The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1804-10-27
EN- OUI r Err.
RICHMOND ::
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 81, 1901.

1e'| ~>N| |-S%C/<(-@~r
SrzEcH OF Gov. TRuMBuLl-r,; i. REGULARLY IN
portant, that every public chlraser a,oud carefully,
a',nguia Between his private principles As = man.
I'D has proieiional duties an Officer. When a
1:ron is nveifed with certain public f,,y;9r II il
the very offence ofsirpation for tina. man 20 dich,rve
any other public duties than thofe which ar. attach
ed to his o.tcs To expreis mere abaraca o1ii;s,, :
TO advocate certain iett of doctrines II the vary
time when he is diicharginy the duties of his Office
and which are hot neceiiarly connected with any of
thoie duties, cro-iyce entitled 20 TIE name of
u'nipation though 1t is evidently marked by fane of
its features. 1t indicates dpoftiou in The officer TO
extend as influence beyond his public functions and
to attach an importance certain prnc7les ncs TO be
derived from their ntrinc truth bu: from the extra
neous influence OF his oiice-Suc principle fear
fieo ITO coinete operation, would b. productive Of
the. mot perncious ridiculous conIequerces.
we ih"uid lee the niniiters Of the gofpel, innead
0: expounding the tehets of their religion, or animal
certng upon the fins of their flock expatiatng upon
iynens oil government and initeld of taking their
text iron St Mark ST. John cullirg maxim, from,
Or Robert timer on the Divine right of Kings or
Locke on Civil government, and Influencing the mol:
ucsi CONDUCT OF their hearers not Grely bv .Ne pc
naities OF the law, but by the impcrceptble WEIGHT
oil tneiF acred character, and by the Inducements of
religion We ihoud fee the civil nayittrate, ,yh;le
,u'h'lhg ms legal functions and charging Grand
itatuts-booie which lay before Kim, and launching
forth INTO iiieulons about the contribution or into the
uentons OF party and initead Of railing aqai,i the
'ioihors OF the law, and the dinurbers of the public
peace we honld fee him forgetting his judiciary
functions IN violent aninadvertions upon lor, 81 re-
iyl'efls OF government, particular ,neafures Of
" Auni'htration. Such things have been done in cur
own country and at no diftant time; and they have
nen tc oy lone OF US, they deferved TO have been
ie-i he authors Of fueh impairment conduA. have
Desn viewed by US with emotions of llame and ue
indignation. '''1 jus
The Governor of Connecticut (Mr. Tr1imbuIij has
uiuTPed this fame privilege although he has made
very innocent uie Of it, in his late Speech to the Ge
neral Anembiy OF that fate. Having found htte ex-
erce ior lis o1i privileges in detailing the pub
lie concerns which particularly relate TO that fate he
proceeds to exc Out his ihort and unntereGin. com,
municasion by few general reflections on tba refill,
OF the French Revolution :" The Governor of .ba
confederate ttate OF Connecticut, which had entrued
al, ITS foreign relations the federal head ts ate
ocer whole iPhere of duty could no, cxserd bevopd
the u States, preinmes introduce into pubc com,
iiiunlcation his private reflections on the revolutions
OF foreign country. Public reflections thew cannot
De calico as they can have alIuticn to his own d
TICS, or the Office ct the fate legislators whom he
was at that time addreiilrg Some reflections indeed
on the change OF foreign government mich. L.. s..
been properly offered to Congress by the Predent of
.ne United states; 1t iuch obiervatons were intend
Gu TO ITO" tnat theic political changes had produced
corresponding change in our foreign relations wbcb
1t was the duty OF that body to underand and 70 re-
1ui''e But any abtrad reflections ON the revoIuti-
OBS OF ofei9n countries their probable caues or their
ACTUAL consequences would furey be ncoinpatibla
even with the conittutiona duties of the preGden,
NtucI more then would they be unbecomine the off,
c'zi character OF the Governor of Connecticut.
NOT dificuit' however, to perceive the real drift
OF MIR. IEumbulps ohfsry,,;o,.
inhabitants of Connecticut have been warnIv
cd wi'hi few months in reving their Rate consfi
tuition. One party, principally confistng OF the Re-
veiitured TO contend not ONLY that tbr
preient form OF government is no constitution AZ AT
IS 1t imply the Old Charter of Charles. IT. which
mas never been iPecialy adopted By the people but
a. even IL were constitution in the most liberal
ienie OF the term, it would still be defcien, in the
most uieui principles of republican government
he DINER party again do not he,ate TO fupport the
existence and to eulogle the provons of their cons
tutIon' Gov Irumbul, fen full that the fprit of re-
iorin would operate at all that it would eo TOO far
is wiling to instruct the people of Come eic1 by the
melancholy example Of the French nation. W;tlonf
oeng called upon in ms public capacity; when thr
iuole'. e,,' to which ne makes 10 pointed all aii-
on,iss still ailoat in the minds of the people AMI bas
not even reached the Legislative body he comes for
ware to address that body, or rather the people at
large Oh this iubjeet which peculiarly demands their
most impartial Judgment. He cxercifes a priviledoe
Which appears 10 Inc to enter by no fort of consrc
ton, Eto The office OF Governor of Connecticut and
which no more belongs To Mr T.umbull, than To
the most retired citizen n the state
This cfitieilm is merely confined 10 the propr;c, &c
Governor TrUmbulfs introducing his private opinion,
into the public affairs. The accuracy of thee opnops
eopsutes very different, and perhaps more npor-
tani iu6jed OF enquiry. My own fentimcnts DO mo.
certainly coincide with his in every repecf The ~,
Plicaton, which he makes of the experience of the
French revolution, to the affairs of this country ~
pears to me altogether unfounded. What analogy Is
there between nation, opprefed not only by lie ~o
vernment, but b. 'priviedged orders, lahourny fo-
the perfection OF new iystem Of things in the midst
OF civil ruin and foreign war, and people pofieIipe
equal rights who are anxious to acconlplih a peace
fui reform IN the prime pie details of their govern
neut What is there in the fate of the one. thar
Mould rePreis the ipir Of improvement in the oier
As to the opinion that we arrived at the y Of
the french revolution" every vehel which s waited
aerois 'he ocean appears 10 brg wit! it f5me contra
de'ory Intelligence. Here, however, it is lime for
me 70 Paufe!
FEENcu CoURrIEss,-'ibe eonRituted authorities
OF the French empire appears to be fan reapGnp nto
that ieryiie and degraded character, by which the
whole nation were 70 much djsin xuificd under tine
old regime. As the King Gued or looked Grave.
Z was then euitomary for the fnpatbetic conrtenan
esS OF the bye-ianders, TO amne the varying eyprec
bon. IT impolihie for time AID in this d;aan,
country to know what are the l,crey C.,,;,.o. a..