"
"And have you called on Sir George?" asked Mr. Madison, coolly.
"No, sir; I have had enough of their delaying and dallying, and instead
of sailing for Quebec, I sailed for Boston, determined, if the
government of the United States would pay me for it, to divulge the
whole secret of British perfidy to this government."
"We'll pay ye, won't we, Misther Madison?" put in Terrence, with his
characteristic impertinence.
"What proofs have you of the perfidy of Great Britain?" asked the
president.
"I have letters, sir, and official documents which would make any
honorable man blush."
"No doubt of it, yer honor," put in Terrence.
"Have you those papers with you, Mr. Henry?" asked the careful
president.
"Some of them."
"Will you produce them, so I may judge what they are?"
"Yes, the prisident and mesilf want to get a squint at the dockymints,"
put in Terrence.
The very impertinence of Terrence was his success. Mr. Madison could not
repress a smile.
Henry laid before the president the strong documentary evidence, which
clearly proved that Great Britain, while indulging in the most friendly
expressions toward the United States, and negotiating treaties, was
secretly engaged in efforts to destroy the young republic of the West,
by fomenting disaffection toward it among a portion of the people, and
intriguing with disaffected politicians with an expectation, with the
aid of British arms, to be able to separate New England from the Union
and re-annex that territory to the British dominions.
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