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! -a REPUBLICAN EXTRA. FRIDAY, AUGUST 9, 1811. Ft en the National Intelligencer. ||f , RF.V1KW OF ROBERT SMITH'S ADDRESS, 7',) the People. (Continued.) We will begin wilh a notice of its prinrifi/e, the ;n - oss immoralitv of com- ing before the world with such a pub- lication. It is not possible thilt Rob- ert Smith, or any other man, howev- er coarse and clumsy the texture of his mind mav be, should not perceive tine shock that must be given to pub- lic morals, the stab into the vitals of tarics. It is n breach of the most sa- cred lies of honor and of trust, it de- molishes ;!ie whole fabric of constitu- ted authorities on which the nation h;id relied as a means of aiding its Chief Magistrate in managing its high concerns in their vast vukiy of de- Mils. If then his ministers have a right to publish his s«'( rc;s. the conse- quence is. he can trust them no longer. two places. The interests of (he U- nited Statesat St. Pi tersbutgh, though important in their commercial amount lire very simple m their management; and this may be chiefly done bv in- Mi'uetions from home. The President may have had good reasons for send- ing him into the Gulf of Finland, wi; It- out to I tufhf dutinct civs in w !ii< h /.•• V>.TM that he and the ptCMciru; difl-<il u opinion. Tin-, is thr riist tune, \\c h id almost said, we ever Ir'.ird th it Mr. Smith chili ii d in opinion with anybody. I'm ur will follow him in his twelve <\IM••.. .lit. 1st. The 1 tier to Mr. F.rskine , mibt c | o so n ,, K -t, () |the ik him- the self as his fu'tiiues wi.! arl.mt, and rest must be left uud -nc. But Robert .Smith has asserted thh nsa right, and has acted upon it in a money than the amount of hi^ salary * Inch we are informed an American ininiMer ;t St. Peltrsburgh must do, as it is said to be impossible for a executive government, the violation mi ^ t licentious manner in the pam- f mily to live there in the stile that of one of the essential provisions of ph| c t now IK f..re us. His conduct is the usages of that court require, on the federal constitution, nec-ssarily a breach of oflirv.d and pi is mal coi.fi- the compensation allowed by the A- >a\ ing any cxiiaodimiry homage of August Irt()y, which h. has giicu s talent 1 *, Mr. Smith is a man of us m c.rfrn.\o, is the first e INC. stated me, and can afford to spend n.ore by Mr. Smith, lie does not inform us what is the infru nee he means we should draw from this arliele of M* exposition, lie vivs that Mr. M.uli- son was displeased at this Utter, and that we the people should h.ive no difficulty i>i discovering the can r • f . . , . ptisinalcoi.fi- tne compensation allowed by the A- it. Really this is pa\ ing too h:gh a involved in the ptinciple of publish- deuce, as much more criminal than mericun government to its ministers compliment to our discernment. We inp; the secrets of the cabinet. The common peij.in as a breach of parole, alroadw cannot discover this CUIIM-.* We question here is not whether his stue- in a prisoner of war, is worse than It is not COM-for us to know what thought ourselves pretty good divers j inents are true or false, nor do we en- breaking prison. And what is stiffi- the president's motives might be for but this is going too deep\for us ; lie quire whether they are important or ciently singular he has committed this this oft red nomination. They might camiot follow Mr. Smith in this leaden unimportant; but can such statements crime for the express purpose of prov- be various ; some ol them m,\iy have plunge. There is, ho\r»vcr, one so- be made without a crime? Should ing to his fellow eitiz us '.hat he is a escaped our penetration, but our rea- lutiou of the difficulty sufficientlyob- they be made by a clerk in the same I1um of'aientsand worthy ( f his place. dir>, and Mr. Smith's readers too, vious ; it is that there was no cause ; office of state, )t would be perjury ; u ow unlucky for him that it proves will surely ascribe it to any thing else and as in our logic an effect docs not such clerks being under an oath of se- ,i, e reverse, of his own proposition ! rather than a confidence in his capaci- exist without a cause, we conclude bv crecy. lint the head of the depart- But we will cheek the expression of ty and fidelity equal to the manage- denying that Mr. Madison ever was ment, the Secretary, whose very title, our regr< t on the generd character of liient of the Department of State. displeased with that letter. There is signifies depository of secrets, is sun- fhe transaction while we examine the U it why should Mr. Smith in his not the least proof of it existing out posed to be bound in honor. And hire rnal merits of the p Miipl.l, t and printed book deny what is known to of the Cabinet; ai.d since we have civilized society went on from its rO mpare its statements wi'h what is so many people, tiiut he a( first elector- undertaken to scrutinize the state- commencement to the days of Robert known to persons out of office, or is ed his intention of accepting the ap- ments of Mr. Smiih, we must in- Smith, before that tie, in so exalted a easily collected from ihe broad surface poiutm nt to Russia, and was vain of form him once for all that when he station, was found to be insuthcient of, ircumstances open to e\ery eve. it? Whv attempt to disguise the asserts a thing that is improbable in How precious is the advantage ol a W ( will not dwell on tne insidious reasons of his afterwards declining the itself, we shall require some proof be- free press, how august the tribunal of conduct of its author in confining his tv.i.sion? It was said at the time, sides his assertion. This rule is par. public opinion ! Here is a crime that attacks as much as possible to things but we do not guarantee the truth of ticularly reason ,ble, when his asser- ^nes and halters will not reach ; not knonn only to the person whose offi- the report, that his friends dissuaded tions arc intended to criminate a ner- because it is too small, but because it ci%l , station absolutely prohibits a re- him from it, on the belief that he son who cannot answer for himself, is too great; it:islike parricide escap- p | y . ue shall waste no time in none- Mould not pass the Senate. We do and against whom Mr. Smilh, accord- ing the code ot 5»..lon; thelaw has mg what must be obvious to the reufi- not imagine however that his vanity ing to his own confession, had a great not providedI for it.. What then, Mr. erin almost every page, a long pre- would admrt this as a motive; the store of vengcanee in his vials. Smith is to hinder your example from meditated design to vu.t his malice more probable cause may be that he 2d. MaCon's Bills. He labors to being followed by your successors m O n his benefactor in this way whent-v. ea'culated oh joining the enemies of produce a great effect from a pretend- the occasion should occur. He the present administration; and, at ed difference of opinion on the subject office? I will tell you ; your exam- ples itself will hinder it, and the indig- nation of your councry which must now attend you, until ypu will consent to be forgotten. Thus it cannot be said you will have lived in vain. The defects in p ; , p seems to have been two years collect- the next presidential election, working of these bills. He says they were ing-weapons to fight this Paithun himself into a higher station than he fastened on Mr. A (neon by a certain battle, and hurl hapk his arrows in re- did at the last. We needed not the management. It is well known to treat. But it will be lik' 1 hurling them publication of his pamphlet to enable those who read newspapers that they at the sun in the Zenith; they will us to understand this projest. The were shifted from Mr.* Macon and not reach the effulgent object \of his parties concerned and the manner in fastened on Mr. Gullatin, fora certain human laws have usually been owing hate, but, returning mrthwurd from which they hate distributed :hc char- purpose. Here they remained for a- tp some defect in the knowledge of their feeble flight, fall on their owner's acters for \the new administration are bout a year and a half, constantly kept human depravity. Your publication head. distinctly known ; and it is evident in agitation by one or two of Mr. will have contributed to enlarge the In the delirium of hrs desire to'\how that this machinery could not be so Smith's newspapers; till, Unlke the sphere of such knowledge; and the usthePresideni'stfpinionof histaknfs well put in motion from the bottom guttasxpe cadendo, they,were lound method you have taken to injure your he lays great stress upon the offered cf the Guph of Finland as he thought not to wear into that rock, as was in- benefactor will have rendered a real mission\ to Russia; He would hive it could from Baltimore. tended; and now Mr. Smith, fora made a much better thing of this if he Mr. Smith begins his pamphlet certain other purpose, has shifted he | lac j adhered to truth in his relation with a very singular mistake. He them again, and laid them on Mr. jg y of the facts. We cannot know whot says he owes the people an exposition Madison. principle of divulging the secrets of really past inthit private interview of the circumstances which produced But before they are shifted a third the cabinet, we ought to reflect on the between Mr. Smidi and the Pnsident, his resignation of the department of time let us take a look at those bills* consequences to which it must lead, since we have only Mr. Smith to tell state. It is not impossible that a man It is time they were viewed in their Th ii f h Ui S us; but we know what afterwards of a delicate sense of obligation and true light. Let ir be recollected that past between Mr. Smith and other not accurate in his accounts should the non-intercourse law which had people. Oncoming out from the think he owes a d'bt, that he really been enacted to oppose belligerent e- Pid h k h if does not ad e re ilid diets w t i ih h i f y j y benefactor will have rendered a real service, if not to him, at least to the government he administers. But ro judge of the atrocity oftha iil f dili h cq The constitution of the United States has vested the supreme executive power in the hands of one man, called pp g y pp g President of the United States, and President's house we know he inform- does not owe ; and we are inclined to diets was to expire with the session of it has concentrated all the responsibil- ed the clerks in his office, and some believe th.it this is such a ease. We congress before the last. The q^'es- ity in him. The laws have distribute other persons too, that he was goinj; cannot thr k the people had any legal tion'was whether complete subrnis- cd the labor of the administration iato minister to Russia ; and lie did this claim on that gentleman for this ex- sion should ensue, contrary to the al- sev(*ral departments, over each of with apparent pride and satisfaction, position, even if it had been a true one. n>ost unanimous determination of which they have placed a chief, On the same day h-_* handed a. note to But certainly they had no right to such congress, and the sentiment of the ni- called Secretary or keeper of secrets, the editor of the N ttional Intelligen- a one as this ; and now, as a portion tion, which submission would give tn —The President nominates these cer an-louncmg his nomination ; and of that same people to whom he has the power commanding the sea the jSccretaiics, and removes them at another note soon after appeared in given it, we have undertaken tores- commercial rccolonization of these; pleasure; he assembles them in his the same paper magnifying die im- to e it entire to the said Robert Smith, states, and it would give her morc- cabinet for consultation, or he consults portance of this mission, declaring it We will count it out in full talc, piece over a motive of interest to perpetu- thein separately ; - he obtains their o- to be \ the most honorable appoint- by piece, just as he paid it in. And ate her orders in council; or whether j.ijiions ei'.htr in conversation or in ment abroad that is in tile gift of our after detecting his false coins, his dipt a substitute, and what substitute, writing; he adopts or rejects them at government;\ a mere editorial decla- guineas and sweated eagles with should be provided. For it was evt- pk-asure ; for it must not be forgotten ration, whijh is now ridiculously at- which he has paid the debt he did not dent that the non-intercourse vyjuld that he alone is responsible for the acts tribted to Mr. Madi-on. This arti- owe, we will reverse the account cur- not be re-enacted, of the Executive ; he alone is the ex- fice is really tcv little to laugh at; and rent, audit the articles and compare In this state of things the first of ecutive. Now consultation supposes such a childish rattle-box might safe- his vouchers. We will expose his these bills was introduced. It was discussion, doubt, different points of ly be left in the hand of Mr. Smith, if \ exposition ;\ and though he has certainly good as far as it went ; it \ Jew, various degrees of information, the same hand did not likewise hold signed the account without the usual did not preclude the adoption of «ny change of opinion, existence of error a dagger. reserve of errors excepted, we will further regulations of a commercial and search after truth. All this pro- And because Mr. Midison was still grant him the privilege to take it nature that should be more vigorous ; cess is ror.fideutal between him and willing to send him to Russia, does all back and say no more about it. and it is well known that such were liis .Secretary ; and for any of these this prove him capable of conducting His great effort is to resolve the in contemplation by many, as far as heads of departments to divulge these the Department of State? In our president's dissatisfaction with him should be found attainable. But that iHscnssions, without the consent of ihe apprehension there is no comparison into oilier causes than his own inca- nothing farther was really attainable President, is ceasing to be his .Sccre.- in the requisite ^uaUfications lor these pacity. For this purpose he mentions is evident fruin the. form in which the
