1563. CONGRESS, Partisan.—
I had
hoped that the proceedings of this session of
Congress would have rallied the great body of
our citizens at once to one opinion. But the
inveteracy of their quondam leaders has been
able by intermingling the grossest lies and
misrepresentations to check the effect in some
small degree until they shall be exposed. The
great sources and authors of these are in Congress.
Besides the slanders in their speeches,
such letters have been written to their constituents
as I shall forbear to qualify by the
proper terms.—
To Cæsar A. Rodney.
Ford ed., viii, 147.
(W.
April. 1802)
