The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1808-03-11

which cunningor malignity could imagine or
conceive
Every thing being now prepared, the cur
tain rises, ana the drama opens. .I'ha, great
man who led the armies of America to VIC
tory, retires from office; and Mr.. Adams,
who had filed the office of Fice-President
with credit and applause, is bv small ma
jority elected his successor-The new sect
are now at the top of their wishes, and the
mask is laid aside as no longer necessary
a. thousand cataracts of SANDER and abuse
are at once discharged upon the people. The
sacred names of Rehn5Ho aud Common
7oediSh, are Knocked at and vlihed by the
pens and tongues of British hirclings and
pensioners, at the very seat of our sovern-
ment. The venerable names Of ADAMS, &c
HANCOCK, and FRANKLIN, and the wor-
tines OF the revolution, are scoffed at and
Jecrcd by base and grinning popularity. Me-
thinks see their venerable shades stalking
by the hall of Congress, looking rcproarh-
i1liy on It's members. and sorfowfully on those
Beloved scenes which living they had aaori,-
cd by their virtues. Tie book Of Mr.. Adams
rneanwhlle, as containing the tenets of the
sect, is reprinted, and is advertised for sale
10y well known pensioner of Britain, and
an aycwed royaiist..
The plot now begins to unfold itself, and
the interest thickens. BY small majority
III Congress, great naval and military es-
adjustment is projected, and war with
france is resolved onas necessary part of
the system. To give effect to these projects.
new taxes are decreed, and large sums are
borrowed at an extravagant rate of interest
and In order to terrify the people into an APP
PROBATION or submission to those cxtraordi-
nary proceedings, the constitution, that sd
cred palladium, of which they Had hypocri-
tically declared themselves the exclusive de-
tenders, IS, openly violated by the enaction
OF the Alien and Sedition laws-Such as had
the Courage to speak or write against those
outrages, fell under the grinding pressure of
one or the other OF these terrible statutes-.
They arc immured in dungeons, subjected
to excessive fines, or rendered liable to be
transported, at the pleasure of the grand in
qulsltor, to unknown, PERHAPS to savage, GER
family to hostile regions, at distance from
the government of their choice, and the
country of their adoption
But the Genius of the Republic took his
stand OH the highest peak of the Allegheny,
and shouted to the people. Reused by the
sound, terrific the blast of the angel
trump, which on the last dav will call upon
the graves toyield up their dead, they ava
Ken from their trance, and like giant re-
treshed by sleep, their volume swcls to pre-
ternatural size, and displays itself in won
deriui eXertion. Their chains, like flax
touched by fire, are consumed and disappear
1 hey look round them, and their lion hearts
swell with the heaving of the storm-vex'd
ocean--thcy compare their strength with
the weakness of their oppressors, and their
rage subsidies in emotions OF pity or contempt
they demand in a tone that will not brook
delay, that their prison doors be thrown o.
pen, and they are obeyed.-But, satisfied
with victory, and devoted only TO Justice &
the common veal, they permit not the base
passion OF revenge to contaminate their boz
SONS, and they magnanimously proffer TO
their late tyrants an equal share of the rights
they had asserted, and the blessings they
enjoy.
Then IT was that the great and benificent
being, whose advancement to office we CO.
le6ratc, as connected with the prosperity of
his country, was called from his retreat to
retrieve the glory and restore the purity
and vigor OF our institutions. At his
approach, factions for moment disappear,
and the waves or civil commotion subside-
He is preceded by Philosophy, holding torch
dipped and kindied at the fountain of light,
whose celestial blazs puts to fight the imps
OF tyranny and superstition. On one hand
stands the genius o: the republic with the
national charter open in his hand on the O.
theT, the mountain lymph, LIBERTY, crown
ed with oak leaves. ariAed with a spear
made OF the DeeCn tree. ohe moves light &
joeund TO the music of the shepherds pipe
upon the hills, and she is animated to glory
by the tones of the vale rousing buggle tenn
perance, fortitude, economy and public spi-
rit, with the train of hardy virtues, encircle
the man of the people The muses. bring up
the rear; the smile of hope, rradiated by ec-
MUS, shining through the tears which tyran-
ny had caused to flow.
But asif to eXemplify the truth of Millions
observation, as applied to the arch -fsnd,
that "never can true reconcilement dwell
where wounds of deadly hate have pierced
so peep"--the rage of Federalism is smo-
thered, not extinguished they engender new
plots against the majesty of the people, and
mediate how by new devices and internal in
ventiohS, they may rc-mount the sacred bat
Elements from whence they had been hurl-
ed.
But in justice to the federalists, it should
be admitted that these Vaccinations can with
be ascribed only to small num-
Der of restless, ambitious, disappointed men,
scattered over the union, who affect to be
the leaders and to speak the voice of the fe-
deral perty-~alas where is the USE
where the policy of these distinctions p
what good can result from them. Touse the
impressive language of the great man whose
life and government fprnish the theme of
our festival" We are all federaiists all
republicans" With few exceptions, all
these puerile distinctions are merged into
one luminous mass "fhe feohie"--The resi-
dunn is only such as may be expected to re-