The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1808-02-19

on, that ii our next President is to come f,om
virginia, considerations IF harmony suould induce
fhe support Of 1f,. Madison.'
FOR THE enquirer.
The late Infamous outrage committed on our
Frigatc has confess aroused the American Peo
pie to just determination to bear no longer with
INC repeated insults of Britain, and her myruii-
dons.On our coasts and harbours, but there is vet
one more caectual method in our power to hum
bic her to sense OF justice and respect towards
usswhich if properly prosecuted, win turn the
murmurs other ownpeople against their rulers.
or at least deprive her OF many of the most vala.
bic part OF her population; mean that of stri-
King deadly blow at her Woellen and Cotton
Manufactures, and her Birmingham and Shelf
held wres. / am well aware that many of nv
readers ilsay our Government have made some
steps towards this object. but in my humble OBI
mon society independent and apart from
Government ought to begin the laudable and glo-
rlo,is work. This may easily be done by only
little self denial aided by pointed, steady and in
flexible exertiOns, not only TO counterfeit the first
impressions that the pryations of few articles
that habit have made lnccessary ,3nay produce,
put also to detect the evasons naturally to be ex
pected - 81,
Would all the American Patriots first set the
example OF associatlng the reighbourhood they
live ln,into circles under appropriate titles and
conform toa code of regulation, inform OF a CON
sttutlon, resolving that after given period they
would purchase no more woollen and cotton Ma
nutactur.s imported from England, nor one SIM
gle article of Iron, Steel, Brass other metal of
any Kind, and persist in encouraging American
manufactures in their stead, they would soon find
surprising alteration in the conduct of England:
a moments recollection on the single article of
Buckles, when shoe strings were adopted in their
stead a. few years ago, will convince the Ameri-
can people where lies the vulnerable heel of f3ri
RAJ Rlf I,l.,
dcd our economy in this article; witness the
immense quantity OF Buttons that grace the
heNes OF our stores, and my Recommendations of
inhexibiity will be more striking, when call the
attention of my American readers to the quick
succession OF fashions in SO simple an article as
ou'toh' III the course oil year once it WAS all
the tonic have sugar loaf button, Nhen pearl
Button brass eye then the convex, them the con-
cave, and an endless variety ofcutts, figures and
poliShes, all meant to get rid of their otherwise
useless metals. When call to mind these facts
am clear tor spurninig every article at fret aiu-
oed to'-America produces the raw materials,
Tor most OF these articles, and which is c arried
to England (wool exceptcd) and there they are
gcwgawed up and sent back to us more like bait
Tor flsl, than necessaries for reasonable beings
my motive tor beginning after given period,
is, that such articles which may be most wanted
by those who hold many servants can be pocure-
gu ana time given 10 prepare materials for ftl.
privaton may be felt but slightly (if at ALL when
TIE prohibition actually takes place by the asseci
ations' &c: Our government will then have no.
tnhS 10 do with the business, the British mer-
| chants will sneak of, and England can make no
countervaihng arrangements to meet it, but on
the contrary, endeavor to sooth US by proper res
Pec1 iest we adopt pIivations of greater extent
fray let me ask, had we not better submit in time
10 lew Pllvations, which will eventually enforce
respect, than sufier such vast expence in negoti-
ATOMS, explanatory enquiries and extraordinary
1nissiens to England, which produce at last no.
thing but diplomatic frippery? Were only half
thS money squsndered in proper botnties to en-.
courage ,he American artists, it would do more
real good than all missions do, for do we not
discover that the pretended satistactons we get
are nothing more than empty promises
| 1t is well known that they cannot do without
our provisions OF every kind, and in fact we were
always their only customers ofnote, but since they
nave turned every nation against them, we would
! have been doubly so but their blind system Of
corruption and robbery has at length opened our
eyes, never more to be on the same footino- that
once we were. Should this plan of formin9 such
associations of non.cohsumpton of British ma
| nnfacture be effected the plan of non importa.
ton VIII eventually follow, as we'll az the expul.
sion OF those numerous British merchants fror,
our happy land, who come here and quickly make
their fortune, ana then return to their isle 10 Ia,o
~ WI p.eu1cCuons LOT BRUSH trash, after they
nave halt rulnedimany honest men by their arte "A
aduiation and thor gewgaw traps This la,lda-
Die plan will give spur to home manufactures ot
every kind, after once the vair charm is reinov.
ed our planters will turn their surplus products
into cash, and Americans clad in home-spur, Will
not be held in such contempt as they are at pre-.
sent But alas fear shall not find virtue
enough 70 make the Privation general, unless pa.
triots Of great influence step forward. and Inv ~.
ample as well as persuasion, forward the p,:,;se.
"ofuy pan Oh FARMER.
The following Is plan, productive of IN,
same BENEFITS, and more likely to succeed
because 1t combines our interests with prin.
ciple-than the one recommended by our
correspondent. Let us establish n1onuf7cture,
IN The bosom " our oqoH counkrv. Let eve
| ~ man. VINO possesses capital or influence.
employ them to establish such manufacture
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