The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1808-05-24
[No.7.

sure but the true mode of appreciating its
value and its benefits is, by comparing 1t with
state OF war. The small sacrifice of inte-
rest can never be placed, by an enlightened.
a virtuous, and humane people, in compete
ton with the waste, and the desolation and
the miseries, and the carnage, and the hor-
rors of war. If our common high wave we've
infested with robbers, and the traveller was
sure to be robbed if not murdered. madness
only could dictate an exposure. The COM
mon highway OF nations is thus infested, and
wisdom suggested the proprety of our re
naming at home 80
Ioindicate peace, the Romans shut the
temple of Janus, and we, in liberia H.
IMITATION OF their example, have shut the tenn
PIE OF flptus. we have considered gold as
OF less value than blood, and the bapnines.
OF tree people as not dependant upon the
number OF their counters. Rational men call
culate the profit and the loss of an enterprise
and humanity commands us to be nipgaris of
human misery. AS mere calculators acco,,l.
ing TO arirhmetical rules, how immense would
'oe the difference between the embargo and q
~ar!-As christians and as philanthropists.
where is the man whose cold-blooded virtue
would dare to advise the sacrifice of his spe-
cies ON the altar of mercantile avar1cep
who is there, to whom the shrieks and th.,
groans OF our fellow citizens on the frontier
under the scalpng knife and tomahawk of the.
nefclless savage, would be music !-Whois
there that wishes to behold the agoniz;np-
scene OF wife and mother, weeping and
tearing her dishivell'd locks over the BODY of
her scaiped husband, and the mangled frames
OF her children? Who is there that des;res r.,
trace the footsteps of the savage bv desola.
ton and blood, to see our .rontier bomIets -;
sing IN names, and to hear his yells in the war.
dance around them Let such monsters rail
at a measure OF peace, let such rail at the
embargo.
Are there any among us, who wouId brL
hoid without emotion, the bombardment of
our seaports, the Confagration of our cities:
ana the tragedy OF Copenhagen acted upon
our shores! If There be, to them must the en-.
barge be detsstable.
Who is the man ofboo1 that considers w.,.
as pastime, and views its horrors with the
ComPosure OF a theatrical exhibition ? To him,
mus. peace prove curse, and excite the,
same sort OF anguish as the Sight of Paradise
to the fallen aagels.
Let us turn our eyes to times past timsa
too' which ought never to be forgotten and
alrectihs them towards the prison in this CT
ty, tor an eternal memento of British harha =
rity, let me demand; who there is On los,
to the feelings of humanity, as to desire that
period 60 be renewed, when Americans i'm
.heir own land, and land of plenty. wonJd
De doomed to languish and die with grace in
their mouths, snatched greedily from tbe
ea:th, "2:Hy to sustain frsifr1ii,I,,.,i ,,.,iu
vt l! scenes OF more complicated horrorcan
1urnlsh delight; let us transport ourselves tn
the " allaoout, and there in gloomy silence
sui. ing the bleached bones of our brethren.
cast our eyes to the Jersey prison ship. and
in its Internal cavern of horror and deati' an
mold the victims to liberty Yes. NV brothers
II our eyes can be blinded to human misery
anu our years rendered callous to the siohs
ana groans OF tortured and expiring nature.
II we can survey every fibre of the BODY and
the soul stretched upon the rack of Rr;t;sh
liliiumanity, and that too, without the sigh
o! sympathy, or the tear of agonized senSi-
o'ilV' enGh let us denounce the pacific mea-
rus OF fiends against the embargo.
Let the profigate and the base and rho
stiPendaries or Great Britain, rail and vilfv
our government TOR the measure, the apnro-
od'ioh Oh the enlightened and the patriot;c
| must surely be their reward. and the neac..
OF tile nation and the security of mercantile,
properly, must attest its wisdom, and verify
it's utility. 'Sy
Brothers, there is crisis in our affairs
"i on ouene 10 command our attention, and
demands the exercise of all orr enerp;es
The enemy without is aided bv the ener,,,-
"lthin, and the Inconvenience and Dr;v.tE
o,is 10 "hich we have been subjected Inv the
DiitlSi government are most wickedIv ap,y
traitorously ascribed the administrator ot
the general government. An important g.
lcction is approaching, and endeavors are
making TO de ude &misguide the public i,,de.
ment. 1t is incumbent upon us. thercforss
10 I've upon the look out. Every man tn bic
post-Iet no one slumber while tie. storm
threatens and the vessel is in danger Tbe
sons OF Iammany would be unworthy of The
higil station OF freemen, if at the call of M
triotisTD they did not fly to the post of danger
ana offer up all their faculties OH the altar ae
their country. ''''' u
* chief magistrate of the United States :.
I 10 De chosen, for he who has for g vears r,.e''
sided over our affairs, and has directed o,,r.
assumes and whose principles and whosc
virtues have been assiduously, actively. and
successfully employed in the promotion ofthe
happiness OF his country, with a patriot;en,
worthy OF himself, Is about to retire 70 En-.
peaceful and serene shade of private life =
ne example deserves our homare--Jt bo.
resulted from the purity of those rrinci,,lc,
"nich nave directed his political course aud
"hile 1T eXcites our regret, must inspire on,.
adrAiration and command our appliance r.,
III the d1SpenSation of human ococf -. -