The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1810-07-03
CHARLES Town, (Ea } June %.
To The Correstoadtnt Of Timothy
Pickering.


SIR,
No apology will be necessary for this
Intrusion on your patience, when it is Con
S'dered, that through the medium of your
favor'te tory fater, the Federal Republican
OF tht 22d ultImo, you have with he unpre
medita!ed gallantry o: the knight of the
sorrowtul countenance" brea,hcd defiance
to nay ears. his being the case, your in.
Vitatlon Cannot. III common poll -ness. be
rejected. But before we proce ed any fur
ther let me promise, that whenever YOU
aV0w yourself as the author of the infamous
puoucation above referred 20. Should curio
SHY or any o.her motive excite IN yuur MUD
desire TO become better acquainted with
the author OF this letter, you will have no
thing mole or less to do, than to call upon
the printer. win" wal inform you OF my real
name, and will point out to you the particu
lar house IN which 1--we. In the pros,ituled
Vehicle above mentioned, il is declared. that
the extract from 4 Pickeriug's letter 20 yo,,.
as published in the Enquirer, was design
ediy mntiiated. and mat it wa, originally
+" Oh AIMED under false aud Fraudulent PIE
'tences, IN order 10 he published through a
" breach of confidence" 1t can only be pre-
sumed that the Editors of he Federal Re
publican received their Information directly
or indirectly from you. Now, sir how was
=
They SHALL be briefly and correctly stated
and every thing which shall be stated is sus..
ceptible Of, and can be substantiated by lie
gal proof. You were indisposed-A friend
ana family connection o; yours came to see
you. For the sake of your own convenience
ana accommodation, i,e was requested bv
you To 81 at least four miles TO tie post ulFict.
a"d take up letter which you supposed
might be there for you from Il. PICKERING.
You added that II he Obtained such let ,r
lie should open it, as he was equally iuieres
ted with yourself tor you had recently
written To L Pickering on The subiect of
your clam for half pay, o a similar claim
lie also had some prcten5iDns) aud expected
his answer thereto He accordingly went
to the post Office, received your letter, and
opened Il III the presence of the p ISL master.
aou VINO kno" not what are the lies of cen
science or OF patriotism, can form 10 idea OF
the contest which arose in his mind on rea
ding The eXeCrablc letter of / Pickerinr.-
On the one hand considerations of a priYa-e
nature had their weight The manner in
which you desired him to open the letter.
implied seeming Confidence, which for
Sign or trivial causes ought not 10 be disre-
gdrded, (that is, bad the Contents OF the letter
Deeh Tree from crlmInaiity) An acquaiu
lance OF many years standing, as well as the
family connection above alluded to. had
their weight. But III the opposite scale was
put the duties which he owed to g ID and his
country. He did not forget that he had "a
Ken Tenn oath to support the constitution
of the Us
You too have taken the same oath. which
however has given you no concern. for it is
well known that you are avowedly hostile TO
the present form of gpvernment, and an open
advocate for monarchy, for which you have
declared the people OF the u. 5. are only fl;
-fle had as well as myself often heard ,ou
say that this government could not stand
mat IL must soon fall-thatH ought 10 ErH
ne had heard you say that before the pJesl"
dental term tor which Mr.. NJ Olson was r
lected, should expire, he mir MI wouid
be dragged from his seat, as he ought to be.
L he@e and many other declarations of vour,
all ID contempt of the solemn obligations of
an oath, and all equally reasonable, crowd.
ed upon ms mind. He could not long hest
tate. ski that part OF ne letter which was
OF private nature, was held by him as IN
vlUaDle. He took the extract in question
which related, not to the private concerns
O' Pickering aid yourself, but which affect
cd his own inteTCsts---the interests of his |
family. and the interest of every other indi
V'dual ~ the community Ii vas we'll nm |
ders'ocd tiat when Pickering and yoc choose |
10 write Oh subjects which concern vour- |
'eiyts only, vcu viii neverbe censured bv /
ny reasonable btng.-But when VIC discover !