Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1827-02-10

Secretsfy OF the Department of State. gin.
came Russell TO reiierate lesson which he had
got BY heart, and which he repeated with little
variation in number of successive visits. He,
enumerated the reasons which the Western coun-
try would have 10 be dissatse ed with the appoint
rnent of Adams. He enumerated the evidences of
his hereditary hostility to that section of the Union,
and crowned the whole, with his conduct as
Ghent, in attempting to cede the navigation of the
Mississippi to the British He took the attitude.
OF Mr.. Monroe's friend, and limited to him tho
probable consequences to his own popularity, if
man already odious in the West, and to become
Infinitely more 30 if his conduct at Client should
Se iound Out, ehould be brought into his cabinet
secretary OF the Department OF State.
These visits were repeated, and these reasons
fecounted' unuliNr. Monroe silenced the periina-
cious intruder with a peremptory declaration that
Adams should be the Secretary. From that mo-
ment Clay set up an opposition to Monroe, and all
the papers in his interest in Kentucky and Ohio.
proceeded to denounce Adams, and to prepare the
public mind for thst Development of the Client
negotiations which Russell had foretoid; and
which, so ca!ami,ousy for himself, he undertook
to make in the session 1922.
In all this business, Russell was the instrument OF
Clay He spoke and acted from his direction alone.
Clay taught him the lesson which he reci,ed to
Monroe. Clay loaded the gun for him to shoot
Adams. Clay prepared the West TO hear the 6re!
And when the piece played foul, blew out at the
wrong end, knocked Russell over, and terrified
came out from behind the bushes, and denied all
knowledge of what Russell had been about. A
denial which Adams took care 10 treat as q fb.
So much for the intrigue of 1917, thing in
itself insignificant, but worthy of remembrance
since we have witnessed the scenes of 1925 &c.
when this same Mr.. Clay makes this same Mr..
Adams President Of this Union, whom be had
objected TO as Secretary IF the Department of
STATE! When he becomes tbe DIRECT sUBAL-
TERN Of the man with whom he had refused &,
associate on terms of relative inferiorit,! When
he hiis the WEST with the PRAISES Of the man
whom he had denounced there for twenty years
When he makes speeches to prove the virtue, in
telligence, and capacity of the man whom he had
previously represented as a monarchist in princi-
pie, an apostate in politics, hyprocite in rei-
gion; man of books without Judgment or COM
mon sense, an enemy to the Western States, and
to Internal Improv ement.
1t is ,hsse things which give materiaity to tbs
still-born intrigue of 1917; these violent con-.
trass which show the proud plebeian orator of the
West. suddenly crouching 10 the patrician house of
Quincy, then erecting his old enemy into first
magistrate OF this Union, then taking office under
him; then like another Pygmaon, becoming madly
enamouIed of his own work, sezing the idol Of
his creation 10 his heart pressing il to his bosom
bearing it alof in his arms, demanding for il uni
vrrsal alteration, and revenging with all the rage
OF frantic love, the slightest ,ndignity this new
and cherished object of all his affections.