The Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1822-1829, 1824-09-14
" THE FEDERlL ClyDfDATE."

The device winch some OF llle Journals
iIimical 10 Mr.. Adams have resorted TO,
Of drawing a liuc Of distinction between
Mr.. Adams and Mr.. ford upon the old
party grounds, in order 10 hold up the first
as the federal, and the latter as the rcpub-
lican candidate, is as vain As il Is desperate.
Some ofttic Interest Of Mr.. Adams's enc
mics are fedcralists-some OF the most CON
spicuous, influential and even ultra of the
frdcralists, are the warm advocates of Mr..
Crawf0rd's election. The fedcraiists, as a
party, viii not support Mr.. Adams-tlley
say he abandoned them IN 1907 and went
over to Jefferson, and they can never for
give him. Yet the repuJticutts who support
Mr.. Crawford, assert that Mr.. Adams is the
federal candidate in 1924, and that he al
ways was a tcdcralist, &c. tits a pity that
such good friends should differ 81 widely
on so simple n question. Ot Mr. Adams's
prediction for federalism VI" have sone
previous c,idences-jn the hostility OF Tim
othy Pickering e. Co. with v htch lac Is ho-
nored in a remarkable manner, aud IN the
bitter cnmlty of most of the ultra federal
journals towards him. They know very
well that he is not one 90 their party, aud
they no doubt smile at the assertions SO
confidently made by their fellow laborers
IN behalf Of Mr.. Crawfurd, that he is "'the
fedora candidate" We have never doubt
ed the republicanism of Mr.. Craw ford.
Whatever miSht have been his politics in
the &" reign OF lrrror,') hut il cannot be de
nird that il looks Il little suspicious when
We find among his fast friends, many L fthe
ablcst aud most in,cterWtc enemies of the
administrations Of Jefferson and NJ ldlson.
Among these hopeful auxiliaries we notice
the Salem Gazette aud the New York
Evening Post, papers, which, though ably
conducted (and therefore the better adapt
ed for mischicr,) constantly maintained,
previous to and during the late war, the
beautiful d~octriuc that England had " done
rs no essential injury :" that the war was
a vile aud wicked war, INTO which Madison
had been kicked by the great toe of the
French Emperor - that il was unhi CO.
ming a moral and religious people Ia re-
%Joiec at the victories achieved by cur arms
IN the prosecution of such a war;" &c. &c.
In their hostility 10 Jefferson and Madison,
aud Ia every thing republican, these papers
went to the extreme ; aud eTcn now, when
avowing their preference for Mr.Crawiord,
hey viii tell You that their sentiments have
undergone no change, bat that they are as
true and consistent Cedcrallsts now as they
ever were.
We will not he so uncandid as 70 insinu
ate aught against the republlcanlsm of Nr.
Crawford, merely because the consistent
and u~ntiring enemies of the republican par
~ have enlisted under his banner yet
certain II is that they do prefer him To Mr..
Adams, and that they de laud the one &
,ituperate the other. Yet Mr.. A. is " the
federal candidate" and Mr.. &. the rcpubli
can candidate. Strange indeed II this
distinction is to prevail, then, we must a
gree that names are mere hul9,icS /: Yes,
when a candidate is to hr.enpiatically dc
+, nominated the federai candidate, whose
election the very bone and muscle of fede
i, ralism are striving 10 defeat, in cantra- dis
:. t|inction to candidate as emphahcally sly
led republican, who is the ~favorite of the
most ultra OF thc federal patty, il is time for
"a seriously to eUq'nre whether we have
not all along been under a delusion in sup
posingfhat black WAS not white, and that
two and one made three.
8 We would therefore advise the enemies
Of Mr.. Adams no longer to let their opposi
+ ton run upon that leg. Let them say as
many spiteful things Of him as THEN hatred
and ingenuity can devise, but they should
i. beware of denuuncing him as " the federal
candidate" lest tho missive should recoil
aud wound themselves. Its very certain
it cannot hurt Mr.. Adams.
(.Nor. Herald.
-.eAe""
5 Col. FRANcIs S. HUGEa, of S. Carolina.
who distinguished himself by his Charts 10
release General La FAYETrE from his i'm
r prisonment in the Castle OF Olmutz, is a
5 passenger in the ship Carolinian, arri, cd II
our river from Charlestown The Carroll
t MAN has been detained at the Lazarettt
! since Saturday, Col Huoer VIII reach TIM
city today, lPbd. GaE