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

over TINS imaginary triumph (of Henry
over Madison)s" although if gained, it would
have been at the expense Of his country
or that this writer "probably thought the
"a defence OF the alien and sctiition laws, "A
better cause shan contending for previous
" amendments to the constitution" When
man thus willfully and knowingly asserts,
what he must be, and is conscious that he can
not support, tits hard to say what treatment
he deserves. You know, Sir, as we'll as any
man, that the gentleman to whom you allude
IS one OF the last men in the United States
against whom such insinuations can obtain a.
NY credit with those who have any knowledge
either OF his opinions or conduct. But let us
return to your eulogium OF Mr.. Madison, of
which we do not mean to loose sight, altho'
your constant personal abuse of us, occasions
as you no doubt wish, many digressions. You
assert that you shave taken rapid review
sc Of MIR. Madison's life, for the purpose of
So finding the occasion. ON which he betrav-
ed want of energy, and you Cannot find it.
g On the contrary, in every crisis during his
.' long and evehtful political career, of fou
and thirty years, wheneper the energy If
's the st0tensan sods demanded, we have seen
it illustriously displayed by him."
- People seldom look much, for what they
do not wish to find if you had done SO, it
would have been impossible, with ali your
carelessness about plain matters of fact,
that you could have made such a declarati-
on. What becomes ofthat period:of Mr.. MS
a. long and eUentfui Political career Of four
and thirty gears" which elapsed between
his leaving Congress, and going into the
Virginia Legislature Can you denv that
period of his retirement to have been Z c,i-
sis " schen The energy Of the Statesman 4vas
demanded" as much as at any previous or
subsequent time of the contest between Fee
deralism and Republicanism, and where
was he, how was he employed ? This is a
question to which the public have right to
claim an answer from one who endeavors to
eXtort from them, for his candidate the praise
of the " steady and nnrehi,ting energy of
ga firm and ardent hatriot" assert that
his exertions did remit, and that too, for
more than two years during a period, when
they were as much wanted as they ever
were. You roundly declare that YOU
:" have not followed Mr.. M. into his office
&c underline present Administration, because
.' since that time his course has been IN, :
'' formly with the administration, and what
ever you(the Protesters) may think of
that course, the seal of appreciation has
been already fixed upon it by your conn
= try" lfths be true, we are to understand
he administration as approving of Mr.. Ms.
conduct III the Iazoo business, which GER
tainly formed part and a. very important
one OF his course, or you could not have had
the holiness to assert, that 6 his course had
been uniformly with the administration. :"
But this am persuaded the friends of the
administration will never admit. IT'S Ger
tain they have always maintained the con-
trary. Still If 1t were possible that could
be true, the other part of your declaration
as totally destitute of foundation, for nothing
is more true than that the public have not
liked the seal of their appreciation TO
that Part Of their course, even if the adj
mlnlstration are to be understood as appro-
wing OF Mr.. Ms. opinion in favor of the va
zoo compromise, which you are the first
man who has ever been bold enough to insi-
nuate. But this am convinced must be
sup OF your pen, arising from your extreme
solicitde to bolster Mr. M. with the popula-
rity of the administration.
You complain of want of specification in
our charges and demand both the zvhen and
the 4vhere." You must surely calculate up
on availins yourself of some forensic trick,
and expect to prove an alibi, by this importu-
nifty tor specification but if you are really
desirous OF 1t, you shall have it once more :.
Our specific charges then, against Mr.. Ma
olson are, that he recommended in certain
report 1.-THE existenceaof which you have adj
-mltted) compromise with set of Yazoo
Spectators, the principal condition of which
was to give them five millions of dollars to
certain public lands, to which, accor1inp 10
his ogon Shezoing, they had no sort of claim
whatever, either legal or equitable that
his cxertions, shortly before he left Congress,
relaxed by degrees until he actually quilted
bis post-went home, and there remained
tor considerable period during the most
interesting part of the controversy which
terminated i'll Mr.. Jefferson's election that
ne cannot be considered as having equal
claims to the presidency with men not infe-
rlor to him In any respect, and superior to
him in always having protested and acted
upon the same hoHticai f,rincihies 4vhich
fhey nozo entertain that he is one of the
writers of the Federalist, book containing
some doctrines very Objectionable to Re-
publicahs, and which there is not sufficient
evidence to prove that he has altoeethera
bandoned that instead of aiding with all
ms talents IN promoting the general ticket
law In his own state, without which Mr..
5efferson could not have been elected, a sim
gle Individual was compelled to undertake it,
and the support which Mr.. Madison gave IL,
after 1T was brought into the House, was
so very feeble aud discouraging, that it
was carried in house having decided ma
jority OF about forty republicans, by maio-
fity, think OF only seven. And lastly. that
Mr.. NJ is suspected of undue rart;alt, RI