The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1813-05-07

the news, that Mr.. Sfddison zva 8 re -ciecfed!
After this, one would have supposed that
the hireling press would, at least. have
kept silence upon the subject I; but, no it
had still falsehood left !: and. it is now tel
ling the people, the " thinking feof,ie" of
England, that, merit gear, there will be a
re collection of the Senate, when Mr.. Madi.
son will have a majority of ten against him
In that body, and that, in consequence of
such change, he will be compelled to make
peace with us. What people must this
be to be thus deceived And still to listen
Co such publications; aye, and to rely upon
them too as implicitly as if they had always
spoken the truth Nothing can, however,
be more fattering to the Americans than
these statements, which show how uneasy
this country is under the war with them
how sorely we feel the effects of it & how
anxious we are to get out OF it. There is a
coxcomb, who publishes in the Times news
paper, under the signature of VETUS, who
would fain make us believe, that the people
OF America, or, at least, the agricultural
part OF the population, are a sort of half
s0uages. If Vetus had to write to them, he
would not find many fools enough to tole-
rate his sublimated trash. He imputes their
dislike to English politics to their ignorance.
He does not know, perhaps, that they to
man Cf natives) are as we'll acquainted with
know all about our Excise ia Xes, and Gus
tom house taxes, and Assessed taxes, and
Property taxes, full as well as we do; and,
that they know all about our law of libel,
our sinecnres, and our pauprrs. If he were
o go amongst them. and To have the impu-
dence to tell them, that these are hroofs Of
cfUiiization, they " ould. or, at least, hope
SO, make him remember the assertion as
long as he had life in his carcase. The A
mericans have always had their eyes fixed
upon us and, does this ipolish man imagine,
that they do not know how to set a proper
value upon our system of government -
When they come to England. some Of
them do, they sometimes reach London by
the way of Biackguater, where, while they
behold immense places for the education of
officers OF the army, they see ragged, or,
rather, naked, children tumbling along the
road by the side of their Chaise, crying as
they go" Pray bestogp yon,' charity fray
6eStOzv your charity 20 The Americans
know how to estimate these things. They
are at no loss to draw the proper infer
ences from such facts and it is not the
trash o. Vetus about civilization that will
cloud their reasoning.-The American far
mers are great readers. There are abso-
utely none OF them who do not read much
They know, that we pay more in POOR rates
only than double the amount of the whole
of their revenue That fact alone is enough
Tor them. With that fact before their eyes,
they will be in no haste to attain what this
Top Calls nigh state Of Observation-Disclosures,
as to the fact, all those who know Ameri-
ca will say, that the farmers there are
a class of men beyond all belief superior in
understanding to those of England, or of
any country of Eur pc. They have hien-
fy j.: they have no dread of the ia &c gather
er their minds are never haunted with
she fear Of qvant /; they have, therefore,
leisure to think and to read. And, as to
what he says about their being absorbed in
the iove of gain, the fact is the reverse
They have no motive to acquire great
wealth, other than the mere vulgar love of
money, seeing that no sum of money will
purchase them distinction, seeing that mil
lions would not obtain them 6ozv from
even a negro. That is a country where the
servant will not pull his hat off to his en-
ployer, and where no man will condescend
to call another man his nsasfer.--Hence it
is that the American farmer makes no very
great exertiOnS to become rich. Riches be-
You'd his plain wants are Of no use to him.
They cannot elevate him they cannot pur-
chase him seats; they cannot get him titles
they cannot obtain COMMUNIST onS or churchbe-
n .fces for his sons they can do nothing for
MIN but add to his acres, which are already,
IN most cases, but too ABUNDANT. lie has,
from these causes, much leisure, and that
naturally produces reading, particularly
| when the residence is in the country. So
that the half zvid man, whose picture has
been drawn by Vetus, is wholly foreign from
| the reality of the American tarmer.-The
American farmer does not hate England.
| He hates a taxing system, and he hates the
| Enslish system but he does not want 7Uar
with England, He wants to have noth.1g
20 do avirh her and. though Ne hates war,
| ne is more afraid Of a connection with her
than with war against her. He wishes to
| see all those, who will be connected with
her, expelled from his country and. there
fore, he is please to see the makers of
knives and coats rise nm in his cwr cnuniry
To bring about this, TO create manufaC
lures in America was the policy of Mr..
! Jefferson an object whcn has been now
attained, through the means OF our hostility
and OF the revolution III Spain.-The con.
tinuatiOn OF the war for about three years
longer will forever put AN end To English
Comes ion and thus, the grand object OF
| MIR. JeiFsrson's pulicy will have been secur-
ed Curing his probable life time.--This sill
| ly fellow, Vetus, seems to be wholly igno-
ant of the subject. lie knows nothing ri
thcr Of the character o. interests of the A.
merican people. He senseessly urges on
tn. war without at all perceiving the conse-
quences TO which 1t leads. He does not
perceive, that 1t will effectualy deprive our
government Of The powe: of again taxing
the coat or The candIestck of the Am rican
farmer. lie does not perceive, that il will