The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1813-04-30


good faith. All minor points of difference
ought indeed, to be forgotten. when the
public peace and safety require Union
This union is now required. The future
peace OF this nation requires 1T. The pres
ent safety of this nation requires ic /; for we
are at war, and at war with jealous, hos
tile and powerful nation. All other points
are unimportant. But how does this cor
struction correspond, with mis- eXcelicncy's
refusal to comply with the requisitivn of
the federal executive! Can we uotain peace
except by vigorous prosecution OF the
war? How are we to secure the public safe
ty, but by an eXertion of all our strength,
and calling out all our resources? Does ,.e
Governor conceive that we shall obtain an
honorable peace, or promote the pnblic
safety, by Withholding the military quotas of
d state when required for the war, by pa
tience. by submission, by promoting disu-
Mon, by opposing every measure required
tor the public safety, by ascribing to Great
Britain final determination on the subject
of impressment, which the manifesto itself
did not venture to announce, or by the cold,
sullen, unfeeling, and may add unSru!cfui
neutrality OF some parts of tins great
contederacy? His excellency must know
better but his excellency knows more.
He knows, that the opposition to the
war, with many, is a struggle for pow
err. 1T the prosecution of it can be
checked. paralised. disgraced. the pre-
sent ruling party may be overthrow,
and he and his friends may be entrusted,
with the command of the power and resour-
ces of this nation. This. / say, must be
known to the governor: and if he does not
distinctly comprehend it. I beg leave to re-
fer him to Mr.. Pickering for {" dispassion-
ate inform atioD."In return for this infor ma
ton his excellency may tell Mr.. P. what it
is important, that he should know. He NAV
tell him, that his doctrine on the subject of
repaying the loans for the war, is held BY
the federalists of Virginia, in utter reproba-
ton, and that the excuse which is often
made tor him, is one, which, l, tho detest-
ing his heresy, cannot permit myself public
| ly TO repeat.
Although we have no agency in con-
Quoting our national affairs, we must view
with anxious concern the important chan
"ges which are taking place among the
"powers of Europe"
| The first part of this sentence is eminent.
iy exceptionable. Why should the COVER
nor say, " although we have no agency in
conducting our national affairs 20 The
! idea thus expressed, has no necessary Con-
nection with that which follows. That anx-
ious concern. of which the latter part of the
sentence speaks, must be felt by every
member of the human race. No man, who
deserves the name Of a man, can view as,
tJoreISn to himself, those great events which
affect so large portion of the great family
OF mankind. But the expression of shis SEN
timent, SO natural and Sc just, and which
no doubt the Governor had learned as a
scholar before he felt as man, would not
answer his exceIiency's purpose. The peo-
pie OF Massachusetts were to be told, slily
and indirectly told, that they had not thei,
due share of agency in conducting our ma
tlonal affairs If his excellency meant to
say, that neither the people, nor the govern
ment OF Massachusetts governed this nation,
he said what is true, what every BODY
knows. and what it was of course idle thus
formally to proclaim. But if he meant to
hold out to the people, the idea, that they
mad not that agency in the conduct of our
national affairs. to which they are constitu-
tionally entitled land if he meant not this.
he meant nothing,) the delusion was unwor-
thy OF man possessing, either candor or I'M
derstanding. The people of Massachusetts
have precisely that agency. which the CON
| stitutloh Intended to allow to them. In this
respect they stand exactly on the same foot
ing with the people of all the other states.
| lhey have their Senator'S and Representa-
tives In Congress, land at this moment, they
have as many citizens in great public trust
| as any one state in the Union. The Vice
President OF the United States, the minister
| icSiuchl Ill RuSSld, one OF the Judges OF the
supreme court and the commander of the
| North Western Army. are all from Massa.
chuSetts-ls it by remarks like these that
the people of that state are to be render
ed g dispassionate and we'll informed!'
| One OF Its sovereigns under the pre-
tence of giving freedom to the seas is car
"rying war and desolaton into regions re-
=" mote from each other & seems determin-
!" ed by fraud and violence to subjugate and
destroy every civilized nation.'
All this is true, YOU strike out the word
destroy" So dispassonate man ought
not to have used that word 1t is not COR
rect Bonaparte would be most probably
contented with the su6jHgation of the world
and this he would do without hurting the
hair of a single head, if the people would
only give him what he wanted, and do as
he bid them. But of this l am not absolutely
certain and so little am disposed to vim
dicate his character and his conduct, that il
he had persisted with his army in the
4" frghtful Climate" of Russia should not
have chaunted his apotheosis," nor even
sung requiem to his departed spirit.
hut how has the safety of the world been
endangered, by the fraud and violence of
bonapartc! Let experience answer. The
enemies of BonaParte did not want strength,
but union. If the Emperor of Germany and
King OF Prussia, had been cordially united
the iIernIauic constitution would yet have
existed, and the captive monarch would not