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/ APPEAR In obedience TO luminous from
this Honorable court, TO anfwer articles OF I'M
parchment exhibited againft me, by the Honor
able the Houfc OF Representatives OF the United
Sites


10 thefe articles, copy of which was deliver
ed to me with the fummons, fay, that ] have
committed 10 crime or misdemeanor whatioev-
er, for which | am fubied to impeachment ac-
cording TO the conititution of the United States
deny, with few exceptions, the acts with
which am charged ihall contend, tina, all
acts admitted to have been done by me, were
legal; and deny in every initancc, the imereb-
er intentions with which the acts charged, are
a'ledgc9 to have been done, and in which their
Ifuppofed criminality altogether ccniiits.
But in charges of 70 heinous nature, urged
by 70 high an authority, iimpe denial is not
luffioient. 1t behoves ne, for the lega! jufif
cation of my conduct. and for the vindication of
my character. TO meet each charge with . full
and particular anfwcr /; TO explain and rcfute at
length, every principal urged againit me to
fate the evidence by which am to diiprove
every fact relied on in lupport of the accula-
ton and to detail all the faas and arguments
Oh which my defence is to ref. The neceiity
of an anfwcr embracing all thefe objects, in
cafes ofimpcachment is obvious and the right
ito make tits fecured by law and (an6tioned by
uniform practice.


Such an anfwcr it IS my intention to make.
Itis my purpofe TO fubmit the zr55k ground of
my defence to the view of this honorable court,
OF my country, of the world, and of thofe who
are to conduit the Profecution.-So will my
Judges come TO the trial with that full knowl-
edge Of the whols matter in diipute, which is