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ehadu of your beloved Montieeilo, your
mind it et ene. te eontemplate the inﬂu
enee' of. your emeib *nn the deetinicl Of
,our'*eonntfy. Nothing can be more fa
vemble than your pruent eitnation to such
' : view. ln retiretnent the passion: lose '
thntcterdor which dieturbe the necnracy of
the reeeoning power. Reﬂection there die
enehants ohjecte of that deeeitful lnstre that 4
nsittncu in the hurry of the traneactions of ;
lif'. The man who has not enlarged hie 4]
nnllenmding and eettled his principlee in
remet un never appear on the theatre of
public He with .cfedtt and distinctien. The
ions heated and inﬂamed the chace of
1, never suﬀer the understanding to
ncqnire' tial aolidity which forms the lead
ingctshldy of every great mind. lt is the
same wheictehoice leade, o.- dinppointment
form the etnteemnn into retirement. The
hustle of men end things eettlee down into.
the call! osi philosophy. Then comes the
voice of anmpproving conscience and whis
pen thou grinhtione, the sweetest that :
virt * ' (! can know. All that he has
lest hss'ehind—him in the tnctos ambition is
no Just. The pomp and pelgentry e! office
thunder, and the mind strong in its own
inn ' thine- out with : majesty that
the—- ' drapesy of power would only
dehsiole .
national honor has unninul
] need not remiod you, air, that the as
fair of the Cheupnke, that rankling wound
which porhapc has act perpetual diauoion
between thin country and Great Britain,:
w be ascribed to your policy, which did
not Conne that to be respected it is neces
sary to be feared. I do not say we might
luddenly have : maritimc force capable of
unnethe- the triumphant Iceu of Britain
But there wan : time when thin country
did not want : hand of maid vinon to
_ meanen nnd adorn that my which has
Womans!) perished under your pmimo
'niousit admnigntion. Then is an clzsti
ian calcdncd to lift the
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!! then. sir. a a philosopher, you have
been accustmned to compare cause: with
ss—el'cetq loude oak in revierriog your admitt
issstnehsin, if you have sclt those consolations
which have power to dinrm the reproacheo
of enemies and to blunt the arrows of in
vective? A've there but few is any acts of
youradministration on which you can re
call with pleasure to your mind ! Through
out the desert troet of your politico, is there
ages'tsitatl epot on which the moral eye can
run; with miosactiou ? Hare yeu strength
end the foundatiom of the liberties ; hewe
augmentcd the opulence ; have you al
tered the character of the peo le ; or, have
you prepared the cause: o their futurel
Ereltneu end procpcrity? No. B ss
me given a fatal thee! to thciel li ; ;
yuu have degrlded their chmtcter and?
otong with : beggarcd exchequer, how
- hunted over to your tueceuor, the eprinci- !
pin of : ruinuus policy. You begun by
nvtzzg the people'e money, and you ended a
by having them in beggary. One wan?
tempted to think that you had etttdied in
the. lordid eehool of Diogenee ; so far did
carry your idea of polttical abstemi
ounces. It was thin oarin epirit that
made you destroy the news? defence of
your country. in the zenith of your po
lit'tcnl ecooomy, lit, we find the cause of
those injuriee_end indiguitiee which our
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aﬂ'eetlone of his eoun ntem 'Yoo Bare
,Wded a portion of 1 e pubsig treaeuree
in'pureheelog territory, tn annextng to you_r
country New Orleane, that socttl of eedt-l
tionand revott. Had even thn eum m
need of min'tetering to the deeotltlng am
bition of a foreign tyrant, been applied to
the repair end eoneenattoa of our htde
mafitime force, we ehould not now have to
eto'op with eohmiuion to our injuries, nor
ehould we have had the mortification 0s
aeeing one of the deareat articlea in the
eharter of freedom violated by the man
datee of a military eatrap. Allow me air,
to eite to you the eentiments of a great and
wise man* on the subject of economy.
; " Economy is a dietributive virtue, and ss
' coneieta not in saying, but ecleetion. Par- ;
eimonz requireeno providenee, no eagaci- 4
ty, no powere of eombination, no compa
ss risen, no judgment." Allow instinct, and
that an inuinct not of the noblest kind, may
produce this saleefieonomy in perfection,
the other economy has larger and more
refined vie'a. It demands a diacrim't
nating judgment, and a firm, eagaeious
ss mind : lt shut; one door to impudcnt im
portunity, only to open another and a wi
der to unpresuming merit. " none but
meritorioua services or real talent; were to
be rewarded, this nation has not warmed
and this ration will not want the means of
rewarding all the services it ever will re
ceive, and eneouraging all the merit it ever
will produce. No state since the founda
tion of society has been impoverished by
that species of prosusion. ln saying mo
ney, Iaoon can count all the good ( do;
; but when by a cold pssenury I blaet the abili
; ties of a nation and etunt the growch of its
active energiee, the ill ] may do, is beyond
calculation. You commenced your polit't
cal career by pulling down with a quadri
manoue aetivity what the wisdom of your
prcdecessors had built up. Sir, it is an ea
3 ay thing to pull down. Fury and incapa
f city may in one day destroy more than the
' wisdom os ages can erect. No eooner were
you seated in the preaidential chair than
you invaded the sanctity of that tribunal on
which the sate of our liberties ia auspended.
Every institution was in danger of falling
heiore the fury of your partisans. I speak
not of the quality and nature of the chan
ges they eﬀected. Their Briarean hande
would hate demoliahed alike the usesul and
the bad. lt was not, sir. the large and li
beral conceptions of :: statesman, but the
narrow spirttos levelling, that led you to
mark with disapprobation every measure
of the federal administration. You came
reeking from the school of Condorcet, and
wouid have instituted inthis country that
beautiful seriel of experimenu by which the
philoaopherl of France so illustriouely be
nifitted theirs. You would have taught us
'to imitate the sanguinary excenee of that
people not:! come chief like Bonaparte a
rette to chain down the spirit of revolt. We
can remember the intolence of France cup
ported and encouraged by your party,which
only the inﬂexible virtue and unthakeo in
tegrity of Washington could expren. Un
der hia_auepicea we escaped the baneful
contagion at her revolutionary 'polities. —
But you, tir, have almoet rendered nuga
tory the exertion: of that great man, by
? entlaving us to her will, now that she ia
; armed with the power and arrayed g'in the
pomp of despotiam. Butl encourage the
i hoþe that Amerieans will not tamely sur
ss render their liberties. The spirit of '76,
ss which reaiated the illegal claims of a Bri
tiah miniatry, willcontend for the altar of
freedom against The banditti of Gaul. But
other principle: than those of your tempo
rizing ouecenor will be called forth ty the
eveutss. With our swords we purchaseu
ourliberties, and with ous swords We must
defend them. The memory of that man
whom you have labored to diehoiler, will
inspire the bosom of my countrymeu.
Happy America ifshe had still continued
to make his precepu, his virtues and his
examples, the base of her "public. But
you kvow how they all have been set aside,
and by what anyour wretched policy has
triumphed over his wise and magnanimous
[mons- lt was for .thie you rewarded e
very creature that had been brauded with
his dispielsure. [: was for this you hou
ored the miscreaut Duaue with the epauiets
'of an Ameriean officer. But when you,
air, .!oug with Duane and every veual
libelleksbﬂl be forgotten; then the
proud loue of the eapital shall
have-fanen, the name of Whhin'gtou will
aurviv'e; lot it will be engraved on the
hemaofthe virtuousaudpod' Aplainq
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'niiap'hiat'teat'rd 'usiwsim - continued
tth virtuou- feeliagt, lsct mite in the
Lpptriea os philoaophy- and the prtnetpkl
'ofgjnyertine. la virtuounminda the _
ofbonor is direct; and where there exiata
no desire to solten the'reprnaehea of eonsisi
acienee, thete nnct aophistry ean abate the
principlea of virtue in the heart. The eaae
of one, is a creature weak and instrm of
mind and incapable of any uaesnl or value
bla attainlnent. The other forma a charac
ter fertile in every great and good qualiti-_
eation. In one we recognize your por
trait, sir. in the other we see the mind
and virtues of Washington. The strength
and direetneas of a mind like his stand
I strongly apposed to the inatability of your
ss wavering and dcsultory judgment. By the
sure instinetr of a virtuour heart he per
ceived the truth and rcsoiutely adhered to
her preceptinna. Uneducated in the wiles
of a Mazarene, he despises the mise'rable
jugglers of secrets ; and by his eandor and
ingenuousneas put vice and dishonesty to
the bluah. Had he studied in the achool
of Voltaire or of the National Assembly,
he would, like you, air, have been a curse
to his country. You came into power af
ter this great man had paid the debt of na
ture ; and it has been a misfortune to your
country, that while you possessed just phi
losophy enough to make you a szeptic, _tou
wanted the lighte of a superior understand
ing to reclaim you from its errors. Your
public conduct has corresponded with the
principle: of your character and under
standing. Too cowardly to reaent the in
sults of your country abroad, you never
wanted courage to invade its liberties at
home. Under your banesul torch the con
stitution of your country has pined away,
and cannot be renovated by any remedy
short of a total expulsion of your partyt
from power. The constitution of the U
nited Statea is the result of the wisdom os
past ages, and not the crude and unfinished s
oﬀspring of theoreteric politics. lt cow]
sists ol separately constituted authoritiespf
over the integrity of which the people aressss
to keep a conscant and unremitting watch. *
When this. fair system becomes corrupt ;
when theparts of which it consists harmo- ss
; serpent has long east upon us those glaneel
i with which he first fascinatea in order after
wards to devour. The subtle Bonapartcss
] ministers to these corrupt aﬀectioun more;
: fatal to republics than invading auniea. H*\
ssg first violate: the chastity of the struggling
; halscomenting victims, and then with his
rufian daggar he stiﬂes at once the voice and
remembrance of the pouution. Every nox
. inns aninal that a corrupt state of mannere
produces is tearehed for; all the explain
materials that a new and crude nate of so
eiety engenders, are-prePared in unguarded
nomente for the cubvemon of your liberties.
Under variou- dis ieee lark the eeeret foes
of our country. nder many : cione ny
peannoes of petriotiun burn the fix and in
, temperate fire: of addition. Theee te not
i the hair brain fanciee ofan alarmed and an
. quiet imagination. They are irreeietible
ss conclusion from known saeu. What do (
\ say ! ss They contain the history of the int
sixteen years. Sir, itis an age of re'olu
ss done in which we siliye. Power and domi
I pint m phnd_w_i_thin the teach of the
i nize withssthe purposes of a single man, the
; shadow remains—but the spirit oflibertv
! is ﬂed. This fair system, air, you have
endeavored-te corrupt; for the decrees of
its power have hung upon your nod. You
: obtained hy facttoua inﬂuence the complete
: eubserviency of that-body to your viewasi—
\ You have_ united against freedom those
? power: which the sramers of the conltitu
, tion wisely partitioned out in its defence.
' Every symptom ot morbid Weakness and
I strength was apparent on the face of your
i adminiatration. At one time the springs
! of government were so relaxed that we
might Psopcsly have been said to have no
government at ail ; at another they w." ;.
nimated beyond lhrtone: ofcivil despotiatn.
[! she" nothing criminal in havingthua
COHUPTd 0": Of th:: fairest system: of po
liCY Wh'Ch human wisdom hue directed?
[! it Of 90_ CON'QUence that you have left
the perntctoue fsuifa of conduct along with
the Ill" more Ptroiciouo eﬀects of our e:
amplc 10 Your auceeasor; and t at you
he" dessolyed on him the odioue tusk ol
accompluhmgt by one act, that lcheme
which your genius had the hardihood to
conceive? A war with England would
realize the hopes of your party, and fix
the deatmiu of this country forever. it
would lead to the ectabliohment of a pow
erful military force, the auspemion osaome
of our meet eacred lawz, the diuolution
of monl- and comequent aubminion to
Bonaparte " When ! euntemplate the cha
racter os thin man, his immeaaurable re-ct
aourcea (or wnr, and the genius and promp
titude with which he concdves and executel?
i the most etupendoue echemee of ambition.
, I ttemble for my country." This gilted
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eininently cilttctllilid 10"? th! mhiiity, 'si' 75"
force of your republipuﬂ zm'Fuymc-nt. "53:
survive: the pretent state of thing:. there :. .,
no triel over which it' ma sinot si'enntunljssfsif
uiu'mph. 'ltil a defect tmqurable from ; 'ss
tree mtugthlt while thev are of uliothm, 'li
most iiabie to corruption end venality.thcy '
ne oil dettitute of the prompt end-effici'euc * ss
means of remedy. T he strong :mn os mo
narchy can pluck from itl bosom-thit et-ii.
Btit how shall we ottempsit inn republic to
erueh the incipiensst'mowmentsss-of conspim.
cy. Can we institute a dietator and' invm
him with the bloody ne and the mpe ? Can
we call into exittenee : body of men iih
the state, inqitisitore of Venice} who may
place before the hardy traitor the engine of
torture? \Ve may do all thin. But the
statute of liberty must be veiled, while the
axe osthe executioner is susiliing the tom.
mands of a stern and inezorable necessity. .
Few democraciee have outlived these vio
lent remedies that have not been tuppotted
by the sense and virtue of the peOple.
To whatever point of the 'When we
.direct our view the prospect of.!iberty it
Fovercast. France, who promised univer
sal emancipation to the nations Of the earth,
ihas herself become the t'ictim of resietless
deapotism. A deapotism that is leading
her devastating armiee over the iaireet por
tion of the globe. Mahomct itsuin from
the bosom of Arabic orsi Atilla with he my
iriad ( f Huns was not a more deadly foe to
; the liberties of mankind. The once psoud
] and independent sovereignties of Chxisten
'si dom are humblcd to the duet. Amide: thit
iruin and this convulsion os empires and
ss kingdoms, there is one nation sithr. has bru
ss ed the-fury of the ttorrn and still exists to
ss set bounds to the rapacious hopes of France.
FFrom your hostility to this nation, about'
the existence of which the sqtee of your
ss own country :tre indissolubly entwined. have
ﬂowed all the pernicious measures which
{have nearly surremlered our freedom to
France. But recoilect, sir, should the
siehadcs of general despotiem invade Eu
\ rope, the sun as liberty will not long coo
\ tinne to enlighten the region: of the west.
, He will descend hlushing into the waves of
the Paftfsiic and leave us too to the horrid
sisict- ,sisi ss: lsisictct'ﬀsifnsi'ssct'siW 'ct 57 - .
will turn indignanzly upon the Amerctican
republice and trampie them out ofexietence.
( need hardly ineist on the motivee that will
urge him to our destruction. Apprehcn
sione that our exietence may prove fatal to
the reposc of his eucceseon, will diseuade
him from permitting as ever to become e
great and powerful people. He knows that
ree government: are the nureeriee o! en
terpnze end talent. That [tom the bosom
of rrpublice have sprung those prodigiee of
geniue and valor that have cheetieed the in
eolenee of tyrants. The eword that cut
down the Penian monerchy wate forged in
a Grecign Ripublic- The Romene, e free
people, ovetrun and lubjugeted the whole
world,-nml when Rome lost her freedom
and lunk in the languor osdeepotiem, it
'wn the free and untamcd bnrbnriene of the
north thet dinmantled her of her glory.—
Honapntte himself eprung out of the jar
rmg elemenu os tumultuone demoeracy.
But enough as this.
s New, eir. along with the freedom ! have
,taken in nddrening to you en epi'etle, (
: have pressed you with e'ome wemnb—But
& it ie : warmth inspired by aﬀection for my
! ' . si
country. l conclude in the wardens one
whose language and eentimente (eve d' i
ty to hie subject. "( donot'preten to
underetend those prudent some of deed
rum, those gentle rule: of discretion, which
some men endeavor to unite with conduct
of the greatest and most hazardoue e'li'ain.
Engaged in defence of : n hononble Fame,
( would take : decieive part. ] ehould
scorn to provide for : sutore retreet or
keep terms with a man who _ no
i measures with the public. Neither the'eb
j ject submiseion of deeerting hie post in the
hour of danger, nor even the eacred ehield
;of cowardice should protect him. ! would
pursue him through life and tl'y the in: e:
ertione of my nbilitiee to preserve the pesi
ssiehahle infnmy of hie one and make !!
! immortel."
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down the liberties os Great Britaimthctn-he -
night of despmism.
Bonaparte ohall no eooner have eleven
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gentleman, vho has long necke] duke sun"
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