The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1806-06-03

nut '"c icfonS Wu'Ch Ju'tfIy THIS Hg6f of re-
mova!, will be more fully explained when we
as Pot-mafers, and collectors.
AT this moment, perhaps, the Department OF
State fnrnihes cafe in point 1t is true that
the Offices to be noticed are not recognized by
the contribution they do not impofe upon
thote who hold them, any political flntTions
but it is no lefs true that they are intimately
connected with the department of Rate, its
important functions, its mot fecret arrange
ments. Their incumbents do little as politicians,
but is not their knowledge posuer Let the read
Ter judge, whether the author has ia this in
ftance pnhed his prineiti< TOO .f1ri
The firt clerk j, the department of fate is a
Mr. Waggoner, who held that Office under the
lat administration and continues to hold it: a
man, whole official qualifications are not more
inconteItible than his political principles; a
man, who has not flirunk from the ridiculous
and refuted aiiertion, that Mr.. Jefferfon was
chargeahle with defalcation of not efs than
10000 Dollars, when he was fecretary of fate I
And yet this gentleman Till holds his Office I'M
der the very government, which he has fufpea-
ed and abufed. The !econd clerk in that de-
partment, is Mr.. Brent, who is faid to have
been once the firt clerk and the favourite
pupil of Alexander Hamilton hmfelf. But
thefe' clerks are not mere miniferal officers
under the government; not like your Poft-
Matters, with fcarce aught to do, but to ham
die letters and newspapers, or like your Port
collectors with their manifeits and regihcrs. No.
Thefe men are often entruted with the moft
confidential fecrets of the government. They
have accefs to the dispatches from AID to our
foreign 'niniiters. They know the negotiations
which have terminated with foreign govern
ments and thoie which are depending. Nothing
pahcs through their hands, but what is con-
nected with the interefs of the ftate: the po
litics of an administration to which they are op-
poled and thofe meafures which if they do
not intend to thwart, they can fcarcely be ex-
peeted TO promote to the utmoR of their DOW
er.
Far be that unsenerous logic, that would
afcrbe this mifplaced indulgence of Mr.. Madi.
fon to direlction from his republican prnci-
pies No man feels greater gratitude than the
author of thefe reflections, for the inenimable
fervices which Mr.. Madifon has rendered Few
men think more highly ofthe abRraa purity of
his republican principles. But it is not here that
the fault exits. 1T is in the extreme lberaity of
his nature. ltisin that lyfcniibility, that gene
reus dilguit at every thing that looks like per-
fecution, which has uniformly marked his con.
dnd. Yet MIR. Madifon has in this in(tapce
carried 1t to an excefs. He ihould recolleet
that when turgeon has dangerous excrefcep-
ces to lop off, he will not find the mott gene
rous tympathy and tears half f1ch fervicea
bile initrnments as the caultic or the knife.
1t no doubt is painful duty to difnifs any
officer. But could there be more ridiculous
apology for emitting to difcharge this public
duty? Feneon has fad "that virtuoua prince.
|" muithe the mott unhappy man in his doni-
mons: The remark is a iut one, and is not al
together inapP'icabe to PreGaent quitb repal
bo7usr5. Who ever thought that fuch heinq
was tolie upon bed of rofes? Let us grant
that feeling heart is an endowment wor.
thy of any fation; Till would patriotic
Prehdent facrIfice TO it, the good of his coun-
try We admire the fenfbility, which
MIR Jefferfon difplayed towards the wife
of the unfortunate Logwood, who lalt wear
met him on the rosd from Bedford, and
ioiicited the releafe of her hufband. 1t was
delicate tenderness of heart, which cover
ed his name with -praiies and thanks even
IN the very family, whole mott earneft wiihes
ne was obliged to refufe. But who would
have 10 much admired his condue1, had he
through refined feeling, granted A petition.
which ought to have been enforced by previous
recommendation from the executive of Vir
GINA magiftrate fhould recollec} that
his frft duty is iHfice; the next is D1eyry.
Butth'smaXi'n, has icarcelyIefs force, whenthere
are political hereties TO arret, than where there
are crimes to prevent and it is no lefs applica-
bic to fecretary of fate, than the preident of
the union.