Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1826-09-19
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SIR-four Address at Lewisburg was so evil
IDENTIFY calculated for effect, that your Paneg wrists
must praise it, and the Public at large must neruse
twill you then permit who is neither fascina-
ted By your Elo9uence, nor convinced by your Ar
gpments, to propose to you'a few questions upon
some OF the subjects of your elaborate Address
You have ingenously surred over the singular
relations you stood in 10 Mr.. Adams previously
10 your voting for him. You soften it down and
make very light OF it, indeed BY narrowing it to
some difference of opinion at Ghent'' !: and you
are frank enough to admit that you did not agree
on one OF the many important questions which
arose during the negotiations in that cy''-but
by way OF tapering down euen this difference of
opinion, you say, 60 the difference equallv applied
10 our present minister at London and 10 the la
mented Bayard, between whom any myself al
though we belonged TO opposite political parties,
there existed warm friendship to the hour of his
DEATH
beg you to read the softened statement again.
Have you the hardhood to come before your coun-
trymen and say, this was the real history of your
relations to Mr.. Adams; and of what g has been
SAID against you! VIII yOu cali this 60 full and
clear and complete account of the iOh0e business?
VIII you tell US that you had even warm
friendship" for Mr.. Adams, as you had for the
lamented Bayard?
Were you not accustomed to speak irreverent-
ly OF Mr. Adams for his conduct Client; TO ridi-
him as Statesman; and in every way 10 make
light of his sbties'
Did you not denounce him as the man who had
sought TO sacrifice the Interests of the West to the
Fisheries OF the East? Did you not, in the City
OF Richmond, while attending as one of the ken-
lucky Commissioners, throw out hints against
MIR. Adams OF this tenor; and did you not prepare
the rain for the explosion OF Jonathan Russe's at
tack? Did not the Western papers, catching the
sftaf hn.l NJ n - A
enemy of the West? Did you not pledge yourself
publicly TO revise the statements OF Mr. Adams;
and did he not Indignantly and sneeiingly DEFY you
Have you ever redeemed this pledge; or has the
proper time yet arrved2 Was it not then
Washington, not Z" at Ghent," tfass his serious
80 difference arose been yof: This " has been
said;'' and why have you thought fit TO change
the terms of the proposition! Was it always in
terms of icdym friendship that you spoke of Mr.
Adams in the House of Representatives, and in
the Supreme Court? And thus thinking of that gen.
tleman, thus standing towards him, is it right for
you 20 narrow down your relation 20 "Some DIFF
ference at Ghent"; was it right not only to vote
for him, as Chief Magistrate, but also to accept
the highest Office within his gut?
You say, tina, with Mr.. Adams % it was a differ
ence of opinion on point OF erpediency''-
as to Gen. Jackson, it was - a military exercise
of power believed to be arbitrary and unconsfitat-
GOnaL''
Blu, if Gen. Jackson exercised Ibis unconstiru-
tonal power, did no, Mr. Adams justify it? And
in point of principle, where is the thGes ence be-
tween them?
And did you not find in the other opinions of
Mr.. Adams, heresies equally fatal to he Constilu-
ton? In his Ohio letter did he not denounce men
as 50 ineifably stupid, who would not agree TO
better the condition Of the people by the assump-
ton Of unconstitutional powers: Did not YOU
yourself denounce this doctrine of the " General
Welfare with equal warmth and power, in your
analysis of MIR. Monroe's celebrated Memoir?
You call for pro0Is of your bargain with Mr..
Adams. DO you imagine that such bargains are
made in open, public and bunging manner,
that positive proofs can at all times be produced?
Is nothing left on such occasions to the indirect
agency Of particular friend; TO hint TO an nuen-
do; TO some diplomatic formula, which means more
than meets the ear!
Was not of the other candidates previously
sounded, not by you, but by friend; and was not
the hint Indignantly repealed:
But surprising there no such arrangement
made; that you thought it your Duty to vote for
Mr. Adams; what did you then owe to yourself!
You saw the suspicious that aflOat. You
saw yourself arraIgned with having preserved
mysterious silence ABOUT the election tor several
weeks; with having finally sounded some OF the
western members; prevailed them to move to-
geber; exered all your influence to bring hem
to this point; aud having 50 far succeeded,
at length secured their vote Tor MIR. Adams? p
You in fact made him the President; and yet you
compare your case with that OF one or two mem
beers, who voted tor Mr.. Jefferson, and IS HON he
called into Office. Can you consider these cases
parallel; or that the rule should apply to
both! You alone made Mr. Adams President;
and lhough aware OF the suspicious that you had
excited, you braved them all, end accepted the
office OF Secretary OF Slate. Are you then aston
ished at the Suspicion which you have attached to
your character ? Are yoi surprised at The indig-
nation of men, who value the purity OF or insti-
tuiious so much that they will not even have them
suspected!
Are you serious in saying that it you had " re-
fused the Department OF State" the same indiyi-
duals " would have propsgated The same charge
with the same affected coofdence which hey now
unblusbingly assume Can sou also be serious
in adding tbat " u would have been said, with al
least much plausibty; that (you) had contri-
buied TO the election 81 a Chief Magistrate, Of
whom (you) thought 20 un'svorably that (you)
would not accept that place IN his Cabinet which
Is generally regarded A. the hrst?" And was this
one OF the reasons you accepted; to give the world
the proof that you thought farourabiy Of Mr. A.
darns2 DO you NOT see how different the two
ses are? You voted Tor Mr. Adams, because you
could moi help it; because you referred him 10
Gen. Jack.on. And having discharged this duty /,
what business bad you 60 90 furiher' What obi
gallons were you under 10 become his Secretary ?
~ a, 4; Lec,se vou fhonrht on coud thcn be in ia