Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1825-02-22
TO WILLIAM 3. GILES. ESQ.

10 WILLIAM q. GILES, ESQ.
PIT communication in recent Enquirer,
rsuectng ON the character of the President of
'nc = ni'ed States, wa, traced TO Your pen with
a ce'eri'y, winch Notwithstanding YOUR aifecta
''o''o' CONSIGNMENT, tickied your egot,sn, and
'' Immunity, winch converts conjecture into
certainty. But be not too hastily and too
greatly battered, at the sudden detection which
iohoWed your publication, for botorety does
nor always imply compliment, any more
'i,an ooscurity does the want Of virtue. Ju-
u, was Known among Thousand writer's, by
ms ''Sor OF thought, audacious invective, and
oi'ing sarcasin-Wm. b. Giles is known among
",ousaha' ny the vuigarity with which lie pre-
Seu's MS FACTS, and the nclcgance with which he
pies up his sentences. His malignitv is undis-
Suiseu by The ornaments of STYLE, as his coarse
ness IS unredeemed by single raw of wit. l.,
sir' a'h neither g an insect that buzzes about
the Court," nor one of the still more contempti-
Die tribe, that turns his back on sinking gt eat
ness. admire the political cha acter of James
"onroe as little perhaps as you Go,-but adj
'nirc stu less, the private hate which can stab
under the pretext of public Justice. see MT
IN your recent attack on the President, the vir-
tue OF Brutus, who strikes for Rome, but the
resentment of the marauder who rayaees for pri-
vate feud | see not an it, the forward and inde-
pendent bearing which becomes all American CT
t@en, but the subtle and insidious policy oil
the sly Italian. L see in it, none of the sa-
crifice OF feeling 10 duty which is pretended,
but much of the hypocrisy which cants OF
patriotism, and begins and ends in seic These
SIR, are my views--my sober, deliberate views
oi your productions and whether YOUR facts he
true or false, cannot be deceived in YOUR mo-
Tres. Will you answer these questions 10 the
WORLD
Were you not in the Senate of the United
states, at the period when these Identical ac-
counts of MIR. Monroe were a subject of III
vestigation by that BODY
Were YOU not one the chairman pcrhapsl o
n committee of the Senate, who examined them:
DID you not openly or tactiy acquiesce IL
heir justice? Did you acquiesce in their JUS
tice, from conviction, or were YOU intirnidate.
into siieace and acquicscence by WmH. Craw.
lord,
If the former, with what consistency do YOU
now dispute their corrcctnessa
III the latter, with what propriety or decency
can You come forward TO do that as a private ci.
tizen, which you were afraid to do, when clothed
with the authority OF a Senator of the Unitec
States, and entrusted 10 represent the maiest,
OF Sovereign Repubiico
Have you acquired Grmness by age, or have
you lost wisdom from years, that YOU do no
perceive that your reputation is as much con
cerned TO let the history OF these accounts sleep
As Mr.. Monroe's is that it shall be lai,
open TO the world?
What purpose Of public good did you reall,
| propose by exhibiting these charges agains
col. Nlonrue' Was your hatred alarmed, les
they should escape the vigilance OF the Commit
tee: Or, reasoning from the blusLing example
of your own history, did YOU apprehcnd tina
+. onmittee were deficient in f1mness TO res,s
claims, presented by the President oflhe Uni
ted States? Are not these transactions mat; err q
| record, and which were of necessity 10 be exa
| mined, before the Committee could report, o
! Congress decide on the validity of the Pre,l
dents claims? Where then sir, was the neces
siy of fl'cting this asst unkind cut on Mr. Mon
roe, or OF exposing your own suppressed passion
and impotent resentInenis, to the ridIcuie all
censure of the world?
You may perceive, that | reason as if all YOU
allegations were truc-l saY again their trut
or talsehood, cannot vary the opinion which mus
be formed OF your m0fjDes. True or false, moi
stand IN the oiIous Light of an intormei-an IL
| former TOO, who in lis zeal to convict has mcau
ti"usiy exposed his own weakness or criminal
lty, and whose gratuitous information, was a
superiiuOus as 1t was malicious.
Ht MBDFN