The part I acted in the American revolution is well-known, I shall not here repeat it. Iknow also that had it not been for the aid received from France in men, money and ships,that your cold and unmilitary conduct, as I shall show in the course of this letter, would inall probability have lost America; at least she would not have been the independent nationshe now is. You slept away your time in the field till the finances of the country wereexhausted, and you have but little share in the glory of the final event. It is time, sir, tospeak the undisguised language of historical truth.
Elevated to the Presidency you assumed the merit of everything to yourself,and the natural ingratitude of your constitution began to appear. You commenced yourPresidential career by encouraging and swallowing the grossest adulation , and youtraveled America from one end to other, to put yourself in the way of receiving it. Youhave as many addresses in your chest as James II. As to what were your views, for if youare not great enough to have ambition you are little enough to have vanity, they cannot bedirectly infcned from expressions of your own; but the partizans of your politics havedivulged the secret.
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