Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1824-07-30

! iessed advocates yt,r.bs;rd to him and whic,.
bear about them thr verisimiliiuLe If truth
1t true they br, then indeed is this man no com
mon offender, for he has assaulted the ind.pen.
dehce Of the press, by substantially declaring.
that wherever its conductors shall expciicne.
the favOrs If the administrators, they ar.
thereby laid under obligations To defend that
| administration whose counienance they have
enjoyed. More plainly, that the press hi,h.r
to justly regarded as the alarm pos: of liberty.
is to- be carried by the brine uf prost and nj
vantage administered by the gov.rnmrnt.-
The people Of this country are invited 10 ex-
anime with particular scrutiny an article pub
lished early in the present month in paprr
edited IN Washington city styled the" National
Government Journal" They will find in il IN.
FORE going declaration in effect If moi in terms.
announced too AS cmanaling irutn the Secrp-
lazy ar State. The sentiments il contains are
S" repuistr, that they are reluctantly ascritrd
L" any Euhiic man "a feeling of shame fur my
country would forbid il the declaration hnw.
ever AS stated as his, bis acts aud motive con-
nectrd whhit ARE spoken Of wi,ha confidence
which carries with it th- time of authenticity.
and The Secretary has Oot coniradicted these
ooiotis opinious. What conclusion can be
drawn from all this !? He uttered these opini-
ons, or he authorised their annuucaton as his.
In the article alluded To, il is said that the. Sc
crriary Of state had in part withdrawn hi, pa
| trohaSe from the National lntelliy.nr.r, st.
on account OF the general course Of that pa
per Jor some time past toTards The present ad
m'm's'ratton aud Sdiy, Because The editors
MAO gar bled the publication uf the documents
relating To the Convention for IN. suppression
"i the African Slave Trade. What the gem
sTai cnurse here spoken Of has been, we are
not told, tho circumstances are sufficiently
pregnant To authorize IA shrtwd conjecture
The editors Of the Intelligence .r have for some
ttme past been unfqhivUcay friendly To the
election Ut Mr.. Craw ford, of course not friend
~ 10 the preiensIons of Mr.. J. @. A. Ii is
then IN reference 10 So much Of the admins
tration as rs constituted of the Secretary of
state That The course of those Editors is dis
pirasinS To MIR. Adams; certainly not to all The
administration, unless This hunorable Secrefa-
W constitute not only pms magma, but the
whole; aud The Secretary at the Treasury is
no part OF II. Towards the indiv idual too,
whom "stulius ego" lha,e been accustomed
10 regard as the head of the administration,
Inc PFtstdcat, The temper and language of
those Editors have been friendly and rniorm
~ respectful. But To the more definite char
gcs against these Editors How have they
garbled the documents in question? Fake
The statement allrdsed 10 be The Secretary
own. When the in junction of secrecy was
removed from The proceedings OF the Senate,
the lntcilISencer commenced al the same time
| The publication of the treaty, documents, SC.
toSs ther With The objections (as they were I'M
| dsrstOod,) which had heeu made in tn. Senate
| fo' the ratification Of the treaty Ii was known
abroad that the,e were d.acuics in the way
ut The ratification. Now it may reasonably he
| asked, whether as men hose Office and ,oca-
'i"n II Is to dsperse through the country eve
ry species of political information, the Editors
| or The iutelliprUcer NntIH ntt hs, 81
and whether IT was not Ihrr hound.n duty,
| I'D render tina, information as full as they had
power la make IL ? But il serms that the
same paper which presented the hearsay Oh
l3'c8onS from the Senate, did not contain the
uhoie of The documents. What then p
Inc Editors ailedSed land in common chart
~ they may be believed that not having space
Tor az, ih"y omitted such portions az tu them
srein,d immatrriai. These omitted articles
II now appears were extracts from reports of
committees of he House uf Representative
which had probably been already before ,hs
pubic; bat whether they had or had moi been
previously published, they We're nppn The Sc
cfttarys complaint published Immediately
I'eis TACT he admits Tie offended feelings Of
the high digniiary were not yet appeased !;
! housh The Editors did publish the required
documents, still he tells us s. they gave 30 sa-
'isiact"ry reason Tor their conduct nor has
SOLITARY paragraph appeared in their paper Ia
| apo'osize for their partial selection If docu-
ments or to u. tcnd The administration against
The dsPerSionS 81 lis enemies founded upon iheir
| OMISSIONS" For what had these Editors an
ai'"i"gy TO make !? They had in the first
place assigned reason for the omission com
piA'ntd Oh tue documents deemed important
by he Secretary were directly published.
,nen what he terms the nrgament, The justif-
cGt'0u vi the administration, has been fully
gwen ny them. Nothing then remains as pos
slbiy Inipuiable to these Editors, but that they
ina not publish the proceedings of the admin
istration entire in The beginning; emitting
every thing else 10 make room for them and
when hose proceedings were assaulted in slher
public pri0ts did not lay hold of the omission
Ut documents which they had esteemed i'm
matcrs!, AZ a prct-xt for sustaining, lin other
words, for puffIns) The administration, whether
thry believed them right or wrong. Instead
of such pr"figate ser.ility, the Editors of
the lDtelligencrr have told the whole truth TO
the public, and incurred thereby the displra-
sure of MIR Secretary Adams. They have
ihe farther mrrit Of making an in,porIant rx-
position for Their countrymen. They have
caused him to d-.-ope the course Of policy
, Inch ought 10 bring upon him curses both
deep and loud; policy, The direct tendency
: OF which ~ "a Over-awr and silence the Dragon
that IS placed at the door Of our sanctuary.
The Secretary's conduct in this respect is still
7 more objectionable, when ecollect that the
transaction IiBpugned in the Senate was pecu-
lIariy his own; and tile bearing which the op-
position in that body was liz civ 10 have upon
: bis prospects ia the approaching Presidential
election. There IS pusillanimty in this pro-
ceedirg which is toreigu to great mind-and
wDeD this with other d-yelopetpeuIs i'm MIR