Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1825-07-15

1eigh. cut IT'S trutn - heither progcd py aAinS tne
charge, nor confirmed by it's repetition. 1t has
been hitherto deemed alike unworthy OF contra
diction or Of notice
In like manner, the choice OF the Loudoun dele
gates, and committee, was finally made. in the pre-
sence OF three hundred persons without dissent
ing voice, and the two gentlemen recommended
| by MIR. Chiffon, were included in the delegation.
Having now, with what success the public must
determine, disposed OF al that portion OF MIR.
Lesh's last essays, which he would call argument.
being that alone in which the friends, or the oppe-
nents OF convention, have any real interest 1t
is with unteisned difhdence that l ask any part OF
the public attention TO The author Of this defence
OF the Loudoun address and of the proposed Slaun-
ton meeting. Taught, from my infancy, 10 cherish
public feelings. and to connect my own happiness
with that OF my country, IL will not, l hope, be
imputed to ne as crime, that / am extremely SEN
siie TO public censure, which, if by it be meant
| the censure oil the public, have hitherto happily
escaped, because trust l have not meritedit or
that am alike panied by individual unkntlness,
which 1t has been my misfortune to experience
where least deserved, and could not have expect
ed It, To have enemies, it is rot necessary,
have long known, 10 provoke hostility but ! have
had to learn, and have been taught, with pain and
afiiic'ion, which little conceal, that the
warnes professions of friendship, sustained by the
interchange of kind Offices for a series Of years,
may be evidence of nothing than present
sense oil common interest variable the change of
| times, and which breath may tisspate. Nay,
| am taught by the reference which Mr.. Leigh has
made 10 several events OF my life, long antccedent
10 the cause OF quarrel, which lac has found in two
words OF Tie Lodoun address, that there existed,
In his heart feelings OF disapprobation towards me,
which lie awaited but fit occasion publicly to
express for my injury. That they were, morrow er,
co,emporaneois with the days of our closes, init
| macy, and when, with many friends, seldom
nd an ipt lo A.,
sem5ly, nor ever one, that l remember, in that
city, where now, the public are taught by MIR.
Leigh, Tor my benefit, to believe that have few
II any friends and that even those, if they think
like him, have imbibed the sentiments Of my hume
rous Toes.
One of MIR. Legh's expedicn,s, to keep himself
In countenance, la course, OF WI ich he finally ac-
knowedges himself, TO be ashamed, 10 tell the pub
lie now many concur with him in opinion. Thus, in
iis iirst essay, we have it sad that whatever may
be thought OF Mr.. MERGERS course, in his own dis
irict lie can him, that every where else his
friends only afflicted and in the fourth and
last he Mr.. NJ. may be assured, i" that do not,
and never did apprehend, that the friends OF a
| convention will take him for their leader on the
| contrary, am persuaded, that nothing have ever
said, on this subject, since the first agitation of it,
has excited such lively Indignation in the great TO-
dy OF them, (they are all, presume, in Richmond)
as the suggestion made, (Which they esteem an
injurious taun) that they capable OF acting in
subordina ion 10 him. He never will. nor
could lead them
Then, the public to understand, that the a.
larm which MIR. Leigh expressed, at the close of
his first essay, lest MIR. NJ should have the CHIEF
mana, III framing constitution for him and his pos
'erity, was tegned, and, for the purpose, j, would
seem, OF exciting against this gentleman, the hos
tilIty OF The friends of observation-disclosures
laud"ble this motive may have been since it is
| hf,.- lt,el..
fact, that the author had actually see,, the She
nandoah address; or what is more 10 be condemn
ed, that he knowingly perverted the actual
course of events in Mr.. Ms district. How great
ly Is Mr. John Macrea, = of Prince William. former
ly representative, ana one of the most res
pected citizens OF that county, indebted 10 Mr.
Leighton forgetting that Lis resolutions, which
Mr. NJ. never saw, till he heard them read, pre-
ceied one week, those, which Mr.. M. submitted TO
the people OF Loudoun and that the former reso-
lu'ions differing from the latter, did actually ex-
press that very dis,rus of the Senate, which Mr..
NJ IS charged with suggesting, vihdicating, and
justf, ing
| But MIR. M. is not only charged with desiring
TO be regarded the leader Of the fiends of CON
vention; but his wish alter amend the consti,u-
ton, IS imputed TO the unworthy motive of poti-
Cal disappointment, and that, too, in obtaining an
oihce Ia the Virginia militia. Mr.. NJ. will not do
slr Leigh the injustice to suppose that he believed
'his accusation or meant more by IT, than to trum-
| Pet 70 the world, Mr.. MERGERS disappointment
But since 1t is addressed to many persons who ne
yer heard OF Mr.. NJ. it may not he improper to
state that his appreciation of convention, and his
efforts to obtain one, were known, and actually
begun, before the election to which Mr.. Ieip b
adveits; and, if evidence of the truth of this de-
claraton, be required by those who know neither
MIR Leigh nor Fir. NJ, they are referred, for il
verifcation to Colonel John G. Gamble, whose
l Nar1 ifU Il IL
| acquainted with him, will question In the winter,
preceding the last the sentiment was express
ed by Mr.. nj. 10 every western member, except
one, OF the Virginia Delegation in the House of
representatives; as well as 10 the late President
and to the Chief Justice of the Uni ed S,ates Ac-
ciden,al absence from home, alone prevented Mr.
VI. from proposing, as he stood, pledged, more
than twelve month ago the very Staunton meet
Ing, now about to be convened; and which pur-
ports 10 effect more than was proposed nine
years ago, by similar association begun, without
Mr.. MS knowledge, and of which he was elected
delegate. III health prevented his assisting in
its deliberations.
Had Mr.. Mercer required consolation, under
his disappointment in Obtaining military promotion
| IN time OF profound peace, he might have found
IT. In the recollection that older and better soldiers
than himself, Taylor, Breckenridge and Boyd, had
severaliy experienced similar treatment, and for a
IKE cause. Nor could he, without ingratude.
have failed to contrast the conduct, which he ex-
perienced from this legislature, with that of pri
or one, alike organised TO the principle ofrepre-
seniaton, WHO honored him, with the command of
BRIGADE In hat regular army, to which, in the
most despondng and awful PERIOD ofthe late war.
were confided The security of the Commony ealth
rom actual invasion, and the preservation of the
Union from apprehended danger.
May Mir. Leigh, himself, never, second time,
experience like Inconsistency, when deprived of the