Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1816-06-22
EXPOSITION-Erfiosed.
TBr A VIRcINIAN.]
No. ".

else. is so flimsy and feeble in itself, that
am almost astonished at the task l have
assumed to myself.
Fresh reasonsoffer themselves every day,
to prove that this task was unnecessary
Col. Monroe is fixed almost beyond the
nower of fate. Calumny cannot reach
h;n-we have fr IN proofs every hour .hat
he is the favorite of a grateful people. a
f,rt too, has come out in proof, which we
orly suspected and glanced at in the COM
,nencement Of these pumbers-that this
pompous exposition is not the production of
I. ffty -four republican representatives or
,hs people - but OF few faotious and re-
yenreful spirits. Most Of the friends of
Mr.. Crawford disciaim it-and common
report has already given the credit OF it to
n Representative from he North, who has
asked for preferment and been refused
and who has taken this m 'thod or disguis-
ing his firfvate griefS under the cloak of
Patriotism. But the arrow SPEEDS as fee
bly,, as the heart Of the archer is malg-
nant
We shall, therefore hurry over the re-
naming charges Of the EXposition--snd
bring this unnecessary iaoour to a conciu-
sion.
The sirth position is as hollow as all the
rest.--It is not tfue, that Sc every distiu-
suishea republican in the other states who
might justly aspire to the Presidential
chair, 7vas, in this manner, thro7vn in the
back gToMnd'-becausc, where is the IA
y,ur;te candidate of the writer himself
Where is Mr.. Crawford! Where is the
gentleman who, according to this writer's
confessions, " would beyond all question
have been nominated for the Presidency.
and who was held back, not by the tricks
of the ambitious Virginians, but by his own
" discouraging delicacys" MIR. Crawford
was on the spot, not thrown in the back
ground by the administration, bat eieva-
ted to the view of his countrymen, placed
in the department of war, and presented
with every opportunity which he could de-
sire of Introducing himself into notice and
advancing his pretensions. How many
lannies does this single circumstance pat
TO flight Here is a man of taleRts, man
who had drawn upon himself the gaze Of
the nation, who had more chances, than
any other, of rivalling Monroe, who was
the favorite candidate of " ffty-fopr re-
publican representatives ;" not sent into
retirement on his return to his native
country, nor thrown into the back ground
by the leading men in Virginia ;" but
sedulously drawn back from the OBSCURE
ty to which he WAS retiring, and invited to
take a seat in the view of the nation.
Is This ambition
As little truth accompanies the assertion,
that all these men having been thrown into
the back ground, nothing remained but
TO hotularize Col. Monroe" Is this wri
ter serious, when he says that every step
which he has taken was made with an eye
TO the Chair That 4" the whole fian zvas
lid at q conciliatory dinner provided IN the
neighbourhood of Mr.. J-ff-rson's residence,
at which we're present Mr.. Jefferson, Mr..
Madison, and Col. Monroe" The fact is
denied; where is the proof of it ? The
whole scheme is disclaimed where is the
evidence OF ii "TriAes light as air, are
to tn jealous combinations strong as proofs
o. holy writ" Mr.. Monroe goas elected
GoUernor of Virginia, but with no design
of traHslatng him into the office of Sscreta-
~ Of STATE, which was at that moment
n'led by MIR. Smith, and no one dreamt of
IT'S becoming vacant. lie was promoted,
not with any intention of making him
president, bu; of turning his talents to the
public account. The assertion, that from
the moment he became secretary of state,
every measure in peace and in war, on
the part of the executive, has pointed to-
wards his elevation TO the chief magistra-
cy," IS so utterly absurd, that it is not enti-
tied to a moments attention.
If the ssventh position was superfiuous,
why is it brought forward If it was mot
necessary to dwell upon the circumstances
OF Mr.JcfersoR's having, in the hoodtide of
republcanism, enforced an alteration in the
constitutions" why is it mentioned unless
II is to fling a reproach upon MIR. Jefferson
himself f-rhe services of that illustrious
sage, one should have thought, might have
saved him from the calumnies Of a man,
Who calls himself republican. But his
hatred of Virginia. too licentious, to res
pet any one who bears her rame. He
makes Mr.. Jefferson tobesr the exclusive
credit OF transaction in which the whole
party participated--and, makes out the
transaction itself to be bad one, when ex-
perlence had proved its necessity. TAis
change in the constitution is stIgmatised as
favorable to intrigue, when all the world
knows, that before the change, Aaron Burr
was on the eve Of intriguing himself into
ONCE and when il was at all times so
easy, for a disconnected faction OF the re-
plbiicans, to have raised their favorte to
qQ'1cs, by intriguing with the federal party
IS it on this account that the authow OF the
1xpos ton are dissatisfied with the - alter
alton in the Constitution
The eighth point Of the Erhosition IS
untrue.-CoI. Monroe might nave averred,
~h* az all times he has declared, ha'
ne was no candidate for office that IT Is
Ior the people to choose their own ser
wants and that IL they saw nt to select q