The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1808-06-14

tdistinct and separate scundy as could exist.
mo events could have taken place; and
not even (" insen.si. y" ;.sels
\ we'd an arrangement, better calculated to
tshcw the complete coincidence of the Rich
: monG and Washington caucuses in their pre-
ference of Mr.. Madison. And what is more,
SIR, It is positively true, so little ssprecon-
cert was there in these transactions, that
the most active friends of Mr. Madison in
Congress, hadm seriously dissuaded their
friends in the Virginia Legislature from
holding any caucus, until the first nominate
bon had been made at Washington. So anxi-
Gus were these gentlemen to avoid giving the
slightest opportunity for caviling or abuse
to such carping and captious sceptics as yolr-
! self.
This principle of nomination is not a new
one 1t has the decided concurrence OF one
/ OF your own writer's. under the signature OF
John Milton, SUPPOSED tn DE no less man
/ than Tunis Workman Unconstitutional he
attempts to stave or its force on the very
ground where yon have failed. lie admits,
that an "oppcstion to Mr.. Madison" would
be de7aortafre from the great principle
which We have hitherto cspouseti, :. that
the will of the majority ought to govern -
/ IT the nomination Of Mr.. M. had been ho-
ncstiy aud regularly made" &c.," that he
! Is an advocate for n congressional nomina-
ton > but that lit ought'to be fair."-yVc
have not yet seen, sir, in what way Mr.
Workman makes good his inuendo; bat
! IT he L. not more successful in this effort
than James Cheetham has been, would Sc
riously advise him net to attempt it.
Another OF your Essayists, who comes
forward like a second NEsroR with all the
Sarrni,ty OF ages tolay the treasures of his
experience at the feet Of his countryln en-
! is just as unfortunate in his logic, as YOU are
In your facts. His whole essay rests upon
this one false conciusion that as NGr Gin
ton had been g selected four wears ago. as
the Vice President Of the U. States, il is
plan that 1.-the nation, four years ago, look
ed Upon George Clinton to be the ;?!Lest man
to entrust these duties to, IL, case Mir. Jeffer-
son houid resign them, or not be able to per
form them that :. Mr. J. does nosu resign
then'-why then not appoint MIR. C.. the
g successor of Mr. JelFcrsn?'' He then
attempts to prove that MIR. c. has done no.
thing within the interval .tto compromit his
character-andt that neither his being four
years older now than he was then---nCr the
suppositon OF his being a worse writer and
negotiation than Mr.. Madison-usr the idea
OF MIR. Madison's nomination, bv a majority
OF the republican members of Congress. are
| sufficient reasons for excluding Mr. c. from
IN appointment. with which four years ago he
was thought the tttcs. f.crS0;t 10 be entrusted
--Nestor should have known that the man
thus selected as V. President of the United
States, is not always supposed to be the best
qualified for the Presidency. Though the
constitution delegates to him the powers of
the President in certain cases, and though
! TINS consideration ought 70 have some weight
| In the selection, yet it is not true that it
| does or that 1t ought to have a paramount
ascendancy. IT single eye was given to
this consideration, among other things il
could follow as a kind of necessary conse-
! ouence, that the man who was selected as
'. +. would almost have an absolute right 70
be the successor" to the Fresidencv.-A
man who could make an accomplished V.
President, might not, however, be fitted for
the Presidency of the United States He
! that might hill the chair of the Speaker of
the Senate with dignity and grace, might
notpossess one talent qualifying him to pre-
side over the affairs of the naticn The facs
is, that in choosing our Presidents hitherto
we seem to have gone OH the sUppostion
that they would at least live through their
four years without any loss OF their a5iLiky :.
and in nominating our v Presidents, our en-
curry has very seldom gone 60 those t..
tents and qualifications. which are rennired
IN the chief magistrate of the union. Nor
is 1t n fact, that in the case of Mr. Clinton.
the Republican party did depart from this
usual coVrse.--As to the particular motives
! NhiSh IA LOVE, llOuuCGu Tic nomination OF
! Mar. Clinton to the V. Presidency | Go not
imam to enquire. But certainly it.is not true,
that this selection was dictated by any pre-
ference arising from a rigid enquiry into mis-
presidential qualifications, nor from clear
conviction that he was best fitted, of all
other men, be the successor Of Mr. Jef-
| ferson.
| Go on, most iilustrious man! and ruin your
patron as fast as you have ruined yourself.
You shall hear from me again. In the mean
time call upon ycu to maintain the position
! which you have so boldly taken that our 'ex-
| ternal commerce WILDE annihilated,' if Mr..
| Madison is elected President of the United
| States.
| Richmond, June IA, 1903.
! He pirates through .fvc long columns
| FOR THE ENQUIRER.