Sketch of the Life And Public Services of General Lewis Cass With the Pamphlet
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This is the paragraph : "Suppose your letter to go before the public unanswered aad uncontradicted; suppose it to mingle itself with the general polit- ical history of the country, as an official letter among the archives of the Department of State ; would not the general mass of readers understand you as reciting facts, rather than as drawing your own conclusions? as stating history, rather than as presenting an argu- ment ? It is of an incorrect narrative that the President complains ; LIFE O...F GENERAL CASS. 201 it is that, in your hotel in Paris, you should undertake to write a history of a very delicate part of a negotiation carried on at Wash- ington, with which you had nothing to do, and of which you had no authentic information ; and which history, as you narrate it, reflects not a little on the independence, wisdom, and public spirit of the administration. " Strange, indeed, that this "history, " and "narrative, " and "del- icate part of a negotiation, " &c. , &c. , &:, c. , are to be charged to a simple suggestion, or assertion if you please, that Lord Ashburton came over to make propositions to the government, respecting the slave trade, which were accepted.
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