HJCTQRY OF VERMONT. S17 



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Secondly, Because the fifth paragraph, 

 f under the mask of flattery, contains an insidi- 

 * oub attack upon the official conduct of John 

 *^ Adams, late president of the United States, 

 f whose administration of the general govern- 

 ment we highly approbate, and whose retire- 

 ment into private life, if it cannot restrain the 

 malignity of individuals, ought at least to have 

 secured him from legislative censure. 



* Thirdly, Because, in the sixth paragraph, 

 fulsome adulation is bestowed upon Thomasf 

 Jefferson, president of the United States, highly 

 unbecoming a dignified assembly, of the rep- 

 resentatives of a free people to offer, or the 

 chief magistrate of a great nation to receive, 

 without sensations of disgust. And because 

 the answer to the address, in the same para- 

 graph, asserts, that ^' the purity of the mo- 

 tives, and the applause which the president of 

 the United States receives, from th^ great ma- 

 jority of his fellow citizens, must sweeten his 

 injured feelings, and create in his heart a gen- 

 erous compassion for his revilers ;" when we 

 cannot know the purity of his motives, or that 

 he now receives the applause of the great ma- 

 jority of his fellow citizens, or what effect 

 such applause might have to sweeten h*is in- 

 jured feelings : Nor has his public conduct 

 afforded any evidence of such compassion for 

 his revilers. And because it is highly improp- 

 er to offer this consolation to the president of 

 the union, in a reply to the governor's address, 

 which does not point to the subject. 



* Fourth, Because the language of the an- 

 swer is puerile, feeble, and totally inconsisten.t, 



