Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1816-06-22

any pretenSionS, ana at another " recalled
his abdication." My life upon it ! this is the
most that Gen. Jackson, or Gen. Desha
would say, if they were put upon their
oaths.
The ninth position of the writer, shews
ms the desp pirate lengths TO which he is de-
termined ~ go.-Take this proof among
many 1t seems that the late John Daw-
son, {" Intimately, as he says, in the con-
fidcnce of the administration, attempted
to make 81 ,000 the ratio for each repre-
sentative AT the late Census-and this, he
argues, is an incontestible proof of the am
6nion of V.rginla--As IL each State had
not made a similar effort 10 introduce that
ratio, which would leave the smallest
fraction OF its population unrepresent-
ell.
Having discussed the first point which
he took against Monroe, viz that he is
Unfortunately a Virginian, he next comes to
the second point of the objection, viz. the
particular qualifications of Col. Monroe for
the Presidency"
q His best friends allow him to be but Of
moderate capacity, and slow of compre-
hension."-If he means. that Monroe is no
poet, or orator-that his imagination is not
fertile, and his elocution not flowing. the
opinion is yislded-but, if he means 10 deny
him judgment, strong, profound, not pen
etrating by intu ton. but gradually approa-
ching the very depths of his subject, the
assertion is utterly untrue. The EXpositor
appeals to his best friends for proofs--let
us hear, then, what is said of him by
man who kne7v him sreH, and whose praise
outweighs a thousand calutnnies OF the wri-
ter of the Exposit,on.-Th authority, ]
appealto, is thc British Shy:
Mature has given him mind neither
rapid nor rich and therefore, he cannot
shine on subject which is entirely new
to him. But to Compensate him for this.
he is endued with a spirit of generous and
restless emulation, q judgment solid, strong
and clear, and habit of application, which
| no diff culties can shake, no labours can tire.
With these aids. simply, he has qualified
himself for the first honors of tn country
and presents most happy illustration of
| the maxim, QuisqWe, sue fortune, .faber.
| For his emulation has urged him to per-
| petual and uNremitting enquiry his pa
| tient and unwearied industry, has concen-
| trated before him all the lights which o.
| theirs have thrown on the subjects Of his
! consideration, together with all those which
| his own mind, by repeated efforts, is ena-
| bled to strike !; while his sober. steady and
| faithful Judgment has saved him from the
common error of more quick and brilliant
! geniuses the too hasty adoption of spe. j.
| Gus, but false Conclusons.-'Ihese qualities
| render him safe and an able counsellor.
| And by their constant eXerton, he has "a
massed store of knowledge, which having
| passed seven times through the crucible,
is almost as highly corrected as human
| knowledge can be /; and which certainly
may be much more safely relied on, than
the spontaneous and luxuriaDt growth of
more fertile but less chastened mind
- Wild, where weeds and flowers prornis
| cuous shoot. -" AS the elevated ground,
which he already holds, has been gained
merely by the dint of application as eve
! ry new sep which he mounts becomes a
| mean OK increasing his powers st Il fare
| ther, by opening wider hor zon To his
| view, and thus stimulating his cnt rprize
| afresh, reinsigorating his habits, multiply
| ing the materials and extending the range
OF his knowledge ; it would be matter of
no surprize to me, if, before his death, the
world should see him at the head of the
| American administration. The prcphe--
/ cy was written in 1805-it will see its fuifE-
| H1ent in 1917 " So much" for Jawes
Monroe: =" living, an honorable, an IL
! lustrious monument Of self created emil
hence, worth and greatness !"
| This is the man whose whole soul from
the moment Of its creation has been devo-
| ted to the rights of man and the liberties
or his country. He shed his blood for Them
during the American Revolution. He
| spoke for them to the American Co gress
| and the Convention of Virginia. Though
while on his mission to France, he had the
| misfortune to displease some factious men,
who abused the confidence Of the illustrious
| Washington, yet his friends saw no reason
| to desert the man who was always true to
the cause of liberty. They raised him to
the chair OF Virgiuia---a post, to which he
impaired an Importance, which was almost
! unknown before, and which showed him in
small scale, what he was capable of do
ing ona larger. He collected lights from
! every one around hin--5ut he judged and
decided for himself. So mistaken is the
Exposition in representing him as the pill
| ant instrument of others.
His last mission to France. is illustrated
by transaction, which will never be eras--
ed from the archives OF the Republic-He
who had been most strenuously opposed to
closing the mouth of the MiSsissppito the
trade of the West, as is clearly set forth in
the Debates of the Virginia Convention,
was at last enabled TO lead the way to the
acquisition OF Louis ANA measure, which
not only gave US the empire Of the Missis-
| sippi, but OF both its banks--And by won~
derful concurrence of events, the maa who
had contributed to gain Louisiana, was aft
t.rwards abe, by the vigour Of his powers,
to contribute to save it from the talons of
| fto pr;ttah