That in the election now coming on, I was
observing the same conduct, held no councils with any body respecting
it, nor suffered any one to speak to me on the subject, believing it my
duty to leave myself to the free discussion of the public; that I do
not at this moment know, nor have ever heard, who were to be proposed
as candidates for the public choice, except so far as could be gathered
from the newspapers. That as to the attack excited against him in the
newspapers, I had noticed it but as the passing wind; that I had seen
complaints that Cheetham, employed in publishing the laws, should be
permitted to eat the public bread and abuse its second officer: that as
to this, the publishers of the laws were appointed by the Secretary of
State, without any reference to me; that to make the notice general, it
was often given to one republican and one federal printer of the same
place; that these federal printers did not in the least intermit their
abuse of me, though receiving emoluments from the government, and that
I have never thought it proper to interfere for myself, and consequently
not in the case of the Vice-President. That as to the letter he referred
to, I remembered it, and believed he had only mistaken the date at which
it was written; that I thought it must have been on the first notice of
the event of the election of South Carolina; and that I had taken that
occasion to mention to him, that I had intended to have proposed to
him one of the great offices, if he had not been elected; but that his
election, in giving him a higher station, had deprived me of his aid in
the administration.
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