The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1808-05-06
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I"nocent ftnrrh ScrS" which you would will
Ihngly make them believe there were in some
parts of the country. Both you and ono of
your deputies, Gas it should secm,) who dis
graces the name of Franklin, have attempt
! ed give the nation an account of the Yazoo
business-but how given, shall leave it to o.
theirs to say.
As 4 cannot but consider any man n
| champion for the Yazoo compromise, who
VIII assert, as you have done, that "thc
arguments which support the opinions Of
the three virtuous and eminent COMMUNIST
"oners, haze neUer get been answered, and
"fe'hofas neUer SviU be ans7vered in am
other zcay than by resorfing TO re sove-
reign hoToer Of Congress on the subject,
and afiheahing tothe angry PASSIONS on
the CORRUPT origin ofthe claim" must
devote a few more remarks to what you
have said on this topic. You say "you are
sure no men could feel more indignant
at the fraud than the three gentlemen who
6 made the report in question: None of
the Professors have ever pretended to doubt
the indignation of these gentlemen, they
haze oaty said that Mr.. D1adison did nor
lfeei enough 30 hreUent him fioni recommend
ing the comitromise. You add" yet for
this opinion, which if wrong could do no
harm-because submitted to the tliscreti-
" on OF Congressman members of Con-
gress, processing high regard for virtue
and character-yom have the justice and
iberality to single out Mr.. Madison. and
brand him with every odious epthet which
your habits of obloquy and invective, can
supply" 1t was never commended that the
opinion of Mr.. Madison, as an individual,
on this subject could do any harm, but are
you, or do you believe others ignorant enough
not to perceive the perncious tendency of
such an opinion in a President of the Uni
1 ha, tl1 b,,,
TO assert that the head of the government
being friendly too compromise with the va
zoo spectators, could ia no harm If Mr.
| Madison was chosen President, where is
| the reason to believe that he would have a
different opinion on this subject from that
| which he entertained as a commissioners |
have never understood that promotion to
pc er changed mems opinions for the bet
| ter; 1t much oftener ] fear, alter then, for
the worse. Mr.. Madison Sir, as private
man, would never have been molested bv
us, for his opinion on this, or any ether sub
lJect, but /: YOU and others will take upon
yourselves to offer him to the nation as Pre-
sdent, we have the right which is COM
mon to us all, and w zviU exercise it of
Sitting our objections. If any one is to blame
or singing him out, as you are pleased to
call II the members of the Washington cau-
lcus, are the persons. When man is once
held up for the Office Of President eve ac-
cordiDg to your own notable admission his
merits are eUeryl zolere huJHckLg ara
/" freely discussed" and it is competent for
every one to say OF him, all that he can sup
port by facts. We have said nothing of him
that we cannot substantiate; and the public
must decide how far our objections are obvi-
ated by your pronouncing them nothing but
o6loQuy and inUectiUe. | denv that We have
said any thing against Mr.. Madison's pri-
vate, or moral character, and for every senti-
ment which we have uttered in relation to his
public conduct, we are ready to adduce and
will adduce, what we consider unanswera-
Bile argument to support it. Enough trust
has been said to maintain the objection of his
having recommended the Yazoo compro-
mlse.-but one word IN reply to your asserti-
on that arguments Of the commission
erS haze neUer ger been ans7Uered.'' Men
who refute themselves, / have never suppo-
sed 1t would be thought necessary to at
tempt to answer. Blu / have examined this
report with full as much attention believe
as &C One of the People, and find only a
single paragraph in it, which has even the
appearance of argument; all else is plain
narrative. Even this, am persuaded. q
man of ordinary faculties would call no
thing more than assertion, but the superior
penetration-of One of the People, it would
seem can find argument, where no other
human being can perceive the semblance of
it. l shall give the paragraph and leave the
public to judge. But they (the commissi-
4" oners) nevertheless believe, that the IN
" terests of the u. States-the TRANQUILITY
" of those who may hereafter inhabit that
" territory-and various equitable consider
{" atoms, which may be urged in favor of
" most OF the present claimants, rendei. d,
" erfedient TO enter into a comnyomise
&" on reasonable terms which reasonable
terms are the payment of 5000, 900 of dollars.
This is what One Of the People calls I'M
anSzvercbie argunseht," and this opinion, the
commissioners give, after having previously
declared, with respect to two of the Yazoo
companies; that uhon a .fIH Uie7r Of the
" subject, they do not herceive that those
6 conlfldnteS hare any equitable claims, eli
" Their Tor the land, or for compensation from
I" the United S aseS, and after having said.
with aspect to the whole of the claimants,
that they think their hroho8itions mad
" misstbie," and that Mey g feet no hesftati-
" on in declaring IL as their ohinion, that
t. under all the circumstances 7vhich man a f.
"fect tie case as they came spisht9 their.
" Knowledge, and as stated in their report
"the title Of tie claimants cannot be SUIT
horted."
Before | conclude, permit me to acknow
| ledge the Kindness of the invitation TO " re-
" fentance and forgiveness, and tie f5Ld of
republication" which you have underta-
| ken to give in the name of tle .ubo1o -