The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1812-01-04
dcla. ht TO their frs Ids We refer our rea-
defs to the melancholy recital.-LeaSer.
From the National Lnteiiigencer.
TO THE CONGRESS OF THE
UNITEO STATES

ONllE ELI SLAVES. t-ts
You arc assembled upon upon one of the
most important and awful Oh all occasions
EoA to chuse peace, for that is no longer in
yUur power; but to determine whether by
iiraking war, you will avenge the wrongs of
Your long suffering and insuited country.
The eyes of the nation and of the world,
are upon you. Unanimity aud honor
beat high IL the hearts of your coun-
nymcn. The noble report of your COM
mittee Of Foreign Relations, acco S with
the indignation universally felt at oe-
tumi.Iated injuries; and il you draw back,
sA,d fail to fulfil the s'just expectations OF the
nation,'' you viii forfeit their confidence for
ever.
1t is said, but VIC trust it is untruly said,
that you are not in earnest, about going to
Var: that, enamorcu of your places, and
attached to popularity, you will never put
Vhe country in situation to incur the bur
then of taxation. This, it is said. thereohic
will not submit to; and that sooner than be
nrcd. they will discard their rulers, al
though the object of taxation DC to viadicate
their honor and to maintain their rights
This suggestion, were it true, would not be
more degrading to us, than it would be de-
rogatory and ingiorious to you. Rcfute the
SANDER and convince the world, that SO far
rs 1t concerns yourselves, you dare do what
Is right at eUery hazard. No way is more
certain to incur the dispIeasure of your con-
alatuents than to return, home, like the
zenith and Eleventh Congress, with ut do
iss any thing to appease the wounded pride
and insulted honor OF the country. Unwor-
Thy is the man to be our Representative,
Who will not forget self, for OR sake. IN
Let 1t be asked, for what purpose should
you draw back, as it is asserted and appre-
hended by many that you wiilI Can ,ou h,
submission, maintain peace! Is the choice
CT peace now in your poweri Alas tn,
power of chusing heace remains exclusive &
With our enemy. Should she determine t.,
do us justice, peace will follow: but the
choice will be her choice, not yours If yoG
mean to be free, you can only determine up
on Uor
The President, in his late Message declar-
&c that war is already made upon us at
dca, even up to our coast, and to the mouths
" our harbcrS; break up without doing "a
~ thing decisive, and the war will be bro't
20 our thresh ids. We Shall be turned out
CT our houses, our property will be taken a.
way from us, our women will be abused, CIR
persons will be enslaved, our dues will, IN
ali cases, be endangered, and in many cases
WI be lost. Such would be the agonizing
and deplorable consequences of the want of
armness and integrity in our rulers. His
tom calls aloud to "put the nation in ar
NOR and to prepare for war. Come when
Il will, it win be found preferable to our
present situation. Without commerce, with
opt national character, despised abroad,
fallen in our own estimation at home, driven
from the Ocean, and rapidly declining into
poverty, what can happen to augment the
Calamity of our condition Tie chains of
Govery alone, can augment its ignominy or
Increase its horrors.
IT any man in America should suppose this
picture oyercharged, let him look, not into
the history OF the present times : Let him
Consider the condition of Holland. Swallow
- up IN mercantile avarlce, the mil,faru
spirit of that nation, once so triumphantly
high, became lost, and was succeeded ~
eastardly spirit of submission to the aggrcs-
sor. The enemy, finding himself NOT re-
Asfed, came--took possession of the country,
or in other words, made himself master of
the property, the liberty and the lives of
the inhabitants, some of the most opulent
and illustrious Of whom, have since been -
pominiously branded in the forehead and sent
70 the gallies. Who can doubt that this will
DC our fate, If we continue to submit /?
Oh Congress do your duty. Demon
strate to all mankind that you are Sin earn
est." After taking due time to deliberate,
And after giving our enemy one chance more
OF doing us justice, fearlessly pass the Ru-
picon, and leave the issue 10 God. Let this
!e done before you retire TO your homes
2rd do not disappOint 90 the expectations
os The PEOPLE. {,
December 20, 1911
LOUISVILLE, Dec. 9.
Ehe Ohio Steam Boat, the property of
Messrs. Livingston, Fulton & Co which had
teen lying at this place for six weeks wait
Ing for the rise OF the water has passed down
the Falls in fine style without the least inu-
~, and may now be considered out of dan
ger. She took IN some passengers, & about
fifty tors OF cargo, and has proceeded on he
voyage to New-Orleans. /: is impossible to
express the general satisfaction which the
performance of this fine Boat has given to
The people Of THIS country.
FROM THE SAVANNAH REPUBLICAN,.
The miidness Of the earthquakes we have
felt, be attributed only to the distance Of
the cause by which they have been produc-
ed. On this subject, OF the cause of earth
quakes, there are numerous and disCordant
opinions from the ancient philosopher Anax-
agoras, to Sir William Hamilton OF Mr.. Do
leinicu.
: According to the hypothesis Of some
Earthquakes are occasioned by subterrane
GUS fires, III owing down the arches or vaults
Of the earth. According to others, the
rarefaction of the abyss waters, interior com
bustion, and fern entatien; volcanic opera
tons, And lastly, by the electric fluid
The latter hypothesis seems to be the raost
accredited, as it evidently is the most ration
al The instantaneous effects of some Earth