Lynchburg Virginian

In his statement published in the National Intelligencer, he spoke of the leaders of the Federal Party, in the years 1812 and for several years previous, as engaged in a systematic opposition to the general government, having for its object the dissolution of the Union, and the establishment of a separate Confederacy by the aid of a foreign power. As a proof of this disposition, particular allusion is made to the opposition to the embargo in the courts of justice in Massachusetts. This pointed the charge directly at my late father, whose efforts in that cause are probably remembered: and was the reason of my joining in the application to Mr. Adams as to what such a charge was founded on. If this construction of his statement needs confirmation, it is to be found in one of the letters lately published in Salem by Mr. Adams. Mr. Adams, in his answer, has extended his accusation to a subsequent period. In the events of that time I have not the same interest as in those preceding it; and as the reply was necessarily coextensive with the answer, that reason prevented me from joining in it. I take this opportunity, however, to say for myself, that I find in Mr. Adams's answer no justification of his charges and in reply to that portion of his letter particularly addressed to me, that I have seen no proof, and shall not readily believe that any portion of my father's political course is to be attributed to the influence there suggested.

FRANKLIN DEXTER.
Boston, Jan 28, 1829.