Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1828-10-25


called iree-masons, having unaecountabiy reach
ed tiiis country. where il has been basey prost,-
tuted to electonecring purposes; person in the
interior ofNew York wrote 10 Mir. Adams recent
ly, TO know whether he was a free-mason, and
telling him il he was not it would help his cleo
ton to make il known-Instead Of throwing such
note under the table, MIR. Adams, with the zeal
Of Ferdinand himself, set down and wrote reply,
saying not merely that he was not a mason, but
that he never would DC one!
10, Ii would be below tho character OF letters
IKE the present, to describe other instances Of pop
uar courtship: we saw MIR. Adams stripping OFF
his coat, before multitude, merely to perform the
ceremony OF lifting roo: we saw hiri ride.
we fcrbear
-. But, gentlemen. let us not turtle. digress
Mr.. Adams fell into decay-he turned democrat
he courted " the lowest OF the people," aswcl
as their agents, :. with an ardor, an art, skill,
" and consequently with success, which no vul
&c gar democrat can attain"
Is this the portrait, which we must look upon a..
faithtu! IT the likeness is true, is the original
worthy Of our suflrages' IL the resemblance i.
not faithful why do you not point out the dissimi
arity'
ambition and avarice. which induced Mr.. Adams to
make so sudden and so surprising chango--what
else was it? Ii Mr.. Adams did not desert one par
ty and fly 10 another for mere inercenary views,
tchy did nc desert! Is IL true, that the federal
party was conspiring to the Union! Mr.
Adams says they were, and Mr.. Adams is your
candidate! II is not the republicans, who charge
the fe,eraists with being conspiiators; the chSrge
OF conspiracy to sever the union is made by Mr..
Adams himself Is It fT1c that the federal party
did conspire! u they did, then call on the peo
pie OF the union 10 look aud behold the mass Of the
same federal party now the main prop of MIR. ~
daras's falling house! II they did not conspire,
then call the people of the union 10 look aud
behold the mass Of the same federal party, which
Mr.. Adams thus denounced, cheering him as their
candidatet
The spectacle is positively appalling! there is
nothing like it. in the history OF this or perhaps
i'm that OF any country with the exception OF a
very few feieralists, lew when compared with
the mass-the party which MIR. Adams abandon
ed. which he denounced as consprators a
ga'nst their countrymer is now arrayed in his sup
port! Mr. OTIS, Mr. Quincy, Mr.. Webster. MIR.
Lowell, Mr.. Dwight-besidcs many members Of
the Hartford convention, are united TO elevate
the man,who stamped conspirator to dissolve the
union" upon their ioreheads
Can you, gentlemen. explain all this, Did
MIR. Adams conspire with iederaiisis, 10 20 over
to US republicans, in order to- betray us, Is the
Union now existing between Mr.. Adams and the
iederalists OF New England The consuInmation Of
such conspiracy! =. Or, did Mr. Adams turn
democrat to promote his own ends! q. Or, did
he truly accuse the federal party. Or, did he
falsely impute TO them treasouabc designs. These
are questions, to which crave your attention.
The point TO which we call public attention il
this: cordial union now exists between Mr.. A
udHis aiiu TIE mass OF tile party, winch mr. Adams
declared, conspirei to dissolve the union: l. il
safe or honorable to elect person, who according
TO his own account, must have had full knowl-
edge Of "a conspiracy, who did not betray it until
the republicans had got the power Into their own
hands, and who has now again thrown himself into
the arms Of the same conspirators,
rs TO the fedora! party Of New England,
Tor we consider the mass of the federasts of the
rest O! the union 10 be the disciples of ne
rather than the slaves Of an eastern aristocracy,
xyt that ft,nt, Ia- IL,
given to them Ivy Mr.. Adams! Would any man
OF spirit, or of common honesty, support the per-
son, who had falsely accused him,
You, gentlemen, can set aside all doubt and
suspicion: IIhy did mr.. .9dan,s desert Ge fed
crGf pGyty'
Respectfully, yours, &c.
WILLIAM DUNCAN. WIN. j. IEipER.
HENRY TOLAkD, TH0S. NJ PETITE.
JOHN WURTZ.
Committee Of Correspondence for Philadelphia, APP.
pointed by the Republican Convention, assem-.