The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1809-08-08

the appelation and condition of Helots." ys:ae
letter.. $40.
"They 1.-THE administration need not Tear The
moral sense, or sense ofhonor. ar any other sense
9 our people, except their nonsense, which they
will take special good tn keep On their sidc.''
l0th Mareh. 1862. 5l8.
1t il the nature of these white birch stakes
to fail in two years and AREPuRLIc wears QUE
its morals almost as soon rs tile sap of white
STA
" Of our six millions of people, there are
scarcely six hundred, who vet look for liberty any
where except on paper" 6,h November, 1907
p 51S.
Americans Federalists are these sentiments
rRuEl Are you that stupid-that infamous
herd which you are here represented to he - No..
Nor could itpossibly re the calm and dispassion-
ate Judgment of the writer that you were. These
ideas were part of his diseasc-he was himself
sensible that they were not fit for public nspecti-
on-Iis memory ought not to be charged with the
|detestation which such sentiments ought todraw
upon those, who, in full possession of the most
moderate understanding, could deliberately en-.
tertain them.--lt snot the Saint Of the Calendar
but the fraudulent monks at his shrine, who at
tempt to pass off the pairings of his nails for
lies of inestimable price.
We are sensible, that this inexprcssble con-
tempt for the whole American nation---this
dream of Bonaparte's coming in shape of a ty-
ger TO eat up our children, have all become stand
ing articles OF faith in the Junto creed. have
heard it said, that when His Most Gracious Ma
|jesty was under the discipline Of DR.. Willis, he
tancied himself a fox, and that he was hunted by
Gen. w ashinEton The nineteen-twentieths men
the /" scarcely six hundred ont of the six mil
lions" who are sincere in these nightmare visi-
ons, have brains less modest in their confusion
than those OF the great king. He humbly con-
celved himself turned into cunning and coward
ly beast, whose hunter was hero They, for
sooth dream, not that they themselves, but that
all their neighbors and countrymen are transfer
med into hares, to be hunted by tiger and that
in the chase, the tigers raven will not spare even
them, the salt of the earth, the heroic would-be
saviors of their fase and serv;le coun.ryiHcH. 1t
is melancholy contemplation of human nature,
to see mind SO richly gifted, and so highly cul
tivated as that of MIRA mes, soured and exaspe.
rated into the very rawlings Of a bedlamite.
What bitter pangs must BUNDLED genius feel,
| In their last hours, to see a Swift or Steele
But the apology that is due for him, is not c.
qually the right of others. There are those, who
without believing word of this absurd and in
consistent political creed, areyet as eager for its
propagation as he was-seriiy they expect their
reward. II they can brighten che whole people
into madness, like that OF the royal fox-ii they
can fill the brains of the nation, with fancy that
we have all been transformed 'intothe siiest of
the brute creation, only the sh9ire spirits,
mounting to, 1t most, six hundred the GXt
| step follows OF course-The porcelain Must rule
over the earthen ware-the blind and scrtiid null.
titudc must put themselves, bound hard & foot,
into the custody oil the lynx-eyed Sc RAsrEfc souls
of the six hundred and then all togethei. must
go and squat for protection under the hundred
hands OF the British Brareis. Then, indeed, we,
msy rely upon it, cur Country will be neither "foo
org for Union, nor :" TOO Getoera attic for l;5etty "
10 this volume is prefiXed AN eleg int aud in.
genious biographical account of the author, writ.
ten Ill style of moderation, which we cannot
but contrast with the violence and fntemperance
OF the late papers in the volume itself The
learned biographer appears more than one &C.
| casion embarrassed with the rantings of his sub
ject, and coois with feather dpt in oil the burn
ing metal of his text He tells us that Mfr.
Ames was emphatically rebubiicdn-bui that he
considered republic and democracy as essentI-
ally distinct and opposite. Probably this was The
state OF his opinions at one period of his life
but i'll his latter days, when the English fascinu-
tons and the French antipathies had obtained
their uncontrolled ascendancy over his mintl, he
appears to have had little esteem for repuo-
lican government as for the American people. 1t
| IS not to democracy, but to a republic, that he
compares the essential rottenness of the white
birch stakes, in one of the above extracts In
short, he was too thoroughly Brtonzed to pre-
| serve relish for any thing republican aud in
the paper last published before his decrase con-
tanned IN this vehime, he says i'll express terms,
| that {" the immortal spirit of the wood nymph IL
berty, dwelis only in the British oak
The proposition once made in Congress- to
declare the American nation 4" the most enhgh-
| tened people upon the GLOBE has been ridcul-
cdquIte as much as IL deserved Ii by the term
enlightened, were to be understood merely the
degree OF proficiency attained by a few indvitlu.
ais IN the arts and sciences, we certainly can have
no prete nsions to competition with most Of the
European natlons-but if it were meant only to
express the amount OF mental cultivation gene
| rally possessed by the body of the people l be-
iIeye 1t was strictly true. 1t would he difficult
at least TO name the people in Europe, the great
| mass OF whom possess so much of that know
| ledge, which IS power, as the people of the u.
| D. Ii, however, there was something of national
vanity manifested the sentiment, it was at least
| All INNOCENT error.--But could never perceive
either the wisdom or the virtue of pruclaiming
The assuredly false doctrine, that the people OF
America arc che basest and most degraded of the.
/ human species. Il is one of those scandalous
ca'umnes which n Number Of starveiing vaga-
| bonds IN England, with Co5betts Register, and
Moore, the minstrel Of the brothels have been for
some ears administering to the malignant pas
sons OF that country; but from the lips of an A :
merican, it is little the oce of patriotism as of
truth. The language of insult and outrage APP
pied to the people, no better than the language
oil aduiation 1t tenth part of those horrible re-
proaches upon the whole people poured forth in
Inc extracts have here given, and repeated un-
der 2 thousand shapes in this volume, were true,
the country would not be fit for the residence of
man who had spark of honor in his composite
1 on. He would fly from it rs from land of va
hoos--the very pretencc of anxiety for the fate of