The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1808-06-14
THE ENQUIRER.
RICHMOND. JUNE IA. 1908.
TO JAMES CHEETHAM,
EDITOR OF THE AMERICAN eirixsN erN. Y

The conduct. which Ion are now pursu-
ing, is subject OF astonishment in more than
one point Of view. After the suspicious and
disgusting course which you have adopted
respecting the cmbsrg,, it was not tohe ex-
pected that, on any great measure OF public
Importance. you would pretend to dictate
your opinions tothe Republicans of the Uni
on. Much less was it to have been expected,
after the denunciations and censurcs which
you had deservedly provoked from public
meeting at MARKINGS on the 18th January,
over which Mr. De Witt Clinton presided,
that you would have been suffered to ap-
pear in anv wise connected with the inter
Tests ofhis friends. Circumstances. however,
have disappointed my expectations. You
are now devoted TO the professions of Geo:
Clinton, Esq. and yours is the only pub
lie paper in the city of New York. that seems
to deserve the character of an official organ.
Under these circumstances, your paper has
assumed new interest in the eye of every
man, who feels any concern iii the next tire
sidenitiat election.
1t is no news to Won, that YOU have com
plctelv lost the confidence s. respect OF those
republicans in this district Of country, who
know any thing about you. The Virsinians
are too generous to prescribe any man, for
supporting MIR. Clinton in opposition to Mr..
Madison. This is not the Ca,.oe of their re-
your mean and uniounded insinuations "a
against the administration vour Inscription
CT the best and wisest measure, yet adopted
by that administration, to the magic of
French infiuencc your affected appreciation
OF this measure and that air of trembling,
mysterious, and intriguing irresolution on all
great points OF national policy, which. your
paper has so lately betrayed.-From these
causes, sir, you can do little, bur injury to
the cause and to the man whom YOU aclvo-
cate. We're the Southern Republicans ever
so much disposed to support Mr.. Clinton's
pretensions, they would pause in their reso!u-
luton when they saw such men as yoarself in
troduced into his Cabinet Councils. The
only thing which Mr.. De Witt Clinton or
his uncle would ask of such a man, would be
precisely what the patriotic Emmett has
asked OF his contemporaries of Ireland
g the cl.grity of your SILENCE"
Honr estimate OF the result OF the next e.
lection, is the most ridiculous piece OF poll
teal arithmetic, which this controversy has
called forth. The estimate Of the :. Public
Advertiser"~ is infinitely more correct. But
even i'll that statement, there are one or two
errors. The Aurora has already assured
the respectable editors of that independent
paper, that Pennsylvania viii be unanimous
for Madison, instead Of giving twelve for
him and eight for Clinton, as they have cal
caiated. III heir estimate Of the NORTH Gar
DINA vote, is far Short Of tilc truth. With
the Possible exception of one or two votes
for Mr.. Monroe. Mr.. Madison was almost GER
tain, from the outset of obtaining i.er eecto-
raj votes. The Washington Federaiist nd&ea
has lately said cnce or twice, that this NEIGH
Dor of ours is verging to the tomb of tie
Capule.s." But believe it not. The feder-
alists have too much interest in lying at
this moment, not to throw all their ingenri-
|, ty into circulation. n. Carolina is decided
ly republican. Not all the evils of the en-
barge; nor even the lucrative prospect OF
commanding high price for their tar &c.
at this time when the supplies Of the Baltic
| are shut against Great Britain; can induce
this republican sister to swerve from her
political anchorage.
Virginia zviA give Mr.. Madison " plump
CT III spite OF you or ali your political aritn-
metic.-Mr Monroe's friends in this state
| seem to have completely abandoned the con-
sest. His committee in this city haze neither
comhietea their list OF electors, so lamenta-
bly, vacated by the dscieus;ons OF their GYst
nominated friends nor have Il ev yet address,
sed singular circular 10 their sub commits
tees III the counties Of Virginia.-Be assured,
sir, that there is not manin Virginia even
the wavering John Randolph himself, who
has no. ADMITTED the Certainty of MIR. Ma
diSon's receiving the unanimous vote OF this
state.--BuJ sir, if Mr.. Monroe's friends have
abandoned his cause as desperate, you may
too be assured that they will not coincide
with the friends OF Clint2n. The Randolph
lite discontents, and few who are faint
ed with their infection, nay wish to support
any other man in preference TO Madison
because they hate him; but the number of
FhfS sect is really too triaing to deserve csti-
nation.
All the world now sees that the contest is
5etweeD--Madis probably
{ Cotesworth Pinckney-Monlo e's friends
in the south would have been too few to'aSsist
Clinton, even though the latter has held up
the lure Of the Vice-Presidcncy to tempt him
from his political course.-rut those who
would have originally voted for Mr.. Monroe
as President, will not vote for. him now, be-
cause their suffrages will be eDidenkly
TBRowN AwAT; much less will they vote for
Clinton as President with Monroe as Vice
President, because they will not consent to
purchase Monroe's services as the Vice-Pre-
sidentat the price of having the aged Gin
ton seated i'll the chair of State. The southern
states will therefore be unanimous for Madison
The western states too are frm.--The legi-
lature of Massachusetts has seemingly deser-
ted for time tothe fedei al Camp--until the
democrats shall determine to possess that re-
preventative quota, which their constitute
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