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

aggerate the millions of public debt your par
~ had paid cff-lest some millions should be
found spanitny. Don't bury 1900 out OF 1000
| men out OF the n. o. detachment, on the
| shores ofthe Mississippi. as some OF you have
done-lest the public documents should CONE
| IN, to prove. that such an enormous stretch
could no, have been the effect of Iuadver-
tence, but design.
There are two other rules, gentlemen, which
! indeed it is scarcely necessary 10 impress upon
you, as you ~eem to have prac,ised them with
great success.
These are to reserve your mast effective Ives
tor the crisis OF our elections ard during these
crises, when the public mind is in want of light
as to our foreign relations, to teem' with every
possible rumour and caiumny, about the steps OF
The government
Seize the moment, when the public are in
search of light, because that is the moment
tor making mpressions-and hold up your
best lies for the Elections. For an engineer
might as well waste his heaviest metal upon
a bush. as tor vouto waste your finest shot
in mid-air Your arsenal should be supplied
with all sorts of explosives, from a squib up
to SO pounder.-lndeed. one of the great est
arts in lying. is TO know the TIME which it
suits best And by this rule, DIR. Morse may
well be denominated the Prince of Lyars,
tor his eXertions i'm blasting an election, by
his miraculous story of the Ocean Massacre
detailed with so much art from the ccnse-
Grated Pulpit
But THESE Rules, Gentlemen, ana any o.
Tiers which may be laid for your govern
ance, will not avail to redeem you from the
depths OF political ruin into which you have
taiien,% unless you should recover iu some
measure the reputation which you have lost.
One OF the arioms of lying is that man
should be supposed at least catiabie of speak
r p,Il A,
necessary degree of reputation before you
can obtain any success. The party should
agree TO vent nothing but truth for three
months together, which will give them Gre
DIT tor s'xmonths lying afterwards" Per
haps indeed. cit is almost impossible to find
fit personssto execute this Scheme"
Much otyoor success might even then be
prevented Oy the number of indiscreet lies.
WATCH are put into circulation, by busy and
Ignorant pretenders. Your society ought.
therefore, to be put under some organic att
on-and the directors should alone have the
power OF issuing licenses TO particular per-
sons. to set up mint OF fictions-the rest of
the crew to be confined to the mere mocha
meal business of copying and of circulate
on-when they have proved their discern
ment In this humble branch, they may then
aspire to the dignity of coiners--from A. b,
they may become A M's.-Particular lies,
too, should be confined to particular districts
thus, The lies of Virginia Influence and
OF antPathy to Commerce, should De confin-
ed to the Eastern states, &c. &c
Such, sirs, are the general rules of trea-
tise-which shall submit to your attenti-
OIL shall leave the exposition of the de-.
tails to your own judgments but as il is
impossible toryou to rise from your present
ruins. without some imposition upon the peo-
pie, it is all important for you to understand
the way, In which this is to be accomplished
Prem by your own errors g:ntlemen. and
amend your ways.
leave you here little book,
For you to look upon,
What you m.y see your errors ways.
When AM dead and gone
II you SO on to serve the cause,
AS you have now begun,
You shall walk safely all your days,
Untli your life be done
Cod grant you to end your days
AS he shall think il best
- That may see you in the ST.
Respectfully Prays your well wisher,
A. B.
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