The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1809-02-24
TIE ENQUIRER.
~RicAMoWD.. FEBRUARY "a, 1893.
SrRIcrUREs ON Mr.. GsRE's
REPORT,
In the Legislature Of A1assachuseffs.

In the Legislature Of Massachusetts,.
No. /.
THIS REPORT comes forth to the world
under no common character. The time,
the hiace and the hurhosrs OF its productions
have impaired 10 it a degree of curiosity &
interest. to which its intrinsic merit would
never have laid claim.
Mast not this work be considered as the
Greed and tert- book of Federai politicians ?
From, what body of men does it emanate r.
From the Federalists of Massachusetts,
from that Essen J1into, who, since the de-
rease of Alexander Hamilton. nave given
the law and impulse to the Federaiists of
the. other states. And from whose brain
does it spring. From that Of no humble in
dividual in the ranks OF the Essex Junto.-
1t is from that of Christopher Gore, who is the
lineai heir to the tory propensisies of his
father-he, who was a commissioner under
the British treaty for settling American
claims, stationed in the metropolis of that
Empire, by whose genial corruption and in
trigue, all the. secret bases Of his soul were
, ,quickened into life-he, whom 1908 obtained
e, SO, GAS federal votes for the chair of Mas
sschusetts-& who has Just been hailed as the
chosen candidate of the same party. for the
same appointment. Proceeding from such a
CorfiS of men, from such a hero. and usher
ed into light at such a time, this document
Stioot SteAti dh W htIJN III
it can be considered in no other light than
as speaking the sentiments of the federal
par,y-as breathing the very soul and es-
sencc of their views. Under this point Of
view, the paperbefore US must Claim an IN
usual attention. 1t shall receive it. It
Is the purpose of these structures to shew;
that the facts, which this production u.ters,
arc just as false, and its arguments Just as
futile, as its avowed objects would be dis
graceful and ruinous to our county.
The avozued objects of this production
impart their hue and character to the whole
piece. Christopher Gore is certainly no
mean logiCian. The premises which he uses
are most strictly and logically adapted to
his conclusions. The grand purport of this
paper is to produce a zcQr eyith France
to pursuade Congress to "WnfurI the RE-
RUBLIcAN BANNER against The IMPERIAL
STANDARD" a concurrent and connected
plan, is to strike up a treaty of alliance with
Great Britain-or perhaps what is inst as
pleasing to Timothy Pickering, to bind us
once more as degraded colonies. to the throne
of his inifeyiai Britannia majesty. The ar
guments employed are exactly adapted to
these purposes. All the Entertainments of
Britain are carefully kept out of view
while the aggress;ons of France are para
dcd forth in the most horrible and glaring
carricature. While France is held forth
as a monster of the most hmleous mien and
savage disposition, Great Britain is almost
represented in the light of a mild and sym
pathetic mother. All The injuries which she
has perpeuated upon the United States,
all her insults upon the rights of our s~eafaen,
oar nag, and our Jurisdiction, her unatoncd
attack on the Chesapeake, and her orders
IN council, are buried in oblivion's deepes.
grave. Such rs the general Spirit, which
guns through this curious production. A
more Particular view of its and
ats facts will serve TO demonstrate the cor
Tcctness of thf deiineation.
The first thing. w.i;ch strikes the mind,
is the Inconsistency between the Trofce&iuns
and fractice OF these Reporters. In the
very FIRST lines of their Repsrt, they admit
that the foreign relations Of the U. States,
" are e.rcipSipeiy vested in the national go
After this concession, was it
consistent IN these men, the members of a
S/ufc Legislatnre only, to expatiate upon
the most delicate points in our foreign rela-
tIons! What makes this inconsistency still
more conspicuous, is their subsequent as
Sertlon that they have a very "limited in
formation" OH these subjects for say they,
the Executive of the Union nave designediy
Kept back, even from the eye OF Congress
a large share of it's own information. With
these limited views Of those subjects, which
are exclusively vested in the national 90
~Vernrncnt," how cOL,Id the federalists Of
massachusetts presume to express their le-
S1slativc sentiments OIL our foreign relations
to assume the papal c.hair-to launch their
0uils against the government of the Union
hay, even 10 rcCoInm end a war with
France Z 10 complete the chain of absur-
dities, they should have gone on to have pro-
claimed as we'll as recommended this war.
lnS departure from their own principles
can admit bnt Of one solution. They were
so eager 70 express their own sentiments of
our foreign relations, TO censure our cxeC1i-
tive AVID to war against France, that they
even ovcrieapt their own modest principles
TO attain. their object. This could have
been their only real induceruent.
But sthl they frofe&s other motives for
this departure. And what are they WHY,
thai bccapse " from the language (of Mr..
Crowninsiiield's original rcso.Gtions.) it
vnu!d ai7icorto be the sense of the 6fouer,
mat tie same motives and causes produced,
frt m both foreign nations, the DEGREES and
Orders complained of,"-h-rejore, " it
may se advisable, to state such Information
both as to the oates OF the several DEGREES
and Ogdc.s, as well as to the ailedgcd grounds
OF passing the same, as awe couc to the
knowledge ofyour committee" Never was
q mere ridiculous reason assigned for such
an Inconsistency. According to this dec
trine, the grave Legislature Of Massachu.
sets rinst transcend taeir own powers. be-