The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1807-04-10

but why refort to arguments or prccr,ierts,,
The condition of the United S.a,es' army fur
nifhes fufficient ground for this nomination
Several of its prefent officers are men of diGi.
pated habits. Many are averfe to the prei,n,
administration and order of things.--On car
ry the principle OF feniority into rigid eIfrct :;
ans all the higher Offices of the armv will at
ait fall info the-hands of gamelters and drum.
kards disqualified by their habits and their
principles from difchsrging fich important du-
ties. 1t no one is to be invelted with major s
or coloneps commiiiion, uBlefs he commences
at the lowell grade and f,oves fucce iIive,y for.
ward every officer who is already in the ar.
my, long lapfe' Of time will be niece Iary for
rtufng new health into the contribution of the
army.
Let us demand then, If fomc exprdient be
not nece'idry for preventing ths difsracr.ul
condition Of our ftaff?
zach consequences, is not the Proficient perfect
yjuftltia5le in departing from it in certain caf-
Is not the nomination of captain Clarke to
be coniidered az one of thofe Efforts, which
ihoud be employed for reliitiag lis effects.
The Senate have however rejected this no.
mination ;--and we incerely lament the pre-
ccdent which they have iet. If they adhere to
this refolution, we Gall be mortified to be-
hold IN very few years, the fatal confequences
Of their fyfem.
AARON BURR.-We underRaud. that the
Martial of Virginia has fent on fubpGnas to
both hides OF the Ohio, in the neighbourhood
OF Blannerhafett's Hand, TO collect fuch telti.
mony as relates to the armed aGociatiou of men
which is faid to have taken place on that III and
II 1t be obtained, il will no doubt be exhibited
before the next term of the federal court of this
dttriet, on the trial of A. Burr.
! 1t is ALTO underfood, that blank fubpoenas
nave been Tent on to Wilmington. to fu nmens
fuch other wtneNes as may refide beyond the
limits of this ditria. That this procsfs will
be fervediop general Eaton, Commodore Trux-
tun, and every other witnefs, who lives with
IN the Atlantic States and can be here at the
time OF the trial, there can be little doubt.
But 1t for the fame reafon uncertain, whether
the luminous can embrace Gen. Wikinfon and
the other witnesses, who are now at New-Or-
leans aud on the wefern waters.
| Asa proof of the wavering and epioene poll
tics OF the Atlantic World,", we extract from
that paper the following lift of candidates for
Pfefident and Vice Prefident.
For Prefident-.1an7es MzaiIou, flames
A4onroe' Robert r. Li1'insqou, and .Jobn Jay."
| For ce-Prefdent--Bn,6rod WaJ1ingfon,
REtus king, jain Randolph, John Cotton Smith,
and 5fobn Quincy A4au5''
That politician NUT poG;fs, indeed, verycu-
rlous head, who could recommend candidates to
thete important Offices without any regard to
their principles ;-or who having that regard.
could throw into the fame olaf, John Jay and
James Monroe; could at the fame time recon
mend James Madifon as Prelident and John
Randolph as Vice-Prelident. No man could
adopt fuch an inconftent nomenclature, with
out either wanting the head to discriminate
their characters, orthe confidence to adhere to
principles.
| To the Editor of the Encuirer.