The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1814-12-20

we Cnaiicnge the Whoie host OF federal wri-
tiers to demonstrate to US and to the nation,
enat washington was an usurper OF the rights
OF the people and the states THAI he tram
pied On the liberties of the people. and pro-
posed and supported by the weight OF his a,i-
thority, arbitrary, unconstitutional and tyran-
meal measures. Unless they do this, it is pro-
we'd on the authority OF the records of Con-
SreSs, that on tie present occasion we are
right, and they are entirely at fault
Mar. Las.
Dec. IS.
In searching for the possible motive of the
zeal and labor with winch the Militia Draft
Bill has been opposed of late, in Congress,
we mt upon the fact, which had 9th, rw,se en-
tiiey escaped us, that his is In. day on which
the Party convention is to assemble at Hare
lord. The mist dispcrscs; the object lies
before US. The speeches in Congress are in
tended rs incentives TO the tagging courage of
the junto, ~ goads to prick tacuI Oil to leap
the galph which yawps beneath them. -Cnder
this aspcos, how infinitely dn nutive are tile
ccnd; ct & speeches of the Members of the
Opposition How unwcr;hy OF s;a,,smcni
Eow Incompatible with the duty witch the
crisis tievoives on ali true patriots?
1t is not because the cxpvdicncy CT the Mi
iiha Draft Rl IN it, prescott shape is incon-
trovcrtible, IN we advance tisst sentiments
but IL IL because aiUd,fdge is ia&en If no
ti-lar ferncnt To inv'ilidate the most obyions
AMI fH1fHeSt PROVISIONS e the constitution
IL IS tec;ius'- the Federal party. in their on
position to the biil, deny the authority nf that
name and those principles withcnt which the
parry never would have been. We zoos wiui
disgust on such tyrgi' ersauon.
Resort has been had 90 nenucea TO deter
Congress from acting Oh the measures before
them. member from New Bsmushu
has said, i" w:ii atlvi~, the resistance of the
execution ofthe Militia Drcft Bli, fit passes
Congress. SAGA threats have no terror for
men who know their duty; and if hose only
were to suffer from their recoil who utter
them, 1t would be matter Of trvi.l inpor-
lance. But they who tjus sport with the
tranquility of nation, who accomplish the
evils they prophecy, who encleavor, howe
yer fuI.lesS to provoke civil war, have to en-
Counter, 1t che bar OF their country anil their
Gc'i, an awful tremendous responsibility.
PoSterity viii scarcely credi. History, when
1t describes party, who, when their ceu.,-
try 1t menaceu even with extinction, when the
deposition OF is Chief Magistrate. is ms 1lept-
~ and almost gffciai'y demanded as the price
otpeace, world bind their country hand and
foot 70 proptiate the drunken passions OF
brutal toe. What then will history say of
that party, in a free elective government,
who, finding constitutional OppHsito ga mav.i!-
ing, dare openly to recommend violent resls-
lance of Legal acts In hars!Ier terms than
we WI use, the historian viii ~, "they
did not iii those days receive that execration
they most justly meritcd."
The House of Representatives were v..ster-
day engaged OIL abiii h'rhly interesting to the
nation generally, as being the commencement
and foundation c. necessary system of TAXA
SioI ca manufactures, and particularly inpor-
rant TO many individuals rs affecting tl;eir
particniar avocations in life. AS there IS 10
doubt CT tic passage OF the bill, we tilnk IT
necessary % rcnnd those whom it may con
Germ, that the decisions Ioted il. sie. proceed
nSs OF Yesterday, took place in committee Of
the whole, end are not conclusive Of the i,.-
teIitious Of the Housc, which has vet for-
'naily to pass them after which they have
TO undergo the ordeal cfthe Senate H.
lcoNMUNICATED.l
Il may have escaped the recollection of
may, that capt. Lloyd, Of the Plantag-ne ~,
who, with the assistance CT the Rota f1igate
ana Garnation sloop OF war, recently made
such a IS brilliant dash in the destruction of
the Gen. Armstrong prilrateer in the port OF
Fayai, is the same Capt. l4loyd, of the sane
Plantagenet, who, last winter, soundauntecilv
sGitsd to7uard the President, ~, off SANDY
tiook, and who so E3A,ely declined tho com
bat offered by ;hat frigate. II.
E-rtr4ct II u iefter from gentleman IL,
georgia TO 1is JifeHl in his CRY, dated
-A0U. %, 18it.
Crops are plentiful in Georgia this seas
or Corn is from 81 SOTO 81 = per bar
rel wheat from 624 cents to IS cents Der
bpshel pork, "a 500 S. 80 per cwt. Tax
es and campaigns are borne without murmur-
ms by our Citizens $500 men have lately
marched fos Mobile about the same number
are stationed at Savannah"
DAVID STONE, Of Nprth-Carnlina, has re-
signed his seat III the Senate OF tie United
States.
LEVIN WINDEH is reelected Governor OF
the state OF Maryland by the Legislature now
in session, by a majority of 81 votes over Ro-
bert Bowie, who WAS voted for by the Repub
licars present.
Brig. General GAINES, has given notice,
III General Order, of his relinquiShing the
command OF the Philadelphia District in con
sequence of orders ne has received 70 reyair
To Louisiana.
BoSToN, Dec. 10.
It was currently reported yesterday that
the Secretary of War had requested Of the
Commander in Chief of This Commonwealth,
to detach FIVE THOUSAND of the militia of
the state, to be placed at the disposition Of
General DEfRBonN, 20 be employed in an
important expedition, & commanded by Mai.
kIEG. And accompanied by the further re-