Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1817-09-12

MI blake OF all men Sn0ulu rely oil
such an Infamous and conyenient cxtenu-
alton! He-his friend, his guest, his con-
ildant, he who introduced spotless sis
ter 10 this attainted intimacy; shall he
saw, | associated with YOU hourly, af-
iected your familiarity for many years.
accompanied my domesticated minis
ter of religion TO your family almost
naturalized the nearest female relative l
had on earth, unsuled and unmarried
as she was within your household but
you iool--it was only TO turn it into
brothel!! Merciful God, will you en-
dure him when he tells you thus, that
he is OH the watch 10 prowl upon the
weakness oil humanity and audaciously So
licits your charter for such libertinism
have heard II asserted also, that they
mean to arralgn the husband as conspi-
RAZOR, because III the hour of confidence
| and misfortune, he accepted proffered
| pecunlary assistance from the man he
thought his friend. II is true he did so
but so, will say, criminally careful was
| he of his interests, that he gave him his
bond, and made him enter up Judgment OH
| that bond, and made him issue an execu-
ton on that judgment, ready TO be levied
in day, that in the wreck of all, the
| friend ofhi bosom should be at least in-
demnltled. IL was my impression, in
| deed, that under lease of this nature, a
mongst honorable men, so far from any
understandable privilege created, there
was rather peculiar delicacy incumbent
| on the donor. should have thought so
still but for ffighiful expression of one OF
| the Counsel on the motion, by which they
| endeavored not to trust Il Dublin Jury
| with this issue. What, exclaimed they,
III ia
| tons, poor plaintiff and a rich defen-
dant!" Is there nothing in that? No,
! If my clients shape does not belle his
| species, there is nothing in that. /
braved the assertion as calumny OH hui
man nature--I call on you, if such
| an allegation be repeated, 10 visit it with
vindlcilve and overwhelming damages
| would appeal, not 10 this civilized as
| sembiy, but to an horde Of savages, whe-
| ther IT is possible for the most inhuman
! monster thus to sacrifice TO infamv, his
| character--his wite--his home, his chill
| dren In the name possibility deny
1t IN the name of humanity, denounce
it in the name of our common country,
| and our common nature, implore of the
| Learned Counsel not 10 promuigate such
a Islander upon both-but | need not do
so /; If the zeal of advocacy should induce
| them To the attempt, mcmory would ar
ray their happy homes before thcm-their
little children would lisp its contradiction
| their lOve-ther hearts-their insiruc-
tive feelings as fathers and as husbands,
would rebel within them, and wilher up
the H. rid blasphemy upon their lips
They will find it ditficutto paliate
such turpltude-I am sure find il it diff
ticult to aggravate. 1t is in itselfan ny
| rtNrla
cepce, religion, friendship-all that is
sanctIned or Lowell y, or endearing in cfea-
| ton. Even that hallowed, social shall [
not say indigenous virtue-that blessed
ospitality-which foreign envy could
not deny, or foreign robbery despoil-
| which when all else had persisted, cast
bloom on our dcsolation, fingIng its rich
foliage over the national ruin, as tito hide
| the monument, while it gave shelter TO
| the mourner-even that withered away
before that pestilence But what do I
say was virtue merely the victim of this
! adultereT? Worse, worse-it was his in
strument-even on the broken tablet of
the decaiogue did he wllet the dagger for
ms social assassination. What will you
say, when | inform you, that few months
| before he went deliberately to the bap,is-
NAL font with the waters of life TO regen-
| crate the infant that, too well could he
vouch it, had been born in sin, and he
| promised TO teach it Christianity i! And
| he promised to guard ii against the
| flesh !" And lest infinite mercy should
overlook the sins of its aduterous father,
seeking to make his God his pander, he
| tried 10 damn IT even with the Sacra-
ment See then The horrible atrocity of
| this case, as it touches the defendant
l.. I,
tacliiBg to the plaintiff! He has suffered
a pans the most agonzing to human SEN
| Slbllity-it has been inflicted by his
| friend, and inflicted beneath his rOof-it
commences at period which casts a
doubt OH the Legitimacy of his children
| and 10 crown all, upon him son is
| born" even since the separation, upon
whom every shilling of bis estates has en-
| tailed by settlement! What compensa-
ton can repriSe so unparalleled suffer
er What solitary consolation is there
IN reserve for him Is ii love? Alas,
| there was one whom he adored with all
! the hearts ldolatry, and she deserted
him. Is it friendship 4? There was one
| fall the world whom he trusted, and
that one belray ed him. Is it society p
| The smile of others happiness appears
but the epitaph of his own. Is il soli-
! tude Can he be alone while memory,
striking on the sepulchre of his heart,
calls Into existence the spectres of the
past. Shall he fly for refuge to his "sa-
cred home !" Every object there is elo-
quent Of his ruin! Shall he seek a
mourniiI solace in his children Oh, he
has no children--there is The little favor
lite that she nTsed, and there there
even on It's guileess features--there is
the horrld smile of the adulterer !!
o Gentlemen, am this day only the
Counsel of my client no--no-I am the