Title
[Document, 1824 September 23]
Library Location
Name
Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829 (Author)
Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
Format
correspondence
Digital Project
Papers of John Jay
Date
September 23, 1824
Language
English
Physical Description
3 pages
Subjects
United States--History--1783-1865; Jay, John, 1745-1829
Summary
His review of the Adams and Cunningham correspondence has put in motion many "electioneering pens" for John Q. Adams and numbers in Pickering's defense. No detractor surpasses Robert Walsh, Jr. of the National Gazette in Philadelphia. Formerly evincing esteem for Pickering, he was put off by the latter's notice of inconsistency in Walsh's late enmity toward Britain in view of his former praise of that nation. For months has vented his "bad passions" against there view. Pickering defended himself in the Brief Remarks on John Q. Adams' Appendix to his 1808 letter to Harrison Otis on Jefferson's embargo. Anonymous essay against him in the Boston Patriot is probably by Alexander Everett, who undoubtedly hopes to be named minister plenipotentiary under Adams. Crossed-out passage wishes John Jay's eldest son might communicate to the public such documents of his father's as he might think proper.
Identifier
columbia.jay.04838