Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1815-12-05
/ VOL. mo. 81.

| ven b rth to which must have received nm
| propriatc punishment IN seeing this same
America not asking farotecsion from any OF
| your great maritime powers ;" but SEN
ding squadron of ships of war across the
Atlantic, and ehastising the pirates. as fa,
as regards her, intoa submission to the prin-
| ciples Of humanity.
| America has RACES and 4 de6t too-Bu-
| this is not debt that must necessay7i,y L,st
.IareUer, or be wiped off with a spoagc. Ii
| is debt at this time of .. ,ooO,0oOl ster
| ling, or S los 100000
The capital Of our debt (of Great Pu-
| tain, for Ireland has her dlbt too, in AZ,
| equal pFoportou,) is now Thousand nit
lions, laying ASIDE old hundreds of thaus-
ands. and outstanding debt. Suppose orr
! populations, even now that the foreigners
are all gone away, to be 10000. 900; here
is dcot OF 1907. soul, taking in babies.
paupers, gypsies, beggars, soldiers, sailors.
SEA boys. prisoners i'll jails and convicts ON
board the bulks yea all, from those who
feast on strawberries, at Ave cuineas
pint, down to the troops of ragged an,
squalId wretches, whose Sundays diner,
consists of ramps and burrs from the skin
ners. or at bul.ock's liver from the s!augh-
terhouse The population of America is now
TO your great surprizc. eight u.iliions snd
therefore, the capital OF her debt amounts
to not quite 81 los a soul. Whether .he
SINNERS and tanners in that couatry have
no1U any customers for the fragments of
flesh, that have been left by the butcher
is more than can say (; but, if she adobt
our system OF foor iaycS, g couple with this
institution suitable proportion of cam is
she suffer, in any d4gree, however snail
the quaNtity of relief Of the distressed to be
regulated by the quantity cf godiiness pro-
fec hNrf or A.
this, or in the most trifling degree, lean to-
wards it, she will soon find, that a premium
Tor misery and hypocricy will operate. as
all other premiums do, to increase the ouan
tity of that on which it is bestowed. She
when 1t Is too late, viii find to her sorrow
that tieshy bits of skin, and sleeps trotters.
and bullock's liver, are not things to BE
| thrown to the dogs. If her people should
live to see that day if they should
| live to sec pauperism established by layg
| they will see all hospitality, al rial chart
| ty vanish all the paternal, and fiial. and
traternal Offices OF life exchanged for those.
| OF the poor-house and instead of an erecr
and independent race oflaborers, proud of
! their rights and liberties, they VIII see a
| crawling, fawn;ng, canting herd. KNOWING
| not tie meaning of such words. and ike th..
beasts Of the field, caring for nothing but
Pthe satisfying of Their hunger, :, i;lso..t In,
| smallest regard as to the means. IF the
| people OF America should live to see that
day if they should be SO foolish as to draw
| over them, though by slow degrees. this
| bhstered shirt, they will wish, that. as in
the days of their bold and hardy forefath
ers, their country were a howling wilder
| ness.
However, as yet, this greatest of all
caiamlt'es has not IN lde any very consider
able progressin America, and it will b. the
fault OF the people if it ever does. There
are no common beggars, no gypses, few
soldiers by profession, at present few nm
productive sailors no seaboys, the prison.
ers in Jail are few, none in hulks Bnt I've
there what there may be of the several de-
scriptlons of persons, the capital of the
debt OF America amounts TO only 8 10
pounds sterling soul. while that of ours
amounts TO more than 100 pounds sterling
a soul.
Let us now see the progress of the debt
In America. The latter had the misfor-
tune to start with a deb. to set out in file
world with debt upon her back. l. was
a misfortune, and very serious one. be-
Cause 1t gave rise to spirit of speculation.
OF adventure, OF gambling, which has been
productive OF lastirg and very mischjevous
effects. The debt at the outset, or in 1870.
tt''oNiiNNd w SSNcDty-I millions OF dol
lars, and before the last war it was redu-
ced to 40 millions of dollars. That war ba
brought it up to 103 millions of dollars ,.r
27 ulilcns OF sterlng. But IN the mean
while she has purchased Louisiana. so ne
cessary, as we have sccn from the aft ,ir az
New Orleans, TO her security. And she
has some how or other got pretty tolcr-
able navy, which as experience has proved
IS not less necessary 20 that security. + am
aware, that she must keep augmenyjne, IN /,
navy. She will NOW SIC, that her 6or~
e:risfence, as an independent natioS. de-
ponds upon her having at the end OF even
hive years navy OF at least 80 ships Of IN =
ilne, with a proportiouate number of ves-
sells Of war OF an infe rior SIZE. The motto,
that It was her true policy to keep ont of
the European qnarrels, must by this tim,
be exploited 1t was wise to wish it
but wishes and possibilities are dferen.
things She secs what jealousy, what en-
Wy, what haired arising from f5re6ooi0o.
Jear6, she has inspired. She is not to h..
deceived by the f,wning professions, which
Tor temporary convenience, deep rooted
enmity may assume. She knows that her
navy IS the infant Hercules, and thar &
must make base and grow, or be stran-
gled IN the cradle. She knows how easv
quarrcls are Matched, when people have !,
mind to quarrel. Knowing all this. and a
great deal more, that might be mentioned
she wall not IN peace neglect one moment
to b wei prep red for her defence. and
| thereby preventing If Does, HE The 49,. 49,.