Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1824-07-20
DOMESTIC.
IMPROVEMENT RY THE

ArfOiNIMENT BY THE PRESIDENT.
WAsHINGrON, July l7.-Samuei Moor nj
pennsylvania, has been appointed, by the Pre- !.
sldent OF the United States, Director of the
Mint, 10 place OF Robert Patterson, resigned.
m (Nai. Int.
infenigencer.-We had hoped that the subdmeJ
tone of our late reply TO the second Note If
the secretary OF State, and the determination
to avoid every thing which could have hear.
ing offensive to that distinguished cit;zeo
would have enabled us to avoid the cont;nn.'
ton oil controversy, carried on upon terms
So unequal. The Seer etary has, however mn,
'eit US tue alternative. His Article. No IJI.
Wn'Gh we copy from the National Journal of
wednesday, demands from us reply. w.
nave NOT Inc folly to place ourselves in con.
ln.. WIN 'he secretary of State, whose eIe
! waited ank and literary powers consn;re m
place iiin on the vantage ground IN .in,os,
any controversy. But, if we would mo-, .,,s
NIT to be frowned into silence "by au,hor;,v >,
we must continue TO defend ourselves CO.,
against the Secretary Of State, though echn
has been already walked from her s1uc,hars
with the blasts Of his anticipated triumph over
uS.
Inc Secretary would, indeed, take from ne
our strongest ground, could he provo that we
| were the Hrst to commence this warfare" &c.
TO disprove this, must we recur to the histo.
ry of il Briefly, then on the 9Th day of
June, the Board Of Commissioners under the
Florida treaty deliv ered their Report and List
Of Awards to the Secretary of State, with a
recommendation that they should be made
public. After a few days. interval, the prints
in the commercial cities began to call upon us
10 publish those important papers. We res.
pectfuy laid their wishes before the Depart
ment Of State, and were given TO understand
in reply, that the Document was in such hour
ly request that il could not be disengaged with
which explanation Of the cause Of the delay
we endeaSored to satisfy cur readers. Oh
these documents we heard no more, until we
| discovered, in weekly publication of this ci-
ty, Of date June the 26th, the Report of the
Board OF Commissioners, with promise TO
publish the List Of .9oards in the next weekly
number DESTROYS to know whether this Re-
po't was obtained from the Department of
1ta,e or otherwise, we made the inquiry at
'he Department, which pro duced visit to us.
on me 3oth Juae, from the Chief Clerk in the
department OF State, when we learnt, TO our
great SURPRISE mat the preference given to the
journal over W, was deliberate, premedifated,
anu Io' ,ns cause winch WAS avowed. Ac
custOmed ourselves 10 perfect onenpess 4, O.
dealings, we then suspected no nis,srv in , IJ.
business We told tho rh;~r 6,ia-i, S.,. D ,'9
| ,srr,,,,,,, Of ptate hos much we regretted Ia
learn that great mind could be actuated by
So small thing. On the day following, we
announced The fact to our readers, in terms.
the whsle of which il is unnecessary to re-
peat, but the following extracts from that pa
ragrapb comprise the essence oft:
/ "Om mercantile readers have called upor
us, from every quarter, for the publication o
The Awards made by the Board OF Commis
sioners under the Spanish Treaty, and dis
satisfaction has been expressed at their being
so long withheld. Ii has not been our faul
We were DESTROYS TO have published them long