The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1804-08-22

oIE DC adopted IL IS NOT dithCuit 10 determine.
There is one Etuatior indeed, in which il mas
be the intereh of the bank to advance it's money
TO the farmer, upon iuch fecurity. Il is in a
country, where individuals have acquired 10
much wealth, that they are willing TO depoG;
their money in bank for long time for little or
no interet. Ailifted by thefe new rerlurces,
the banks may ffely lend out their notes. for
long time, until the farmers crops come in.-
This practice q am told) is purified in the banks
of Scotland. A long time will however elapie,
before it is introduced into our own country,
where fuch high profits are to be made by ind-
vidualS on their own capitals. In fich Il country
then as ours, it can icarcely be the nteret of the
bank to lend its notes upon any other fecurity
than private notes, or bills of exchange granted
by good endorfers, or upon fome dcpolit which
is equally certain in its 4i,r and n7ertible into
m,0ney at equally Borf periods. Cannot the
banks contribute to the agricultural interef by-
procefS of this kind
How far did The French alIgnats ifued during the
revolution, differ from theie imaginary notes?
ITO be concluded in our next.
On the important fubie6t of the Yazoo lands,
we this day preftnt to our readers the ingenious
fpeech of MIR. John Randolph, ijuit publifhed in
the National lntelligencer. Although we fllall
not rcpubliih the whole of this debate, we ihal
not omit the mott important ipeeches delivered
on that location. Above all, we fhall feize with
.pleafure, the opportunity of giving to the world
the highly celebrated fpeech of MIR. Thomas
Randolph.
A late writer in the Petersburg Republican
challenges any one to produce Jingle inftance
of continued madnefs occaioned by the rei-
gious enthuGafm of Camp Meeting. Accident
has thrown one of thofe melancholy victims in
my way, and the imprellion which he made up
onme at the time, will not foon be expunged
from the records of my memory.
About two weeks ago l was fitting in my
room, which looks into the main ftreet of Rich
mond, engaged in conversation or in reading,
when wild and dit1onant voice arreited my at
tention. Its firlt tones refembled the fhouts of
a drunkard, who had not recovered from his lalt
nights debauch, or who had hatened thus car
ly in the morning to drown and brutalize his
ienfes by Incorporate libations. was miftaken
only wanted fecond ihout to make ME fuf-
poet, that it was the voice of man, who had
loft his ienfes perhaps forever, which now truck
upon my ear. My enquiries of thofe who were
well acquainted with his hiitory, foon confirm
led my fufpicions. He was in truth a milerable
maniac the fufering victim of religious fanati-
cifm.
He had been reGdent of the county of Am
ordinary cat, he had become acceflible to all the
hopes and fears, the ftupid furPrife and the &C.
ftatic rapture, which it is often in the power of
hyperion cunning, or genius, fuppofed in
fpiration to excite, when af1ifted by religious
doctrines. A very irregular courfe of life, by
leading him from the pure enioynents of his
own tamil! and home, purfut OF fictitious
and incorporate pleaiures; and by bringing
down upon him his own reproaches and the diff
hot, nf ,r,l,I
attuned his mind to the reception of thefe i'm
Prciiions. His iniulted confidence needed only
the powerful voice of fome enraptured enthufi-
ait to awaken it from its torpor; and when once
excited, there was only wanting a rapid and
glowing Description of the pains and pleafures of
future world, to drive him into madnefs.-
i hat voice at length was heard. Some time
laft Aprh, he was attracted to one of thofe camp
meetings which religious enthufiafm has col
leeted In almot every part of the fate, :. which,
IKE the magic fpells of Proipero, have tran
authenticated the very nature of humanity,
changing the Sinner into Saint, the groveling
Hog into the immaculate Sheep" 1t
was at one OF thoie meetings in his own county,
| over which Seth Mead, the companion and the
Jealous fellow-labourer OF the far-faned Loren
20 Dow, 70 fuccefsfllIy preided. The weak
nerves of this man were unable to withhand a
ihock 10 violent and 70 frequently repeated. The
VoICS Oi SOQ leeneQ 10 echo eternal damnatiOn
IN his ears. He fell to the earth, and for time
lntenfbility feemed to relieve his fufferings. 1T
the end oftwo or three hours he returned TO the
light of day: but not to tine light of reafon.-
HIS poor "crazy wits" had fed, perhaps fore
yer. His wife and children had become the OBJ.
Jects OF his abomnaton and rage. Every exer-
ton was ufed in vain to refufcitate his bewil-
dered intellect; and it was on his way to the
Mad-IIouie in Williamsburg, that firlt became
acquainted with the fmple hiftory & the meIan-
| choly fate of poor Robertfon.
! Yet this man is not the only example of the
penetrating influence of thefe camp-lneetpgs,
which has come within the circle of my infor-
nation. / could mention two or three from the
county of Bedford, who poiieliing hyperion en-
dowments have yet been unfortunate enough TO
ihare Gmilar fate.-Before | lay down
the pen, let me remind my reader that pro-
| bhbiy the nneit picture which has ever been
drawn of great mind bewidered by religious
nddnefs, is to be feen in the American Romance
of Wieland.
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Immediately after entering his pulpit without
ceremony, prayer, the ulua addref5 TO the throne
OF grace, he began his dlcoure in a very abrupt man
uer by obervng, that he took his text from which he
propoled to deliver his dlcourle not as otIier
cheers generally did, from the bible, but from EIGHT
letters of the alphabet that he hould divide his f,
ject into two partsthe F part, being well adapt
ed to people OF this place, was tie three lerters H. @
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