Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1826-02-09

sec ih " ieW oays us Oo)ecls explained. we shall!
see how far the invitation erterds, and how far
it has been accepted. We shall have before US
those letters of MIR. Clay, which have already been
spoken OF in such fla,tering terms: and we trust,
that the Senate viii now see the proprie,y of hav-
ing the Report OF It's committee, aud its proceed
ings ,hcreupon, fully laid before the People
Whatever the people may think upon the Mis-
sion itself, impartial men scarcely differ about
the manner in which Mr.. Adams was pleased TO
announce it in his Massage. He ought 10 show
more ofthe Statesman in his language, and draw
less literally on his friends for explanations or
apologies. Ii is n mos; awkward embarrassment
IN which he has placed them. "The Invitation
has been accepted: And Ministers ,pH be COM
missioned' Some of his friends contende,l al first
that he lad right 20 commission the ministers.
'rfh0ut - the advice and consent of the Senate;''
'ha' sueh had oeen The practice of tie govern
nieh'; and that the Senate had acuuiesced in the
practice In vain did the constitution saw as clearly
as words could say it, that {" the President shall
have rover 10 fill up oil u0cGacies that may hun
pen during the recess oftle Senate" &C. In VAIN.
was 1t asked no" Ii was possible, that the mission
OF Panama, which bore upon The face of i, an
original appointment, and as has been said on the
moor OF the III. al X all unprecedented mission;
toWa De considered as a roeancy? Nothing could
satisfy these liberal eXpoundeTs OF the constitution
that they were wrong but Tie fact that the
not conntenanced such in expectation: and tina,
'hey mad strenuousiy resisted such a practice II
was theh that tie duciile friends of MIR Adams
TOOK a new ground: put words into his lips winch
ne mao never used; and wondered how any man
could nave supposed for moment that Mr. A
Intended 10 dispense with the advice and consent
Vi 'he sen'ie. ihe very last Mt. Journal boldly
sttempts To- escape from the difficulty to which
Mr.. a. has reduced his irieads; and argufies IN.
topic as follows: 4" The President i'm bi. Mes
sage also, signisied that ministers would be-. com
ni>sloned, and with his usual critical discrimina
tIon, lie used the word - cOmpiiSsi0ned' az apvly
ing solely 10 his own executive act: for il il he
alone that commissions ministers to be sent abroad.
fel II has been imputed TO hun, that he had said
ministers would be appointed, as if he wished TO
u'"fp 'be constitutional and concurrent power of
me Senate in making the appointment All tha,
lie could have meant TO say, and all that he did
Say, was that lie was ready, if tie Senate were
wiling ms correction OF mistake or ,njsrepre-
sen'a'on is due TO truth, and necessary TO clear
understanding OF The relative position in which The
senate ana Chief Magistrate stand To each Other
Now 1t is =" due 10 TRUTH to correct the 6. mis-
representation oil The National journal; the print
that now officially publishes the acts of CONGRESS-
g by authority of the Secretary of State. f. i
very Kind o! the journal To suggest what he couIi
nave meant TO say, and all that he did Say:', I'm,
lhe suggestion Is Father all awkward one iur If Nj,
"a " ara sag" II, 1t certainly proves tina, he
:" meant to sag" II, but he - did NOT Saw, !,
the inference from The journals own logic is. thai
he dd not " mean to say it. ''-Now, tina, he
did not say" it, is clear any man that j, abIe
10 read and clear also from this fact that if he
had said 1t, there would never have been = di.pn,a
aoont his sayings or his meanings The fact ie
" IL II not IN tie bond;" and il will puzzle AIR A
himseiito do with his Message, as h, has done
WIN the constitution, to put it there by nterno-
| lations.
We shall see, when the papers reach us. v,be.b.r
-Ir. A has held more cautious language to the 8
Americans than he has done to his countrvmen
whether he told them, that she was reaalv II The
Senate were 'ciAing." If he has not, he has eli:
iner misled them about the true character of ON,
government or he p" was ready' to exercise nov
er, alone, which be should have shared with ,bs
oenate'-Ihe argument of the Journal is indeed =
most miserable quibbe. How could lie have oc-
cepfed an invitation: how could lie have commis
stoned ministers without knowing in the frs, i,
stance, that - the Senate were willinss'' 7, !,
now confessed fotidem Uerbis by his defenders
that he bad 40 power 10 ACT without the nreviou'
concurrence of the Senate; and yet he was so M
discreet as TO intimate publicly in his MESSAGE ,ba,
he tcouid act. whether he had their concurrence
or not. Yet this simple statement of the far, "a go,
to be branded with the name of misrepresen,s >.
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