The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1806-06-13
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FOR THE ENQUIRER.
FEDERALISTS IN OFFICE.
No. s.
MTlVTSTERTAL OFFICES.

To fate all the arguments which would
juitity the removable feleralits from Office, g to
,ay down the different; exceptions which NAV
be taken TO that principle, would far exceed
the bounds of long effay. Let the following
therefore be confidered as a very defultory
ftatement of /an:s of the arguments that may be
employed
What is mott to be deiired by the republican
party Is, that 10 broad line of diftnction fhali
ne drawn between them and their opponents,
that every man is to be known for what he is.
They fhould know their friends and they 0bopld
know their enemies. They fhould know whom
to conhde in at the moment of danger and
whom to dIttruft in the very fun, of profperitv.
Without this necefiary knowledge, their caufe
may appear TO be ftrong in numbers but when
danger aitails them, when the fpirit of ariCtoc.
racy arifes among them, there is not real ftreneth
enough TO refift her. They fall in the midft of
Imaginary triumphs.
To this want of broad and papable diNinc-
ton is to be afcribed mich of that confnfion
of parties which already exits Men foon grow
indifferent to principle, when it is not rigorouv
adhered to, even in the mott trining arrange
mentS. What is the confequence The luke
warm republicans, who prefer intereIf to prin-
ciple, but who would be afhzmed to deEert their
party when their apofacv could he ea6jy Aets4.
ed, gradually relax in their frmnefs. They A.
do2t more foothing language towards the fs-
deraiitts. They infenfbIy begin 10 unite with
them on political meafures to vote with them
at elections, and to calumniate their republican
friends.
But the prefent is peculiarly a crifs, when
this fufpicous fDirit of moderation is likely 70
produce the NOT fatal msfortunes. Can your
eye towards Pennsylvania and New-York. I'm
the tirit tate, the Administration of Mexican
is cuIogiied by thefe apofates, thefe qmds, or
what 10 It'll more appropriate, the political
moHgTekJ. In New-York, the divifion among
the republicans is more the reflt of family
feuds than of political principle; but even
there, what ftrong fvmptoms are fllown of con-
temptible n'ongrehGn During the very Ian
election Chancellor. Livingston himfef, the man
who has diigraced the fervices of whole life
by his late fpeculltions in Paris and by his diff
honourable ATTEMPT to tear from MIR. Monroe
thofe laurels which were due 10 him for his aid
during the Louihana negotiation, even he has
ltIIi further added to his difgrace by encourage
ing bis friends to combine with the federalifts.
AT fuch time, therefore, il becomes neceHary
TO explode every effort which may be employ
ed to- produce this unn'tural combination Is
It not then necef1dry to keep the widef poCfibIe
parties? s
Peace then to that weak and wavering policy
which would prompt us to forget all political
dIitinetions in the appointment TO oficcl and
peace to that hum1ne liberation which would
retain feder'liits in Office, when their removal
is ehentia to the firmnefs and PROPERTY of the
republican clufe
BY fuch heiitating, halfway policy, an adj
miniftration acquires the contempt of its enc
mics, and produces irreiolution among its
friends. 1t contributes to level all the diRinai-
ons which Mould exit among parties it con-
tributes to produce that fpirit of moderation
and apoitacy which New-York and Pennfviva-
MIA have difpiayed. It is to be lamented that
IN this country our federal Administration has 70
much patronage in its hands that in(lead of
taking its own fa(hions and ideas, from the
people, 1t fhould 70 often diree even theirs /;
but that naturalization will deferve the difap.
probation of It's country, that does not employ
this exorbitant influence to preferve our repub.