The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1815-04-01
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You viii perceive by the enclosed letter, in
case the fact shall have failed to reach Won
through any other channel, that the enemies
whom it has been my lot to make in the dis
Charge OF the duties OF the station to which
had been called by the public suffrage, seem
unwilling TO ailsv me even the repose of that
retirement, to- which, after many bafFird eff
forts, thew have succeeded in pursua ding nv
late constituents to cons gn RE. shall! not
stop to enquire how far,such a proceeding
be honorable, 81 even politSc, as it regards the
views OF those WHO have allowed themselves
10 adopt 1t although the people with whom
it was once my pride 20 be connected, must
lave undergone some strange metamorphos-
IS, not less rapid and disastrous thar that
which our unhappy codntry has experienced
within the same period of time if there be
one among them that does not see through
the motives of those WHO would entrest them
to turn their eyes from the general calamity
and shame and the shameless authors Of them,
to the faults and IndiscretonS, real or impu-
ted, ot.an old dismissed public servant, whose
chief offence in the eyes of his accusers is. that
foreseeing mischief, he labored to avert it,
f'ine years have now elapsed since lie raised
his voice against the corfnencenent of a sys-
TEN vt measures, fvhcH. although artfullv
disguised, were calculated, as he Believed, to
produce what VIC have all seen and fstel
long to feel Had they who tierdad what
they were then pleased 70 term his "mourn-
ini vaticirations, the reveries OF q heated g:
tlIsorGered imagination" confitled less IT, their
own air-built theories and tl'sen warning err.
Il was too late, they might &c riding on the
tall tide OF successful experiment" instead
IT clinging with instructive and convulsive
grasp to the wreck, which themselves have
made, of public credit, Of national honon Of
pein;s, happiness and. sec,iiity, and offni.h a.
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MON between these states, but of society itself
are laosened, and we seem "approachipg to-
wards that awful dissolution, the issue of
which it IS not given to human foresight to
scan" III the virtue, the moderation the
tortitude Of the people is, (under Cody our
Fast resource. Let them ever bear in mind
that from their present institutions there is
no transition but 70 III itary Gsspctism and
that there is hone more easy Anarchy IS the
Shrysal S state Of despotisn & TO that state
have the measures ut thus government long
tended. amidst professions, such as we lave
heard IN France and seen the effects Of, Of
Liberty, Equality. lnyncbility. None but
Tie people can forgt their own chains and
10 tatter the people ann delnde them hy
promises never meant TO be performed, is the
stale but successful practice of the deJna-
go8Ue, as OF the seducer IN private bfe.---
4" Give me only heivc for my axe said the
'"'''e'n w VIC idDle, 10 the tau ana stately
trees, that spread their proud heads and
waved their Unlopped arms to the air If hee-
ven, Give me an Army says the ~ily POI
htician. 1t is only To fight the English, to
maintain " Free Trade & Sailors Riri1ts"-
and dazzled by the &" Pride, Pornp and Cir
cumstance OF Glorious War" needless Of tAe
niseries thatlurk beneath It's splendor, the
people have sad Amen OF these the heavy
debts and grinding taxes that follow in it's
tram are, perhaps the least. Disease and
vice. in new upheard-of forms, spread
from the camp throughout society. Not
village, not neighborhcod, hardly family
escapes the infection. The searching mise
ries N war, penetrate even into the hovcl Of
<iie so'Nering negro, whose tatteTed blanket
and short allowance f salt bear witness To
re glo~ IS Of that administration under which
bis master il Content t. live. Ills master, no