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

Seerrtary Of tie Tre<fnry.
Wasthe man, who now addreAes you, your fecr.t
enemy you would rot receive from his pen the Ian
guage of advice. He would fnffer Won 70 purr,.
your preient career without Jingle monitory voice 20
warn you that il is the career to ruin
iadmre your attonihing talents reverence Won
for the iervices which You have rendered to NV eoun
try. There was a time when the name of Alber,
Ga'latin ranked in my mind with the Clceros of
Rome aud the Tells of Switzerland: with all RIA,
were venerable FOR virtue or COMMANDING for ra.p,
That momsnt is rapidly paling away Your talent,
will forever command my veneraton BIZ, how
narrow is their empire when combined with fu(pe,Sed
virtue
What have you not owed to your adopted country !,
You were in want of All alyum, and you found il a.
mong US. You were foreigner and yet were crown
ed with the representative honours of the nat;oo
You had talents TO dhpiay and you found noble
theatre for their exhibition. You became Repre-
tentative ia the Rate of Penufylvania; you became
a'Wenrber OF Congrefs you have attended TO the
dignied office of the Secretary of the Treafurv.
Inipi OF the Preudces, iipofed upon the coniiti-
on OF foreigners i'll pte OF tc contendinp claims of
native citizens; republican, PRECEDENT invited YOU TO
the econd department. under the administration
Was it then to b. fuppofed that man thus honon-
red by the poople and thus felectsd BY its govern
ment, ihould ever adopt ambiguity of deportmeu,
that erpofed him TO fufpicion
Did not the election OF Governor M.Xeap find
IN youa mott ardent advocate And are you not ar
this very moment the lncere friend of his weak eoui
vocal and fatal adnniRration
Who it, that during the Ian FELTON, of Con-
grels violated his refpect the PRECEDENT, by de-
elarng to Mr. John Randolph tina, there was no ca
binet body, which you well knew, had no con-
fifataHai exiltence
TO what other caufe than 70 the goadnys of diC,3-
pointed pride this declaration to be aeribed3 Wa,
there no cabinet becaule you not always invited
20 allh in deliberations, not connected with vour
official department
Who was it that attempted to fpirit up Mr.. T.
Randolph againit the aImiaifyafi,s' tina, violated
his faith to the government by revealing the delibe-
raons of cabinet, which he had previoufy decllred
to have no exiitencei Who was it that communicated
to Haf gentleman, the creumGance Of a propoftion
having been laid before the cabinet, about nego-
eating tor the purchafe OF Florida that drew /, i'm
colours 10 horrible to his imagination as TO provoke
him to an open attack upon the executive on the We
~ hoor Of Congreis! Who was it that upon beiru
Intercepted by Congrefs this very Gubie4 re-
piled in the rOa/fDs hyle Of T0jGH? who be-
ing called upon, by friend of Mr. IeferC,n in
| manner that defed evaion, produced a fatement.
which was afterwards psblined to the world in cir
cular letter, tateent, in which that world could fee
nothing 10 very monflrous in the eondua of the adj
n'niGrstion; nothing which could have ulaied
your feeret approximations to MIR. Randolph
Kaow then, that fufpicion is ahoat. Know
that many republicans wavering in their fem
who wouldonee have TAXED their
life upon your faith. They till 7oaprr They sb ure
the PreeIPitste Onrscifm Of Athens But upon your
iu'Sre lie 'hey rePoie the certainty Of conviction.