The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1806-04-01
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RICHMOND, ~ APRIL.


Mr.. Randolph in his celebrated fpeech has
made Tome very appropriate ftriefures upon
the exprefhoo, /" chief of dominant faction -
which is apparently quoted from a piece pub
hihed In the National Intelligenccr under the
hsnature of Eugenius." AS we have Iome
rcafon to believe. that Mr.. r. has afcribed this
eifay to the pen of Mr.. Madfon, we think il
proper to obierve, that it is the production of a
gentleman in this city.
The writer of that piece has always called
hlmie!f afetleralift, and has always been conf.
dered as fuch by the republican party. The
piece was offered to ms in rnanu(crip: for pub
Ication: but we returned it under an idea,
that sve had already faid enough in pTudicati.
on of Mr.. Jeiferfon.'
Never have we been 70 much aftoniih.d me-
yer 10 much confounded, as by the events which
have lately trsnfpired at Warrington. That
there has been )onre fchifm among the rcpub.
cans, we need not refort to federal papers or fe-
deral exaggeratioIs to illultrate. We have fulfil
cient evidence of this fact in the fpeech of Mr..
Randolph. But how far it has extended, or how
long 1t IS likely to endure, whether it arifes from
the clahngs of interef or the conflicts of opini-
on, we are altogether without the means Of de-
ciding. We muf wait till the clo(ed doors of
Consreis, are opened or if thefe he not fulfil
cent we mutt wait till every intereltine facf is
iafd before us (; before we decide thefe all.im-
oortant quettons. In the mean time, let us
futpend our opinions
The language which we have heard from our
friends at Wilmington, is fuch as we would
addreis to mott of our readers, Z" You know
not what is going on at the feat of government.
You are as ignorant of the fate of parties there
aslt You lived in the Antipodes. Wait then,
NE r.. N.
wait till every fecret tranfaetion, which ha,
happened there during the winter, is put into
your Poiieiiion. Take for iDftance MIR. Ram
dolph's fpeech analyfe it: diftribute it into
certain general heads, you will find that there
are tome parts of it on which you NAV pro-
nounce an opinion, while on other parts Won
have not the 0ighteft materials for forming one.
what Mr.. * iays Of the mcclure itfelf under diff
cuinon, you are competent to underfand: the re
IS here little myftery and little difficulty but
whcn nc Teens to wander beyond the fiIbiett
uieif when he touches upon f,me of the
nisainres OF cnngrefs or the administration, do
you not begin to find yourfelf at fea without a
chart or compass? Yet even here, you find
tome itretures upon the exitence of a esuRifu-
fieRai cabinet, on the juftice of which you may
decide by referring to Art. Q. Sec. Q. of our
contltntIon. But when Mr.. R. comes to az
'ert that we have no regular, refponiibIe cab.
net at all /; when he touchesupon IS Ajbatebss re-
lating to vital meafures" aot being laid before
congrefs until " four weeks after they were re-
ceived ;" beware how you form An opinion.
For aught that you know, Mr.. r. NAV be in
the wrong, or MIR. K. may be in the right. Be
not precipi:ate then in forming your opinion.
On fubjett 70 deeplyimportanttothe welfare of
the republican party,it were ever to be lam emit
ed, if their PRECIPITATION or profcription fhould
produce dirifions that were never to be healed.
The prefent is a crifs of great public feeling it
rs crifs of peace or war it is crifs, when
one of the mott dgniied Offices under our
government will foon he filled. Let US then be
refolutely calm: the form may ioon blow O..
yer its consequences will no longer be feen
and felt, unlefs we fow deep the feeds of difu-
MON: Above all let Virginia preferre as yet a
d'gnitied and patient filence. The other fates
are looking ANTIQUITY for TER determination.
They fee that it is ber own children who are
nci2.!ly intereited in the fcene Wait then,
tiii time ha'l give you up the materials for
forming more accurate decinD. Wait: for
another and a far more inserefting location
commands you TO obierve as yet a disni6ed
GsDce." -
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