The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1812-10-09

love of American Liberty and Independence,
animates the breasts OF your countrymen.-
Aud for you whose zeal and manly frmnes
have already equipped for inc fed, l car
only hope that l,c who rules the dest;aie:
OF earth, with his protecting arm may shielt
You from every o.hger. aud when with
danntless intrepidity you display the gilt
terms eagle OF yrnr Country, r1a: CIor5
crownyou with her richest laurel.
JuNivs.
To Messrs. Robert Gamble. Samuel G.. Al
ANS, w. Fenwick, James Bream, Hugh
Chambers, 8. Eimball, William Richard
son, jr. James Morris, Nesbett & Hethcr-
ton, Philip lister. Dir. James M'Clurg,
Jacob Harrison. James Shiphard, Darms-
DAFT. James WhmeIaw, Doctor John Dove,
M w. Hancock, Charles Coplana, II.
Baker, l.. Wheeler, & Coz Jerks and
Billing, James Wallace Amos & Under
hill, William Bootwright,W Ban kstl;,le ir.
John MCPHERSON, James Hutchinson, John
Graham, DR.. Thomas Massie, Capt. W.
Maccn, and Thomas Hubbard, ESQ aires
of the city of.Richmond,
) GENTLE M should never have
dreamt of thus addressing you. rs hoiific,-
ems. ii Your friend Pu6Huss* had n,,t set me
the example. He has chosen to drag your
modes, merit into light and IT is fer him s,
not for me, to make you an. apoIogy-Ii
you shrink from the eye of the public, re-
member il is the hand of a friend W no has
dragged you thther. 1t is the hand Of a
friend who has put ycuup as mark TO be
shot Alt is the awkward hand of j'nbH-
US who has put you on the pedestal. 20 crown
you with the laureis which you deserve I" for
the manly and Independent patrons; ge so
promptly given by YOU to the press Of the
Federal Republican,"
But had Pubhus confined E'r1self to the
object with which he set out, l should have
been silent. You are welcome to the COM
pliments which he has paid you, if they can
do you any honor. IF to yield support to a
press. which has tried to lie down every re-
publican patrioe in our land, and TO gloss O.
yer all the wrongs of Britain if to patro-
Mise press, which at the moment war is
wrung from us by the wrongs of that enemy,
avows its intention to abuse the war, TO lie
down its friends & take sides with the enc
my, II this be" a subject of the utmost pride
and exu'tatIon," you are welcome to all
the honor 1T confers, and NAV Publius be
your historian II shall say no more, Cen
tlemcn, OF yourselves. If wished to wound
you, Pnblius has done it for me. He is your
encomiast and your worst political enc
mics could not wish you worse than to have
a friend OF his stamp. His dragging you in
to public notice, his plumbers, his gross mis-
takes, and. last, though not least, the awk-
ward light OF consequence i'll which he pla-
ces you as politicians. must be punishment
enough 70 sensibilitieslike yours. HIS praise
is censure enough.
am sure. sirs, when you lent your name
to the +. Republican, you did not dream of
the political consequence which it would
give you. You surel did not covenant with
ITS Editors, 10 be faithful and vig,lant CEN
tinels over he public veal to be in the
utmost state OF mental preparation to resist
the approaching alliance of the u. S. with
france. Much less could you have eXpec-
TED becoming oracfes and sages, to inter
pref the constitution, ard answer all the
queries of Publius. Some of you have too
much to do, to be studying queries and unity
ing the knots of the const ituticn. And il
this be the sort Of burthen, which your sub
scriptlon imposes upon you,you will be very
apt TO think 1t is money not very we'll laid
out.-For my own part will freely confess,
do not see how these things are connected
what your patronage Of the +. h. has to do
with the points which Publius has logged in
to his piece nor by what right he has
turned You into drudge horses to bring his
miserable load of ideas to market. If YOU,
sirs, like the employment, | do not very
much envy your choice. 1t is too much for
ycu to pay at once for the stuff Of one man,
and to load yourselves with all the stn6s of
another.
1t is because, sirs. We have been made the
ec'iduits of this abuse against "the traly
disgraceful democracy of the land" and Its
sbeRaipable measures" as he pleases to call
them, that beg leave to addrs. SIS, thro' you
few words to Publus.-In the first place,
he cants about persecution, Persecution -
But II this be so losing game, who began
it Vtlom has the Federal Party
yer spared Was it not the Adams admit
nistration which began the war; Was it not
Robert q. Harper, who held out to the IL
OF * III the winter of 1878, that the Pre-
sdent would not trust any one but Fede-
raiistin ottice>s In all the states, where
the Federalists have had the sway, we have
been swept from Office. Your Razor has
cut deep IN Massachusetts in the state
OF New York where you have swayed the
Counch ot appointment, yuo have swept off
ut ore blow every republican who dared to
say his SOIL was his ewn--ayc, at one full
swccp" you fell upon them all, from the
Mayor Oh n. \ down to an Inspector OF meal
or 4 measurer of timber. In this state, in
deed, there has been no chance of PLAYING
such prankS, because, perhaps, there has not
been the power TO dot But, insinuatcs the
Sciupulcus Pu6iius, we have turned you all
out q put not one in Except Judge Evans J
indeed where is the Collector Of this port
Where is the Auditor Of Pubfic accounts <
the Register If the land 6fice Where is
General V'o"d' In our public Councils
;here:0fe the truth is not In Publus.
! Bat 1t seems, you are to be scared out Of
| your wits like children by = bri,ir,l,l,n no