The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1810-08-17
FROM IKE AURORA.
JURISCOLA.

"ns, WE are now III sor' or negative state,
whilst they are in positive stsie OF war
against us. Bufetted and plundered by
both, and at home confounded by the insta.
o'hty OF Congress and tae pertid, whch
has been exposed in Mr. Eoskine's conver-.
salons. 10 calculate upon amy measures Of
public good, or 10 expo any thug that
can assure public cUnflGcnCt, wnne nv.
Gallatin has 1t in lis power 20 render all
laws migratory, and TO set an updCrhdnd C:.r-
rent III action against The streams OF public
feeling and national honor, is impossible
The people Cannot repose confidence in
any measures with which that man has Ell
, Their q direct counsel on Indirect agency
events have shown, that some better genius
presided over The pubic treasury during
the last, than the present admin sirasion
and there is no POSSIBILITY with regard to
that man now, to hold any other opinion,
than thai IT he possesses great talents, he has
betrayed his trust, or that if he has acted 70
the best of his Judgment tha' he is utterly
unit and incompetent to the trust reposed
| in hIm.
While the country stands in this predica-
ment of distrust and uncertainty, we can
turn our ewes only tn the external opera ION
OF political transactions with any sort of Ger,
taintv. We have seen fhe mystery If our
o!on Mt9)ortnneS unraUeHed =; ne British
ambassador, who exhibi's the le0ding cha.
racers in the eastern states, and M, Gal.
latln's system of detrac,on from the % ICY
OF the greate-t statesman cur cnuntrl ever
pos, essei, and Es own confemb i6ie erhedi-
ems, opeI atipg our ruin and on di,honor.
Let US then turn our ewes e. m the pain
TN scene ut home, u the stupeudous drama
abroad (; let us lo'k back at eve Is for ex
perience. and endc:tvor to pe''s tr2te fututi
ty by the only laws which human judgment
can De governed. an approach to the un--
Known by comparison with what e.
Know.
: There is a talk of peace in Europe be-
tween Great Britain and France. But is il
aSoHd or hollow negocatirn? II is s id
the Austrian emperor has engaged verv
earnestly in eff IT'S 10 produce tins general
peace. Ii is even said that England has
consen cd to cartel, bv which She gives
IA or 10 French prisoners to obtain 9 En-
glish prisoners, and that this ratr, VIII
when carried into full eXecu ion, leave no
prisoners of war Of either country in ,os-
session of the other. This is held TO be a
strong symptom Of q hacyfc di&fosifion on
the part OF Great Britain. l. u not wor,h
while to consider the value If the fact -
Peace must arrive At some d4y. The pe.ce
o! WestPhalia was the result of WA, nf
thirty years a war. which if not equally
splendid IN the number and magnitude # mi.
htaiy 2tcnIeVements, was not less desi,uc
tive to civilized Societp, and was as by. In
rous and sanguinaIy. Yet that peace which
settled the balance of power, which gave
stability to the federal government e
Germany, (which secured the Indep endence
OF Swisserland-and dsslpated he bnsaboo
OF universal monarchy, and promised
ferfetUdt flPace; did not save Charles
from decapitation in the year af.er the
peace nor did it prevent the British ac, ne
navigation in three years after; nor thr 50
cret treaty against the statholderate rf Hol.
land IN 1854 nor the capture of Janairs
in 1855 nor the treaty of the Pyrenpees -,
ten years after. nor the annihilatinn of the
delegate power in Denmark, nor :he rim
pie alliance in 1868. nor the canaDai,neof
Jurenne, in Aisace, in 1914; and so isef-
hcient was the treaty Of Westphqlia. that
q new treaty was required in 1879. which
! was concluded at N,meguen nor did ,L;ct
prevent The descla'ion Of the Dalatinata r,
1858; aud he recessi'v ofanother treaf,, -.
/ RySWick in 697 nor the treaty of ua,tiiion
concluded between England France ana
h"Iland IN 1893, nor second par'iio, tre..
! ty IN 100, which brought on the war nc
the succession; and the peace IF Utrecb, r.
l713 and another treaty at AK la Che
pelle in 1913.
The so years war was the fruit Of c.,
I perstition, assuming the name of REELECTION
dlu PW1hhS the n1CtrineS Of Oh rist rs,
sects protesting ne same faith, des+ro,;nr,-
each other under the pretence of pietv h,,S
really set on 10 crafty rapacious power ana
avarice ind al the SUBSEQUENT trea,iaa
and wars whatever, where the Drete,,,e
8un1ed, were wars for power.
| The variety of preiex's under which ,bo
war which now RACES has been carried 49,.
nave been AL alike fallacious and ireui,;ra
/ to human reason. The war of the Fro,sss
revolution began nth an efT,rt 10 redress
the grievances of barbarous ages but evs,.,,
government perceived, that IL France CO.
ceeded. they must fall that If France -
pered' they must perish: and England a
bove all, saw that If the human facul,ios
were lett tree III such a Country as France
/ IT must become commercial and , -
most formidable. it was soon seized '..'I ~
az the means to encrease power and 10 ,on
| nopnize commerce; it became var TO-
| TIE monopoly OF commerce The w. 49,.
now placed commerce in new cirruns,.,.
ceS' u mas crea' ed 4 revolution which ~
not i"teseen by those who stcretlv f,men,,a
! It. Nemce and Genoa Florence and p.
nave travelled through the same paths ss
/ gre and Sido8 and Alexandria. IT,
ocdndanavlans and Nnrmans the H.,
towns, holland aud England have had -
! DAY; and thr power which has arisa,, ~.
! 'neir RUNS. IS hasting fast into the. ~
ABYSS, hurried ike Carthage by the d,I,',e
um Of an unnatural and forced gr.s u.'i'I-