The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1808-05-24

and ratification, with the Recommendation of
It PREVIOUS to its adoption and with all its
detects, is piece of legerdemain worthy of
yea ;ssd OF yoiir cause. Bradieg's .titnnu
summons and it's funny vindtcafion are no.
thing it You impute Federalism to Mr.
Madison as virtue, and to US as crime,
just as it suits your fancy. Your attempt to
bolster up MIR. Madison's popularity with
that OF the administration is counterpart
of the same finesse. When We object to Mr.
Ms. ojfcfdt ACES asa member of the atmi-
nstration, it may be then perfectly fair in
you to cndeavor to answer us, by calling us
enemies to the administration, but you ought
in common reason first to shew that we have
thus objected. Our objections to him are
most of them of prior date to his becoming
Secretary of State, and those which have &C.
Cured since, have no other connection with
the administration, than what has been made
thro' your instrumentality.
/ must oiiIc more express my regret that
You will insist upon SO far identifying YOUR
self with the people as always to speak in
their persons. Thus you say, ''zvc pity you
but our confidence in you is gone forever"
l regret 1t, because am ready TO confess it
would give me much concern to believe the
fact with regard to the people. Your conf
dencc, however, am so far from desiring,
that nothing would sooner make me begin
to distrust myself, than the knowledge that
! possessed 1T, and with regard to your pity,
1t you will only consent 10 withhold it until
we ask for it, shall desire nothing more of
you. Believe me, most candid, most liberal,
most gentle counsellor, the people, whose
confidence we are anxious to re ain. are as
unlike you, as correct reasoning is to nimsy
sophistry-as Justice to calumnv-as truth
to misrepresentation and SANDER
With. ynur rh so,r.;,e. Az. D;.l-a,
ing have nothing to do Heis a man with
whom have neither personal acquaintance,
nor political sympathy. Nor shall again
notlce your reiterated and general accusation
OF Federalism, farther than to call upon
you, as you SO often have done upon us, for
specification. This Glamour NAV save your
purpose perhaps with few, but the rati-
onal part OF the people, have seen too much
OF 1t IN the same style. and know too well
the design with which it 10 made, not 10
despise it. The insinlation OF partially to
Britain and hostility to France (Which it
would be equally fair to retort upon YOU,
merely by changing the places of the terms
France and Brittany is as much entitled as
the other to public contempt. l have no
wish that my country ever shoald be in so
unfortunate situation, as to afford either CT
us an opportunity of evincing the strength
OF our attachment by the extent of The 81
crihces which we would make. But if such
period should ever arrive, the public will
see. who best understand, and who will go
tar.hest to promote and preserve all that
freedmen and patriots hoid dcar-the seven
teen Protesters-or One of the People, who
Notwithstanding Z" he would be General, :"
has no higher claim, swe believe to exclusive
patriotism than other men.
/ may with truth now exclaim. in the
LANGUAGE Df nue who after :, ,.o,,,
long and dull tale, to the great annoyance o
his audience, cryed when he had nearly f.
nIshed courage, my friends, see land -
1 now see nearly the end of YOUR third and
last number, than which it has never fallen
TO my fortune to )eruse more finished spe-
ciiTci OF mere verbage. But had under
taken to notice it, and to go through was
indispensable. Your fame, sir, as a writer,
would at least have lost nothing, your zeal
for Mr. Mad;son's election, or a hassion
fierhehs NOT qnite so iauGa5le, had not sti-
INFLATED you to the undertaking.
Our idea of the advantage of rotation in
office, you have treated with the same can
that You have observed towards US in c.
very other respect-by totally misrepresent-
ing IT,. Where for example, have we sup
posed that each succeeding President is TO
De so ignorant of the acts of his predeces-
sor, as to be obliged % immediately upon his
selection gravcly to sit down to review them.
=" and to examine theirtendency for the FIRST
g time" or to be so ignorant of past events.
" as to have to learn them by rummagnc
" over the Journals Of his predecessors ?"
1t you will both misquote and misrcpresent
us, there is no absurlity of which vou NAV
not convict us But unfortunately for you
there is no such oHinion in our Protest. nor
any thing from which it can be Inferred On
the advantage of rotation in office, we think
as other people do, nor shall we cease to
express it, altho' you should insinuate thatin
doing so, we mean to intimate Some trea-
cherry in the present administration. All
that we have said on this subject is, that
one OF the principal benefits Of rotation i'm
office consists Ill the successors not think
ing himself bound to follow his predecessor
in every thing. which he might be apt to do
II he had been previously connected with
him, as confident and adviser. However
you may have 4" always thought, that the
" acts of the administration were always
a" examined as they went along, their Wis
" dom and tendency decided upon by the
" nation"-the people must know that there
are many such things as state secrets-many
acts of every administration which never
can be known but by their SUCCESSORS, and
which it may be beneficial to the nation to
have scrutinizcd, and possibly exposed. And
shall we be accused of an attemr,t te ,o,J ~