The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1806-09-12

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falfe and ye'ping pack.---Let them, If they
think proper, take Decius for their gnide ; lei
| them ruth on in the courle, which he has pur.
| fued; 1t will again terminate i'm their defpair
The ignis fatuus which has hitherto mlcd
them, rs not more feductive. s, not more decrp.
tive, than the one which now cats tranito-
| ry beam upon their gloomy profpetts.
Ii would be idle, we repeat, 10 expofc the
innumerahle abfurdities into which Decius has
nifled them: and at which Decius himfelf
would blnth. He is at prefent their Fortti-
natus' purfe, the fund nexhauftble of argI-
ment and attack. He is their lamp of Alad-
din. by Whole magic influence they are to
realize their mott magnificent expectations.
He is the great Pivot of Archimedes, on which
the lever is to be fixed, that will overturn the
administrations But Decius IL man of no.
nor. and would abominate the ufe, which is
made OF his production.
What then rrut he the aftonif,ment, and the
Indignation of .Decius, when he fees this pro-
duet,on not only proftituted in its original fl,apc
TO federal dehCns, but completely ditorted
from ITS original Durport, mifunderfood bv
fools, and mtreprefented by knaves. In boneR
frntb, rs Decius the enemy Of the a,'minitrati-
on! Does he really dcire us TO believe that
Mr.. Jeterfon is a political Mellifont 4 double
dealer or the cabinet fatefnan who holds
" double iett of opinions and principles :"
admlniitration if, tlI INDUCING his erroneous
opinions about Mr.. Jcferfon's e.nd,u4, he
ihr'nks from th. afcrbing them TO diihonoura-
NE and puii'lanimous motivcs how mutt he
ree'' when he fees his own effay imprelied into
the proff'gate fervice of his former opponents,
diftorted by INCA, whole CURES were once his
proudet eulog;un, to attack an adminiitrat;-
on, that is the pride and the ornament of his
country: How then will he feel when
loo h.. ell
he is told that INTERPRETATIONS ike thefe
are thick" as Faltahf's " blackbsrries :"
ana that erroneous as his own coneluEon5 are,
tney yield not in number TO the erroneous f16FJ,
which he has contributed TO call forth
Rolled thusin his attempto on MIR. Randolph.
the PRECEDENT had recourfe TO more plan. fluff,
He lends for two of the honorable reprrfenta-
tVes from the commonwealth of Maifachufetts
up Ills back fAirS and communicates to them
his " erijbes." OF thefe two digniied perr,n.
ages, one was flv, cunning, fuppIe, trcache-
rous ard timid, notorious Jefuit; The other
OF different character indeed, intellectually
ou'', bnt not perfonaly irrefolute and both
i've devoted humble fervants fthc man in DOW
-. y rue'e Two men the prefident unbofnm-
ca him'et. He found them apt for his pur.
Poie---he therefore CONDITIONED them, if the
location ihould demand it, to inform the houfe
that, notwithstanding he had held due language
w t'C Pup'Ns NC 1aQ nSld another private.
and that whatever might be thought of his OF
cia' views and plans from the face of hi. mef.
iage, his confidential and " Eeret qvi6e," were
ola very different nature*'
Inc preceding extract Knocks all comment.
There is not An honet man who reads il. who
VIII not at once pronounce it an unfounded ca.
lumny (; and the man who wrote it. muf
have known it to be fuch as it efcaped from hi,
pen. Is there man, who believes that Mr.
Jetterion won'd deign to ia nper with general
V'rnnm and Mr.. Bidwel? to call them ND his
6aek.R0i"S, to try the pufe of their villsinv.
and hndng them apttor the bwboie, to unho
tom his fecret wifhes to their fafe-keeping until
an opportunity fhoud occur of PLAYING
uoon the ilaviGh temper of the Houfe !?
where DID this unbIuihing libeller derive the
tact! BY what other privilege, fave that of the
beral ipirit of his party, does he dare to
Hing it into the world By fuch an unbluihing
tplrit of detraction may the republican adj.
vocates of the administration never be difsraced
From [s,iet Of N.'. ardt, hthtit efNe" R.vi<rv
DeEiA, fulfilled in b. Ne7V-7Ivk koeniaf Psa.