The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1808-11-25
THE ENQUIRER.
RICHMOND, NOVEMBER Is, 1908.
TO THE PEOPLE OF THE EASTERN STATES
NO. l.

n man, in whose veins there flows not a
drop but OF American b.ood-whose heart
beats so high III the cause of the indebendence
of his country, that 1.-The last SPOT in which
the hope of freedom would desert him. there
would he hold, and the last intrenchm ent of
Liberty should be his grave"-a man who
considers the nnion of these States as the sa-
cred ara IF oar faoHticak copc1ant-begs
leave to address you.
The times are gloomy and portentous al
most beyond example. The sceptre OF the
Eastern world is divided amongst two great
nations; one commanding the element of
land, the other OF the water. Their concus-
sions have destroyed all the laws of the CT
Vilized world. Then war is not so much wa
ged between themselves, as upon the inno-
cent and unoifending neutrals. For, all the
rights which have been usually attached to
neutrality, are broken and despised.
Amidst these shocks and embarrassment,
the people of the United States, the great
neutral nation oil the Universe, feel them
selves peculiarly aggrieved. Scarce pri-
vilese OF theirs has escaped the wreck of
morality. Scarce vestige of their COM
merce has eluded the rapacity of the licens-
ed treebooters of the seas. Scarce a vessel
can secS its natural mart of destination
without mourning the inevitable risk of cap
ture and conhscaton. In such times as
these, when the rights and independence of
our common country are so boldly assaile(l
by piracy and Corruption-when our natl
onal sovereignty on the high seas is as
sauted, brow-beaten and almost desDised.
When usurpations are boldly maintained
that would SO materially limit the range of orr
vessels, and the export of our productions
wheh the lasting interests ofthe merchant
and the agrlculturist are assailed with the
same wanton and malignant intention; it is
time Tor us to rally round the banners of our
country. he times require that we should
all peaceably and harmoniol.slv assemble A.
round the great fire of the nation. The neo-
pie OF the South shoud hold communion with
those OF the North; the East with the West.
For as their vital interests are the same,
taeir understanding ought to be complete and
their exertions ought to be common and INIT
ed.
10 you then, fellow citizens of the East. /
beg leave to address myself address nv
self to the honest yeomanry of the communi
ty, who need only light to guide their steps
III the paths of patriotism to those virtuous
men, whohave never bowed nor bent the knee
to created man to those enlightened Anne
Ticans, who value the independence and ho-
nor OF their country too dearly to dispose of
1t tor mess OF pottage," or the most mag
descendants OF those virtuous men. who gave
the tributary tea of g. Britain to the waves.
and could pour forth their patriotic emotions
I'D the most affecting effusions to the heirs
OF such men, as could feel that elf they
arrested tile hand which would ransack our
| pockets, it they nobly defeated that fatal e.
qict, which proclaims power to make laws
for us IN all cases whatsoever, thereby en-
failing the endless and numberlcss curses of
slavery upon us, our heirs and their heirs for
ever II they successfully resist that unpa-
ralleled usurpation Of unconstitutional now
er, whereby our coasts are lined, and har-
bors crowded with ships of war whereby
the hnalienabe and nestimable inheritance
which we derived from nature. the constitu-
ton OF Britain, and the privileges warrant
ed to US i'll the charter 0f the province. is to-
tally wrecked, annulled, and vacated POS.
terity viii acknowledge that virtue which
preserved them free and happy and while
they enjoy the rewards and BLESSINGS of the
faithful, the torrent Of panegyrists will roll
their regulations to that latest period. when
the streams Of time shall be absorbed in the
abyss Of eternity.''*
Uho are Mfy, Mat Mus inso,entiy 6oaoi
rs WAo ere they that thus cali u3op yc.,
-couhtrymen Of tile. East, TO remcm-
per ana rcvive,he pristine virtue of your H.
lustTiouS pro&enltors '--Letus so at once 20
the great root of these evils.
AZ tbs time the United States should not
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Extract from the eloquent Resolutions of ;l,e
C"iniy 81 Suffolk IN Massachusetts,, presented Ia
the .Fst Congress in ira