[753] Aurora, April 3, 1798.
[754] Otis to Mason, March 22, 1798; Morison, i, 90.
[755] Jonathan Mason to Otis, March 30, 1798; ib., 93. And see the valuable New England Federalist correspondence of the time in ib.
[756] Aurora, April 7, 1798. A week later, under the caption, "The Catastrophe," the Aurora began the publication of a series of ably written articles excusing the conduct of the French officials and condemning that of Marshall and Pinckney.
[757] Troup to King, June 3, 1798; King, ii, 329. Ten thousand copies of the dispatches were ordered printed and distributed at public expense. Eighteen hundred were sent to Virginia alone. (Pickering to Marshall, July 24, 1798; Pickering MSS., Mass. Hist. Soc.) This was the beginning of the printing and distributing of public documents by the National Government. (Hildreth, ii, 217.)
[758] Pickering's statement, April 3, 1798; Am. St. Prs., ii, 157.
[759] Jefferson to Madison, April 5, 1798; Works: Ford, viii, 398.
[760] Ib.
[761] Pickering to Jay, April 9, 1798; Jay: Johnston, iv, 236.
[762] Jefferson to Madison, April 26, 1798; Works: Ford, viii, 411. Among the Republicans who deserted their posts Jefferson names Giles, Nicholas, and Clopton.