The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1809-03-31

the expence Of the honor and ine.cpendeic.
of his country-while he would have peari,
extinguishcd the great resources of the Ea $
tern States-barished their seamen into TO
, reign bottoms, and chained their vessels &c
their wharves. He would therefore have a
dopted an embargo more partial and favora-
bic to the southern states, and excited at
once the Jealousy and indignation of the asst
-tor burdens are always borne with greater
cheerfuiness, when they are made to press as
nearly as possible upon the different parts of
the republic.-Yet is he now continually ma
king his boasts of his own tiiscernment in
predicting the removal of the embargo; the
very man who would have adopted mea-
sure, that would Immediately have thrown
the whole eastern country into n flame.
DO you find these wise principles in the
emily measure which he was in.re hid enough
to recommen nd to the last Congress p" A rin-
Ing our merchantmen only! A most s..ga-
cious scheme of resistance, to be sure A
most glorious plan for asserting the honor Of
our country. Mr.. X. would then have put
1t in the power of British agents, by assuming
our flag, tn involve the United States in
war with France. He would have given ST.
mllar power to French spies to involve US in
a British war. He would have placed the
peace OF this Country at the mercy OF any
mad American Captain CT vindictiye mer-
chant. But this is not AL As to the bene-
fits which hispoor scheme would have given
to the mercantile interest, they are below
the dignity of calculation His arming our
merchantmen wcuid be an abortiye, eXpen-
siye & therefore unusedexpedient. 1t would
be cheaper for a meic!iant to insure his yes
sci against capture-to protect it by British
license against the ,nly nation that is very
likely TO disturb THAN TO be at the expence
of arming It. No ole seems TO know better
than Mr. 4. himsef, what " slippery cells"
these merchants ar.-and how dexterously
they can slip Uer or under" legal re-
|straints. Under these circumstances what
would become of tie honor of our country!
We should resumeour trade with those We
ry nations, whose Insults and entertainments
have borne the severest upon us. We
should abandon Our national sovereignty by
submission to ia xtion & tribute-wc should
become the degraded and contemplate tri-
butaries of the Alters of the Atlantic.-And
| this is the cours, which the enlightened
principles OF your Representative would have
pursued. If it ishis, certain am, gentle
men, it cannot be yours. And if it be not
yonr's the Eia .:o thus aiis7 your
principles, should've longer bear the name
OF your RehresenntiUe.
THAT Mr.. Il. 1oted against the non inter-
course law-thatmost obnoxious measure
"
deserve for that voter Did lie oppose this
law, because his mind was warmed in the
defence OF his calntry's rights-because il
did not correspond with his ideas of the ex
tent OF the resistance, which we should exert
against British eicroachment NO 1t was
not because he fit for the honor of the u.
States, and was Wiling to go further in the
vlndcation of th,ir rights. Such was not
the course of theHon. John Randolph. In
stead OF adherinsto the Embargo. he would
have immediately abandoned it-abandoned
II totally any efficient substitute =
he would have rejected this measure roo
which has enabled you to obtain a higher
price tor your foT and tobacco, although he
had so often laboied to persuade you, that
II his scheme of admitting foreign vessels
had been adopted, your produce would not
have persisted III your barns. Such are the
wise hrincihics of your representative
But if Mr.. r. hasthose wise principles of
conduct, which his friends have ascrlbed to
him, where are they to be found No man has
been more inconsistent than himself. No
| man has ever more severely incurred the
otter pang of recanring his own previous
confessions IfAis principles are so pure.
are they the principles which he brought
with him into public life, or those which he
| now processes: Are they those of 18O6-or
Ut 1909! Are they those of the man. who
vas once friend to IAN embargo. or Of the
man who is an enemy to it! Was Mr.. r
correct when he ridiculed the scheme of at
lacking Canada, or when he comes forward
with proposition to seize not only upon Ca.
NADIA, but Jamaica to bootl
The melancholy truth, gentlemen, is this ::
Mr. Randolph's passions have swallowed W
his principles his talents have, to a certain
degree, remained, but these passions have
converted them into satire and gall. 90
what use are talents and sentiments in the
corrupt wilderness" of human passions, re-
sentiments and prosecutions? SIT is rank
and rotten soil. from which every finer SIN ub
draws poison as it grows. All that, in hap
pier held and purer air, would expand into
virtue and terminate into usefulness, is thus
converted into hcnbane and deadly night
shade" Such, gentlemen. is the melancho-
ly picture of your late Representative. Gui-
ded by the Overwhelming influence of his
owntistempered feelings, goaded by his I'm
relenting hostility to James Madison. his ha-
tired TO those men whom he is conscious of
having unjustly injured, his disappointed love
OF superiority, his consistency in error, and
that want of magnanimity, which disdains
not to retrace the path of its own mistakes,
the principles and talenss of John Randolph,
are Tor ever destined to be arrayed in the
ranks OF federalism, against the best mea-
sures OF the republican party. Is this the
politician, whom uot. would select to repre-
Sent your interests and your feelings.
" But we want centinels to watch over the
wees OF the government" Admit the fact !;
Isxf.a 4. - IT.