The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1805-06-18
FROM TIE AURORA.
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20 4.n ci1i2sNs OF yaz UNIFIED sgarEs.
LETTER. Tar EIcmru.

20 7.E ci1i@cNs or THE UNIFIED sg4-Es.
LErrEs TAR EIGHru.
n Much has leen fad, aud much remains be faid,
Spf siat uueicriJed and undesirable rafting called
federaiiiln II is word without anitaning, and de-
f6gna,es faSion that has no principles AK an
who calls hirnfef fcderai VIVA, federalfn is and
he cannot tell YOU AK him, what are It's pr.nci-
ples and he has none to give. Federaii, them with
fcfPee to government Is iirnar athciim with ref
se6tto rely ion, nothing without principles. The
deral papers Especially thoie Of New. England have
iten faid, that religion and tcar,aifs nE9 ga toge
Per-. But if their religion is related to their federal
Tim; If it is dciti,ut@ of morals their fedec.in
rs Of principles and fear it IS it will do them no
good in this world the next. It viii condemn
them as impodors and hypoerites in both. Tho.e
who once figured as leaders under the a!iumed and
fraudulent name of fe.A,a!Gr, (but who are hnre
gone, net into honorable and peaceable Refinement
like Js6n D:skrjen and Charles TLOnejon,' but into
obicurty and oblivion, like John Adams and John
NJay) had fole plan. i'll CONTENT ation which they con-
cealed from their deiuded aheren:s but ,hoie plans
lcan be diieoverei through the gauzy, bu, eiun'iy
veil of condu9 tho.e leaders adopted. No eoOe' IL
large enough 10 hide iiG" isys the paniih proverb
Ii requires more artiiice and management to dbl
guile and conceaFiailer deigns than ieheners
ware os A turns rogue but he tnfns 4
fool. He incau,;ouily e,s iomething by which
thoe he intended to CHEAT impoie upon begin 70
4 Eadbim orr. Whereas truth is Graight forward
thing ignorant man VIII not bulIdsT III true
fnry--nor artfui man keep tahe Rory
hrsight. "~
But thofe leaders, fuppoGpg themielves in higher
petition than what common obiervaton would reach,
preiumcd, their fappoied conequence and the en-
peeted creduity of their adherents impole on the
nation by canorous aud fafe pretenccs, for the pur
e OF rating funding army Of fifty thouiand men;
and when they had got that army, the maxi woald
have been thrown off, and their deluded adherents
would have paid the price Of their duplcity by being
enilaved.
But il the midi Of hi! career Of deluon and i'm
petition, tho.e leaders became fools. They did every
sLing they ought TO have done. They advocated
plans which fhewed that their intention and their
cauie were not good-'They labored to provoke
war They Sppofed every thing which led to peace.
They loaded Tie country with vexatious and urnece
fairy taxes, and then oppofed the reduction OF them
They oPpoied Reduction of uieels Offices that ierv-
ed no ot.ier purpofe than maintain their par
tzans the expenie fthe public In ihort, they
thsnileivcs ground, frt, by their extravaganza, y
nertby their folly Blinded by their vanity, and
though bewldered i'll the wilderness of their own
rroje6ts they tooihly fuppofed above de-
'teetion They had neither lenfe enough to know,
logic enough perceive, that can reaion
upward from cauie to etTect, 70 ALTO reafon
~ownward from eifea caufe, and drfcover, by the
they make ufe of, the motives and object of
ny party (; for when the means bad, the motive
and the end 10 b. obtained caunot be good.
noher clue thai leads dilcovery Of their real cha
ratcrs When the caule and principles of parry
gee its advocates make uGe of re4i5a argument, and
gyea Llzraage 1ynt6 can derive advantage from
boifferoas g'n ya,y But whea the motives and prn-
ciples ola party 54&, it is neceary lOneaI !6s~
and its abetors haynl frirHip they dhre moi 0+kAOz,
keAse and cInnot dsfH!, avoid every thing OF aygu-
.nsent, and take retnge in a6a't and JaJeboeA.
The federal papers initance Of the utneiS of
3 ,'i-4ir pages erouded w.h ahufe,
but never with argument; for they have no princi-
pies 20 argue from and falfehood it is become
II naturally their no5e, ioagee e!eca!ly in N. Eng
land, thar they eem have oit .he eszusr swell as
the AiGpgltioa of peaking thc tnb Thofe papers
have been OF great lii TO the republican caufe not
only by the addtonal digrace they have brought on
their dgracefal faction, but by lcrving as foil
TO et of, with greater eciat, the decency and well
p-incipisd arguments of the republican, papers. |
have had ione experience, perhaps as much as NOT
men have mad in he various turns of political life but
never Jaw create. ct Of fools undertake TO con-
duct party than the leaders Of the f-deralfs have
been and the editors Of their papers. They correi-
pond to the itory told Of aniau who become 70
proud aud famous for lying that he obtained foeaLig
trnth len he ihould loc his character.
Cannot thoie hupd people fee, or, according TO
Tome doGmas of their their hearts hardened
but they fhal fee thai tie more yu.ear ard abu-
live they are, the nore ground ihey loie ia the eir
NATION OF tie public Every election, Especially iii
NfdiHlS uOWIl, fbSy Will
be lott even Iattioi, and MaiIachuetts and Con-
nscticut viii recover their former character Every
thing this faeion does h.hSns IT'S exit. The abniive
vulsarity OF Hubert, petty Jogging attorney OF
Sheffield, in MaAachu!etts, and one of its Legislators
has contributed bring forward the funeral. In his
late unPrncpled fpcech in The legislature of that Rate,
he has driven another nail i'll the coffin of .he federal
faaion, and leave it TO the MezU-Enelnd Palladium
10 clinchi ]. is paper worthy of being the buf-
foon Of fuch faction and Of fuch hypocrtica in
poaor.-Thus much for Inc clar4.ier Of parties and
the method Of afcstiain.g their motives and obeas
Ino@ proceed 10 other matters
VIXEN returned to America in November 1902,
(afte abIence OF more than fourteen years. found
the country in i itase Of diiqGietuje. The people
were divided into cllaes, under the nsuesof re-
pu6eJas nd isyah', and in point of Numbers appear
ed TO be nearly balanced The Republicans were che
majority in cohgrels, and all the administration were
OF that deicroGon; but they were aIailed with out
rageous abue in the federal papers, but never by
argument am enough aeqnain ted with life and tine
world to know that ab4f j. the evidence of zp1af Of
argument and that tlofs who ufe it, have not right on
their foe. There dIgnifsd calmnefs in CONTIGUOUS
recttude, which defends moi abufe. It can raa-
lon but II c2naot rage. Is quit the ilrong for
treis Of re4sle 10 k;.i.ifh il tic f.lds Of vdlga
riiy.
u gsy no. difficult to pereeiye tIat this divion
and agitation arce from yIue reD,fis ipfesd r;na-