The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1806-12-18

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You agree that yorr y,rdcrn,rt,;-,- il hut
a'a.iowa and that this is the .eaior wi1y voi.
have been piundered, kicked, S,hooted out al 10.
ciety from time immcvorial; bit you vll ne;
reiort to any mode of improving il. You are
forever bawiing, that knowledge is the food
by which alone you can live and yet, like tire
Engh.hman who ftarvcd himftlf with fortune
OF half million, you will not expend penny
| to purchaie fuitenance.
The meridian of Virginia ia fo genial TO vour
nature, as to have been called your hot bed' in
| which ycu have been Laundering forthrty years,
exc'almlrg " am = fon', am a fanl. want
kpow'edGe, al peri!hiuc through iEuorarcc''
and nothing - f,'vc your i;fc, with the power
OF doing every thing.
Initcad of following, you immediate regularly
the a'vicc of your bef councillors, upon the
affairs or metaphysics, fun or plcafartry, as
| heard you the other day difDofe of the cor
temporary recommendations of your own huff
band, and 4 faverite child. Envviugiv, fad
you, a" if my huiband thought me a fliv wo-
" man, he would not now and then pop into
" my family fpruce and artful fellows, difpor-
ed to dehauch me Especially as he knows,
that whatever may be my talents, / am ca
i" pablo OF being worked up INTO humours
Z" which expofe ne TO frailty."
Madam Democracy whifpered one of
thefe debauchees to another though much OF
buy fnRenance for herfelf, but fhe will often
Z" iuhmit TO be pilfered by her fervants for the
=" lake OF brides out of her own money, for
wInkng upon their practices againtt her own
rights. AS niGcrIy or meritricious, Che mutt
PERTH or be frduced.''
But am of.a different opinion. Your head,
madam, is not like other heads. It is formed Of
multitude of ditina fenforiums, collecting
ana conveying intelligence TO diltin6t minds.
1t simpofible TO inform equally this mmenfc
congeres OF ienioriams and minds but by in
forming and distributing confederate number
throughout the mafs, they will enIighten the
whole, as number OF funs eulighten multi
tnde of planets.
Being one of thefe fenforiums myrclf, and he
I'eyng that the world called man, cannot be
turned entirely into funs and that fome are
better than world all of moons it is my du-
ty and right to contribute to the general trcaiu-
ry, project, for preventing the miichefs to be
apprehendcd, from the fortutous movements
OF multitudes OF opaque bodies. All your fen
forums agree, that thcfc are alarming and i'm
| miacnt.
The gebcs are 70 ready and convenient
| fund FOR erecting college, in which the necef-
| larry luminarcs for your zodiack may be Great
ed, as to refembc Mahomet's tree of paradifc,
| out of the fruit of which, would BURT, upon
touch, the thing you wanted ard your infu-
| perao'e sveriion TO putting your hand in your
pocket, demonstrates, that if you fufcr this
fund 10 flip through your fingers, your igno-
rance will increafe as long as yon i've For
! your comfort, however, it cannot be long.
! II could never conceive objection to this
apple alton of the elebe money. IF the legina-
ture could apply it in one mode, they could in
another. As ftipends for public fervices
thought no longer neceGary, globes reverted to
the fovereienty, and became fubiet to its df-
petition. In the carly times OF the colony of
Virginia, thefe fipends flowed from the Cove
re'Gnty globes having been derived from roy
al grants, 20 long as vacant lands were to be
had. In all fuch cafes, revsrlion to the fovc-
regnty, and the unreafonablenefs of parifh
claim, are uuquefionabIe. When vacant lands
failed, globes were purchafed By a parfa tax,
according to a law. Thofe who paid the tax
have all died. Removals have even extneuiil,-
ed their blood in all or mof parifhes. No new
conner in any infance paid more or LET'S for
land in any pariiii, according TO the value of
the glebe. Neither by inheritance (for he is
not of the blood of the payer of the taxi nor
by Purcfafc (for he paid nothing for it) has he
any property in the giebe. Bur nc has claim
founded in .fGFion. On democracy, thou art
ever the victim of fGtion
lfthis fiction, as the guarantee of your igno-
rance, fhould produce revolution, and pa
lace mould be needed for king and If the Pc
nitentiary building, fuperfeded and rendered
uieleis by gibbets, lllonld be propofed for the
royal refdence would the appropriation be
wrong, becaufe the counties had uuequally con-
tributed for its erection; and ough; the houfc
to be fold, for the purpofe of returning to each
county its original contribution? Where is the
difference between taxing for public feryces,
By iections called counties, or by fettions CAL
! I'D payiihs5. All, madam democracy, YOU
| are as laYiih to kings, as niggardly to your
ielr You would, in parliamentary Ghape, with.
out heftation, apply this very glebe money to
the erection ola palace for ono of thefe block
heads, although you fhould deny it TO fsmi
nary, for breeding found fenforums for your
own fcience.
! If you will open a compiling houfe, and fake
! your fate upon ledger, for fquarng balances
between psriihes, in dollars, dimes and cents (:
about which the people care not a farthng
! At ie7f, nay good dame, ufe pain arithmetic
II will enable you to uuderGand the law, di-
recting the overfeers of the poor, to apply the
glebe money "either to the bo9r of ffeb bay;h
g or as majority of the freeholders and houie
keepers therein ihal direct" in your own
way by counting money items. If the law
can be 70 confirmed, as TO make glebe money
directly or indirectly applicable to a county lc-
Wy, and an application TO county ufe being C.
quiYalent to An application to fate ufe the OBJ
ljection as to a violation of property is out of
the queition, as equally applying and ofcourfe
ought q yKyPigh the rival lem. Il, a.,