The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1808-02-11
.NoqrS. WLGIGH

w The writer is eminently mistaken I
shall not be startled at any attack on any man--be
he high or iow-iet the enveAoned arrow be cast
at the palace or the cottage. know, that if the
competition between Messrs. Madison and Mon
roe long continues the remorselcss age of intoler
ance personal malignity and political proscrp-
ton Is not far distant At moment when ntl-
rated partzanssare determined to " sharncn the
dagger OF falshoed and prepare the poisoned ar
rows OF envy" for the best and most distinguish
ed rephbhcanS of our countrv-at moment
when the waters of the great deep are breaking
Pto sweep before it every mound of social in
tercourse, and every liberal principle which has
hitherto, respected and cherished the cha
raeters OF men OF the same faith---how was i.
possible Tor me to expect, that my humble name
should escape the fury of the inundation p.
AT moment, when the most frivolous and ridi
culous charges have already been urged aeains,
me-when have been accused, as the secretary
at the Bell, with attempting to swell out the list
OF Mr.. Madison's friends by the introduction of
one member who was az the Ca.itol, when had
III fact likewise omitted the names of the t,.s
members Of the county of Giles when, the yc
ny size OF the type III which my compositors had
respectively exhibited the refusal OF some OF Mr..
Monroe 8 committeeman to serve on mis- ticket,
and the annunciat.1n of a membep of the Sc
nate who had joined his cause, had been CPL
tcily scanned--wben l have been even ce. q.
Monroe
commmIttee -ment 10 serve on a committee whose
names had bean first publish ed in nv pape-yvhen
tribes light AS arr had thus been embodied
into serious charges, how could 1 expect to &c
cape more formal accusation
My mind is completely prepared for the 40
preaching Crisis. Ii will neither starte nor siri
from the dangers which may await me. | too Wi,
take my stand and render all the service in my
power. Under my present impres sions I shall
direct my pen to the support of MIR. Madisonis q.
lectIon-but my PJess has ever been and will be
open 10 the friends of Mr.. Munroe, so long az
their "eloquencs" shall respect the bounds ofli.
beral;ty, reason aud decorum.
~ Bold and claInorous asseytions will never
pass tor proofs. That the public may Judge how
Tar my opinions were heterodox, and whether thy
breathe tins very accommodating spirit, shall lay
before them the only paragraph which attracted
the attention Of the Aurora
II IS not every difference of opinion. j.
which Is difference Of principle =; and The
character OF the advocate docs not always confer
its imperfecuOn upon the opinion he suDports 80
Where then, let me ask, was the Justice of cast.
ing upon the conscientious advocates of Yazoo
compromise, the charges q reproaches of federal
corruption "herelwas the prOpriety of entering
Mr.. Findley upon the list Of prescriptions. untEI
some satisfactory opinion had been collected, that
he had also partaken ofthe corruption of the Va.
ZOOS, or 1mbibed the tenets offederalism .,
10 Judge Of this paragraph, let the reader re-
| collect The unbounded rage Ofproscrpiion, ,shich
the Tazoo question was at that time hkeIy 70
produce srsge 50 unbounded, as in some cases
to pronounce the eonscienfioVs advocates Of 2
on ~ to have been ipso fdeto guilty Of
| federa corruption ;"--let him recollect thai 2.
ven republican, however he may have been IN.
censsd by the fraud which sngendered these
CLAIMS, or however he may have erred about tbs
ProPrley OF adopting this espsdicst, may have
been actuated by conscientious motives IN pro
] pressing eompromise ;--lst him rseollse, th,