The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1808-09-13

dent and federal principles to the chair of
government.--Under these circumstances
1T Is the duty of the real Repuicans to rail-
~ around the standard of the Government
ana the rights OF our country with enrhusi-
assn and spirit---to rouse from that let.iargy
winch flows from sense Of security and
to cultivate that union, which springs from
a sense OF Common danger and a participa-
ton OF common principles.
NEW HAMPSHIRE. * RHODE ISLAND.
ELECTIONS.
ne success OF these Elections may be re-
garded as the most important event which
has occurred since the adoption OF the Fede-
raj Constitution. T. is not the probability
that the election ola Federal President will
be ensured though this is highly probable.
winch furnishes such just reason for jov az
Nor is II the be lei that the reign Of Demo
crazy vii! never return. If tie foriner adj
rtlhistr4tions which were one uniform Sc
rics of public prosperity, could not be main
tanned against thefuAuence of falsehood and
intrigue; there Is too much reason TO appre-
hcnd that new administration doomed 20
Struggle with the e,nbarrassments brought
Oh ~ the madness OF their predecessors wuuid
aSIHl become victim to the same delusious
IL III the present periious state ofthe world
ana Oh car country, We must not reserve our
Joy 1or these events only which promise all
the advantage which we desire 1t is of i'm
mense consequence, i'll such state, and with
Sncn an administration as ours to escape i'm
hicaiate rum, to gain = short breathing spell.
ana to secure some chance Tor the final safe
rity.
In this view it ought to be matter of I'M
ieigned and cordial congratulations-that
| the people of the Eastern States, including
vermont (Which may with neral certainty
DE considered as going with them) have sea-
sonaoly discerned and felt and determined
toresist the policy Of the Nirginian Pniloso-
piers, Which is bottemcd upon the destruc-
ton OF Commerce as the only means of Sc
curing the pecuniary influence ola Virgil
ma Junto In the affairs OF the Union (50
! / ms policy, though it is the favor;:e scheme
| OF the Jeitersonian school, the foundation OF
their original HOSTILITY to the Constitution. &
OF thelr opposition TO Washington & Adams !;
! (4) though it is avowed almost III terms IN
their writings & is fact the only real source
ofparty distinction in this Country has not
until now been perfectly understood in New
England by the great mass of the people,
1t Is not, before we are brought to the verge
, Oh RUIN, that our eyes are opcncd.---It has at
length given rise to the most fragrant, arbi-
traiy, absurd and ruinous system, that ever
was imposed upon Il people, calling them
selves free. 81 Oar ports are bl6ckaded.
---our navy is equipped to make rcprisais
upon our vessels Our batteries are planted
and mounted to Sink our own shalIoDs and
murder cur own citizens Our Commerce
IS gong, irretrievab!y going g enrich thsoe
whom our government wish to inpoverish.
1--WE have taught Europe to despise US, and
to the eternal joy and derision of our. enc
mies IN Great-Britain, we have solved the
long disputed problem whetherour commerce
is essential to her prosperity and that of her
colonies with a fatal certainty, which should
nave been ever unrcycalcd. It is fact that
our Emolrgo IS never mentioned in En-
gland except for fun and in France only as
a proof Of our LOYALTY. TO- But notwithstand.
ing this melancholy experience of cvcry
consequence predicted by the FeleraIists,
though the pueriie and rotten policy is SCOTT
ed and ridiculed in Earope and abhorred in
America, there is reason TO believe that tine
addresses CT massachusetts and New Hamp-
shire had confirmed MIR. Jefferson in his de .
sign OF perscverins in this desperate czpe-
riment. The occasion was too fair to be neg
lected. He could hardly have expected that
Ncw-England would have adjusted her
chains with so much ComplaCcncy. Mr..
Blake, fresh from Washington, told us the
measures OF Government, were not 50 unpo-
puaraS they had expected. And while the
President believed that his pensioners and
scycOphantS had influence sufficient to SUD-
port the system, lie would shew himself too
good stuff to rctract or mitigate 1.-THE
Merchants, the men Of property * Of talents,
al. the sound and solid part of England
might have demonstrated in vain He would
have respected them no more than the writh-
fmgs Of mice in one ofhis exhau.tedrcCeivers.
Something more was necessary. was
Indispensable to demonstrate, that i'm New
p England We have national feeling, a vital
sense u our iDte',st in the suCces cf Com
rDercc si.l Jhat unless this interest be con-
suited, we Shall feel M interest in Tire Union.
a. And to make the Virginian party COM
prehend, that we will not be drawn into an
/ Alliance with France, nor share the fate of
her Spanish Allies, Ga J g, that we prefer di
Vidiug with G. Britain the Commerce Of the
world, which moderate share Of good tenn
! per and address ON the part of Administers
. ton might have sccmedto us to ruinous
war with her the effect f which would be
to make u,sltycs to hcrentmies.