7117. PUBLICITY, Full.—
I hope that to
preserve this weather-gauge of public opinion,
and to counteract the slanders and
falsehoods disseminated by the English papers,
the government will make it a standing
instruction to their ministers at foreign
courts, to keep Europe truly informed of occurrences
here, by publishing in their papers
the naked truth always, whether favorable or
unfavorable. For they will believe the good,
if we candidly tell them the bad also.—
To James Monroe. Washington ed. vi, 408.
Ford ed., ix, 497.
(M.
1815)
