Richmond Enquirer

THE AURORA.

The election for governor in Pennsylvania had scarcely ceased, before Duane organized an opposition to the electoral ticket, friendly to Monroe and Tompkins, and volunteered in a public meeting, to denounce the executive and his friends, as traitors to the liberties of their country. The defeat of such objects, while it evinces the discernment of the people, does not release the instigator from the infamy of the attempt. Had Monroe and Tompkins been traitors, the people would have discovered it without the interference of Duane, and the disgraceful issue of the Clintonian ticket, which in some counties only received 11 votes, when the Monroe ticket received 2500, will show the enviable standing of that statesman in Pennsylvania.

I have something, however, of more importance for the attention of Col. Duane, at present. His career has hitherto been unchecked; it is time that it should be brought to a close, and the patriot exhibited in his naked deformity.

A few months ago, I stated without coming to particulars, that Duane was in the market, or in other words, that he had offered himself for sale to that very administration, which he was in the daily habit of villifying in the most disgusting and false manner.

Duane republished the article to put it on file, and accompanied it with a threat, that the parties concerned dare not descend to particulars. Without further prelude, I put the following questions to him, and let his readers and himself consider them attentively.

1st. Did you not write two letters to a Senator of the United States, requesting him to lay them before the Secretary of State?

2d. Did you not, in these letters, enter into an examination of the state of society in Venezuela, comparing it as inferior to that of the inhabitants of India?

3d. Did you not state your opinion of the mode in which, owing to their ignorance and superstition, they ought to be governed?

4th. Did you not hold out the idea that you were the best calculated to aid the authorities there in the government of their degraded population, owing to your having been educated by (or as) a Roman Priest?

5th. Did you not, on such considerations, solicit the appointment of Minister from Government of the United States?

6th. Did you not at the same time ask, that there should be ceded to you 10,000 stand of arms, at $6 each, which you could sell to the Patriots at a much higher price, and thus relieve yourself from your pecuniary embarrassment?

7th. Did you not point out the way this could be done, without creating any suspicions or enquiries as to its correctness, by stating that such arms were of different and various calibres, and not used in the army of the United States?

8th. Finally. Did you not state that, on the general administration coming into your views and granting what you thus asked, you would cease your opposition and support the present administration: but on the contrary if refused did you not threaten to come out with renewed hostility, open your batteries against them and batter them down?

I put these questions direct to Col. Duane, and demand an unequivocal answer to each of them. Silence on his part will be taken as a full admission. Republishing them in the Aurora, without satisfactory explanations will be considered as prevarication. Yes or no must be the reply, and he shall hear further from me.

[N Y Nat. Adv.