The Enquirer

New Federal Creed. The late letters of Mr. Adams have wrought the most extraordinary effects upon the Federalists. The bitterest denunciations are now lavished upon him from all quarters. It is no longer the immediate partizans of Alexander Hamilton or of Timothy Pickering that proscribe, but every man of them has a blow at him. "He is the vainest man on earth," cries one-"he is the most capricious," responds another-"he is the most passionate," shouts a fourth-"he is a mere Dotard," is the chorus of the whole. And why these resentments? Because Mr. Adams is now vindicating the rights of our seamen--protesting against the project of "unfurling the Republican banners against the Imperial standard"—& exposing those tricks and efforts which were used in 1799 to drive us into a war with France. This however is not the whole joke-The Federalists are not only denouncing Mr. Adams himself, but discarding the whole policy of his administration--It is a "sentiment" cries Mr. Coleman, once the great field Marshal under the banners of Mr. Hamilton, "it is one, which I think ought to be held by the party to which I have the honour to belong, on this and all FUTURE occasions. The Federalists now restored by the people to power are to be considered the Federalists of the true Washington school of 1796-.not those of his successor of 1799." Now what makes the jest infinitely better is that these were the very men, who aided and abetted, and advised those very measures, which have so suddenly become obnoxious to them. Who were the supporters of the Alien law? The Federalists? The Sedition law? The same. The 8 per cent loans? The Federalists. They had certainly as much agency in all these measures, as the "decrepid Dotard," whom they are now so elegantly denouncing. No, no, gentlemen, these tricks will not answer. If you are honestly and sincerely convinced of the impropriety of these measures, come out honestly and confess your sins. The republicans are not so unforgiving as to reject the manly and sincere proselytes to their faith. But if you are not disposed for repentance, at least do not expect to deceive the people-nor be so deficient in generosity or common sense as to attempt to buckkle all your own sins upon the back of another. At least, be frank enough to say, how much of this policy you have abjured, or whether you have abjured it en masse—Or was it the very wisest measure of Adams's whole administration, the making of peace with France when she was honestly disposed for it, that has stirred up all these resentments against him?

The Message of the P.U. S. is this day submitted to our readers. They will see that there is nothing in it about any new overtures coming from the French government. This Communication will have one effect at least. We shall hear no more of Mr. Madison's having abjured the course of his predecessor. Those illusive hopes which the Federalists have pretended to form, of his "change of sides," are gone. Those idle attempts to sow a breach between him and Mr. J.-and to excite against him the worst suspicions of his best friends, are "dissipated into thin air!" What a most ridiculous figure do these gentlemen now exhibit to the eye of the public! It was a good piece of advice, that a sly old mouser gave to his brethren in the Boston Centinel, when he warned them not to be so very lavish of their praises--that perhaps Mr. M. was not as much changed as they expected-and if he was not, in how very awkward a light would all these precipitate praises upon an enemy expose them! But it was all in vain-away they went, plunging and floundering, and crying up the new President to the skies. "He was sure to turn his back upon the sage of Monticello; he, a very Messiah upon Earth, was about to bring a new light amongst us--going to undo all that had been done-& the adjustment with G. B. was a conclusive proof of his conversion."-But how do these gentlemen feel now? How will they relish it? Really it would not seem very extraordinary to us, if these very persons were now to fly to the only ground which is left to them—and have effrontery enough to charge Mr. Madison with apostasy towards his new friends, in having dissipated the ingenious expectations, which they have been ridiculous enough to form for themselves. In this communication there are two passages, which these men will not easily forgive-1st. his assertion that G. Britain had abandoned the ground which she had taken—and 2. his identifying his measures as to that power with those of Mr. J.-when he refers to "the proposal heretofore made on "the part of the United States, as having "embraced a like restoration of the suspend- "ed commerce," and, "as a proof of the spirit of accommodation which has at no "time been intermitted," and when he appeals to the "result as corroborating." (prov- ing the wisdom of) those "principles, by which the public councils have been guided, during a period of the most trying embarrass- ments." Considering the share which Mr. Madison himself has had in those councils, he could scarcely have said more.