Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1834-08-26

aud no farther. We are as ignoran, Of the pre,ensious Of
MIR. Leigh, as Napoleon was OF Lord Erskine's, aud from
n picture drG,cn ia 1900
YET a likeness in 1884.
nom THOMAS JEFFERSON TO JAMES MADISON,
MAY IL, 1900.
"on, the whole, tho Fedesslis,s" t,hcy now call themselves Whigs)
n Ssss 'Ss Il S .s:. TO Gerry a 'i:s's '.'" Ts %e sis.' , % ' b; I ,SSs,
melted OFF ihrit majority, and di.%sysd he 1 rsoss.o oi ss,o p -.
5 1ss s,S = ssns r'"@, ,ss, snd,ss.sysa 70 us last fon g ,hsr gsr-
than 10 eosrt IL, not a man Of their majority gace pay in tc least,T
The foregoing will be ioand ia a eater to Mr.. Madison.
in the third vol, p. 1856, of Mr.. Jenerson's writings. He
was then President OF The Se nate, and understood we'll
The character of that body. Removed from the control Of
public opinion, and therefore sregdrdiess' Of IL, IL has
ala avs been marked by the disposition so GEORGE it,
aud TO ENcRoAcn" upon the field OF power and respon-
sIli'ity marked out by the Constitution for The Executive.
VI course, when engaged in this work OF enc'oaehment,
IT will always make use of the ready preiex NJ, that il is hui
STRIVING TO drive the Executive IRON sneroachments by
mai branch.-U the people allow themselves 10 be Inn
posed upon by ibis shallow ar,i6ce, and il they give heir
coun'ensnce TO tho modern "Whig" doctrine. that tie
STATE Legislatures horc NOTHING TO do Nth Senator'S.
except TO ELECT them, and hare no business 10 pre-
TEND 10 gre them insfrucfions,-i these TWO branches
Of modern "Whig' doctrine and tactics. be not secuted
anu pht down by the pc plry then g0od-bye TO our Con-
81 uiion. There will be no assigrable limit 10 the en-
croschmenis snd usurpsiions of the Senate; which. at
bfs, IL, by its constitution, the most irresponsible, and ma
surslly the most oigarchical known TO our country.
MIR. WEBsTER, and Mr.. TYLER, and the rest of The
action, rho but for The eonfen'pfuous disregard Of the
rshe OF instruction. hy many OF their number. would
have been :n a minority. and therefore, obliged 10 Keen
quiet, (et not this fact be lost sight OIL are welcome to the
name OF 'hM bg,' or any other they may think best suited
10 gull the people. Phe use Of IL, may, for a while, i'm
pose upon them; bat this saaast last long. In the end, IL
will only serve to afford another sroos hat The people NJ
not such fools as the Federals,s have always fancied.-
They have alreSfy discovered in most parts of our State,
as wen as IN the rest, that the "Wbigs,' or "Jefer son
wings OF ile present day, are in every essential par
ucnl"r The direct rersyse Of what their name would imply.
The use OF euch names, by men entertaining such princi-
pies, is a pniAble aticn pit al impesiurs, which will rrcoil
upon lhetn with a force proporiioned 10 the success IL may
aihrfthave met with. AN OLD DEMOCRAT.
'ExrRAcrs from Mr.. J.ferson's memoranda Of oc.
euIre"ees IN Gen. Washington's Cabinet, Vol. a. p.
"March l2h, 1892. Sent for by the Pr esiden,. and de.
sired to bring the letter he had signed to The King of
France. Went. He said The House Of Representatives
had, on Saturday, taken up lie communication he had
made Of the Kings letter 10 him, aud come 10 a vote in
their own name; that he did not expect this ~hen he sent
ms message ahd he letter, Otherwise, he would have sent
tins message without the letter. as Iho2 proposed That he
apprehended the Legislature DoxId be endearoYing 10
"'0dde me EIecuttpe. lie oppressed clearly,
ON this occasion, his Interpretation of Tie Legislature
f9eTItng mtngs 10 THE HEADS OF DEPARTMENrs."
"Same day, Ten o'clock, a. M.-The preceding was
aboat nine O'Clock. Tie President now sends Lear 10 me.
TO ask what answer he shall give 10 he committee, and
particularly, whether lie shall add 10 it, that in making
lhe communication, IL was not his expectation that the
House should give any answer. l told MIR. Lear, that 1
thought The House had a tight, independently Of IegisIa-
uon, 10 express sentiments on ether subjects. That when
olese SUBJECTS dd not belong to any other branch psrti-
culafiy, they would publish them Ivy their own authority:
lna' IN ihe present case, which respected a foreign nation,
the President being the organ of our nation with other ma
tons, the House would satisfy their duty, il, instead of a
direct communicating, hey should pass their sentimen,s
'hIongh the ffesideni: tiatit expressing a sentiment toere
really an invasion OF the Executive power, il was so faint
q one, that II would be difficult TO demonstrate IA 10 the
public, and TO "a public partial 10 the French Revolution.
aud lot disposed 10 consider the appreciation OF ii from anv
quarter as Improper. That The SENATE, indeed, had pire,,
MANY indications e their uDish 10 INVADE the Executive
Ppwer: The Representatives had done i in one case. which
was, indeed, 1isehiccOps and alarming; ihas OF giving or
ders-'o the heads of The Executive Departments, without
cohsn'tn g The PresIdeni; hut that The late vote Tor directing
the Secretary of The Tfedsuyu TO report WAYS and meas
though carried, was carried by so small a majority, and
WIN the AID OF members so notoriousIy under a local in
ihiehee on that qnesion, as TO give a hope hat the prac-
fiee could be arrested. and the coNsr1TUrIoNAI.
enurse De taken up, Of 0shing THE PRESIDENT to HAyE
information laid before Them
"MaTch 3lst. A meeting AZ the Presidents: present
Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, II enry Knox, and
Edmund Randolph. The subject was The Resolution OF
point a committee 10 inquire into the causes OF the faiInre
OF the late expedition under ajor General ST. Clair, with
power 10 call Tor such persons, papers and records as NAV
DE necessary TO assist their inquiries. The committee had
written 10 KNOX (Secretary OF War) s'for the original
letters, instructions, &c. The President had called us 10
consult, merely because il was the first example, and he
wished that so far asst shouldbecome a precedent, il should
y nghuy conducted. Ne Cere not pre-
april z. Met again at the Presidents, on the same sub
lect' hehdd oil considered, and Icere Of ONE MIND.
FTsf, Fhatthe House was an inquest, and Therefore MIGHT
INSTITUTE inquiries. Second, That il might call for papers
generally. Third, That The Executive ought TO commu-
Dicsfe such papers as The public good would permit. and
ought to refuse those, The disclosure Of whict would iniure
TIE public; consequently were TO exercise a discretion.
Fnutfh, That NEITHER tAe committee NOR House had
a right to coll on THE HEAD OF A DEPARrMENT
'oho and chose papers tce,e under THE PRESIDENT
ALONE; but Ina The committee should ins,ruct their
Chairman TO move the House TO address THE PREsr-
DENT"
Here IS genuine Jeferson-syei and Washington doc
'rne. Compare 1t with The modern "Whig" principlesl