The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1811-06-11
PHILADELPHIA, June 4.
TO YOUR LOOMS AND ANVILS!

What the wisdom Of our statesmen has
rot accomplished, their folly will force upon
us---we must look to our in. ern0i resources,
to DOR cotton, suoeL iron, leather, and timber,
to our nyn far, hemh. nd into he bowels Of
our own mines for the selfshness of the
commercial people, their blindness and in
sensibiHty to the future. and the sympathetic
spirit Of avarice and shallow mind, which
has governed our finance, and through our
StDauce, governed the nation in manner
adverse 20 its best interests all these caus-
es, and DINERS. have operated to place us in
s1cn 81 uation with relation to the rest of
fhe world, that We shall have no commerce.
WI shall not have port in Europe to Whit.
we can trade with profit or security, indeed
To which we can trade without danger on
: the way, and certain loss at the end of the
voyage,
This state of things. though attributable
wholly to the futility of that policy, which
will render the tenfh congress and the in
SHguers, who wrought their panic. to eter-
alinfamy in me American annals, this state
of things will after ALL tend more 10 estab
hsh the interests and prosperity of this ma
zion, than any even which could arise for
Eue must nogr from necessity. turn our at
SenitR to concerns which ought to have
engaged rs first Of all; we must turn our at
tenton 90 our own Looms q Anvjis instead
OF paying 'rbute to foreign nations, for those
shings which we can produce abundantlv,
and better than we can receive them from
abroad.
Ihe readers OF this paper cannot be ia
Ken bv surprze upon perdsinE the late
spe ii Of the French emperor to the de-
pusa'ion OF merchants. In this paper it was
pred'cted that the fiifift.i tricks of the secre..
tafy 81 the treasury. would expose all the
IN e -
and ultimately lead to our exclusion from
every port of Europe in all human proba
OIity such Will be the effects of the recon-
Nendafion of the retary of the treasury
tn violate the engagement Of the law of Max,
1910, sud - the corresfiondine motion made
by his hufihet Mr.. John Randoihh, in the
Mouse OF representatives.
We have seen letter. Of the 9TH and 9Th
Of April, from Boz deaux, from resident
Irencbmen, and from Americans. who feel
disn,erestcdly on the subject and we find
M their letters. advice. that the speech. as
gwen I'D this days paper copied from cas-
Germ prints, is substantially true; that the
French government considers our nou-im
portatIoD law as violation of the engage
ineni, and that all the property on board
American ships, was ordered to be landed &
atored.
Such is the fruit Of our financial privy
Counsel ; the wisdom of the Anerican Neck
CT the Machiavelian policy which
Inland pms the rrghtfo hurs sue the expedien,
Thete are men who wish to console them
stIves with the not;Jn, that Russia is about
70 engage ia an alliance with power whose
agents aBnonnce the intention Of assassjna
ting the emperor Alexander. That prince
10 much better adap,ed 10 live in republic
than 10 els ON throne surrounded By men
a|svays nf fer IN highes, bid that prince
VIII not voluntarily enter into any war he
would not enter above al in.o a war adverse
to the freedom OF the seas; he would not
enter ino war. which he well knows
would produce only these con ,couences.
The rc-establishmont Of Sweden in lis MT
most ancient extent wEich would place Ii
rebia aud Courland "a vel as Finland. and
ycsEtss Fsy c;eyihssia GhEh the RprSae