The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1815-03-11
ENYu1aEl- OFFICE,
RICHMOND, Wal iiarsi Al, 1875.
TIE ELECrIOA1S.
TO TAE PHoPLE OF vrac1wIA.

The day draws near when Won
will have to rerair TO the Polls, to choose the
trustees OF your power. Permit one who has
addressed you before on si,nilar occasions,
an American, Nir!,inian, u Republican,
man who was born amongst you, and whose
bones viii be deposited in the bosom Of his
country to address you. The subject, in its
broadcast features, does rot require many
woy,ls.--Thc questions wliIcl. each freehold
er viii put 20 himself, are, Whom shall /
choose WIsiHh party IS most emitted TO NY
confidence Whcn the tights and honor o.
this beloved cTuntly were at Stake, winch
party was the first To maiatain them Vyhen
sue was in danger, who Was her best and tas-
test friend!'
Yes, Fel'ow-Citiaens, you " have the bane
and .ntidote both before ECU" Choose You
according to your wisdom. Wal YOU cling
To the Republicans, 20 those who Grew the
sword 10 avensc your wrongs, and sheathed
1t when those wrongs hat ceased tn aiHct
you, 10 those who had surrounded you with
an honor that will never die, to those who
have given you the must distinguished crank
among the nations of the earsh"-oe, will you
fy to the Federal Party, who would haze
kissed the rod which was scourging US, who
would have sunk you in the ewes OF all tie
world, who would have furnished that name
OF high achievement and manly independence
which our fathers had won Tor us, and when
the winds blew and the rains began to beat,
strained every nerve, and started every ex-
pedient, not to rescue their country from
danger, but to snatch the reimS Of power
from those 10 whom the People had entrust-
cd 1t (which OF them viii ye choose!
1--WE years ago,w,n You were called upon
to choose your Representatives ca Congress,
very different was the scene which now
greets our eyes We were men in a state
CT war. We were involved IN hostihties by
the arrogance ami iujniIes uf uation which
viii never forgive us tor the IzGenendelce
which We had secured a nation thar was
'TPressilS hundret'3 and thousands of our e all
liant seainen, & had captured more than 300
OF orr vessels, without pfovocaton or excuse
4 aston That had rUuseI the ipdian and The
slave Co 1rus; raat mad visite us witt, fire
ana sword, aud called mp every instrument to
her assistance, which the most baroarous en-
cray would employ against the most mpo-
tent, as i We weje blnshesI from all the cour-
tes,,s and privileges OF civilized Country.
Engaged IN 4 war of this description, for the
assertion of cur rights, in the defence of every
thing that was dear to Us, what did the fede-
raj party tel you two years ago THAT the
WAY was an UNJUST one that il was provoked
BY ourselves, and not by the agl.resslons
Of the enemy !; that SHE was the Bull
w;.rk OF orr Holy Religion - that no
act was committed, or could be ap-
pretended, which was unworthy of the
high character with which thev had crown
! ed her. They acclaimed against tue war,
| and against its authors-they began 10 en-
! ploy every eXpedient, which could be devised
! BY an Infatuated faction 20 pus stop TO IT
! to deny Us the use of men & OF mORey They
! tOldyOu, that the administration were untit
| - wage it that the conduct of it would dis
| grace oar country<;-t..lt none but federal
! officers cou'd carry 1t Oh with success
opon ye = pr P S!at AN and lacks1n we oan
| a. , They said that the presenr adp,iin.,,ss-
| srat'on wo9ii not or could not obtain you
PEtl. E-&, that if the Federahsts yyere. mt
p%tln PSwe7 nothing but DISGRACE and rum
wAuld cover the land.
WE Men OF Virginia, where are We
tio79 : Ave the dreams OF these false hruhbeha
tulhiied Is 1t true that we have no .,1,-
ernn'ent TO rally aroun', no country to love.
no laure!s TO admire, no honor Is it t17,n
that America IS huIhb!ed in the ewes OF the
universe, that nothing bnt GisSracefii fnt,,ri-
ty Is b"hind us and Il glooray protpect before
MS Is II true that Peace, sweet balmy
reace, with healing on her wings. has flown
from us Mono, my countrymtu-
you know it IS ROt the case there IS nor =
man amoAg you, except the ahen {" in heart
and M sentiment" who sickSns ~ rho d.ssra-
ces OF the" mother count-y," OF he slave Of
'e'N N'''i' "'o looks WIN Z fonSlUg ami q dis
appointed eye to the ioGUcs end i5hes. rto
both classes l know there are many honora-
bic exceptions who doeY not feel proud, de-
iislted aud exalted, al the spectacle when is
bs.'r him.
il' war has not diagraced us, because
those practical wrongs, against which we
had taken up agms, had Ceased before the
war was overland hence, chr honor is I'M
ta'n:shed, though the treaty saws nothing H.
bout them. And NY life upon It! those
wrongs VIII be seldom, o. never rehrate.k.
because we have already struck an awe into
the enemy, which will teach her to nav lit
tie more respect for cur rights How differ
ent would have been the casc fthe Federal |
ISIS had been i'll power, aud their s460tissiou |
had taught the enemy 70 dtsDise us.
For months past, we woad hive closed this I,
war upon the very terms wh.ch The I treaty |
has e'nbraced-But the epsny had BE- come !
inflated BY the aus uentaijon OF her troops /
Ifon those successes ~ Europe, which the |
F"f'eraiS' had rel ced at {; $ { WAS crcou- !
RACED by the opp 'sition, which the Federal !
lists mad thrown in the way o. the war--,,id i
her dem inds had assumed an air Of AFRO
g1nce, which threatened tie int gritty and
h'e OF our country. 5hc required us TO give
up our fleets and our forts on the lakes ;asd
portions Of o,r soil, which we're larger than
the islands Of @ Brittin. CoD,tore hhc terr7a
7oiich SHE h18 demarded 7oifh /h3ee qD6jc6
SHE has Obt0ined -.She has smoked from
one concession to another NATL H., ,-',,..t,