Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1817-01-16

RICHMOND, JANUARY lG, 1917.

MiRK! hom plain tale wiH pat THEM
dorm If the aye of miracles bepast, that
ofpolltcal misrepresentation certainly is
not.-Though the rage of party is abatetl,
since the late war, lis not vet extinguisl-
edit is not dead, though it sometimes
sleepcth.
The Federal Party have metthe" frowns
ofan injured and iusuted country'-but,
they have not altogether experienced the
fate, which was so lavishly denounced a.
gainst the republicans-tfey are notquite
reduced TO husband ashes their hopes
are gone, but not their hatc-tl,eir satel-
liies seize every opportunity which pre-
sents itself, for misrcprcscniing the views
OF their opponenis.-What effects these
efforts produce, is seen in the triumpiis Of
the republicans, at almost every election
in every State of the Union. Massachu-
sets is already dividcdand even Con-
necticnt the land of steady habits, bc.ius
to faltcr; her faith
4 late event furnishes an evidence OF the
unrclcnting spirit of the Federal Presses
AS the charge is said TO have come from
the lips eta Virginian, AZ the honor oftlie
State is interested in rcpelling calumnv,
said 10 have issued from the lips of one Of
her sons, wehave traced the truth of it,
and arepow ready TO bring forward evil
dcnce, which will silence even the accuser
himself. The charge is contained in The
following extract from the pn,e pages of
the Federal Republican Of the 9th instant:
AUTHENTIC CONFESSION FROM WASH.
TNGTON.
/ Disclosure of Mr.. Randolph, in his place, on
the floor of the House ofRepreseniatives
The time has arrived, when there is no Ion
ger anyneccssty for suppressing the fact tli,t
built william eye to putting down Nr. Adams's
administration with the bavonet If il couldnot
be accomplished by other mears."
Let those who make such uproar about
the Hartford Convention. read this declaration
of MIR. Randolph, aud then TO breakfast with
what appetite thew NAV
|, We understand that Bonsparte has been We
~ communicative oflate let our administra-
rtion look out
But the charge does not end here-Not
content with giving currency 10 it in the
| flrstinstaHce-notc content with sending it
through the greedy columns of the fede-
raj prints throughout the Union, thissame
Federal Republican again harps upon it,
| in its No. the 10th mstant-and con
sirnes the contemptuous silence with
which it was originally met into a confess
| sion of its guilt. Hear him Hea, MIN
"This assertion is made bv Mr.. Randolph in
who were capable OF contradictng him, if his
statement was not correct. The democratic
party were, itseems, TO wait the result of ano-
rhsr claction. 10 put down the administration
| OF Adams, andIf they we're unsuccessful in that
| made, they were TO have bayonets in the Rich
nond arrnory, ready for another trial. Mr.. Ran-
| dolph states that the grand armory was built
! with that view, so that our citizens might be
| provided in season with the means of carrying
| on civil varto utdownthe administration of
I the man, who for aught they knew, at that time
might hare LeeR the choice Of the people. Here CT
\ VII war WAS in the last resort medtated and re-
| solved on, in case the object could not be OBJ
| tanned by any ether means. We wonder what
| ihe sagaclons Attorney General of the United
1 States thinks ofthis fact we wonder what he
| would have said if This fact had been disclosed
| before his political anostacy was bro't about
| What he would have then tiionghtofthe guilt Of
| lis present friends and confederates Here is
| civil war i'll the last event resolved on and an
| armory built where tlie engines of death were
| to he deposited. Let the democrats now meet
| this question fairly, and sbew any thing in the
records Of the Hartford Convention equal to
| this
| Yes, wewill "meet this question fairly
--and though we had no bayonets topnt
Mr.. Adams down, we have a pen TO put
this accuser dOwn-Mark, how "a plain tale
will put him down
We have as yet only the evidence of the
Federal Republican, that Mr.. Randolph has
brought forward this accusation. One
can scarcely believe, thathe could have
been solgnorant, as to misunderstanding the
facts-sO malignant, as TO calumniate his
native State-so silly, as TO confess his
long devotion to party, which he is now
under the necessity Of denouncing bv the
display Ola fact which he has so long sup
pressed. Why has lie not done it before p
Or, why has he now bro't forth charge.
which is coDtradicted by the plainest do
| cuments Ill seems almost incredible.
that Mr.. Randolph should be the accuser
and really we will not believe it. until
| we have better evidence for it than that
| of the Baltimore Federal Republican,
| but, whoever be the father of the charge
whether it be from his mint, or from tile
rich coinage ofibc Federal Republican. il
is not true-as we prove by the following
facts:
This State has al,oays been solicitousto
obtain arms for her defence-While Mr..
Jefferson was minister to Paris, in the wear
1857, &c. he sent us a supply from the
| French armories-wlilclI arms are the best
we ever have received.
The State also owned an Arsenal and
an AImOry at the Point of Fork. a few
miles above this City-which is the more
important, because IL land not Adams's
administration led 70 the building of the
Grand Armory OF Richmond, in Virgin
ia"--in this way. At tue Armory Of the
Point of Fork, arms were not only repair
ed, but nude for The State.-SOme doubt:
were, however, entertained i'm 1896. Wheth