7451. RETIREMENT, Newspaper attacks and.—[continued].
It happened unfortunately
that the attack made on me in the newspapers
came out soon after I began to speak
freely and publicly of my purpose to retire this
Spring. * * * I find that as well those who
are my friends as those who are not, putting the
two things together as cause and effect, conceived
I was driven from office either from
want of firmness or perhaps fear of investigation.
Desirous that my retirement may be
clouded by no imputations of this kind, I see not
only a possibility, but rather a probability, that
I shall postpone it for some time.—
To T. M. Randolph.
D. L. J., 215.
(Pa.,
Feb. 1793)
