Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1810-02-20

way" Indeed did nos,' returned
Jonathan--'. every body said the bar
gain was fair David was your mas
ter's attorney. 1 examined his pow
ers they were general aud full. BE-
sides, whar good could it do me to
make an. engagement with David l
knew Mr.. Bull would not agree to?
| beg leave explicitly to inform you
thai the insinuation, not being found
ed on fact, is ipa6missible. Pray
mention il no more" IS make no insi-
situation where cannot substantiate
facs," roared Copenhagen Bull. ITS
all as true as that old Harry's in Lou
don-aud will maintain it." Sir"
says Jonathan, with very serious
phiz-" must not knock you down
for calling me a lia----Your agency
protects you from the effects OF my
just indignation But I'll have nothing
further to do with you. If MIR. Bull
sends gentleman here 1 Will receive
him politely, and gladly listen TO all he
has to say on our business"
Such is precisely the nature of the
late engagements with Mr.. Erskine, &
the rupture with MIR. Jackson. How
any real.friend of the honor Of the u.
States can, from this, conjure up a
charge against his own government, an
honest man is indeed at loss to con-
ceive. The truth is, though the feder-
alists, as a parry, affect TO believe what
Canning asserts in preference to uni
70 IL
Smith & Erskine, aud the fore: of rea-
son itself, there are few men among
them who really think that Mr.. Erskine
was not authorised to make the arrange
ments he did or that the government
of the u. States had any other than
the most honest views in acceding to
his propositions. In the whole circle
of my acquaintance, (many of whom are
federalists) l have never heard one de-
iiberately maintain the ground ETr.
Jackson and his printers have taken.
Yet, how extraordinary and inconsis-
ent is 1t J these very men support others
IN maintaining that ground they them.
selves believe absurd aud preposterous
Il seems as IL the federalists had two
souls, one as partizans, the other as
men and, ed-by the first, to bring a.
bout what they believe is politically
right, /. e. the destruction Of the rer
publican party, they do that which the
second tells them Is morally wrong.
This remark brings TO my memory
circumstance which happened more
than eight years ago. a federal mem
Der of Congress, declared in my pre-
sence, that ii Jefferson and Burr had
each an equal number of votes, and
choice must be made Of one Of the IN for
President, no man could hesitate which
ct the two 10 choose. &c Jefferson, he
said, was an honest man--but Burr
id rascal--a man in whom he was
sure his own party was grossly deceiv-
ed being utterly unfit to be trusted
with power" A few weeks after this
conversation the same man, in Con-
gress a partizan, voted more than thirty
times to make his ownd /" ID ras-
cal' President of the United States e.
ven in opposition to the just claims of
his " honest man" & the known will OF
the people, BUCKSKIN.
On the motion made by Mr. Randolph to
thank Mr. Madison for the Z" proHptitude
and frankness with which he had acted,''
in carrying into effect the arrangements
with ErSkine, every federalist declared
the ARRANGEMENT to be reciprocal, honest
and liberai--and honorable to both coun-