperjobbing through the very
midst of his double oath, as a federal citizen, and as a President.’

Page 27. ‘For all this confusion and iniquity, we must thank
Mr, Washington. He acted like a tenant, who quits the premises
without giving notice to the landlord, that he may provide a sue-
sessor.

Page 34. Note—#*If Washington wanted to corrupt the American
Judges, be could not have taken 8 more decisive step, than by the
eppointment of Jay.”

Page 39, “THis refusal must be resolved, therefore, into that

utter want of feeling, which constitutes the key-stone of character;
and which has cost the lives of so many hun: of families, on the
southwestern frontier.”
., Pages 39 and 40. “The wretehed proclamation of neutrality, of
‘April 22d, 1783, wea most likely eommunicated to Pitt, long before
it had been openly proposed in the cabinet of America. On the
8th of Jane following, the comt of London issned the order for
seizing neutral ships, bound to France with provisions. This was
just forty-six days after the proclamation of Mr. Washington.
Perhaps bis manifesto had reached England before that order issued.
At any rate, Pitt was undoubtedly acquainted with the President's
abhorrence for the French revolution.”

Page 99. “The proclamation of neutrality doca thereft
Geservé that title, It was s proclamation BY Paceltrng and puail”
lanimity.”

Page 41. “Mr, Washington had then only two things to do: The
one to negotiate with the court of Lisbon, for the continuance of the

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