Excerpt from The Life and Correspondence of Rufus King, Vol. 2: Comprising His Letters, Private and Official His Public Documents and His Speeches
The period embraced in this second volume covers the closing years of the senatorial career of Mr. King, before his transfer to the position of Minister Plenipotentiary and Ambassador to the Court of St. James, and the following three years in that capacity; the matter in the third volume extending to the close of the mission in 1803.
The history of the United States during the second term of Washington"s administration is full of events which tested the adaptability of the constitution to meet the new questions both domestic and foreign which necessarily arose under its untried provisions. Happily the general policy, which has received the name of federal, prevailed, and the basis of government was firmly founded. Mr. King was largely instrumental in framing and sustaining these measures adopted, as the records clearly show; yet it is much to be regretted that there are many gaps in his private papers, the filling of which might have thrown strong light upon the interesting questions of the day. All, however, that the papers in the possession of the Editor contain as contemporary history is here presented.
In reference to the correspondence in the second portion of the volume, during the years of Mr. King"s residence in England, it is proper that some explanation should be made. It will be observed that many letters, which have already been given to the public in the lives of some of the distinguished contemporaries of Mr. King, are here republished in order to show the bearing and illustrate the meaning of the letters now first presented. Indeed without them the continuity of the narrative would lack much of interest.
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