REMARKS. So much has already been written concerning the manner in which certain portions of “Washington’s Writings” were edited, that perhaps those, who have bestowed attention upon the subject, may think nothing more is necessary to enable them to form a proper judgment of the case. I have no disposition to protract the controversy by reviving discussions, that may seem to have been exhausted. In my “ Reply to the Strictures of Lord Mahon and Others,” and in a subsequent “ Letter to Lord Mahon,” it has been my aim to state facts without disguise, to explain the principles by which I have been guided, and to vindicate myself from erroneous charges and injurious suspicions, without censuring the opinions entertained by others on the general points at issue, or attempting to establish my own by arguments. The task of an editor in preparing for the press
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