Adams to put his
name, he being then President, and the application going only for his
name, and not for a donation. Mr. Adams, after reading the paper and
considering, said, 'he saw no possibility of continuing the union of
the States; that their dissolution must necessarily take place; that he
therefore saw no propriety in recommending to New England men to promote
a literary institution in the south; that it was in fact giving strength
to those who were to be their enemies, and therefore, he would have
nothing to do with it.'
December the 31st. After dinner to-day, the pamphlet on the conduct of
Colonel Burr being the subject of conversation, Matthew Lyon noticed
the insinuations against the republicans at Washington, pending the
Presidential election, and expressed his wish that every thing was
spoken out which was known; that it would then appear on which side
there was a bidding for votes, and he declared that John Brown of Rhode
Island, urging him to vote for Colonel Burr, used these words. 'What is
it you want, Colonel Lyon? Is it office, is it money? Only say what you
want, and you shall have it.'
January the 2nd, 1804. Colonel Hitchburn, of Massachusetts, reminding
me of a letter he had written me from Philadelphia, pending the
Presidential election, says he did not therein give the details. That he
was in company at Philadelphia with Colonel Burr and ------ that in the
course of the conversation on the election, Colonel Burr said, 'We must
have a President, and a constitutional one, in some way.
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