The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1811-04-05

-se when they happen to be About Subjects
that can understand. for as for the. news
one half Of 1t Is never true, and that that is,
] can hear when I GO to court, or to market
at q little town near to whear live: Tho
indeed it would make no great DDS il ne i.
yer hear it-for as the old saying is. bad
:as..s GENES soon enough. and ii there is any
good, we should feel The benefit Of it If we
never hear it-But know there is great
many things in the newspapers that do
not understand, such as the dispute in Con
sress about West-Fiorida And concerning
che rivers and places. I cannot make out
there names. for suppose they are French
or Spanish. Now the ingian namesI can
always make out pretty well-for it apears
to me that there II something rather grand
and noble in the sound of the names they
give to rivers and places-Nor. old Mr.. Ba
chelor, do understand what they said about
the lattitndes-for never had any lerning
in these things-(B But / shall write more par
ticuIar about my want of lerning and the
want of lerning in our country people in gen :
neral presently )-And as for the treties that
were made between the different nations, it
all got SO jumbled up in my head that it
was like one of these puzzles that have
seen put into the Enquirer in verse to try
peoples ingenuity that have got nothing
else to do but set and think over these things
but one thing could see plan enough /;
that the majore'y in Congress and the Pre-.
s'dent thinks we have right to the coun-
try, and 1t has always bean my rule, and so
have often told my boys. am always on
the side of the majorety of government UNI
less Thick can see wherein they are rong.
And indeed if it comes to the push with any
foraign nation and my own country, should
just as it my mother was alive and was
20 get into Array by her own imprudence,
which ! know she would not---I should stand
by the old Lady thro thick and thin, no
matter whether she was right or rong;-S<
should be. mighty apt to think the other
party more to blame than she; foryou know,
old MIR. Bachelor, We are all very much in :
ciined to think them we love best are in the
right unless the matter is too plain against
them. E
But hope. Mr. Old Bachelor. you will
not think have forgot that you do
not wish any of your correspondents to
write about polleticks. I assure YOU l do
not mean what Ihave Just said for polleticks.
It was as far from my mind as from here to
Florida; for tho love my country and try
20 understand what is for our interest, In e.
yer talk;much about desputable points, and
; never did write any thing concerning pol
beticks in my life not even IN letter to a
Trend For you can plainly see that am
an Indifferent hahd at writing upon paper.
for never was used to it, aad hardly ever
put pen 60 paper but to write IA short note to
d neigbor ON necessary biainess. And I
should not venture TO wfiee to you now if it
was not for SOME lhiE1ess that have come into
my mead ny reading OF yoncpeaces-and ny
desire to express my thougts to you about
these things could netmake ns bould enough,
fosend this, ifis was not for THAT you said 10
one Of your numbers, that what is sent 10 YOU
not fit for The Old Bachelor. you will burn
On return.--Nos. sir, beg THAI you viii 81.
sure ~ burn this, for my intern ID writing
TO you can be come at wi,huut any of my
pedr stuff being put into the news papers
and am sure should blush the moment
saw 1t III print, for l should be afraid
that every body would know that I wrote
l-tho do not see Row they Should fr
know they never saw any of my poor
thoughts in pria,. ald you may be sure I
DO not mean to pat my true name TO this.
But am afraid. good MIR. Gid Bachelor,
that am keeping you two long frola your
necessary Business by not Coming to ths point
at once about the cause of my writing YOU
this leter.-Now in order to understand The
matter righsly, hope; Old Mr. b. that you
will have little patience; for il is necessa=
~ for you TO know what sort of a man /
am, and something about my family. that
you may have good notion what it is I
wish you to consider aboet aud inform
me of.
was b. rnin the state of vilginla and 81
was my father and mother before mea-and
think If ever there was truehe AIRED Vir
ginian, must be one for Juever.was out of
the state in my liies tho I am now upwards
OF liberty yeats old, ard this may be one
Ieson why have always thout Virginia the
best Stale in the union. But there NAV be
another reson why / have such a sincere
love forVirginia, and for the United States
OF America IN general-Almost the first
thing that can remember that worked any
deap impression on my mind was the death
ot my father and the circumstances of il. -
He lived at that time about forty or fifty
mile from York Town where CORVALLIS was
taken.
During the seage he went down on tour
IN the Militia, but he had been in the Ame-
rican army before and was wounded at the
battle of Brandywine. can remember that
siter my father weat down to York, nv NO
ther very oftenin the day, and sometimes in
the night would go out to the edge of the
yard and walk about very thoughtful, and
then stand as If she was listening to hear
something with great attention. / was then
very young, and would frequently 60 to where
Rhe was and ask her what she was doIngL
She would commonly answer me, nothing mn
son, and would tell me to go into he house !;
aid could see from the tears that were
streaming from her eyes, that she was in
Deat distress about something. had no no
TIN ct what was the cause Of my mothers