The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1805-06-07
Qbe Gnqulrer.
RICHMOND, IT'D JUNE, 1905.
FROM THE AURORA.


An article appeared in the Richmond Enq,nr-
or recently concerning the intentions of the
chief mag'itrate of the union to refufe fervng
in that fation longer than the term for which
he is at preient elected. We ihould have pub
li!hed the article with only light notice on
one point in it, were we not particularly called
upon to take it up by fome ptifxl, mean, mo-
Ggn0nt and unmanl ininuations thrown out up
on the articles in the Gazette of the United
States Taft Saturday. We fl,all now copy the
preface ofrthe Gazette of the United States and
the article from the Richmond Enquirer, and of
fer fuch remarks asfuggeft themfelves to US up
on view of both:
From the GAzETTE UNITED Srs4ys.
The following curious quiz is copied from
the Richmond Enquirer. We perfectly agree
in opinion with the writer that Mr. JefFerfon
will ferve in his prefent Office no longer than his
prefent term, though we are not quite fure that
the reaions which he afiigns will be the efficient
ones. There are frange things coming to pats
in thefe our days. The dif1entions of demo-
cracy have reached even the cabinet of the Ha-
ton. If Mr.. Jefferfon fl,ould choofe to retire
from the form before it BURT upon him, twill
not be the fra proof which he has given of his
belief that the better part of valor is difcre-
ton" More may be faid upon this point in
due time.
Here tollosvs the COMMUNICATION
svbieb APPEARED in the Enquirer of the en- of
May.
Upon the interefing fubiee which alone COM
mands respectable attention in this article, the
Intentions of MIR. Js6eyjon, as to the presidential
offce, we may venture to fpeak with deciion
& with confidence, & without apprehension of
contradiction or charge of ferviltiy or fatte-
hox Il E. r
an affection and reverence, that is fuperor to
falfc views, becaufe we have Individually meth,
ing to hope from favor by aduIation, nor TO
fear from the benevoence of his temper, were
our fentiments towards him different from what
they are.
We beheve-nay qve knoeU-that the inten-
ton of Mr.. Jefferfon to relinuuiill reelection.
was uttered and purpofed before he had been
Tx months IN Office; we heard it from good
authority that he carried the intention with
MN INTO Office and ape knosv that the motive
which i'lcnced his objections to the late rec
lection were fuCh as do him honor and that F.
very good man will think 70 the thought as
he ought, that after the floods, the deluces of
calumny and detraetion which had been pour
ed out asainft him, principally by the inlluene
OF man, who has iince periflled by the hand
or another man, whom with other means
and with more fuccefsfnl meafures he
had politically detroyed Mr.. Jeffer-
on after feeling four pre1es at Bottom, beGdes
their inferior facilities in the New-Eneland
itates; four prefes at New-York-four at Phi.
iadelPhia' all OF theie among the greateft in cir
cuation on this continent and in Eurote-en-
gagged for years, not in confulting his principle,
OF policy and government--noti in fcannipq the
meaiureS of hrs adminifraton-not in noint
ing out the impoIicy, inefficiency, inconiifen-
/ cy with freedom or with natioal liberty, of tbe
plans and acts ofthe executive magiGrate NOT
IN devIfing better reaiures, or i'm pointing ont
the defects or the failure of tLofe of Mr.. Jefer-
1on,s-but in drawing from the fources of the
mott abandoned and vicious minds, the mof
vulgar, virulent and flanderous Hbels on his pri.
| vate LIE and moral character. When he faw
| that everyftep of his early years, and thence
! down through the labours and ftryices of = d;c
tinguiihed life were traced, frarched, fcrutini-
zed and tortured by caumnies into crimes
while the glorious tervices he had rendered
were either pafied over liDheeded and unapplau
ded, or the mott enviablc fpirit of beneyolence
and Philofophy THROWN into fcorn, only to At.
fail him-and artifice employed to render him
odIous IN the eyes ofhis country--of foreign ma
tons and of poferity--and to difrrace the
American nation as well as its government.
/ When MIR. Jefferfon faw all this-and if he
/, did not jesi he mutt have been iefs than man
! ~ N'N"'J 10" that IL was uuC 10 MS own rPDtI-
taton and to the reputation of the American
people in the eyes of the world, that he IbouId
put calumny to the teft, and prove that eo,Ici-
ont Of Tirtnr, The j4Riee ofa 1irfaons beobis 4,
hyperion TO the bitteref and mofl deliberate at
tacks of falfehood s. villainy. Withthis view. (.
under this impufe alone, it was that he content.
ed a Ierond time to he chofen chief rnspifrate
and the votes of his country, !62 to a.
prove the efimation in which his libelers Gand
with his country, and the love which his conn.
/ try bears towards him.
Iheie were Mr.. Jeferfon's motives for inf
iering a |scond ele6tion-.-and it was then with
the declared purpofe when he accepted the of.
nee, that another choice flould he made even
fhould his life be prolonged to the clofe of that
| period.
Let US for moment indulge the expectation,
that u this inyeterate calumny, which principal.
| W proceeds from Nezv-EneLaid 1en or OH
EnGIand'J ninionJ-let us indulge the hone
that If this dctefabIe detraStion is continued.
that Mr.. Jefcrfon will once more liftcn 70 the
voice ofhis country, and be prevailed uooc 70
ierve as the heft favor he could render the
nation, and the proudcf vengeance which he
could exereife upon the enemies of repreen.
tative government.
We apprehend, however, he viii not =. ard
for reafons well aligned by the ENoufRrp: il
was bis fri. and it will be his Ian op;nion,