Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1829-10-15

room OF fluson Currie, arrived on Monday and took
ns seat In the Convention, and Yesterday added
to the Committee on the Judiciary.
~ The public will probably learn with come sur
prise, that the Executive committee yesterday rr-
TIA proposition for choosing the Cover nor by the
people. Yhere even begins to be talk that the Elk
etltive Council may escape The abolition which we
Tad supposed last spring, that ninety out of every
hundred Of the citizens, desred.
It is nov thought that the Committees will begin
to report and the Convention get seriously to work,
sponer than was thought ut first. The plan of re-
porting simple propositions, will expedite things, by
enabling the Committees to report by piece meal.
NM "terG,y' trick, but toD trick and POM trek
The Enquirer yesterday repeats, what it has more
than repeated that the letters of Farmer which
appeared in this print in the and fall of 1927,
we're from the pen of Dr. Watkins, late 4th Auditor
al Washington, and nov an inmate of the Jail of
that city.
We should be glad to know how that sagacious
print obtains its informations Or'rather should
be glad to learn by what moral Justification, man
afrms that to be true, which is than guess,
and which he neither does, nor can know? Who
was the author of those letters, the writer and two
not one of the three. But suppose Or. Watkins was
ttge author-wbat then? Does that circumstance
diminish the force and beauty with which they were
written subtract from the value of the political
truths which they contain? Or is calculated only,
TO inspire generous minds with regret, G!at one so
accomplished, so capable of deep and just reflection,
so qualified to be ornament and blessing to his
fdrnily and friends, unable to resist temptation to
Gs, ought this to be theme Of such pleasant refec
ton and repeated reference, as it has become with
the Enquirer i, is matter Of triumph with that
hsnevolrnt and consistent print, that the author of
political letters which could and under
whose effect ittrembled at the time, is degra-
red man. Low and despicable malce'
We feelit necessary to say word ofdefcnce on the
subject of the general ascrpton of the letters of
Farmer to Mr.. Madison at the time, which neigh
Dor has SO often imputed to offence. We
we're the authors of the delusion; but have this
excuse for it, that we ourselves were dcluded. We
did not kno,o until the third number, who their
authors but from the letter of the third person, who
transmitted them to the press, we didfeally and tr
", believe Dir. Madison to be- We had good reason,
nay certainty the next thing to it, for knowing that
Tire material sentiments conceded with his, and we
did hope ana THINK IL not improbable, that he had
solved touse some exertion TO an event which
be was believedto deprecate. We were soon unde-
ceived, and 50 was the whole country. The style,
the mention of Mr. Madison himself letters addressed
60 him blythe Farmer, and eloquent eulogiums passed
upon his character, proclaimed the mpossibility of
his being the outhor, and dspelled the short lived IL
fusion, Where the necessity of telling the pub
lie, what the public knew, that Mr., Madison not
the auttor3 Nevertheless, we frankly SLY, that at
this moment, and at all times since we should have
been better pleased with ourselves had we
our minds undeceived, dspelled the illusion
which had contributed to produce. And now,
having confessed so much, we must ask Mr.. Richie
who wrote the "East Room" letter, child of
MS own adoption, hardly less famous, than the
letters Of oar Farmer? lie brings to the confess
ional, two years after the event, and about the
same time has elapsed, since his and the cold fashion
ed" Republicans feelings were so much scandazed
ht the regal spIendor of that thrice famed ROOM
Let him make clear breast Of it.
Who the author of the Preface TO Mr. Claws
Speech at Fowers garden is, we have not the plea
sure of knowing, But this we viii say that in pub
lie lfe or out of t-isnown aneno1oy. as seems to
be matter of reproach against him-his generous
zeal in standing up for unpopular and as he be-
feves, injured man, adorns his character and con-
fers honour superior TO any which mere office can