Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1826-10-13

approve oil the reasons which il is founded,
You must have surely forgotten its principles 1t
must have escaped your recollection, that Mr..
Monroe discaims resting the power on the grounds
on which you yourselves have assumed; the facili-
ties which roads and canals afford % tn mail, to
military operations, TO commerce between the
States; and that he rests the power on the clause
" 10 lay and collect taxes" Sc contending, that
IT Congress can raise the money, the. have the
right to appropriate it This doctrine, 20 far a.
II relates to The expe 'dture ofmoney is co exten
sive with the general welfae;" and we under
stand even you distinctly to deny this alarming ex-
tension oil the powers of the government. Yet
you profess TO quote Mr.. Monroe as an infallible
authority in the case.
We have no opportunity at this moment. of
laying our hands upon the Report which, you saw
was made in July 1912, by MIR. Monroe then Sc
cretary OF State, 10 the II. of r. in favor of all
Observatory We cannot ascertain the circum
stances, under which it was made. the shane
which it assumed-whether it was called for by
the IL. oil X. or whether it was made with the
sanction oil MIR. Madison. - But it is perfectly ridi-
culous 10 compare The resolution which was passed
by Congress in 1921 for the establishment of first
Meridian with Mr. Adams's proposition for
lighthouse an rebeg your pardon) Of the skies -
Mr. Lambert's scheme of Meridian is as far shor,
of MIR Adsns's scheme of an Observatory. as ALI
the presidents Of his Predecessors are short of the
Authoritarian Propositions OF his celebrated Mes
sage.
Yet with all these precedenis before you. are YOU
prepared seriously to contend that they explain
or justify what he has done!" Are you really such
proicients IN the school, Ia which you are study
Ing, as 10 compare his alarming propositions with
those of James Nladison, Nav, We ask Won a.
Editors of a free press, as citizens of Zee coun
try, whether you do not di~approve of The extreme
lengths TO which his Message would extend the
powers OF he General Government? Will YOU saw
1t upon your "conscencts,'' that you are prepared
TO aeduce the powers OF our federal fabric from 'the
great object OF the institution of Civil Government
itsel!!' Are you prepared to lenouace al men a.
'nefiaby stupid (as he has done in his Ono le,,srS
who deny that there is my limitation TO this nov.
er OF improving the condition OF those over whom
!. u established! Are you prepared to say, that
congress may enact " laws promoting the i'm
provement of Agriculture, Commerce, and Manu-
lectures, the cultivation and encouragement of the
Mecnanic and OF The elegant arts, the advance
ment OF Literature, and the progress of the Sceyl-
ces, ornamental nd pr ofound,' and that it ~ oalJ
lie " treachery TO the most acred of trusts not 20
exert such extensive powers' These are not the
PRINCIPLES OF the Republican Party of '9S, and '99.
lhey are contradicied by every syllable of Madi-
son : report. We should pity The understanding
thst woud attempt to'compare these doctrines with
those of Madison s. Jefferson We should pitv
the Editor who would think it his duty TO
such fmsy sophis.ry do his
We have desire 10 criticse the portrai, which
you have drawn of yourselves. You must have
been unfortunate indeed if, with the pencil in your
own hands, and with the colours of your own
mixing, you did not satisfy yourselves. - But we
should not be treating the appeal which you make
TO our candour with that respect which it deserves,
II we did not ingenuonsly declare that you have
not always pursued g The path of duty'' with thu.
ClearnesS hirhh
great objection has been, that you have dis charged
your duty only IN partthat if you have IS learned
10 think Tor yourselves" you have no, smoke
" what you thought - With such favorable
opinions as you are accustomed TO entertain of
men in authority, how is it possible to trust TO
your sagacty TO descry, or your energy to resist,
the danger. OF usurpation? The press is stript of
its value, when il sinks into the mere mouth-riece
OF an administration. 1t is then only that it mis-
taxes freedom tor faction, and whimpers about
" hostility against the Government, ands' par
hcuiarty against those by whom the governn,en,
is no,o administer ed'
AS for ourselves, OF too little consequence
TO enter into an elaborate vindlcaon of our opin-
ions or our course. Ii is true, as YOU insinuate
that the Enquirer is surrounded by eminent in
dlvlduals, who hold the doctrines which it promul-
gates But 1t IS not only those who Immediately
surround U.S. but the body OF the safe at large who
enterians similar doctrines. Nor are they the
doctrines OF the living, but they ere those of the
lilustrIous dead of Henry and of Samuel Adams,
OF Jefferson and OF Hancock-of men, g the la CHI
cts OF whose shoes we were unworthy 10 loose - =
nor Is 1t less true, hat these general priscples
have been the doctrines of the Enquirer, for two
and twenty years, and that they were the opini-
ons OF the editor, who established il, from the first
moment That he formed an opinion on politics
Once more, we intreat you to yindicale the In
dependence which adorns both the Editor and the
Press We viii not degrade you by COMPARE
son with The National Journal; but there are some
sHken shacke', which II is necessary for YOU to
shake oil. There is Character III Junius, which
you should di-dan to initiate Realize the Por
lralt which you have dawn for yourselves
" Learn 10 think for yourselves, and to sneak
tohGt you think
Enough Of this!- Valete!-and would we could
add Err PLAUDITE!
The last National Journal republishes our arti
Gle OF the 9th, containing some extracts from the
Circular Of Col. Duff Green The Journal then
makes the following remarks. Justice requires
US TO re-publish them. We presume this statement
is made "by authOriiy' of Mr.: Clay What
ever reply Col. G. may think proper to make in
the Telegraph, shall also be promptly repubIishej:
" On The Committee of Correspondence appoini-
ed by the Kentucky Legislature to promote Mr..
Clay's election to the Presidency, were Messrs
Committee be applied to, it will contradict, in the
most express terms, the allegation that it's Circular
was written " under the special advisement of Mir.
Clay;" and it will also affirm that Mr. CLAY never
saw the Circular until it was published in the
newspapers, and that he never was consulted about
1t. We are authorized 10 deny, in the most unre.
served and emphatic manner, that " Mr.. Clay
9 more than once c9iled on General Jackson, IN
" person, INTRODUCED the subject Of the election
80 and sal that be enierininnd M, ,l,,,h, IL. u