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<p>26 Feb<hi rend="superscript">y</hi> 1803</p> | |||
<note>Preface<lb/> | |||
L. P. 11. <gap/></note> | |||
<p>This penitentiary System (says somebody to somebody)<lb/> | |||
I am <add>have always been</add> inclined to look upon as a good thing: I have<lb/> | |||
been saying so to you any time these two years. If<lb/> | |||
it were a new thing there might not have been these<lb/> | |||
doubts: but its being so old a thing, and treated in the<lb/> | |||
manner you see it has been treated by those who went<lb/> | |||
before us—that it is that makes the difficulty.</p> | |||
<p><add>From</add> Somebody to somebody?—who are these somebodys?—<lb/> | |||
<gap/>—that is the thing that is not to be told? When<lb/> | |||
to avoid committing themselves gentlemen have recourse to<lb/> | |||
gossiping—when that answer which<lb/> | |||
would be <add>published to the world</add> conveyed at once to the party in black and white<lb/> | |||
is thus consigned to whispers, it is for the convenience<lb/> | |||
of being at liberty at any time to remember nothing about<lb/> | |||
the matter.</p> | |||
<p>... it it is by the backstairs influence of a <add>noble</add> person of exemplary<lb/> | |||
piety that the most sacred character in the nation has been prevailed<lb/> | |||
upon to violate <add>to violate to the <gap/>/<gap/> of an unoffending individual</add> in his in his clout the engagements taken on his throne.</p> | |||
<p>It was in the presence of an <add>the</add> acting member of <add>one</add> the late<lb/> | |||
administration that I received the most solemn assurances and<lb/> | |||
publications of the correspondent member of the former, that it had<lb/> | |||
been and to the last moment was his most decided intention to carry<lb/> | |||
the plan into effect though latterly upon a reduced scale, and thus<lb/> | |||
with a compensation for the reduction: the gentlemen in office | |||
<del>not<lb/> | |||
defiantly</del> <add>vindicating</add> applauding the determination, and wondering that after<lb/>such a declaration any the slightest marks of dissatisfaction <add>on my part</add> should<lb/> | |||
be perceptible <del>either</del>.</p> | |||
<note>English of this <unclear>answer</unclear><lb/> | |||
We who are in the <gap/><lb/> | |||
know that when they profess<lb/> | |||
this determination at <gap/><lb/> | |||
with the determination to deceive<lb/> | |||
you.</note> | |||
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Two Letters
26 Feby 1803
Preface
L. P. 11.
This penitentiary System (says somebody to somebody)
I am have always been inclined to look upon as a good thing: I have
been saying so to you any time these two years. If
it were a new thing there might not have been these
doubts: but its being so old a thing, and treated in the
manner you see it has been treated by those who went
before us—that it is that makes the difficulty.
From Somebody to somebody?—who are these somebodys?—
—that is the thing that is not to be told? When
to avoid committing themselves gentlemen have recourse to
gossiping—when that answer which
would be published to the world conveyed at once to the party in black and white
is thus consigned to whispers, it is for the convenience
of being at liberty at any time to remember nothing about
the matter.
... it it is by the backstairs influence of a noble person of exemplary
piety that the most sacred character in the nation has been prevailed
upon to violate to violate to the / of an unoffending individual in his in his clout the engagements taken on his throne.
It was in the presence of an the acting member of one the late
administration that I received the most solemn assurances and
publications of the correspondent member of the former, that it had
been and to the last moment was his most decided intention to carry
the plan into effect though latterly upon a reduced scale, and thus
with a compensation for the reduction: the gentlemen in office
not
defiantly vindicating applauding the determination, and wondering that after
such a declaration any the slightest marks of dissatisfaction on my part should
be perceptible either.
English of this answer
We who are in the
know that when they profess
this determination at
with the determination to deceive
you.
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