The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1810-03-09
Gbe Gnqulrer.
RICHMOND. MARCH 9, 1910.
FOR THE ENQUIRER.
THE CE WTIN Ell No. L.
TO the Republican tarty /. /!

| a sleep into which We are fallen Alas
1t much resembles the sleep of death or is
1T political apoplexy, in which it is only
necessary -aat you should be let blood, to
revive you ?-That operation is performed.
Look to New-York: the Federalists have
taken that state against your friends there,
they have commenced war of utter ex-
termination, root and branch, and given you
a sample OF what you are to expect when
they get the general government. Shake off
this lethargy before it be too late. While
| yet you may be saved, break from this lea
den sleep; start from this fatal trance.
| Arouse; look about you see the progress
which your political enemies have already
| made, and the total and overwhelming ruin
with which they threaten you. Do you not
see that the republican minority, thc sole
| authors Of the federal resurrection, have
| thrown themselves into the arms & bosom of
that party have become completely incorpo.
| rated with'them and that this united body,
| from one end OF the continent TO the other,
are making series of systematic, most vi
| gorous and most persevering efforts to over
turn your power and mount, the inselves, into
the seat Of authority And what have YOU
to expect from their SUGGEST
beg you opaase upon this question, and
put it over again in the most solemn form
to yourselves. Consider the past, and then
ask, what have you to expect from the sue
cess of the federalists and minority Look
at the colour of their sentiments on the floor
of Congress, and then doubt, if you can, that
as to our foreign matters the first thing will
be British Alliance ; and the fate OF cue
| ry British ally on the Eurohean continent ?
| appeal to experience, & ask if for these last
ten years, at least, the alliance of c.. Britain
has not been the unerring prognostic OF ruin
to the ally Whether the cause of British
friendship has not uniformly chalked out the
track OF French victoryand tyranny 81
Whether a S soon as British attachment has
marked the object, the lightning of France
has not been ever ready to fall and blast it ?
| Whether G. Britain, in fact, instead of pro-
tecting those whom she professed to befriend,
has not merely played the jackall, the Lii
on's provider to France, and in hunting up an
ally, merely huntedup victim for her per-
| suer?
She will still follow this course; she must
follow 1t. for il is a policy which is essen
tial to her salvation. She is playing a game
OF chess with the emperor of France and
as soon as he gives check to her king, she
must interpose another piece or the game is
up, for her king has no move. And as long
as she can. she will continue to interpose a.
mother pi until the board is cleared, and
her own ruE can be no longer suspended
~
| rope; she has gone on interposing state af-
ter state. until Bonaparte has taken them
all; and it is in this extremity, that she
looks across the Atlantic to us.
Are we prepared to serve her turn -.
Are we ready to move in between her and
BonaParte, and take the blow which is aim
ed at her? When did she deserve this sa-
crifice at our handss Was it in the BEGIN
ming OF the 18th century, when for their re-
| ligous opinions, she drove out our ancestors.
with fire and faggot, from their native land /:
and afterwards followed them with her ty.
ranny into this western forest Was it in
'65 when she passed the stamp act or in rs
when i'll enforcing it, she carried fire and
sword through our lands Was it by an un-
provoked, unjust, cruel and unrelentine war,
| waged against us, for eight years, with the
| aid OF savages who spared neither age nor
sex, and who covered the land with blood
| and confagration Or was it by the insidi :
Gus peace of 1888 which has proved to us.
| only 7par IN disgnise---a war upon our com
merce, and our neutral rights-a war to all
the purposes of plunder, capture, imprison-
| ment and death-witness the lawless con-
demnations of our ships. the multiplied bank
ruptcies of our merchants, the croans of
thousands of our citizens in British duBge
ons, tar from their parents, wives, children,
oiotneIS ana 1rlendS, the blood OF Pierce
which still cries to heaven for vengeance.
and the cowardly slaughter of the Chesa-
peake, over which the honor of the nation
| still bushes and weeps? Was it, l ask, by
| conduct like this that G.. Britain has emit
| tied herself to expect that we will step in be
| tween France and her?
" But Great Britain. they tell us, is fight
Sing the battles of the world her navy is
"our shield and in joining with her. we
are only making head against the common
"enemy OF the world" This is the very
argument which has ruined every state i'm
Europe-it has been urged to them all, one
after another; one after another has been
seduced by it and one after another, they
nave fallen i'll rapid succession. Would YOU
avoid their fate, reject this stale argument.
whose refutation is written in the blood Of
Europe Would YOU avoid their fate, avoid
the fatal friendship of Great Britain and
would you avoid the latter, awaken all your
energies and counterfeit with equal vigor
the Vaccinations Of the federalists and mi
norjty combined See in what perfect con-
cert they are moving. Mark their vigilance,
industry, dexterity and boldness. Look at
their elaborate and interchangeable operations
III Congress and the State Legislatures -
Look at the constant intriguing, mining.
preaching, working of their agents and G.
missarles in every quarter of the Union.-
Look Mt the Herculean labors of their pres
ses; mark how perfectly consentaneous
their movements how the same argument,
the same objection, sounded by the federal
lists, is echoed back by the minority and a.