Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1816-10-26

ed statesman. are AS splendid rs they are
universal. A mind 50 richly furuished,
AMI heart so tervid, could not be content
with treasury laoors alome. They vse
indeed, complicated aud Herculean--5ut, IN
the estimate OF his versatile and capacious
abilities, they were not enough. No! 1T
the moment of their heaviest pressure, in
the istrac,ing winter of 1914, when new
tax bills, new bank bills, and endless com
munications about the ways and means.
were laying their acquisitions upon his
time, this most indetatig bile public servant
secme'. 70 monnt up, with more elasticity,
under the incumbent weight. Il was at
tins season, that, roused by the msgaitude
of the object in the contemplation Of y
prolonged contest, he drew up as AN APP
psal TO other nations on the Righteousness
Ut our struggle. the q Exposition ri the
causes aud character OK the war;.
thus, and ut such Il moment, did his untir-
ed pen strike out into this wide path thus
did 1T take mp our public affairs upon this
grand scale. not in the light of burden of
Office he was bound to bear, buzz, how
strange soever it may seem. as a pas.
time which his patriotic devotion sought
out.
This mastery vindication, taken as
single performance, racks, perhaps, as his
the severe accuracy Of its matter /; how
large portion 1t condenses of our public
history into one lucid view the documents
that must have been scrutinized in prepar-
ing It the impartial unity OF its plan; its
admirable arrangemnnt and disciplined
perlo's, it might we'll be boosted of, had il
been the exclusive work of happy leisure,
instead of being accelerated into perfrc-
ton amidst the remnant and broken hours
OF life so filed M. A state paper of such
compass, So dignhed, so powerful, and so
convincing, has rarely been issued by any
\ alton. The government Of Britain may
EN- Diny the pen of Gibbon to blazon, in a
man i'esto, the gorgeous sentences, the per-
6Iv t the line of Bourbon lit may subs;-
di5e 9 William Scott, to confound, in
learned nd brilliant subtletics. the plain
est oueeti,, IS, and still will this " EXPOSE
ton RENAL, unsurpassed, in such COM
parsons uneon 4lied. 1t put England COM
pletelv in the W "ong. BY the highest ev-
iderce ever adm ced in any human con-
troversv. il shove Ier grcvous provoca--
tons TO the war. AMI and hrr atrocious bru-
talities in it's prosecn4;, II. leexhbits her
her pluno c.lnss' Der cruel
ties her injustice her insUi, . ..V."iuS u'iS
nat on, Tor twenty years unre, ,,ut IN
peaceful remonstrance undel ~
1t has passed through severa sait'on IN
London, and been translated in'o the
'ansuag OF Europe-yet it is re.
ale' that no attempt has been made 60 an
swerit
Whence this, in country abound;nr v 4.
aoie pens, voluntary and venal in coun'-
Try that knows not to keep down its
hatred upon other occasions in a country
so prompt to wipe ont other stains so ca
sstTatr
presses, the consistency, the humanity,
the justice. the heightened marnanim;ty
always invoked as the i!lustr:ous concorn;'
tants OF British glory.!-whence but that l.
is impossible to answer it. 1t falls with 81
'freSiStibie power of truth upon the obdu.
rate judgments and hearts of those who si
rccted the councils of England, that no
refuge IS left to them but iilence-the-c COM
mon shelter of convicted depravitv
similar course has been rursued on th;s
side OF the water, where nothing that de-
serves the name of a reply to it has been
ventured upon.
such is Mr.. Dallas-Such have been HE
,iverslfl q, his meritorous tolls. In his ia
tents there IS an union Of lustre and weight
seldom found in the s7me individual III
same epithets characterize his services
ne leaves the Treasury, because A stinted
salary, II not inadequate to such tolls a,d
such services, is at least so to his support.
Ot strict Integrity, and blending with hiq
great qualities the eminent blandishmen,s
or the gentleman, the virtues and decor
ons OF private life throw beautiful t;n.s
upon his public famc. Few men havc g.
yer done 50 ouch Tor their country in g, sho,.t
time. None evsr stepped forward when
the danger was more H. minent. II VIC
literally going upon forlorn hone. and ey-
empiheS the true heroisn Of civil eta+ss.
manship. 1t ambition led him, It was mn
bic strain model for the vounr Who
wou d acqu re. fyr those of more years VIZ,
wouid retain greatness. Not an a,,bi,;or
that, wrapped in malign reveries. wsrily
gropes its unhallowed and devious D ii,
in the general niger that can move Or,
or tier as the e&igence gives beckon or
Irown to its brood.ngs but Of pure anl
lofty stamp--like Monrne's anb,t on-...ss
looked at public honors through the v;sts
OF tollsone and az1rdous service, seeking
them among pillows and pluekinr them ~,
from The deep. lionors go acquired do ncf
soon fade. MID llas's will not. Who,
SUN a man retires, il is the nation's Iese
There is the best reason for beIiev;,o.
that the venerable chief magistrate rerards
1t with unminglsd regret, and it would be
strange If the country at large cid not iei1
in the feeling. ''''
---------..-. JOHN DICKINSON.