Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1817-05-23

WHAT, tnen las II been intended,
these people, when taught 10 read, should
read nothing but Hannah Moore's |" Sin
fnt Sally and Mrs. Trimmer's Dialogues
Faith! The working classes of the peo-
pie have relish for no such trash. They
are not TO be amused by a recital of the
manifold blessings of state of things in
which they have not half enough to ext,
nor half enough To cover their nakedness
by day or to keep them from pershing by
night. They are not TO be amused with
the pretty stories about "tbe bounty of
Providence IN mailing J,'aD,Jies for The p,lr-
pose of tearing off pieces of the sleeps
wool, la order that the little birds may
come and get !: to line their nests with TO
keep tlleir young ones warm" Stories
like these are not sufficient 10 fill the
minds of the working classes ofthe peo-
pie. They Maiit something more solid
they have had something more solid.-
Their minds, like sheet of paper, have
received the lasting Impressions of unde-
isiable fact and unanswerable argument !;
and II will always be source of the
greatest satisfaction TO me TO reflect that
/ have been mainly instrumental III giving
those impressions, which, am very GER
tain, will never be efiiaced frem the minds
oftIie people of this country.
20 those who pretend to believe that
the people are deiuded and who say that
these laws are not aimed against the pco-
pie, but merely against their sedscers, do
these persons really imagine that the peo-
pie are thus to be deceived! Do they ina
CINE, for INSTANCE, that the people who
read my Register will not, i'll this case,
regard any attack upon me as an attack
upon themselves ? 1t is curious enough
10 observe how precisely the contrary the
reasoning of these persons Is in aU other
cases. An attack upon the clergy is al
ways deemed by them TO be an attack
upon religion. An attack upon the king
is always deemed by them 10 be an attack
upon the nation. And lis very notori-
Gus, that in all criminal cases, the lam
guage of The law is, that the offence has
been committed against the peace of the
realm, and in contempt of the king. his
crown and dignity yet in the present
case, the leaders OF the reformers are to
be supposed TO have no common interest
with the refOrmers themseivcs-and ii ap-
pears to be vainly imagined, that millions
OF men, all united III petltionIng, in the
most peaceable and orderly manner for
one particular object, will be easily per-
suaded TO believe, that those ,cho hare ia
6em tie lead amongst them may be very
property sacrificed, and that, too, witkonf
any INJURY at alto tie caESet What should
we think of AN enemy i'll the field who
were 10 send over a fag of truce and pro-
pose 10 us 10 give Up our generals Only
our generals That is all! The enemy
has no objection to us; ii is only orr gen
erals that lie wants, and, then, we shall
have peace with him at once. There was
once, the fable tells us, war between the
soofves and the sleep i; the latter being well
protected by a parcel of brave and skill
ful dogs. The wolves SET on foot nego-
tiatien, the object of which was everlast-
ing peace between the parties, and the
proposition was this, on the part of the
wolves, that there should be hostares on
both sides: that the wolves should put
their young ones into.the hands of the
sheep, and the sheep should put their
dogs into the hands of the wolves. In an
evil hour the sheep agreed TO this COM
pact, and the very first opportunity, the
wolves, having no longer any dogs TO con-
tend with, flew upon the fleecy fools, and
devoured them and their lambs without
mercy and without mitigation.
The flocks of reformers in England are
not to be I" deluded'' i'll this manner
They will well know, that every blow.
NbtNh ~ dbHNh tilC iucIl WHO lIhNG
taken the most prominent part iu the
cause OF reform, is aimed against that
cause itself and at every person who is
attached 10 that cause, JUST as much, Just
as eifectually, as blow aimed at the head
of a man is aimed at his fingers and his
toes.
The country gentlemen, therefore, will
never see the day when The working class
rs will be again reConciled to them, lni-
less they shall cordially take the lead a.
mongst those working classes. This,
am III hopes they will do; for, every day
OF their lives will make tlIeir own inevita-
bic ruin more and more manifest. But.
whether they do this or not, the conse-
queDces OF the present measure will, am
convinced, be the same. They will only
tepd TO make the catastrophe more dread
ful than ii would otherwise have been.
The funding system will 90 regularly Oh
producing misery upon the back of mise
ry, and irritation upon the back of irIiia-
ton. IL is that great cause which is cen
stanily at work. Nothing can stop its
progress, short of Il reduction of the in
terest of the debt: aud as that measure
seems to be rejected with obslinacv AS
persevering as are the DESTROYING effects
OF the system itself, nothing can reasona-
bly, be expected but violent dissolution.
The nation will recolect how conf
IDENTITY the ministers spoke last wear of
speedy restoration 10 prosperity. Mr..
Vanslttart talked IN very gay and flip
pant style about the raising of fourteen
millions III taxes, in order TO keep IN iie
sinking fund; which fourteen millions,
he said, would return back TO the country
to enliyen manufactures, commerce and
agriculture. The words were hardly out
of his mouth when told YOU, that, II the
fourteen millions did return back TO the
country, 1t would only be for the purpose
of transferring fourteen millions worth