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

posed Ia all latitude in the construction of III. ,
constitution This latitude of construction
had then DISPLAYED itself in veral acts which
wrrt diSfrasing to him, such as The funding
system, the establishment 0f Il pational bank.
Sc. En- these measures were mild, In their
effects "n the people, compared with those To
which the same latitude pf construction led
under the administration uf MIR. Adams. This
anti j. srrS"ninu latitude, had then gained lis
climax. The alien and srditiOn laws were tn,
measures which Grsl gave the alarm Ia the
whole nation. Have the people of Virginia
forgot th"S- times Have they furgOt what
| were called john Taylor's resolutions in i793
| Thnse resolutions came from the Jefferson
schao and were the entering wedge L. the
Jefferson administration. They brought oul
The republicans of that school aud they ware
the test of Jtffcrsonian rrpublcansin. Let
| us 90 back To that time and remember the
| ferment which the alien and sedtiun laws
spread throughout Virginia. Every repub!i
can press in the state opened rpnn them all
their artillery. Every republican man and
boy that could WELD pen or make speech,
was found in battle array against them. They
were considered by the republicans, as de-
monstraing ii settled purpose in the admins
traiion. to push the government, into nonar-
chy. On the other hand, the fed, ralists in
sisted that those acts were only prudent and
necessary measures, and in their several
meetings they passed resolutions approving
The ir'Sfom and rirfne of .Iir. .fdamS's ddm IN
'strdt,on, and piedgihg themselves 10 IT'S support.
OI this latter description, were certain resO-
luti"ns that went, at that day fran the cpun-
ty Of Bath, and which were rendered the more
memorable by the Presidents reply in which,
he in alinsion to the republicans of The JEFF
lrTson school, sp"ke of party in The stale
that must he crum6led inin dust and dSkes.-
| N Sfaf, l., ~
celebrated resolutions in 1898. On these the
parties were distinctly pitted against each
other Those who supported the resolutions
were republicans of the Jefferson school
those who opposed them were fedrralis,s. 1t
was dark and agiialiDg period Full well do
remember IT, II was ga fine that tried
mems souls" for the strength of the republi-
can party throughout the Cnitrd States, was
then unknown. The frderais:s had carried
every thing before them, and whether they
could be successfully resisted. was problem
of prrilous solution for il It failed. the cause
OF liberty was gone-so at least thought the
republicans. But fearful as IL was. the attempt
was nevertheless resolved on, and every re-
publican of the Jefferson school was then. in
| 1898, found in thr republican ranks. Now
suppose that al that period, any man in Vir-
GINA, ofthe age differently eight years, had act
ed as the chairman of ii committee whirh had
forwarded AN address to President Adams, APP
proving ofthe ioiSdom and ririue ofaI The meas
ures Of has administrator, and pledging them
seires to ais support. Would such man have
been deemed in Virginia, n genuine republican
Of the Jeftrson school? And does il make any
odds in point of principle whether the man
who did this. perpetratrd it in Virginia. or in
Georgia Yet IS not this the case nf Mr.
Crawford? Whether he is or is not TO be Tor
given forit, is another question but is it for
man who stands in need of forgiveness, to he
mounted thus over the heads of men whn did
III truth and in fac; belong to the jefferson
school, when that school was first opened and
when 1t required no slight degree ofintrepidi-
| " To enter 1t! Is this man 10 he held up as
tn" only genuine republican of the good old
Jefferson school, while those who were really
ui that school, are to be sacrificed i'm heca-
tnmbs around him And vet this is what his
very wise, very modest, very discreet support
IRIS, acting unques;ionably under his cOnrouI,
are IN fact attempting. | say acting unqurs.
tlonably under bis controul, for who can doubt
that Mrssis. Cobb, &c. 1.-The Trio of Georgia
and the Two treasury clerks and the discarded
clerk of the department of state, who are the
reput"d writers for the Washington City Ga
Zeiic (the Crawford papcrl would desist from
their abuse at the President and the other
members nj the administration, on the slight
est inllnIdti"n from hin ? And he V ho permits
an injury which lie could easily hinder and
which is done for his advancement is lust as
much answtr"hlr for it,, as if he had com
mandcd 1t. And say that his supporters are
| in Fact attempting this sacrifice OF genuine re
pu'lcdns tu the ambilinn nfthrir patron: for.
what else Is the meaning of those gross and
most uniUund"d attacks on our venerable
| President, Wb6 has grown grey in the honest
service of his country while the same writer's
who thus vilify the President and all who are
attached to him, hold uts this man Mr. Craw.
! ford, aS the only genuine uniform republican of
the good old Jefferson school ? Had not these
exclusive prriensions, So Injurious Ia the Just
rights of others and 50 insulting to the sense
of the nati0n, been made for Mr.. Craw-
/ ford, he might have been sulferedto pass with
out question, in the crowd OF republicans ::
hut when Others are called upon to give away
/ to his exclusive pretensions and to bow the
knee To his supremacy, nay TO take the lash
which his mcnias aud parizans choose how
ever wapionly 10 pRict, il is tmr 10 enquire
| into his little, and those " no have tbhs wantuu-
| ~ provoked the discussion and he who has
permitted IT, must be content to take the con-
sequences.
return then To The question; was he in
| 1898, g hlch may be justly called the year of
pfobaIion,a republican oftbe Jefferson schnnl?
| IL he bad in iilat year done in Virginia, what
he did in Georgia, hr would'noi have been per-
m'itrl ever thereafter. to come into the re-
publican school at all nr if he had, il would
have been all other deserters come he
would have come and have remained, under
such - cInnd of suspcion and dstrust, that no
| post ni any great responsibility would have
ever been confdrd TO him in that state. For
LET II hc observed that Wh ru he did this Thing,
he was no boy, he was fun grown man of
eight and twenty wars tsf nWp &. and chat -