Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1830-01-01

houses ia this city, formerly beorrinr TO the father
OF Mrs Eaton, and now standing in the name of Mr..
Eaton.-Ths correspondence, as have said, il ipl.
perfect II u sad TINT great pans have bcen talci:
10 get hold Of and suppress the letters us Gar pIac-
ticnbl'. AS soon as it was known that this
pop1cncc in the Office of the Fourth Auditor, a
gentleman. knowing the terms which MIR. Eaton
mud Mr.. Branch stand in relation to each Other,
went tn the latter and made him acquainted with the
uIrcu,ns ahccs, recommending TO HIM To demand tho
papers as public property and TO secure them by pa
cling them tho files Of tho Dcrartmrut. Upon
tins hint the Secretary acted demanded lac papers
obtained them and as 1t IS said, won't with them To
tic President, AMI laid them before him, hut took
care to bring thcm away, nj the close of the inter
view, concerning Which we have no Information To
BE- repeated. But The facts have got abroad winch
lave stated and II is further said hat the Rnv. Mr.
Cainp'" has III his pnsseSs copies Of rho letters
which he threatens 10 bring before the public eve
shouio suihcient proyUcaion be offered. | know
Hot what lac may dc ufcicnt; but is well known
that iis name aud character have been assgcd, IN
consequence of the part which he took III re-
cent disputes. and runour says that Mr.. Eiton has
himself used language towards Lin of very insult
ing nature. Copies Of the correspondence having
b en- under the inspection of several individuals IL
not III their possession, il is not to he expected that
TIL: contents can long remain from the world.
lave 10 authority for asserting that any positive
G5usc was intended, sGpp psing even that the state
n"nts are accurate pru i>ely IN tho form III which
ruinor has conveyed ticm 10 mc; hut Pureer Timber
lake having died a pubic dciu or SUSPICION max
lad III tia; fact something Ia feed upon. l. NAV be
inferred tha: =: public money objected into tins
unlawful channel and IT may become u question
whether thc public tvc not right io be refunded
out of this properly fur II goes. At al, cyens
il is to be expected that as General Jackson affects
sincere ana decp Indignation against public
abuses, he will not permit the private friendship
which exists between HIM and Mr. Eaton to prevent
l;ul from causing prompt and thorough cNnnna-
tun into this business. BY rcfralning from Tint
course he will give OCCASION to his enemies call in
questo the patriotism OF the course OF Gen Jackson
.Nr. JeGersons opinion of H:rmc.--In that multi
,nle OF productions with which the world has been
lately favourel from the pen Of Mr.. Jelc,-5 IN, VIC
have peruecd no single which strikes IA 80
JUS; and valuable, tho following letter which APP
pearel for the first time, III the list Political Arrn-
ut Fredericksburg, and WHICH addressed 10 one
who had asked Of Mr. Jefferson % prescribe course
o. historical reading for him. Not that the dlscuvc-
~ of Hunn's historical miid"ly and partinuy ia
original with Mr.. Icfcrson-or Tint they lave moi
been clcarly established arGirst him. by Fox
Brodic and others-nr thut the tendency of his his
tory TO eradicate The ancient principles aud cclncs
a.! the wings in Eng ,nd, has not been long seen,
felt and lament cd--but that the authority Of Mr.
Jefferson will prove Of the last service in Guarding
the whiggsm of the American youth, against the
u it is, in every Library and evcry hand.
II il difficult TO conceive a nlore extraordinary
circumstance, than that such man, David Hume
50 self-baanced and phical il his temperament
SO love with abstract truth ar in her pursuit he
Sighted the prcudiccs of his untrv and dsr"gar-
ded the religion Of his fathers should when engaged
in recording facts for the benefit of mankimd permit
himself to suppress, garbe dstorr them To answer
,h, Ia rbi Ia,
ilncnce over The mind of Philosopher to
palatc excuse, the offences of a vicious family
Che Stuars) because that family was Scotch.
Hune's tenderness of nature. wrought upon by the
we'll deserved msortunrs of that bigotcd and d,tcs
table race, may have acted in concert with his
rational partiali,ics, TO deiraud mankind of truth
but it is only i'll these suppostons that the slightest
degree Of exicnuatiun can be round 10. him.
FRoM THE Arena.
Mr.. Jefersoa'' opinions Historical ReadinS-|
CENsURE HUME.
Below is copy of a letter r IN Dir. Jefferson, 10
student of the Unlvcrsity OF Va. who having the
happiness to enjoy that great mans friendship, had
asked his advice respecting the best OF histo
~. Even the modest courtesy with which the re-
guest 10 granted, less deserves the attention Of A.
Tercan reader than the just severity with Which the
writer nails To- the counter the spurious but
rent com of Hume. No historian Of equal volume
is half so much read admired this country ne he
IIc - placed, with earnest recommendation III the
hands of,houSanls Of young Students who "bcwch-
ed by his style and manner, swallow every thing,
little drcumng that i'll those periods of English His
,ory whittier we habitualy for authority and
illustration concerning great principles OF free
dom. nc has compressed truths, ddUdHced IdisehOodj
forged authorities, and ft!sfed records" laying in the
mind dangerous foundation for of those
Rights Of Man, which twenty years ago 1t tory
ism To d"ny. Is IT not probable, that to the crcua
ton anonH of this sCoiinr at political liberty we
owe the fashionable doc rin" that lnan in soc-
city has 10 natural rights! Are not The politicians
dominant in our Convention, the disciple
of Hum lrbcralizcd liI'e by Burke but still the
on'ipodes of Sdgcy. and Locke, ind lciictso
LETTER.
Mn>rIcELLo, Oct. 18th, 1875.
fTc Mr.. J. VI
DEAN SIR do not know whether tho professors,
q, whom ancient and modern History are assigned
nj the University have vet decided on the course of
historical reading which they wl recommend 20 their
Fchnos. Ifthey have, wish this letter To he con.
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