The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1807-04-07

FROM roe ~. foTR II yenfHy FoH, Mares 20.
FEDERAL MEETING.
Agreeably to notice, the Federalihs of this
city Attended laft evening at the Mechanic
Hall, "to receive the report of the committee,
appointed to nominate perfon as Senator for
the Southern Diftritt, and alfo nine perfons as
Members from this city in the Houfe of Afiem-
bly,, and to recommend fuch further mcafureS
to fecure their election, as ihonld be thought
proper and adviieable. - a",-t
The room, one of the iargeft in the city, was
hIled at an early hour, and became at length 70
crowded as to incommodc respiration; the
italrs were alto crowded with people; great
numbers food all the time in the ftreet before
the door, and hundreds went away bscaufe
they could not get in. The former meeting
when the committee was appointed, was near.
ly as well attended. AT about half palt fcven,
MIR. John b. Coles was called to the chair. Mr..
David Is. Ogden then informed the chairman
that he had been appointed by the committee
who had framed the ticket, to report it. But be-
tore he mentioned the names agreed on, he tho't
1t his duty to addrefs few remarks to the meet.
ing.
1t is not in our power, nor would our limits
permit us to attempt even an outline of the ner-
vous and mafterly fpeech delivered on this
location.
He took glance at the profperous fate of
WASHINGTON, aided by the counfals of HA-
MILTON, wheH the glorious fentiment was
MILLIONS FOR OFFENCE, NoT>A CENT FOR
TRIBUTE. But he hahencd TO the time when
the preient chief magiitrate was elevated to
power. He obferved that although MIR. Jrffer-
Ion had been elected to the Proficiency arainft
the wifhes and efforts, and amidit the appre-
henfions of the federal party, fill were they
diipoied to give him fome credit in advance and
to indulge the hope that his administration
might turn out better than their fears had fuC-
geGed. And had he (faid Mr.. o. but kept
the pronifes which he 70 Voluntarily made and
publifhed in his inaugural fpeech, this unufual-
iy crowded meeting would not have taken place
this evening. Inftead of which the firit acts of
his administration were in direct hoitilty with
all his projections which only ferved 10 con.
front him with and to prove he was one. OF the
mott deceitfnl, the moh pcridious and the mott
intelerable of thofe ambitious and unprincipled
men. who had raifed the,niriyes 10 power
by natternx The vice. ard cajoiing the weak
neiies OF the people.--Mr. Jeffcrfou, he fai,.
had forever IN his mouth his regard for the con-
ittation, and bis vigilance over the public n O.
mes entrnfied to his care, yet, one of his FIRE
acts after he came into power, was to take
$4,000 dollars out of the public treaiury, with
out any appropriation by law, to pay for the
repairs done to the French corvette, the Bsr-
eeHH. This yef1el had been taken by our brave
Tars after fair and gallant combat but no
iooner did Mr.. Je6erfon hear CT it, than he or
dered her to be reaorcd, and the fun of fb;yty
tboniaDd dollars to be paid out of the public
treaiury, as indemnity againn any injury fIle
had fufsined, Another initancc in which he
had acted contrary TO law, in violation of the
contribution, and in contempt of all that y.ss
honorable, was in the cafe of Calender : a H.
bellous wretch whom he had not OILY liberated
from imprisonment, but actually rewarded for
his Infamous attacks upon the federal govern.
ment, with two hundred dollars from the rub-
lie treaiury. MIR. O, called the attention of
the meeting to the wicked attack upon the Iu-
dietary, for the purppge of gratifying MIR. Jef
fcrfon's malevolence agaiBft the judges of the
Circuit Courts bcc"ufe they happened to be fc-
derallltS. He dwelt with emphaGs on the tain
upon our national character, in permitting
Spain to violate her treaty in relation TO New.
Orleans, and inftead Of calling her TO account
for it, computing and fnothering the contro-
verify by a pretended purchafc of LouiGana,
and giving the fun OF fifteen millions of dollars
for country without boundaries and whole
face was covered with ferpents and alligators-
But not content with having done this, in Or
der to quiet fome further difpute about it fzvs
millions of dollars more had been voted away
in Congrefs with clofcd doors. 1t was well for
the administration, fad Mr.. o. that they Daft.
ed the act with cofed doors, they never could
have pafed it othervife.-Shame alone would
have reHrained them rom 70 dfgraceful an aS,
had they permitted tie world to witnefs their
conduct. And now, whether this tzve 1iiions
of Tribute had been fent off to France. or
Spain, or fomewhere elfe, no one could tell,
for Mr.. Jefferfon bad not yet csndefceaded 10
inform us.
Mr.. o. fpoke in trms of the MOI pointed
contempt of the man1er in which the admnif-
tration had treated the application of this city
for protection. Thelaf year nothing was done.
Neither Mr.. Mumford nor Mr.. Clinton, our
two representatives would open their lips upon
the fabjeet and we wtDened the curious and
humiIiatiDg fsd, tjat the caufe of the city Of
New-York WAS abandoned by its own proper a.
gents, to be advocated by a Representative from
Bottom, Mr.. Qunef.-Tbis year, to lie fire,
our caufe had been managed by our own orators
with fuch extraordinary ability as TO obtain
grant of 10000 dollars to be expended in the
defence of the AtsJtic coat from New-Or-
leans to Maine. a fum not fuficieht to pay
the engineers for furreyiDg the COATS, and fixing
upon the proper fitel. After, however, the III
formation had bee, received by exprefs that
the Clinton faction hid been humbled AT Albany,
and had loft their cohncil of appointment, the
news truck fuch terror at Wilmington, thatit
was agreed to divide the fun Of 100000 dollars
originally defined fer gun-boats, 70 as to allow
10000 dollars of tito be expended on the fea
COAT. But thsis boated as grant of 70 much
TO N. Y. alone whereas it was intended and
70 exprened, TO be for any part Of the Atlantic
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