Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1818-09-04

! fdmished populations Let those men answer
Il, who, III the name of Parliament, ratified the
treaties, voted the supplies, advanced the sub
sidies, and cheeied the MINISTER'S, just reekins
iron, that hopeful congress, where legitimacy,
drunk with human blood. flung its sword into
the scale against which the liberties of world
were balanced
h,ve Just touched their conduct, as to our
foreign relations. Has il been compensated by
their domestic policy As lar as in them lay,
they kave ,iItuaily annihilated The Biiii,h con
stitItion, aud paved the way for military des
potiSm. They lcvellcd, one bN Que, every bar
rler which the wisdom OF ages raised around
the Liberties OF the people. They suspended
the habeas corpus act. Fathers OF families
were dragged from their homes, loaded with
irons subjected 10 disease; stamped with ig-
tommy their helpless children tu, ned adriit
to beg:ary and prostitution /; and then. as they
had been imprisoned without crime, SO we've
they released without even the decency of ac-
cusaiion. They theh passed the infamous gag
silS act puDhc meetings. were forbidden
the power of discussion was withhelJ-the
fi%ht OF petition WAS in fact anniiulated. 1t
was natural consequence of the former mca.
Sute-when innocence Is no exemption from
punishment, the privilege of complaint is but
II mockery. They then cuuiitenanccd lord Sid
mouths circnlar--a MAJ isiracy, perhaps igUO
rail, perhaps corrupt, perhaps bOth-we, at
'eaSt can fancy such Il magisiracy-were in
NeSied win an arbitrary construction OF the
hLri act, upon which our most learned LAWYERS
have differed III opinion. They then Sanctior-
ell the Oppressive alien act which fang back
in'o theJaws OF death the patriot victims Of
despotic power, and wrested fron England
her imprescript ible privilege of giving refuge
TO virinous destitution. They then secuted tile
repeal OF the septennial act, AN act which they
were never delegated the power TO pass and
upon The principle of which they mi. ht as well
make the representation an heir-lGOm in their
families. | will not further recapi;ulate theii
condnct, but ] will remind YOU, that the sitn.
attonof the captive under these measures was
solitary imprisonment. Against all law or pre-
cedent, even magistrates were forbidden to
visit III iin-one man died-another, MIR Ogden,
tie subject of merriment, has survived oniy 10
protracted agony. pass from the subject il
is too painful 10 dwell upon. What was the
pre'ence for this temporary despoiism, plot!
plot, hatched by two apoihecares and a lame
cobhier-thc tower was to be Storned and the
bank p!uniered, and London garrsoned by
hncKfam army, whose treasury was cypher-
whose camp eGuIpage was blanket-whOse
ammunition chest was an old stocking, and
whose park ofartillery consisted of the mortar
whicn most rebeliiousiv outlived the wreck of
The apothecaries Those people were an.
rdigned upon the evidence of villain all le-
prous with crimes, whom the event proved TO
he the only convict. A wretch who, whenwe
saw the predestined victim, and look ed al the
high priest, filled the mind of Ireland with ter
riic recOections, recalling iustinctively that
reign of blood when we too had our Castle.
aud our Ohver-when the bribed and perjnred
oanui5ai went forth inducing the crime that
nc might betray the criminal--wheu neither
youth, nor age, nor sex, nor innocence conld
couciIidte, or avert those cOiners of human
b!ood-iboSc vampires of the gravc-those
monsters without name, before whose pat!
ihe freshness of humanity witheicd-in whose
accused minds, conscience was only Il com
merciai instrument-and friendship treache-
ry, ana gratitude, murdcr-Nh no turned this
iahu iDtO one scene of he'll, in which the pangs
and the CONFUSION Of the sufe rings only Sti-
| mn.ated the ferocious eNnltation OF their tor.
lln int ft,.,f ..
nearest and dearest, counting the board and
pteuSing The cup, and fondling the ipiaut
even al the very moment when Ihev were way.
laying the unguariled confidence at the paren,
To devote him to the scaiioid, and To rise n.y.
on his tomb II am shocked to ask did the
late parliament shield the employment of those
ierocious and commercial cannibal>? Ii they
u'd not, what was the meaning OF The indemni.
IS bl'it-What difference is there between the
perpetratorof deed and tho minister who
instigateS 1T, and the parliament who protects
II can see none-l see them chained tore
ther III one community of affection. aud whe-
tneri Touch the highest or the lowest link. the
| thrill OF horror IS the same in its communica-
lon. Gentlemen, say again, ifthese things
continue, we may bid farewell for ever 10 orr
Liberties. Of what use are all onr visionary
saieGnarus-of what use is the responsibility
OF ministers, il it is 10 depend upon the will Of
parliament, whose majority is the creature
OF those ministers! What avails omr SO cele-
brated laws. it they are TO be thus caprciuus-
~ SHSpcndeu! w nat Is our constitution with
IT'S theoreiic blessings, but Il practical and
splendid mOckery, fits noblesI ornaments are
TO be etfaced al will, and its strengt!, turned
INTO an engine of oppression Oh il il worse
than faulty in us to deceive ourselves The
tower III which we trusted turns out at last to
be but goodly vision fair indeed To The eve
bmt as ;ase as IL is fair, falling to pieces at the
wand OF The minister, when the fOrlorn people
approach II for protection.
Such. gentlemen, are my reasons for the as
sertion have made; their Inference NAV he.
perhaps, doubted by many, who can never see
any thing, even predetermined, in the bases.
conduct of the powers that be''-thcir ex
Istence, however, at least, is undeniable
In taking my leave OF you, for The present.
let me express my gratitude to the PROMPT
manly, and decided friends, who so indepen-
IDENTITY pro.tercd me. not only their interest
but their purses, and particularly 10 the pro-
iessional friends, vino, in addition, volunteered
their Services.
The period is approaching when all NAV be
necessary IN the mean time let every Jade
pendent man IN the county, register his free.
hold, aud await with Confidence the hour of
bis liberation.
l an, gentlemen with gratitude and respect.
Your teloW- cOuniryman.
CHARLES PHILLIPS.
Dublin, June ~, ISIS.
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