APPENDIX.
135
No. XXXVIII.
Philadelphia, July 18, 1797.
- Sir
I can only observe that in entering the note which bears my single signature I did not convey or mean to convey any opinion of my own, as to the faith which was due to it, but left it to stand on its own merits reserving to myself the right to judge of it, as upon any fact afterwards communicated according to its import and authenticity.
With due respect I am Sir
Your very humble servant
James Monroe.
No. XXXIX.
July 20, 1797.
- Sir,
In my last letter to you I proposed a simple and direct question, to which I had hoped an answer equally simple and direct. That which I have received, though amounting, if I understand it, to an answer in the negative, is conceived in such circuitous terms as
