The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1805-06-04

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| (,onld fearcry know which NOR to condemn, the
means you employed, the n,n,aragement and cor
rapton OF the treaury which you expo!ed, or the iuf
p:cous firing OF the and treal,iry Offices, by
which all the chances of detection We're forever de-
ffroyed ann not efficiently yesfed in the " Cam
mons caeuifry" fertile thete uncertain points TO
your Titsfaion nor to Ultimate how far private in
divdua has right, upon mere fuipic,on, to employ
iueh eiuivocal exredien,s. Turn Jeinit, for once,
MIR. Duane, and juitify the means by the end Yonr
rough fenfe you fay has been accuitomed Elf
mate motives by aetons"--or reverie your rue
! climate your actions BY your motives, ana no,
unwilling deny you all the benefit, ofyour maxim
am not difpofed to touch with 70 delicate hand
upon thepercnnal vein ofcurrilty, whchrns through
the columns of your paper. TBit fir. defect which
as so, TO moa of the papers in this country and you
would feel leis fore under the centuries which you de-
ierye, becaufe there 70 many others divide it
with yo. But this paltry plea will be of little avail
TO You until you iurrender your high pren,eniions to
reputation and influence.
general hould receive greater 1tare Of the CEN
lure in proportion to the greater extent of his exam
pie, and you, fir If you have acquired, have
boldly aiumed detatoria power over the prces of
the union. have already called yours the Le9 "a
per in the unon, andI will not now be heral e.
rough to fay with Junus, that you owe a the ac-
acknowledgement my bounty, aud that icorn to re-
tract the charitable Donation. Filling thus wide
Pace in the eye of Mankind you are not thus entitled
to the fame privilege of execute by which inferior
| editors may profit. The fublme duty was before
yen o. reforming the prevailing ,uoralities OF our
preies. If " the newspapers in America before Mr.
Nhher WAS born, were even more fcurrulous than
they have been r-s," you had it in your power to
make then, even leis fcurrous than they are now
You have breathed new fpir into the Political prin-
epies OF our papers, * it pity you did fee your
glory III givga oftenng their 1-oyoI aperities
But your hon,ely habits" have blinded you to the
path OF your real intereks. You have funk in the
lame poo, OF icurriltyin which many of your cor
ternPorar'es are tioundering with dfgrace do not
mean to narrow dow;rslls term to words to phralss
or to fentences ihould give it fcope as wide as
tfiat winch Addition had given to the term, pedan-
try There is fcurrity of manners, of fiaion of
iaet even, and even principle. Every thing lhoud
have the name Of currous, which tends 20 wound
the feelings of your adverGary without promoting the
| pubic Intereh Every thing is fturrlous which in
.e'ige.s the broad line OF potenes yet forty am
TO ooerve, that the diicpions of the Aurora ould 70
OFTEN violate the rules ola liberal aud Accomplished
gentleman.
Your career, therefore, under the two firltadnnif
trations without thee two benlifes would have been
truly contormabe to your own duty, and to the pub
| lie good Hitherto you had done little which did
not promote The caufe OF the republican party and
by promoting that caufe you became :. creditor OF
iociety But criiis was now approaching in the az
lars OF this country which calculated to excite
all your fears, and to call forth the mot delicate cir
eu'nipection to avert i. Had YOU paid anv
attention, Fir, to the progrefs of parties in Eng
land, or OF the fchifms of the chrifian church
or even to the ufual effects of the pafons You might
have foreeen that the triumph of your party would
really have been the crifis of its fate. You MIGHT
have known that when any foreign enemy was once
put down. civil warts likely toarife in the very body
OF the camp. The contrarety of opinions or an op-
potion OF ntereft is apt to fepsrate men, who can no
longer be kept together by fene of common danger
GU might have alto fen that thele dputes as often
ariie from the overheated enthuafm of fch a, pres
their ebcions zoe far from fupicous moderation of
'hoie who relax in the puruit. You may fay indeed
that opinions at fuch time will have much lefs in
fiucnce upon men than their interes, and that every
man ihou'd become the object of fupicon becaufe h
wing once trnrrPei oves tie rIIe.Iy other
ambition 20 crafty but the uccefs of his private views
But were this argument correct do you not ftill per-
ceive that the fame prit of uerelt to be found in
thoie, who are the oudeG in their denunciatons as
in tfoe VINO are made the objes of their prolcript-
on Is there not in fat much danger that the
men who are once Topped in their puruit of private
ACKNOWLEDGMENT, fhould with to accule them of unit
ing with the Federalifts that luch men fhoud re-
alyunite with the federats to life themfelves into
temporary fuperiorty their fellows
But whatever be the cauies Of fuc divilions it re-
quires no great lrength of mind to forefee fome of
| the ruins which muh Cow from them. You hold
forth new Object to revive the dropping hopes and
to keep together the fcatering fragments Of the fe-
dera party. You place the republicans who are de-
nounced under the ban of profcription: you take
away their power of promotingthe intere of the
pie, who longer receive the ervices of the man
in whom they will noongerrePofethe of fereing
them In fone booms you will extnguiH all the deire
OF acting, and in iome you will light up flame Of in
dgnant refentment which will lrink from no facrif
| ces that promiie the of vengeance. In every
country and in every fea there Coriolani, whom
the goadings of perfecution will cs into the arm:
OF the Vofci Let uch diGentions preva, in any conf
derabe degree among the republicans of this country
we may bid adieu to the unconamiuated purity OF
their preien principles fate of ociety will arife
before them, whole pha may defy the calculations
OF the prophet, bur mutt in every event claim the
ieniibity of the patriot. Whether the federal fati
ons iall ue upon their ruins, whether this faction
ihall unite with the Brionep the republican par
ty, or whether the Gironds Of that party fall hur-
ry us into the excees of anarchy, events ano e.
qualify to be dreaded by us, ard to be averted by
cautious circumfpeaion Our only refuge will be in
iyitem that fha combine vigilance with federation
and ihan equally reprefs the apolaey of the weak
and the exceiles Of the daring.
What opinion then are we to form Of the repnbli-
who takesntohisown hands thunders of the par
ty, who lays down his own andardof faith & ues hi.
bulls againl every who does not exactly fut its
Ipz l.. IL.