Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1827-11-09

had an ample opportunity OF evincing ny graft .
Jude and my devotion to their interests.
assure, you, sir. that il will afford me the
highest qualification. in my present situation, TO
aid you In your patriotic efforts, and To witness
the auspieious influence of your administration on
the best interests of country.
/ hare the honor TO be, with perfect respeci,
your most obedient servant.
DE WITT CLINTON.
The Hon. John Quincy Adj s, Washington.
IL is enormously Inferred, from the civil express
sions of this letter that Gov Clinton il ia favor OF
the Admin siration. Thi- il a yynlul mistake. The
iettei would have contained much stronger ex2res-
sions, If MIR. T.. at the time of writing il, wa.
pleased with the election of Mr.. a dams. The let.
| ter contains but two sentences; and the last ex.
presses sentiment that every patriot ought TO have
felt AT that time, at thi. mo meDt. " II
will afford me the highest qualification, in my pre-
semi situation, to aid you IN your patriotic efforts
and TO witness the suspicious influence of your
Admins ration the best interests of our cOun-
try.' Ii is really mor,ifyng that MIR. Adams
friends should be compelled to resort 10 such am
biguous, if not negative testimony TO sustain him.
Why do they not proudly point TO some successful
negotiation he has made for The country with a fo-
reign nation to some sefu measure of Justice
and equality among the people to some system OF
retrenchment and economy, by which the peo-
Pies money has been saved some pr actic n pub
lie good that has resulted from his labors- to some
evidence In short, that the great principles OF
limited government have been maintained in tn cir
purity, and That the public agents have been faithful
and attentive To the duties committed to their
charged But, alas! where are his patriotic ef-
forts and the" suspicious influence of bis Adj
ministTatiou:" Do we find them ponrtrayed and
promised in his first message? IN the claim to
regulate the labor and capital of the country
IN his claim in short, 10 epery Po,cer that can, in
the opIition of our servants, be exercised for
=" lettering condition. in his recommends
ffnp NJ ltobth ~ ,ha
stationed in ihem''!-or do we see his a. patriot-
&c efforts" in the attempts he made TO subvert al
one blow, all the republican doctrines of the con-
stitution, by recomme ending 10 Congress not TO
be patsied by the will of the people = And in
what do we " witness the suspicious influence of
his administration? 20 Is il in the miserable Pana-
abortion that has subjected to The rioicule of
the world is i; in the insults our flag and nation
have received from Brazil, and the loss of the cons
hdence and respect of the whole South American
Republics in the shameful loss by diplomatic
egoiism, of the valuable trade of the West Indies!
Do we witness" the suspicious influence OF his
adm instr ATOM in his high. handed measures to-
wards Georgia; in his courtly Levees S studied sys-
TEN OF etiquette. or in subsidzng all the mercenary
presses of the country; paying away or permitting
MS secretaries to pay away to courtiers and par
tizans the money of The people, for SCI vices never
periormei!' Do witness =. the auspicIous ntiu>
ence" of his administration in the general want Of
confidence expressed in il by the people in the
- bats" thrown out to particular sections OF
Country by deusive surveys and estimates of roads
and canals, never intende II to be msde The
'auspiciOLs influence of an " electioneering ira
yelling cabinet" has, indeed, been Witnessed
''ut, whether their journies aud "table orators"
have reflected most disgrace upon themselves or
upon the country, 1t is difficult TO decide. The
e suspicious influence upon the ballot boxes, of
public servants negecting their duties, travelling
over the country praising one another, and derac-
ing from the merits of other men, if not STOPPING
to the circulation of pamphlets filed with forgery
and defamation, will not be fully witnessed until
Nov. 1928. Then the power of the peoI lie will
be constitutionaiiy re.tored TO them; and they will
then koow how to dispose oft more judiciously.