The Life of Elbridge Gerry With Contemporary Letters to the Close of the Ameri
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Exhibited as the subjects of an intrigue too base to permit even its agents to be named. But the implication, for in diplomatic arrangements insinuations often supply * American state papers, vol. 3. P. 475. 2d ed.
280 LIFE OF ELBRIDGE GERRY.
the place of facts, plainly was that the French di rectory or its minister had endeavoured for their own corrupt purposes to impose on the unaccredit ed envoys, and taking advantage of the isolated condition in which they kept themselves, pro posed to open... a passage to the French govern ment by bribery and fraud.
Whatever was the truth of the case, no course was left but for the French minister to pretend ignorance of the whole transaction, and demand, with the show of indignation, who it was that thus had offended the government, and tampered with envoys at its court ?
The demand being made of the only individual, who was in a condition to answer it, Mr. Gerry might have refused to reply ; and his silence would have been trumpeted through Europe as evidence of the fabrication, which in the spirit of a war party its ministers had circulated to rouse the in dignation they were desirous of producing.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Exhibited as the subjects of an intrigue too base to permit even its agents to be named. But the implication, for in diplomatic arrangements insinuations often supply * American state papers, vol. 3. P. 475. 2d ed.
280 LIFE OF ELBRIDGE GERRY.
the place of facts, plainly was that the French di rectory or its minister had endeavoured for their own corrupt purposes to impose on the unaccredit ed envoys, and taking advantage of the isolated condition in which they kept themselves, pro posed to open... a passage to the French govern ment by bribery and fraud.
Whatever was the truth of the case, no course was left but for the French minister to pretend ignorance of the whole transaction, and demand, with the show of indignation, who it was that thus had offended the government, and tampered with envoys at its court ?
The demand being made of the only individual, who was in a condition to answer it, Mr. Gerry might have refused to reply ; and his silence would have been trumpeted through Europe as evidence of the fabrication, which in the spirit of a war party its ministers had circulated to rouse the in dignation they were desirous of producing.
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