Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1816-12-03

that TO which his miseries may entitls
him. lam sure, however, he has wretch
eddy miscalculated. know none of YOU
personally, but have no doubt am adj
dressing men who viii not PROSTATE then
consciences before privilege or power
who will remember that there is a nobi-
lily above birth, and a wealth beyond
riches who will feel that as in the eve
of that God to whose aid thew have ap-
pealed, there is not the minutest diff
ference between the ra. and the robe-so
III tue contemplation OF that law which
constitutes our boast, guilt can have no
protection or innocence no tyrant--men
who will have pride i'll proving, that the
Roblest adage OF our noble constitution is
not AN Elusive shadow, & thatthe peasant
cottage, rooted by straw and tenanted by
poverty, stardsas inviolate from all inva-
sion as the mansion Of the Monarch.
Ny clients name, gentlemen, is Con-
nauShton--and when have given YOU
his name, you have almost all his history
TO cultivate the payh Of honest indus
try comprises, in one line" the short
and simple annals oftlie poor" This has
been his humble but honourable occupa-
ton. 1t matters little with what artificial
Dothings chance may distinguish the
vi NSSOtatt tCsSO Clilltt
ofiowly life, with Virtue for his hand
maid. holds as proud title as the high
est-as rieh an Inheritance as the wealth.
est. Well has the Poe. OF your own coun-
try, said it
Princes and Lords may flourish or may
A breath can make them, as a breath has
But brave pcasantry, their Ountry's
pride,
Nhenonce destroyed can vever be suppl
ed.
For all the virtues which adorn the pea
santry-which can render humble life
respected, or give the highest stations
their most permanent distinction nv eli
ent stands conspicuous. An hundred
years of sad vicissitude have rolled away
since the little farm on which he lives re-
ceiyed his family-and during all that
time net one accusation has disgraced-
not one crime has sullied it. The same
spot has seen his grandsire and his pa
rent pass away from this world, and the
village memory records their worth, and
the rustic tear hallows their resting place.
After all, when life's mockeries shall va
nlsh from before us, and the heart that
now beats in the proudest bosom here,
shall moulder unconscious beneath its
kindred clay, art cannot erect nobler
monument, or genius compose apurer
'panegyric.--Such,g gentlemen, was almost
the only inheritance with which NV eli
emf entered the wOrld.-Iie did moi dis
grace this youth, his manhood, his
age, up to this moment have passed
without blemish, and he now stands
confessedly the head of the little village
IN which he lives.
About five-and-twenty years ago, he
married the sister of a highly respectable
Roman Catholic Clergyman, by whom he
had family of seven children, whom
they educated in principles of morality
and religion, d. who, until the defendants
interference, were IL pride oiltheir hum
bic home, and the charm or the conso-
lation OF its viciSsitudes In their vrtu-
GUS children, the rejoicing parents their
youth renewed-their age made happy
their days of labour became HOLIDAYS in
their smile-and, if the hand of affection
pressed on them, they looked on their lit
tie ones, and their mourning ended.
cannot paint the glorious host of feelings
the joy--the love-the hope-the pride
the blended paradise of rich emotions
with which the God of Nature fills the IA
fher's heart, when he beholds his child in
all its filial lovelincss-when the vision OF
his infancy rises as it were re-anmate be-
fore him, and a divine vanity exaggerates
every triiie into some mysterious omen,
which shall smooth his aged wrinkles, and
make his crave q monument of honour
cannot describe them-but, if there be
a parent on the Jury, he will comprehend
me. 1t Is stated TO me, that of all his
children, there were none more likely to
excite such feelings i'll the plaintiff, than
the unfortunate subject otthe present ac-
tioD-she was his fayorite daughter, and
she did not shame his preference. You
shall find most satisfactorily that she was
without stain or imputation--an aid
and blessing to her parents, and an ex-
ample to her younger sisters, who looked
UP to her for obstruction. She took Z
pleasure in assisting in the industry Of
their home, and it was at a neighboring
market where she went 10 dispose of the
little produce OF that industry, that she
attracted the notice of the defendant.
Indeed, such a situation was not without
Its interest-a young female IN the bloom
OF her attractions, exerting her faculties
Ia parents service, is an object lovely in
the eye of God, and one would suppose
estimable in the eye ofmankind. Far
different, however, isthe sensations she
excited in the defendant. He saw her
arrayed, as he confesses, in charms that
enchanted him--but her youth, Ter beau
ty, the smile of her innocence, and the
piety of her toll, but intlamed brutal
and icentious lust, that should have
blushed itselfaway in such presence.
What cared he for the consequences of
his qualification There was
..... No honour, no reientiag truth,
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