The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1808-06-28

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on. Virginia was in that very pretlicament.
Her legislature was about to adjourn but a
nominasioh must have been made previous to
ADJOURNMENT. A day lad even been public
W named tor this Purpose Not the 2lst ia
nuary, day, which as you have said lad
been "ascertaincd" by Wilson G.. Nicholas !;
but the 2Sth. What were the ,ciicumstan-
ces which preoipitated this nomination, it
is now unnecessary for us 60 enquire. 1t is
suihcient 10 say, that they have no connection
with the surprise or collision; which YOU
have pretended to discovcr.-Virginia was
Likewise particularly solicitous to make no
nomination of a candidate. previously ia the
nomination at Washington. Her love of So
cial concord and her resolution to obiige
those sister states which had so often obi
ged herself, were the great polar stars Of
hcr conduct.-All these arguments, all these
wishes were known at Washington. And it
MAY be confidently said that the situation in
which the legislature of Virginia stood and
in which some other legislatures would soon
have been placed, was one cause of the ear
ly meeting of the caucus at Washington.
In the mean time, you say, that " sys-
TEN OF gorgeous guttAing-and's splendid poll
teal speculation commenced" Your proofs,
sir. All that this globe in all quarters
produces, was found in profusion on Mr.
Madison's hospitable table" Your bombast
is excessive. Admit however that Mr. Ma
Olson was ho8fftabie, and that tLenty reign
cd at his board; what follows , zghen ;sit,
that Mr. Madison was not hospitable Has
he been more so during this, than any pre-
ceding winter! This remains to be proved.
Was his hospitality confined to the members
OF Congress /? This too remains to be pro-
we'd. Neither of these assertions is true.
But they are precisely such assertions, as
no liberal man, who knows any thing of Mr..
Madison's character, could have conscienti-
ously made.
Your proofs too. sir, of ssthis splendid no.
iltical speculation"-of Mr. Madison's Gin
direct promises of official goodness You
nave none, sir. You can have none but those
tribes light as air, which the mind of lea
lcus SnShtcton regards as {" confirmation
strong as proofs of holy writ One of the
caucus, you say, has "judgeship' and the
other "the secretaryshp of Michigan Ter
lltory But who gave these Offices! Mr..
Madison! No. Is Mr.. Jefferson then CONVEX
SAINT with these reputed intrigues for the
Presidential Chair ?-But if Mr.. Witherell
one OF the caucus, is appointed Judge, is
not Mr.. Masters, enc of the hrotestoys aD-
pointed judge too? Your rule then it seems
works both ways.
Cease, sir, "you bite file" Norman who
knows any thing of Mr.. Madison, will believe
your inslnuations against him. 1t is a fact
winch his friends defy you to controvert.
that no man had ever less recourse to in,
trlgue and corruption of any kind, than Mr.
Madison and that no one ever observed n
more decorous profound reserve towards
his most confidential friends, than this gen
S.ciiah pursued during the last winter
he proofs OF this fact are so curious and
so striking, that they would strike vol, with
astonlshment and wonder.
Bnt there was "no deliberat ioi;''-.s mo
adjournment" of the caucus. Whv shonId
there have been Why deliberate, when
the minds OF the members must have been
prepared to vote, and when discussion could
only have produced schism and Irritation ;
why adjourn when the members were
prepared for decision.
Two more points-and we nave done,
That Gov. Clinton is opposed to a TER
n2aneM Embargo, you have no doubt %
ms IS studied artifce of phrase, unwor-
tny OF a republican. What do you mean ,
Either that the present is a hc,7nauent EN-
oargo. or that 1t Is not. IF you mean that it
is, you must know that your assertion is nm
founded. The Embargo is not permanent
1t may be extinguished either py the autho-
rlty OF the President or of Congress. And
you know, that this authority will be eyer
cised. whenever the governments of Europe
shall revoke those tyrannical decrees. which
produced its impositioD.--It you do not mean
that this is permanent embargo, you have
introduced an idea which has no bearing at
all on the subject. But what is worse Won
have employed a phrase, which is calculated
to deceive us into belief that " Gov. Gin
ton is opposed" to this Embargo. AWAY, sir.
with this artifice of words. The people of
this country have right to know, whether
Gov. Z. is or IS not opposed to the hresent
Embargo. If he is, come boldly out and in
form the republicans.
But you "take it for granted "that extsr-
nal commerce will be destroyed, if Mr.. Ma
olson be elected President" Your proofs.
Sir For the people of this Country are vet
too enlightened to take any thine. for gran
ted, which you or any man may assert
DO you find these proofs in Mr. Madison's
letters TO our commissioners at London Do
you find them in the general course Of this
administration, of which Mr.. Madison is pre-
| sumed to be the friend? If so. come boldly ont
and charge this administration with its on
position to foreign commerce.-Or do Won
ind it in the Embargo, which in your usual
aihbi guilty you seem To insnuate is the
| great means whereby external commerce is
| to be rooted outof the land!'' If so. sir, how
| profoundly isnoieiit must you be of the pur-
poses OF this Embargo How little could YOU
have known that this very measure was die
tated by ngsighted and prudent re-
| card to fhe hest ipfsreefc of t,oJo - - -