Letters From Washington, on the Constitution and Laws: With Sketches of Some of the Prominent Public Characters of the United States; Written During the Winter of 1817-18 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Letters From Washington, on the Constitution and Laws: With Sketches of Some of the Prominent Public Characters of the United States; Written During the Winter of 1817-18

It gives the editor pleasure to state that, from the occasional remarks he has seen in the different prints into which these letters have found their way, he has taken the li berty to erase those passages which were deemed offensive, without diminishing the correctness of the sketch or destroying the truth and accuracy of the portrait. It is, however, due to the author to observe, that for those gentlemen whose characters he has attempted to delineate, no man can entertain a higher respect or a more exalted opinion and that no idea could have been more dis tant from his mind than to diminish their standing in society or to depreciate the well merited reputation they have acquired. In. Tentions like these, were, I am sure, entirely foreign to his feelings, and he deeply regrets that they should have been imputed to him. His object seems to have been to present to the public portraits of some of the leading.

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