The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1810-08-14

| knew not now TO walk, 10 SCide, or to govern
themselves.
| Since his dignified retirement. the blind have
led those who chose to be blinded, and both have;
! tumbled into the ditch. The merchants have
taken the rens into their own hands, and r.. xlon
like, they are driving head long and have scorch-
| ed themselves.-We say, let them guide the cIa.
| riot of state-let them have free trade.
Lexington Reporter.
Extract Ola letter from Mr.. Jarvis, the
american Consul at Lisbon. dated June
IL, 1910.
"There has not existed so great a search
ty ofgrain and -four in Portugal at any peri.
cd since have been here, as at this mo-
ment. Flour is now sixteen and half dol
lars barrel, equal at the exchange to Sc
venty seven shillings sterling. the purchaser
receiving it from on board and paying the
duty and the approaching harvest will not
produce any sensible effect on the market,
as the low land wheats have suffered ex-.
tremely from the uncommonly wet spring"
Eftract ola letter from, a gentleman in
Richmond, Virginia, to his friend in
Kentucky.
think our country is, at present. very
badly supplied with materials for future le-
gislation and government. least my eyes
over the continent in vain, in quest of sue
cessors to our present patriots There
| seems to me most miserable and alarm
ing dearth of talents and requirements a
mong the young men i'm the u. S. have
sometimes sat down and endeavored to fill
he various Offices in the government, with
characters drawn from those who are made
known to US. either personally or by fame
but so far am from finding among them a
man fit for President, that I cannot even
snd characters fit for the heads of depart
ments. w at has become of the talents of
the countrys Are they utterly extinct or
DO they merely slumber. and does it require
another great convulsion, like our revoluti..
onary war, to rouse their dormant energies
l. myself, think it proceeds i'll very great
! degree if not altogether. from defective e.
ducation. Our teachers themselves either
want learning, or they want the address
necessary to play the part of revolution
| IN exciting and squirting into vigorous acti-
on the powers of the mind. Young men are
every where turned loose. in the various
professions. with minds half awake, and
their surface merely little disturbed with
science-This is not the way great men
have been made either in Europe or Ame-
rica-As long as this system is pursued,
we never shall have any thing but political
quaeks.
have been bordering for some time on
the means of introducing a change here -
and have thought that one character of me-
rIt might do great things in the way of re-
formation-if, tor instance, a man Of erudi-
ton and genius would open a course of po-
litcal and legal lectures in this mctropoiss
on great and extensive scale, the effect
would soon be felt. I would propose sha
such an one should. in his legal course car
ry his students through the law of nations,
natural and conventional, making them in
timately acquainted with all the great wri-
Iers upon this subject, as Grotus, Prffen-
dorf, &c. &c. as we'll as with the general
principles settled by nations in their treaties
| then. tnat he should introduce them to a
knowledge OF the civil or Roman law which
| Lord Mansfield has declared the most per-
fleet body of written reason that ever was
Produceds and which is still rescrted to in
every new case---and then he should carry
them through the municipal law, or law of
| the land--in his political course, / would
have him to unfold the different characters
| OF government, shelving the advantages and
disadvantages of each, and combining with
this part OF his course the study of ancient
and modern history, so as to test his princi-4
pies by strict experience; L would have
| him, then, to digest our own federal consti-
tuition, compelling his students, as they
went along, to study the debates of the va.
rious conventions in which it had been agi-
tated. making them debate and write them
selves on the tendencies of the instrument.
until they became most intimately acquain.s
ted, not only with its provisions. but with
its essence and character. and capable of
| applying hcproper checks whenever it YER
ged too strongly towards monarchy or arts.
tocracy. so as to qualify them for preserving
the republican genius of the government. of
winch they ought to be made deeply and en-
tn Enthusiastically enamoured-1 would then
have him to exhibit TO his students the go
vernment as organized under this CONSTITUTE
ior-~--poi1t out its first movements critical
iy--accompany the reading of every act
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