The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1814-02-01

men who love their country
Neither the sense of manhood nor the de-
Ecacy of honor---Neither the boasted meek
ness Of professed religion---nor the appre-
hension of shame, have been sufficient to
call to the standard OF their country, those
men who were the cs-operators 1.-the
emissaries OF Great Britain, in producing
the panic which brought about the humili-
ating and disgraceful abandonment of the
embargo.
Let US offer single sentiment en- this
point, which, while it barely indicates the
effect of that baleful deseItion of national
policy at that time, that the pen which has
usually given its character to this paper for
so many years, in critical and desperate
times that pen was paralyzed. and has ne
yer since possessed the same confidence in
public virtue, nor the same solace in aiding,
however feebly, the support OF fabric
which was abandoned in the critical mo-
ment which, of all others, called for man
ly and rcsolute maintenance of its policy, its
dignity, and its authority.
We only state these feelings as an indivi-
dual case |; bat it is only single public evil
dence. of which there were thousands in
private numbers forbore to utter their
grief in public, but Condoled in private with
each other, at the apparent degencracy in
dcated both by the cause of the panic and
its effects, ~,
The present recollection of those humilia.
ting transactions, is produced by a know
ledge that similar oferafiosi is at this MOI
meot in train.
The late motion of Mr.. Otis is only the
preliminary measure of a nequ man of ia
nc, in which the menaces of civil war and
separation of the union are to be brought in
to play and it is calculated upon with con-
hdence in Boston, that the letters already
fiut IN circulation in different harfs Of the
eountry-~ill produce such concert of
assaults as TO oftGl congress and the ere-
SufiUe. l4
We assert that this plan is in operation
M etings have been convened in Boston for
the purpose, and separation of the union
peaceably it we can, forcibly if we must"
is to be the open and unqualified watch
word.
The public may therefore be prepared to
hear OF zoar Of words ard hLacards--in
which the best blood of Massachusetts (if
any one knows how to discrirhinate) is rea-
dy to be shed-while those who have refus-
ed % sustain the government of their coun-
try against cruel enemy, are to be invoked
TO march to battle against the government
of the union
This is the very form and shape of their
intended daring--BUT MARX !--IT IS
SUCH DARING AS THEY DARE AS
SOON < DAMNED AS 70 70
And If the government now only does
what the government had not the frmneBs
and energy to do in the case Of the embargo
If the government will only determine TO
execute the laws and enforce its authority,
by the only means which is calculated to o,
perate upon hagitious traitors; they will put
an end to the growing sedition, and they
will stem at once this spirit of rebellion
which has grSwn up only upon the forbear-
anee of the other parts Of the union.
But IL the congress of the United States
II the executive of the United States-wiu,
on this as.on the former occasion, abandon
themselves-if they will act, as the traito-
Tous adherents wish them TO act, like men
VINO have neither country TO care for, nor
. posterity 20 cherish--if the government of
rhe United States shall either tenporize or
WINK at freasoR-thcse states will becom e
what M assachusetts, through its corrupt fac
zion, already is--A BRITISH PRoWINcE-
and the people will like those of India and
ireland, have to prepare their shoulders
Tor yoke, such as Babyonan or an Al
gerine bondage is blessing compared with
st.
we know those measures are going on
we know the menaces indicated will speed
ly reach congress and while party politi-
clans are secretly celebrating which man
they shall sacrifice to their political views :.
they will, if they only soberly reflect. find
that no man OF talents can be spared that
instead OF inverting the sword upon ca CHI
other, the virtue, and the intellect and the
Constancy, Of the Country, are required to
overawe traitors and cut OF from them
the provinces from which the al,ment of
their corruption has seen poured in upon
Massachusetts
FROM IKE DXMocRATTC PRESS.