The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1809-03-17

not the author Of John Tayior's Resolutions
Iot SO James Madison, The author of thes.
auous Resolutions!h And il il thus, ! cx-
csaimed, that perish the rcputstiois os men
he Sreenest sprig. that hourished round
the brow OF this hoary veteran, is then rude
" snatched away, to adorn a more ~ilustri-
aus brow What then remains to prop his
lettering reputation? That, which n post
Alone caused him to dwell on the tongues OF
men, on in the Journals OF the day, is gone
'cr ever. -fnd how faris tae rags uf ruin to
Hhect This venerable man Are there no
other achievements CT other men. Of which
he has suDtlitted to be the repa,ed IA
Their When The political peacock is strip
ped Of his borrowed plumeS, will re also de-
generate iato n 5ackdaws Such were the
Melancholy reflections. which poured upcn
my mind. AS to you. imust admit. that "the
decided iScendancy" ut hir. Al. is nos, much
less apparent than ever.
a stated my impressions 70 you fairly
and explicitly. lam net peculiarly anxious
10 vindicate their correctness. They were
not charges which ! had made against you. *
which ! might have thought myself bound
TO support-tbey were only such impressi-
oas, as had led me to make q certain
suggestion concerning you in my paper-
Yea called upon ME TO state these impress
w n navy SldNCl tlCii. tbdNitR
done So, l am Content. But though | am
not bound to prove, that those Impressions
were correct and your own structures upon
them were wrong, | could not permit my
silence to produce a different conclusion. !
GO not ttiinh that your. stfictures were sa-
Nsiactory as to those which have al
ready past III review before us, l have said
so. On the last point which remains, more
del,cate than those which have gone before
1t, ! SHALL pursue q similar course. | shall
DISMISS 1t with a very lew remarks upon
your observations.
1 had stated as my impression of the first
source OF your oppositi n to MFR. NJ: that
you had understood he had called Won
p shallow politician Wei, SIR. This yen
Rave most silly represented aq the last oEtIe
private griefs which l have assigned to YOU
but you adnlitthat "a gentleman did once tell
you that a similar opinion had been applied
to you by oRe OF your friends" yet that you
had not hit upon Mr.. NJ. as the aGshor, but
upon some other person. Now, Goes it not seem
Il little curious, that you should have hit
upon some other person, whilst others shout d
nave supposed You to have 'iifched" upon
Mr.. NJ? | have heard from various quar-
tiers of very high repute, that You had actu-
ally made this absorption. You assert in
decd, att you never were :1formed OF Mr..
'A'S ~ &hk W. - - vi
bat that you : have Il confused idea that
some such suggestion was made in my pa
per by whom you neUer kHew." And
thereby hangs q tale" This very author was
no otaer than FALKLAND. whose letter To
James Madison was published IN this paper
on March Is, 1908, and professedly written
Is months bcfSYS. There is every reason
10 believe, sir, that this very Falkland was
no other than Mr.. john Randolph himself
Aud now, sir, what daes this f~iv013tc hero 6:
yours say ON this very topicf Why, this
" Yes, to thae Col. Taylor, the ihSe GgneA
OF the Virginia Legislature, in those disaS.
lrous times, the man whom you (Mr. NJ,
have not hesittted to %stigmatise as d Uision-
arg Meoriat in politics when you had riser
into power and Consequence from. his Ia
0ouT@ &C" And now is 1t not curious that MIR.
X. who IS as busy in detecting Mr.. MS ex-
pressions, as ever Sir Joseph Banks was
i'll discovering the Emperor of Morocco.
should have himself light upon this very
expression? 1t is strange, Sir-passing
TRANCE.
But ereugh, sir Ihave already exceeded
the bounds, which had prescribed to my
sell. a few remarks more, and have Gone
with you, and with this correspondence .for
ever. Hencetorth it is closed in this paper.
Hereafter forbear to- charge anv man with
'H6 q iSNltl, VIVA WHICH ne Is eli
trusted, until you know it to b. d fact-As
to the anonymous extract which Z nave pn5-
iished, you are completely mistakca--the
author was in this City when l used it,
Benceforth, sir, do you forbear to "be;ray
any letter" which has been addressed to
yourself; as in the case of Mr.. Madison's
letter.-Be more modest about yorr MT
litary achievements. There are certain as
s%ertions, sir, which will for ever DEFY the
Credulity of the world.
Farewell then, my friend, let us attempt
TO cultivate a little more charity towards
each other. We have beatcn and bruised
each other long enough-and the public are
no doubt obliged to US.
Let tic CALLED jade vince,
Ny withers are untSrung.'
Shakespeare.
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