Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1827-06-01


ItIe better than m on-struck, who should be go
ing about asking for light of the contract between
these two colitigants, before he would lend his be.
/ Eel to their join connivance and secret under
standing, a. IT there were not some things done in
this world, which IL not safe to commit 10 the
sreacherous custody OF INK and paper.
lie would return for few moments longer tn
the gentleman who had honored the opposition
with his notice at Kaneul Hall, who, it seems,
alter an experience Of nearly twenty years n pub
lie lie, has, at length, discovered that opposition
TO an existing administration it a very heinous sin
Tor be seriously affirms in bis speech - ths, at
present he does not know how our free and popu-
lar institutions TO be maintained if there be
party in the country who will not abs;ain from
rancour and auimnsity towards those tcho hare
no other ta"h bus their greater .fapor gath
The pubic"
Mr.. Adam disease. then, is " pisfaoric
az" HIS administration is likely to die of an
aPoplexy of popularity: But, to be serious, is i,
not l'tie remarkable, that this gentleman did not
PROFOUND this query % his c9nscience in 1918,
and then have asked, & how our free and popular
institutions were 20 be mainisined, when party
| IN the country, (of which he was one of The BIT
teTest OF Its Champion, The most significant of IT'S
orSanS.) not only did not abstain from raucour
and luminosity tow 3D. those tckose orly fault
to0s their greater fGroT ,eth ths public tut
who directly cour enan red the rause OF an enemy
VINO was hrns the villages aud desolaIng the
coasts ct ihl- country; and the efforts of which
party were ending coerce our Governrnen, in
toa d'"honourHble Pscihcsuon Il may, hlwever,
IN the new code of public morals be virtue to
oppose administration in I,s ioritv nnbIv s,rir
Cling In time of war with the enemies OF the coun
try; and be the height OF crime to oppose an ad
u,lDs'Tat'on IN minority, nobll s'Tug Cling in time
OF peace bv he corruptng influence of-lis patrons
age to sustain its power, aud perpetusie the
schemes of succession.
oi the charge OF the geniIenan yet TO be mo-
ticed, and that that the opposition displa, ed
a de erm'ned hostility Ga every measure Got the
Administration "IIsh' wrong"
IN hmsnc he would declare this accusation alb
solntel, groandless
rs far ne had bsen able TO undere,and the
views of those in Congress who were r,nriendl,
10 the Te-eiection of Ai. Adsus, they min aimed
o distinction between the pohtieal and ersonai In
terestS of the Presihen' md his party, and hose
o. tine country. They did think thai the measures
necessary 70 insure her prosperity and honor were
Sepsrsble from such the Administrat on might
consider az iidcious eXpei;sn's i'm HiGch to q
Ieclohacr. IL had, therefore, been cardinal prin-
cip!e with those III az POSITION, 10 take care tba,
the Republic should receive no harr, IN their h,f
nest and jealous ehorts get rid Of hose in novg,-
err Aney IN ught these oDec's conld he recon.
ciled. They no more believed that the usual and
saiut'ry operations Of the government wouI hs
: disturbed by exhibiting The Incapaciiy and BID
fs'h of the Administration ,hap YOU would. gen
uemon, think II necessary TO kill the noble sertl
you were riding, 10 hru-b of vexauOus fly W hi..h
had Ii; upon BIN; or in fit of spleen 10 burn
down our barns, because for time they we're o.
verTUn win Yermin.
Hence 81 measures co1nec:el with The estar,-
Ished policy OF the country Ia. received a mo 81
efficient and Jealous support from those " ho are
prescribed as a tactious opposition. Indeed the
absolute nj MANY Of these
be mainly attributed to the cordial and eHec,u i
cooperation OF this much abused parry He wound
elncdaie this fact by 'ew instances All mea
s'res OF hnsnce had fou,5, in ihe able and eiai
nenily worthy member from lie aware, (My
McEsne,) their most distinguished and succeesf,l
advocate, although ne had be en- Constrained to do
tect few errors In the figures oil the Chancellor
OF the Ezcheqrer. In hi honorable friend. tCoI
HaYne,) BE left, the navy had It's mot jealous
and successful champion; and the srmy the most
unwearied and Intelligent OF s Friends in mis- 90
Unable colleague, Colonel Drayton y on his ri hi;
. TO say nothing OF the less distinguished. thouph
not less sincere support which other fne,.ute had
received from the whole party The OPPOSITION.
therefore, to the government has been confined -
lone To those measures which we're CONSIDERED az
tVrons in themselves; such ss were deerre,l In
In hostility the established policy of .lie cogotrv
or such as were obviously designed by the Admin
iTra"on themselves as merely al c0pfnndsn1
'"'s' N"lp"' -lhBle oiDecl OF puOc nseiul-
ness On this issue the party had always been Wi
ling 10 b. tired before an intelligent and u,tr,orc
people.
70 what measure has thi4 hostility 10 the course
pursued by the goy eminent been most uneoutvo.
caliy diSpayed' Why, 10 their conduct In reia.
no" TO the controversy with the Stat OF Georgia:
the British Colonial Inter course; the Panama Mis-
'lon; and their Wild, mprscticable and eIs,-
noneeTins schemes in regard 20 Internal Improves
meni.
I lie did nos dsefn Il necessary, at l,sN before
those who now heard hin, TO enter into formal
and detailed yindication oitbe well founded ohiec
uon' 10 'he conduct OF the administration on lhese
subjects
| The public judgment had been passed on All oe
them, 3" hich was, he believed, q verdict OF eon-.
/ demnaiion against those IN power. The, furnished
indeed, matters Tor the most curious anJ i.sfuctivs
! speculation
/ 10 ibe Georgia controversy. yve have seen .bs
/ President Of the y. s. assume 10 himself judicial
functions, by sending military project into tie linn
It's Of sovereign STATE, for the purpose Of h Hing
military nqni ilion into he validity oil th- law Of
The Iani, md OF impairing IT, obligation And after
having virtual, atrogsted one tfealy because M
stomach was too squesmi.h 10 digest the ugh f.
nesse With which Irdian treaties are ususlly nero
aled IN the wilderness, he had another catered Tor
his taste, with Ill the reduements of METROPOLITAN
/ diplomacy. a treaty 10 which provision 81 az no,
only made that the Indian deputies should defrsud
/ ouI government, but cheat their own nation. The
/ proiiigate booty nf hich was sqasndered under
/ TIE very eyes Of q Puritan Administration. in m.
dnlgences Of the most .bandoned hcenfiousness;
and WHEN this compact was likely 70 fail in ,yba,
ought to have been iis otirct-,,e find the Pres
dent turning the edge of his wtaih against hs vzn
'e'o" eN"enS' and threatening them with The b'j