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

e. on tue Government without US. any more than
we can act while every thing in the Executive go
Vernment is against US. Sir, there are cases i'm
which suspicion Is equivalent 10 proof; and not on
iy equal 10 il, but more than equal to the most
damning proof There is not husband here who
will not ratiiy this decldrationtherc may be sus-
picion so sonszing, that itinaSoS the wretch cry
out for certainty as relief from the most damn
ing fortunes. Such suspicious arc entertained
with respect TO these gentlemen--andt though they
are making convulSvc effort 20 roll back the tide
OF public opinion, they can't allay the feelingthc
suspicion rests upon the facts--and, do what they
may, facts will not bend at their bidding. Ad-
init to he suspicion, 1t IS equally fatal, regards
them and the public service, with the reality
Mr. X. would not go in pursuit OF the diibis and
Eases of the accused-of the tubs, whether with
false bottoms double bottoms, thrown ont TO a.
muse the publick. The whole conduct of the ac-
cuscd had displayed nothing OF the calm dignity of
Innocence, but all the restlessness of conscious
guilt. Every word of Mr.. Clays late pamphlet
might be true, and yet the accused DC guilty.
notwithstanding. Mr.. Il. would not now examine
sls inconsistent declarations, 10 different persons
and at different times and occasions. The Secre-
tary was no. the first witness who had proved too
much. q He who pleads his own cause. Says the
provcrb0 generally has a fool for his cent.''
The gentleman from Massachusetts, warned US,
that if the individual seek torlcvatc shalt sue
ceed he will in his turn, become the object of
public pursuit and that the same pack will be un-
iSennccd at lis heels that have his rival down.
II may be have no hesitation to say, that, if
his conduct shall deserve it, and live, shall be
one THAT pack; because, maintain the interests
OF stockholders against Presidents, Directors and
Cashiers. And here, Sir, beg leave to notice
an objection urged, as have heard against me
by the gentleman from Ohio, Mr. Vance.J He
says that have been opposedto all Administra-
tions. Sir, deny ii TO be fIct. did oppose the
elder Adams, because he attacked the liberty of
the press and of the subject; because his opinions
We're at war with the genius Of our institutions
lie avowed them openly, and liked him the bet
Ter for his frankness But supported for more
Than five years the Administration OF his successor.
did for il what l could-litte enough, God knows.
The first case in which differed from that Admin
sstration was the case of the Yazoo Claims, which
i thought case of fragrant corruption | DO not
mean, and never did believe, that there was
corruption in the President, or his two Secretaries;
and il did not cause me TO separate myself from
them. l separated from that Administration three
years afterwards, with pain and sorrow, and no,
without some anger, too; Tor L have no idea OF
that extreme of candour and meelnsss which de-
nounces the measures of Government, as Bottom
says in the play, 60 and will roar you as gently as
any sucking dove" 1t is not my nature to do So
and il would be criminal and ridiculous in me-
because it would be hypocric y, to affect it. When
the former restrictive system war first commenced,
I thought saw what now know did then see
the fatal and runous consequences that would
grow out of it. told Mr.. Jefferson, candidly and
frankly, that, if he expected support in u GER
tain quarter, and did not find it, he need not
blame me. will not repeat what he said on that
occasion, but he deplored the separation. But
permit me to remind you, Sir--for you were then
too young TO know much of these matters-that
previously, but nearly at the time of my leaving
that Administration, certain wise from the
East joined il, who soon after went Off to Canada,
under strong suspicion OF felony; and this soon
followed by certain gentleman's giving in his adj
hesion who had before been violently opposed to il
and to all its best measures Sir, | have not the
least objection to its being said of me, that | Sc
parated myself from Mr.. Jefferson, swhen Barna-
Tol, Al -
Some allusion has beer made 10 the discordant
materials of the present Opposition. They are
somewhat discordant-at least they have been So
But are they more so than the adherents of the
present Administration, the materials of the Ad-
ministration itself? / well remember almost the
first Precipitation Ohe first the writ of habeas
corpus) which he who is now the President of the
u. States made TO Mr. Jefferson and his party. 1t
was an attempt to run down the present Chief Jus
tice. The right of John Smith 10 a seat in the
Senate was made the peg TO hang it on. l will
tell the gentleman the whole why have
. opposed the Administration since that time, and
may again, if, according omy judgment, they
shall not consult the good OF the country. Ii is,
Sir, simply because am for the interests of the
Stockholders-of whom one-as opposed to
those of the President, Directors, and Cashiers
and have the right OF speaking my opinion, and
shall exercise it, though i, happen to be against
the greatest and proudcst
Sir, am no Judge OF human motiTcs: that is
the attribute Of the Name which | will not take in
vain-the attribute of Him who rules in Heaven
or who becomes incarnate upon Earth motives
free fom alloy belonged TO that Divine incarnation,
and to Him only, of all that have borne the form
of man. Mere man can claim no such exemption.
do not pretend that my own motives do not par
take of their full share of the nfrmity of our com
mon nature-but, of those inirmties, neither ava
rice nor ambition form one iota in the composition
of my present motives Sir what can the country
do for me Poor as | am-ior 1 am much poorer
than have been-impovcrished by unwise legis-
la,ion-I still have nearly much as 1 know how
made agoOd use oi-and, as for power, what charm
can it have for one like me? III power had been
my object must have been less sngacious than
my worst enemies have represented me TO be,
(unless, indeed, those who would have kindly shut
me upin bedlam,) il had not obtained it. / nav
appeal to all my friends TO say whether "there
have not been times when stood in such favor in
the closet, that there must have been something
very extravagant and unreasonable in my wishes
If they might not all have been gradied.'' Was
1t Office What, Sir, to drudge in your laborato-
ries in the Departments, or be at the tail of the
corps diplomatique in Europe Alas Sir, in nv
condition cup of cold water would be more ac-
eeptable. What can the country give me that
do not possess in the confidence OF such constitt-
ents man ever had before | can retire "a
my old patrimonial trees, where may see the sun
rise and set in peace Sir, as | was returning the
otl r. evening, from the Capitol, / saw-ghat has
been rare sight here this wintcr-the sun dipping
his broad disk among the trees behind those Virei-
MIA hills, not alaying his glowing axle in the steer
Atlantic stream-and l asked myself, IT, with this
book Of Nature unrolled before me - Twas not the
Never was Administration more brilliant
Than that Of Mr.. Jefferson up to this period. We
were indeed In the full tide Of successful expert