The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1805-03-21
ENQUIRER.
RICHMOND, MARCH 81, 1905.

BERT one os the federal members Of the MaGachufets
Legislature, who has lately played very diihnguiih
ed in certain proceedings OF that honorable body.
Thefe proceedings have hitherto attracted the no.
tice of our paper becauf had every fact beenaid be-
fore the public, which neceiIary to a complete
understanding of the fubje6f the printed piece
which iirf led to the invetg CATION the long debate
In the MaiIachrfests Legislature and the report of
their fele6f committee they would all have occupi-
ed fpace in our paper much too great, whether
eonfider the pubic consequences which they were
likely produce, theinformaton which they might
have npartedto readers Where there was 70 much
matter of general and intereHng nature to lay be-
fore the public, would it have been proper to have
foted into any paper, fLch ferries OF hbeous facts
and lcurrilous expreions fell from the federal pru-
ter and the federal Legislators of MalIachufetts
To heie men and to men of friilsr fentiments we
leave the elevated Office retailing flch furrlity and
invelive: whillt to remains only the humble duty
OF cleaning the htory of thefe proceedings, and Of
fubjoning then, as an explanatory preface to the
following letter of MIR. PANE
The editors Of the New England Palladium of Bof-
ton, who printers ALTO the Legislature of Maj
fachuletts, mad pu6lilheda very icurrous attack
upon the private character of MIR. Jetferion. In
this polite and poliihed enay, with the title of
the monarchy OF feieram" revived all thoie
mean and illibersI inGnustions, which emblazoned
for the mott part by the malignant genius Of J. T..
Calender, had been differentiated with 10 much zeal
by all the federal preHes in the country. 1t this
poor and merable mnltrel, who had ut fra trung
the federal harp, the of Mr. Jeiferfons add
miniitration 1t this, which the federaliits hav.
never ceaied to touch upon with liful, tho iucces
leis hanl & it by harping sdfcordant lrings
that the Editors of the New-England Palladium
drew themieves notice, which they were by 10
ct means en'ltledDiiguted by attack 10 fae in fac
10 icurrilous IN expreiiiou, upon i man 10 emnenly diff
tnguiihed tor ms vt"es and his iervces, MIR. Allen
member OF the eg,ilature Vi Mailachuiets, intro
duced refouton which was deprive theie editors
OF the Office and emoiunents of the puSic printing
The reiouton was IN leit mott improvident and uie-
LET'S.
Mr. Allen himielf might have forefeen the con-
fruGtion which will 10 well bear, and which tbe
yux-eyed vigilance of the federiits oud not fail to
put upon 1t that obecr 10 reitrain the Eber
sy of the pfeis. And he might have known from the
experience of Great Britain and of this country thar
this is argument deeply laid in truth for party
fpirit not to employ il with ardour and with the
greateit iucces OIL every location. Few will believe
tnat this reicnton was introduced from any ich in
tenton, that it would have produced fuch dila5
trous effect But then it had this appearance
OF oppre lion and the very effort to pun,lh
libeous publication would have encouraged as fe-
libel agaiuGt his own party and aeainn the ad
mmtrasion. Betdes could Mr. Allen have expect
ed thar this official pun.hment would have arreRed
the propagation of theft very tales themfeves; and
thatit would have diminili ed the number of tho(e
vino were to tell and thoie who would believe them
Was it not even evident, that this perlecuon of the
martyr-like lIbeers might have produced fympathv
Tor their exertons which all their abours would ne
yer have exated and impaired an air OF dignity and
curioGty thofe ibes, which their intrnlic inpor
tance could never have obtained And after all.
what danger to have been apprehended from all
their la5o. and al their ingenuityl what were the
leilons OF terror, which the experience of four years
had taught to the friends of the administration :
MIR. Jeiterion elected IN the year 800, by lajo-
ritY OF only is once in sos, hailed the Pref
dent OF the United States by triumphant majority of
14S. When during this momentous criiis thoie very
tales had been circulated with 70 unparalleled an avid
ty when almo all the labours of thought and a.! the
tricks of cunning had been exhauRed in vain i'll bring
ing the PRECEDENT and his Importers and their various
meaiures into unmerited dilrepue what rational ap-
Prehenon could be INDUCED that their future exert-
ons would be accompanied with greater fuccels
Already " has the experiment been tried whether
government true fprt of the con-
tutoR, with zeal and purity ard doing no af which
it would be unwilling the whole world ihoud wit
ne!s, can be written down by fallehood and deanati
on" And what has been the reGult Our fellow
citizens have looked oil cool and collected They
ia~ the aren't iource, from which theG outrages pro-
ceedei. They gathered around their public FUNGI
onaries : and when the connitution called them to
the decion by outrage, they pronounced their YER
dicl, honorable to thoie who had fervcd them and
coniolatory TO the friend of man who believes he
may he entruned with the controul of his own
affairs"
M. Aliens relolution was then in all probability
uieles and mprovident one but the fcene which it
ierved to introduce into the Legislature of Malta
chut;ts ismuch lefs calculated obtain the tribute
Of our appreciation. After this refolution had been
offered, tele6t committee appointed to enquire
into its merits their report unavorable to the
obea OF the refouton and it in the uflifcati-
OH OF this report that the federal phalanx dpayed
rancour and fcurrility, which wonld have amoR re-
fiected dilgrace upon fome ofthofe public prints
which dgracethe literature and berality of our coun-
try.
In the courfe Of this debate, it was that Mr. HUI
bert, conented to become thehonorary hnorographer
general oftho fcandalou and fcurrous libels which
the federal party have feparatey and ofomely fpun
out OF their own productive imaginations, or from
thoie incidents partly mifrepreented and partly milf
underitood VIII Oh the enemies Of Mr. TeiTerfon have
attempted to dfcover in his long and confpicu-
Gus career. Embracing a long lape Of years col
Letting his furmiles his facts from preiudced
prints from fcraps Of letters not inparally pRima-
red, from the anecdotes Of private families the Lee
ghltor OF Sheffield has hung together tale which
Polsiles all the beauties of conhaencv without the
mertso Of truth. Mr. TeIerlon he rcprefens asthe ia
ta7c ana hidden monner, and his is the magic fpear
OF hurel, thar is reore him 20 his true hape and
expoie him TO the people in all his deforr,y. This
is the r11u 20 whom Mr. paira b,s ,Jdre. 10 81