The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1814-02-10
Vol. 1O.-~---No. 81.

/ try SO ihccssant, that the effect intended
has s-'cn partially produced. at least in
those parts OF the country where they have
an almost entire possession of the printing
presses not to add of the pulpits. Often
and cifectually as it has been put down. this
correspondence contains some passages
more cacuiatcd To stun its inventors in,o
everlasting silence than any former devel-
openent cf the governments impartia iitv-
| Not only in their presses but in public sta
tons they have affected to say that our de-
csaration OF war taking place co temporane-
Iousiy with the war projected by France M
on Russia, W as H. paFt urged on in eHrecta-
ton or the latter measure and that the, nd :
lnihistranou counting with confidence upnn
the overtaroW of Russin, had fondiy honed
to unite its fortunes to the victorious Nauo
tleo3 with all Europe at his feet. This las
been one OF their choice assertions, the CO.
iaFgcd conception OF some of their Most ye
teTan and fertile statesmen. How OUGHT
they 20 become forever. penitent ON cas-
ting their ewes on the letter of the Sec
rotary OF State 10 Mr. Ambassador A
dams Of the first of July 1912. This letter
was written before the reverSes OF France
were known, before it was even known thar
Russia was party to The war, and immedi-
a'eiy after the declaration of ours and ar
'hat day we ind our government strongly
rcpudiating to Russia an idea of connex.
'oh win france, even IN the eveat of an ac-
commodation ofour differences with her
| What new exposure of their buncline in
| VentionS, their pTeposterous calumnieS t.
There may, possibly be some room for ina
g,ning that this letter holds cut an aspect OF
FTench GUersI0n, carried some thing beyond
the necessary or warrantabie line but with
what overwhelming recoil does il come up
on those who have been preaching the dec
trlhe OF French attachments
ne point or view however in which l in
| tehoeo TO aiiude again to our exclusive pat
rlots OF Federalism as Conspicuously low
ered IN the contrast with the noble Alexan-
DER consists in the different impression
made upon his mind and upon theirs bv
TINS frank diSavowal of French Influence AVID
conneXion. The generous mind is itself e.
YER disposed 10 be generous The maliq-
nant mind to be malignant. When MIR A
dams received this letter from the Secreta-
ry OF , ate, in which the views of our gov
! ernment were so explicitly muniies,S,i in
regard tn France, he knew, to use his 90
words, " that it would be satisfactory To
the emperor ana powerfully counteract any
impressions untaVorabie to the United States
"hich the English interest in Russia had
oeen endeavoring TO excite" Nor was Mr.
Adams mistaken. Such effect it immedj
ateiy dld produce upon his confident. his
CanuI1, his Honorable mind. So conclusive
Z he
true SPIRIT ot his mediation) he iame dSatelr
instFucts his chancellor To cnnmt,nicat, i
10 Nount Lieben his ambassador at I1oninn
that 1t may be. made known to Lord Caste
Iedgn. And tor what purpose r f,s,a tba
purpose alone ct the federalis marx il
OF CONVINCING THE BRITIsH GovERN
MENT OF ITS ERROR IN susPkcT1Nc
THAT OF TIE UNITED STATES or ANY
SUsSERVIENCY TO FRANCE The com
p,,~
and injustice have been accumulated th.
ranking bosom they spring from seldom has
mahiiness enough oretraCt it's error The
c mmunic tim indeed was made : byt--tb-
suIlen mnc ct England renamed unnoved-
Inc Engiish ~ crest in the United States
IKE the English interest in Russia, has also
long been irving to excite in the u. States
thiS oeiiet OF subserviency TO France. Con-
tradlclon has been heaped upon contra.
dlction ; proof multiplied upon proof of tic
folly. But no the mind malig, ant and
bent upon power will not yield. The iiber-
al Alexander in an instant rejects the
thought, but the suiien federalist. IKE the
sullen Englishman, remains unmoved -
pound ~ cohBenidl obsjinacy they are alike
lmperWou' to every generous approach.
upon the whole, | consider the deyaiobe-
"lent produced by the Russian mediation az
OF tue highest importance to the countrv =
consider too that the transaction in al IL
parts ait rds o the republican administer
tlon the highest triumph which its wisdom
assyet bad | say nothing of the conduct
OF federalism upon other points that mirbt
be noticed. I say nothing of it's ackooyv-
lodged leader lsboring with protrac,ed in
austry, with Confident assertions, with So
Tenn zeal to make tile American peoDis
oeiieve that the Emperor of Russia was
wholly unknown in the offer of the kind Of
aoonement due to the people upon whom,
such deception has ben PLAYED off undar
the sanction OF his personal Responsibility Sc
venerable years. I say nothing Of the con.
scious rectlude Of the administrator in
holding OIL during the whole summer and an
tuinn when means Of inevitably copTound-
lng their detractors by an earlier exhibition
OF these documents were all the while a.
hahd lie bare limiting Of these things will
supply the appropriate reflections 20 ali who
may do me the honor TO read this letter I
conclude with observing. that henceforth
When our government may be assaiIed M
on some othcr, as it has been upon this sub,
lect' the people will have been tanoht .
lesson to hear IL in its defence before thev
pronounce judgment.
JOHN DICKINSON
FhHadcffhid County, Jan. 80, 1919.
PURSUANT 10 a decree or tb. C,..-. r,