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May 1817
June
Dear Sir
The matters of fact which form the subject of the
following queries being in their nature matters of the utmost
notoriety in your country I am inclined to hope you will not see any conclusive
sufficient reason for satisfying affording decling to afford satisfaction to the desire I need I
feel have of obtaining information in relation to them: flattering
myself that what you have seen and heard of you would me might be
regarded as affording sufficient security against my making any ill endeavouring to make
use of them as if they were liable to be any apprehension of any endeavour on my part to make any improper
use of the requested information if in its nature it were liable to be
so made use of, which is more than I can see any reason
to apprehend. As to any particular use which it may at any time
fall in my way to make of them, yet another though there there can
is nothing not be any thing in it that I need be ashamed of, yet that you
any information you may be pleased to favour me with
may be the more manifestly incontrovertibly exempt from every imaginable
seductive bias, it would be a further favour done to me
if you would allow me it forbear putting any questions to me on that head
Taking the fixation of the existing Constitution of the United
States for the epoch à quo,
1 In regard to prosecutions for libel of any and what
kinds have they, in the several States of the Union respectively, been
frequent or otherwise? and in any case can any guess, how
rough so ever, be made in relation to the number?
and in the first place as to alledged libels on the subject
of government? arraigning vituperating the form of the existing Constitution
calling for changes to be made in it, or arraigning the conduct
of any one or more of the public functionaries?
2. The like questions in relation to religion? and in
particular to blasphemy?
3. In relation to the question between Trinitarians and
Unitarians, have any publication appeared or publications made their appearance: and if any whether
on one and which or both sides? Should you suppose, that on any in consequence, any
appear probable to you that proselytes have been made on either or both sides, and if so in what
proportions?
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