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11 January 1795 Letter. Williamsburg, St. George Tucker to John Page.
CWF Rockefeller Library, Special Collections - SCMS 1942.4

I percieve by the papers that you have
taken your seat, & forward you a pamphlett
sent you by my Brother, which can now go free
of portage—I feared it was too weighty to go with
the enclosed, & have therefore sent it in a separate
Packett.

Well — is all the secret of Bribery and
Corruption come out. — I think remember a Letter
from Junius to the Duke of Grafton, in which he
treats his Disclosure of Samuel Vaughan's Offer
to bribe him and the consequent prosecution of
that back-sliding patriot, as a Scape-goat offering
to wipe off previous ill-natured Imputations.
I hope this story will not apply to any of our
immaculate federal Legislators: but if it
should, it will be no more than one of those
Arts & Mysteries which we seem fond of borrowing
from that Quarter.

I percieve that Peter Porcupine has shot
a Quill at the late Secretary of State — pray send
it to me taking care that it is only to pay postage
as a newspaper, or pamphlett, if too large
to come free of postage.

I am truly sorry to hear that the young Gent^m
you recommended to M^r W. has proved himself
unworthy of the good opinion entertained of him.
His Fathers Conduct has been such as proves him not
only an honest Man, but possessing [even] Roman
inflexibility in [Case] so nearly affecting his Son. god
preserve all good men from such trials.