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P HENRY[283]

After a perusal of this nobly written letter, the gentle reader will have no difficulty in concluding that, if indeed the author of it was then lying in wait for an opportunity to set up a despotisinia, he had already become an adept in the hypocrisy which enabled him, not only to conceal the fact, but to convey an impression quite the opposite

FOOTNOTES:

[255] Burk, _Hist Va_ iv 154

[256] 4 _Am Arch_ vi 1602, 1603, note

[257] 5 _Am Arch_ i 631

[258] 5 _Aers Clark's _Can in the Illinois_, 11

[260] Spencer Roane, MS

[261] _Jour Va House Del_ 32

[262] _Ibid_ 57-59

[263] _Writings of Washi+ngton_, iv 138

[264] See Letters from the president of Va Privy Council and from General Lewis, in 5 _Am Arch_ i 736

[265] Burk, _Hist Va_ iv 229

[266] Compare _Jour Va House Del_ 8

[267] 5 _Am Arch_ ii 1305-1306

[268] Randall, _Life of Jefferson_, i 363, 413; and _Hist Mag_ i

52

[269] _Writings of Jefferson_, viii 368-371; also Phila ed of _Notes_, 1825, 172-176

[270] Burk, _Hist Va_ iv Pref Rem vi

[271] See Jefferson's explicit endorses_, i 50

[272] Burk, _Hist Va_ 189, 190

[273] Wirt, _Life of Henry_, 204-205

[274] Elliot's _Debates_, iii 160

[275] Cited by Willia_ for 1873, 349