The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1809-11-17


! ment has maintained principle, which they
! surely could nor haze abandoned
The other points in the Treaty are reserv-
ed for the next No.
TO THE FEDERALISTS.
GENTLEMEN, ..t
You have seen that Francis James
Jackson, Esq. has received his Quie:us-
that he has been dismissed from the commu-
nication and confidence of our government.
Before yon make up your minds on this i'm
portant question, i; may become you to
weigh deliberately a few considerations.
When Mr.. Jackson reached our shores,
his Character. was covered, with reproach
His ohhointment was regarded by many an
honest man as an Insult to the u. >. II was
even so considered by some Of the Journals
OF London. He Came red from the flames
of Copenhagen, and flushed with the blood
OF the prosecuted Danes. The question was
then most emphatically put, what !go9d
were gvc to expect from sIch nes0cia =
tor?
Yet he came on an Errand, which requi
red all the patience and magnanimity OF our
government An arrangement concluded
with his predecessor, after the most solemn
and repeated assurances of his having the
authority to conclude il, was abruptly brok en-
by his government The pressure of our
Embargo was gone. Our vessels and proper
ty were let loose upon the ocean, to become
perhaps the victims of British rapacity Our
confidence in the faith of that government
was shaken--Yct in spite of these things,
how did MIR Madison acti Did he reject
this boosted missionary of Peacei No. He
was received and installed in tue authority OF
Minister Plenipotentiary.
Ia. zvhat 7oay has he ac.cd' We are told,
i hot h..n aC .,,,l.
solenty charged our government with CON
niuance in Mr.. Erskines breach of his in
strucsons--with duplicity in denying it
with lies-for such is the true spirit of the
reputed insinuation, when Invested of It's
courtly phrases minister, who had come
to excuse the errors of his Predecessor, at
tacks US with insult--he, that was to show
u.s. in spirit of frankness, the Instructions
under which Mr. f.. had &C ted, is the one 10
face us down with the asseveration of our
having seen them before-he that was to
have Gomez in the garb ofpeace, is 10 assume
the language of defiance and insult. Even
| though he had believed his own assertions.
instead of depressing his convictions, in
the spirit of amity and peace, he mas dashed
them in our teeth-sacrificed the important
| interests of the two countries, perhaps, 20 a
| miserable trifle.
! Every thing that IS before us, is in favor of
! the veracity of the p u S-What said
Mr.. 4. at tie time Twice, that he was au
thorised to make the arrangement. What
| since2 We have not his letter of the 14th
August, before us-but we are told by the
National lntelligencer, in his account of it,
that . Mr.. +. III this letter, stated the rea-
| sons which, in the exercise of the discretion
given him, had induced him nor to lay his in,
structions before The government of the u S -
, -
knowledge, such an arrangement zvouid NOT
| haze been made that the p u =. must
have been too well acquainted with the risks
| on such an occasion, and the pretexts which
such a fact would have furnished the British
| government to sacrifice the arrangement to its
| interests, to have agreed to it.
What course were our government to
take with Mr.. J.9 To have furnished him
with new opportunities of repeating his in.
nuations----submitted to such indigui-
| tIes-cncouraged Mr.. ]. to repeat them in
the course of the gociations---overlook
! ed the respect, which is due to the u. States,
by suffering him to rample it under his feet
-disgraced our national character in the
| eyes of the world, No. 1t was really time
to shew the Jenkinsons and the Percevals,
| that we had some little character at stake
| that we would enforce the respect which
| was due us from their uuderstrappers--that
we had sensibllity to feel, and a nerve to
resist these Insults. These men, from the
| time since they were called to the ministry
have never ceased to aggrieve other nations
| and ourselves. Look at Denmark. Look at
| their orders of November 1907 at the
! attack on the Chesapcake--.at the state of
the diplomatic communication Every
| thing seemed to call for some energetic mea
sures of self respect.
Who is il, that has dismissed +. JACK.
son! Mr.. Madison man, whom, Won
| yourselves say has manifested no hatred to-
wards England-and who has even viola
ted the letter OF law, to meet her over
lures for accommodation. You do not wish
for way with England He does not either
with France or England, if it can be no.
| norably avoided-We wish TO be at peace
! with al the wofld---and to sit uuder
our own vine and our own fig tree, with
, none to make us afraid. why should such
a man reject even Mr.. Jack son, but from
the commanding influence Of natioal honor
Think of these things-unless YOU lears ,C
behold the Brush ministry in their rue i,enls
----uniessyou repress their hopes Of your di.
/ visions -----and manfuly resist ne eacroach
/ mcnts Of Brltain----inso!cnce or War must
! be the alternative.
! Mr.. Jackson seems 20 have adopted Mr.
Canning as bis model in dijiiomafic courfesa
MIR. g. turns our laws into iest---anf
| his representative boards our executive 10
| his face. The one charges Mr. Pinkney with
ruisrepres entation---the other, gives our
| President the lie direct. We arc happy
/ ut last to see i'll manners receive a satuta