Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1817-06-13

| cirui quantity OF money TO enable them
10 s are IN the tat cattle and shcap. are
compelled 10 give HAT STARE TO tie tax
gatherer: iieuce il is that Tie far greater
part OF these things ~ away from the
! spot and tie neigh orhooh where t.ey
are raised, 10 be eaten BIZ these uIo reocire
| iIc taaes, and by tiCsc udo aftei,a stpo1,
Mefn jhe taxes are carried away in tie
| pockets ofthe taxing people and, the
| Wagons and hargVs, the corn the but
t.r, the hetse, and their own legs carry
IL" cattle, pigs and sheep, ritter TIE fqaeS.
Accordingly, vemet, every fw miles.
Groves oflai oxen, pigs and 81 cop, march,
ing towards the grand resort of The Fund
holders and l'oroug L.oneers, and others
who live upon The faxes.
do not inculrate here, and, as Won
know well, | never have inculcaird the
notion, that there ought TO be no taaes.
There must be governm, nt-an govern
ment cannot exist without money. Bnt.
whaTwe complain of, is that so much is
taken from the mass of the people tl.at
they have not enough left TO support Ii
with any degree of comfort; thai those in
the middle ranks are daily ecomiilgpoor
and that the !ourneymen and !aborers
are starving, or existing in state closely
bordering upon starvalion We contend
that this Is a state in which our for, 'atl
er> cd not live wecontl nd that this mi
SCRABBLE state has been produced Nv oar
having been deprived OF ihe right of cloo-
sing oar representatives in parliament
~e have ,Shewn 'kai this right belongs 10
US; We have legally, pcs ably, and most
humbly PRAY ed 50 Lave this Tigat res,o-
red tOus, and the answer wc have receiv-
ed ar" tie measures which need moi de-
scribe to yoU, who feel the effects Of those
measures
On the Sunday Evening we entered the
uobie county at ancaStpr WITCH has
shown us much talent and pubic spirit.
Just sentiment and resolution and nerse.
france, IN these dreadful uyiug tine
We were sorry that night overlook us be-
fore we arrived at Warrenton; for. al Owe
all things, we had a desire 10 Sc as much
rs we could of the people OF this famous
county, where every hamlet is "A village.
every village town, and every town a
city. AT l.i1 erpooi, however. we had a
specimen of the men ofthe County; andI
say with pleasure and gratitude, that
never met with so many men in any year
OF my life, for whom felt frirndship and
admiration, as L met with in Liverpool, in
the space of three days, though ilI lime
was very much occupied with nv own
affairs, and though sought 10 occasion
to appear in public.
On Wednesday evening the Goth of
March, we mbarked on board The shin
Importer, ID. $. Ogden, ter, bouifd to
n. York, where we arrived the 9th Nav.
with about 40 sieerage passengers, far
mers ana tTadesmcn, who were fleeing
from ruin and starvation. In all respects
that can De named, our passage was dis
agreeable 4; and upon one occasion veg.y
perslous from lightning, which struck tlie
ship twice, and shvered two Of The
niaSis, killed man, struck several PEG.
pie slightly, between two ofwiirm [ was
sitting without al all feeling the blow
Some otour fellow passengers have found
great disappointment; and il is stated in
the papers here, that many hundreds
have, during the last year, accepted of
Tie offer OF our Consul AT New I OK tn 20
md settie IN CGn0da. Yen know that
have never adoiSsd any body TO enigrate.
| have always said that it is no place Tor
manufacturers 10 place for men TO live
without work no place for farmer WHO
does network himself no place, in short,
for any one who is not able and wfNlr TO
work at the ordinary sorts Of v0yE, bu. f,r.
such men there is every WHERE p!ei,ti-
full happy, and easy life. None should
come, however, who have any views OF
ldieness: and even for the industrious
poor see no reason why they siiouIi
spend their last shilling, and undergo all
the miseres and dangers ofa sea yoyare.
i'll order to save those Wiz eat The fake,
the expense of their Aare of moor rates
man and "a wife, and child or two,
cannot ccDta dnder the expense of35 cai.
meas, II least. A single man about 20
guneas, before he gets into work; and.
as always said, | never would, if I were
III The place ofsuch man, expeud all nv
its hardships, In order to remove oueeve
sore out of the eye of corruptior. Pc
sides, there is the climate, which is not So
good as ours, though it is not BOD sad
though people often live 10 an old age
The Country is good, but it will easily be
conceived, that new faces, an entire new
scene, a separation from every friend
work done in quite different way from
what il is in England; it will oasilv be
conceived that all this makes such dis
location in a mans mind as 10 make him
very unhappy for While. Then, he can
not expect to find work the first dur He
must ask first at any rate. EnsiisIlmrn
are Sheepish and If they meet with any
little rebut, they are disgusted at ON. e
with the whole country and thcy are
sure TO find rascals enOugh here 10 foster
their disgust merely for the sake o! SER
ing the cause Of corruption al home. Ia
short, advise 40 body to eDiigratc, bi.t /
will truly describe the country and The
| people. AS TO emigration, wits vi.w OF
settling and farming in nslc countries, il i
neither more nor less than downright
maciaess. 1t is what our English farmers
| know nothing at all about it Is what
| they are not at all ft for and tire far
| greater part of all such speculatiOns eadl
! in disappointment; ifnot in ruin and pre-I
mature death. nope that our beloved