No Secret Motives
Document 1796Callender informs McHenry that the communications he handed to Mr. Edwards are from General Wayne, and that he transcribed them a year ago. The series of interrogatories is entirely misplaced. There is nothing secret about the particulars, and he should have asked him directly.
Baltimore 17 May, 1796.
Sir
I handed to Mr. Edwards some
Communications from General Wayne. He, this day, in your name, asks the Source of my information. The papers were transcribed by myself above a year ago, but not from your office; So that the Series of interoga tories is entirely misplaced. The particulars are not a Secret in Philadelphia, and had an enquiry been made with frankness, it would have met with a frank return, for there are no motives to Concealment, either on the part of myself, or of the Gentleman who transmitted the means of information I am [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Thomson Callender
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