The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1805-12-27
FOR THE ENQUIRER.
Me4y Political Nomenclature for Rie5u

Nezs Political Nomenclature for Richmond
IT is propofed to make fome alteration in the
distinguishing epithets of party in this city: in
afnuch as the prefent are not only borrowed,
but do not exprefs with fufficient accuracy and
preeifion, the defcription OF men intended to be
characterized, nor the kind of principles intend
ed to be dcigna.ed. ! fhould take no ffnall Gre
dit to myfelf, had l been the original inventor
of the propofed improvement in our political
dictionary; but NUT do iuftice to the gentle.
man from whom borrowed the idea, and,
therefore, freely declare it is not my own here
by avoiding with proper care the charge of H.
terary theta charge which is but too often.
nowadays, jnfly brought forward. In con-
verfation with this gentleman the other day, he
made uie of thefc words-"I am afraid fuch
will be the event of a certain election, they car
ry their damned moderi6a 70 far.' The word
ftruck mel thought it was nezv. Not to be
behindhahd with the gentleman, after left
him, endeavoured TO invent word that fhould
fuit the party who have fuch deteO alton for
moderation, preiume, but what the gentleman,
before alluded to, denominates, with elegant
brevity, naodfrifiu. / at length fucceeded with
the afiiitance of 4 fesv friends: we held eau
cD5, of three perfons, and it was decided by
majority OF one, that the term mott peculiarly
futcd to that gentleman and his party was boz
fberijjn. A fpeech was made upon this ocCafi-
on, and the point argued by an orator every way
qualified to- decide upon topic of fucb mag
nitude. He Rated that 6ofberiEn was aptly OPP
pofed to moaerijin ; that thefe terms were new,
he f'id, "it was mott true" gravely quoting
Shakfpeare but he coDtended that upon the
prefent occalion there was neceiIity for ne,y
terms; that no term heretofore in uf- could be
applied with propriety 10 our Ht.is .divilions
he was oppofed to branding any fet of men, in
our country, with fuch opprobrious epithets as
fone bad done; he called no men Robefpierres
or Dantons, for if they had the will, which he
did not believe, they certainly had not the pow
er to- practice IN our city the revolutionary pur-
CATIONS Of 4 Robefpierre or Danton; ftill lefs
did they deferve any Englif1 deigustion OF po-
litical parties-they were certainly neither
wings nor tories; they were not quids--Penn-
fylyania had exclufively monopolized this term,
and this defcription of men they were not mo-
marc hifs, arifocrats, or federaliRs--thcy had
gone beyond democracy he therefore obferved
that there was neccfIity for inyenting a new
term, and none he thought could be better or
more appropriate, than the one which he had
the honor to- propoie--BoTHBRisMl! The
gentleman fpoke at great length, and with fuc
I" i1dig1aaf eloqnence" that could not take
notes as fat az he manufactured metaphors;
Fer rhetoric, be eosiS safeps
Hi mosfb, 6Vf out BryT fsIv q hsPe."
There might arife a difpute whether anger or
hippancy moe prevailed.
"Ssa, bold fJs one, and fsne hr abA,
But 6s7cJar'er bey vefe a eofbe,
TbeAfirCpo zOos 10 JnaA, bis t,oia ~ '..'
ogf-4seisbdbb rsgS. bd bsLf Sr.is."
However, he concluded at lat and 60 win by
recording, IN chsrasters of dearhlefs fame, the
fubtance of his cIufing remarks. He faid that
bofb,,;6,s wss = word Of Irifh extraction hut
in Ebs country W. rccsved the individuals of