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

| mace us appearance 10 weekly paper, prind a
in this city, heret"fvr. known hy tue uameI 1
the National Jo,~sai Exira. Ssc. sc. Ir
| Without intending Ia make either col Il
ment or complaint on this subject, u has
come necessary, Ia avuid mls,Int-rstandku
of eur delay to ,e.ke tn. publication, that d
naked fact should b. plnced b. for. onr r.add u
who may rest assured that they shall lose 4 a
thing by this arrangement that is Of any 81 4
| VI value to them" HID
This simple performance Of duty To IL $
readers, is what is called ]" denuuncins" II y
Secretary Of State; with wha, Justice, we d y
peal IL "a candid Public to decide. After y
appearance Of this paragraph, ,b. Srcreil|
followed up his first blow by u public arrai d
ment, with that magic pea Of his, from viii Y
waving plume the stoutest man may shrl %
appalled,. We, then, are the denounced, and Il
Secretary the denuncidfor. lid
The Secretary re-asseris his charge, areai
as we think, sufficiently refu,ed, Of" garbl,, )
the public documentary which we undy :
stand, wipuy altering or suppressnsa mad {
rial part of them. The generosity of this
placing his assertion agains, our positive denida
IS matter for the Secretary tn settle with
that silent monitor who tries all the actioh,
OF men. We should be faithlrss to ourspl,r
did we not peremptorily deny the charg
thus thrice preferred against US Ivy the hond
rable Secretary. We acted, in the CASE upo,
which he has arraigncd us, with a single cyl
to the qualification of our readers, by Afford
Ing at once view If the whole ground of ihl
treaty, and without the remotes, reference q
who supported or who opposed it.
The insinuation Of the Secretary is plaus
bic, that, having printed public document
we ought to have seem it, l. e. read il, al
become acquainted with its contents. Bull
when examined, II loses IFS plausibili,y. Th
number OF pages Of documents printed fu
Congress during the late Session, amounted
to nearly ten thousand. To read them over
Tor correction Of the press alone, employed
tnrre or Tour proof readers constantly, day and
night, the Sabbath not excepted. Any one Wild
has the least idea of the vocation Of The edilorI
OF Daily Newspaper, one too which PRESENT.
DAILY reports Of the Proceedings Of two legisl
iat've bodies, may form a tolerable idea ol
what portion Of time we have to devote I'd
the Perusal OF long state papers, much more
the computing to memory their number,
dates, andseserat topics. The thing is mpos
the Secretary himself, with his unequaIled in
dusfry and assiduity, and scarcely with the aid
OF all bis Clerks, apportioniug these docu-
ments among them, to haveread them through
IN once hours, in the space oftime which The
printing OF them occupied. We were very
gao, therefore, at the time, 10 have our atten-
ton especially called to these documents, &c.
by a member ofthe House Of Representatives,
who procured them from member Of the
Senate, and whose certificate, if we chose to
make use of il, might readily be obtained to
the TACT OF the great satisfaction we expressed
al having It in our power, through his agen.
cy. to.publIsh the proceedings Of the Senate,
&C.: Nothing was farther from our thoughts
q. 10 a.
mat It was important for them to know. We
will go yet further; we have never withheld
any thing that the Secretary Of State, or other
Members Of the administration wished publish
ed, either for their own accommodation or
mat OF the Public. At our own charge we
nave repeatedly published supplementary
sneets TO accommodate the government. So
little have we attended to our pecuniary inte-
rest in this particular, that this Establishment,
valuable or otherwise to the government, has
been of comparatively little value to the Pro-
pristOrs Of it.
Upon reviewing The whole ground of this
controversy, finding the Secretary of States
specihc accusation against US to be unsustais-
able, and that, If sustained to the extent which
IT will cover, il would have been an error of
judgment, merely, to which even a Secretary
OF State might be liable, the conclusions is un-
avoidable, that the determination had been
taken to denounce this print, and that any
other occasion would have answered as well
as that which has been selected. There is
homeIy old English proverb, which says, IF
you irant 10 beat a dog, IL is an easy matter 10
find q stick. The reader will moi be at a loss
for the application of it.
As little foundation is there for the intima
ton that we have connected ourselves with
concerted opposition to the present admins
iratIon. For sufficient refutation of this
charge, we refer to our columns. The abiect
serv'lIty which holds il duty to defend all
measures OF an administration, or any mem
Der oil u, right or wrong, il is true, has never
marked our course. Nor have we jnsolentlv
denounced as treason" every opinion different
from our Own, or from that Of any member
OF the Administration. These are doctrines
OF modern date, broached by innovators upon
Republican principles (; by wolves in sleeps
cloth'ng, which have crept into the fold. But
we have always given to the Administration an
honest support, in our public as well as private
capacity. We know Of no organized or con.
&c Ser,ed opposition ODD. to it n ,s suchexsa
act upon higher motives than mere personal
feeling.
With regard to the opposition in the Senate
OF the United States, to the Convention with |
Great Britain, il is very singular, that, to |
chastise the Senators, who rebelied against the /
treaty, the Secretary should have bent his
DOW at US. The attitude in which the Sore
tary Is here presented is as extraordinary as
the Jurisdiction whichhe has attempted u ex-
ercise over the press, in our case, by becoming
at once its censor and its prosecutor. W APP
proved of the Treaty we used every Means
wi'nin our reach, to dilluse knowIedgebfits
merits. But We also allowed the publication
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