The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1806-11-28
" With daring and undazzled eyes ;

With daring and undazzled eyes;
Not Ike fparrow, on a chimney hopping,
His head in every hole and corner popping,
For eies."
| Mr. Paine ufrd to boat, that he never would
svriie bimjeLf dozvn. But if Mr.. Paine perfr-
| veres IN expanding his fine genius upon man,
from whom though Brit.h Emifary no dan-
ger is to be apprehended, it is impoiiibe but
his pen mutt lofe fome of it's diitinguilhed inn
portancc.
| Another reflection is as to the Em-ee of this
| ludicrous emulation. To what a detected Fate
| NUT the FederaliGs be reduced when fuch 4
trilling fuccefs is productive of fuch ex,rava-
CANT rapture The republicans can fpare the
crHrd influence of New-York, and vet not feel
the lois. The man who owns a PLAN, will
fcarcely complain ofthe lofs of a cent: while
the gaining of it may throw the humble owner
OF dollar into raptures.---The Peoples Friend,
and the Evening Pof Dc but betray the qveok-
ness of their party, when they d;fplay iich I'M
manlyJoy at fuch triking fuccelies.
The Spanifh nvaiion of Lou;Faua and the
late rumoured attempt To difincmber the xvef-
tern from the Eatern fiates will. no doubt, in
wife the attention of Conereis to the prefent po-
pulatioD OF Louifiana. TXo facts will tronply
preient themfelves to their notice.
The hrt is, that this part of the United
States is the weaket, which ought in fact to be
the ftronget.
The fecond is, that the population of thi,
country, limited as it is, fill contains many in
hab'tants, who though not pofitivcly difaffe6ted
towards our government, have not that cordial a.
tachment, which would bind them to il in all its
difficulties. Some of the French inhabitants, it is
true, are laid To have lately manifeted almoft as
much anxiety to march aganft the Spaniards as
the Americans themielves. 1t is with pride tina.
we acknowledge an attachment 70 honorable
to thcmielveS and TO the prefent adminifra-
ton. Bat Gill this zeal cannot have been as
general or 70 unfhaken, as a longer experience
| of the benefits of our government will make it.
| The Spaniih and the French inhabitants have
been too long ufed to different form of govern
ment from their prefent one they as yet under
! itand too little ofthe advantages of repreien.
tative contribution; to acquire the fame attach
ment towards il, which twenty odd wears
have poured into NOT OF our boioms.
| Isitnotthenthe duty of Congrefsto adopt fome
plan, which may ncrcafc the military force of
the Orleans territory, and pour more of the
true American fpirit into its population? How
far would the propotition nscri6ed to the pre-
hdent promote thefe tzvo objects the allowing
ofa ertain number of acres to every fttter, who
would accept it on the condition of perform
ing military fcrvice for certain number of
| years?
The Editor of {" The Virginia Gazetten
has mott properly refufed publication to the
ftricure of " A Republican Citizen,'' on an
article which was lately publiihed in this paper,
relative to the judicial conduct of Greed Tavlor,
Etq. II is impoiiible therefore for the Editor
OF the Enquirer to know what are the obe6fi-
ons advanced by this Critic: it is impofible
i io AIM 10 conjecture.
| He owes it to Mr.. Taylor and 10 himfelf
however to declare, that whatever be the me-
rts or dement's of this article they exclulively
belong to himfelf; that Mr.. Taylor was as
ignorant as the Republican Citizen" himfelf,
of its contents, beforeit appeared in the Enu
that it is therefore extremely unuft TO attribute
the conception, the competition, the writing,
printing FULFILLING of that article, in the
ilightef degree, to Mr.. Taylor Sand that if the
higheft or the nghtef degree of cenfiire be due
to that article, the Editor OF this paper diff
dams to efcapc it.
| He hopes never to buill at avowing the mo-
def etfufons of his judgment, on fabieGf
which he deems important TO the community.
1t is right which, as citizen, he will ALWAYS
dare TO cXerciie, & from which he is not TO be de-
TERED by all the criticifms of avowed or anony
nous authors. IF this b. defervipg of the cri-
ticifms of " The Republican Citizen" he is
proud to have deferved them.
The Congress of the u States and the Legif-
lature of Virginia, will each of them meet on
Monday next.
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