The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1808-12-22
FOR THE ENQUIRER.
FsoM WAsH1xerox. Dec. 81. .1sa,

me-, w ~oh 1NS 4 On, Lee. Is, 1895.
Congress has as yet done nothing There
appears tobe a strange mania in that body.
for making long %eeches The reppbl;can
members are firm to their principles: stead
fast in opposing the federal phaianx, man
~ and independent in the course our govern.
ment ought to pursue towards the European
PowcrS-lheir views are firm and patriot;c
it mas. been falsely stated, that there were
nc nieu oi talents belonging to the good
old Republican School," The talents of the
House are as ten to one ON our side the ADM.
nistrationhave many able and learned advo-
Gates On the other hand, you would, / will
venture to afhrm, be astonished at the im-
potence and imbecility of the opposition.
Randolph, GARDENER, Dana, and Quincy
are the leaders of the Federalists. Mr.. H,
is an Illogical dcclaimer, without the small
est faculty for reasoning. In listening to him.
you are often struck with the entire want of
connection between his premises and his
conclusions The only recommendations
which he possesses as public speaker are.
now and then happy selection of hhrose
and pretty quotations from Plav fvyrfer.
with manner unique and a.shrill, feminine
voice. GARDENER has had an meritcd re-
Putation.', He is nothing of the orator and
most uninteresting speaker. i, Dana is bv
Tar the best among them at speech he vo-
ciferates loudly, and there is some hofnt in
the man. AS for my lord Angloise Quincy
nothing you have ever heard, can give VIZ,
an idea OF this man; the mind sickens and
lothes at his iaboured, analytical. critical
and hypercritical disquisiticns his -.yllo-.
glsms without sense, and his distinctions
without difference 49,
There was letter received in this city
last night from Liverpool merchant. who
states, that MIR. Pinkney will soon be with
US {; that provisions of all kinds were high
in England; that the manufacturers were
In the greatest distress, and that the cove rnL
ment had to contribute to their daily support
that it was believed in England bv all the.
weli-intormed, that the Spanlards had sus-.
tanned defeat almost fatal-That the Bal
tic would be shut against England.
This is the substance of the news and I
give it to you as receive it.
A gentleman in the lobby has made this "a.
mark on Mr.. Il. that his voice is feminine. hi.
language is masculine, and his argument neu.
ter.
IHefoHo7oins sketch Of the electoral yotes OF
fentuckyis furnished 10 the Enquirer in
Meform'ofa letter, dated Shel5yuiHe TX. ]
JNoU. 81, 1903.
"Ihe election for electors to vote for =,
president and vice president are now overin
NChtuCky, ana there is not the smallest doubt.
out that Mr.. Madison will not lose a single
vote amongst them. Indeed there vas bu.
one candidate who pretended to declare in
opposition to the republican party: Iallude
to Joseph Davis who within seven or eight
years has metamerphosed himself into joseph
Hamilton Daviess.. This is the former atter-
neyf for the Kentucky District who so shame
fully commented the mock and ridiculous pro-
secutioD against Burr at Frankfort, at time
when he knew he could not procure evidence
to support 1t. Yet this man with all his Fc.
deralism, ard an additional load of suspici-:
on lowering around him, had the ;boldness
and eHrontery.to offer himself as candidate
for the important office of Elcctor, 10 free.
honest andtrepubhcan people. The district
| IN which he resides. elects four electors. be 4.
ing composed of one half the state ;lyet en-
iarged as his sphere of eIectioneering is, I
may boldly assert, that he has not received
one hundred votes / have heard from seve-
raj counties. In some he had no votes, in one
he had tine, and in another, one.
| "But am mistaken, sir, Davis was not the
only Federal candidate. Matt hew LYON for
med an electoral Ticket, but the result has
proved so contemplate to the progenitor that
IT had slipped my recollection. Matthew.
ticket has received still less support than
Davis. IN Nelson. county where one of them
resides, his honorable poll amounted to oNx
voTE J! In short, Republicanism is here.
&C usual, completely triumphant, and / trust
| viii ever remain So
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