Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1828-03-18

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TIE Liberty or SPEEcH AND or THE Pass.
new Edition of Mr.. RandoIph's celebrated
speech has appeared at Washington. A copy of
!, !! IS now before us We are requested 10 re-pub
llsh the additional matter il contains In the same
Tree spirit in which this Press has been always con-
Quoted, we shall comply with the requisition-re-
serving 10 ourselves the right of passing freely up
ON the topics which il embraces.-Sitiated as we
are II is impossible for 10 please every party
or perhaps any one party-and we SHALL therefore,
follow our o~n rule; to please ourselves. We
might say more properly, that would follow the
nghts oil our own . conScienee,' if Mr.. Clay's a.
doption oGthe epthet had not almost made it a
bye-word ofsuspcion and contempt.
we publish, then, Mr. Randolph's new notes
because ne Is Representative OF the People, who
Is addressing his constituents through the press.
ne appeals to us for the use of this press-He
snail have notwithstanding the exception we
nave expressed TO the charactcy ofhis notes. We
repeat our regret, that some OF them had not been
omitted; for we disapprove ofsomc of the remarks
Which ne makes upon The two Judges of the Court
oil Appeals We deem some of his structures as
travelling out oil the legitimate line of public dis
cussion on public men-they are, nioreovcrunne-
cessary-bccause the administration have done G.
hough to forfeit forever the confidence of their
country. The manner in which Mr. Adams was
elected by coalition and corruptiOn-and the out
rageous measures which have marked the course
oil ms administrations are sufficient OF themselves
when properly presented and fairly pressed upon
the people, TO drive The Coalitionsts from their ILL
gotten seats of power.-Our cause is safe I'm dine
season, the people of Virginia will render YER
dict oil guilty. against them. But in making these
structures, Mr. r. acts from his own sense of right:
and we Judge - IN ours. We differ in opinion
from hln, and perhaps some of our mutual friends;
put That opinion was promptly expressed, and we
feel ii due to ourselves to reiterate it.
20 much for the exception we take to some of
MIR. KS remarks We also owe it TO truth to saw
Iliat one part OF ms statement may be founded in
apprehension. W hd1e stated (some three weeks
ago) chy 1t was that the letter of the President of
the y, q was supposed to have been sooner sent TO
tile Electors.-The resolution of the Convention
directed a copy of its Proceedings to be forwarded
10 each elector-and the immense size of the inn
preston (thc tens, and twentes, and thirty tbou-
sands of ropies TO operate upon the public mindn
ueiayed the printing OF the pamphlet.-It is true
that their address and proceedings were widely
circuIeted by the papers, Immediately on the ris-
T1g OF the Conve ntion. But if il was necessary
to accompany the notifications by copies of the
pamphlet, they could scarcely have been sent
earlier than they werc-Whether las has been
| asserted in a letter from a member OF Con-
gress to his friend in Albany, who says he saw
letter OF Mr.. Monroe upon that suhiecD an inof-
fetal letter was addressed by him to member ol
the Adams Committee, declining positively to serve
on the Ticket, and whyit was kept up from an in.
qulsiuve public, remains yet to be known. Such a
! concealment would have been an unworthy ex-
pedient; and it ought TO be denied If it be false or
exposed, if it be true.
50 far as Mr.. r. speaks Of the attempt to influ-
ence the public mind by the weight of great names
I've most cordially concur with him. The at
! tempt mas been made, and ii OUGHT TO he exnosod
Judges OF the Court of Appeals have been arraved
with all the pomp and circumstance of Office tc
affect the votes OF the peoplc-while there is no
thing IN them as disciplined and experienced poIi.
ticians TO entitle their opinions to any more weigh
tia those oil any other ciiizen5The people of Vir.
S;nia are not yet to be swerved from their own prin
ciples or preferences by the weight of Office or IN,
souni oil names. Besides, il does not become tben
| 10 tade 50 active and conspicuous part on the 90
iucai chess-board OF the time5-to be dapnlod If
! the vile mire of election''-and to expo;e -.
Ermine, as an object, not of reverence but of re
prehens;Cn and mistrust.-The same execution n.
TO the use Of great names) applies even viii
stronger iorce TO the Wretched attempt which ha
been played oil to enlist Messrs. Madison and Mon
roe in the cause of the Coalition. It was am at
tempt to give a currency TO Mr.. Adams's name
! which II did not Of itself possess or deserve-T
was an attempt 10 worm out some inadvertent eY
/ preston, some unguarded phrase, not sufficient,
dressed mp with strict rhetorical propriety
which might be turned or twisted to the service o
Mr.. AdaIns.-lt was =" tric;' which does no
comport with the plain, simple, ariless, and indie
pendent character OF Virginia Poicians-and mus
owe the honor OF it's invention TO the Tatrie9nf
at Head Quarters.-But the expedient has faile,
(thanks 10 the manly spirit and q fecitous stvle'
Of Messrs. Madison and MonroeO and its Reaction
viii be felt by those who hGve gotit up,
EXTRA cTs-.tTOm The Pumphiet
The Speech contains the following new PASSAGES
Page 9.
g These salaries arc too small" cannot ARE,
with the gentleman. There is one touch stone oil
such questionit is the ayidity with which those
situations are sought will not say by members
OF this House-we are hardly deemed Of sufficien
! rank to illl them. A RoceyeIshis or INSPECTOR.
ship OF the LASD ONCE must do for us; ay ever
for such OF US n, By oursngle vote, have made q
President Sir, the generous stced by whose
voice the son of Hystaspcs was elevated TO the
throne of Persia, was better recompenscd a. be
deserved TO be, than the vena asses whose bfavino
Il has given ruler to seven millions of freemen
to domain far surprising in power as well as e x
tent, that Of the GREAT K1Nc-the GRAM
MoNARQUE Of antiquity!'
Page 70.
" Sir, there are cases in which suspicion is edui
valent TO proof and not only equal to H. but NOR,
than equal 70 the most darnnine proof Thee +
not Husband here, who will not ratify hs decla
rahon-there mUy be suspicion so agonizing that 4
makes the wretch cry out FOR certainty as a relic
from the most damning fortunes. Such is tIie mic
ture watch the great master Of the human hear
presents to US in the person Of the noble Moor
and Shakespeare seems TO have known the bc,rt q,
man as it himself had made 70. Such suspicions
resting on 10 false suggestions Of an Iago. bin
supported by cloud OF witnesses, and long ar.
ray Of acts and circumstances that no sopbistr,
can shake, are entertained with respect TO thesS
gcntlemcn-and although they are making a con
vulsyc effort 70 roll back the tide Of pubiick u.
riniou, they can't allay the iceling.-fhc susui.
cion rests upon The facts-and do what thew may
facts will not bend at their bidding. Admit II h
be suspicion, tits equoly fatal, as regards them &
the publick service, with the reality. Mr. n
would not 20 ia pursuit oftho 0ii5is and aliases o.
the accused-oi The tubs, whether with false bot
toms or double bottoms, thrown out 70 anfusc the
publick. The whole conduct Of the accused bal
fN oil rrff rafff. az.