The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1808-12-15
THE ENQUIRER.
RICHMOND, DECEAfBER Is, 1908

<"E''esf"S rettcTJTom HemOer or Con-
s-ress 70 the Delegates Gin fhe "a Leg.
from The counties in his District
Communicated for The Enquirer
WAsH1NGroN, Dec. 6.
The Documents accompanying the Presi-
dents Message and the Report of our Com
mittee OH foreign relations, (Which | have
heretofore transmitted to you) will have pre-
sented view of the difficulties with which
we are at present surrounded. The period
has arrived when all those feelings (Which
tend to separate men attached TO the per-
sonai liberty OF the citizen s. indie pendencc
of the nation) should be sacrificed at the
shrine OF their country,s good.
j ,irin-utties which ar present
overshadow our country, arise from the o.
pinl"n confidently entertained by the Bclli-
gerent powers, that we are too much divi-
ded to pursue with irmness our course. or
TO present to Foreign nations that undivided
front which can alone render formidable a
government whose force depends on the pub
iic will. Heretofore in this country only
three parties publicans-Fete-
ralists, and Tories.
"A new party arose during the last year
which can only be designated the Presidep
tlal party. 1t was composed of a mixture
OF all the three great parties. Men differ
ing In every great principle of national po-
Hcy, men personally hostile to, and dcspising
each other, were thrown into one party, ha-
wing no common object in which all united
except opposition to the nomination of Pre-
sident by the Republican party.
This extraordinary Union OF persons was
little felt in Virginia where we have few
Federaists, and no Tories Most of the
Republicans In our state too withdrew from
thlS unnatural connection, and the more vi
oient VINO remained, have only been known
| in Courthouse harangues, and in the adj
dresses OF persons residing in the City of
Richmond, who having never naked with
| the great body of the people, are equally I'M
acquainted with their feelings and interests
In the Eastern States however this extra
ordinary union has produced a singular eff
Test In those States and in Massachusetts
particularly, the Republican and Federal
parties were nearly equal. The Tories,
considerable party in number, possessed The
confidence OF neither the Republicans, uor
Federalists, and were despised bv BOTH
by dexterous management however the
Tories in Massachusetts have attached
themselves to the Federal party, and men
| heretofore dcspised as hostile to the indie
penoence OF their Country have crept into
consequence during the Presidential contest.
The Tories and Federalists have out-voted
the Republican party in that State
| TIC LMBARGO mas been the great en-
| CINE employed, but the real object of the
ores OF Massachusetts, is to throw the u
nited States into the arms of Great Britain.
Indeed the Representative in Congress from
Essex In Massachusetts, (Which county NAV
be considered as the land of Tores) offered
a Resolution during the last Session of Con-
! GresS which amounted to declaration of
war against France. The people of that
county have passed Resolutions i'm which
| they expressly declare we have no cause of
complaint against Great-Britain, and that
'he orders OF Council are justified by the .ex
lailonis. Nay more that Great--Britain
might lawfully have inhibited all our trade
with the continent of Europe.
These Resolutions were passed under the
influence OF tales industriously propagated
by the Tories. The people of Massachu
sctts were told that the Government wa
under French influence The embargo was
represented as a measure of wanton hostili-
| ty to commerce on the part of the Southern
states. We were represented as having no
commerce, as not feeling the operation of
| TINS measure at all, although the five South
ern States, VIZ. Maryland, Virginia, South
Carolina and Georgia. export of domestic
and Foreign articles 35,S26,141 dollars and
have population o. 3, 185 1926 per-ons; while
the tlve Eastern States, viz. II. Hampshire,
COnneCC!C"t, Enode-iSland, Massachusetts
and Vermont export of domestic and FOREIGN
| articles only 24,278,723 misunderstanding IN
favor OF the Southern States, IL 547 ,41G dol
| lars. This statement too is made from the
| Treasury books, although we know that
much of the produce of the Southern coun-
try is carried to the Eastern States. both for
consumption and expectation. and that Mas
sachusetts particularly imports annually for
consumption large supplies Of our -four.
| The embargo law was passed at tirne
when the French Berlin decree had been
actually exteBded to- our commerce and
when it was well understood in this country,
that tie British orders of council of Novem-
Der would issue.--Under the French decree
every American vessel trading with Great
! Britain, its allies and dependencies, was sub
| Jet to capture and condemnation.
| Under the British orders Of council. every
Americas vessel trading with France, her
alliesof dependencies, was subject 10 capture
and condemnation also, unless the vessel FIRST
touched 1T i british port, paid transit du-
| ty or in other words, tribute, and took a Ii
| Cencc.
Every European power having become the
ally Ct England or France. the whole com
MERGE ofthe United States with Europe and
Erro?ean colonies was subject to capture
and condemnation, either by one or the O
| tGer Of the bclIigerents. The exports IF the
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