The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1808-08-09

tnshorifp IF congress-" E
The following are the resolutions, which
were unanimously passed by the House of
Assembly or Virginia; the state that lanes
Madison represented
IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
WHEREAS the conduct Of the British nil
nistry strongly eyinccs, that an enaeavour to
create dissentions between the good people
OF these United States, and their generous
Ally, as well as to create a dislike in the
minds OF the people to the present govern
ment and governors is the system now pursu-
ing whereby they expect to effect that which
they have long since been satisfied the force OF
arms could not accomplish, and it highly be-
hoves the Representatives of the people to
guard against such attempts in their begin
| ming:
RESOLVED ananimousiy, That his Excel
lency, the Governor with advice of council,
be and heis hereby directed to use his utmost
vigilance in preventing such persons whose
suspicious characters cause him to believe
them secret emissaries from our enemies,
| from comiYg within this commonwealth, and
II within his knowledge snch persons gain adj
nittance, that he forthwith cause such per-
sons TO be sent out OF the same or dealt with
according to law.
ReSotUcd nnanimom&ly, That no person
having or pretending to have a commission
these United States, or either of them for
peace separate from cur great ally his most
christian Majesty, ought to be permitted to
come within this state either By land on wa
! ter, and that the governor take sus h
means as May most ehectuaily prevent the
same.
| Re8oiUed unanimously, That it be an in
stiuction to our delegates in congress, not 10
consent to open communication with any
& .ar.f R,.it a.,
ty, upon the subject of peace separate from
our great ally the king of France, nor unless
the independence OF America be in the most
ample manner, acknow edged as prehmi-
nary thereto
This very candid politician has not even
thought proper to quote the Instructions to
our commissioners as they were actually Civ
EN-. Why has he culcd out those parts only
which he hoped to turn against Mr. Madi-
SOM Why has lie SUPPRESSED those parts
which were most zealousiy advocated by
Mr. Madison" and which emphatieaIy re-
dound to the credit of the advocate. This
! classification of the Record Is only to be as
crIbed 20 the malignant spirit of the assail-
lant.-Let us however restore this record to
its true import:
| INsTRUcTIONs.--"Y You are to concur in
behalf "f the u States with his most Chris
tian Majesty, in accepting the mediation pro-
peror of Germany are to accede TO no
treaty of peace, which shall not r6rctually
Secure the independence and sovereignty Of
the Thirteen States, according to the form
&cifcct ofthe treaties subsisting between the
sad states and his most christian majesty
and in which the said treaties shall nor be
lett III their tui! force and vaiidity.-As to
boundaries and other particulars, we refer
you to the instructions given by Mr. Adams,
D IL, HI. f&N
of October 1882. We think it unsafe at this
distance to tie you up absolute and Pc
remptory directions on any other subject than
the two essential articles above -mentoned."
| Here follows the passage which the Bostoni-
an attempts to pals upon the public for the
whole of these instructions. The conclusi-
on winds up with the following passage: en-
deaVouring i'll your whole conduct to make
them sensible, how much we rely on his ma
sSSsttX'S influence for effactual support, in e.
or future prospeSftrtv to the present security
Why does this candid politician 5if Pfess the
drst part of the Instructions, which laid
dawn the independence OF the United States
as the sine guo nan of a negotiation Tie
reason is obvious. 1t this part OF the instruc-
tions hal also been published, it would not
then have suited his purposes to have said,
| that these instructions were " warmly sup
ported by Mr.. Madison"
| Another question obtrudes itself upon our
attention AS early as 1879, when Mr.. Ma
Olson was but 81 germ of talents" monsieur
Grard attempted to persuade Congress to
reccdc from the ground OF insisting on ain
acknowledgement of their independence as
preliminary TO any treaty." France very in
! geniously covering her sinister designs by the
most speCious arguments. " If they could
be Independent in fact, Girard thought the
form not worth contendng for."--In 1882,
MIR. Madison is represented as the head OF
he French party" Ii then his attachment
TO France was 50 erceSsive as this writer
! describes it, why docs he not adhere to the
French interest i'll every respect WI,
does he so warmly support those resolutions
which directly con,ravened that INTEREST,"
| But admitting that these Instructions were
even zvarhniY sufforfed by MIR. Madison -
admitting that he had no more cause to sus-
pect the Observation-Disclosures of the French gov
eminent, than majority of his fellow citizens
where is the propriety OF singing out Jas
Madison as the victim of federal denuncia-
| ton! was he the only member of congress
who supported these instructions Certainl,
! not.
Their journals do not tell the names or
| numbers Of those who Concvrred with him
OH this question. The journal is PEI fectly
silent on this transaction But it is q certain
fact, that majority cf the members of CON
! gress present mus, have voted for this mea