The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1808-08-09

from the REGULATIONS of the Legitimate mea-
sures of Britain. Chapter and verse, day
and hour can be quoted in proof of these car
y, frequent and continued English provo
cations OF the bellgerents. these English ae,-
}Sressions upon ncutrals, these English eau |
lscs OF the evils OF our Country.--A conont
system of foreign Orders in Council' and I
imperial DEGREES have cut efTour supplies, !
smut IN our crops, and forced us into an en-
oargo For these orders of council, England !
mas no legitimate plea or excuse, & France |
mas no apology, but in the prior conduct of |
England Thus England is not only deeply |
fnischieyous to US herself, but is the real
cause OF extreme miscbefs TO us from others |
IRON all the rest of the civilized world.
10 what, itmay be asked, does all this ar |
gument tend To establish truth, we an !
s%er, and promote just estimate Of the times
--eXtraordinary times (; such as we have ne !
Yer seen before. Shall we draw the sword |!
IN the murderous business of original agrees
sion, and thus make ourselves accessories af- |
ser the fact to the crimes of Britain Ori
shah VIC draw the sword in the wasteful, |
bloody, impassioned business of wild retail
auon! Let us not swell the rivers of tears,
(which already flow from miserable man.
| Vet us not enlarge the ocean of blood, which |
our niangled feilow-creatures have already |
| Rured upon the reeking earth. Let us not |
setter the treasures, saved from the labors |
| OF n henest people, wantonly on the ground. |
! Lev us rather use some of the vast sums, |
whrh modern armies and navies consume, |
| III CHEATING what we want a great home mar
ket pr our abundant produce. Let us raise
our dvn Manchesters and She fields, our own
Birmhghams and Leeds, our own Norwich
and Eroshedas. Let household manufactures
| be the universal care. These are our Lares
Americans, look for serious trials, which ma
| nutacures in your families can render sup
| portable or which, these neglected, will
| pinch you with discomfort and necessity
| Look Tor those outrages and wicked obstruc-
| tons, which meet your crops on the free o.
ccan i'll their way to foreign markets-an e.
vii which nothing can so well annihilate, as
the demand of your own anvils and looms,
your own carding and spinning machinery,
your own processes and your own dexteritieS
in aid or III execution OF tke useful arts. We
do not Persuade you to manufacture; we
announce to you that you must manufacture,
that you 4vW manufacture. We do not tell
you, that on can manufacture We announce
to you, that aireddy you 40 manufacture
Do you want Just, an innocent, a noble, n
complete satisfaction from Britain for all her
own aggressions, and all the evils of the re-
taliations she has provoked? Do you want to
fine her in millions for her actually produ-
cling the embargo? Doyou want to bring her
~ col,ti; uis ii efi; fer the injuries Of fer
ty years long, with which she has grieved
you! Then let one set of Americans seize
her carding machinery, another her spin
ming mills, third her breweries, fourth
her grain and molasses distileres, a fifth her
istoCh4hs tfaines, n sixth her cloth looms
seventh her hammers, an eighth her anvIIS,
ninth her rollers, and with the other
branches, till YOU make all her useful arts,
trades & manufactures completely your own,
and establish markets for your own produce.
i his will be death to her naval and CONNER
Cial usurpatons, and life to YOU. 1t will Law
the sure foundation of her future moderate
on and OF your future independence. All o.
Their remedies are ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
ruinous in expense. This will feed * clothe
instead of numbering man 1t will enrich
your country, instead of wasting it by foreign
plunder and domestic war 1t will make the
best of your situation, and place you i'm a con-
diton far beyond that of your fellow men 1t
is impossible to foretell to what height the
manufacturing system of a country, forced as
ours now is by foreign distractions TO the sales
of our produce, may rise. liz is impossible
to say to what height manufactures, unim-
pcded by excuses, may ascend how wide they
may spread, how deep they may take root
In the centre of Pennsylvania, a single coun-
~. more than 100 miles from Philadelphia.
Baltimore and Pitt8bUrg, has received and
sold in six months from the latter place 90
600 pounds weight OF Cotton wool raised on
the Ohio, Tennessee and Mississippi. Of
this cotton there are eighty millions of pounds
weight raised within our country, counting
the hand of the maiden and the arm of the
manufacturer. The market for produce, af-
forded by our manufactures, is much more
sure than that afforded by etr commerce.-
Foreign plumber, foreign despetisni cannot
touch our Manufacture. Nothing scarcely
can protect our commerce from spoliation K
violation. Toprotect manufactures, you only
require to maintain the blessings of law and
order. To protect commerce, you must make
and maintain such ar immense milestone, as
the British government have slung, under
the form Of a navy, around the neclss of their
people. Honor, profit, public spirit, q manly
remedy of injuries--aH these require that G.
Britain shall from this day be most Impress
lively admonshed, that if we do not plough
and trade, we will---we must plough and zna~
nhfacture. JURISCOLA.
LIST OF THE OFFICERS,
ALREADY APPOINTED,