if we would, there can be little doubt of the reproduction of that general movement which had been changed, for a moment, by the despatches of October the 22nd.  And though small checks and stops, like Logan’s pretended embassy, may be thrown in the way, from time to time, and may a little retard its motion, yet the tide is already turned and will sweep before it all the feeble obstacles of art.  The unquestionable republicanism of the American mind will break through the mist under which it has been clouded, and will oblige its agents to reform the principles and practices of their administration.

You suppose, that you have been abused by both parties.  As far as has come to my knowledge, you are misinformed.  I have never seen or heard a sentence of blame uttered against you by the republicans; unless we were so to construe their wishes that you had more boldly co-operated in a project of a treaty, and would more explicitly state, whether there was in your colleagues that flexibility, which persons earnest after peace would have practised.  Whether, on the contrary, their demeanor was not cold, reserved, and distant, at least, if not backward; and whether, if they had yielded to those informal conferences which Talleyrand seems to have courted, the liberal accommodation you suppose, might not have been effected, even with their agency.  Your fellow-citizens think they have a right to full information, in a case of such great concernment to them.  It is their sweat which is to earn all the expenses of the war, and their blood which is to flow in expiation of the causes of it.  It may be in your power to save them from these miseries by full communications and unrestrained details, postponing motives of delicacy to those of duty.  It rests with you to come forward independently; to make your stand on the high ground of your own character; to disregard calumny, and to be borne above it on the shoulders of your grateful fellow-citizens; or to sink into the humble oblivion to which the federalists (self-called) have secretly condemned you; and even to be happy if they will indulge you with oblivion, while they have beamed on your colleagues meridian splendor.  Pardon me, my dear Sir, if my expressions are strong.  My feelings are so much more so, that it is with difficulty I reduce them even to the tone I use.  If you doubt the dispositions towards you, look into the papers, on both sides, for the toasts which were given throughout the States on the fourth of July.  You will there see whose hearts were with you, and whose were ulcerated against you.  Indeed, as soon as it was known that you had consented to stay in Paris, there was no measure observed in the execrations of the war-party.  They openly wished you might be guillotined, or sent to Cayenne, or any thing else.  And these expressions were finally stifled from a principle of policy only, and to prevent you from being urged to a justification of yourself.  From this principle alone proceed