Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1823-07-25

RICHMOND. JULY - Iog,-

IL Is the s'ceetess fruit "a, J 10 most NIX M
we suppose be for soe reason of this sort ,hat
Mr. Crawford has had many peck at him, The friend.
OF all the candidates have tried the expement-nos, OF the
friends OF Mr. Clay alone excepted They have shswn
Aoe iiiic more judgment aud forbearanee towards him
another oil these critics the lists against lie
welcome to try his hand. The Republican Of s3 tis-
plays more zeal than discretion his vocation This thing
Is clear that il W. H. CHS unable Withstand such pa
per shot as this, he is unfit he the president u
Scharacter would possess that innex iby
the mountain oak, which is necessary withstand the
tempests that asssil him the proud elncnce 10
"hicn he asrres-As to his assaiiant, would
down aught in malice" We very little in the
charges he brings The same tucsin has been
sounded before-but not perhaps high Key The
enemies OF Mr. Crawford had take ad,ce--a little
more moderation would serve their purpose letter There
cool judgments OF the people. The writer before real,
ou'herods Herod lie once rings nil the changes
upon the Augusta Address-an address which
before tla alien aud ediiion laws had sanctioned by
John Adams, and before their passage known
gave shall not the reader 10y again discussing Til,
treadbare topic of the address. We shall content our
selves by making brief extract from a communication
which appeared in the Philadelphia Franklin Gazette of
the i7th inst:
Now we cannot conceive OF any negative cas.
being more clearly made out than that Mr. Crawford
VAS not iederast in 1898. Gentlemen of The uost
constant habit al assocuting with him a the very
period when his politics sait To lie Of u federal
cast up To the present tine and that they ever found
MN thorough gong democrat Utle ei.i
SCHOOL Shall thus evidence then, he SET aside by tie
rds"e and uncertain testimony found ~ an address,
go' up Al "a moment when the of yibial
upon me ear oi every pairiuI, and when feeling, not
Judgment, determines 10 action ? To do tins would,
we think, be departure from III canor and i,rsic
winch should govern us IN all oui decisions.
IN an assembly composed Of all parties AS was
HAT AZ Augusta, " would be preposerous To SUPPOSE
n'iian address would, i'll every particular neet The
views oil each individual. Such unnnimity OF sent-
meh Is rarely 10 he found even in HE ranks f those
who uniformly act together. We cmmnoi there.
lore admit that the isolated fact of Mr.. Crawford
having sanctioned the Augusta address, even hy his
signature, IL proof poSiiite at ms federalism. We
must have the moie satisfactory and uneouivucal
evidence of his having supported the federal cause
o5 conversations, speeches. and 0riien eSS1s before we
can yield oui assent o tue ruth OF the charge that
mas bten ie,eiied AT INN nv las political opponents
But the Republican of go" isnot satisfied with nyok-
ing the aid OF the Augusta Address he unhesniingly
charges Mr. Crawford with ngra.e to his patron and
attacks upon president in
paper paronized by his office, conducted by Two con-
fdential clerks i'm his department. We deny and doubt
these allegations. Does the writer seriously nssert
Washington c. sinIrite poIrs torrent of abuse,
against the president Name the Nocite the ausr-ye
do not see ii, though regularly read the papershcy
us 700 That the articles in that paper penned by the
clerks IN the Treasury Departmenand then sew us tina,
concert exists between them and MIR. CrawGrd-Umil
lien, ii is worse than idle toihrow abuse against w H.
g. in this strain IL ism indcreei unjust
which can only benefit the HON PROCESSES 10 wound