The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1805-06-04
Ctr Gnqulrm.
RICHMoND, 4tb JUNE, 1905.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE AURORA.

mad 1onoy hoped, that the controversy between lis
had clofed for ever. willing to believe thar E.
ven yaa would have approved of my forbearance and
have at admitted the propre,y of my principles
But your iait attack has awakened new con-
liberation of the conduit which you have oblerved TO-
wards me. molt fincerely lament my inability TO
touch iympathetc chord in your bofom, as we'll as
the neceiiity which you have mpoled upon me of az
tuning different attitude. My friends have now
right to expect anwer your ungenerous Uric
lures: my principles demand it, and it is duty owe
to myfelf, to afert my native independence I ap-
preach the talk with reluctance and tremor. | al
ready anticipate the delicate embarraIments in which
1t will involve me but may till be permitted to
ENJOY this conoation, that my prelen criticms up
on your condu9, the reflt not Of choice but of
neceiiity.
know not whether it il an advantage or defect
in your political education, that it has been dre6ied
by warnings and not By examples. The perfecutions
which you 70 nobly provoked and 70 brave!y endured
under the government of Bengal and the Intellectual
exertions which you made in London to promote
radical reform IN Parliament, mutt have excited in
your bofom an eternal hatred of tyranny The plea
ling contrat, which this country fpread before YOU
government in which you faw ildnefs and ftrencth
blended together nation which was free without
being lets obedient to the law, mutt have ouckcned
this hatred of defpctim into devoted love OF ber-
~. When you came to udy the two parties in this
country it was mpoible for you not to perceive at
once the policy Of the that was the mott congo
NAL to your theory: and, in almo the fame monlen,
that made you citizen by choice, you NUT have be-
come republican through conviction. You now on
ly wanted fit theatre, on which you might difplay
the treafures of your experience and the native re-
iources of your mind, in fuPport of your principles,
and immediately fit theatre prefented lelf TO your
afpiring ambition. The grardfon of DR.. Franklin was
off in the bloom of his life & the maturity of his fer
vices but agonies of death he forgot not his
duties to the living: and with his dying breath,
he named you as his fucceHor. Now then we behold
you furrounded by adventitious advantages which a
ofmuch moderate abilities thanI takevou to
be, might have iucceisfuy employed FOR promoting his
own honor and the freedom of his adopted country.
You at the head of preis, which your illul
rious predecehor had ufed every faculty of his mind
and all the reources of his private fortune to rae
lis deerved Importance 1t was placed in the veal
thief and mott poPulous city in the union, the COZ
Rant feat of the federal executive and the governor
OF PENNY lvania the occafona reideuce of congrefs
and the refort of the wiGef from every part of
the union or OF Europe 1t became the ORGAN, il
Of the publcvoiee" at lea of the fentients of
the mott leading republicans. By their patronage, it
fupported from their literary contributions it re-
ceived knowledge and decoration. You had the adj.
vantage too of feeling before you the public proceon
of fedea neaiures; you might have traced the fecret
fprings which produced them, and the daant con-
caught many of hoie nieaures before they arole up
on the public eye; and there were not even wanting
iome faithles ederats who Initiated you in the un
hallowed rises ftheir mott fccret caucufes.
am proud to fay, that in the uGe of thefe in(ru
you have never disappointed the hopes Of your
friends the fears Of your enemies. The ilIberal
conduit which you have lately obferved towards me
FIR, is little calculated to win my affection or eleem
but fhould be uuuf you, to Hyfelf, and the ho-
ly caue of truth, il ever denied even If fhould
sOiG conceal my gratitude for your pat lervces
could alnon Join Mr. NATION in the fentment, tina,
under heaven view you Of the principal agents
whom the resurrection Of our liberties and
the aulpicious ADMINISTRATION of public affairs
would not be mean enough to fay as the wavering
Wndham ono iad about the lireling Goblet, that
you deferve to have latue Of gold erected to your
memory, but willing give you attribute which
the heart of freeman only can feel, and the heart
of freeman Only can beltow, the tribute of
my Gncere gratitude for upholding the liberties Of
your country. You may call this as you have once
done before, the language of " reluctant compliment
Tis unfortunate ME- Duane, that you are 70 ;egog,
Of the Greie5 ofwes" that you dead to the richea
luxury which animate the bo(,m Of man when
he pays that tribute 70 others which is iuhly due 70
their meritorious f,rvices and when he receives that
tribute for bis own which lprings directly from the
heart
have not, however, fr, approvednor do mean TO
commend every ftep u your career under the two
firil administrations. 7 was ut that time young and
will admit with you that am Gill inexperienced in
thseurrent Ilencmany aeso your
life may have efcaPed my memory which would COM
mand al my deteta;ion, and would chafe away eve.
ry imprefion Of reflect Which feel at preient for
your conduct Yet there are two defo6ls which e..
a9 my Interpretation. The one IS a tranient err
ror which hope never will Feturn; The other ha,
haunted YOU from the very frt lif of your editorial
life, and will svpire only with H. becaule it flows
from "the Of houey habits 5,wbich to
fay, thatit e nioltofte pree in this coun
sry, ny iudeedferveto ogizeforyour own condutl
whlG it aggravasss the eIten.of thc genersimifcdsi