The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1812-05-08

and vioiated faith of foreign aggrcssors. J..
party viruience, blinded " passion or ;i.fu-
rated by disappointment, has. from tine 10
time, ascri5cd to our government feelings
and views, which are now universally seen
to have been unjust, it must thank itself fer
all the evils that may have been produced
by error, or folly, OF, vice-and SO fatal a
deluslnn having once prevailed, Should. arrest
the libcllcAs spirit that has heretofore so iri
cautiously sported with reputation and truth.
hose, whose predictions have been inva-
Jrably falsiied, should give up the trade of
prophecy, and no longer Willy What they do
not or will not understand.
lhe truth, then, is, the undoubsed truth,
that the embargo is meant to be the precur-
sor OF WIN, and that, so coon as the physical
resources OF the nation can be arranged, war
will ensue, unless the department Ct the
British government epinces very different
temper from that which has hitherto pre-
vailed. To enter On a vindication of this
measure Mnder this ASPECT, would cvince a
contempt for the understanding Of the public
and not to have resortcd to it, under so
troubled sky, would have Justly exposed
our rulers to the invectives of those very
men, who are now most clamorous against
1t, but who can only give a color TO their
phlihpics by SANDERS against others, whose
lives have been made up of succession of
on the roll of fame, or among the records of
patriotism, than Madison-and he is the man
who proposed the measure.
Lee then the habitual opponents of govern
ment realisc-the lesson, though so late ac-
CURED, may be of signal use to them let
them, realise, that what it Processes it will
practise. Let them know that the will of
the majority, when legally expressed, is the
law OF the land that just governments were
instituted for the good Of communities, and
that, under republican governments, the
public good. can only be decided by the, voice
OF a; majority, and that this voice must be
obeved, that when it ceases to be obeyetl.
government is annihilated. Whateve. then
may be yielded to remonstrance or concilia-
ton, nothing should be yielded to an attitude
OF defiance; tn a disorganisins spirit; to at
temptss 20 array separate and local against
general interests.
1t must: nptb be forgotten, moreover, that
however in municipal affairs We NAV pros
per notwithstanding our divisions. a,l{findeed
prent by the. sharp rivalres of the different
portions OF our people, we must, in our mea-
snres with foreign foe, act with the unbro-
ken strength of a nation.
he crisis, in our opinion, devolves high
and sacred duties as well on the citizen as
the ruler. On the ruler, it devolves the duty
OF maintaining his course undisturbed by
any momentary crslocal clamor that NAV be
eXcited; on, the citizen, it devolves the dutv
ofshonest and active, cooperation. The cool
and undaunted brow Of the former amidst
all the yicisstudes that may attend him, will
most ethcaciously tend to avert danger by
the display of an energy that is neither to
be appalled, or driven from its course; the
holy zeal OF the latter in. the best of causes
vail raise an impre enable rampant around
the liberties and interests of an insulted and
wronged nation.