Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1828-03-04

under the administration to which allule, there
were none OF these compun csious viSitings oi ia
turc, IT the attacks made private character. We
had no chapter oflaihentaons then, on the ravag
Ing AMI deSolating on the fair lame oil all the
wise ami vutuous, and good, OF our land. The no
torious Peter Porcupine, since even better known
as liion Goblet, was the especial protcge OF that
Administration. | heard them say, l do not mean |
the head of that Administration, but ofits lead
-, that he was the greatest man in the word and
do not know that, in point of sheer natural en- |
dowment, he very far wrong. Yes, Sir it !
that very Goblet, who, if the late publications
may be trlis ed, now says that Mr.. Adams Ia. i
fifteen hundred slaves IN Virginia Was there any
SANDER too vile; too base for that abTicate?
remember we'll the hickman under which we
passed-yes, Sir, can proudly say ire, although |
the humblest in the ranks MIR. Galiatn was CIR |
OVEN GUILLorINE, with iepet;t fcnetre nat !
iondt, at his back The caricature, then, rs well |
as now, constituted small part OF the munitions
OF political war The pencil and the graver (thcy
had no want OF tools OF any sorO lent their aid to
| the pen and the ballad and the military band of
musick. "Down with the French,'' (that is, the
best men OF our countryo was the cry. Afy ex-
cellent and able colleague, Mr.. Nicholas-one of
the purest and most pious of men, who afterv ards
removed to the State of New York and was a |!
model OF Republican virtue and simplicity that
might have adorned the best days OF Sparta or Of
koinc--he, Sir, having the misfortune to lose an
| eye, was held up to ridcule Poiyphcmus' You
are shocked at this, Sir but let tell YOU that it
was only little innocent, harmless, federal wit
anu inc autnor was the especial prOtcge OF Gov
| eminent anu Its adherents. All cbucked over the
| Porcuplnc- To that party the present incumbent
| then belonged-and another member OF this pure
Administrations; and these twoselition- law, black
| cockade heroes, are recommended by the s'ANTr-
JACKSON Convention" to Virginia, for her Pre-
| sident and Vice President They have not even
| the merit OF an carly conversion. They are true
Swiss OF State-poi1t FGrgent point de Suisse
| My venerable friend from North Carolina, was
! MONSIEUR MACON, with cediild under the c.
TO mark hirn the more for Frenchman. [ forget
! the cognomen of the learned gentleman from Lou
| IMr. LIvINGsroN;l know that he was never
spared remember well my OWN wish Sir, it was
! applicable now, for was then boz. Every sane
tuary was then invaded TO MIR. Jefferson every
epithet oil yituPeration was exhausted upon him. he
was an Atheist, Frenchman; we were all Atheists
q traitors our names and cause associated with the
CanniOalS and Cannibalism of the Revolutionary
Tribunal, and with all the atrocities the most a.
trocioes and revolving of which has this day been
presented to the House by the chaste Imagination
OF the gentleman from Massachusetts, Yes, sir,
then, as now, group of horrours was pressed
upon the publick imagination, to prom the SINKING
cause OF desperate Administration. Religion
and order were TO be subverted; the National debt
to be sponged; and the country to be drenched in
Its best blood by Mr.. Jefferson and his Jacobi1
adhcrents. Even good men, and not unwise men,
were brought TO believe this. Mr. Jefferson was
elected; and we know what followed. Butthis Il
may be said, was not done by our own people; it
was done by foreign hrelings mercenaries Sir
speak Ii was done in the glorious DAYS of the
Sedion Law and the black cockade when we
found in General Shee and his Legion protec-
ton against the Pretorian bands of the Admins
tratIon These brave fellows were many of them
Irish and German, AMI most of them of Irish or
German Parentagc, chiefly from the Northern Lii
berries, then the strong hold of Republicanism;
and, therefore, branded with the opprobrious name
oil the fauKboiig 81. Antoine, the most Jacobin
quarter of Paris.
at tie very time that the act noted by the gen
ueIial from Massachusetts, passed, (BIay
iooC,) when Professor Cooper was escorted to
JAIL, victim OF the Scdion Law the ~ York cleo
ton, then, as of late, rung the knel of the depart
ing Administration. Sir, when the gentleman ia
voured us 18th his opinion Of the present stupen-
uous administration, imagine he drew it from O
WhlaIi preceded it. In comparison with some of
these, even this Administration is great; for we
nave seen the least of all possible things-the !
poorest oil all poor creatures that ever was manu-
incurred into Head Of Department land that's !
bold word,) member of former Administration
almost a satire on the name. This per sonare as
have very lately learned, in imitation of another
great man from the same State, took some hber-
ues' III pnblick, with my name, when he had the
Atlantic for barrier, the summer before last
Like his great friend, his courage shows itself
three thousand miles off. 1t is in the ratio Of the
square OF the distance of his adversary Sir,
should IKE TO have seen how he would have look
cd; ~, on finishing his harangue, he had found me
at ms elbow. think can conceive how ne wouIJ
have felt
Sir, have much TO say, which neither nv ov,,,
weakness, nor my regard to the politeness of this
house, Will permit me now to say As have
eXonerated the principal in that weighty affair of
me billiard table, also eKonerate him and his
Lieutenant from every charge of cousion-in the
J"St Stancei and, if il is in order will state the
reasons Tor my opinion. When the alliance was
irst patched UP between the two great leaders oil
'e East and West, neither of the high CONTRACTING
PdIueS had the promotion OF the present incum7
Dent at all IN view. Sir, speak knoIyiDoIv 40 IN
one OF these parties, and with the highest degroS
OIL moral probability of the others Can it be ne
ceSsary that prove ths' The thine provos ;ts.ir
ne OBJECT was to bring in one of the parties 10 the
compact whom the Constitution subsequently, en-
ciudcd, and, OF course, 10 provide for the other
a gentleman then OF this House, was the candi-
GATE VINO, TO tile last hour, cast many longino.
although not lingering look. with outsfrcfcheS
neck towards Louisiana-juguIo quesita ,tepnf,,r
10 discover whether or not he should be one ,,nop
the iist Sir 1T is impossible that he coud in The
rst instance, have looked to the elevation of ana
lher' or nave designed TO promote the views of anv
man, Oe' IN suoserylency TO his own. Sir common
se"se ioFDlnS IT. But, sir, all these calculations ! {
however skilful, and DEmo1vRE could not 80 I
made better, utterly failed. Mr. Crawford nnost q
oDstihatciy, and unreasonaby confess refused 20
ne was certainly very disobleinq in him
saw hin before went abroad. And thougbt !,
was an hundred TO one that he could not s,,Pvive !
the Summer: he was then dead IN everv ,,,,,
publick or private. Louisiana refused ~ ~
obs'inaely as MIR. Crawford refused 10 die. and 60
me gentleman was excluded. II was fben al
Mt ADAMS was ilrst takenup as mis- oIIer ,,,bcb
we planters Of the South translate a bnnJ oJo,,t
Or, have right 10 know; had a lone yybiIc
before an Interview with this very great man: hit
lie was also described as Cr.rtzr,, S,c,-.. 4
General Sumptcr Of South CaroIin, ..at--.-