The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1805-10-01
COMMUNICATIONS, 10 THE EDITOR.

| In your paper fome time fince, faw para
graph which feemed to me to have rather a
frownIng afpect on men born in other countries
You think that too much of our literary labours
| is IN the hands of thefe men. 1t is a fortunate
cIrcumitance for America, that fcience and
knowledge cannot be monopoliZed, and that
the nativesof this country may perfect themfelves
IN learning as foon as they pIeaie. The people
| OF America have done much i'm that way for
the time, but they have yet much TO do, and
doubt not they will make as rapid advances in
literary, as they have done in political fcience.
There are three forts Of people who come
here from the Britilh dominions, viz. Rr ylill,
Scotch, and Itih. Of the two firR, at leaft S
out of 90, are decided enemies of your country
and government, and who either openly or CO.
verify, would DO every thing i'm their power to
overturn your prefent political fylems. Altho'
7. Porcupine is gone, yet have no doubt there
are other perlons in his way, either in the actual
pay of the Bri.ifh miniftry, or who have fuch
expectations, who are labouring all they can to
dhgrace, to embarrafs, and to overturn your re-
publican fyftem of government.
or the 1riih, ! out of 90, or perhaps fill
greater proportion of them, are warm and de-
termned friends of republican America; and
| although they fometimes fllow their zeal in ra-
Their too bo'fterous way, yet, methr ka, their
intentions fhoud be an execute for their intern.
perance.
Another diftinttion ought to be made Thofe
eT1fgrants who came to thefe ltates before the
year 1900 or '93, were generally perfon of the
lowell grades, who came here merely for gain
IN whatever manner, or by whatever means they
could obtain it. Since that period, number
OF men of learning and fcience, and certainly
men of principle, who had feen better DAYS,
have foriaken their native countries To- partic.
pate of American liberty. Such men, prelume,
ihould be treated with refpett and kindnefs.-
TO my knowledge, many of them are uniform
friends to- your prefent government, and have
made great facrhces in order to fhare in its
biefiings. Theie men, by experience, can and
do appreciate the juit and inehimabie value of
liberty, becaute they have either feen or felt the
pain and penalties of defpotic power.
But did not take up the pen merely to write
on this fubieft, or to quarrel with your opinion
it was TO make fome obfrvations on the pro.
pnetY. or rather the neceiity of eftabliihnC
well-conduaed annual RcgiRer.
think it would require three Certainly twol
perfons to- arrange and put in fit order the prin-
cipal parts of A respectable Annual Reginer, 70
as TO deierve public appreciation, and proper to
keep place in gentleman's library--one for
the hiforcal, one for the congregational, and a.
mother for the literary department--belides an
editor, or overfeer, Of the printing-ofTice, with
more tate and leifure than fall genera ~ to the
lot Of common printers. An thofe men ought
to be pertons Of very general knowledge, aud
cool discriminating judgment. When fpcak
OF fuch work, ! have my eve on thrt excellent
compilation, the nE5v Annual Regifer publiihcd
III London.