The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1812-12-03

be areinedy! Why it has becn told US, o.
| the other side ofthG House. that this is the
thing they 10 in France. That the age be
tween eighteen and twenty enc i, the best
age 10 make soldiers. That it is the most
ttvc:!ts tisc. in Bonaparte's conscription.-
4, Well, Sir, what hen, Is Napoleon our King ::
Are we III +, ancra Or is he ING President oi
the u 81 Tue s,iie iU whict, th,s eNamp,,
| nas been urged IN the House, recalls to my
recollection very strongly. caricatu,e print
winch ~ss much circulated IN che carly Pc
ROD os -ous revolutionary war. The picture
represented America as y hale youth, about
eighteen o. twenty-'ne, With huge purse in
hrs pocket. Lord North with q pistol at his
breast, was stfins, deliver your money
i-'ieorge the Cd, pointing at the soung man,
and speaking TO Lord North, said, II give
YOU thaN snan's 'nopey for my use." Be-
hihtt THE ~'lcie group waa Freuchman ca
pering rubbing his dlHls TO, Joy. aud ex-
Claiming" be Gar, just so ia France" -
NOW, MIR. Speaker, have as MANNER of
\ douot, that the day that tlhs act passes, and
! ne whole class OF our northern youth is
| made subject TO the brides Of your recruit
| ing OIL ers, that there will be thousands of
trenchn en IN these u. States. caperng. rub
bing their hands for joy. and exclailning,
Begar, just SC i'll France" Sir, the great
| mistake OF this Whole project lies IN this !;
| that French maxms are applied TO Ameri-
| can states. Now it ought never to be lost
! sight CT by the Legislators in this Country,
| that the people OF it are not and never can
DC Freuchmen-and on the contrary that
] they are. and Can never be any thing else
| than frcemen.
| HE true source of the absurdity of this
| D,i, Is mistake i'll the nature of the evil
The Presiden, of the United States tells US,
| nat the administration have not sufficient
L ~ q .fac No. 10 h
7'sds, the want of pecuniary motive. In this
! les the error. 1t is not pecuniary motive
hat is wanting to fill your armies. 1t is
usral motive III which you are deficient
| SIR, whatever difference of opinion may eN
IS ameng the happy and wise yeomanry OF
| New England, in relation to the principle
| AID necessity of this car, there is very lit
lie, or at least much less diversity OF senti
| nent concerning the inv aston of Canada as
i mean OF prosecuting it. They do not
! want Canada all object of ambition /; they
10 not want it IS an object Of plunder.--
hey see no imsghsble cnnncXion betw cen
| ne cong est. OF that proEince, and the at
| tanmeni II those commercial rights which
were the pretended objects of The war.-
tln the contrary, they see. and very plainly
too, that If our cabinet be gratified IN the oh
lect OF its ambition. and Canada become
conquered province, that an apology is i'm
\
lag In that Country iaege military force !;
u'der Pretence of preserving the conquered
Alphabetically. with view to overawe
\ adjoining States. With this view of that
| PROJECT, the yeomanry of New England want
that moral motive, which will alone, ia that
Country, I'LL Your armies with men worthy
enlisting. They have 10 desire to be the
tools OF the ambition of any man, Or any Sc,
OF men. Schemes and conquests have no
charms for them.
! Abandon your projects of invasion throw
ysur shield over the seabpard and the from
tier awe into silence the Indians In your
territory fortify your cities ; take the
| shackles from your commerce give us
| ships and seamen; and show the people Of
| that country a wise object of warfare, and
| there will be no want of men, money or sp,-
! rit.
proceed to my second objection, which
was to the inequality OF the operation Of the
provisions of this bill. 1t is never to be for
| gotten, in the conduct If the. government CT
these United States, that it is a political as
! soelation OF independent sovereiguties, great
! iy differing III respect of wealth, resource,
enterprise, extent of territory, & prepare
ton OF arms 1t ought also never to De for
gotten, that the proportion of physical {, rec,
which nature has given, does not lie within
! precisely the same line of division, with the
I pOlIllCal luuUSnCSs WHICH the
Constitution has provided. Now, sir, wise
men conducting political association thus
| constructed, ought always to have mainly
in view not to disgust any OF the great sec
tions OF the country, either in regard of their
interests, their habits OF their prejudices
Particularly ought they to be cautious not
t. burthsn any of the great sections in a
way peculiarl odious to them, and in which
the residue of the states Cannot be parta-
kers, or at least only in a very small degree
think this principle of political action is In
contI overtble. Now, sir, OF all the distinc-
tons which exist III these United States
! thst'which results from the character OF the
labor IN different parts ct the country, is the
most Obvious md critical. In the southern
states, all the laborIous industry of th<
! Country is conducted By slaves in lie moi
them states it is conducted by yeomanry.
their apprentices or chi!iren. The truth
is, that the only real property, in tie lab
lot others, which exists in the northern
states, is that which IS Possessed ~ that Of
minors the very class Of which, its IN st
valuable period, this law proposes 20 d, est
them. The planter of the soull, can t.
round upon his Fifty. his hundred and h.s
housgnd OF human beings, and say, e" the sc.
are my properly" The farmer cf the
north has only one or two eve lambs. q"
his children Of which he car say, and say
with pride. like the Roman matrOn, "these
are my oruaments." Yet these, this BIZ
proposes to take from Inn or, WHIT is the
same thong proposes to corrupt them to