The President.
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The letter writers from Washington
have constantly intimated, that the
President would shirk the response,
bility of compromising with England,
against his own convictions, and throw
it upon the Senate. This insinuation
is insulting 10 the President and is thus
met by the New York .Nezvs-NO.
JET.


The responsibility is his own, his
own alone; and he both must and
will bear and discharge its honorable
burthen, with a 6rmness and manli-
ness worthy Of the character credited
to him BY the generous party which
raised him to his nobly arduous sta
tion. He will either accept the offer,
if it is made, honestly and bravely,
on his own hook, without playing off
the mock farce of consulting a Senate
of known "foregone conclusions" on
the subject; or else, bravely and
honestly he will reject tin either
case committing his reasons for his
course frankly to the judgment of his
country. One half ofthe country then
at least will approve the substance of
his decision; and both halves will re.
spect him for the manner of il.