879 Page – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document

Here is the translated text as follows:

JAMES THOMPSON CALLENDER

United States] to plunge his [meaning the said President’s] country [meaning the United States of America] into the most expensive and ruinous establishments. In the first two years of his [meaning the said President of the United States] presidency, he [meaning the said President of the United States] has contrived pretenses to double the annual expenses of government by useless fleets, armies, sinecures, and jobs of every possible description.

And also the false, scandalous, and malicious words of the tenor and effect following, that is to say: “By sending these ambassadors to Paris, Mr. Adams [meaning the said President of the United States] and his [meaning the said President] British faction, designed to do nothing but mischief."

And also the false, scandalous, and malicious words of the tenor and effect following, that is to say: “In that paper, with all the cowardly insolence arising from his [meaning the said President] assurance of personal safety, with all the fury, but without the propriety or sublimity of Homer’s Achilles, this hoary-headed incendiary [meaning the said President of the United States], this libeler [meaning the said President] of the governor of Virginia, calls out to arms, then to arms! It was floating upon the same bladder of popularity that Mr. Adams [meaning the said President of the United States] threatened to make this city the centrical point of a bonfire.”

And also the false, scandalous, and malicious words of the tenor and effect following, that is to say: “Reader, dost thou envy that unfortunate old man [meaning the said President of the United States] with his [meaning the said President] twenty-five thousand dollars a year, with the petty parade of his [meaning the said President] birthday, with the importance of his [meaning the said President] name sticking in every other page of the statute book. Alas! He [meaning the said President of the United States] is not an object of envy, but of compassion and of horror. With Connecticut more than half undeceived, with Pennsylvania disgusted, with Virginia alarmed, with Kentucky holding him [meaning the said President] in defiance, having renounced all his original principles [meaning the said President of the United States] and affronted all his [meaning the said President] honest friends, he [meaning the said President of the United States] cannot enjoy the sweet slumbers of innocence, he [meaning the said President of the United States] cannot hope to feel the most exquisitely delightful sensation that ever warmed a human breast, the consciousness of being universally and deservedly beloved.”

And also the false, scandalous, and malicious words of the tenor and effect following, that is to say: “It is happy for Mr. Adams himself [meaning the said President] as well as for his [meaning the said President] country, that he [meaning the said President of the United States] asserted an untruth.”

And also the false, scandalous, and malicious words of the tenor and effect following, that is to say: “In the midst of such a scene of profligacy and of usury, the President [meaning the said President of the United States] has persisted as long as he dared [meaning the said President] in making his [meaning the said President] utmost efforts.”

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