Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1814-05-04
WEDNESDAY, MAY 4, 1914.

less spirit, for SO long time enduring SO
| many injuries and indignitiesi If federal.
ism had been gratih.d by placing Mr. Burr
in the Presidential seat, suspicion would
have lowered around him, and it might not
have been improbable to have supposed
that the constitutional commander in chief
ofour armies, himself personally at the van,
| might have been seeking food for his ambi-
! ton. Every man of intelligence knew that
| the republican ascendancy was rlsqued by
entering into war, Were we the blind
dupes OF the policy of Bonaparte, when in
| the solemn public exposition OF cur motives
we disciaim all present and futore compact,
aud rest our cause on our own strength and
the aid of Heavens If 3onaparte was
friendly, or even polite, would lie not in
the Course of nearly ten years have yentured
small squadron oflnen Of war, or even of
frgates, in aid of our naval force, with
| which signel 6fozv might have been struck
on our coastf
IT there has been any leaniDg or deviation
from the rigid line Of a strict neutrality, it
was manifested in the second period of the
first Presidency, and through that Of Mr..
Adams.
Ifthe fair impartiafty Of the immortal
Washington was in any degree warped, we
| must seek the bias in the influence gained on
his honorable mind by the weak advisers
who surrounded him after the secession of
| Mr. Randolph.
/. The low and penurious grade Of compen-
sation to the high and responsible officers
Ct the government. denied the President at
that TINE the aid of able men. How irsig>
nihcant IN estimation, and how poor in ta
lent, the successor Of MIR. Randolph B,,
one OF the WITNESSES ofkrtune. we beheld
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to the public in the important station of Sc
cretasy OF State. So moderate was his re
putauon. that when his correspondence af
forwards came before the pubIic. humble
as we Ind his pretensions to composition, his
earlier productions were attributed &c a
district Judge in one of the middle states.
IL was the great misfortune OF the admin.
istration OF Mr.. Adams, to find on his acces
SION TO the Presidency the grsat offices oc-
cupled ny such imbecile men as Pickering.
~, ttenry, and Woicott. Among the pro,
niinent characters of the federal party
there is no man whose heart and principles
are more questionable than those of the Sc.
creiary. He espoused the cause of Britain
with zeal which has even grown in the
midst o. the present war with that haugh-
ty power: we thought ourselves. under
his auspices, at one dreary moment, on the
eve of a treaty of alliance, offensive and de-
sensipe, with Britain. An intention, nc doubt,
contemplated by him but which the Exc.
| cutive power did not dare to sxecate. His
efBciai communications. iustead OF tt1t
chaste ard temperate language unisorrn,y
observed by MIR. Monroe towards Britain.
breathed against France the tenpcstuous
fires which ragged in his bosom. He raked
up every embsr of cur sleeping resentment.
He spurned at Cancellation, aud rove to faa
the lame OF fire, which then agiiated the
Ffenrh Directory. Even the unlettered
Mr.. Pickering dealt in tropes and figures,
and, we can all remember, fosted into
state paper, the Tiger which CRou.H,
| Sc before it seizes Oh its prey"
The exterior of this gentleman exhibits
| the plain appearance and simple manners
| of Republican. His mask is easily assn
med. 1t was not until Sextus was acclaim,
ed Pope in the Conclayel he rose from his
| clutches in all the swelling of his mighty
ambition. on the astonished spectators. The
| ffisnd os the fast anchored Isle throws in
| the shade the humtle IN naichlc Al vir ues If
a Blake and an Otis.
No man is more willing than myself TO
| hold in respectful Difference the virtues and
| talents Of many gentlemen called FederaIists.
| 1t would be unfair To make such men respon !.
| sible for he disgraceful anonymous ISLANDERS
| of our government. to be found in the pub-
lie prints ofthe day. VIVA. license how
everhas been INDUCED to this bad political
| Chatham in his various Acknowledged
newspaper publications Will The real
| patriot, of whatever party, claim as an as
! sociate the defender Of the attack on the
| Chesapeake-aud of the blockade in peace
] of our ports 1.-The celumniator os cur FIX
ecutive respecting the Russian mediation
| the Ex Secretary of State, who attempted to
| decry the public credit of his Country Wills,
| engaged in a war with one of the most for
mldable powers in the world,
When that gentleman was in Office, the
| vial of his wrath would have been poured
on such an opponent. The keen fangs of
! the sedition law would have pierced deep
20 his heart. The era Of the reign of ter.
ror is not yet forgotten. The loathsome of
| ferings of Mr.. Pickering's political essays,
| have passed coldly through the Federal lie
! rary files. If they did not excite indigna-
ton they uniformly produced disgust.
The mild spirit OF The Madisonian admin
istrauon, it is probable, will not furnish
M. Pickering with the ecIat of suffering as
martyr in he Cause of royalty. False
hood loses its sting If grossly and pertina.
| cicusly reiterated. II is not the public in
tercst that this gentleman should Withdraw
bimsef from the field of literary warfare. -
The government prosper under his hostili~
I ~. When Mr. Pickering publishes. he
beats up for recruits. and sweIs the ranks
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