The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1808-07-15

mon prudence, provide within itself whatc-
yer is essential to it's preservation. such as
foui, clothing, AMI tine implements or de-
! fence. Let US, therefore, no longer delay to
prepare for the fabrication of such things as
we can least dispense with, and leave the
workmen of Europe to make our muslins
| silks, and laces, which we will purchase
with our superluous wealth, when they will
allow US to trade with them ON honorable
terms. and which otherwise we can well do
without.
in another point Of view the establishment
OF manufactures among us is desirable. BY
divcrt,ng a portion Of the national industry
from the plough to the workshop and the
loom, we should increase our home market
(the most valuable of all .narkets) for part
OF thee provisions which we now send abroad.
Nor is it very clear, that such establishments
would not reward their uDdcrtakerS with a
suitable profit. Every new manufacture is be-
gun underline disadvantages of inexperience,
OF the prejudiCGs that ever oppose new pro-
Jects, and the difficulty of diverting trade in
to new channels; and country may be ripe
Tor manufacture, some time before indiyidu
| al enterprise shall attempt to surmount these
inciPient obstacles. Now the present En-
barge is precisely that, which will counter
vail them, and afford us the means of ascer-
tanning what manufactures COMFORT with our
peculiar circumstances, and what are pre-
mature. 1t certainly seems probable, that
those of cotton may Se carried, OH to advan-
! tage III this country, as the article is not on
| ~ encumbered with the accumulated expen-
ccs OF two voyages OF three thousand miles
before 1t returns to us il the form of clothing,
but we sometimes even send provisions to
fect. the workmen Surely no difference in
the price OF labour, no superiority of skill or
capital can compensate these disadvantages.
\ icy rel, trif !, r,fo
noInist, it can make no difference whether
those who fabrIcate our cloths and consume
Onr provisions, live on this or the other side
CT the Atlantic; or rather, it is desirable
that orr market for buying as we'll as selling
should be as near home as possiblc,S
But, fellow citizens let US nosotoo conf
IDENTITY expect, that our pacific policy will
eventually secure us peace. The time may
come, when further endurance would be cow
ardice, and we may be compelled to appeal
to war, that capricious arbiter of the dis
iputes of nations. Let us then be prepared
Tor the momentous crisis. Let us even be
prepared FOR il, lift were only that we wish
to avoid 1t. Although our swords sleep in
their Scabbards. let them not rust there. Let
us keep them bright, though we wish not to
use them. Nor is it to be forgotten. that
within the recollection of all who hear me,
military enterprise has changed the political
face OF Europe, and that every wind which
blows from that distracted quarter of the
world, brings rev tidings of Kingdoms Great
ed, and Kingdoms destroyed. This strange
and terrific Being, whose ponderous bulk ia
no degree impedes the CELEBRITY of its move-
ments, has borne Down all resistance. The
petty thrones it has overturned ~ the Aust,
and even the mot stable totter to their base
Nor hasit shewn more mercy TO the temples
OF freedom. Even those chastc and modest
fabrics which prosecuted humanity had erec-
ted CO the submits of the Alps, these too in
llts desoiating progress, it has levellcd to the
ground; and compelled their brave votaries
toJon the captive PRINCES who march in me-
llancholy procession beside it's triumphal car.
Who viii presume to set bounds to genins
so mastery, impelleti by an ambition so ar
dent, and possessed OF force so resistless,
or say that the same rare union of fortune
and talents which carried Alexander to In
dia, and Caesar to Britain, NAV not send the
conqueror of Europe TO seek rev trophies in
America When he has subjugated one
fourth of the GLOBE what has he to wish for,
but to lord it over he universe?
In such an untoward event. (Which BY no
means think probable. while England and
India and Turkey acknowledge otter mas
Iters) l should have no Fear of conquest.
know the spirit of thispeople. know that
they won!d part with their liberties Only with
their lives. But, MY friends, all experience
shews, that untutored valor can do little more
against military discipline, than todie brave
iy. Hthen, we would make efficient resist
ance--if we would drive back the insolent in
vaders 10 the ocean which bore them here
let US cultivate the art of war--that art
which SO multiplies the physical force of a
country, and which is brought to such perfec-
tion III Europe. fit is powerful Instrument
OF conquer. 1t is no less powerful instru-
ment Of defence; and whilst ambition uses il
TO destroy others liberties, let us use it to
| preserve our own. In this view of things, I
confess am much pleased with che addition
which the national legislature has made to
orr military force and il the altered state
OF our finances mad not required lis portion of
consideration, i should have wished to have
seen it INCREASED. Though scarcely s.;iIici-
ent to garrison or far-eEtended frontier, it
! viii cherish and tjtitse military knowledge
| throughout the community, so that when the
enemy comes. lie will not find us r,ere novices
IN the science of defence, ard Oil aiii e,ner-
! gcncr, we may sdd to our present establish
tGen;, when we could not create one altogc-
thor.
IL is to be regretted, that however we may
/ differ on questions of internal concern, there
IS not more unaninlity ON the subject of cur
/ foreign relations. 1t is indeed the duty as
well as the right &C every citizen IN exercisp