The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1812-06-12

adJurc you by the regard which you have
l'Tyour own security & property, for the Ii
oertics & Inheritance of your children by all
hatyouhoid dear& sacred, to interpose yonr
constitutional powers to save your country
and ourselves from calamity the issue OF
which 1t is not given to human foresight to
divine.
Ask yourselves If YOU are willing to be-
come the virtual allies Of Bonapar,e are
you willing, for the sake of annexing Cana
da to the Northern States, to submit to that
Iever-growing system of taxa ion, which
sends the European laborer supperess to
bed to maintain by The ". at of Your brow
armies at whose hands you are to receive a
future master! Suppose Canada ours Is
there any one among you Who would ever be,
IN any respect, the better for il f--the rich
er-the frcer-the happier-rhe more Sc :
cure And rs 1t tor boon like this, that
iyvu would join in the warfare against the
liberties of man in the other Hemisphere,
and put your own in leopard, ? or is it for
the nominal privilege of licensed trade
with France that you would abandon your
lucrative commerce with Great Britain,
spain and Portugal and their Asatic, Afri-
Can and American dependencies-in IA
word, with every region of those vast Conti-
nents That commerce which gives vent
TO your tobacco, grain, -four, cotton in
short to all your native products, which are
denied market in France. -
There are not wanting men so weak, as
to suppose that their appreciation of war
like measures is d proof OF p rsoaal gall
iantry, and that opposition to them indicates
a want OF that spirit which becomes friend
to his country: as if ii required more cour
age and patriotism to join in the scclama-
ton OF the day. than steadily to oppose one s
se.tto the mad infatuation to which every
people and all governments have, at some
TIM or other, given way. Let the history
OF Phocion, of Agis and of the De Wits an
swer this question. My friends, do you ex-
pect to lind those who are nozu loudest in
the clamor for war, foremost in the rank
OF battle! or is the honor of this nation indis-
so'ubiy connected with the political reputa-
ton OF few individuals, who tell you they
nave gone too far to.recede, and that you
must pay, with your ruin, the price of thei,
consistency. My friends, have discharged
my duty towards you lamey and made
quateiy know, butte the best of my poor
ability The destiny of the American peo-
pie is i'll their own hands. The net is spread
tor their destruction You are enveioped
IN the tolls ct French duplicity and if,
which may Heaven in it's mercy forbid, you
and your posterity are to become hewers of
wood and drawers of water to the modern
Pharaoh, 1T shall be for the want of my best
dXcrtious to rescue you from the cruel and
abJect bondage. 4 This sin, at least, shall II ot
rest upon my soul.
JOHN RANDOLPH of ROANOKE.
Nav 30th. 1912.
AZ The '/oiiozoine fra nent," Ito which
Mr. r.. ailudes, is his Repor. of the Speech
he delivered in the X. of r. on his Rcsoiu-
ton declaring that "under existing circum
stances It It is inexpedient to resort to wa,
against G.. Britain.''
7'o'the Preeholders Of Charlotte, Prince
Edqoard. Buckingham q Cumberland
Fell0zV- CHizenS-We this day lay before
you the Address of your Representative, &c
yourselves. We wish him to be heard.
we pass over the COMPLIMENTS which Mr.
Randolph has paid to the other Represents
tives OF the people ; For does any one believ,
these men to De no better than political h y.
pocrites, mere "seLf-styied Republicans
who cloak their views under empty "hro
lJesStons of tender regard for the privIl-g-.
OF the people "--Does any one erhect the n,
to be defended against these charges Men,
who have the eyes OF the world upon them
&C most of whom have ut least as much repu
tation to lose as their assaiiant-And IN
what way have they sinned =, They refused
10 consider resolution of Mr.. R's~--Sl one,
TOO, 1t seems, which Ct" was bro't forward by
the republican minority in the year 1898, u
and " discussed as matter of right"
What was the, fact in 'oS On the lotb
March, Mr. Adams's Message went to the
House, not breathing war, nor requiring de-
lctSion., On the 9th, the Fl. OF r. resolved
themselves ihto Committee of the Whole
on the State of the Unlon-Mr Sprigg then
submitted his resolution. Was war san
Iposed to be at hand ? The Debates of that
day express different tone Mr. ilarpel
said he was 80 willing to declare that it was
not at present expedlent to go TO war with
any nation. Mr. Dayton made the Same
remark. The question was argued twu
days In committee --And what are she facts
at this time p Vip is said to be at hand-the
blow is to be struck /; g a declaration ii
war would be attempted on Monday - time
is precious, the crisis calls for dispatch and
Iyet 1t is at this important moment, that YOU,
Representative comes forward to tramu @!
the proceedings, and spin cut the time, OF
the Representatives OF the nation W ere
they to suffer this miserable manauvre I,
lparalise their movements? Why did not Mr..
X, do, as Mr.. Sprigg had done !; moye hi,
resolution in due seasion He has seen IN.
clouds lowering III the horizon for weeks
before why did he not require the sense OF
the House, to be taken, as soon as the En-,
barge was imposedf Why, did he reserve
MS declarations to the eleventh hour, but f il
the purposes of delayl 1t he blames an
one, then, let the " sin rest upon his own
SOUL" 81.
! NJ II. wished to arrest this heaviest
( OF all possible calamitics" will