The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1811-12-21

origin we were indebted for all our boasted
theory of govcrnment--the habeas corpus
act, the trial by jury and many other things
which we priced so highly were of Anglo
Saxon origin, and if we ourselves had not
been, we would have submitted to the taxes
Of the Norths and Grecnvilles.
Here Mr.. Randolph read the names of
fic first demonstrators to British rapacity
which were of .AnSlo-Saxon origin; if We
had been from French loins, he trembled
for the consequence, for though bad masters
they were the best slaves in the world, and
would never have resisted for the trii1ing ia
post OF two-pencc per pound OH tea. We
were very particular that our shcep should
be OF the real msrino, our horses of the best
blood (; orr oxen too, or bulls, if gentlemen
will have it, must be or the largest size
every thing must be improved but human
nature, that must be left to dwindle down
to stuff that will make a standing arn,y-
Our forefathers had received their ideas OF
honor and morality from the most pure sour
ces; they had not received their lectures
from the French apostle, the author of the
Age of Reason-But he had been accused of
the horrible political sin of calculating the
resources OF the British nation we had not
the surplus capital nor population of that
G. untry to war with-nor i'll the way we
were going on he much doubted whether
we ever should haveit for by cooping up the
savagcs and dcpriving them of their land, we
had saddled ourselves with an Indian war.
HE western country were now acting upon
us, a drain upon us, our richest valiieS were
uepOpulated, and our specie carried off /;
while all this was transaCting, the western
people would be satisfied, but when they had
nothing to gain, we should again hear them
damor against the Atlantic states. It was
SO netiines necessary to put avarice, dollars
and cents, in one scale, and honor in the o.
ther he had no doubt but him and his wor
Thy friend from n. Carolina, (Stanford,)
would be outweighed by the generals, colo
nels and captains in employ. He sincerely
wished he could give up his feeble and fruit
tess opposition, and like the gentlemen on
fhe other side of the house, say go! If he
was the enemy of this government he would
do So, he would give the administration
rope, and let them so to the full length of
their rether. We were told there was no
danger in thirty thousand standing regulars,
this was hooted at, these notions which were
into US in Adams's time, were IL
be hiCked out of us now-with twenty two
Thousand men, Caesar passed the RuoiCon.
and fought he famous battle of fharsalia,
which made him master of half the world
Ihere always had been, and always would
be, a town and country party AS your
filthy and populous cities produce disease. <
pestilence. SO will this miserable and exc
cradle thing called a standing army produce
a despot, a king. Under the present gov
eminent, our army and navy had cost us iif-
~ millions of dollars-one million FIVE hun
dred Thousand of which had been eNpend-
ed, in oyster boats, or floating heils called
gun-boats; while the militia were gut off
with an appropriation of two hundred and
iifty thousand dollars, winch the clerk sheer
cd at, as he brought it down from the other
-bouse. He 0as always a friend to the mill
tia, and would always stand up for the mi
Itla, for in so doing he was advocating the
people tiiemselves-with this view he had
reported a bill appropriating one million of
dollars, annually, which had been frittered
down to che sum before mentioned. There
was no patronage in delivering out arms to
the militia, and therefore the money must
go to the support OF navy agents, and TO feed
hungry coilinissarIes these creatures knew
the hand that fed them, and make a suitable
return, they originated in corruption and
were mt instruments to support the rotten
pillars of govcrnment-But we were told
that party distinctions weresto be done away,
and this was to be a war Of unity-Gentle-
men on both sides have laid their heads to-
sether, like a couple OF lawyers at the ex-
pence OF their client, or rather like a tay-
kors slI ars laid into. the cloth of his Gus
eomer-the poor little minority of 1906, was
to be cut in twain. He was glad to ear
mat TINS was to be q war for domestic ma
nuiactures, to carry our produce and return
home with such articles as our necessities
may require. Homespun was no novelty in
his country. He had once been vain enough
ESQ strange were mis- prejudices in favor of IT'D
TO PRIDE himself as being dressed in a suit of
Virginia cloth, till he discovered that Il mans
PATRIOTISM did not consist in what he eat,
drank and wore, when he shook 1t off, as far
as related to eXternals.
he was almost persuaded to believe that
the wife OF Hector and lady Lucretia herself
must have been Virginia matrons, especially
the latter, as she was found spinning among
her maids-NVhen he saw a Virginia lady
occupied in the affairs of her household and
domestic manufactures, he could bow down
and do her reverence, so much was his heart
Impressed with the divinity of the object
Had the empress of France made her ap-
pearancc at our agricultural exhibition, held
some days since in George Town, how proud
would have been the comparison to 1.-THE A
merican housewife. He then returned to
the subject of the war, which, if entered into,
he declared would be as much all object of
calculation by the adDinistration as a pound
OF powder and shot was to d Potomac duck
er; one says this will produce me so many
white backs, the other says we shall gain
Canada. He declared the political Millen-
mum to be at hand, when the lion * lamb
should lie down together. Citizen Genet *
John Adams had become flaming patriots,
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