The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1814-09-24


pretended to claim them as his own. 1t was
LETT to Massachusetts to sustain this serious in
dignity. He has conquered Moose Island,
nd>threatens to maintain it. But not content
with this piece of the Province of Maine, he
has occupied under the most suspicious pre-.
tensions, the whole slipe of territory that ex-
tends from Passamaquod6y to the Penobscot.
1t has already been avowed by some of his of
hcers that 1t was his intention to recolonize
and annex it to the tef of New-Brunswick.
Where will his ambition stop' Will it stretch
to the henebec! Or Wilt finally aspire to
occupy the " cradle of the Revolution 30
but these are not the o, =, dangers which
hang over Massachusetts She HIS not only
to struggle for her soil, and the very tombs
OF her children, which the enemy desires to
make his own-but her most essential interest
IS more particularly exposed to his ruling pas
SON. If he particularly strikes at American
shipping, who will so deeply suffer from tha;
dow as the state of Massachusetts Who is
the proprietor of SO much shipping Who
holds cut SO many allurements to the torch
o. the inccnd;ary Whose staboarti- is so
extensively spread with rich and prosperous
towns Who furnishes so much booty to the
piunderer. Who has more to "l;,y waste and
to DESTROY ? -if-f ~ 80
Moved bywhat she has seen OF the spirit of
the enemy, the ruins of Washington before her
eyes, Massachusetts has besunlfo arouse her
seh. ar. otrong has gwen orders to the Mi
lt,a To hold themselves in readiness. Troops
arc pouring into Boston---15 or 10000 are now
under arms a similar spirit of preparation
rs running through all the East. Party is 81
lent so far as relates to the defence of the soil
Both sides profess an equal anxiety to repel
the invader. Their public papers are full of
such declarations. VIII the reader excuse US
FOR laying before him by way of specimen,
some extracts from one of the most ingenious
OF these Essays IN one of the most decided fe-
dcral papers i'll Boston, !" The Boston Ga
zette' We omit all the ilGberal party cen
sures -ith which the writer has thought fit to
garnish ms production-tak the liberty on
our Partof interspersing Il very few comments
on the text which he has furnished:
After the European peace ii easy 10 perceive
that England had an immense tsposable force At her
command, andit might easily have been concluded.
that sie would employ it.
All this, it seems, is nows very clear-And
yet couldit have been SO clear, at the time
the political friends of this WI tier were cele-
Drifting the defeats OF France Do they not
blush at the precipitation which they have
displayed by these festivals Surely, surely,
they did not celebrate tine feats of the Cos
sacks, because they put England in possession
OF an immense disposable force, which she
would be sure to e,rhioy against rs.
1t is also clear from what the writer
himself says, 7chy the ether party did not par
ncipate in these joys. The secret of that ri
dicuions chimera, the French H7Ruence,
(Which thank God is at length buried in the.
tomb of the Capulets,) is now out Did we
love Bonaparte Move loved America.
&C 1t was easy to perceive that if the war en-
ded TO the satisfaction of England, she scouid
have an immense disposabie force, and that
she leowtd employ it against us. 1t was SO
predicted by The Republican party, and the
event has confirmed all their predictions
Here, then lies this gigantic monster French
influence. e Ca
1t then should have been the policy The aininis
t'oa pursuant TO their par, TO have pushed all
heirresourees into the eneInys territory and made
THAT the theatre of war.
1t would have been more candid for the
writer TO have said that this was not only the
Plan of the administration, but his o.,n Ek., :
Tor be gives the reasons (and strong ones
they are, why it ought to have been their
plan-3ut 2cas it not their plan Did they
not push all the resources they could at that
time command into the enemv's territory
The reader will smile at what this man
says, when he recolectS what has been all a
long the ciamor OF his party If tine admins
traton sent one man thither, it was sure to
raise an out-ciy of opposition. 1t was said
then that they were leaving our sea-board ex-
posed TO the enemy, TO carry on this war in Ca
nada-and that every man ought to be with
drawn from that quarter to the defence Of
the sca-board. And now forsooth, this gen
teman sets up his cry that they ought to have
pushed GH their resources cinto the enemy's
territories.
This might have been done to s,cl an extent, that
the enemy would not have had one ds,0sabIe man TO
have landed on maritime frontier
Ii this gentleman sees fit to ask, 7ujsu these
resources were mt sufficient for this purpose,
we would first beg him to tell US zvho they
were that kept the Militia from the service
OF the Union! Who did ali that they could
70 keep men from enlisting in he army of
the United States Who were they that
preached up against loans-who wished to
stint the administration in its money concerns
Not the Friends of the War, nethinks
One word as to the writer's plan. II it be
true, that by pushing our resources into Can
ada, at The lime eftte heace 1.-the enemy would
not have had one disposable man to have LAM
ded on our maritime frontier" it is certainly
true ao7v la this point, we most cordially
gr,c with HIM.
Our battles W,rchot tonight on HE plaus of SJosty,
nor under the walls Of iaiss iu such ma;iner thai w.
shall not hasethCIn &c Il Sht again II is rs sllvas
Is n van tn call ON those 20 dgcidyou who cs,not
defend themselves. We must rely in this dreadful
honrdpon orr own Courage and resources II is an
od 90 81, security is The orerunner of calanty'-
BsHe'' 10 tio ten times TOO mi.cd, linn enc terM too
ate tlas been subsequently suggested that the en-
en' is not at var sitl, the nation but with Rfr Ma
olson, and that can have no peace until MIR Madison
SSieats ln these positions we have no faith. Tie
vents oteyery hour proving chat the enemy
Is warning dcStITctiyrly upou the whole Amer