Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1828-10-14

Tor preserving liter,y-such as frequency of eiec-
tionS into the general council-a general right of
ooting among the people rotation among per-
sons IA office, Sc are OF cery little consequence 10
mun",hd: and that freedom can only he preserved
By establishing proper checks on the .,iGeren bran
ches OF adminisii alton, or as he calls it, balances
and by dividing the legislature from the executive
power, aud rendering the judicial independent OF
either: in short, by making t. in eoery respect,
as 'nifh as possible The same with fe actual
s.itufoft qf e.. BritGin.
Agan-ihe review says
=" Though thejudicious reader will perceive that
these observations for Mr. Adams are the dictates
OF sound sense, grounded on experience, yet, ii we
Judge oil the sentiments oil the people of America
by me writings that are popular amongst them,we
fear that such remarks will not at the present mo-
inent, be received with all the cordality which he
may wish: the author seems himsel 10 think so !:
and ii we mistake not, he has employ cd his utmost
address TO cypress e'. 50 as not 10 gre disgust.
Probably, many of those nassages which we con-
slider defects, may be ascribed 10 Ills cause The
regal authority, it is wei known is exceedingly
disiiked by many of the Americans; and an heyed.
ifo1J mobility is looked little less structiye
10 the community yet il is pluiu from ianu;re-
f0dte parts ~ this ,5OTh, that Mr. Adams considers
those two classes of men (t,ng and ncbies) as be-
ns, under certain circumstances, not only harm
less, but most useful, as buiwagks OF freedom o.
penny 10 dooto those principles, mus. kGoc fius-
uuted ms cie,c, and TO suppl his that
head, would have been mean and di-inrenuous-
he has chosen TO steer middle course'
Again
FROM these extracts, the reader will be able to
ofin an idea OF the general tendency of this work
ana the mode Of reasoning adopted by the author
~ Is NOT, indeed, As its title says, defence of the
.imertcdn Constitutions, but Il IS a ,cdriu de-
FENCE Of the constitution IF Great Britain. II is
me oeSt onfi-democ'afic treatise that IRE haze
Seen Tor hlr Adams dread tr:t h0ti, the
extreme to which his coun,ry,nen will naturally
lean and he has exerted his best efforts to otciate
that eUl.''
Such are the opinions of Engli.hmen in relation
to the work and doctrines OF MIR Adams what
the real doctrines Of Mr. Adams were If d,sclns
ed, may be conceived from wha, he has yen,ured
to avow.
Consider all those doctrines Of Mr. Adams il YOU
please, matters Qfopinion H. had an updoul;eS
i1Sh' 10 assert and support them by argument or
persuasion IRE censure no man far differing fan,
| US Ia sentiment upon any topic: but, when man.
VINO maintains anti republican doctrines, seeks TO
ne 'he magistrate OF republicans, it becomes so
Tenn duty TO resist hm--and this was the ca, in
I19I AT that time, however when MIR Iohn A
Ha'nS was e!ecteda has has subsequently, been
somewhat by chance, and much TO the surprise II
u'e houon; what was his conduct in the presiden-
" u'u ne abandon his doctrines! far from il, his
; ,c"oie administration tUdS The natural result of
ms p'nciPfeS on prejadiceS an alien law sedi-
'oi law, d standing army, persecution of the re-
Pubicans abuse OF the French revolution. attach
,ieht 10 England hostility to France. Such we're
'he characteristics OF % the reign of terror -
Can you be as,onished when YOU reflect ,non
such joctS, That The American people in 1900 dis
missed Mr.. Adams? Is il not marvellous that he
! ever reached the presidency And, what's our
| Gouaiaon now! Have the principles and the CON
o1cf oi the SON differed from those OF the father?
shaii snowy that of he TWO, the father was
re most slncere OF course the least ,lanperous.
~ Z si'at Snow you, that what ,he father would
nave heia oy open activity, the son has gained AND
seeks 10 hold, by hypocracy and corruntion. We
10 not assert This merely-we will give good rea-
@ ioi our CONVICTIONS without the slightest I'M
hii'n ieeiing towards MIR. Adams personally, but
under serious sense OF duty to the public.
Respectfully Yours, &c
JOSEPH WORRELL, WM. ]. DUANE.
WILLIAM BOYD, CHARI.ESS COW
HENRY TOI.AND, THOS. NJ pETy,1T -
JOHN WURTS,
Committee OF Correspondence for Phadeluhis
appointed by theRepubiican Convention, assem-
hled at Harrisburg, Jan Sth, 1928